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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37580

    Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
    You may have heard of him under his real name, Leon Dudley Sorabji from Chingford
    I always suspected he was Lord Tebbitt's grandfather.

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    • MrGongGong
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
      Never heard of it.

      And what in any case is "Danish oil"? Something prepared from bacon fat?
      I'll let you know (I think we put some on furniture) i'm going to Copenhagen for 45 minutes tomorrow

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      • P. G. Tipps
        Full Member
        • Jun 2014
        • 2978

        Originally posted by ahinton View Post
        Never heard of it.

        And what in any case is "Danish oil"? Something prepared from bacon fat?
        Poorly-informed members, who nonetheless retain a thirst for at least base knowledge, may be exceedingly grateful to Yours Truly for providing the following link ...

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30232

          Danish Oil is a nice finish if french polish* is too 'bright' (or you're not skilled enough to use it). You just rub it into the wood with a soft cloth, polishing it dry, and build up a nice gleam with several layers. Dispose of the cloths carefully as they are highly combustible.

          *I hope ahinton is not going to ask whether it is French or Polish.
          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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          • ahinton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 16122

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            I always suspected he was Lord Tebbitt's grandfather.
            Then you should consider questioning your suspicions. Lord Tebbit (one "t" please - no sugar) was from a so-called working class background and had anti-homosexual views, although whether or not his grandfather shared those views is not something about which I have any idea. Whatever his sexual standpoint, he hailed in any case from Middlesex, not Essex.

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            • ahinton
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 16122

              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              I'll let you know (I think we put some on furniture) i'm going to Copenhagen for 45 minutes tomorrow
              Then I look forward to the outcome of your researches, however short they may be; if indeed "Danish oil" is for the uses that you assume, the connection here is yet to be proven, methinks.

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16122

                Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                Poorly-informed members, who nonetheless retain a thirst for at least base knowledge, may be exceedingly grateful to Yours Truly for providing the following link ...

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_oil
                Then the Sorabji connection, if any, seems even more tenuous, lest it be something to do with the spontaneous combustion mentioned in the article to which you have kindly linked.

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                • ahinton
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 16122

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Danish Oil is a nice finish if french polish* is too 'bright' (or you're not skilled enough to use it). You just rub it into the wood with a soft cloth, polishing it dry, and build up a nice gleam with several layers. Dispose of the cloths carefully as they are highly combustible.

                  *I hope ahinton is not going to ask whether it is French or Polish.
                  As it is supposedly Danish, why would I ask such a question, especially as I see no connection with Chopin either?

                  All that I would suggest, however, is that, as it is clearly of pan-European application, it might well get purloined in the forthcoming referendum as an illustration of the need to maintain European unity.

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Well the re-configuring nearly done. Be finished by bedtime! Nearly like moving house! Hope everyone had a great weekend! :) I'm finishing it off with a pint of Black Sheep Ale 4.5%
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30232

                      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                      As it is supposedly Danish, why would I ask such a question
                      I thought you might have noticed that the asterisk (*) came after 'french polish' rather than Danish or Danish Oil, and therefore the footnote referred to french polish rather than Danish Oil. French polish, as far as I know, is not even supposedly Danish.
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16122

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        I thought you might have noticed that the asterisk (*) came after 'french polish' rather than Danish or Danish Oil, and therefore the footnote referred to french polish rather than Danish Oil. French polish, as far as I know, is not even supposedly Danish.
                        Whilst I noticed the asterisk, it preceded "I hope ahinton is not going to ask whether it is French or Polish", hence my response; I had referred, after all, to Danish oil and NOT to French polish which, I am sure, is "not even supposedly Danish", as you write, although the original reference to it remains unclear (to me, at least) in the context in which it appeared.

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                        • P. G. Tipps
                          Full Member
                          • Jun 2014
                          • 2978

                          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                          Well the re-configuring nearly done. Be finished by bedtime! Nearly like moving house! Hope everyone had a great weekend! :) I'm finishing it off with a pint of Black Sheep Ale 4.5%
                          Congratulations on your successful re-configurement, Bbm!

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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25192

                            Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                            Congratulations on your successful re-configurement, Bbm!
                            Indeed, good work BBM.

                            We have been re modelling( I like to think of it as) a garden over the last two weeks. Lots of hard manual work.
                            I'm knackered. It has gone really well, and the weather has been really kind, though. Most of the tough stuff done for now.
                            Hurrah.
                            Cheesecake and some decent music to relax.
                            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                            • Beef Oven!
                              Ex-member
                              • Sep 2013
                              • 18147

                              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                              Well the re-configuring nearly done. Be finished by bedtime! Nearly like moving house! Hope everyone had a great weekend! :) I'm finishing it off with a pint of Black Sheep Ale 4.5%
                              Well done and nice choice of beer after a solid day's work! Glad you didn't go for cheesecake - bit namby-pamby, that.

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25192

                                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                                Well done and nice choice of beer after a solid day's work! Glad you didn't go for cheesecake - bit namby-pamby, that.
                                Its deeply infused with 80% jamaican rum.
                                And i had a proper french lager as well.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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