Proms 2015: Today's the day

[maestro267]

Today actually IS the day!

[Serial_Apologist]

Shades of Miss Whiplash, you mean?

Nobody got my joke apparently. Sense of humour standards on this forum have definitely gone down since we were disallowed discussions on politics.

[Nick Armstrong]

Shades of Miss Whiplash, you mean?

I was going to comment shortly after your original post that this was a strange coincidence, because yesterday, a few hours earlier, and for work reasons, I had to look up the facts concerning Marian Akin, aka Lindi St Clair aka Miss Whiplash (sometime prospective Member of Parliament on behalf of the Corrective Party) and the hoo-hah in 1991 attendant upon her occupation of a flat in (we think) Sussex Gardens allegedly owned by the Rt Hon Norman Lamont...

But it seemed a tangent too far. What's the connection, S_A? Merely my loose talk of fetishists?

[Serial_Apologist]

I was going to comment shortly after your original post that this was a strange coincidence, because yesterday, a few hours earlier, and for work reasons, I had to look up the facts concerning Marian Akin, aka Lindi St Clair aka Miss Whiplash (sometime prospective Member of Parliament on behalf of the Corrective Party) and the hoo-hah attendant upon her occupation of a basement in (we think) Sussex Gardens owned by the Rt Hon Norman Lamont...

But it seemed a tangent too far. What's the connection, S_A? Merely my loose talk of fetishists?

Partly that, Cali, but mainly a martenot = whip association, which now turns out to be factitious, having now remembered the French for whip as being martinet - which leaves me with rather a lot of egg on my face.

[Nick Armstrong]

Partly that, Cali, but mainly a martenot = whip association, which now turns out to be factitious, having now remembered the French for whip as being martinet - which leaves me with rather a lot of egg on my face.

Ah I see!

Double helping of Oeufs Martenot for Mr Apologist, waiter!!

In fact I had no idea that martinet meant a kind of whip in French - so I'll have a forkful too if I may!

[vinteuil]

... for maître Caliban's delectation -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinet

.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinet_(instrument)

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm obliged and shall retire this evening less stupid knowing the interesting derivation of the English word, martinet

[MrGongGong]

Double helping of Oeufs Martenot for Mr Apologist, waiter!!

Surely a single helping is enough?

[vinteuil]

Double helping of Oeufs Martenot for Mr Apologist, waiter!!

Surely a single helping is enough?

Mrs Thatcher : "Mr President, why do you only have one egg for breakfast?"

M. Mitterrand : "Because one egg is un œuf... "

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely a single helping is enough?

A double helping could be arranged if we organise a whip-round!

[Serial_Apologist]

Mrs Thatcher : "Mr President, why do you only have one egg for breakfast?"

M. Mitterrand : "Because one egg is un œuf... "

(What on oeuf's he on about?)

[richardfinegold]

Ah I see!

Double helping of Oeufs Martenot for Mr Apologist, waiter!!

In fact I had no idea that martinet meant a kind of whip in French - so I'll have a forkful too if I may!

After 6 straight days of croissants for breakfast, we found a restaurant in St. Germaine that served omelettes, but had the rather unappetizing name of "Deux Magots"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(What on oeuf's he on about?)

[Nick Armstrong]

After 6 straight days of croissants for breakfast, we found a restaurant in St. Germaine that served omelettes, but had the rather unappetizing name of "Deux Magots"

Les Deux Magots may sound unappetising, but you do realise in whose seats you sat, do you? As wiki tells us, it was "the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual élite of the city... Surrealist artists, intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Bertolt Brecht...."

How were the omelettes?

[vinteuil]

Les Deux Magots ..... As wiki tells us, it was [I]"the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual élite of the city... :

... for ease of reference,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Deux_Magots