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« Reply #495 on: 06:36:09, 18-01-2008 » |
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. . . one was told that she could only have coverage on a programme if she acquired a personal interview with Tony Blair!
We should certainly have as much coverage of what is going on in the EU. Indeed to the second . . . but . . . well . . . er . . . um . . . she c**** o*** h*** c******* o* a p******** o*** i* she . . . |
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Baz
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« Reply #496 on: 09:14:18, 18-01-2008 » |
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Looking at the text accompanying Mr Grew's avatar we find the statement:
"Everything modern Queen Mary found hideous!"
Does this mean a) Queen Mary viewed everything modern to be hideous, b) the newly-crowned Queen Mary found everything to be hideous, or c) it was hideous that the newly-crowned Queen Mary managed to find everything?
The tantalizing lack of punctuation - save the final mark of exclamation - only causes speculation. I think we should be told!
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« Reply #497 on: 12:59:29, 18-01-2008 » |
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One prefers the reading that in Mr Grew's posting is to be found everything that the modern Queen Mary found to be hideous but in so doing one is probably once again in a minority of one.
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« Reply #498 on: 13:05:57, 18-01-2008 » |
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Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long since passed away,
And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was Culture's palmiest day!
Well of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new, and declare it crude and mean,
For Art stopped short in the sophisticated court of the Empress Josephine.
And I'm sure no-one would argue with a Fleshly Poet.
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« Reply #499 on: 13:08:28, 18-01-2008 » |
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I always thought it meant that everything which the (thoroughly) modern Queen Mary found was hideous.
QM: See here, Emily, what choice stuffs I have found in the January sales this year.
Chambermaid: Begging your pardon, Ma'am, they do look right hideous to me. I do not understand these modern fashions.
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« Reply #500 on: 13:14:44, 18-01-2008 » |
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Indeed the division of the lines suggests yet another reading: that a certain Mary found to be hideous everything in the style we have come to know as 'modern Queen'.
What that style might be, I now leave to your fertile imaginations.
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« Reply #501 on: 13:26:45, 18-01-2008 » |
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Sydney Grew - Everything modern Queen Mary found hideous! I read it as a clause describing Sydney Grew.  "I don't like the look of that Sydney grew chap" Perhaps Member Grew is the only person ever to have been turned down for boarding a certain contemporary cruise liner on the grounds that he wasn't quite as handsome as other passengers. Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #502 on: 00:33:47, 19-01-2008 » |
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One prefers the reading that in Mr Grew's posting is to be found everything that the modern Queen Mary found to be hideous but in so doing one is probably once again in a minority of one.
and The division of the lines suggests yet another reading: that a certain Mary found to be hideous everything in the style we have come to know as 'modern Queen'. I do approve of both these readings (especially the first!), even though I must confess the sentence never struck me as genuinely ambiguous before the intervention of Member Baz and does not still. What intrigue me more and flummox me not a little are the splutterings in response to 'a lady' at the top of this page (apologies to Andy D for the imprecise or better said insufficiently universal topography). |
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Baz
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« Reply #503 on: 09:18:49, 19-01-2008 » |
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...What intrigue me more and flummox me not a little are the splutterings in response to 'a lady' at the top of this page...
Yes - that took me some time to understand as well, but it turned out to be nothing more than a further example of the "misplaced only" rule. Hence: . . . one was told that she could only have coverage on a programme if she acquired a personal interview with Tony Blair!
We should certainly have as much coverage of what is going on in the EU. Indeed to the second . . . but . . . well . . . er . . . um . . . she c**** o*** h*** c******* o* a p******** o*** i* she . . . needs to be transliterated as: "she c(ould) o(nly) h(ave) c(overage) o(n) a p(rogramme) o(nly) i(f) she..." |
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« Reply #504 on: 20:33:35, 19-01-2008 » |
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inert fig here
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« Reply #505 on: 20:59:24, 19-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #506 on: 08:37:17, 20-01-2008 » |
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What I'm wondering is why the name of the starter of this thread is in black type when everyone else's is in blue?
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #507 on: 08:42:46, 20-01-2008 » |
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Black text users have left the forum and closed their account. They may have subsequently rejoined on a similar but slightly different name.
There was a lot of it about some weeks ago - politics and the like.
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« Reply #508 on: 12:56:25, 25-01-2008 » |
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What perspicacious relatives you were blessed with, Mr Grew!
A postpended appellation does not excuse a misplaced preposition. |
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inert fig here
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« Reply #509 on: 04:11:44, 26-01-2008 » |
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Being served in shops instead of being faced with a gum-chewing teenager who reluctantly breaks off from their mobile phone chat to tell you "if it isn't out we haven't got any".
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