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I don't know if any of you play CDs through Media Player on your computer. If you do, you will know that the display automatically comes up with the name of the disk, artist, and song when you put a disc in. I've just put in my new CD of Couperin, LeClaire & Duval (only 99p on ebay  ) and the info came up as... well, see for yourselves...  "Various Old Guys"... I love it  Haha! In a similarly Hattoish vein, here's what happened when I put disc 1 of James Saunders' #[unassigned] onto my computer...  |
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MabelJane
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What other interesting pieces do we know about small biting parasites?  Mussorgsky's Flea sung my Yevgeny Nesterenko http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7re8aT8Jrr0I found reference to a video of Kim Borg with Gerald Moore but it's been removed.  |
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Bravo, we are back on track with biting musical parasites once more Gounod and Beethoven await their cues. Meantime there's also that famous melody of Borodin's that ran away to Broadway without him, where it was sung to the words "Take my hand, I'm a strange-looking parasite".[Allegedly]. |
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- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #18 on: 16:29:49, 01-09-2007 » |
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I may be misquoting but:
"Many fleas, have smaller fleas, on their backs that bite 'em, and smaller fleas have smaller fleas and so on ad infinitum."
Isn't that Ogden Nash? Orlando di Lasso Bestia curfavia pulices -- all about mosquitos. |
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« Reply #19 on: 17:45:48, 01-09-2007 » |
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I may be misquoting but:
"Many fleas, have smaller fleas, on their backs that bite 'em, and smaller fleas have smaller fleas and so on ad infinitum."
Isn't that Ogden Nash? Augustus De Morgan, apparently. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Quotations/De_Morgan.htmlGreat fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. - A Budget of Paradoxes. Inspired by Swift: So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum. |
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John W
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« Reply #20 on: 17:28:48, 06-10-2007 » |
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Thought I'd add this here. One of my colleagues on the Al Bowlly yahoo group wrote:
>>Hello everyone.
Last April I wrote about loosing about 100 Al Bowlly 78's on a BA
flight.
After 4 months, BA compensated me £40 for the loss.
Today I recovered the records myself. A miracle.
I had heard that it is cheaper for BA to dispose of lost baggage than
trying to return them to their owners. I didn't quite believe that
but I'm not too sure now.
I found an auction house which the "baggage handlers" use to sell off
the "lost baggage".
For months I've been searching their auction lots. On Monday I
actually found a listing for over 80 78rpm records. After a few phone
calls which confirmed that yes, they were my records, I was told that
the only way to get them was to bid for them. Credit card in hand I
won my records for £14.
The other 20 or so were not included as they had broken.
I'm in the UK in November and I am looking forward to picking them
up. The ladies at the auction house were just fantastic. Flowers and
chocolates are due.
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How weird is that??
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John - brilliant that you have 80 back, but such a shame about the other 20. And completely aggravating that BA has that sort of policy. Don't they care?
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« Reply #22 on: 17:56:38, 06-10-2007 » |
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That is quite astounding, John! Your colleague's detective work and perseverance paid off but what a selfish policy BA has to do that.
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It does make one wonder. BA has no resources to link all his queries to a list of lost property that must have been created in prep for the auction. Yet enough resources to unpack all those lost suitcases, make an inventory and put all the items up on ebay - many manhours, and who gets the money? I suppose the 'auction house' did all the work so they get it all  |
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John W
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My wife: Hello, have you got your absence note?
7 year-old child: No
My wife: But your mum needs to write a note when you are off ill.
7 year-old child: We had a police raid.
My wife: Oh
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Do you ever say completely the wrong word? On our museum trip last week I held open a door for some of my class to walk through and told them: "Come through this door tomorrow!" " Tomorrow Miss?" they chorused. "Er, sorry, I mean together!"  At least they were listening for a change! |
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Somebody in this house does that sort of thing on a regular basis. I've learned to interpret requests like "Could you pass me the telephone pole behind the refrigerator" by ignoring the nouns used and then looking for an applicable context.
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A friend of mine once requested that their husband put 'that thing in the Ferneyhough' when she meant the cheese to be put in the fridge. She had her thesis on her mind...
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Somebody in this house does that sort of thing on a regular basis. I've learned to interpret requests like "Could you pass me the telephone pole behind the refrigerator" by ignoring the nouns used and then looking for an applicable context.
This reminds me that C S Lewis talks about this in That Hideous Strength talking about the difference between the male and female brain... My copy is in Durham alas and I am not hurrah. |
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