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« Reply #91 on: 22:28:07, 01-10-2007 » |
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« Reply #92 on: 01:07:36, 02-10-2007 » |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #93 on: 01:14:02, 02-10-2007 » |
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I have a French horn in my basement, as well as a 6-month supply of freeze dried chicken noodle soup.
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« Reply #94 on: 09:45:21, 02-10-2007 » |
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Would a strategically-placed Sir perhaps have made that a bit clearer, George? Possibly, although I'm not quite sure where to place it  Alternatively a quick re-read of Gottlieb Frege's Sinn und Bedeuting should sort it out quite satisfactorily.  |
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« Reply #95 on: 10:23:23, 02-10-2007 » |
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Alternatively a quick re-read of Gottlieb Frege's Sinn und Bedeuting should sort it out quite satisfactorily. Ah yes, that's fixed it, ta. |
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« Reply #96 on: 11:50:46, 02-10-2007 » |
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I once met Mikhail Gorbachev for 15 seconds.
I said "Good evening, Minister" (he was Minister of Agriculture at the time - calling him "Comrade" seemed inappropriate), "I would like to introduce you to our Chairman, Lord Harewood".
After that his official interpreters took over, although we were all locked in the building until the end of the show "for security reasons". Everyone was quietly having kittens, because he'd been due to attend a show at the ROH, but on hearing that the place up the road was a bastion of bourgeouis privilege, had said "I would prefer to attend the People's Opera" at just a few hours notice. The ROH very sportingly lent their score and parts for the USSR National Anthem, as ENO had never previously needed a copy. IIRC he went to COSI FAN TUTTE.
Harewood later remarked that he hadn't realised I owned a tie.
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« Reply #97 on: 11:57:16, 02-10-2007 » |
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Now, Reiner, I want you to look me in the eye and tell me that you DIDN'T actually say "Good evening Михаил Сергеевич, I am surprised to find you in this House of Bourgeois Privilege, wouldn't you rather come to our show at the People's Opera instead?"... Welcome to the K-club by the way!   (Yes I know that's Polish vodka but it's all I have in the house.... don't worry, it's great stuff.) |
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« Reply #98 on: 12:26:49, 02-10-2007 » |
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Ooh, yes, welcome Reiner! Gosh. Reiner is a third of Ollie. Tinners is not quite double Reiner, which brings him in at around 64% Sudden. He's aiming for 2K by Christmas, but has a nasty feeling he might make it by his birthday, or even before Hallowe'en at this rate. I've got some Russian vodka in my newly tidy room at home, but I can't for the life of me remember what brand. (I'm not a great drinker, and it's been in the back of the wardrobe for most of the time since it was given to me around 3 years ago by a man who warned me never to cross a road holding a mirror. Does that just about bring this post on topic?) |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #99 on: 12:49:43, 02-10-2007 » |
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Also on topic: Ned Sherrin once looked me up and down (approvingly I'm told, although I was oblivious to this at the time) and then bought me a drink.
I was at the time accompanying a Harvard professor who'd just appeared on Ned Sherrin's radio show. I'm not sure if that makes the whole scenario more or less unlikely.
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« Reply #100 on: 14:52:18, 02-10-2007 » |
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I would have loved to have referred to him by his imya and otchestvo, Ollie - but we honestly didn't know them! He'd been due to go to Covent Garden, whilst we in St Martin's Lane were in blissful ignorance of both him and his visit (he was only the Agriculture Minister back then, after all) - the ring-around the building for a Russian-speaker only began about two hours before he turned up. I think we only found out his name was Gorbachev around an hour or so before? Tinners, you need to relocate that vodka bottle to your icebox forthwith, and you'll find it greatly improved Don't sip it - you put it back "in one", optimally in convivial company. Gulp it down, breath out, and then have a little chomp of gherkin, pickled herring, or some other salty appetiser Someone once explained to me why you get drunk much more quickly by sipping, but I can't remember it all now! I'm not a great drinker You seemed to do alright with that beer over the road after SATYAGRAHA? |
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« Reply #103 on: 20:41:45, 03-10-2007 » |
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I once got slightly drunk with Phil May in the bar at Feltham Rox, before he went on stage with the Pretty Things.
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