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"kids" who prefer Kelis to Lawrence of Arabia I do too. (Though you have to admit her earlier work is more edgy.) Who is the zombie on your arm, Time? That would be increpatio, Richard. Not that you'd recognise me now; my hair's rather at a length not too far away from yours now: gotta love egyptian barbers with the four haircuts: "one, two, three, and four". But, I guess, still more choice than Peter Mark, with their one: "'messy', unless you want a 'style' that you'll have to spend a half-hour waxing together each morning". |
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« Reply #242 on: 18:34:24, 04-01-2008 » |
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Who is the zombie on your arm, Time?
From left to right: Time, incre, Time's friend Malcolm Crowthers (he of photographic fame), and the 4th zombie is I believe a friend of matthewleeknowles, he of "events" fame, who took the picture, believe it or not. The occasion was post-Jonathan Powell's Cutting Edge three-concert marathon, and I really had no idea what incre or his shirt looked like when I put that hat on before leaving home. Greetings from Barcelona, btw. |
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« Reply #243 on: 19:17:16, 04-01-2008 » |
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Who is the zombie on your arm, Time?
From left to right: Time, incre, Time's friend Malcolm Crowthers (he of photographic fame), and the 4th zombie is I believe a friend of matthewleeknowles, he of "events" fame, who took the picture, believe it or not. Your camera was rather new at the time, if I recall also. Also: do many your photographs have that odd smudge across them? The occasion was post-Jonathan Powell's Cutting Edge three-concert marathon, and I really had no idea what incre or his shirt looked like when I put that hat on before leaving home. But I think we should coordinate again in future. Ooh, or maybe I should have just made a joke saying that it wasn't your brains I was going for, I just wanted the hat. Too late, in any event; damn typewriters...oh what I'd give for some blotting paper and a good old quill. What? The Tories aren't in power? How'd that happen. Fetch my carriage, I must off to Dublin castle to notify the constabulary! Aaaaah, to have a moustache to twirl! Greetings from Barcelona, btw.
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« Reply #244 on: 19:29:14, 04-01-2008 » |
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Still off-topic, but greetings tinners! Hope you discover churros before too long...  Have fun! |
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« Reply #245 on: 19:31:20, 04-01-2008 » |
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Where you there this morning also?
Not sure I've fully appreciated the subtleties of that question, but no I wasn't. Oh, you mean at 5.30 when I was posting photos? No, I was "packing". Arrived around 4.30, and had a slightly complicated journey from the airport into town (they told me the train had been replaced by a bus but then directed me to wait on a railway platform, which I did, and finally a train turned up. Or it looked like a train to me anyway). Now sitting on my friend's sofa trying to do some editing for the CD booklet I was meant to finish over Christmas. He's sleeping in the next room. His flatmate (who I'd never met before) just walked in and asked me, in Spanish, whether I spoke German, to which I answered no before realising that in fact I did, I just wasn't used to telling Spanish people about it. Turns out she's Austrian. I foresee confusion. |
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« Reply #246 on: 19:38:27, 04-01-2008 » |
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This'll be a big cue for grumpers everywhere, so aplogies in advance. But on the subject of substance-related headaches/ insomnia, I can smugly report that I never suffer from either. I can eat a pound of cheese, washed down with 6 brandys and 3 espressos and be sleeping like a babe 30 minutes later, to awake refreshed and ... er, ready for some coffee...  aplogies: apologies, perhaps insincere and certainly disingenuous, that are likely to arouse the apoplectic fury of those to whom one is apologising. |
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« Reply #248 on: 21:07:18, 04-01-2008 » |
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"kids" who prefer Kelis to Lawrence of Arabia I do too. (Though you have to admit her earlier work is more edgy.) Who is the zombie on your arm, Time? That would be increpatio, Richard. Not that you'd recognise me now; my hair's rather at a length not too far away from yours now I hope you managed to get those scary blank eyes sorted out too. |
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« Reply #249 on: 21:54:12, 04-01-2008 » |
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Handel's being shaped on a mass scale
Handel's being shaped on a mass scale: (i) unfortunate incident in which the composer's girthy and gout-ridden frame was used in advertisements for a proprietary filtre claiming to counter the tendency to portliness. After complaints from the composer, Doctor Johnson's being was substituted. (ii) false claim made by the supporters of Bononcini, alleging that Handel was predisposed to using a scale (or mode) plagiarised from one of his own Masses. |
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« Reply #250 on: 23:56:34, 04-01-2008 » |
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Handel's being shaped on a mass scale
Handel's being shaped on a mass scale: (i) unfortunate incident in which the composer's girthy and gout-ridden frame was used in advertisements for a proprietary filtre claiming to counter the tendency to portliness. After complaints from the composer, Doctor Johnson's being was substituted. (ii) false claim made by the supporters of Bononcini, alleging that Handel was predisposed to using a scale (or mode) plagiarised from one of his own Masses. I seem to remember Handel died only about three years before the wine merchants Berry Brothers and Rudd started using the enormous scales in the front of their shop - previously used for weighing sacks of coffee - to weigh their more loyal clients as a lark and put their weight down in a ledger. The shop is still there, still has its original 18th century frontage and still has the scales and ledger - although I think they'll only weigh famous people now. Handel lived only a few streets away and probably would have presented their scales with quite a challenge. I can't find a picture of the real thing, but here's a mock-up of it:  |
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« Reply #251 on: 09:24:33, 05-01-2008 » |
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...proof that it's not only mistypes that end up immortalised in the r3okG! |
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Although feeling subdued, he stood like a stalagmite and gazed at his kingdom. He saw a rambling gondolier trying to randomize his way through the mishmash. A cursory glance at his encyclopedia exploded his mind like dynamite.
subdued : less than cool person stalagmite : prison camp for fleas kingdom : Royal contraceptive rambling : jewellery for sheep gondolier : something you catch from a boatman randomize: squint mishmash : late for church because you are drunk cursory : where small children learn to swear encyclopedia : to be sexually attracted to small bikes dynamite : to take a flea out for lunch A  |
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Heather Harper as Theodora, Maureen Forrester as Didimus and Maureen Lehane as Irene. English Charmber Orchestra.
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