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Drat! I posted this on the wrong thread. This is where it should be The second post. No longer can we hold out the hope of "Oh well, it`ll probably come in the second post"  |
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« Reply #31 on: 13:19:13, 25-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #32 on: 03:13:30, 26-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #33 on: 03:22:08, 26-01-2008 » |
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Good manners and general civility. The desire to look out for one another, which I remember being the case when I was young, as opposed to "every man for himself" now.
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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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #34 on: 08:37:10, 26-01-2008 » |
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Proper music criticism in the press (especially the Sundays - who are the heirs to Felix Aprahamian and Peter Heyworth, not to mention William Mann?)
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #35 on: 11:12:36, 26-01-2008 » |
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Press reviews of London concerts in anywhere except the most prestigious venues.
The idea that "classical" music can mean something other than opera.
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« Reply #36 on: 13:36:58, 26-01-2008 » |
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The idea that "classical" music can mean something other than opera.
Oooooh, I'm not sure about that, Autoharp........?  I read a piece in the New York Times this week about the Met's initiative with live cinema relays and how good they thought this was... the phrase ".. and has attracted even legitimate theatre directors..." stuck in my throat a bit...  |
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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 #37 on: 18:24:27, 26-01-2008 » |
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Penny sweets.
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« Reply #38 on: 20:37:33, 26-01-2008 » |
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Liquorice fireman's-hoses, sherbet dabs. Jamboree Bags. "Old Jamaica".
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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"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #39 on: 21:01:48, 26-01-2008 » |
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This talk of sweets reminds me of something that a young girl once wrote for her school magazine. Her spelling wasn't perfect but it wasn't picked up by the spell checker, so she went into print as saying that when she grew up she wanted to work in a sweat shop.
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« Reply #40 on: 21:02:31, 26-01-2008 » |
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"Jamboree Bags" ! Oh yessss! The sweets were rubbish but the antiicpation prior to opening The Bag was absolutely the best!
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« Reply #41 on: 22:22:36, 26-01-2008 » |
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We had a teacher who was nicknamed "Jamboree Bag"
Don't bother. I'll plant a lemon tree in her honour.
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« Reply #42 on: 23:40:10, 26-01-2008 » |
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I used to love something called 'Coltsfoot Rock' - did anyone else have it? It might have been a Northern speciality, I'm not sure ... It became impossible to find when I was about 11. I did find some years later in a shop on Victoria station in Manchester but it wasn't nearly as nice as I remembered. Quite sickly in fact. |
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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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I used to love something called 'Coltsfoot Rock' - did anyone else have it? It might have been a Northern speciality, I'm not sure ... It became impossible to find when I was about 11. I did find some years later in a shop on Victoria station in Manchester but it wasn't nearly as nice as I remembered. Quite sickly in fact. Never heard of it tinners. Taken from the Net: Coltsfoot Rock Sticks - hard sticks of brittle rock flavoured with Coltsfoot (a plant with hoof shaped leaves) People used to dry and smoke the leaves to relieve asthma and the juice was used as a cough cure. The taste is strangely addictive |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #44 on: 00:01:33, 27-01-2008 » |
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In Rawtenstall near Bury there was-hopefully still is-this odd fusion of an American Drug Store and an old fashioned sweet shop-you could drink home-brewed sasparilla there, and something of the Coltsfoot ilk I fancy may have been stocked there. In these days of childhod obesity etc the time of such places has come again surely-hopefully at traditional prices.
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