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time_is_now
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« Reply #30 on: 23:43:12, 24-01-2008 »
I agree.
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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 #31 on: 23:46:35, 24-01-2008 »
I've got an idea! How about a nice simple game of...
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #32 on: 23:54:02, 24-01-2008 »
Quote from: C Dish on 22:46:26, 24-01-2008
No, it seems a dollop of waffle is allowed as long as one of those five functions is indeed fulfilled. . . .

Exactly. Whatever queernesses we undertake we should never set ourselves entirely adrift - or worse still burn our boats. . . . Who was it that said "Only connect"? We would rather put it - leap into the dark by all means but be sure to re-connect - recover your bearings - before continuing the venture!
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« Reply #33 on: 23:55:04, 24-01-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 23:54:02, 24-01-2008
Quote from: C Dish on 22:46:26, 24-01-2008
No, it seems a dollop of waffle is allowed as long as one of those five functions is indeed fulfilled. . . .

Exactly. Whatever queernesses we undertake we should never set ourselves entirely adrift - or worse still burn our boats. . . . Who was it that said "Only connect"? We would rather put it - leap into the dark by all means but be sure to re-connect - recover your bearings - before continuing the venture!


"Only connect" would be EM Forster in Howard's End.  Do I get any points?
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Andy D
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« Reply #34 on: 23:55:25, 24-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 23:30:47, 24-01-2008
And what do points make?

Tommo


Sorry if this is a bit obvious Tommo but........prizes?
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time_is_now
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« Reply #35 on: 23:57:41, 24-01-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 23:54:02, 24-01-2008
Whatever queernesses we undertake we should never set ourselves entirely adrift - or worse still burn our boats. . . . Who was it that said "Only connect"?
Some twentieth-century queer, wasn't it?

But I don't think one can 'undertake' a queerness (at least, not without killing him orff first).
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« Reply #36 on: 00:16:08, 25-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 23:30:47, 24-01-2008
Please could you just note who gets what points when.

Setter:
  • 100 points for sticking a puzzle on
  • plus 1 point for each quarter-hour taken before answer correctly guessed

Guesser or rather contestant and hopeful solver:
  • 100 points for a correct answer
  • -75 points for an incorrect answer
  • plus bonus points for a correct answer within 100 minutes of the puzzle's being set
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« Reply #37 on: 00:31:02, 25-01-2008 »
How many points for guessing Queen Mary's waist size correctly? It's been worrying me. Can it be real or has a certain artifice been employed? 
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« Reply #38 on: 00:38:30, 25-01-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:31:02, 25-01-2008
... has a certain artifice been employed? 

Of corset has, GG: no doubt it's straight-laced, too.
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« Reply #39 on: 00:43:56, 25-01-2008 »
That's the kind of corset that makes my inner feminist very angry.  The ones we wore for that Vivaldi programme weren't half as constricting.  (Almost literally half - I'd say Queen Mary's waist was about 14 inches in that torturing device.)
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« Reply #40 on: 00:52:34, 25-01-2008 »
Careful, Ron. I believe making reference to the nature of a member of the Royal Family's undergarments in public still counts as treason, vide Bustles and Stays (Speculation) Act 1873, as amended . I had suspicions of the Royal Photographer getting up to no good in the darkroom with whatever the contemporary equivalent of Photoshop was.

The points system makes it far too risky to venture an answer on the competition thread itself. Snatch 2: An American pupil of Nadia Boulanger? he shot aimlessly into the dark.  
 
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« Reply #41 on: 01:07:51, 25-01-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:56:08, 25-01-2008
Oh, bum, bum, bum.

Is that a tune we've got to guess George? Is it Stockhausen?
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Andy D
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« Reply #42 on: 01:18:44, 25-01-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:31:02, 25-01-2008
How many points for guessing Queen Mary's waist size correctly? It's been worrying me. Can it be real or has a certain artifice been employed? 

I've got signatures switched off so I had no idea what you were all on about but I believe SG has a picture as part of his. We've been through all these wasp waists before elsewhere



I daren't mention Queen Mary's snatch Grin
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« Reply #43 on: 01:32:04, 25-01-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:52:34, 25-01-2008
Sample 2: An American pupil of Nadia Boulanger?   
No comment from me (wrong thread) -- but I will venture it's a good guess. Could have been written by Alexander, Allanbrook, Amlin, Anderson, Bassett, Bauer, Bearer, Bennett, Berger, Berlinski, Blackwood, Blitzstein, Bowles, Briggs Sadovnikoff, Brunswick, Carter, Chanler, Chihara, Chowning, Citkowitz, Clarke, Cole, Conte, Cooper, Copland, Crawford, Creshevsky, Cunningham Sumner, Cushing, Dahl, Delaney, Des Marais, Dett, Diamond, di Bonaventura, Drauglelis, Duke, Effinger, Elwell, Erb, Ericourt, Ermili, Fine, Finney, Fischer, Fisk, Frackenpohl, Friedhofer, Gage, Galkin, George, Gittleman, Glanville-Hicks, Glass, Goeb, Goldman, Gottlieb, Grantham, Grouya, Haieff, Hailstork, Hammond, Harris, Howe, Husa, Imbrie, Jones, Kanach, Kerr, Kimball, Kozinski, Kraft, Krzywicki, Kubik, Kuney, Labunski, La Montaine, Lee, Lehrman, Lessard, Lewis, Lockwood, Lybbert, Maganini, Manziarly, Mekeel, Middleton, Mikhashoff, Moevs, Montgomery, Moore, Moore, Moscatelli, Musgrave, Pasatieri, Peaslee, Perry, Pinkham, Piston, Ptaszynska, Robb, Robertson, Rodriguez, Rogers, Rolin, Sapp, Shafer, Shapero, Shapiro, Shen, Siegmeister, Skrowaczewski, Smith, Smith, Spies, Stringfield, Strouse, Suesse, Swanson, Talma, Tcherepnin, Thomson, Tingley, Toth, Trimble, Viens, Vincent, Vosgerschian, Wagner, Walker, Walters, Ward-Steinman, Warren, Washburn, Wilkins, or Woollen
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« Reply #44 on: 01:36:47, 25-01-2008 »
That's a few thousand points off for you, McChafer, even if one of them was right.
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