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"funny, except they're TOADSsaid the Pedant
If you look at her quote button John, you will see it says frogs, seems a reasonable assumption then ...? A But I should have known better!  Unless they're a very unusual kind of warty frog?  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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When I was little, I used to watch dozens of toads mating in a pond near our house. I had no idea what they were doing  . I'm supposed to be at MacMillan's The Sacrifice tonight, but I've had a cold and have now got a very persistent cough, so I don't think I'd be welcome. I'm going to watch Classical Star on television, even though the whole idea makes me cringe. |
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I'm going to watch Classical Star on television, even though the whole idea makes me cringe.
I lasted a quarter of an hour with Classical Star. Beforehand I had hoped that Matthew Barley might make it watchable but he immediately put me off with his voiceover in the car about how classical music must change the way it is presented. The whole venture is doomed by the production company and really not worth getting worked up about. |
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« Reply #2013 on: 13:53:38, 17-10-2007 » |
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Ive said in another board that I saw a clip of this programme and said to my wife that we wont be watching that!! The clip was enough!
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Absolutely agree brassbandmaestro, the very idea is off putting enough!!
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Yes, I did. I had to find out how awful it was - and it was dire, and very worrying.
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I watched it because I'm a Charles Hazlewood fan and usually enjoy everything he does or that he appears in, but I'm very disappointed that he's associated himself with this concept and very surprised too. It was truly awful. I know that one's idols have feet of clay, but he really makes my heart sink sometimes. Swears like a trooper too.  He said that one young boy's Bach was "a cure for insomnia". He's turning into Simon Cowell. Shame. Huge waste of his talent and it just shows that some people will do anything for money.  I'm sure the programme will be very popular because that's the current trend but I think it is doing the classical music genre a great disservice. I won't watch it again I'm afraid. Young Musician of the Year is much better. |
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I was out last night so missed it - sounds like that's just as well!
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Swears like a trooper too. How do you know?? If he did on the programme it must have been one of the bits I didn't listen to. |
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It must have been a bit you didn't listen to Mary, because he distinctly said "bollocks" because I heard him. I think it was the bit about classical music being elitist or something to that effect. It wasn't edited out. There's no need for it in my view. Son of a vicar too!!!  I've heard him effing and blinding before at other times.....  I suppose I'm just an old-fashioned girl. I don't mind hearing swear words occasionally in a joke but I hate to hear them in normal conversation. |
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Quite agree withyou Milly jones. Language, the usage of it in the correct forme is so wonderful and should be treated with the respect that it deserves. I might sound old fashioned, but the way the English language is used these days is rather worrying.
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
O, the wild rose blossoms
On the little green place.
He sang that song. That was his song.
O, the green wothe botheth.
When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.
His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:
Tralala lala,
Tralala tralaladdy,
Tralala lala,
Tralala lala.
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« Reply #2022 on: 08:47:42, 20-10-2007 » |
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Hey, Andy, that's Modernism. You know where that belongs.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #2023 on: 11:09:03, 20-10-2007 » |
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Not that modern DB! Maybe modernism doesn't have to be modern? I was only prompted to post that by seeing "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Yo..." in the bookmarks sidebar in my browser - and it turned out to be Young Man rather than Young Dog. http://www.readprint.com/work-870/James-JoyceI didn't do it for A level as I did Maths and Science but the Arts people in my year had it as a set book so that prompted me to read it. |
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That's why I find "Modernism" such an odd term. It seems to be used of certain artistic trends from 1900. Which as you say isn't that modern.
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