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« Reply #3015 on: 20:16:37, 24-04-2008 » |
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Following some preliminary analysis after work this evening with a spreadsheet of initials derived from a database of names, I find that it seems that the initials W. E. hold a magnetic attraction for those Irish parents naming their children. With regards to people with a certain sirname choosing names for their kids, I find that parents also find the following initials rather especially appealing: O. E. M. N. J. Q. J. V. C. V. That said, some parents seem to rather exhibit a behaviour that seems to amount to an aversion to the following initials: J. A. M. V. Is it not, indeed, possible that many of the issues that various people have with a certain composer might be due to the demonstrably aesthetically repellent nature of his initials?  (I giddily await the downloading of a SQL database of a german phone directory that will enable me to do some cross-cultural comparisons). |
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« Reply #3016 on: 20:26:32, 24-04-2008 » |
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Goodness Inky,
What one can say to that?
My initials of my Christian names are S.J.
I was named after the the Jesuits?
Gordon Bennett!
J.Q. seems odd does it not?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3017 on: 22:31:34, 24-04-2008 » |
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I think the best one I have come across is a friend of mine who is besotted with cricket , his daughter's intials are LBW . I think that is great - I hope she doesn't marry though, or perhaps she is looking for a Williams ... or Watson... or Wilkinson ...  A |
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Well, there you are.
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« Reply #3018 on: 22:32:37, 24-04-2008 » |
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Incidentally I used to be AC.. alternating current, then I became AD, anno domini... now I am .... well , never mind , but I have slipped down the register rather!! A |
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Well, there you are.
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« Reply #3019 on: 22:57:17, 24-04-2008 » |
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A teacher called Veronica I worked with many years ago didn't like her new initials when she married Mr D........t! She really shouldn't have changed her surname to his.  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #3020 on: 23:37:16, 24-04-2008 » |
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Dreadful sounds coming from out in the darkness - a particularly blood-curdling squawking and yelping from a vixen, accompanied by the persistent screeching of an owl - why can't it learn to twit-twoo nicely? It's a good job I know what's making all the noise or I'd be calling 999!
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #3021 on: 23:56:33, 24-04-2008 » |
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Dreadful sounds coming from out in the darkness I thought you were listening to last Saturday's Hear & Now on LA with the lights turned out MJ  |
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« Reply #3022 on: 09:22:51, 25-04-2008 » |
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One of my friends at university had initials that stood for a nasty medical condition. His father was also a GP so I wondered if it was a joke. He used his middle name to avoid the association!
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Best regards,
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #3023 on: 09:47:25, 25-04-2008 » |
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Sometimes of course that sort of strategy can itself bring people's attention to what one was trying to avoid.
I'm reminded of a story of the German conductor Christoph Prick. For some appearances in the English-speaking world he apparently chose to use the name Perrick. Unfortunately when he returned home people started calling him Schawanz...
Oh yes, and that moment in Peter Grimes where Peter sings "I am native, rooted here". Rooted has some additional connotations in Australian English. (After the republic referendum in 1999 the Guardian wrote that the result was a sign of how deeply rooted Australia's democracy was. I still don't know which way they meant it.) For a performance I saw many years ago, Opera Australia used a surtitle "I am native here". Of course it's perfectly clear what Grimes sings at that point. If they'd surtitled the proper text there might have been a few titters but at least they would have been directed at the difference between Englishes and quickly forgotten. As it was our own inward groans were directed squarely at the surtitling department and we remember them to this day.
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« Reply #3024 on: 10:50:03, 25-04-2008 » |
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And are 'we', though not native, so 'rooted' in the Antipodes that 'we' find ourselves being infected (by osmosis, as it were) by this singular plurality? |
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« Reply #3025 on: 11:01:58, 25-04-2008 » |
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Is there one Member of this board who has not at least been tempted by the sheer elegance of the construction similarly to let their number slip? |
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« Reply #3026 on: 12:04:34, 25-04-2008 » |
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I'm at work supposedly composing, but this is just a quick hello to let everyone know that I'm ok, just a bit busy and lacking in the whole laptop front! (erm...)
Normal service will be resumed!
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« Reply #3027 on: 12:12:22, 25-04-2008 » |
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ARGGHHHHH! I made the fatal mistake of viewing a YouTube clip posted by Baz on the 'Crackpot' thread. I so wish I hadn't, although I should have known better. It's Virgil 'Liberace of the Organ' Fox doing dastardly things to Bach's 'Gigue' Fugue. Now I can't get the damn thing out of my head, complete with all the dancing and happy clapping  |
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« Reply #3028 on: 12:57:32, 25-04-2008 » |
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ARGGHHHHH! I made the fatal mistake of viewing a YouTube clip posted by Baz on the 'Crackpot' thread. I so wish I hadn't, although I should have known better. It's Virgil 'Liberace of the Organ' Fox doing dastardly things to Bach's 'Gigue' Fugue. Now I can't get the damn thing out of my head, complete with all the dancing and happy clapping Sorry Mort - perhaps you should listen to Hans Andre Stamm playing Bach's G Minor Fugue (BWV 541) on the newly renovated Trost-Organ in Waltershousen, Germany (a lovely period instrument played really nicely!). CLICKBaz  |
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