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« Reply #90 on: 13:35:11, 23-01-2008 » |
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Out of interest, what is a Chafer, in your minds?
A chafing dish is one of those doodads used to keep food warm on a buffet table.
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« Reply #91 on: 18:23:15, 23-01-2008 » |
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Out of interest, what is a Chafer, in your minds?
A chafing dish is one of those doodads used to keep food warm on a buffet table.
I know you weren't asking me, but in my mind(s) a Chafer is quite clearly a kind of beetle. I think that's because they chafe, with their little pincers. Edit: It's just occurred to me there's a considerably more obvious explanation, although it must have been embedded deep within my subconscious, if at all.2nd edit: When I said a more obvious explanation I didn't mean the really really obvious one, which is that there is an English word 'cockchafer'. I've only just been alerted to this fact. I meant the marginally less obvious explanation that 'Käfer' is German for 'beetle'. |
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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 #92 on: 18:25:07, 23-01-2008 » |
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One of these, in fact. I think they're called June bugs over in the Free World.  |
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« Reply #93 on: 18:30:20, 23-01-2008 » |
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We call them Cockchafers and they hurl themselves at lighted windows with an absolutely frenzy. Big buglars they are too.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #94 on: 19:49:07, 23-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #96 on: 17:22:03, 24-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #97 on: 17:30:56, 24-01-2008 » |
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Chafed-nipple: That's a pomegranate! |
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« Reply #102 on: 20:47:38, 28-01-2008 » |
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Meanwhile, I've been digging around on YouTube where there's a selection of old Bolshoi clips.... ... here's Mark Reizen singing Gremin's aria from ONEGIN... at the age of 90, in a birthday tribute to the man  http://youtube.com/watch?v=1MzO56PmjQ4 |
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« Reply #103 on: 22:59:19, 28-01-2008 » |
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Wow! Thank you so much Reiner and Reizen. Just Amazing.
Tommo
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #104 on: 23:17:26, 28-01-2008 » |
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Our sojourn into Russia made me remember Tchaikovsky's Ardent Declaration for Viola (which is not on YouTube) and this, which is, but which is also not quite as amazing as Rei's last snatch. Rei - did you ever find out if your Bulakhov's were related to Pavel and Pyotr? Tommo |
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