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« Reply #45 on: 14:28:42, 09-07-2007 » |
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Gun fight at the O.K. Comma?
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« Reply #46 on: 14:36:58, 09-07-2007 » |
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while grabbing one of the handlebars with the other, presumably...  Introducing Mr P. Dantry.  Now why didn't I think of that? (just too busy grabbing inverted commas with whatever hand I might have to spare, I suppose...) Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #47 on: 14:42:20, 09-07-2007 » |
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Gun fight at the O.K. Comma?
Perhaps I should have called him Oliver Knussen-Chorale. |
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« Reply #48 on: 14:45:15, 09-07-2007 » |
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I'd hazzard that he might not be a very accurate shot: look at the set of his eyes. (Good job we can't see his trousers.)
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« Reply #49 on: 14:47:06, 09-07-2007 » |
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Gun fight at the O.K. Comma?
Perhaps I should have called him Oliver Knussen-Chorale. Reminds me of an opening sentence by one of my favourite art critics (and one of your fellow countrymen), reviewing a Kokoschka exhibition: Scrawled in the corner of some of the greatest paintings of our century, like a brusque mark of approval, are the initials O.K. ...I misquoted slightly (not bad from memory, though!): http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961789,00.html |
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« Reply #51 on: 14:49:30, 09-07-2007 » |
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Reminds me of an opening sentence by one of my favourite art critics (and one of your fellow countrymen), reviewing a Kokoschka exhibition Is that the dodgy driver? |
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« Reply #52 on: 14:53:04, 09-07-2007 » |
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Hughes, surely? Bad driver as well??
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« Reply #54 on: 14:57:11, 09-07-2007 » |
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Reminds me of an opening sentence by one of my favourite art critics (and one of your fellow countrymen), reviewing a Kokoschka exhibition Is that the dodgy driver? Touché (and martle too!). But an authority* on masterpieces, if I might be allowed to go on-topic for a moment. -- *I wish I could claim he was an undoubted authority, but I gather I can't ... |
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« Reply #55 on: 17:31:58, 10-07-2007 » |
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...For, a succession of sounds can hardly be recognised as melody, unless it be capable of proof, by the addition of that harmony of which it is only one part
Poor old Gregory the Great! - all that effort to produce thousands of plainsong melodies, all lacking "proof" because they were devoid of harmonic accompaniment. Baz |
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« Reply #56 on: 17:46:41, 10-07-2007 » |
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Poor old Gregory the Great! It wan't him, was it?!  Or are you going to tell me my old 'Melody as ritual' lecturer was a conspiracy theorist, and Gregorian chant was invented by Gregory after all? ... |
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« Reply #57 on: 17:48:30, 10-07-2007 » |
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As for your last point, last week I walked past a gym called the Queen Mother Sports Centre, which left me with visions of 101-year-old ladies in violet leggings working away on exercise bikes.
If it's the same one as I am thinking of (near Victoria Station?) one of the great pleasures of booking a squash court there is that they answer the phone by saying "Queen Mother. Can I help?" Incidentally The Hon. Violet Leggings is one of her Late Majesty's Ladies-in-Waiting and still a keen and vigorous unicyclist in her mid-nineties. |
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« Reply #58 on: 17:53:49, 10-07-2007 » |
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As for your last point, last week I walked past a gym called the Queen Mother Sports Centre, which left me with visions of 101-year-old ladies in violet leggings working away on exercise bikes.
If it's the same one as I am thinking of (near Victoria Station?) one of the great pleasures of booking a squash court there is that they answer the phone by saying "Queen Mother. Can I help?" Great pleasures? Well, whatever floats your boat, I suppose. Personally, I admit to being insufficiently into gyms, sports and fitness to be qualified to comment here, but I take leave nevertheless to doubt whether I could derive any "pleasures" from trying to book a squash court at a place where the receptionist taking such bookings is a dead person... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #59 on: 17:56:56, 10-07-2007 » |
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That's the one, George. Near the clap clinic on Vauxhall Bridge Rd. PS Her late Majesty?!  Royal Highness surely? ... |
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