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Thank you, Mark; though your reply may perplex those seeking for Rossini or Paisiello.........
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« Reply #106 on: 23:18:49, 12-02-2007 » |
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G d'E, it's also known in some circles as G d'E Deflates Her Very Special Friend.
What on earth is that picture about anyway???!?
Ron, I don't remember if I've grasped everything. That might have to wait for another day.
Meanwhile why don't you all join us at the Waffle Thread and see if someone can't bag the very last K tonight?
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« Reply #107 on: 01:02:20, 13-02-2007 » |
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Ollie - many thanks for the guidance . . .
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« Reply #108 on: 06:40:59, 13-02-2007 » |
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That's me off again on emergency cover folks - not back until about 8 tonight - sorry
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« Reply #109 on: 11:48:12, 13-02-2007 » |
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Like most sopranos
she's much older than she looks;
case opens and shuts.
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« Reply #110 on: 11:57:34, 13-02-2007 » |
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I'm a bit late to this thread, so sorry if you've had this opera before......
"Bit windy - boy fell.
Can't stand the village gossip.
I'll scuttle myself"
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 #111 on: 13:57:06, 13-02-2007 » |
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Pseudo Japanese
Verse not on the list. Lucky
For us (and Gilbert).
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« Reply #112 on: 14:05:08, 13-02-2007 » |
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Thirty-four give voice
Only two have any sense
A fire and a bird
This is the one I still can't identify  despite Gabrielle's subsequent clue . It's occupying most of my waking hours. Could we have a really big clue for bears of very little brain please  |
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« Reply #113 on: 14:10:14, 13-02-2007 » |
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Isn't it the Ring des Nibelungen?
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« Reply #114 on: 14:15:37, 13-02-2007 » |
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I thought it was the Ring, after Gabrielle's clue - Reuel is one of Tolkein's middle names.
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« Reply #115 on: 14:39:18, 13-02-2007 » |
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Sorry if I've been clever-clever. There are 34 singing characters in the Ring cycle (excluding chorus in Gotterdamerung). IMO there are only 2 who aren't stupid and/or greedy - Loge and the Woodbird.
Tolkien followed same layout as Ring - trilogy and prequel, and centrepiece (Ring) and theme (power corrupts). That's my simplistic and uneducated view.
I shall try to do another, and be less obscure - and as witty as you guys (tough, tough!)
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« Reply #116 on: 15:02:38, 13-02-2007 » |
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as witty as you guys (tough, tough!) If you set the bar around my level rather than (e.g.) Ron's it's not so hard...  |
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« Reply #117 on: 16:45:35, 13-02-2007 » |
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Sorry if I've been clever-clever....... I shall try to do another, and be less obscure Not at all! I was being extra dim-dim. I even got as far as knowing that Reuel was one of the R's in JRR but still didn't twig  . But yes to more, please Gabby, and as cleverly puzzling as you feel like making 'em  |
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« Reply #118 on: 18:16:40, 13-02-2007 » |
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. IMO there are only 2 who aren't stupid and/or greedy - Loge and the Woodbird.
I have always thought Hunding gets a bad press. I don't think he was stupid or greedy, A bit of an old reactionary but honourable according to his own tribal law. He does nothing to warrant the vengeful treatment he receives at the hand of Wotan.
Let's hear it for wronged husbands. (No, I've been happily married for 45 years)
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« Reply #119 on: 18:20:27, 13-02-2007 » |
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From memory Hunding does get shipped off in a twinkling by Wotan to Valhalla to tell Fricka she's got her way, which I wouldn't have thought was such a horrible fate.
Until Valhalla gets burned down of course. But that's a couple of operas away.
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