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Fair Isle Knitwear (reg trade mark) - woolly jumper worn by H Purcell when writing KING ARTHUR
felt (p particip) - con molto espressione
Suedette (n) - female fan of Mott the Hoople
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Gosh! I new the Germans
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strat (n.), to emphasize a point using the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. i.e. to strat a campaign
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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Let us present one further performance as comparison. Whom have we not lately had? Well here is Glen the harpsichordist with one "n." Does any one care for his version? : Victorian bowdlerisation of the (orig. 17th century) epithet "Harpsichordyst Onen", a common spelling of (SE) "Harpsichordist Onan"; describes a keyboard player who would frequently please himself by improvising elaborate ornamentation over a simple repeating bass (derived from Ben Jonson's mocking description of musician Robert Osser (as notorious for embezzling his colleagues' fees as for his improvisations) as "Spilling Freed Tones upon ye Ground"). |
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harpsichordist with one "n"
(ii): harpsinchordist: person responsible for cueing the harpist, to play her chords in synch with the rest of the band.
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Imagine what it be like if us English had been there and won!!
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I am sure everythin g is fine hh.
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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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By Golly you are right Mr. Martle! It is sevenths his things are full of. Apologies if any one has been irremediably misled by our ignorant waffling.
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misle (v) To preach pompous waffle to an unsuspecting audience with a view to tricking them into believing that their inability to make any sense of it is their own fault rather than that of the waffler.
cf also medical condition requiring chiropody, arising from foot-stubbing in frustration prompted by the above waffling: " mistle-toe" |
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with brand spanking new ones. Brand spanking: A non-fiction literary genre pioneered by Naomi Klein's No Logo |
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Well, I've already been asleep for 40 minutes now, but....
"strike him on the kazabo" ??
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Kazabo (n.) an open roofed structure wherein, if struck, the occupant will vibrate creating a buzzing membranophonic sound; often with comic effect.
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I always wanted to know how to do that. I will endevour to have a go!!
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Or perhaps anyone else ahs such an anecdote to relate.
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