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  1. 18-02-12, 21:20 #14431
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    Quote Originally Posted by rubbernecker View Post
    Deeply so. Is it a Ruckers, or perhaps a Blanchet? Old Kenyon was banging on about similar things in BAL this morning.

    I'm warming up a W...
    It's an anonymous instrument... Great music

    Shall be listening to Kenyon in the morning re Goldbergs
    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9
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    Which W, conceived in 1950, had a slack period between 1979 and 1981 before moving to a new home in 2008?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rubbernecker View Post
    Pang was the obvious clue leading one to Puccini's Turandot (Ping, Pang and Pong). The singer at the opera's 1926 premiere was one Emilio Venturini. The poet was Serge Venturini, a Frenchman, and there was an actor who was in Return of the Living Dead called Mark Venturini who died of Leukemia aged 35. All this was gleaned via Wikipedia, I confess, I had never heard of any of them.
    Genius!

    As for your W, I immediately thought of Welsh National Opera, but all the dates are two years out!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Genius!

    As for your W, I immediately thought of Welsh National Opera, but all the dates are two years out!
    You're on the right lines, Ferney!
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    Quote Originally Posted by rubbernecker View Post
    a slack period
    that being Adrian Slack
    sorry my V question didn't meet the required standard ............... if only the top table had answered the U question
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    Quote Originally Posted by mercia View Post
    sorry my V question didn't meet the required standard ...............
    What noise is this that rouseth me from my slumbers at this ungodly hour? Why, 'tis our old friend Mercia. What ails thee, Mercs? Come, come now, let's have no more of this. These nuages gris that do so deface th'horizons of this fair game, why? They shall all be dipers'd in the twinkling of an eye; and all shall be well...

    Big clue from Mercs, there

    EDIT: I shall inspect matters further when I rise again on the morrow
    Last edited by rubbernecker; 19-02-12 at 04:41. Reason: Going back to bed where the Lady Rubbers is snoring
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    There'll be more from AA after this message:



    ALPHABET ASSOCIATIONS IS SPONSORED BY INSOMNIACS ANONYMOUS

    HAS THE ANSWER DAWNED ON YOU YET?

    IT MAY BE THE     WEE SMALL HOURS, BUT YOU CAN STILL HAVE BIG IDEAS!




    And.....

    ..we're back!
    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9
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    Quote Originally Posted by mercia View Post
    that being Adrian Slack
    Ah! That rather gives it away, mercs. One doesn't need the detective skills of Ruth Rendell to get to the W now.

    What annoys me is that I've been there!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Ah! That rather gives it away




    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9
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    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    But not in the Rubbers mansion methinks...
    Last edited by Flay; 19-02-12 at 09:28. Reason: Not woken up yet...
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