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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26325

    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    I was once upbraided in committee for using the term 'Black' when referring to people. "Why the capital letter?" I was asked - "we don't use a capital in other instances."

    It was one occasion when I was in advance of l'esprit d'escalier and managed to respond "well only with God and the Queen'. As the Comittee had close connections with both institutions I got away with that one
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26325

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      J connecting

      Bob's psidium, Marigny Ferdie, a scholarly concerto

      wow! wot's a psidium?!

      I must aboard my bicycle. I hope full Anna's Law particulars will be available on my return to the Forum
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26325

        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        You think you've got problems?! My beloved gazed over my shoulder one afternoon and spake:
        "That Ferneyhoughgeliebte character's full of himself, isn't he!"

        I've put a lock on the door since.
        Hilarious!! I shall be chuckling as I pedal
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
          I was at a conference recently on ethnic diversity, when one of the invited speakers, an American professor, took exception to the phrase BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) stating that such people should - as it was in the States and in Canada - be referred to as members of the "Global Majority". PC to the point of meaninglessness, in my opinion.

          Well done mercs, btw. I was thinking "Images"...
          How hilarious, Taps!

          Was the professor male or female?

          Or should I say a member of the Global Majority or Minority

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            You think you've got problems?! My beloved gazed over my shoulder one afternoon and spake:
            "That Ferneyhoughgeliebte character's full of himself, isn't he!"

            I've put a lock on the door since.

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            • Tapiola
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1688

              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              How hilarious, Taps!

              Was the professor male or female?

              Or should I say a member of the Global Majority or Minority
              SHE was as white as both of our avatars, ammy. Can I say "White"?

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              • Tapiola
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                You think you've got problems?! My beloved gazed over my shoulder one afternoon and spake:
                "That Ferneyhoughgeliebte character's full of himself, isn't he!"

                I've put a lock on the door since.
                Brilliant!

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5791

                  These are all-too familiar phrases, the favourites in the Rubbers household being: "You are obsessed", "Put it away", "I'm dishing up, NOW" and (having previously allayed any suspicions on this front) "So when are we going to meet Anna?"
                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  You think you've got problems?! My beloved gazed over my shoulder one afternoon and spake:"That Ferneyhoughgeliebte character's full of himself, isn't he!"

                  I've put a lock on the door since.
                  It's reassuring to find I'm not alone. "You waste so much time on that thing...." "I you would focus on twhat you should be doing instead of getting distracted, you wouldn't be behind in your paperwork all the time..."

                  Which reminds me, I must get on...
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5791

                    Originally Posted by mercia
                    Improvisation
                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    Medtner - 3 Fantastic (opus 2 ?)
                    Poulenc - Quinze pour piano
                    Bartok - 8 on Hungarian Peasant songs opus 20
                    Hang on, how can "Improvisations" be published? That's an oxymoron, that is!
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      oxymoron
                      wassat ?
                      shouldn't you be working ?

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                        SHE was as white as both of our avatars, ammy. Can I say "White"?
                        What a performance, Taps. She's painting herself into an ever-shifting corner there, I suspect

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          J connecting

                          Bob's psidium, Marigny Ferdie, a scholarly concerto
                          I'm a bit wobbly on this one.
                          Good old mercs: when he was born they threw away the mould!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            wobbly ..... mould
                            you little tease
                            come on then

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              you little tease
                              come on then
                              I'm stuck on pomegranates and Maigny, BUT:

                              Jelly d'Aranyi was involved in the world premieres of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto and Holst's Concerto Academica (with little sis).
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Anna

                                Bob Marley - Guava Jelly

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