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    #9571
    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Take Three Girls! With Susan Jameson (IIRC) playing the single mother of a son called "Aeneas", which my younger self thought utterly naff!
    So much for my research into Charlie's Angels or a possible sitcom called Three Little Maids!

    And isn't Flight the title of Jonathan Dove's first opera?

    Are you sure you trust a mind that works this way with a G?

    If so:

    A G that connects:

    Conan Doyle's thoroughbred
    Marin Marais' actor
    and (extra hard) a serial contributor to Sporting Life.

    Answer non-musical; one answer musical, the others more literary.
    Gerard, methinks, sans google.

    Depardieu played Marin Marais didn't he (he plays most leads in French fillums) in "Tous les Matins..."

    Wasn't there a racehorse in a Sherlock Holmes story called Brigadier Gerard?

    No idea about the third element...
    "...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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      #9572
      Wow! Straight in at Number One, it's Caliban with the overall answer and the second "clue" fully solved.
      The Conan Doyle is almost there, too: the "Brigardier Gerard" stories are independent of the Sherlock Holmeses, but there is a racehorse element. (Curses! I was hoping somebody would go for Silver Blaze!)

      ... I said "extra hard" for the third one
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        #9573
        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        Wow! Straight in at Number One, it's Caliban with the overall answer and the second "clue" fully solved.
        The Conan Doyle is almost there, too: the "Brigardier Gerard" stories are independent of the Sherlock Holmeses, but there is a racehorse element. (Curses! I was hoping somebody would go for Silver Blaze!)

        ... I said "extra hard" for the third one
        Ah yes - I conflating two things aren't I? Conan Doyle's BG was a soldier... And then there was a real Grand National winner named after the character I think.

        As to the third one... suppressing the instinct to make a bad 'Viagra' joke - I really have no idea!
        "...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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          #9574
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Ah yes - I conflating two things aren't I? Conan Doyle's BG was a soldier... And then there was a real Grand National winner named after the character I think.



          As to the third one... suppressing the instinct to make a bad 'Viagra' joke - I really have no idea!
          Yield it! Yield it! (Not a clue, by the way!)
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            #9575
            The only thing yielded by Google is that Gerard Jerome Melling was a cartoonist who contributed to (among others) Sporting Life...
            "...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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              #9576
              Ah, but that's not extra hard ('tho' his pencil might push you in the right direction).




              ... conjuring all sorts of unwelcome images!

              PS: this third element is the music one.
              Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 16-11-11, 17:10. Reason: Extra "Nudge"
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                #9577
                a wild shot in the dark

                pencil hardness is H
                add H to Gerard to get Gerhard, the composer of the music to the film This Sporting Life ???????

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                  #9578
                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  a wild shot in the dark

                  pencil hardness is H
                  add H to Gerard to get Gerhard, the composer of the music to the film This Sporting Life ???????
                  A "wild shot" that hits the bullseye, mercia!

                  Yes, Roberto Gerhard, the (serial) composer who wrote the score of the Lindsay Anderson film.

                  So, the "association" is Ger(h)ard: Conan Doyle's Brigadier (after whom the Horse was named), Depardieu, and Roberto.

                  Right: who's on for H itself? Cali got 2/3 ... ?
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    #9579
                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Cali

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                      #9580
                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      a wild shot in the dark

                      pencil hardness is H
                      add H to Gerard to get Gerhard, the composer of the music to the film This Sporting Life ???????
                      Bloody brilliant, merc !!!
                      "...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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                        #9581
                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Right: who's on for H itself? Cali got 2/3 ... ?
                        H-h-h-h-happy to. Leave it with me a few moments...

                        Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 16-11-11, 18:25.
                        "...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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                          #9582
                          OK gang: what H connects some very early cartography, Connie Sachs and a pair of 1969 Canticles?
                          "...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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                            #9583
                            Hereford

                            Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral
                            Birthplace of Beryl Reid who played Connie in the TV le Carre
                            Howells Hereford Canticles

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                              #9584
                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              Hereford

                              Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral
                              Birthplace of Beryl Reid who played Connie in the TV le Carre
                              Howells Hereford Canticles
                              Seven minutes! What kept you, mercie???

                              Bravissimo

                              Rather grateful, actually - I have to go and attend a function now, may be some time...

                              Up to you to get all I and mighty...

                              "...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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                                #9585
                                rather clumsy and inelegant this, however

                                an I to connect

                                - a one-time Grimgerde
                                - a late 16th century south-of-the-river theatrical murder
                                - an R&B singer from Jackson, TN

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