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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Originally posted by greenilex View Post
    Feeble first attempt follows:

    What N connects
    a trio member's breakthrough
    John's wandering eye
    the stage-struck sister of genius?
    Hope that helps, Ammie! (It's the "feeble" that gets me!)
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Hope that helps, Ammie! (It's the "feeble" that gets me!)
      Agreed, fhg - especially when scb uses it!

      So ... we're still in the starting blocks with this one, issit?

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8772

        yes but now you are here to save us Am!

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          yes but now you are here to save us Am!
          As someone once observed, "if men are the answer, what the [phucque] is the question?"

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          • Anna

            Shall we send a semaphore message to greenilex? I've tried nod, plots involving Noddy & Big Ears, nudge, (both to a horse and a bat) and Noddy Holder and got nowhere. As an aside, I wonder how much money Noddy H. made out of his Christmas record? What is the statuesque nod that mercia refers to?

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              What is the statuesque nod that mercia refers to?
              well I admit Mozart's Don Giovanni (John) isn't my expertise, but the synopsis says a statue nods its head (end of Act 2 scene 3)

              I was also wondering if Mozart was the genius with the sister in that part of the question.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                I was also wondering if Mozart was the genius with the sister in that part of the question.
                She was nicknamed "Nannerl", but is this a "gesture", and was she "stage-struck"?
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Anna

                  There is a film it seems Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart and she was a talented violnist. So, violins, neck? Actually, that doesn't make any sense either, as to gesture, does it

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    She was nicknamed "Nannerl", but is this a "gesture", and was she "stage-struck"?
                    indeed she was thus nicknamed. No and probably not.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26506

                      Nannerl was the first N I thought of when I read the question but I couldn't make that particular sister of a genius link with anything else (including the stage-struck requirement) esp. the gestural aspect, so I forgot about her...

                      Where is our question-setter I wonder!
                      "...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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                      • Norfolk Born

                        Well...(s)he's not on line at the moment. Is it just me, or has 'AA' become slightly dysfunctional of late?

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26506

                          Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                          Well...(s)he's not on line at the moment. Is it just me, or has 'AA' become slightly dysfunctional of late?

                          There have been some big speedings up and slowings down of late, but I guess it's inevitable - and I quite like the mix of quick fire questions and more convoluted testing ones, especially from new visitors!
                          "...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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                          • greenilex
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1626

                            Sorry for dysfunctionality - explained by videochat with new granddaughter.

                            Nannerl is good. So is the nod idea, although incorrect.

                            I said it was a bit feeble, so don't expect perfection straight away, will you?

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                            • Anna

                              Any chance of a teeny clue greenilex, so we can ponder overnight?

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26506

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                Any chance of a teeny clue greenilex, so we can ponder overnight?

                                That would be great. The surname of John perhaps? and the kind of trio we're dealing with.

                                But we now know that the sister concerned is Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829)
                                "...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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