Originally posted by Caliban
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I'm on the verger banning this discussion.... 
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In the past-or present?"Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet." -
Time to altar course...Comment
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Chancel be a fine thing.
Just hope someone is taking vicarious pleasure in what's going on
Ooops - wrong font
"...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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Mere harmless japes by merry naves.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post"Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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"Do you mean to say the pun-question is not clearly settled in your minds? Let me lay down the law upon the subject. Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden. Manslaughter, which is the meaning of the one, is the same as man's laughter, which is the end of the other. A pun is prima facie an insult to the person you are talking with. It implies utter indifference to or sublime contempt for his remarks, no matter how serious. I speak of total depravity, and one says all that is written on the subject is deep raving. I have committed my self-respect by talking with such a person. I should like to commit him, but cannot, because he is a nuisance. Or I speak of geological convulsions, and he asks me what was the cosine of Noah's ark; also, whether the Deluge was not a deal huger than any modern inundation."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" [1858]
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Firing all canons there, I see."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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He's so in-spire-ing
"...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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This thread is giving me pulpitations.Comment
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
"...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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Seems quite ordinandy to me. But I wouldn't put it pastor him to have us rolling in the aisles.Originally posted by Caliban View PostHe's so in-spire-ing"Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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Sounds like you've had a pew too many.Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post"Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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Now I'm getting confirmation of deja vu.Originally posted by Tony View Post
Can no-one give us a clerestory?Comment
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