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marval

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Good answer Mat.


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Mat

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Thanks Margaret.

Someone had better come up with a new theme or else...
 

jhnbrbr

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A joke just for Hauptwerkians

I drove past St Ann's Moseley the other day [it's true, I really did] I was sorry I wasn't able to look inside the church. The organ there is reputed to have the finest triangle stop in the whole of England.
 

jhnbrbr

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A practical joke which Hauptwerkians might play upon the organist of St Ann's Moseley

Sneak into the church when there's nobody around and attach a small electronic circuit to the organ's mains switch, so that when the organ is switched on it makes a triangle noise every few seconds.
 

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Three posts in a row? Be careful, John. It's frowned upon !!
 
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Dorsetmike

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Especially for those of us who are more mature:rolleyes:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBcASC9VqzY&feature=PlayList&p=DC37AB1B659944AD&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2[/youtube]
 

jhnbrbr

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Stan Freberg was really funny, Mike, I hadn't come across him before. (Surprised he got away with that saucy subpoena joke!) Old cars were so much more intersting and individual - even if modern ones are more reliable, and I find steam engines of all sorts really appealing. This may have something to do with the slower speed which makes the exhaust beat something like a human pulse, so the thing seems to be almost "alive", and also you can see most of the moving parts - poetry in motion.
 

jhnbrbr

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"Oh what it is to be young!"

Delightful Margaret. "Yes we have no bananas" is rather a clever lyric.

I was trying to think of a song about nostalgia, but all I could think of was "Try to remember that kind of September". By the time I'd listened to a few different versions Nana Mouskouri, Julie Andrews, Roy Orbison etc I was absolutely sick to the teeth with it! What an incredibly tedious song it is, both the music and the lyrics! However this (sort of nostalgic) lyric "Oh what it is to be young!" has been haunting me for decades (I heard it through a wall once in the 1970's) and I've finally tracked it down as Galadriel by Barclay James Harvest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r_oTyqEpjA

and then I thought of this song, with a rather ironic sense of nostalgia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxBCNLQAyo
 
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