| trojan11
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Shouldn't he have used that excuse before the event?
Reply #4081. Nov 03 11, 6:42 PM
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| trojan11
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So was Hera. :)
Reply #4083. Nov 03 11, 7:32 PM
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MarchHare007 
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*splutter* Twisted Legendary Tales...... *grin*
Reply #4084. Nov 03 11, 7:34 PM
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| trojan11
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Oh....what a title for a book March. Kudos. :)
Reply #4085. Nov 03 11, 7:43 PM
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satguru
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Actually, I was thinking they could metricate jazz as well, and the whole of music. 4/4 would become 5/5, 6/8 would become 0.75, blue notes would become illegal under EU regulations, and a Europe-wide mission would be set up to rewrite all the classical music to convert it. The scale would be altered from A-G to kilohertz, so not only would you know the note (by association once you learnt the new tables) but which octave it was. 261hz- middle C etc.
So you'd get efforts like Bach's prelude in 466hz, Air on a 392hz string etc, and if the Germans got their way you could have 'Take the 440hz train' as well. I should suggest it to them, it would certainly earn a Nobel Prize if adopted and make billions for the minions changing all the equipment.
Reply #4086. Nov 03 11, 8:34 PM
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Jazmee27
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**Hysterical laughter**
Then again, who would listen to that?
Reply #4087. Nov 03 11, 8:41 PM
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| lesley153
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| All of us because there wouldn't be anything else? |
Reply #4088. Nov 03 11, 9:08 PM
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satguru
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Actually the Nazis did attempt to sanitise music, and the spirit has now pervaded the EU from top to bottom. Only marching music and Wagner will be left at this rate...
Reply #4089. Nov 03 11, 10:09 PM
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| C30
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satguru........I suppose now is not the time to confess that one of my favourite pieces of music is the "Luftwaffe March" from the film "Battle of Britain"?
Reply #4090. Nov 04 11, 2:57 AM
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| lesley153
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If you have to! only because I don't think it was one of Ron Goodwin's greatest oeuvres; wasn't it just Here Come The Germans music for a film? It works - you can almost hear the jackboots.
How's this, a piece about an imaginary RAF squadron?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAG11eworFU |
Reply #4091. Nov 04 11, 6:46 AM
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MarchHare007
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Mozzie Squadron! lol
Started listening to a compilation of Ron Goodwin's on youtube - some lovely pieces...... :)
Reply #4092. Nov 04 11, 7:11 AM
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| lesley153
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| You are not alone - one mention of a note, and I am lost in a world of YouTube and "if you liked that, you'll like this" for the next hour. I should probably take YouTube off my bookmarks bar. |
Reply #4093. Nov 04 11, 7:30 AM
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MarchHare007
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It's deadly isn't it?
I look for multi-tracking items as well. Some play for hours!
Just keep finding more and more......
Radio reception at work is not good - too far into the valley - and it also plays havoc with the testing so streaming Classic FM and Youtube is My Friend! :D
Reply #4094. Nov 04 11, 7:36 AM
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Jazmee27
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Not mine: screenreader doesn't like it
Reply #4095. Nov 04 11, 11:01 AM
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| lesley153
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This afternoon I did something I swore I'd never do again: got on a Bedford bus. I wanted to go into two shops near the bus station, so I thought it was worth a try. And I got my shiny new bus pass this morning, so I thought I'd try anything once.
The bus station has changed quite a lot since I sat on a bus telling my fellow passengers that the first thing I'd do when I passed my driving test would be to drive to Scotland, find the people who run Stagecoach, and run them over until they were definitely dead. Even the bus driver laughed and clapped.
It's still inhospitable and scruffy, and the enquiry office closes at 5pm, which is useless when you're a stranger travelling in the rush hour. I used to join a covered queue to get the bus home, but now it uses a stop on the pavement at the edge of the bus station. That'll be a treat in the rush hour in the winter.
Getting there was easy enough, and it was free! (It's usually about £2 each way.) I picked up something for J's girlfriend's birthday, dropped some more bits off at the Heart Foundation shop, and made my way back to the bus stop.
Friendly crowd at the bus stop, wondering if the bus was late or cancelled, but we eventually got on a nice empty bus. A mile from home, there was a very loud noise, much louder than the noise of a bus braking sharply. It actually felt as though something had hit us.
While I wasn't watching, the bus had stopped to let someone across a pedestrian crossing, and the car behind had maintained its speed of 25mph, until the stationary bus got in the way. The driver of the car was predictably very upset but not hurt, and nobody on the bus was hurt.
The driver tried to ring the bus station, and then appealed to us: "Anyone got a phone that works?" Here you are. "How do you use it?" So I dialled the number for him, and he said don't use that - it's the inspectors - and then I dialled 999 for police.
Someone got off and walked, and the rest of us got on the bus behind. The man he'd stopped for on the crossing stayed behind to be a police witness.
So, it was all ultimately very uneventful, but - do you think the gods of travel are trying to tell me something? |
Reply #4096. Nov 04 11, 1:23 PM
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| trojan11
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Yes. Let the bus pass and get back into the Jag.
Reply #4097. Nov 04 11, 1:51 PM
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| lesley153
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| Yes, that's what I thought they were saying too. Thank you. |
Reply #4098. Nov 04 11, 3:14 PM
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redwaldo
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You obviously didn't "miss the bus"!
Reply #4099. Nov 04 11, 4:41 PM
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