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[m1469]

I am no expert, but I understand they have them on their chest.

Thal

We have coconuts on our chest.

[mistermoe]

We have coconuts on our chest.

mmmmh....coconuts....

[ahinton]

that's up to your imagination 

Hardly; I think that we've all established that one some time ago!

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

mmmmh....coconuts....

Coconuts? Yuck! (coconut milk on certain Thai dishes is fine but neat coconut is something to which I think I must be almost as allergic as I am to my all-time food allergen, papaya).

Best,

Alistair

[mistermoe]

Coconuts? Yuck!

I knew it! 

[ahinton]

I knew it!  

Well, how perceptive of you! Coconuts are great things, mind - I'm well aware of that - so my remark is not intended as any kind of criticism of them per se but merely an observation that they have little appeal to me personally. That said, however, there are many other kinds of nuts - cashew, walnuts, Brazil nuts - and, since many of them have ample nutritional qualities, I would not advocate "kicking" them other than to those who might happen to have some kind of nut allergy.

Anyway - just about to peel some really nice big Madagascan prawns and do them in the pan in a teensy drop of organic extra virgin olive oil and finely chopped coriander and serve them with a sauce made from chillies, lime and fresh chives with a little dry white wine on a mixed leaf and organic watercress salad with avocado enhanced by a WALNUT (yes, still on topic - almost!) oil and balsamico based dressing; with a glass or two of a lovely bone-dry chilled Clos Floridène Pessac-Léognan, a perfect light supper to end the day, je crois! (it sure ain't one of Thal's NUTburgers, I know, but each to one's own, oui?...)

Best,

Alistair

[m1469]

Anyway - just about to peel some really nice big Madagascan prawns and do them in the pan in a teensy drop of organic extra virgin olive oil and finely chopped coriander and serve them with a sauce made from chillies, lime and fresh chives with a little dry white wine on a mixed leaf and organic watercress salad with avocado enhanced by a WALNUT (yes, still on topic - almost!) oil and balsamico based dressing; with a glass or two of a lovely bone-dry chilled Clos Floridène Pessac-Léognan, a perfect light supper to end the day, je crois! (it sure ain't one of Thal's NUTburgers, I know, but each to one's own, oui?...)

Best,

Alistair

That sounds amazing  .

[mistermoe]

I would not advocate "kicking" them other than to those who might happen to have some kind of nut allergy.

Can't believe you're such a sadist  


(By the way, your post was a poor show off of your french vocabulary...)

[thalbergmad]

Anyway - just about to peel some really nice big Madagascan prawns and do them in the pan in a teensy drop of organic extra virgin olive oil and finely chopped coriander and serve them with a sauce made from chillies, lime and fresh chives with a little dry white wine on a mixed leaf and organic watercress salad with avocado enhanced by a WALNUT (yes, still on topic - almost!) oil and balsamico based dressing; with a glass or two of a lovely bone-dry chilled Clos Floridène Pessac-Léognan, a perfect light supper to end the day, je crois! (it sure ain't one of Thal's NUTburgers, I know, but each to one's own, oui?...)

Sounds horrid.

I am lucky enough to live but a few hundred yards from one of the best eating establishments in the World.

https://www.nells-cafe.com/adb_menu.htm

Thal

[mistermoe]

Best,

Alistair

I just read you move to france. Now that's awesome! And to which city, if i may ask? Paris? Yeah, of course paris!

By the way, the translation of nut is noix.

[ahinton]

Can't believe you're such a sadist  

(By the way, your post was a poor show off of your french vocabulary...)

Sadism doesn't enter into it, since "kicking" in the context in which I used it was in the sense of "kicking the habit" - i.e. deciding to desist from further involvement therein; it would thereofre seem that your own efforts at interpretation here represent none to good a showing of English vocabulary on your part. My only French reference was to a "Clos Floridène, Pessac-Léognan"- a dry white bordeaux of that name from that area, so I'm not sure what your problem is with that (although I have far less problem with it than you do!)...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

I just read you move to france. Now that's awesome! And to which city, if i may ask? Paris? Yeah, of course paris!

No - I have not moved to France yet and, when I do, it will not be to Paris but to a place not far from Bordeaux.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

That sounds amazing  .

It was indeed very enjoyable, thanks! And now it's bedtime, methinks...

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

Who said the chat room was closed?! All this went on behind my back last night while I was asleep...

[ahinton]

Who said the chat room was closed?! All this went on behind my back last night while I was asleep...

Perhaps you should accordingly congratulate yourself on your wisdom...

Best,

Alistair

[mistermoe]

Sadism doesn't enter into it, since "kicking" in the context in which I used it was in the sense of "kicking the habit" - i.e. deciding to desist from further involvement therein

I have soo much to learn...

[ahinton]

I have soo much to learn...

Haven't we all?! - and let's not forget that de la Rochefoucauld's bon mot about language having been given to man to conceal his thoughts is almost certainly more true of the English language than any other! Not for nothing has it been called "the language of lawyers", on account of the unique and delightful flexibility that allows it to say two things and mean twenty others...

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

Haven't we all?! - and let's not forget that de la Rochefoucauld's bon mot about language having been given to man to conceal his thoughts is almost certainly more true of the English language than any other! Not for nothing has it been called "the language of lawyers", on account of the unique and delightful flexibility that allows it to say two things and mean twenty others...

Best,

Alistair

And YOU seem to have acquired that very art! 

[ahinton]

And YOU seem to have acquired that very art! 

You flatter me not only overmuch but also unnecessarily, since there is no need to "acquire" it if one is even averagely proficient in written and/or spoken English because the very language itself enables this.

Consider the simple example, which realtes purely to use of emphases:

"I will practise the piano for two hours today" (not that I will!...).

Emphasise "I" and you are saying that it is you rather than someone else that will do the practice, stress "will" and you're saying that you don't mean "won't", saying "practise" means that you will not just sit and improvise or give a performance, "the piano" means that you won't be practising the oboe or such, "two hours" means not one or three and "today" suggests that you're not at present talking about doing it tomorrow - and this is only a simple example.

English is a very rich language the very size of whose vocabulary alone identifies it as a world leader in its ability to manipulate meaning by all manner of subtle and not-so-subtle inflections of various kinds.

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

But here we don't hear the tone of your voice!  I just enjoy reading your posts:  your use of vocabulary, play on words and complete mastery of the language!

[mistermoe]

Consider the simple example, which realtes purely to use of emphases:

"I will practise the piano for two hours today" (not that I will!...).

Emphasise "I" and you are saying that it is you rather than someone else that will do the practice, stress "will" and you're saying that you don't mean "won't", saying "practise" means that you will not just sit and improvise or give a performance, "the piano" means that you won't be practising the oboe or such, "two hours" means not one or three and "today" suggests that you're not at present talking about doing it tomorrow - and this is only a simple example.

Well, i don't think this is so much different from other languages.

[ahinton]

But here we don't hear the tone of your voice!  I just enjoy reading your posts:  your use of vocabulary, play on words and complete mastery of the language!

That's very kind of you! My comments about emphases did of course relate to spoken English but the many so many other manipulations of meaning of which the language is eminently capable occur in both written and spoken English.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Well, i don't think this is so much different from other languages.

It is certainly not the most notable example that distinguishes English from other languages, but ask any English-speaking French person or German about this and they will likely tell you that it is easier to be obsequious in English than in any other modern European language.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

complete mastery of the language!

He has got the voice to match. For a Scot, Hinty has got the most posh accent imaginable. Sounds very similar to Brian Sewell.

Check this:

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[ahinton]

He has got the voice to match. For a Scot, Hinty has got the most posh accent imaginable. Sounds very similar to Brian Sewell.

Check this:

                                                                         [/youtube]

Check it if you will (and why not, at least as matter of interest in Mr Sewell's manner of speaking English), but let me assure everyone here that my accent, such as it is, has almost no connection with that of the art critic here portrayed, which is probably just as well, really, since having a plum that far down one's throat might be not merely uncomfortable but physically dangerous.

Mr Sewell presumably took no small amount of trouble to develop that accent, whereas I merely had to try to figure out how to be understood when I first entered England as an immigrant of dubious legality and came to live in a part of that country where understanding the way in which people generally spoke what they seemed to think was English was very hard to grasp, just as it was probably problematic for most of them to understand what I was trying to talk about. I soon lost any Scottish accent that I had possessed, although I think that the ease with which I did so had quite abit to do with the fact that I had not really "belonged" to any particular part of Scotland and therefore not developed the accent that went with any one of them.

Anyway - as you were (or not)...

Best,

Alistair

[mistermoe]

I would so much like to see a video of his majesty himself. I'm sure he's mister handsome!

[ahinton]

I would so much like to see a video of his majesty himself. I'm sure he's mister handsome!

To whom do you refer here? (and what might this have in any case to do with the thread topic that you yourself initiated?)...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

let me assure everyone here that my accent, such as it is, has almost no connection with that of the art critic here portrayed

Your answerphone message demonstrates otherwise.

Thal

[ahinton]

Your answerphone message demonstrates otherwise.

To you, perhaps - and your opinion on the matter (or what you might appear to seek to claim such opinion to be, for whatever purpose or none) is, of course, no one's prerogative but yours - yet to most people it would do no such thing.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

cobblers

[ahinton]

cobblers

I am unaware of any direct and credible connection between shoe repairers and my voicemail message (which anyone could in any case put to the test if so they wish, having first sampled for coparative purposes the Sewell extract posted on this thread), but it occurs to me, especially given the nature of the entirely unrelated thread topic, to give a simpler anwer to your post which, in your own uniquely time-dishonoured manner, must be...

..."BOLLOX".

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

What a good idea.

Would everyone please ring up Hinty and sample his voice message.

Thal

[ahinton]

Would everyone please ring up Hinty and sample his voice message.

Has it not occurred to you that there would be a risk that the phone is answered personally and the outgoing voice message is not heard by the caller?

Anyway, no matter; all are welcome to call, especially if they wish to order some scores, CDs, etc. that we supply at what you have yourself described as reasonable prices.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Has it not occurred to you that there would be a risk that the phone is answered personally

That would be even better as the caller would get a personalised "Sewell" treatment.

As for scores, I would be obliged for your price for all Sorabji PC's, me to collect.

Thal

[ahinton]

That would be even better as the caller would get a personalised "Sewell" treatment.

I fear that anyone expecting "Sewell" treatment would be disappointed. Maybe you should get Brian Sewell to call me...

As for scores, I would be obliged for your price for all Sorabji PC's, me to collect.

I'll write to you privately with that information but, in the interim, I will appreciate your letting me know whether you would like to include the scores of the last three of Sorabji's works for piano and orchestra which do not actually bear the title "concerto" as the first eight of them do; I refer to Symphonic Variations, Opus Clavisymphonicum and Opusculum Clavisymphonicum.

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

Turn around for five minutes and I miss a zillion posts in this stream-of-conciousness thread.

[thalbergmad]

I'll write to you privately with that information but, in the interim, I will appreciate your letting me know whether you would like to include the scores of the last three of Sorabji's works for piano and orchestra which do not actually bear the title "concerto" as the first eight of them do; I refer to Symphonic Variations, Opus Clavisymphonicum and Opusculum Clavisymphonicum.

The CPS has expanded to include all works for piano & orchestra, so the lot please.

Thal

[ahinton]

The CPS has expanded to include all works for piano & orchestra, so the lot please.

OK - you now have all the info. from me directly (apart, it has to be said, from the 1922 Symphony which, whilst being principally an orchestral piece, has a piano part so persistent as to put even Turangalîla to shame - so if that also interests you, just let me know).

All best,

A

[pianissimo123]

Men probably. ... Being stabbed in the back is allot worse than being kicked... believe me.....

[ahinton]

Being stabbed in the back

Ah, maybe - but, as Oscar Wilde observed, true friends stab you in the front.

Best,

Alistair