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Post by ipuffin on Apr 21, 2011 10:31:16 GMT -5
Never thought I'd say this, but ipuffin's posts are even more inscrutable than iameye's! -sigh- How do I reach  THESE KIDS?  |
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Post by jarvitronics on Apr 22, 2011 18:15:56 GMT -5
Never thought I'd say this, but ipuffin's posts are even more inscrutable than iameye's! -sigh- How do I reach THESE KIDS?  -j |
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Post by iameye on Apr 22, 2011 23:29:32 GMT -5
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Post by B on Apr 23, 2011 10:29:46 GMT -5
 Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
and looking up, I noticed I was late |
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Post by jarvitronics on Apr 23, 2011 12:12:02 GMT -5
-sigh- How do I reach THESE KIDS? -j  -j |
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 23, 2011 13:13:06 GMT -5
-j not after what happened to THIS guy.... ...but don't loose all hope of deliverance! (I will NOT make a link to THAT song, no matter HOW many clues can be found in it. It's done enough damage to my early teens). |
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 23, 2011 13:24:16 GMT -5
Act Three
SCENE ONE
The market-place.
Early morning. In the centre of the stage is a practicable feature -the centre-piece of the market-place. It is a sort of Victorian clock-tower-cum-lamppost-cum-market-cross, and stands on a raised plinth. There is a ladder leaning against it. On the plinth are the soldiers' boxes and a coil of rope. The front of the plinth is draped with bunting, and other colours are leaning against the centre-piece in an impressive disposition.
When the scene opens, the stage is filled with noise and movement. HURST is beating his drum, the MAYOR, the PARSON and MUSGRAVE are mounting the plinth, and ATTERCLIFFE is Up already, making the last arrangements. The CONSTABLE takes up his stand beside the centre-piece, as does HURST. The BARGEE is hopping about on the forestage.
The SOLDIERS are all now properly dressed, the MAYOR has put on his cocked hat and red robe and chain, and the PARSON his gown and bands, and carries a Bible. They are all wearing bright cockades.....
"I did a lot of drawings of us being presented to the Lord Mayor, with lots of dignitaries and lots of friends of ours around, and it was to be us in front of a big northern floral clock, and we were to look like a brass band. That developed to be the Peter Blake cover...." Never thought I'd say this, but ipuffin's posts are even more inscrutable than iameye's! .... MAYOR. The man's gone balmy. Constable, do summat, grab him, quick!
The CONSTABLE makes an indecisive move.
MUSGRAVE. Be quiet. I shan't warn agen. (To the MAYOR and the PARSON.) You two. Get down there! Constable, there!
He gestures peremptorily and the three of them obey him, moving downstage to stand facing the platform and covered by the gun
Now I said I'll explain. So listen. (He points to the skeleton.) This, up here, was a comrade of mine -- of ours. At least, he was till a few months since. He was killed, being there for his duty, in the country I was telling you about, where the regiment is stationed. It's not right a colony, you know, it's a sort of Protectorate, but British, y'know, British. This, up here, he was walking down a street late at night, he'd been to the opera -- you've got a choral society in this town, I daresay -- well, he was only a soldier, but North Country, he was full of music, so he goes to the opera. And on his way again to camp he was shot in the back. And it's not surprising, neither: there was patriots abroad, anti-British, subversive; like they didn't dare to shoot him to his face. He was daft to be out alone, wasn't he? Out of bounds, after curfew.
ATTERCLIFFE (with suppressed frenzy). Get on to the words as matter, serjeant!
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Post by iameye on Apr 23, 2011 14:24:40 GMT -5
ATTERCLIFFE (with suppressed frenzy). Get on to the words as matter, serjeant!
sergeant c.1200, "servant," from O.Fr. sergent, from M.L. servientum (nom. serviens) "servant, vassal, soldier" (in L.L. "public official"), from L. servientem "serving," prp. of servire "to serve" (see serve); cognate with Sp. sirviente, It. servente. Specific sense of "military servant" is attested from late 13c. servant
early 13c., from O.Fr., noun use of servant "serving, waiting," prp. of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve).
serve late 12c., "to render habitual obedience to," from O.Fr. servir "to serve," from L. servire "to serve," originally "be a slave," related to servus "slave," perhaps from an Etruscan word (cf. Etruscan proper names Servi, Serve). Ser Jean T   |
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 23, 2011 16:09:46 GMT -5
ATTERCLIFFE (with suppressed frenzy). Get on to the words as matter, serjeant!
sergeant c.1200, "servant," from O.Fr. sergent, from M.L. servientum (nom. serviens) "servant, vassal, soldier" (in L.L. "public official"), from L. servientem "serving," prp. of servire "to serve" (see serve); cognate with Sp. sirviente, It. servente. Specific sense of "military servant" is attested from late 13c. servant
early 13c., from O.Fr., noun use of servant "serving, waiting," prp. of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve).
serve late 12c., "to render habitual obedience to," from O.Fr. servir "to serve," from L. servire "to serve," originally "be a slave," related to servus "slave," perhaps from an Etruscan word (cf. Etruscan proper names Servi, Serve). Ser Jean T Good! So lets try again:
One slice reference
One slice pun...
Maybe even more than one?
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 23, 2011 16:36:11 GMT -5
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
and looking up, I noticed I was late from Marianne Faithfull's Biography:
"Although I knew John and Paul quite well by this time meeting The Beatles as a group was always a bit of an ordeal. On top of their Olympian fame was their scouse badgering. They would always run things on you ... Anybody new into the crowd had to be ready to go through a terrible gauntlet of verbal abuse in some way...."Dylan went into the room where the Beatles were sitting all scrunched up on the couch, all of them fantastically nervous. Lennon, Ringo, George and Paul, and Lennon's wife, Cynthia, and one or two roadies. Nobody said anything. They were waiting for the oracle to speak...
"Then Allen Ginsberg came in ... He went over to the chair Dylan was sitting in and plonked himself down on the armrest ... John Lennon broke the silence snarling:
"'Why don't you sit a bit closer then, dearie?'
"The insinuation - that Allen had a crush on Dylan - was intended to demolish Allen, but since it wasn't far from the truth anyway, Allen took it very lightly. The joke was on them, really. He burst out laughing, fell off the arm and onto Lennon's lap. Allen looked up at him and said, 'Have you ever read William Blake, young man'
"And Lennon in his Liverpudlian deadpan said, 'Never heard of the man.'
"Cynthia, who wasn't going to let him get away with this even in jest, chided him: 'Oh, John, stop lying.'
That broke the ice.
"'Lovely gig, man,' Lennon offered, as if he were just passing through.
"Dylan just rocked back and forth hypnotically in his chair. Then he said.'They didn't dig "It's All Right, Ma".'
"'Maybe they didn't get it," said John. "It's the price of being ahead of your time you know.'
"To which Dylan said, 'Maybe, but I'm only about twenty minutes ahead as it is.'
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Post by iameye on Apr 23, 2011 22:25:49 GMT -5
sergeant c.1200, "servant," from O.Fr. sergent, from M.L. servientum (nom. serviens) "servant, vassal, soldier" (in L.L. "public official"), from L. servientem "serving," prp. of servire "to serve" (see serve); cognate with Sp. sirviente, It. servente. Specific sense of "military servant" is attested from late 13c. servant
early 13c., from O.Fr., noun use of servant "serving, waiting," prp. of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve).
serve late 12c., "to render habitual obedience to," from O.Fr. servir "to serve," from L. servire "to serve," originally "be a slave," related to servus "slave," perhaps from an Etruscan word (cf. Etruscan proper names Servi, Serve). Ser Jean T Good! So lets try again:
One slice reference
One slice pun...
Maybe even more than one?
To serve, with Love.  |
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Post by iameye on Apr 23, 2011 22:46:34 GMT -5
  One slice reference
One slice pun...
Maybe even more than One.  |
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Post by Doc on Apr 23, 2011 23:31:11 GMT -5
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
and looking up, I noticed I was late from Marianne Faithfull's Biography:
"Although I knew John and Paul quite well by this time meeting The Beatles as a group was always a bit of an ordeal. On top of their Olympian fame was their scouse badgering. They would always run things on you ... Anybody new into the crowd had to be ready to go through a terrible gauntlet of verbal abuse in some way...."Dylan went into the room where the Beatles were sitting all scrunched up on the couch, all of them fantastically nervous. Lennon, Ringo, George and Paul, and Lennon's wife, Cynthia, and one or two roadies. Nobody said anything. They were waiting for the oracle to speak...
"Then Allen Ginsberg came in ... He went over to the chair Dylan was sitting in and plonked himself down on the armrest ... John Lennon broke the silence snarling:
"'Why don't you sit a bit closer then, dearie?'
"The insinuation - that Allen had a crush on Dylan - was intended to demolish Allen, but since it wasn't far from the truth anyway, Allen took it very lightly. The joke was on them, really. He burst out laughing, fell off the arm and onto Lennon's lap. Allen looked up at him and said, 'Have you ever read William Blake, young man'
"And Lennon in his Liverpudlian deadpan said, 'Never heard of the man.'
"Cynthia, who wasn't going to let him get away with this even in jest, chided him: 'Oh, John, stop lying.'
That broke the ice.
"'Lovely gig, man,' Lennon offered, as if he were just passing through.
"Dylan just rocked back and forth hypnotically in his chair. Then he said.'They didn't dig "It's All Right, Ma".'
"'Maybe they didn't get it," said John. "It's the price of being ahead of your time you know.'
"To which Dylan said, 'Maybe, but I'm only about twenty minutes ahead as it is.'
Charming. The British, amd the Liverpudlians, and especially, the Beatles, were always so goshdarn charming! |
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Post by iameye on Apr 23, 2011 23:42:24 GMT -5
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Post by iameye on Apr 24, 2011 0:10:06 GMT -5
April 24 1969--A promotional film for The Beatles' song Get Back is broadcast (in black and white) on UK television, on the program "Tops of the Pops." 1969--The lawsuit between The Beatles and Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor Holdings / NEMS Enterprises) is settled out of court. 1969--Paul McCartney announces there is no truth to the rumors that he is dead. lol 42 years ago today!  |
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Post by Doc on Apr 24, 2011 0:46:57 GMT -5
April 24 1969--A promotional film for The Beatles' song Get Back is broadcast (in black and white) on UK television, on the program "Tops of the Pops." 1969--The lawsuit between The Beatles and Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor Holdings / NEMS Enterprises) is settled out of court. 1969--Paul McCartney announces there is no truth to the rumors that he is dead. lol 42 years ago today! Excellent; just in time for my 12th birthday the very next day, April 25, 1969! |
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Post by iameye on Apr 24, 2011 1:19:22 GMT -5
April 24 1969--A promotional film for The Beatles' song Get Back is broadcast (in black and white) on UK television, on the program "Tops of the Pops." 1969--The lawsuit between The Beatles and Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor Holdings / NEMS Enterprises) is settled out of court. 1969--Paul McCartney announces there is no truth to the rumors that he is dead. lol 42 years ago today! Excellent; just in time for my 12th birthday the very next day, April 25, 1969! Happy Birthday, Doc! |
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Post by iameye on Apr 24, 2011 1:23:36 GMT -5
special delivery! Happy Easter! |
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Post by iameye on Apr 24, 2011 1:40:53 GMT -5
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 24, 2011 5:51:06 GMT -5
 getting closer! |
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 24, 2011 6:01:18 GMT -5
aye, I guess you could say it is a matter of EXPERIENCE  |
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Post by ramone on Apr 24, 2011 8:11:06 GMT -5
Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor) (Holdings)
If that's not Peter Griffin material, I don't know what is.
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 24, 2011 8:32:28 GMT -5
Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor) (Holdings) If that's not Peter Griffin material, I don't know what is. you sir, have just unleashed HELL over at /pid/ |
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Post by iameye on Apr 24, 2011 11:03:03 GMT -5
Triumph Investment Trust (owners of Nemperor) (Holdings) If that's not Peter Griffin material, I don't know what is. you sir, have just unleashed HELL over at /pid/ lol ;D |
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Post by iameye on Apr 24, 2011 11:05:34 GMT -5
aye, I guess you could say it is a matter of EXPERIENCE .......and genetics genetic "pertaining to origins," coined 1831 by Carlyle from Gk. genetikos "genitive," from genesis "origin" (see genus). genus
(pl. genera), 1550s as a term of logic, "kind or class of things" (biological sense dates from c.1600), from L. genus (gen. generis) "race, stock, kind; family, birth, descent, origin," cognate with Gk. genos "race, kind," and gonos "birth, offspring, stock," from PIE base *gen-/*gon-/*gn- "produce, beget, be born" (cf. Skt. janati "begets, bears," janah "race," janman- "birth, origin," jatah "born;" Avestan zizanenti "they bear;" Gk. gignesthai "to become, happen;" L. gignere "to beget," gnasci "to be born," genius "procreative divinity, inborn tutelary spirit, innate quality," ingenium "inborn character," germen "shoot, bud, embryo, germ;" Lith. gentis "kinsmen;" Goth. kuni "race;" O.E. cennan "beget, create;" O.H.G. kind "child;" O.Ir. ro-genar "I was born;" Welsh geni "to be born;" Armenian chanim "I bear, I am born").Happy Easter! |
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