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Zombie

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  1. celebrating with corgi puddings
  2. no need for reminders with the Penguin’s poisoned produce
  3. what a creepy claw!
  4. Hallowe’en when my evening meal knocks on the door… Good or bad?
  5. Uranus - the gift that keeps on giving
  6. trip and SPLAT! and SNATCH
  7. silly question and wrong answer Here’s a bicycle and a car… moderation or excess?
  8. I do like a bath fly trap? or cat flap?
  9. Coke! birds or bees
  10. cold - you can always put on more clothes mountains 🏔 or seaside 🌊
  11. yes, gotta be an evil twin ‘cos sweet innocent LBO would never do anything so dastardly - would she? and my signature proves LBO is completely blameless… What's cute, blue and... innocent?
  12. yes, usually something dodgy, nefarious or downright criminal
  13. The OED suggests it was coined in the 1960s by an employee at Bell Labs, Don Macpherson, citing an article in Telecom Heritage magazine (1996 No. 28) “His thought process was as follows: There are eight points on the symbol so octo should be part of the name. We need a few more letters or another syllable to make a noun... (Don Macpherson… was active in a group that was trying to get Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals returned from Sweden). The phrase thorpe would be unique.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
  14. Biscuits! Full fat or skimmed milk (semi not allowed )
  15. Au Natural - hate shaving but then I hate beards when it grows …so then it’s Shaved Flat or fizzy?
  16. better watch your back, LBO… those two don’t look very happy that you’re flaunting the crown AND you’re munching a biscuit and they’re not!
  17. what new evil is this?!
  18. Zombie

    Jazz

    Jacques Loussier plays JS Bach 2019 saw the death of France’s talented composer and musician, Jacques Loussier, best know for his “jazzed up” interpretations of the works of the baroque composer JS Bach. Whether he was the first jazz exponent of JS Bach’s music I don’t know, but he clearly recognised, understood and loved the rhythmic and harmonic qualities of certain JS Bach compositions which offered potential for reinterpretation in a jazz form which Bach would not have understood. Or would he…? Because the fact is JS Bach did understand one of the cornerstones of jazz - “blue notes” - which he often used to create emotional tension in dissonance and then resolution. And JS Bach was simply using techniques and conventions established centuries before during the Renaissance and possibly earlier. So what we call “jazz” is not profoundly new, different or strange to what went on before - and maybe JS Bach would have greatly enjoyed these inspired reworkings of his music - merely a development in a particular direction focused on rhythm and “blues” of work done by generations of musicians and composers in previous centuries and across various genres of folk and popular song, and so-called “classical music”. The point is, to quote the 60s, you either dig it or you don’t This is one of Jacques Loussier’s more introspective arrangements of JS Bach, the Andante from his Concerto in D major BWV 1054
  19. yeppers, steps and stairs - Penguin has to take them very carefully, one at a time No slips ‘n’ trips else she might have a nasty fall
  20. Latin is a dead language As dead as dead can be It killed the Ancient Romans …and now it’s killing ME! This was scrawled inside my battered Latin textbook at school probably by some scruffy, disgruntled “Just William” type character but the joke was really on him because obviate, and more than 60% of the English lexicon (according to Stacker), derives from Latin (and Greek) https://stacker.com/stories/3885/50-latin-roots-will-help-you-understand-english-language
  21. We WANTS it!!
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