Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

Odd couple

Harb, that's why I said they weren't kids, you'd think before now people from the two countries known for refusing to speak other languages would have realized this could present a problem

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Ayo, but for a week?

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Merc, they're not staying anywhere expensive or lavish there are no $$$$$$ being thrown around!

Talking really matters to me, but perhaps there's something to be said for not being able to. Wow. I might be able to keep my foot out my mouth

They look good together. And how many couples talk, really?

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If we didn't speak the same language, I mean. I never ever run out of things to talk about. You might have noticed.

I do listen too. No, really.

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Has to be said right now I could elope with anyone up to and including a Russian serial killer - but not for a week. I think we'd run out of things to do and say within about 48 hours but that may be because I am very shallow.

RE: traveling abroad

Do I win a set of travel luggage for the 100th comment?

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Yeah-nah still talking in tongues so far as I'm concerned but it does seem you're probably the man to know if there are any famous rugby songs.

As compared to, say, the football classic for a couple of clubs, you'll never walk alone -

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Angel - yeah. More opera likers than I expected!

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Daniela, ta for the link, she seems talented - I do prefer a mezzo-soprano but know that I am very much in the minority - but then I am not a true opera fan

I love 'She' too

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Merc, it's all in the chest

Now must go teach, later gators

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Map, bet you had some odd dreams while you slept

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Map, I didn't know that one, did like Deep Purple and opera only existed because singers didn't have pop music you know. The voices are the voices.

Please could you translate what Yeah-nah just said so I can reply? One does want to be polite

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Molly, I had the chance to see Queen at Sun City way back when and didn't take it. Kicking yourself much?

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Not to mention Brown has a very fashionable and modern view towards men and women in the song, but I did say it was the Pavarotti bits that are shake-you-to-your-boots incredible

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Merc, they just look fat, they have gigantic chests. Well, not actually all of them, but the ones that are huge have fantastic built-in echo chambers

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Nessum Dorma - did you ever hear Harry Secombe (sp?) sing it? Away from the Goon Show he was actually a humdinger of a singer! There have been some incredible versions but yes I have a sneaking admiration for Pavarotti.

As I am a pleb, though, this remains my favourite performance of his. I tried to play it to Z but he ran away he and Map would have huddled in a corner as they tried to climb the wall to escape. But just listen to his bits of this joint performance - chills. Crank it up, loud enough to drown the roadworks.



Your neighbours will now officially hate you. Blame me.

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The Three Tenors at play with O Sole Mio - yeah, the one where they tease and jostle each other like schoolboys.

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Molly, how do they compare to those twins, wossnames, JedWard? Are we talking better? Worse? On a par?

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Map not always high shrieking, there are rumbling voices as well

And of course the tenors.

What I do like is a 25 stone singer can put on a tiny mask and is instantly disguised so well none of the rest of the cast realize they are still there. It is absolutely lunatic stuff, opera. Important to have a little lunacy in life.

I will find the best clip of the 3 tenors but I know full well you won't trust me long enough to listen to it, which is a great shame

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Mimi and Kal yes I am working backwards through comments

Those under house-arrest entertain themselves as best we can

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Ysa, now there's a plan, go visit Molly and take her to the opera festival?

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Thanks Molly and do Boyzone perform there? I have not listened to that link since you have a mischievous streak and I suspect I might regret it

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Map, do you know what my first opera was? Le quattro stagioni

It is the most boring of all operas
It is the longest of all operas
You would have died. I am still not sure how I survived. Sheer bloody-mindedness, I suspect.

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Daniela nooooooooooooooooooooooooo I loved him

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And yes a chunk of plaster did jump ship. But during the night. Not while I was playing the video

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Didn't actually expect responses and I am under a kind of house arrest this morning my road is being resurfaced and there are no pavements so I was told firmly there will be no dog-walking.

Pity my neighbours opposite who have 5 big dogs and walk them 3 to 4 times a day. At least I only have one - and a lot of newspaper spread around at the moment

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Molly, who on earth is Boyzone? I'm not a big opera fan myself, I have sat through a few in my time, but never with wildly-beating heart. Grew up with the stuff playing All The Time which was enough to put me off for life. Despite that, have a few pop-opera blends I do enjoy and may post

RE: The Boks are back

The rivalry between the All Blacks and the Boks is special, great to see them battling like heroes again

RE: The Left's Rent-A-Riot on full display

I find it hard to tell right and left apart.

Which ones are the good guys here?

RE: Nice. But how much is to much.

Too much cleaning dusting polishing sweeping mopping and yikes look at all those windows. I hate cleaning windows. I love that traditional Spanish houses don't have glass, just flyscreen and shutters

RE: Regarding the protests ongoing at this moment on the Capitol steps

Not my blog, Miguel, so I shouldn't have said as much as I did. I thought perhaps you hadn't noticed the blogs that were rejoicing.