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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:06 am Post subject: Party Pieces |
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Someone wrote to SK this morning, recalling that she used to recite Jabberwocky as a party piece when she was a young girl.
Mine was to sing Bernard Cribbins' "Gossip Calypso"; my son used to do The Lion And Albert a la Stanley Holloway.
Anyone care to share what they used to do? _________________ Ron |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: |
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I used to be able to recite Hamlet's Soliloquy "To be or not to be", and still can if someone prompts me with a few lines when I dry up.
I also started to learn the violin in my first year at secondary school and was prevailed upon by my parents to attempt "Unto Us a Boy is Born" at a family Christmas gathering. I would only do it outside the sitting room door though, and having wilfully sawed my way through it to apparent silence from within the room, I went in to find at least half a dozen adults turning blue with mirth on the carpet.
I handed the violin back to the music teacher after Christmas and never lifted another musical instrument in my life. _________________ Minx
To err is human, to forgive - canine. |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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I could recite scenes from films such as 'Casablanca' word for word!' My best though was either Glenn Ford in 'The Fastest Gun Alive' or Alan Ladd goading Jack Palance into a gunfight in 'Shane!' |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I Belong to Glasgow and Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny aff a Bus.
Haute couture!
Ian. |
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