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Thursday 26 March 2009

More of your fine captions, if you please...?

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picture by Jilly Bennett from her blog Menton Daily Photo

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37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Every Growing Branch Deserves Foliage?

Anonymous said...

Very good, MM! I was trying to work out something about 'a cleft stick' but couldn't quite get there...

ringo37 said...

High Toon... starring Leaf an' Clef.

Is this the weakest pun ever printed on this site? I'd like to think so.

Unknown said...

Treble pointed at his brother Base and said: "Told you I could get higher than you"

Anonymous said...

ringo,
not so fast amigo, weak puns it's my turf-
muse hick-up on high note.

Pinkerbell said...

MM - very good!

Treble was proud of the place he'd found for Hadyn seek.

Treble had a feeling that he was not cut out for this bass jumping lark.

I also had something about scaling new heights... or Baching up the wrong tree...

I'll stop now!

Anonymous said...

Been trying... but the sight of an olive tree against a Riviera-blue sky leaves me speechless.

Anonymous said...

Lovely pic, and great puns here. Just can't match you lot on this one.

MeltonMowbray said...

My first thought was 'It's fortunate that the ampersand is not much used, as the ampersand tree only fruits once in a hundred years.' Then I found my glasses.

Pinkerbell said...

It had seemed only a minor lift, but now looked like a major fall...

henrymoon said...

Olivier avec une altération à la clé
"The mysteries of the offside rule" (trad. arr.)

Zephirine said...

This treble's in trouble
it didn't twig
that to live in an olive
might be out of its range

and for Offie:

le chant de l’olivier
peut se faire entendre
même dans les océans du sud
n’est-ce pas?

ringo37 said...

This polyglot punning is all a bit much for me. It's getting like bloody Finnegan's Wake round here.

ringo37 said...

Or, to put it another way, seeing as HenryMoon's in town:

Multilingual puns
Too cleffer by half - no more.
Treble without encores?

parallax said...

yew-tunes

orr, hang on

elm-pod

ummm

crap performance art (sorry zeph ;p)

Pinkerbell said...

I do believe you started it Ringo - I felt a punning challenge had been set! Zeph's poem is a much more stylish caption though.

DoctorShoot said...

lest the twig braque whilst hung high above us
(though the meaning' sonata 'ta reach),
the trebling wind instumentally
must exercise care with it's peach (or olive)

'cause, suspended where easily wetted
installed in it's lyrical bed,
the clefte pallette can be an impediment
if it tumbles on somebody's head

mimi said...

I'd "leaf" as not put my bassoon into the water, but is that a "Blue Note" I see before me?

munni said...

All that's coming to mind is something about strange fruit, which I've rejected as being in poor taste.

Zephirine said...

Fine efforts all round!

I think the Doc's leading the field at the moment... or at the top of the tree, or whatever...

Pinkerbell said...

Still crotchety after too breve a rest,
Treble the larch ascended, con brio.
His Dischord diminuendoing there
Soon he felt upbeat and animato.

(Sorry.... bad rhyme!)

Pinkerbell said...

p.s. I know it's not a larch it was just a Vaughan-Williams reference, which I'm sure you all got anyway... (shut up Pink!)

guitou said...

in French of would be a perfect synchronism:
Musique des Rameaux.

mimi said...

Aah now we have The larch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJegKFFDqww

Blimey, oh just listen and read and as far as I'm concerned it's a parrot.

Zephirine said...

Musique de Rameau:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS3YMTbrt_A

Anonymous said...

Rhapsody In Rue

Hang in air a blue note,
Olive Martini (dry),
"Turn the leaf",
That's all she wrote,
Beneath an azure sky.

Pinkerbell said...

Mimi - I was thinking more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcuteYm-EA

But Python is always funny!

guitou said...

Zeph (musique de Rameaux)
outstanding
the synchronism about the picture stands because Rameau,
in french olive branch is called Rameau, Palm Sunday=dimanche des Rameaux, and also there is Rameau the composer. They are all symbolically represented in the photo you posted,
the olive branche, the music , few days before Palm Sunday-Congratulations about your timing-
also about your team, from Melton to Doc & Mishari they are all very creative (forget offside he is more concerned about olive oil for the salade Niçoise)

mimi said...

Lovely music, Pinkerbell. But is it really Rafe V-W as introduced by I think there Alan Titchmarsh? I always thought he was Ralph - with the l pronounced.

Pinkerbell said...

Ralph... Rafe... it's whatever is trendy at the time I'm sure Mimi... blame that Fiennes bloke!

This is amazing music isn't it? and so invokes nature. It does also conjure memories of counting a stupid amount of bars rest before standing up to play the triangle though (which was obviously a pivotal role!!)

offsideintahiti said...

Indeed, guitou, I would trade all the poetry and sacred music in the world for a good old pan bagnat right now.

Zeph, oui,

Même dans les mers du sud
Même sous ses latitudes
Le chant de l'olivier dans le bleu de la solitude.

Zephirine said...

Offie, nostalgic for a soggy bit of oily bread with a salad in it, I dunno... but then, I have great difficulty explaining to French people why I get nostalgic for fish and chips.

Fine poetic offerings here, puns, Braque, larches, larks, blues... excellent.

Some more photos from the same blog, seems the Lemon Festival went a bit surreal this year, I guess that's what can happen when you've got more citrus fruit than you know what to do with.

guitou said...

you can use them for salad dressing on a pan bagnat, be careful though, too many lemons is bad for your health

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE06lqT0Y2g

Zephirine said...

Hmmmm, lemons having a funny effect there, Guitou...

Here's an official pan-bagnat page: http://www.pan-bagnat.com.

No visible clefs but you can listen to a song (and cicadas)

offsideaucitron said...

More citrus fruit than sense? Sounds like home allright.

Zeph, the pan bagnat page had me in stitches, and I very nearly considered joining, until I noticed it was sponsored by the ex National Front ex mayor of Nice. Almost enough to put one off one's pan bagnat.

guitou said...

c est le Pen Bagnat ?

Zephirine said...

Yes, that Monsieur Pay Rat turns up in some funny places...

... as do treble clefs, here's another one wandering about.