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37 comments:
Every Growing Branch Deserves Foliage?
Very good, MM! I was trying to work out something about 'a cleft stick' but couldn't quite get there...
High Toon... starring Leaf an' Clef.
Is this the weakest pun ever printed on this site? I'd like to think so.
Treble pointed at his brother Base and said: "Told you I could get higher than you"
ringo,
not so fast amigo, weak puns it's my turf-
muse hick-up on high note.
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!
Been trying... but the sight of an olive tree against a Riviera-blue sky leaves me speechless.
Lovely pic, and great puns here. Just can't match you lot on this one.
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.
It had seemed only a minor lift, but now looked like a major fall...
Olivier avec une altération à la clé
"The mysteries of the offside rule" (trad. arr.)
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?
This polyglot punning is all a bit much for me. It's getting like bloody Finnegan's Wake round here.
Or, to put it another way, seeing as HenryMoon's in town:
Multilingual puns
Too cleffer by half - no more.
Treble without encores?
yew-tunes
orr, hang on
elm-pod
ummm
crap performance art (sorry zeph ;p)
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.
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
I'd "leaf" as not put my bassoon into the water, but is that a "Blue Note" I see before me?
All that's coming to mind is something about strange fruit, which I've rejected as being in poor taste.
Fine efforts all round!
I think the Doc's leading the field at the moment... or at the top of the tree, or whatever...
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!)
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!)
in French of would be a perfect synchronism:
Musique des Rameaux.
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.
Musique de Rameau:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS3YMTbrt_A
Rhapsody In Rue
Hang in air a blue note,
Olive Martini (dry),
"Turn the leaf",
That's all she wrote,
Beneath an azure sky.
Mimi - I was thinking more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcuteYm-EA
But Python is always funny!
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)
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.
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!!)
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
c est le Pen Bagnat ?
Yes, that Monsieur Pay Rat turns up in some funny places...
... as do treble clefs, here's another one wandering about.
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