Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 644/Moley http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187436 Derek Lazenby Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:52:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187436 Yeah spot on for Quiptic despite the couple of obscurities. I’m sure I vaguely remember damosel from some thing I read as a teenager! Which time, Bryan, was just before the era of Judy Collins. At that time, if you knew Joni Mitchell then you knew Judy Collins, especially as the latter was not averse to doing covers of the former’s work. I’ve still got an album somewhere or other!

]]> By: Rusty Bombazine http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187285 Rusty Bombazine Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:52:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187285 WS Gilbert in Patience, I think, ‘…of damosels a score’ which is about 1877 without bothering to look it up.

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187276 Robi Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:53:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187276 About right level for a Quiptic, I think, with many anagrams.

Thanks Pierre; I see what you mean about 14, but is this a dd also? I don’t think our colleagues North of the border would like 16, although I see it is in Chambers ['a form regarded as incorrect by many Scots']

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187251 Bryan Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:56:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187251 Many thanks, Pierre, for introducing me to Judy Collins.

She sure has a lovely voice and I certainly prefer hers to Joan Collins’.

]]> By: Pierre http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187250 Pierre Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187250 Morning Andy. I guess you are right, or maybe it’s a cdcumdd thingymabob.

Morning Bryan, haven’t heard much from you on the blog recently, so welcome back! Thanks for your link, but no, it was definitely Judy Collins (I heard her sing it live a long time ago). You can check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGekq3Jt5Go

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187248 Bryan Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:19:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187248 Many thanks Pierre & Moley

‘Send in the Clowns’ is from Sondheim’s ‘A Little Night Music’ (1973) where it was memorably introduced on Broadway by the lovely Glynis Johns (b 1923).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAl-EawVobY

I’ve never even heard of Judy Collins. Perhaps you meant Joan Collins?

]]> By: andy smith http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/19/guardian-quiptic-644moley/#comment-187247 andy smith Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:09:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41920#comment-187247 Thanks Pierre for the helpful blog. Minor typo – 25a is a dd not cd?.

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