Comments on: Financial Times 14211 Armonie

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:00:49 +0000

Many thanks Scchua.

It was certainly interesting meeting Gene but he was very much shorter than I had imagined.

I now realise that most dancers are quite short with Tommy Tune being an obvious exception.

Maybe that’s why I am a terrible dancer?

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:02:02 +0000

[[P.S. For the answer to Pic#1 please click here and here ]]

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:54:05 +0000

You're right, ernie. I was too hasty rejecting "about" as an abbrev. in favour of it being an indicator. [[Bryan, you're right - if you're out "on the town" enjoying yourself, there's a chance you'd really "go to town" with it. I was struck by the 2 idioms, not synonymous in meaning, and sharing the same word- possibly sharing the same derivation? That must have been interesing, meeting Gene Kelly.]]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:11:26 +0000

Many thanks Scchua & Armonie. This was very enjoyable. [[I recognise Gene Kelly - who I met in 1984 - and Ann Miller. They were both in 'On the Town' (1949) which may be your allusion to 28a 'Go to Town'?]]

By: ernie

ernie — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:49:05 +0000

I don’t quite see where the a comes from in your parsing of 5A.

Is it not just minim (note) plus a for about?

Thanks for the blog