Going out with John Le Mesurier!

Olivia De Havilland
Need you ask?

No! ATB from George

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
would Forum Members like to have had the chance to have met but were too young to have done so, and for what reasons?

BUT, would have meeting them in their youth have forever changed the future direction of their life, net result being that they may not have developed into the person you so much admire....gets ya thinking eh!

My nominee is Syd Barrett @ 1967. It would have been such a good deed for future cultural rock to get a psychedelic nymph to infulence the crazy young pot-head in persuing a more healthy way of life. We would have gone cycling together on bikes with baskets and bells and things to make them look good. If he needed his mind expanded then we'd just have to make music together and I sure ain't no musician but heck, I would have blown his mind with endorphins.

nymph

Mind blowing? Hmmmm....I thought it was your turn?

Private Frazer.

Bit of a crossover with the other thread again here but for me, Joan Greenwood. Not only because she was so completely and utterly gorgeous but just so she could talk to me for an evening with that voice...

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
Bit of a crossover with the other thread again here but for me, Joan Greenwood. Not only because she was so completely and utterly gorgeous but just so she could talk to me for an evening with that voice...

Hmm Joan Greenwood in 'Kind hearts and coronets' what a yummy little minx!

Another voice which fuelled my fevered teenage (or maybe a bit later) imagination was that of Fenella Fielding. And she was gorgeous too! If I could have another choice it would have to be Josef Haydn, one of the greatest of composers, a man with kindness and wit, and an example of how to use one's retirement to best advantage.
Ken

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Originally posted by Roy T:
Mind blowing? Hmmmm....I thought it was your turn?

What!... Again?

Robert E Lee

Germaine de Stael - Highly intelectual and one of the most important persons in France during the revolution era with a famous "salon" where the interesting people met. That she was a friend of Charles de Talleyrand-Perigord is an extra icing on the cake!

JohanR

Adolf Hitler. Seriously.

Buddha, Jesus, Helen of Troy, Queen Nefertiti and Audrey Hepburn (not necessarily in that order)

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Jesus,

WHHooaa.. and will HE be angry at you !

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Originally posted by Unstoppable:

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Jesus,

WHHooaa.. and will HE be angry at you !

Then that would be a dead give away would it not? Buddha, of course, is incapable of anger.

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:

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Originally posted by Unstoppable:

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Jesus,

WHHooaa.. and will HE be angry at you !

Then that would be a dead give away would it not? Buddha, of course, is incapable of anger.

No, don't worry Acad, I rather think that Jesus would be pleased to see you (especially as you say you want to meet him).

James,

I do not doubt it for a moment.

Hi all,

As my first degree and love is physics, mine would be Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Not extraordinary choices I know, but I'd really like to witness that spark of genius that leads a person to such amazing thought patterns and discoveries. Not just building on what is already known, but revolutionizing the way that we think about our universe.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn

PS. I was watching a program on the History Channel here in the U.S. about how our understanding of the universe has developed over the last couple of centuries, and the narrator pronounced Principia as Prin-kippia. My wife thought I'd suffered an embolism.

Mark Dunn wrote:

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"Best Regards,
"Mark Dunn

"PS. I was watching a program on the History Channel here in the U.S. about how our understanding of the universe has developed over the last couple of centuries, and the narrator pronounced Principia as Prin-kippia. My wife thought I'd suffered an embolism."

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Dear Mark,

I would think that it is probably permissible to pronounce principia as prin-kippia, or even, given a little licence, prin-chipia depending on the Latin one was taught at school.

I had two versions to contend with in that firstly the "v" was as in English a "vee" sound, and later, with an old Oxford Classics Scholar, as a "w" sound, but then he also pronounced Magdelene [normally with a silent final "e"] as, "Mag-Da-Leen-Ee." And out went the soft English "c" where appropriate to be invariably a hard "k" sound, so he would definately have had something to say if any of us had come up with Prin-Sipia!"

There is a funny scene in the film of Hilton's Novel, called "Goodbye Mr Chips," where Mr Chipping is being forced to adopt the "new" pronunciation of Latin according to the new ideas at Oxford [and elsewhere?] in the years before the First War, when my old Latin Master was being educated!

I rather like the modern adoption, for choral singing, of Latin in the Italianate way, and so Prin-chipia would then become the way with the "c" as 'cello, sounding "ch". What would be truly odd, is the way a Central Europeans might say it, taking the "c" as "ts" sound as in Tsar! Then it would be Prin-Tsipia! This is particular odd in sung Latin in the German Choral tradition!

"Pleni sunt tsoeli [coeli] et terra gloria ejus." Well it is almost comical if it were not so serious!

Now if I heard that I think from anyone but a German or Polish Choir I might seem to similate an embolism as well!

ATB from George

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
There is a funny scene in the film of Hilton's Novel, called "Goodbye Mr Chips," where Mr Chipping is being forced to adopt the "new" pronunciation of Latin according to the new ideas at Oxford [and elsewhere?] in the years before the First War...

As I recall, it concerns vicissim - instead of "vi-siss-im" now having to say "we kiss 'im".

Dear James! Exactly! They don't make films like that anymore! Must get DVD replay going again soon! I have about fifty films in the line - of Sunday afternoon family viewing. No violence, just gentle good humour... ATB from George

George,

For me it would have to be J S Bach. In order to talk with him about (first and foremost his) music and - not the least - to hear him play. But still I am happy to live in our age. Had I lived in Bachs age, I had probably never got to know his music.

Regards,

Dear Poul,

I have a new email address. I will try to send to you tomorrow. The old one is still going, but I want to kill it off!

The trouble with Bach, is that I would be totally over-awed by him! Perhaps he would have been a really nice person, and he seems to have kept good relations with his children which is a possible sign of this.

Perhaps he was quite a funny man, and the portrates of him make him look impatient with the sitting process, but his eyes seem to contain the possibility of having had quite a sense of fun!

I would like to have met him in in happy off-duty mode, and just accepted his music without question, though to hear him play would have been something without parallel in musc I am sure! Think how much better we would understand how to play the music in that case! We would have realised the need to describe the perfomances in detail, with hindsight!

ATB from George

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quote:
Originally posted by GFFJ:
There is a funny scene in the film of Hilton's Novel, called "Goodbye Mr Chips," where Mr Chipping is being forced to adopt the "new" pronunciation of Latin according to the new ideas at Oxford [and elsewhere?] in the years before the First War...


As I recall, it concerns vicissim - instead of "vi-siss-im" now having to say "we kiss 'im".

And whatever happend to BOE-DA-SEE-A anyway?