In the interest of furthering thread drift... It's been a while since I've been able to catch a decent performance of Pinafore, but there was a very nice Pirates of Penzance at the Grim's Dyke Hotel earlier this year (formerly the home of W.S.Gilbert, and also conveniently close to where I live). They're putting on the Mikado later this month. If any silk listers living in or visiting London want to catch some Gilbert and Sullivan over dinner, let me know!
Cheers Divya Sent from my iPad On 15 Oct 2012, at 16:32, Bonobashi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 15, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Dave Long <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> ... it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be a >>> chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo grounds ... >> >> In the spirit of distinguishing chassepôt rifles from javelins, a bit of >> pedantry: >> >> 7 1/2, unless it's the last chukka (and unless a penalty has been awarded >> within the last 5 seconds of the last chukka) >> >> Polo? inflame passions? Never. (what, never?) Well, hardly ever... >> >> -Dave >> >> cf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlHb3NOhEE8 (but only if you wish to wait >> almost 3 minutes to actually see some polo, compared to the argies >> http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/videohub/video/clipDeportes?id=1434118&cc=7586 >> who manage to get the action going in about 45 seconds) > > But of course, Dave. > > It's a pity those two old buzzards never did one on polo, although Joe > Shearer had started CPC in 1861, and they started their musicals ten years > after that. I suppose the closest they got was a thoroughly modern Major > General; Joe was a Major General, after all.
