Originally posted by Megan
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Reporting for duty!
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Jolly good show, Brigadier Megan. Er, just one thing ... you're not thinking of going into battle in that dress, are you? -
Look chaps and, er ... chaps of the non-chap kind, I've got to go AWOL this evening for a bally concert. Loud modern stuff by some johnny-foreigners, won't bore you with the details, harrumph ... but I'll be in full battle dress tomorrow.
I've sent a message via carrier pigeon to Herr Baron Von Peter Oberstrumpff-Bösendorfer for a temporary armistice until we've built up our forces. Hope the bally fellow is a Gentleman and all that. Rendezvous Sunday 06.00h for breakfast briefing and battle plan. Do you copy?Comment
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Take the initials of "This is for a good song", put them backwards and you get: Sgafit.
So the answer must be Lars Sgafit, an obscure Scandinavian composer of dead marches and Morris dances.
He was also a real-estate agent, a nuclear physicist (he could even spell it) and, once, he stood in for Sean Connery on an early James Bond film.
He is so obscure that there is no point in checking any reference books or Googling it. You will just have to take my word for it. Peter will bear me out.
He is believed to have killed himself over an online puzzle which he couldn't solve.
(Query for Megan: Do you own an icon farm?)
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Huzzah! I forgot our Air Force!
"Mad Mike" Mike does it again with a sneaky mustard bomb on Herr Von Oberstrumpff-Bösendorfer!
So, did we win then?
I'll have to read your dispatches from the front line late tonight or tomorrow morning...Comment
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Now I come to think of it, some of my above facts might be wrong. Lars was never a real-estate agent.Originally posted by Quijote View Post
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This is for a good song. Aaaargh!
Applause? Ovation? Encore?Comment
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The Pigeon didn't arrive - possibly lost in the Channel? Anyway deadline extends to Sunday 2.00pm GMT.Originally posted by Quijote View Post'Man know thyself'Comment
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If not Ivor Novello, what about Supper?
(As in 'singing for your supper'?).
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Blast it, that damn Corporal Smythe stuck it in a pie (together with the 4 and 20 blackbirds, a snip at only sixpence)!Originally posted by Peter View PostComment
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Control Tower to Flt. Lt. Mike: Mustard bomb a no-no. The Blue Baron lives on. Stand-by for new coordinates, over.Originally posted by Michael View PostComment
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Time for the SAS, I think. Or that SWAT team thingy...Comment
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OK, I'm going to get all numerical on this one:
THIS IS FOR A GOOD SONG = 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 4 - 4 = F - D - E - C - F - F.
Catchy little tune, is it famous? Might need transposing, though.
In reverse order it sounds like UK church bells. Nurse !!Comment
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He's out of bed again, nurse!
Deadline for No. 6 is 2 pm tomorrow. I might not even be up at that time!
Let's not panic!
Peter is very devious. I thought at one stage that No. 6 might be " this is four a good song" so I checked on question No. 4 but nothing clicked.
I give up! (But I said that yesterday.)
Come on Megan, Quijote, PDG, Sorrano, Sancho Panza .... anyone??
As the deadline is looming and everybody seems to have gone to bed, I'll break the 24 hour rule and give one last throw of the dice (and I have no confidence whatsoever)
Schubert "An Die Musik"?
(Ran out of icons. Up to you, Megan.)Comment
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Mahler's 4th has a song in the 4th movement. The first lines are these, and maybe they are significant (see text marked in bold):
We enjoy heavenly pleasures
and therefore avoid earthly ones.
No worldly tumult
is to be heard in heaven.
All live in greatest peace.
We lead angelic lives,
yet have a merry time of it besides.
We dance and we spring,
We skip and we sing.
Saint Peter in heaven looks on.Comment
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