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Brilliant and hilarious. I have that exact edition of The Elements of Typographic Style within arm’s reach as I type this.
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Brilliant and hilarious. I have that exact edition of The Elements of Typographic Style within arm’s reach as I type this.
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Brilliant and hilarious. I have that exact edition of The Elements of Typographic Style within arm’s reach as I type this.
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Brilliant and hilarious. I have that exact edition of The Elements of Typographic Style within arm’s reach as I type this.
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Brilliant and hilarious. I have that exact edition of The Elements of Typographic Style within arm’s reach as I type this.
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3. The song to which I inexplicably know every lyric
"Beautiful Mabel, I would if I could but I am not able."
It's perfectly explicable, I inherited a double cassette of "The Pirates of Penzance" from my dad's mum, so I'll sing along to a whole operetta, given the operatunity.
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3. The song to which I inexplicably know every lyric
"Beautiful Mabel, I would if I could but I am not able."
It's perfectly explicable, I inherited a double cassette of "The Pirates of Penzance" from my dad's mum, so I'll sing along to a whole operetta, given the operatunity.
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3. The song to which I inexplicably know every lyric
"Beautiful Mabel, I would if I could but I am not able."
It's perfectly explicable, I inherited a double cassette of "The Pirates of Penzance" from my dad's mum, so I'll sing along to a whole operetta, given the operatunity.
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3. The song to which I inexplicably know every lyric
"Beautiful Mabel, I would if I could but I am not able."
It's perfectly explicable, I inherited a double cassette of "The Pirates of Penzance" from my dad's mum, so I'll sing along to a whole operetta, given the operatunity.
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3. The song to which I inexplicably know every lyric
"Beautiful Mabel, I would if I could but I am not able."
It's perfectly explicable, I inherited a double cassette of "The Pirates of Penzance" from my dad's mum, so I'll sing along to a whole operetta, given the operatunity.
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Charles Herbert Workman (5 May 1872 – 1 May 1923) was a singer and actor best known as a successor to #GeorgeGrossmith in the comic #baritone roles in #GilbertAndSullivan operas. He was variously credited as Charles H. Workman, C. Herbert Workman and C. H. Workman. Workman joined the #DOylyCarteOperaCompany in 1894 and played several roles with the company in London before becoming principal comedian, for nearly a decade, with D'Oyly Carte touring companies.
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If you're a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan and looking for something to do this Friday, why not come on down to see Patience performed by the Grosvenor Light Opera Company! A lot of fun, with yours truly fooling about in the chorus 😄
Show starts at 7:30pm.
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If you're a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan and looking for something to do this Friday, why not come on down to see Patience performed by the Grosvenor Light Opera Company! A lot of fun, with yours truly fooling about in the chorus 😄
Show starts at 7:30pm.
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If you're a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan and looking for something to do this Friday, why not come on down to see Patience performed by the Grosvenor Light Opera Company! A lot of fun, with yours truly fooling about in the chorus 😄
Show starts at 7:30pm.
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If you're a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan and looking for something to do this Friday, why not come on down to see Patience performed by the Grosvenor Light Opera Company! A lot of fun, with yours truly fooling about in the chorus 😄
Show starts at 7:30pm.
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If you're a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan and looking for something to do this Friday, why not come on down to see Patience performed by the Grosvenor Light Opera Company! A lot of fun, with yours truly fooling about in the chorus 😄
Show starts at 7:30pm.
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Marissa and her mom and I went to see "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the GSVLOC last night.
I noted on the ride back that nobody ended up having to marry the older woman! It was even set up at the start of act 2 as a possibility. But, Wikipedia tells that _was_ part of the original plot, it was just cut from this production. So the sum total is two marriages arranged through blackmail, which seems excessive and shows that even when old W.S. is trying to be less topsy-turvy, he simply cannot help himself.
Also the Merylls are assholes for not cluing Elsie in on the deception.
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Marissa and her mom and I went to see "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the GSVLOC last night.
I noted on the ride back that nobody ended up having to marry the older woman! It was even set up at the start of act 2 as a possibility. But, Wikipedia tells that _was_ part of the original plot, it was just cut from this production. So the sum total is two marriages arranged through blackmail, which seems excessive and shows that even when old W.S. is trying to be less topsy-turvy, he simply cannot help himself.
Also the Merylls are assholes for not cluing Elsie in on the deception.
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Marissa and her mom and I went to see "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the GSVLOC last night.
I noted on the ride back that nobody ended up having to marry the older woman! It was even set up at the start of act 2 as a possibility. But, Wikipedia tells that _was_ part of the original plot, it was just cut from this production. So the sum total is two marriages arranged through blackmail, which seems excessive and shows that even when old W.S. is trying to be less topsy-turvy, he simply cannot help himself.
Also the Merylls are assholes for not cluing Elsie in on the deception.
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Marissa and her mom and I went to see "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the GSVLOC last night.
I noted on the ride back that nobody ended up having to marry the older woman! It was even set up at the start of act 2 as a possibility. But, Wikipedia tells that _was_ part of the original plot, it was just cut from this production. So the sum total is two marriages arranged through blackmail, which seems excessive and shows that even when old W.S. is trying to be less topsy-turvy, he simply cannot help himself.
Also the Merylls are assholes for not cluing Elsie in on the deception.
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Marissa and her mom and I went to see "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the GSVLOC last night.
I noted on the ride back that nobody ended up having to marry the older woman! It was even set up at the start of act 2 as a possibility. But, Wikipedia tells that _was_ part of the original plot, it was just cut from this production. So the sum total is two marriages arranged through blackmail, which seems excessive and shows that even when old W.S. is trying to be less topsy-turvy, he simply cannot help himself.
Also the Merylls are assholes for not cluing Elsie in on the deception.
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(I'm sorry for linking to Evil Spotify - but I'm pretty sure the version on YouTube is sped up.)
With all the getting brow-beaten by life and CPTSD, I don't have many "glimmers" left… Except when I rediscover certain bits of music. It's been a while since I listened to The Mikado top to bottom, and I forgot how utterly delightful the "With laughing song and merry dance / Then let the throng our joy advance" choral bit is.
Starting about 2:21 (busts loose about 2:46) - bit of an interlude - then a reprise until 4:20ish with Katisha's entrance. (This Act I finale track also features one of Pitti-Sing's (who I played ca. 2015 in a local production) little mini solos.) (Being one of the few people on stage who could take that high Bb for "joyous, joyous shout" in the chorus was a thrill, too.)
The Mikado, Act I: Finale. With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PL3azadruMsHTCp9DrVjPThen you get a taste of it again in the Act 2 finale… just deliciously giddy music.
The Mikado, Act II: Finale. For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CJ5666MTSP4sp7woonfZY
#Gilbert-&-Sullivan #Gilbert-and-Sullivan #The-Mikado #operetta #classical-music #glimmers #Welsh-National-Opera -
‘The rallying cry of the rich and horrible’: the song that TV villains love to sing https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/the-song-that-tv-villains-love-to-sing #Television #KitHarington #TheNightManager #GilbertAndSullivan #TheWestWing #TheSimpsons #TelevisionRadio #Culture
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‘The rallying cry of the rich and horrible’: the song that TV villains love to sing https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/the-song-that-tv-villains-love-to-sing #Television #KitHarington #TheNightManager #GilbertAndSullivan #TheWestWing #TheSimpsons #TelevisionRadio #Culture
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‘The rallying cry of the rich and horrible’: the song that TV villains love to sing https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/the-song-that-tv-villains-love-to-sing #Television #KitHarington #TheNightManager #GilbertAndSullivan #TheWestWing #TheSimpsons #TelevisionRadio #Culture
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‘The rallying cry of the rich and horrible’: the song that TV villains love to sing https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/the-song-that-tv-villains-love-to-sing #Television #KitHarington #TheNightManager #GilbertAndSullivan #TheWestWing #TheSimpsons #TelevisionRadio #Culture
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@SimonCHulse @lachlan Thanks for thinking of me! Regrettably, I know pretty much nothing about #GilbertAndSullivan
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@SimonCHulse @lachlan Thanks for thinking of me! Regrettably, I know pretty much nothing about #GilbertAndSullivan
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@SimonCHulse @lachlan Thanks for thinking of me! Regrettably, I know pretty much nothing about #GilbertAndSullivan
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@SimonCHulse @lachlan Thanks for thinking of me! Regrettably, I know pretty much nothing about #GilbertAndSullivan
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@SimonCHulse @lachlan Thanks for thinking of me! Regrettably, I know pretty much nothing about #GilbertAndSullivan
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Weird request: If you're in #IT/#Programming and are a fan of #GilbertAndSullivan - any chance I can run a parody past you before I record it?
Trying to figure out if it works (and if it goes too far)
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Weird request: If you're in #IT/#Programming and are a fan of #GilbertAndSullivan - any chance I can run a parody past you before I record it?
Trying to figure out if it works (and if it goes too far)
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Weird request: If you're in #IT/#Programming and are a fan of #GilbertAndSullivan - any chance I can run a parody past you before I record it?
Trying to figure out if it works (and if it goes too far)
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Weird request: If you're in #IT/#Programming and are a fan of #GilbertAndSullivan - any chance I can run a parody past you before I record it?
Trying to figure out if it works (and if it goes too far)
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Weird request: If you're in #IT/#Programming and are a fan of #GilbertAndSullivan - any chance I can run a parody past you before I record it?
Trying to figure out if it works (and if it goes too far)
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I’m a fairy down to the waist but my legs are mortal.
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I’m a fairy down to the waist but my legs are mortal.
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I’m a fairy down to the waist but my legs are mortal.
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I’m a fairy down to the waist but my legs are mortal.
#GilbertAndSullivan -
I’m a fairy down to the waist but my legs are mortal.
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The UK had a furore over a fake Admiral at #RemembranceDay in #Llandudno, while #KingCharlie was an authorised fake #FieldMarshal in Whitehall.
But inbreeding is not the UK's approved only path to fake military rank.
#GilbertAndSullivan's "Sir Joseph Porter" was a parody of W.H. Smith, the eponymous bookseller whose political career led him to be #FirstSeaLord.
"He thought so little, they rewarded he
By making him the Ruler of the Queen's Navy!" -
The UK had a furore over a fake Admiral at #RemembranceDay in #Llandudno, while #KingCharlie was an authorised fake #FieldMarshal in Whitehall.
But inbreeding is not the UK's approved only path to fake military rank.
#GilbertAndSullivan's "Sir Joseph Porter" was a parody of W.H. Smith, the eponymous bookseller whose political career led him to be #FirstSeaLord.
"He thought so little, they rewarded he
By making him the Ruler of the Queen's Navy!" -
The UK had a furore over a fake Admiral at #RemembranceDay in #Llandudno, while #KingCharlie was an authorised fake #FieldMarshal in Whitehall.
But inbreeding is not the UK's approved only path to fake military rank.
#GilbertAndSullivan's "Sir Joseph Porter" was a parody of W.H. Smith, the eponymous bookseller whose political career led him to be #FirstSeaLord.
"He thought so little, they rewarded he
By making him the Ruler of the Queen's Navy!" -
The UK had a furore over a fake Admiral at #RemembranceDay in #Llandudno, while #KingCharlie was an authorised fake #FieldMarshal in Whitehall.
But inbreeding is not the UK's approved only path to fake military rank.
#GilbertAndSullivan's "Sir Joseph Porter" was a parody of W.H. Smith, the eponymous bookseller whose political career led him to be #FirstSeaLord.
"He thought so little, they rewarded he
By making him the Ruler of the Queen's Navy!" -
#JustAnnounced
The Mikado - but set in Ancient Rome!
2 performances - Sat 15th Nov 3pm & 7:45pm
www.thameplayers.co.uk/events/the-mikado
@OperaAnywhere's new take on this well-loved classic.
In aid of the Mayor of Thame charities.
Adults £20, concs £18, U16s £10
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Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song is set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Major General’s Song from The Pirates of Penzance.
Even though we did the Pirates of Penzance as a school production, I had still heard the Elements Song first.
For reference:
1. I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General: https://song.link/gb/i/483367412
2. The Elements: https://song.link/gb/i/366787029
#TomLehrer #GilbertandSullivan
How about you?
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Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song is set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Major General’s Song from The Pirates of Penzance.
Even though we did the Pirates of Penzance as a school production, I had still heard the Elements Song first.
For reference:
1. I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General: https://song.link/gb/i/483367412
2. The Elements: https://song.link/gb/i/366787029
#TomLehrer #GilbertandSullivan
How about you?
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Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song is set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Major General’s Song from The Pirates of Penzance.
Even though we did the Pirates of Penzance as a school production, I had still heard the Elements Song first.
For reference:
1. I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General: https://song.link/gb/i/483367412
2. The Elements: https://song.link/gb/i/366787029
#TomLehrer #GilbertandSullivan
How about you?
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Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song is set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Major General’s Song from The Pirates of Penzance.
Even though we did the Pirates of Penzance as a school production, I had still heard the Elements Song first.
For reference:
1. I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General: https://song.link/gb/i/483367412
2. The Elements: https://song.link/gb/i/366787029
#TomLehrer #GilbertandSullivan
How about you?
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Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song is set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Major General’s Song from The Pirates of Penzance.
Even though we did the Pirates of Penzance as a school production, I had still heard the Elements Song first.
For reference:
1. I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General: https://song.link/gb/i/483367412
2. The Elements: https://song.link/gb/i/366787029
#TomLehrer #GilbertandSullivan
How about you?
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#RIP Tom Lehrer. Hier der wunderbare Elements' Song zur Melodie des im angelsächsischen Raum sehr bekannten Major General's Song von Gilbert und Sullivan.
In D wurde er bekannt, weil er Georg Kreisler vorwarf, daß „Tauben vergiften im Park“ ein Plagiat von „Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park“ sei. Da aber Text und Musik verschieden sind, bleibt nur ein rechtlich unerheblicher Ideenschutz.
#GilbertandSullivan #Urheberrecht #Chemie #Musik #Kabarett
Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967 -
#RIP Tom Lehrer. Hier der wunderbare Elements' Song zur Melodie des im angelsächsischen Raum sehr bekannten Major General's Song von Gilbert und Sullivan.
In D wurde er bekannt, weil er Georg Kreisler vorwarf, daß „Tauben vergiften im Park“ ein Plagiat von „Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park“ sei. Da aber Text und Musik verschieden sind, bleibt nur ein rechtlich unerheblicher Ideenschutz.
#GilbertandSullivan #Urheberrecht #Chemie #Musik #Kabarett
Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967 -
I always listen to Pirates of Penzance or La Cenerentola when I'm doing projects in the house, to create the illusion of joy. So far, refinishing the floors has taken me about 8 Pirates and 2 Cenerentolas. #opera #GilbertandSullivan
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I always listen to Pirates of Penzance or La Cenerentola when I'm doing projects in the house, to create the illusion of joy. So far, refinishing the floors has taken me about 8 Pirates and 2 Cenerentolas. #opera #GilbertandSullivan
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I always listen to Pirates of Penzance or La Cenerentola when I'm doing projects in the house, to create the illusion of joy. So far, refinishing the floors has taken me about 8 Pirates and 2 Cenerentolas. #opera #GilbertandSullivan