...then A Capella is the low-fat diet...
...Hip Hop is a Doner Kebab...
...Pop Music is the Junk Food...
...Rock Music is the Chewing Gum...
...Jazz is the regurgitation...
...Irish Trad is the All Day Breakfast...
(change 'em round to suit your own prejudice, if any)
... Then Reels are rare fillet steaks with peppercorn sauce and roast potatoes, parsnips and tender green beans
... Then Jigs are irish sausages and mash with gravy and real garden peas.
... Then Hornpipes are enormous freshly cooked lobsters with melting garlic butter and those big fat chips you get in posh restaurants.
... then Airs are gooey centred Raspberry Pavlovas with clotted cream.
... then Slides are Irish Stew, cooked till the meat melts in your mouth.
... then Polkas are Thai Green Fish Curries
Hey Al, too many pints of course and love will be off the agenda (to return to the bard, 'Drink...provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.'
So you can whistle all you like for oral s*x!!! (Though I guess it depends on who's doing the whistling...)
From Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
DUKE ORSINO:
"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die"
This puts a different slant - what it was originally intended to mean, as opposed to how it is often used today. Most of us here obviously are evidence that we can't ever get enough of it.
I guess you're right that he meant that if he got enough he'd lose his appetite but he was referring to love in that part of the sentence, but it certainly doesn't come across that way to me when I read the phrase out of context. He's asking for more music not more love after all - I know I am being pedantic.
I always thought Orsino was lovelorn, and telling a bunch of musicians to play a lot so he could get it out of his system. At least that's what the Drama teacher told me way back in 1963. At the time Orsino was being played by a rather busty prefect; it was a posh girls school and we had to use our imagination (often stretched to the limit) whenever somebody had to play the part of a man. We used to joke that our (very butch) maths teacher should take the more elderly male roles.
If music be the food of love...
If music be the food of love...
After the quotes on notes contributions, has anyone any suggestions on finishing the above part of the quote? (no swear w*rds this t!me)
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Cath
Re: If music be the food of love...
.. I'm bloody starving!
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Ottery
Re: If music be the food of love...
"Play on" . Sorry, but there's nothing to beat the original from a musician's point of view.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by John J.
Re: If music be the food of love...
Prepare for indigestion.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by dafydd
Re: If music be the food of love...
..then work is the curse of the drinking classes.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Ian Stevenson
Re: If music be the food of love...
...then you can whistle for oral s*x.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: If music be the food of love...
..why then we argue over utensils?
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Janek
Re: If music be the food of love...
. . . . you MUST stick to the recipe.
(see other thread about changing the sets).
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: If music be the food of love...
...then A Capella is the low-fat diet...
...Hip Hop is a Doner Kebab...
...Pop Music is the Junk Food...
...Rock Music is the Chewing Gum...
...Jazz is the regurgitation...
...Irish Trad is the All Day Breakfast...
(change 'em round to suit your own prejudice, if any)
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: If music be the food of love...
Prejudice?
what . . . . . here?
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: If music be the food of love...
Oh, re: the whistling -- OUCH, IB! LOL
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: If music be the food of love...
..then I must be the Lonesome Boatman
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: If music be the food of love...
...eating a packet of crisps
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: If music be the food of love...
. . . then I'll have what she's having."
No, I didn't watch When Harry Met Sally last night. I watched To Have and Have Not.
Very well played IB. Very well indeed.
KFG
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by KFG
Re: If music be the food of love...
Never mind this food and love stuff... the real connection is between music and pints! Slainte!
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by AlBrown
Re: If music be the food of love...
... Then Reels are rare fillet steaks with peppercorn sauce and roast potatoes, parsnips and tender green beans
... Then Jigs are irish sausages and mash with gravy and real garden peas.
... Then Hornpipes are enormous freshly cooked lobsters with melting garlic butter and those big fat chips you get in posh restaurants.
... then Airs are gooey centred Raspberry Pavlovas with clotted cream.
... then Slides are Irish Stew, cooked till the meat melts in your mouth.
... then Polkas are Thai Green Fish Curries
It must be tea-time soon.
Surely?
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Ottery
Re: If music be the food of love...
...then Barry Manlow reminds me of a rotten turnip.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: If music be the food of love...
*Manilow*
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: If music be the food of love...
Conan, are you referring to the Scottish expression, " (so desperate)... he'd sh@g a rotten neep"?
Food of love indeed.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Bren
Re: If music be the food of love...
Yup. Wonderful turn of phrase, the Scots!
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: If music be the food of love...
Oh god, Mark, now I'm STARVED....
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: If music be the food of love...
then the world is rife with slender gluttons.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by dannyky
Re: If music be the food of love...
Those food items listed above sound otter-ly delicious.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by AlBrown
Re: If music be the food of love...
Hey Al, too many pints of course and love will be off the agenda (to return to the bard, 'Drink...provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.'
So you can whistle all you like for oral s*x!!! (Though I guess it depends on who's doing the whistling...)
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by continuo
Re: If music be the food of love...
then I'll stick two fingers down my throat!
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Cath
Re: If music be the food of love...
Not too deep down that throat though, eh?
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by continuo
Re: If music be the food of love...
LOL -- Jimmy Troy, that last is BEAUTIFUL!
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: If music be the food of love...
..........Then eat your heart out.
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by Donough
Re: If music be the food of love...
From Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
DUKE ORSINO:
"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die"
This puts a different slant - what it was originally intended to mean, as opposed to how it is often used today. Most of us here obviously are evidence that we can't ever get enough of it.
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by Donough
Re: If music be the food of love...
It wasn't music that he wished to be sick of.
KFG
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by KFG
Re: If music be the food of love...
I guess you're right that he meant that if he got enough he'd lose his appetite but he was referring to love in that part of the sentence, but it certainly doesn't come across that way to me when I read the phrase out of context. He's asking for more music not more love after all - I know I am being pedantic.
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by Donough
Re: If music be the food of love...
I think I will pass on the goat-bangers and mash
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by geoffwright
Re: If music be the food of love...
If music be the food of love... then pick up my whistle and blow until your sufficiency has been sufficed.
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by tulloch
Re: If music be the food of love...
Bring me a crocodile sandwich and make it snappy.
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by dafydd
Re: If music be the food of love...
I always thought Orsino was lovelorn, and telling a bunch of musicians to play a lot so he could get it out of his system. At least that's what the Drama teacher told me way back in 1963. At the time Orsino was being played by a rather busty prefect; it was a posh girls school and we had to use our imagination (often stretched to the limit) whenever somebody had to play the part of a man. We used to joke that our (very butch) maths teacher should take the more elderly male roles.
# Posted on August 8th 2005 by flying tigerpig