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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Someone wrote to SK this morning, recalling that she used to recite Jabberwocky as a party piece when she was a young girl.

Mine was to sing Bernard Cribbins' "Gossip Calypso"; my son used to do The Lion And Albert a la Stanley Holloway.

Anyone care to share what they used to do?
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Minx · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:27 am Post subject:

I used to be able to recite Hamlet's Soliloquy "To be or not to be", and still can if someone prompts me with a few lines when I dry up.

I also started to learn the violin in my first year at secondary school and was prevailed upon by my parents to attempt "Unto Us a Boy is Born" at a family Christmas gathering. I would only do it outside the sitting room door though, and having wilfully sawed my way through it to apparent silence from within the room, I went in to find at least half a dozen adults turning blue with mirth on the carpet.

I handed the violin back to the music teacher after Christmas and never lifted another musical instrument in my life. Embarassed

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Briant · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

I could recite scenes from films such as 'Casablanca' word for word!' My best though was either Glenn Ford in 'The Fastest Gun Alive' or Alan Ladd goading Jack Palance into a gunfight in 'Shane!' Laughing

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

I Belong to Glasgow and Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny aff a Bus.

Haute couture!

Ian.