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Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:04 pm
by Yorick
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:39 pm
Will we all get a day off work?
I hope so.

Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:06 pm
by Yorick
I got the first joke before I heard the news.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:21 pm
by gremlin
DEADPOOL wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:57 pm
the_priest wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:55 pm
Seeing as it is in St George's my friend is the succentor and will have a part in the service.
I am none the wiser...
Hence, you're not a Magi either
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:22 pm
by gremlin
Yorick wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:06 pm
I got the first joke before I heard the news.
I would.

Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:48 pm
by the_priest
DEADPOOL wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:57 pm
the_priest wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:55 pm
Seeing as it is in St George's my friend is the succentor and will have a part in the service.
ooh, a new word. Excellent.
"The succentor is the assistant to the precentor"
I am none the wiser...
He who leads the sung service. So for Evensong, he would be the cantor, "O Lord, open thou our lips" and the choir responds "And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise. So my friend (who has a degree in music from Cambridge and is also a conductor as well as being a Priest) is well suited to the post and is able to sing the plainchant perfectly.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:56 pm
by Nobby

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09.30. Rumors of Phil’s death.
13.00. No Day off announced.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:00 pm
by cheb
Plainsong is curious, I'm not in the slightest bit religious but plainsong in a church* makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It's there with organ music, it just doesn't sound any where near as good on a recording or a radio.
* If you're wondering why I would be in a church listening to plainsong, last time it was a deconsecrated church being used as a gallery. The acoustics were the same and some random chap started singing as he liked the noise it made.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:08 pm
by Phoenix
Wall to wall Prince Philip coverage across BBC TV & Radio channels plus ITV and LBC. Channel 4 are showing Flog It, Fix It. and are leaving coverage until the main news.
I can’t see why the BBC had to ditch 4 Extra to give a choice. Must be thinking of the licence renewal.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:16 pm
by DEADPOOL
the_priest wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:48 pm
DEADPOOL wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:57 pm
ooh, a new word. Excellent.
"The succentor is the assistant to the precentor"
I am none the wiser...
cantor, shew, plainchant.
Ok priest, you're making it up now...
If that's not a contrafibularity I don't know what is.

Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:21 pm
by moth
cheb wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:00 pm
Plainsong is curious, I'm not in the slightest bit religious but plainsong in a church* makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It's there with organ music, it just doesn't sound any where near as good on a recording or a radio.
* If you're wondering why I would be in a church listening to plainsong, last time it was a deconsecrated church being used as a gallery. The acoustics were the same and some random chap started singing as he liked the noise it made.
Medieval polyphony and organum are the same. Again recordings don't capture the sound of it being sung in a large echoey space.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:01 pm
by KungFooBob
One of my colleagues just called him The Duke of Dedinburgh, Which is incredibly poor taste, but still made me snigger.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:09 pm
by slowsider
gremlin wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:41 pm
slowsider wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:36 pm
Is it still only 30 at a funeral?
All joking aside, it'll be interesting to see how the funeral will be organised given the restrictions.
Will the Greeks be campaigning for his return ?
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:19 pm
by wheelnut
All media is wall to wall Phil.
You can’t even go to the pub to escape it!
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:09 pm
by gremlin
S'funny. Last week everyone was lining up to slag off the royals and call 'em racist. Now they're falling over themselves to line up and day how they brought the world together...
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:26 am
by Pirahna
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:45 am
by Wossname
Wondered how long that would take. We need something new to moan about.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:45 pm
by Mr Moofo
slowsider wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:09 pm
gremlin wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:41 pm
slowsider wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:36 pm
Is it still only 30 at a funeral?
All joking aside, it'll be interesting to see how the funeral will be organised given the restrictions.
Will the Greeks be campaigning for his return ?
I think he lost his marbles a few years ago
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:24 pm
by mikeycee
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:37 pm
Never really got Friday night Dinner, but he was great in Chernobyl.
Watched Chernobyl over the weekend on the basis of your post KFB....
Had me glued to the TV..... Miserable, sad, ruthless and upsetting - But a great production with some great performances.
Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:29 pm
by KungFooBob
mikeycee wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:24 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:37 pm
Never really got Friday night Dinner, but he was great in Chernobyl.
Watched Chernobyl over the weekend on the basis of your post KFB....
Had me glued to the TV..... Miserable, sad, ruthless and upsetting - But a great production with some great performances.
I went to Chernobyl and they showed the meltdown sequence from the mini-series on the coach... soon as we got home we bought it on DVD

Re: Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:00 pm
by David
Helen McCrory....52....cancer.