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PabloElGatto
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2005/01/10 01:12 "The house is full of clothes pegs"
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aberoy
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2005/05/31 16:01 One bob per ob
jet d'art
Gratis and carte
blanche my heart

Took me about 10 years to work it out and, having done so, failed to understand why it was not obvious. Agree with the previous post - Jumble Sale is riddled with brilliance; did he ever perform it live? The arrangement we're stuck with on CD probably explains why it didn't become one of his more well-known songs.
Can someone please tell me the meaning of "Iacte was my alia" from the same song? I've never known, but would like to.
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Paul
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2005/05/31 22:48 As far as I know Jake never did Jumble Sale live - see the detailed set lists on the Unofficial Jake Thackray Homepage site for evidence of this. I agree that it is the arrangement of the studio recording which kills the song off - I have only heard Jamie McCoan's rendition live at a Jakefest and it completely changed my view of the quality of the song.

'iacta was my alea' is a reference to Julius Caesar's words on crossing the river Rubicon in 49 BC (alea iacta est = the die was cast): in crossing this river and entering Italy with an army at his back Caesar effectively declared civil war and made himself a public enemy to the Roman people. Caesar's 'alea iacta est' is one of the two most famous quotations associated with him (the other being 'veni, vidi, vici'). Presumably Jake studied Latin as part of his Jesuit education and Caesar would almost certainly have been on the menu for any schoolboy in the fifties and sixties.

Here ends the lesson (from a Latin teacher!).

Paul
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Janet
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2005/05/31 23:01 Elizabeth Jones Lily O'Grady & three or four more married ladies prefer to be tickled by the whiskery chins of bogeymen.
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Craig HARRIS
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2005/07/17 12:38 And thus the whisper, whisper went from pinafore to pinafore,
Every "Tut-tut!" more grievous than the "Well I never!" before.

Perfect imagery - Fate often wears twitching whiskers.
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dmcgovern
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2005/07/21 23:47 I don't think the poor old blacksmith got a mention yet . .

When love is overdue, to miss your cue, delay or demur
In answer to a little cri de coeur


The story may be true, though even Laurie Lee told it as third-hand. But there must be plenty of people with stories like it, who are happy with their lot because they have learned not to expect too much.
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