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mcdonaldneal
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2006/02/19 21:30 After this weekends show in Knutsford I was reminded of a beauty: 'For he was shy, as Blacksmiths often are'. Throws up more questions than answers.
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2006/03/09 12:03 mcdonaldneal wrote:
After this weekends show in Knutsford I was reminded of a beauty: 'For he was shy, as Blacksmiths often are'. Throws up more questions than answers.

Laurie Lee's line originally, that one, I believe. Jake stayed very close to the original, which only increases my wonder at the beautiful job he made of this song.

I have a friend who likes Jake and has known a few blacksmiths (country estate upbringing), and he says that in his experience blacksmiths generally are shy.
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Slybynight
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2006/10/17 11:02 "And in the potter's shop, the potter's wife upon the potter's wheel
(Which was steadily continuing to spin, by the way,"

Oh and on reading some of the others I was reminded that

"Elizabeth Jones and Lily O'Grady
And three or four more married ladies
Prefer to be tickled by the whiskery chins of bogey men."

Has to come a very close second. They said the thing just couldn\'t be done
And so I set right to it
I tackled the thing that couldn\'t be done
And found I couldn\'t do it
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Slybynight
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2006/10/17 11:03

Post edited by: Slybynight, at: 2007/01/29 12:16 They said the thing just couldn\'t be done
And so I set right to it
I tackled the thing that couldn\'t be done
And found I couldn\'t do it
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Slybynight
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2006/10/17 11:05

Post edited by: Slybynight, at: 2007/01/29 12:15 They said the thing just couldn\'t be done
And so I set right to it
I tackled the thing that couldn\'t be done
And found I couldn\'t do it
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flyjt
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2006/10/28 15:38 ........was from To Do With You...until I saw the bit on the BBC4 documentary where Jake, working as a roving reporter for ITV, went into a boutique to ask the girl assistant some questions. He explains how his mum used to buy his sisters "pullys" from the Co-Op, but nowadays a mum would go into a boutique. Then he asks her ; "What has this done for mums, pullys and Co-Ops?" The look on her face is priceless !! Play it again, it's wonderful.
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