♫ Join my melons to your lemons... ♪♬

[anteros_lmc]

Earlier today partner and I went over to Edinburgh for an International Festival concert by Les Arts Florissants. The performance was a mixed programme of French Baroque opera pieces performed in Edinburgh's gorgeous late-Georgian Queens Halls. It was a beautiful concert, but partner and I nearly lost it during the first recital of highlights from

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[nodbear]

*chortles hugely *

reminds me of the way the guy who shouts the stock on our street market fruit and veg stall always times his " ripe melons " to those ladies who -to his delight - look cross and flustered. He does not do much for the stalls sales it has to be said...though I was delighted one day to hear a very posh sounding citizen retort by holding out her money and saying " very nice ! but pity the carrots are so tiny right now"

[vespican]

Which in turn reminds me of a comic strip in the local paper some months ago. Parents are watching their son build a snowman in the yard. Suddenly Mom yells... "Son, that's not where the carrot goes!"
Dave

[anteros_lmc]

Who knew Baroque opera was so filthy?! We only heard excerpts of this opera so it's possible that this is followed by a female duet lamenting the tiny carrots ;P