Vacation Plans -- United Kingdom

ohhhhhhh piffka, a real concert Prom is a special event.

I think some of the Boston Pops special concerts are a tiny bit in the direction of a Proms concert.
We have them here as well - I dream of going to Last Night of the Proms in London. Maybe for my 50th bday!

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ossobuco wrote:

And, should I not get back here in time, I want you there meeting with Gautam to have an aperitif on me, literally. (Well, no, don't pour it o'er my head...) Maybe Piff can charge it, and nail me for it back in the states.

What a nice thought, Osso! I'd be happy to stand in for you as aperitif provider.

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Okay... on the Proms -- McTag saw them on TV and thought they were strangely stirring, enough that he broke into song. But didn't Steve say that he didn't like 'em?

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... seeing all those promenaders bobbing up and down and tooting beepers during the sea shanties, that gets to me but I find it exruciatingly embarrassing. If they need to express their patriotic fervour....

And Beth, you say they're like the Boston Pops -- which I think of as outside summer music concerts using lighter scores and performed by members (but not all) of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Though as I think about it, my favorite Boston Pops record was with Julia Child narrating while the Pops played the music for Peter and the Wolf. I don't know if that was outside or in the summer.

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We had an orchestra, both times. Junior prom, I asked a neat fellow who had given me a stuffed animal as a present, complete surprise, at christmastime. First present from a guy. Strangely stiff evening, not a good start on a life of dancing. Talked to him thirty years later, he mixed me up with someone else.

Senior prom, my father apparently organized things so the son of a business partner asked to go with me. I was a wimp, said ok sort of miserably. He did take me to the dance. The youngest seventeen you might imagine, I was a mix of thrilled and slightly ashamed, he was younger. (I should just go ahead and club myself now and get it over with) He was actually darling but I didn't notice.

And then there was college, another story. But not at this time, tra la.

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So, proms in the US aren't uniformly good things.

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Well, we MAY have had a band, but it was so bad that I've blocked it. As far as I know, and this stayed true to form as I followed the experiences of my d. as well -- the best part of these dances is the dress.

I was asked to my Junior Prom two months early by a guy with whom I didn't want to go. My mom said I must go with him or not at all. (Later, I realized he was a great guy, but not my type.) I did go but don't remember anything about the dance -- even the photo that was taken doesn't spark any memories. My dress, however, I remember perfectly. It was a long sleeveless A-line in the palest green satin with an overlay of cream-colored lace that softened the green even more and made it so pretty. <sigh>

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Well, yes, I remember my dresses too...both of the fellows that seemed to be in some sort of interlocking non connection with me at those times, were interesting people.

What a selfinvolved idiot I was. On the other hand, I think they were that way too.

So, I gather this is all off topic, sorry folks.

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Piffka wrote:

Okay... on the Proms -- McTag saw them on TV and thought they were strangely stirring, enough that he broke into song. But didn't Steve say that he didn't like 'em?

The whole concert series (see my last link) is very serious stuff, a major music festival.
The "Last Night" is a party, with some old favourites, and a lot of audience participation. Although the conductor sometimes tells them off if they get a bit too rowdy. It gets on national TV every year.
Steve probably prefers prawn sandwiches anyway, being a United supporter. (Manchester United soccer Football Club)

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McTag

Do they serve canapées on silver tablets for City supporters? Laughing

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You mean the Manchester team, Walter? As distinct from Stretford United? We leave that sort of thing to our wealthier neighbours.

Sorry, more off-topic chit-chat.

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I believe he did, Pifka. He was also subbed off early with a slight injury. Man U got 5, and I can't remember them all! I started a football (soccer) topic over in Sports, if anyone would care to carry this on over there.

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Absolutely McTag. We cant enjoy the music for all the hoi polloi, and all the riff raff attending football matches these days, it quite puts one off one's Pouillet Fume.

And that Irish scallywag Mr Keane has no table manners.

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Of course we were self-involved idiots, Osso. That's why we were there! Nice to think the boys were too, so self-involved, I hadn't thought of that. Very Happy

I love the off-topics, though I'll try and head for the Grand Duke's sporting fans thread later. Seems I saw Manchester City whopping the daylights out of somebody, 2-1, was it Aston Villa? Can't remember now.

About the Proms... The conductor fusses with the audience? REALLY???? Oh, I'd love to see/hear that. Do they quietly sit or stand and hang their heads? teehheeeee. What a show! I am SO SORRY I missed this and will be sure to tune in, if BBC America has it, next year.

Another thing that I've missed and wish I wouldn't, are the Christmastime Pantomimes. I'd like to see those, too.

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Steve (as 41oo) wrote:

all the riff raff attending football matches these days, it quite puts one off one's Pouillet Fume.

Indeed. It's nearly enough to put one off one's 'meat' pie & Bovril!

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Piffka wrote:

Another thing that I've missed and wish I wouldn't, are the Christmastime Pantomimes. I'd like to see those, too.

Oh no you won't!

Oh yes you will!

Oh no you won't!

(He's behind you!)

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Was that an online pantomime? V. clever! I THINK I would...

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Grand Duke, like the quote marks as in 'meat' pie lol

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Did you know btw that Louis Edwards had a pie factory and decided to buy Manchester United to provide a captive clientelle.

Hence the brand name Pukka pie (pronounced puu-ka, as in throw up). Throw up or throw in it was all the same to dear old Louis.

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Steve (as 41oo) wrote:

Grand Duke, like the quote marks as in 'meat' pie lol

That's exactly, why I don't like them. :wink:

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But walter the entire British population was thriving on a healthy diet of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and carrots!

Its what made the Empire. God bless Her (especially as we have handed over to those dreadful Colonial types)

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