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  1. nickyb

    nickyb Well-Known Member

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    Bratislava - Budapest **

    ** just down river

    Signing off, hope you sleep well <ok>

    See you tomorrow <cheers>
     
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    Morning Nick and PH

    All ok here and trust likewise with you both.

    Todays theme is words that include the random letters DAN

    Budapest - Danube
     
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    Morning Taff & PH
    All well here, good to read same goes for you and hopefully PH

    A waltzing link today :emoticon-0159-music:emoticon-0159-music

    Danube - Dance

    Did you know, the Danube is the only river in Europe to flow East. Its not blue but muddy brown
     
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    Hi Nick - I went to Budapest once on business. We had a manufacturing plant about 50 miles outside of Budapest and we stayed in a hotel overlooking the river in the capital.

    Dance - Caned <cheers>
     
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    <ok>

    Caned <applause> - Acned <cheers>

    Didn't think I'd spot that
     
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    Acned <applause> - Nadal*

    * - did you spot that if you took the n from Acned, it gives you a regular Rafa first serve ...:bandit:
     
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    <laugh><applause> Brilliant

    Nadal - Dante **
    ** Must be hell playing against him
     
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    <laugh>

    Dante - Anted <cheers>
     
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    Anted <applause> - Al-dente **

    ** I'm being out anagrammed, must be pasta my sell date
     
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    dup
     
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    <laugh><laugh><laugh>

    Al dente - Aldana*

    * - I read one of his poems for my Spanish A Level in 1976. (I remember my teacher saying Al who - he’d never heard of him! <laugh>)
     
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    That's strange.
    16th century Spanish Poets are not a subject I know anything about. Did Cervantes write any poetry??

    Aldana - Granada **

    ** Lorca was murdered there
     
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    I think he must have but not sure - the ‘famous’ 16th Century poets that I read are Garcilaso de la Vega, San Juan de la Cruz and Fray Luis de Leon.

    I also read Lorca’s ‘Yerma’

    Granada - Fernando*

    * - can he hear the drums yet?
     
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    <laugh>
    Going to fish out Lorca's Poet in New York (in translation)

    Fernando - Ponderosa <diva>
     
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    Ponderosa <applause> - Vanguard*

    * - of TV westerns?
     
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    <laugh>
    It was popular, wasn't really a fan of any Western TV series. Although The Searchers is one of my favourite movies.

    Vanguard - Pathfinder
     
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    Pathfinder <applause> - Commando
     
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    <ok>

    Commando - Underpants **

    ** or lack thereof
     
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    Underpants - Panda*

    * - black and white underpants
     
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    <laugh>

    Panda - Paddington **
    ** one eats marmalade sandwiches, the other, bamboo shoots
     
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