Puzzles

[Casalima]

One for the "Muso's" 

I don't want to go to Chelsea even though it's a good year for the roses. Some of them are beyond belief, almost like indoor fireworks. Security has to be good though so watch your step because accidents will happen. Still, if like me, you can't stand up for falling down, you can always rely on watching the dectives or even oliver's army with alison would be a brilliant mistake. But what's so funny about peace, love and understanding.

Is nobody taking you up on this one, David........ 

Uff, I've just got it, David  Good one!
Does that make me old enough, young enough ...? 

[Maggi Young]

"muso" is an affectionate (?) term for a musician ....... can't believe it's unfamiliar to the English native- speakers  
Though, of course, I have spent a lot of time around musos!

Chloe, you are ageless, of course.... it is simply the breadth of your knowledge that gives you the answer..... Bookeroo just knows cos he's a geek!!

[TheOnionMan]

"muso" is an affectionate (?) term for a musician ....... can't believe it's unfamiliar to the English native- speakers   
Though, of course, I have spent a lot of time around musos!

Never heard the expression... I was thinking along similar lines as Anthony, that a fan of Musa (bananas) might be called a Muso, and since all runners pay homage to the most sacred of running foods with complex carbohydrates, the banana, I believe us runners might be Musos as well, particularly when wearing our iPods.

[ruweiss]

Rudi,

How fantastic that you grew Prunus serrula from seed! What did you do to germinate it, and how old is the plant in your photo?

Carlo,
I sowed the seeds immediately after delivery in 1991, kept the pot together with other alpine seeds uncovered
in the garden and brought it under glass after germination. Cannot remember how long it lasted, but there appeared
several seedlings from which I kept the most promising one.

[Lesley Cox]

The word "muso" is used here for persons of a musical/music loving persuasion, but of a type that is certainly neither classical nor pop, maybe sort of folksy, better bands, the kind that in Dunedin at least are likely to play in the early hours of the morning in dark and grotty pubs and clubs. Locally written music mostly, of which there is much in Dunedin and NZ generally. Think of a sort of musical version of "Flight of the Conchords."

So David's puzzle leaves me totally bewildered, not that that's so infrequent nowadays.

Not an English word then?

Well just a sort of lazy or slang word for musician I think.

[Carlo]

Thanks Rudi, I will HAVE to find a way to include it in my garden...it's one of my favorite trees.

[David Nicholson]

Glad to see there are some "Muso's" around the Forum

Well done Chloe, and very well done Vivien, "Almost Blue" would be in my all time top 100 albums list. I knew The Bookeroo would get it and I also knew maggi would latch on very quickly.

My little "pastiche" was based on album tracks made by Elvis Costello (and if you haven't listened to him you should be ashamed   )
The tracks were:_

I don't want to go to Chelsea
Good year for the roses
Beyond Belief
Indoor Fireworks
Watch your step
Accidents will happen
I can't stand up for falling down
Watching the detectives
Oliver's Army
Alison
Brilliant Mistake
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding

Every one worth a listen. 

[Anthony Darby]

This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP'

 

It's easy to understand 'UP', meaning toward the sky, or at the top of the list;

but when we awaken in  the morning,why do we wake UP?


At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? 

Why do we speak UP? 

And why are councelors UP for election?

Why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?   

We call UP our friends;

brighten UP a room;

polish UP the silver;

warm UP the leftovers

and clean UP the kitchen.   

We lock UP the house;

and  fix UP the old car.


At other times this little word has real special meaning.

People stir UP trouble;
line UP for tickets;

work UP an appetite

and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing - but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: 

A drain must be opened UP because it is blocked UP.

We open UP a store in the morning, but we also close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary.

In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. (Actually we don't, we say clouding OVER.) 

When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains it the earth soaks it UP.

When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now....

My time is UP!   Oh....one more thing:

What is the first thing you do in the morning, Wake UP!  Get UP!

and the last thing you do at night? Hang UP your clothes; Pull UP the duvet.

 
Now
I'll shut UP!

[Lesley Cox]

Here's something a little different. Name the people and the time and place, or perhaps the event, rather than the place. Should be easy for those of a certain age.

[Maggi Young]

Such fun!

An aciphylla and a juniper, together........

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

Surely you do not imply that our dear and darling Lesley is of prickly temperament nor her companion a sop?

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

'tis all to do with the taxonomy..........

We can at least be sure that the lady is Lesley 

[David Nicholson]

That's surely Gerd Knoche there with Lesley??

[Lesley Cox]

Better put things right, right away. The gentleman (I must have been thinner then) is Howard Pfeiffer (ie?) from the US of A, a charming man with some outrageously funny stories to tell. Wish I could remember them all. The event was "Alpines '81" also at Nottingham, so 29 years ago.

[Paddy Tobin]

Was the Green Panther ever caught?

Is his identity known?

Paddy