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tgi paul

20th July 2011, 13:34
This is really bugging me...

20d 7,say, going topless in river where bridge is noted

A-I-N-N

I don't have 7d so that doesn't help!
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neilm

20th July 2011, 13:35
Its Avignon. 7 down is a star sign.
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neilm

20th July 2011, 13:41
to explain further when I was in primary school we were made to sing Sur la pont d'Avignon... which was some nonsense about an elephant dancing on the brige at Avignon.
It may have been the sixties but I assure you that no hallucenegens were involved!. Oh and its Avon abbout sign without the leading S
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tgi paul

20th July 2011, 13:43
Thankyou very much indeed for the answer and great explanation Neil!
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the joker

20th July 2011, 14:24
Tut tut NeilM.
A bridge is Masculine,unless the one at Avignon is bent somehow.
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pastille

20th July 2011, 14:31
Eh...Neilm...

An elephant??? Dancing???

Am you sure there were not mind expanding drugs involved?

p@
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jazzgirl

20th July 2011, 14:59
Maybe the elephant was called Lonnie ?
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the joker

21st July 2011, 14:53
Jazzgirl
Just noticed your "Lonnie". Very clever riposte.
We seem to be in a French mode this week.
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jazzgirl

21st July 2011, 16:33
Merci monsieur le joker...J'ai un sentiment étrange de l'humour !
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neilm

21st July 2011, 16:47
I did mention it was Primary school and I defend Miss Doris Kiley, my teacher, if she got her La's and Le's wrong.
I googled the lyrics and there are gorillas and frogs in various verses. If miss Kiley said there were elephants (especially with the rhyming to the french "pont" I believe her. If she was using mind changing drugs at the timeI cannot say. So Nyaaah
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