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They're all easy when you know the answer! How about a clue?
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Good ones, Jackie!
I'll see if I can come up with a new one.
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Yeesss, well done Jackie and Coffeebean. It was there plain as day.
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My name (anuradha) can also be shortened to Anu. My surname is samant. While creating usernames, I always avoid combining the first three letters of my name and first letter of my surname.
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Avy--good idea!  Yes, Coffeebean (great to see you, btw!), please do. plain as day Aren't these things amazing? You can look and look and look, and still not see what's right there! JFTR, my next clue would have been to follow "Okay--look around" with "...at where we are".
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[Slap on the forehead]
"Oh ho ho, vhaat aay goat I yam!"
ETA: I think this line is sheer poetry. My maths teacher used to say it when he made a mistake.
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Hmm. Check the very first entry in this onnicle thread.
(and I STILL didn't get it...)
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Okay, I am working on one! Hope to post very soon.
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It’s not known whether Mozart or Scarlatti would have composed an opera based on Goethe’s Faust, but Gounod did (although he is best known for his Ave Maria). I like the opera Seigfried (Richard Wagner’s best work in my opinion), part of the Ring cycle and an exhilarating tale of dragons and damsels. Lovers of more modern works will give a nod to Bernstein’s comedic opera Candide (based on Voltaire’s magnum opus). And fans of the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak might enjoy his little-known opera Rusalka; however, you’d probably only catch performances in Prague. I much prefer Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and chamber works, but I digress. How about a modern Faust movie starring Russell Crowe? Berlioz and Schumann undertook Faust adaptations – why not me?
Onniclue: Find hidden within this Onnicle the full name of a famous opera composer.
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Yes, one obviously not listed in the onnicle. Think of it as an invitation to the dance.
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I'll try not to step on anybody's toes.
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Was this too romantic a notion of mine?
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Not at all - it's just a hard one for us troglodytes who prefer beaux arts to Mozart!
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It set me off on a wikipedia journey of Candide, Faust and Liebnizian optimism. I met with many troubles along the way.
ETA: I would love to see an opera some day.
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Okay. My last two posts contained clues to the composer: "invitation to the dance" and "romantic".
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Avy, I have seen a couple opera performances in person. It's not that great unless you really know what's going on. Kind of like going to see a Shakespeare play if English were not your native language...and they were singing everything. The only time I ever enjoyed an opera was on TV with subtitles in English. 
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CARL-MARIA ERNST VON WEBER It’s not known whether Mozart or Scarlatti would have composed an opera based on Goethe’s Faust, but Gounod did (although he is best known for his Ave Maria). I like the opera Seigfried (Richard Wagner’s best work in my opinion), part of the Ring cycle and an exhilarating tale of dragons and damsels. Lovers of more modern works will give a nod to Bernstein’s comedic opera Candide (based on Voltaire’s magnum opus). And fans of the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak might enjoy his little-known opera Rusalka; however, you’d probably only catch performances in Prague. I much prefer Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and chamber works, but I digress. How about a modern Faust movie starring Russell Crowe? Berlioz and Schumann undertook Faust adaptations – why not me?
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Ok, Onnicles, name this poet who I've obscured in what you might call an arted garble of words to confound the lazy. This poet was a genius. And although an Adlerian psychologist might say that he overcompensated for his deep-seeded inferiorities by becoming a genius, I say "Damn Adler". Genius is genius and Adler might best go out and overcompensate for his own damn inferiorities first. Besides, the phrase "Damn Adler" is an anagram for a famous poem written by our poet...name it too.
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I got it, but I cheated again so I won't post the answers. Glad you're back, jj.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE - "Dream-land"
@Jackie: How does one cheat at this game????
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OK, onnicliers, answer this: Am I the king of ancient Kush? Am I a fearful Stygian and the pharaoh’s nemesis? Or am I simply a wooly-eyed dreamer who uses this bully pulpit to escape to a fantasy world?
The man, the group, the song.
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Hi Beck! Good to be back. The answers to your questions are "no" "no" and "yes". And incidently, the singer is Sam The Sham, the group is The Pharaohs, and the song is Wooly-Bully. But you should be jailed. "Wooly Bully" will be singing in my head all day until I replace it with something more intellectual...like, you know, Little Red Riding Hood - OooWhooo!
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Jenny: good job on solving the Weber onnicle. His name is Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, so you see where I hid Friedrich...and gave you all a little refresher in Music History too.
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Ah Coffeebean, now I see, you hid it between the "Sig" and the "ard". Good show daddy-o.
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That Weber one was killer. Kudos to creator and solver!
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Today's Thought of the Day: Poetry An onnicle is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. -Diane Wakoski, poet (b. 1937) from Wordsmith.org
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Jackie: How does one cheat at this game???? Not the game--that particular post. Or clue, rather: I ran Damn Adler through Anu's I, Rearrangement Servant, got Dreamland, then Googled to see if there was a poem by that name; got lucky the first shot. (That is, that the poem had a one-word title; there were a million quite a few possibilities to check for 2 or more word titles.)
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Poetry An onnicle Politics is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
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@ Jackie. That's not cheating! That's being resourceful! Half the fun of this for me is learning new things that I have to look up both to create and to solve these darned barnicles.
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I agree with Beck. Half the fun is learning something new! Besides, how could it be cheating if we ain't got no steenkin' roolz?
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I agree with Coffee and I agree with Beck but with a proviso, viz... If half the fun is learning something new,then the other half of the fun is also learning something new, because it is semantically impossible to learn something that you already know. And that's a steenkin' rool we do got.
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Good one, JJ! A+ for you in wordsmithmanshipitude! Now, you owe us a puzzicle.
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Now there's a word and a half.
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@JJ: Soooo, is there no verb "to relearn?"
@Jackie: I truncated it to save space.
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@Beck: Every verbal mistake I make is made for effect. 
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You're lucky. Mine are out of ignorance or stupidity.
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