The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

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Geoff Chandler
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The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:20 am

And that's a fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7abOJqphn0

(again one take - nearly swore when a button stuck down).

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by John Moore » Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:30 pm

For those Forum members with a sense of humour, I would recommend this. Well it made me laugh and I was sober.

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Paul McKeown » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:43 pm

Ha, Geoff, good one. Mind if I download it for when I'm teaching? Cheers!

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Anthony Taglione » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:30 pm

Chuckle.

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Geoff Chandler » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:35 pm

Hi Guys.

No problem at all with anyone using it or anything on The Corner.
Just wish I had bought a better mic as the sound is naff and perhaps another take
would have worked.

I have ideas for others but hopefully will do a Corner DVD so keeping ideas
for that. Also I've forgotten my YouTube password.

I prefer the Horses Ass one except I do have a fit of the giggles when I
play my grand daughters xylophone pretending it's a mobile phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcSaJ_f0yvw

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Simon Spivack » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:53 pm

Part of my youth was misspent learning this aria. It is from The Barber of Seville and is very apposite.

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Paul McKeown » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:35 am

Geoff,

Just showed this clip to a group of Primary School children: they loved it.

Thanks.

Are there any other good clips available on the Internet with suchlike simple, fairy-story style games?

Regards,
Paul McKeown

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Re: The Morphy Game: The Duke of Brunswick did not play it!

Post by Geoff Chandler » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:50 pm

Hi Paul.

I've just squeezed in a game I used when I teaching the kids
in the mid 80's. Lord of the Rings was quite big in Edinburgh
at the time so I used Frodo.

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=399