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On Dec. 7, the company will arrange for couples to see the performance of Puccini's "Turandot" at the famed Teatro La Fenice in Venice, followed by a formal ball inside the hall (from $3,500; euridice-opera. com).
Curtain Calling 2007
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Pavarotti, Gamba, PO / Gluck: Orfeo ed euridice - che faro 'senza euridice ... ... ..
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madmouth commented on the word euridice
an inferior Mentos copy-off, lacking citric acid (and including one really ambiguous, lardsome flavour they tell me is supposed to be 'mango'. the foreboding of the title has come to fruition--I've looked back on my purchase, with silent tears.
June 23, 2009
john commented on the word euridice
Best definition in months. Been a while since Wordie left me snickering uncontrollably.
June 23, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word euridice
Hilarious!
June 23, 2009
bilby commented on the word euridice
I love the irony of fruition.
June 23, 2009
rolig commented on the word euridice
I don't think I get it. I know who Eurydice is, so I understand the "looking back with silent tears" reference, and Mentos is a candy, right? (though it sounds like the name of some mythological figure, the Greek god of the mind, perhaps), but am I am not sure what the original reference is to. What am I missing?
June 23, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word euridice
Lardsome, rolig. That's what you're missing.
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Just kidding... I don't get it (probably) either, but it's an amusing passage, indeed. It reminded me of a one-liner my college friend used to utter, "Euripides? Eumenides!"
June 23, 2009
rolig commented on the word euridice
LOL, C_b! It took me a minute, but I finally got the Euripedes joke (when I realized Italians were probably involved). But I'm still drawing a blank with Euridice.
June 23, 2009
dontcry commented on the word euridice
"fruition"..*snort!*
June 23, 2009
madmouth commented on the word euridice
Euridice is just a poorly-spelled Eurydice (dunno that the makers knew the difference).
June 24, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word euridice
Correct spelling in other languages, though.
June 24, 2009
john commented on the word euridice
Doesn't mentos have some meaning in Greek, in addition to being a breath mint? But this just struck me as a nice bit of freely-associated doggerel. And I love the phrase "copy-off." And I love that the list it's on is called "Jejuju"--I have no idea what that means, either, and Gooble isn't helping.
June 25, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word euridice
I do not have my lexicon with me, unfortunately. μέντοι is a particle that I've forgotten the precise function of. I think it can be used to connect two clauses. Don't think there's a μέντος or μέντως, unless it's in modern Greek. I think that madmouth was speaking of an actual candy called Euridice?
June 25, 2009
madmouth commented on the word euridice
yes--it's a candy, a Mentos-like object. in all the countries of the world, there are imitations of well-known American confectionary products, some with similar names (e.g. "Kicker" is a Korean rip-off of "Kit-Kat"), some with names which are preposterously unconnected. I though the name in this case was a bad one--considering the tragic story behind it--to use for any product, and it turned out the candy sucked, giving a bizarre validity to its name.
I guess it was a failure of a joke, needing such extensive footnotes ;_;
ETA: John, I did consider the vague Greekness of "Mentos" itself, and perhaps the makers of "Euridice" did as well, though even so, it's an odd pull from the bag. Google is not helping; the product has stormed all original definitions
June 25, 2009