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		The Coral Tea Cosy Award
		For your excellent and always kind and good-tempered service to the encyclopedia, you have been awarded this coral tea cosy to keep your jasmine tea scaldingly hot (the way 'shonen likes it). darwin^fish 21:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, dear Gerda! ---Sluzzelin talk 14:08, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I am assuming that your comment about sarcasm was directed at Boynamedsue and not at me. I didn't think I was being sarcastic. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:10, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your assumption is correct, Robert McClenon. I didn't see sarcasm in your comments. ---Sluzzelin talk 15:41, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Limerick

Thank you very much for the excellent Floq limerick, sir! darwin^fish 18:30, 31 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Thank you and always a treat to see you, dear Darwinfish. Pass my regards to the whole family of Swish-n-bishes! ---Sluzzelin talk 21:07, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the Floc limerick smiles! - My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gerda. A good story about an artist whose music, I am ashamed to admit, I had never listened to before. Great work! (and thank you for the bumblebee, my absolute favourite insect as a little boy). ---Sluzzelin talk 11:15, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your interest. Have you heard of the composer of the following story? (just curious, nothing shameful about "never heard") - Today's story is about a rather unknown tenor, - the Mozart tenor at the house where I listened to operas as a student, and the Bach tenor where I sang in church choir, so one day he would sing Ferrando and the next day the Evangelist in the St John Passion. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You mean the the composer in the story following Shchedrin's? Mikis Theodorakis? Come on! I had, by the way, heard of Shchedrin (or rather seen his name mentioned); I'm a bit of Schnittke fan. Though my love for "classical" music is passionate, my knowledge is patchy. I had never heard of Lutz-Michael Harder either, for example. ---Sluzzelin talk 06:51, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Coming on ;) - I had problems to get Canto General to DYK (see talk), and only after long discussions found out that the reviewer had never heard of Theodorakis, nor Neruda, which told me that we can't take such knowledge for granted. - My stories often come from the main page, and I could have written three yesterday, but Harder came just by his birthday. As said, he was the tenor in concerts I sang when a student, and I don't expect anybody to know him ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. - Can you perhaps make a limerick about being able to get a painter to the main page easily, but a composer only with trouble over weeks, and not pictured. Sure, picturing music is hard, but the face of the composer seems expressive enough, imho. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:09, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not being familiar with DYK, I wasn't aware of this difficulty and find it strange. Not only the faces of composers (photographed or painted), but composers in movement, performing, conducting, or original handwritten scores, or pictures of ballet and opera, ... surely the fact that a DYK is about music shouldn't make it hard to choose and add a picture? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ---Sluzzelin talk 21:15, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The rulez say the subject has to be pictured, and the composer isn't the subject. (And they say sheet music doesn't show well.) - As you will know, Arvo Pärt is 90 today. Did you know that it took me some trouble to get him to the main page? Listen! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]