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Why just one Strauss?
Topic Started: Jun 9 2006, 07:23 PM (126 Views)
dolmansaxlil
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Can't we find a DNA sample? I think cloning is in order.

(I KNEW there was another _ouse rhyme!)
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bachophile
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moderators! i object

1. i said __ouse not __auss


2. there are many strauss's

Composers
Christoph Strauss (around 1580–1631), composer
Franz Strauss (1822–1905), horn player and composer
Isaac Strauss, French composer
Richard Strauss (1864–1949), German composer of the Late Romantic, wrote Also sprach Zarathustra
Oscar Straus (1870–1954), Austrian composer of operettas

Strauss family
Austrian family of composers associated with the Viennese waltz.

Johann Strauss I (Strauß) Senior, the Elder, Father (1804–1849)
∞ 1825 Maria Anna Streim (1801–1870)

Johann Strauss II (Strauß) Junior, the Younger, Son, "Waltz King" (1825–1899)
∞ 1. 1862 Henriette Chalupetzky (1818–1878)
∞ 2. 1878 Angelika Dittrich (1850–1919), divorced 1882
∞ 3. 1882 Adele Deutsch (1856–1930)
Anna Strauss (1829–1903)
Therese Strauss (1831–1915)
Ferdinand Strauss (1834–1834)
Josef Strauss (Strauß, 1827–1870)
∞ 1857 Caroline Pruckmayer (1831–1900)
Eduard Strauss (Strauß, 1835–1916)
∞ Maria Klenkhart (1840–1921)
Johann Strauss III (Strauß, 1866–193)
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dolmansaxlil
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*snicker

Was it here that we had a discussion about what constituted a rhyming word? Whether the sound of the word was more important than the spelling? I believe it might have been.
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JBryan
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Apparently we are lousy with Strausses.
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dolmansaxlil
Jun 9 2006, 11:28 PM
*snicker

Was it here that we had a discussion about what constituted a rhyming word? Whether the sound of the word was more important than the spelling? I believe it might have been.

We definitely did!

That was right when I first joined up, I believe.

Damned if I could locate THAT thread.
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