Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That was PDQ Ferney, Animal Magic?

No; for once I just knew the answers!

Sorry for the delay: A has caused more difficulty than I was expecting. Try this mixture of Music and Literature:

Pears well Met
Bogarde looking at you, kid
Hurt on Long Island

... which A in common?

[cloughie]

No; for once I just knew the answers!

Sorry for the delay: A has caused more difficulty than I was expecting. Try this mixture of Music and Literature:

Pears well Met
Bogarde looking at you, kid
Hurt on Long Island

... which A in common?

Aschenbach - Death in Venice

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Aschenbach - Death in Venice

Yup!

Peter Pears made his Met debut as ...
Dirk Bogarde played him in Visconti's film (and was very sniffy about Britten's opera at every opportunity!)
John Hurt played the Aschenbach character in the film Death on Long Island based on Mann's novella.

Well, that didn't take long!
A B cloughie conundrum, please.

[cloughie]

Yup!

Peter Pears made his Met debut as ...
Dirk Bogarde played him in Visconti's film (and was very sniffy about Britten's opera at every opportunity!)
John Hurt played the Aschenbach character in the film Death on Long Island based on Mann's novella.

Well, that didn't take long!
A B cloughie conundrum, please.

The sun is shining, the garden beckons, may I pass for now if someone has a B buzzing?

[Don Petter]

The sun is shining, the garden beckons, may I pass for now if someone has a B buzzing?

Mendelssohn: The Bee's Weeding?

[Norfolk Born]

The last few entries have amused and impressed one of the AKSHUAL French people here at the moment (whose presence is going to prevent much calibanesque activity here for the next couple of days)... impressed by Norfy and Anna (Annakins, you're just lacking a "ce" after your "mais".... But cloughie's "oblique" doesn't work: makes it sounds as if he walks at an angle, apparently. "Je ne suis pas tordu" would be more ...French: "I am not twisted"

Have nice games, folks, and good luck with the in-law horde Flay

Traduction proposée pour 'oblique': 'indirect'.

[vinteuil]

Traduction proposée pour 'oblique': 'indirect'.

... yes, I think 'indirect' would fit - or, perhaps, 'détourné'...

[Anna]

... yes, I think 'indirect' would fit - or, perhaps, 'détourné'...

Ooh, I say, Norfy and Vints are now giving French lessons! I have always said this thread is really educational! I now hesitate to use French on here as Caliban will come down on me comme une tonne de briques Deuxième match de la journée vient de commencer ..... Je dois voler !!!

[cloughie]

OK as nobody has volunteered a B which

Sounds Spanish but further north.
Used to be northern
Herb no mates

[amateur51]

John Hurt played the Aschenbach character in the film Death on Long Island based on Mann's novella

With respect, m'learned friend means Love and Death on Long Island by Gilbert Adair, with certain similarities to Mann's Death in Venice

[Anna]

OK as nobody has volunteered a B
Herb no mates

Billy No Mates!

[vinteuil]

Love and Death on Long Island by Gilbert Adair, with certain similarities to Mann's Death in Venice

I enjoyed them both, in different ways; haven't read the Mann for twenty years - last time I found it all a little too earnest and heavy: the Adair, on the other hand, is a delight - wry, painfully funny...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

With respect, m'learned friend means Love and Death on Long Island by Gilbert Adair, with certain similarities to Mann's Death in Venice

M'did! M'thanks for the generosity in "learned" m'calling!

[Anna]

Used to be northern

Billy Bragg! Until he moved to Islington

[vinteuil]

Billy Bragg! Until he moved to Islington

ermmm.... Billy Bragg was born in Barking - and now lives in Dorset