Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

blimey don't you noe a lot

I knew the phrase.... I didn't know it was Juvenal till wiki came to the rescue. I thought it was a saying from one of the Roman emperors about his technique for keeping the mob happy.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh course I have been watching you, I am the third wraith on the second horse chesnut tree as you do a left turn. Oh, I don't need an imagination, your Sturmey Archer gears do it for me. But shoe laces, and the waft of Sketchleys, are they as exciting as steam trains?

Nothing like as exciting... And I have Shimano gears, ducks.

[Norfolk Born]

Respighi, yes, Regina, no (but something to do with the Queen may well lead you to one part of the answer).

[Norfolk Born]

Actually, I can answer my own question... yes it is. I knew it was nagging away at my subconscious, and I've nalied it.

Respighi's 'Feste Romane' are:

1. Circenses: Circuses [as in 'Bread and...']
2. Giubileo: Jubilee [as in the Royal...]
3. L'Ottobrata: October Festival [as in Munich beer...]
4. La Befana: Epiphany [as in 'sudden revelation']

It was the Epiphany connection that did it.

I'll wait to get the green flag before taking to the track with S

Sorry, just caught up with this message. M'learned colleague is correct in all particulars.

[Nick Armstrong]

Respighi, yes, Regina, no (but something to do with the Queen may well lead you to one part of the answer).

Keep reading Norfy

PS:

Ah! you did!

I'm obliged.

Is there still some sort of Stewards' enquiry over P???

[Norfolk Born]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Keep reading Norfy

PS:

Ah! you did!

I'm obliged.

Is there still some sort of Stewards' enquiry over P???[/COLOR]

Qui sait? Prière de continuer avec 'S' mon brave!

[Flay]

Crumbs... I have just awoken from an afternoon nap (needed to calm my nerves after the shop, and to help prepare for this evening's nut roast), to find myself chuckling tears on reading the above. You lot are fabulous fun!

Yes, Norfy, you are correct. Meg > mystic > chord > Promethius.

So all is well, on and up we go!

[mercia]

I don't know if I'm suffering from sun stroke but I'm sure subcontra posted an identical answer to caliban a minute before, but it's disappeared now

[Flay]

I don't know if I'm suffering from sun stroke but I'm sure subcontra posted an identical answer to caliban a minute before, but it's disappeared now

It's called the Schubert psychosis, which will have affected us all by the week's end

[mercia]

Yes, Norfy, you are correct. Meg > mystic > chord > Promethius.

so what (out of interest) regarding Prometheus, was the miniature oratorio by our hero of the day ?

[Flay]

so what (out of interest) regarding Prometheus, was the miniature oratorio by our hero of the day ?

It was Schubidoo:

"Prometheus" (D. 674) is an intensely dramatic art song composed by Franz Schubert in October 1819 to a poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was written for bass voice in the key of B♭ major, but the key moves repeatedly through various major to minor tonalities, ending in C major. In Goethe's dramatic declamation by Prometheus, which would be set again, with very different effect, by Hugo Wolf, "with his alternations of ariosos and recitatives, Schubert created a miniature oratorio", observes Edward F. Kravitt. (Wiki)

[Anna]

Nothing like as exciting... And I have Shimano gears, ducks.

Oh. That explains a lot.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh. That explains a lot.

They account for my smooth and noiseless acceleration...

But enough of such small talk about accessories!

An S, s.v.p., which among many other things connects some passionate piscatorial good fortune, a disabled lad and an insomniac who shares her name with a rather large gun.

[amateur51]

They account for my smooth and noiseless acceleration...

But enough of such small talk about accessories!

An S, s.v.p., which among many other things connects some passionate piscatorial good fortune, a disabled lad and an insomniac who shares her name with a rather large gun.

A disabled lad wouldn't spend time in a secret garden, would he?

[Nick Armstrong]

A disabled lad wouldn't spend time in a secret garden, would he?

He might, but not on my watch!