Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

Is this something to do with syphillis?

That wasn't very testing was it

How so, Sirrah?

[Nick Armstrong]

That wasn't very testing was it

How so, Sirrah?

Oh, awfully clever ams! I scoured wiki in vain...

But with your expert guidance I find the the test for that sorry malady is named after a certain

Wassermann....

[amateur51]

Oh, awfully clever ams! I scoured wiki in vain...

But with your expert guidance I find the the test for that sorry malady is named after a certain

Wassermann....

bravo Caliban! orkpie:

Now is it to be X (for breakfast) or Y (for runts)?

[Nick Armstrong]

bravo Caliban! orkpie:

Now is it to be X (for breakfast) or Y (for runts)?

So to comply with Anna's Law:

The three pieces you mentioned were written by Schubert, Grieg and Joplin who all suffered (and died), it is alleged, from syphillis which could have been diagnosed by the Wassermann test...

I take it I can go for X/Y/Z or A ad libitum?

[Nick Armstrong]

I'll have a Z please, Bob!

To link Daphnis & Chloë (no, not that one!) with Pierce Brosnan and the F.B.I.

[cloughie]

I'll have a Z please, Bob!

To link Daphnis & Chloë (no, not that one!) with Pierce Brosnan and the F.B.I.

Zeus

[Nick Armstrong]

Zeus

Hi Cloughie

Nope!

[Flay]

Um... Sort of sums the game up, don't it Flay me old mucker?

(PS Mrs F out at karate this evening? You seem to be pretty freely strolling these mean streets )

Holby City was on the telly so I sneaked to the 'puter, pretending to be checking something important.

[Nick Armstrong]

Holby City was on the telly so I sneaked to the 'puter, pretending to be checking something important.

Good move! Holby City...

[Flay]

Brosnan was brought up in a Roman Catholic family and educated in a local school run by the Christian Brothers while serving as an altar boy

Sounds a familiar scenario...

[Nick Armstrong]

Brosnan was brought up in a Roman Catholic family and educated in a local school run by the Christian Brothers while serving as an altar boy

... not relevant here

You are looking for the connection in the early part of PB's career though...

[Flay]

... not relevant here:

No, I was thinking about my own upbringing... I used to look so cute dressed as an altar boy

[Flay]

You are looking for the connection in the early part of PB's career though...

Franco Zeffirelli perhaps? (the only Z of note on the wiki page)

[Nick Armstrong]

No, I was thinking about my own upbringing... I used to look so cute dressed as an altar boy

I'm sure you did, Flay

*cue: rippling harp arpeggios*

Meanwhile, back at the quiz, I need to go and grab some of my own ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZs

Any last guesses for today?

.... other than this one which is incorrect:

Franco Zeffirelli perhaps? (the only Z of note on the wiki page)

[Flay]

Any last guesses for today?

No! Goodnight all.