Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

What happened to Anna's 'Mandy from Pandy' post!?!? More teasing?! More flooding by the sounds of it! Hope you are ok!

I have to leave the virtual world for about 90 minutes at half past so if no one knocks the coconut off its perch by then, there'll be an intermission I'm afraid...

[mercia]

I'm not playing and yet I am. Yes I completely understand.

Yvonne Kenny, studied biochemistry, played Blanche in the Oz premiere of Streetcar and sang the OH at the end of the 2000 games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Kenny

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not playing and yet I am. Yes I completely understand.

Yvonne Kenny, studied biochemistry, played Blanche in the Oz premiere of Streetcar and sang the OH at the end of the 2000 games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Kenny

Nice shot mercs Completely correct.

You can have a big cuddly teddy bear or ... an A perhaps?

[mercia]

Z

firsts for Siems, Kurz and Battle

[Anna]

What happened to Anna's 'Mandy from Pandy' post!?!? More teasing?! More flooding by the sounds of it! Hope you are ok!

Miss Mandy from Pandy sends her regrets ........ I honestly thought I was killing the thread, so I deleted I mean, who wants to read about my experience in floods? I am not turning into Aqua Girl am I? No idea of mercia's Z, October 14th is actually date of battle of Hastings, actually took place at Senlac, not Hastings nor Battle. I know that because I worked for solicitor whose birthday was on that day.

[mercia]

any interesting events on your birthday, Anna ?

[Flay]

Z

firsts for Siems, Kurz and Battle

Ay up there. Zerbinetta???

(I tried to get Dr. Zdeňka Böhmová-Zahradníčková to fit but failed! )

[mercia]

Ay up there. Zerbinetta???

ay up

do you want to say in what way "firsts" ?

[mercia]

(I tried to get Dr. Zdeňka Böhmová-Zahradníčková to fit but failed! )

shame, next time perhaps

[Anna]

any interesting events on your birthday, Anna ?

Speech of April 12, 1921? Oh, 12th April, State of Israel created? Bobby Moore? Alan Ackbourn?

[Flay]

ay up

do you want to say in what way "firsts" ?

Margarethe Siems - Zerbinetta for the Stuttgart Premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos on 25 October 1912 (Conductor: Richard Strauss)
Selma Kurz - ditto for the Vienna Premiere on 4 October 1916 (Conductor: Franz Schalk)
Kathleen Battle - ditto for her Royal Opera debut in 1985

[Flay]

perhaps I should
Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Margarethe Siems in first version premiere, Selma Kurz in second version, Kathleen Battle's Royal Opera debut (all according to wikipedia )

Oi !!! That was my job, in compliance with the Anna Law <slaps wrists>

[Anna]

Oh, Flay. How do you know so much?

[mercia]

brilliant work there flay

you have the honour of starting off the next round

[Flay]

Oh, Flay. How do you know so much?

Because I am google-eyed, and have a nifty mouse!