Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

no, my connection is wonky!

[Nick Armstrong]

no, my connection is wonky!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

no, my connection is wonky!

Comes to us all, eventually.

"Colonel Bogey" suggests Ricketts (its composer) or Royal Marines?
"Breakfast" suggests Rob Cowan;
"boughing" suggests Rutland;
"Slapping chests" suggests Edgar Rice Burroughs.


.... so it's probably none of them!

(This is the point where somebody usually kindly points out that the letter we're looking for is L!)

[Nick Armstrong]

(This is the point where somebody usually kindly points out that the letter we're looking for is L!)

Exactly!

[Norfolk Born]

Alternatively:
Colonel Bogey suggests Regiment
Breakfast suggests Rice Krispies
Boughing suggests Robin Hood
Slapping chests suggests Resuscitation.
(Only trying to help....)

[Nick Armstrong]

Just an aside to explain why I never contribute to this thread. I can sometimes work out the answers, but were I to do respond correctly, I would be doomed to thinking up a puzzle of my own... and ...

that is more than sufficient qualification to join in

agreed!

I think I'm weird. (*CUE: chorus of agreement*)

I think I prefer setting questions to solving them. I quite like plucking a word and then boiling down three examples of it to make a puzzle.

So Alpens, please dive in. I'll take puzzle-setting off your hands if I can!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Alternatively:
Colonel Bogey suggests Regiment
Breakfast suggests Rice Krispies
Boughing suggests Robin Hood
Slapping chests suggests Resuscitation.
(Only trying to help....)

Well, Rice is common to both our lists, so that's what I'm sticking with!

[Nick Armstrong]

Bogeymen, at breakfast, boughing and slapping chests

Eine Alps, I beg you - if you know that answer, please lob it in! I can't get anywhere with this! How does Rice fit anything other than krispies/breakfast?!

[amateur51]

Comes to us all, eventually.

"Colonel Bogey" suggests Ricketts (its composer) or Royal Marines?
"Breakfast" suggests Rob Cowan;
"boughing" suggests Rutland;
"Slapping chests" suggests Edgar Rice Burroughs.


.... so it's probably none of them!

(This is the point where somebody usually kindly points out that the letter we're looking for is L!)

Ah really?

L you say

L suggests ...

[Anna]

But, looking at the original puzzle there are not four elements. Flay added commas Put in commas to clarify the three bits So the boughing and slapping of chests is one, not two separate answers. Do we know for sure if any of the suggested R's are correct?
Edit: Michael Redgrave whistled Colonel Bogey in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Raymond Briggs wrote Fungus the Bogeyman. Can't think of any other R's at the moment.

[Flay]

This is so stressful. I could see what is being said but could not reply. On a different computer now but only for a few mins. Perhaps I have inadvertantly unchecked a box somewhere...

Anna is indeed correct, there are 3 parts.

What has a bough, and might sit sadly on it and sing?
Colonel Bogey is partly there, you need to do some bridge-building too.
Where might one have breakfast? Think apple.

I will have to stand back now and watch how this flows as I might not be able to respond for a while

[Anna]

What has a bough, and might sit sadly on it and sing?
Colonel Bogey is partly there, you need to do some bridge-building too.
Where might one have breakfast? Think apple.
I will have to stand back now and watch how this flows as I might not be able to respond for a while

Well, a bridge to Colonel Bogey might be Bridge over the River Kwai. As it's not Ricketts and the other music is Malcolm Arnold - Are we now possibly looking for Rivers?
Is the breakfast - apple - anything to do with the Beatles?
Obviously birds sit on boughs but why should they be sad?

[Norfolk Born]

Would an 'elping of Alpen help?

[Nick Armstrong]

Would an 'elping of Alpen help?

Don't milk it

[vinteuil]

... if it's "Breakfast" and an R - well, I'm just amazed it's not Rodeo