Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

Sinbad landed on a desert island. A long way from O

Oh no it isn't!

Is it?

[subcontrabass]

Sinbad landed on a desert island. A long way from O

Oh no it isn't!

Is it?

No, this was an Englishman.

[Northender]

There's the answer!
Where?
BEHIND YOU!
I can't see it!
(My reference to the 'oick Whittington' wasn't intended to be a serious attempt at an answer, so I'm unable to be of further assistance ce soir).

[subcontrabass]

There's the answer!
Where?
BEHIND YOU!
I can't see it!
(My reference to the 'oick Whittington' wasn't intended to be a serious attempt at an answer, so I'm unable to be of further assistance ce soir).

So far we seem to have had Whittington and Robinson Crusoe. Add a French fiddler and see what you can find.

[Flay]

I'll sleep on it. Goodnight.

Perhaps the mercian morning call will solve it

[Angle]

It's that guy who was born in Cologne and wrote Robinson Crusoé and eighty-eight other operettas.

I would go further but I cannot linger

[Flay]

I would go further but I cannot linger

A bite from another Angle! Please linger longer to help with the fishing

[Flay]

We often bark up the wrong tree.

I would go further but I cannot linger

[cloughie]

A bite from another Angle! Please linger longer to help with the fishing

Seems a bit obtuse, but sounds to me like a dog that frequently does!

[vinteuil]

Seems a bit obtuse, but sounds to me like a dog that frequently does!

... there seems to be an open stream of teasing replies - with no one prepared to plunge in.

I too wd go further, but cannot linger...

[Nick Armstrong]

It's that guy who was born in Cologne and wrote Robinson Crusoé and eighty-eight other operettas.

I would go further but I cannot linger

Angle! You have been missed!!

[Nick Armstrong]

This is the Angle Tribute response:

Offenbach operettas:

Le Violineux about a village fiddler
Robinson Crusoé
Whittington (also performed as "Le chat du diable")

[Northender]

Dear Santa
Pleeze send me a spair or bigger brane for Xmas cos the one Ive got is filling up with reelly interesting stuff that I keep lerning since joining the AA.
(Good question, that last one!)

[subcontrabass]

This is the Angle Tribute response:

Offenbach operettas:

Le Violineux about a village fiddler
Robinson Crusoé
Whittington (also performed as "Le chat du diable")

At last someone has stopped fiddling around. For the record the reference in the original question to an island in connection with Whittington refers to a substantial interlude set on a south seas island where the cat has the heroic role of clearing all the rats from the island.

Now that people have stopped taking the p*** with this question it seems to be over to Caliban to move us on to a P question.

[Nick Armstrong]

the reference in the original question to an island in connection with Whittington refers to a substantial interlude set on a south seas island where the cat has the heroic role of clearing all the rats from the island.

You tease, impress and slightly concern us with your offenbachian sagesse, monsieur...

I shall devise a P.