Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

Careful, anton; you might prove to be the man who knew too much!

Yes I'm the fool who seldom differs......

[Flay]

Yes I'm the fool who seldom differs......

Well your foolishness may well bear fruit. Arthur who?

[Flay]

Cimarosa didn't finish his last opera Artemisia.

We learn so much (useless) imformation on AA

[antongould]

Well your foolishness may well bear fruit. Arthur who?

Benjamin

Wrote an opera A Tale of Two Cities
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Storm Clouds Cantata
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Oboe Concerto on Themes of Cimarosa ........

[Flay]

Benjamin

Wrote an opera A Tale of Two Cities
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Storm Clouds Cantata
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Oboe Concerto on Themes of Cimarosa ........

Absolutely, Anton. I thought rhe oboe concerto was actually by Cimarosa until today!

Be my guest...

[antongould]

B to link

Life in a Cupboard
Ivanhoe and hopefully not too many
Red Herrings

[Nick Armstrong]

B to link

Life in a Cupboard
Ivanhoe and hopefully not too many
Red Herrings

Excellent! A Goulden B....

Last thought before retiring is that if there were only five of the above, we might be in the territory of Dorothy L. Sayers's mystery featuring the excellent Lord Peter Wimsey and his man Bunter...

... but I shall get no further this ay night...

[antongould]

Excellent! A Goulden B....

Last thought before retiring is that if there were only five of the above, we might be in the territory of Dorothy L. Sayers's mystery featuring the excellent Lord Peter Wimsey and his man Bunter...

... but I shall get no further this ay night...

Five is the number Rumpole but Wimsey rather than Bunter is your man

[mercia]

Wimsey rather than Bunter is your man

Wimsey went to Eton and Balliol. I wonder if that is relevant.

[antongould]

Wimsey went to Eton and Balliol. I wonder if that is relevant.

Oxford, unlike Cambridge, is always relevant......

[Nick Armstrong]

Oxford, unlike Cambridge, is always relevant......

What an extraordinary remark.

Not sure I want to play any more



Annoyingly I stared at the Wiki page over breakfast, and reflected on the Eton and Balliol thing without registering that it might be useful.... And now work has taken over...

[mercia]

[apparently people can get quite hot under the collar if one starts a sentence with so]


so the librettist of Sullivan's Ivanhoe was Balliol-educated Julian Sturgis, an American-born barrister and FA-cup medal winner

[antongould]

[apparently people can get quite hot under the collar if one starts a sentence with so]


so the librettist of Sullivan's Ivanhoe was Balliol-educated Julian Sturgis, an American-born barrister and FA-cup medal winner

Excellent as ever mercs so who went to the cupboard then?.......leads us to a gent we have had in our midst before!

[vinteuil]

Oxford, unlike Cambridge, is always relevant......

What an extraordinary remark.
Not sure I want to play any more

... take heart, brother Caliban - there are many on these Boards who take offence equally at "Oxford" or "Cambridge"!

[Nick Armstrong]

a gent

I suppose he went to Oxford then....