Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Am currently flying over the Pyrenees and might not be able to continue with AA much longer this week...

And we are descending into Palma so will lose the wifi.

Your commitment is already impressive and envy-inducing



Spot of winter sun? Luvverly

PS: Joseph Calleja, the tiny tenor chap? Or have you answered your own question with the Schmidt person? I'm lost like your WiFi

(...and I don't understand all that Eurovision banter either! Come to think of it, I haven't understood much on AA for quite a while ... must be the Christmas spirit... )

[hedgehog]

Am currently flying over the Pyrenees and might not be able to continue with AA much longer this week...


3/4 is not a time, is it? It's three legs out of four!!!

Dance of the Three Legged Elephants - Julian Joseph

Congratulations Flay!

[hedgehog]

Joseph Schmidt all 4'11" of him

Also correct - the last Joseph is perhaps the easiest, when a 'song' has a grander name and form.....

Will you be around to set a K or do we have a winter recess until the New Year?

[Nick Armstrong]

your own question

I hadn't even twigged it was twiggy err tiggy's question

Far too early for me, as anton will confirm.

Back to bed and stop pretending I'm up to this before breakfast...

[mercia]

so for the last one is Joseph the composer or the benevolent despot ?

a grand song ? is that a lieder or aria ? is it an opera about a despot named Joseph ? I don't think Stalin was benevolent, not that I can find any songs about him

[hedgehog]

so for the last one is Joseph the composer or the benevolent despot ?

a grand song ? is that a lieder or aria ? is it an opera about a despot named Joseph ? I don't think Stalin was benevolent, not that I can find any songs about him

It has to do with "song". Derived from the Italian word for singing, to sing. I'm not sure I can enlighten you much further who the despot is

[mercia]

I'm sure I'm missing the point but there is Beethoven's funeral cantata to Emperor Joseph II and Joseph Horovitz's cantata Captain Noah etc.

if you can't enlighten me I guess the despot is in the dark or anonymous ......... erm........ invisible ............erm.........I'm groping in the unenlightened darkness too

[hedgehog]

I'm sure I'm missing the point but there is Beethoven's funeral cantata to Emperor Joseph II

Is correct! Joseph II was a proponent of enlightened absolutism (an enlightened/benevolent despot) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_absolutism

Happy to wait until Flay returns, but if anyone has a K, feel free!

[mercia]

Joseph II was a proponent of enlightened absolutism (an enlightened/benevolent despot) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_absolutism

a-ha I see - this game sure is a hedgucation

[antongould]

a-ha I see - this game sure is a hedgucation

It is indeed mercs ......not Uncle Joe then, but even I was struggling with the benevolent bit.....but as mentioned I have been befuddled all day by Rumpole's early post....obviously just in from Stringfellow's....

[Flay]

Happy to wait until Flay returns, but if anyone has a K, feel free!

It William be a long wait útil Sunday. Am in Cortez D'Ingles no a Spanish iPad trying to spell checo me into Spanish. I nominate mercs. Running out of ti.....

[antongould]

It William be a long wait útil Sunday. Am in Cortez D'Ingles no a Spanish iPad trying to spell checo me into Spanish. I nominate mercs. Running out of ti.....

Well as Flay stepped in for me and mercs is occasionally a little shy

A Kwick K

The Jolly Roger
Dunblane Massacre
Wor DG

[mercia]

is Wor DG a Tyneside record label ?

[antongould]

is Wor DG a Tyneside record label ?

I think not .....go with the DG rather than the misleading Geordie add on...

[amateur51]

I think not .....go with the DG rather than the misleading Geordie add on...

Is DG a music label or Director-General?

Or neither?