Alphabet associations - I

[rubbernecker]

"The distillery began selling it commercially in 1859 using hawkers on bicycles."

Hmmm...

I always wondered why when you get served Pimms it comes with strange green bits floating in your glass

[Tapiola]

Yes, very off-putting. If I want something to eat, I will eat.

Similarly, I do not understand the current craze for mojitas.

[Nick Armstrong]

Apologies for protracted absence, the lunch segue'd into a reception for another old confederate who has been formally made a QC today. I have enjoyed reading the banter, however. I can promise that not a drop of alcohol has passed my lips - merely 2 bottles of San Pellegrino, a latte and then a cup of tea with the cucumber sandwiches in Lincoln's Inn.

I tried to pre-empt the titters over 'cogitating on my bicycle' (along the lines of 'you clean it up yourself') but thought it was a little vulgar, and deleted it.

I have a 'P' in mind but have yet to formulate it. I must do a little work too

Please bear with me.

Amazing how much more pleasant the sunshine and soft breezes make everything.

[Tapiola]

[COLOR="blue"]I can promise that not a drop of alcohol hs passed my lips - merely 2 bottles of San Pellegrino, a latte and then a cup of tea with the cucumber sandwiches in Lincoln's Inn.

Guilty as charged, Your Honour.

[Tapiola]

Amazing how much more pleasant the sunshine and soft breezes make everything.

Think he's been on "the herb" as well, rubbers...

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry, my mind is full of four-letter monosyllabics at the moment...

Sadly, I happen to know the person with whom Caliban dines as she was a mutual colleague of ours some 20 years ago.

Even more sadly, I realise that it will be some time even after his return that Caliban will apply his alcohol-enfeebled mind to crafting a question. I therefore suggest we amuse ourselves more profitably elsewhere in the interim.

I thought you were otherwise engaged today anyway rubbers. Again, apologies for the hiatus.

P is about to surge forth.

[rubbernecker]

Think he's been on "the herb" as well, rubbers...

On the herb and on the kerb, that's how he was when we found him, poor love. But see how he has flourished. He hob nobs with QCs now!

[rubbernecker]

P is about to surge forth.

Just point it in the right direction, this time...

[Tapiola]

Laters, gentlemen.

[Nick Armstrong]

Here's P:


One P met sus scrofa, the second crocodylus acutus, and the third canis lupus, all three meetings being in works mingling music with fiction. Give the P word, and the who, where and what!

[Tapiola]

Peter?

Peter and the Wolf
Peter Pan, and the crocodile (tic toc) - Never smile at a crocodile
Peter and the Boar eludes me...

(I may be a while)

[rubbernecker]

Here's P:


One P met sus scrofa, the second crocodylus acutus, and the third canis lupus, all three meetings being in works mingling music with fiction. Give the P word, and the who, where and what!

Peter?

Peter Pan
Peter and the Wolf

EDIT: Snapped from the jaws by Taps. I can't get the boar either...

[vinteuil]

Peter Grimes - the "Boar's Head"...

[Nick Armstrong]

Peter is right (too easy! ) and I reckon it's a tie between Taps and Rubbers. Tie-breaker: first to get the remaining reference?

[vinteuil]

... you didn't like Peter Grimes???