Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Like watching tennis, is this. Enjoying it... Great solving skills on display from both Mercia and Rubbers.

As I can only pop in for 5 mins here and there, all I can do is spectate - until someone sets one I know off the cuff!

Maybe Mercia can apply some topspin to "E" and have Rubbers wrongfooted and rolling in the dust...

[Anna]

mercia really is on top form today and rubbers, I thought your last question was quite brilliant (not that I had a clue of course)

It has been very quiet here today, wonder where Angle is? Taps is packing up for his hols and poor old Caliban, left in charge of the shop for the day is probably wrestling with some Torts!!

[mercia]

E

- an Evertonian critic
- a Helvetian composer of Lincoln County
- an argumentative Helvetian conductor
- the first to make use of a "heavenly" instrument
- a terminus foundling

[mercia]

have Rubbers wrongfooted

no chance !!!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

mercia really is on top form today and rubbers, I thought your last question was quite brilliant (not that I had a clue of course)

It has been very quiet here today, wonder where Angle is? Taps is packing up for his hols and poor old Caliban, left in charge of the shop for the day is probably wrestling with some Torts!!

Eliminating hardcore porn from a social networking site this afternoon, in fact...

[vinteuil]

#4619 you cannot be Serious...

[mercia]

#4619 you cannot be Serious...

sorry, John McEnroe is not the answer

[vinteuil]

[rubbernecker]

Eliminating hardcore porn from a social networking site this afternoon, in fact...

'Wrestling with torts' wasn't too wide of the mark, then

[Anna]

Eliminating hardcore porn from a social networking site this afternoon, in fact...

I've told you before to be careful with who you invite to be your Facebook friends!!

Edit: Actually, that must be a pretty nasty job to have to do.

Oh, further edit for all you Corrie fans. Michelle Collins (ex East Enders) is to be the new Landlady of the Rovers!! So, will she be Cockney or affect a Salford accent?

[Nick Armstrong]

E

- an Evertonian critic
- a Helvetian composer of Lincoln County
- an argumentative Helvetian conductor
- the first to make use of a "heavenly" instrument
- a terminus foundling

At the risk of spoiling the Rubbers-Mercia contest:

Ernest

Detail from brain pending time to consult google:

- Newman
- Bloch
- Ansermet
- ???
- Ernest found in [*cue Edith Evans voice*] "a railway station" in Wilde's play

[rubbernecker]

E

- an Evertonian critic
- a Helvetian composer of Lincoln County
- an argumentative Helvetian conductor
- the first to make use of a "heavenly" instrument
- a terminus foundling

Ernest Newman
Ernest Bloch, lived in Lincoln County, Oregon
Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Chausson, first composer to use the Celesta
Ernest Worthing, found in a handbag at Victoria

EDIT: Ah, pipped by Caliban just as I was putting the finishing touches to it. I'm sure you had ALL the references, o gruesome one...

[Nick Armstrong]

I've told you before to be careful with who you invite to be your Facebook friends!!

Edit: Actually, that must be a pretty nasty job to have to do.

It's rather unpleasant for the individual concerned... and it isn't Facebook in fact

[Nick Armstrong]

Ernest Newman
Ernest Bloch, lived in Lincoln County, Oregon
Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Chausson, first composer to use the Celesta
Ernest Worthing, found in a handbag at Victoria

EDIT: Ah, pipped by Caliban just as I was putting the finishing touches to it. I'm sure you had ALL the references, o gruesome one...

Happy to hand it to you Lycraknickers, as I won't be able to set an F for a few hours. Anyway you got all 5 - to my chagrin having spent a VERY happy half-hour in the company of Monsieur Chausson this week - his 'Concert for violin etc' at the Wigmore was tremendous.

Sad figure, in fact. Very self-doubting. Wrote at the end of the ms. of the 'Concert': "Encore une oeuvre ratée" ("Another useless work"). Can't have helped that the translated equivalent of his name is "Ernest Slipper" (when I mentioned him to a French person this week, who knew nothing about music, they fell about laughing just at the silly name)

[rubbernecker]

EDIT: Ah, pipped by Caliban just as I was putting the finishing touches to it. I'm sure you had ALL the references, o gruesome one...

Oh, no you hadn't by the looks of it. You see, I waited till I had a full house rather than leaping in in unsportsmanly fashion with a half-baked answer. But I can see how desperate you were to break the duopoly