Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

What R links

18 letters in 1837
The centre of united
2 early 21C operas "scripted" by Willie the Shake

[antongould]

Sorry 2 are musical and zero have, to me at least, obvious Corrie links! Going out for a while Lady G informs me!

[vinteuil]

This is all very well - but you are not going to claim that any of these characters are up there with Albert Tatlock - Minnie Caldwell - Ena Sharples - Annie Walker....

The one recent glory was that "I say, I say" character [Fred: Elliot] - but - really - you can't defend yourselves against the charge that Everything Changes and Everything Gets Worse....

... and how cd I forget Hilda and Stan Ogden...

[Anna]

When I googled the first clue Wiki came up with National Archives and 18 letters from a firm of Solicitors in 1837!! I didn't realise Carter Ruck were so long established.

I suspect the second element refers to some footballer rather than the centre of the UK?

[mercia]

I suppose you could say the centre of united is either "it" or "nite"

Thomas Ades The Tempest 2004

[Anna]

I suppose you could say the centre of united is either "it" or "nite"

Thomas Ades The Tempest 2004

Yes indeed mercia. But were is the R wot we is looking for? I am baffled and away to the kitchen I think.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm baffled too!

In the meantime: Amateur51 you have caused Caliban (and Caliban père to whom I sent your earlier Dawson-Barraclough link) to guffaw and shake with laughter something rotten this bank holiday!! Adjacent to your clip was this absolute classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foInK...eature=related

"Whoever it was, he wasn't short of clay"

[mercia]

But were is the R wot we is looking for?

well, if I knew that ................

[Anna]

well, if I knew that ................

You would post the right answer!!

[antongould]

When I googled the first clue Wiki came up with National Archives and 18 letters from a firm of Solicitors in 1837!! I didn't realise Carter Ruck were so long established.

I suspect the second element refers to some footballer rather than the centre of the UK?

......you could well be Correct on the second element!

[Anna]

......you could well be Correct on the second element!

Oh Blimey! Footballers, strange creatures constantly bursting into tears and blearing their mascara and cheating on their WAGS, I know nothing about them. Whereas, Rugby ..........

[antongould]

........if last evening you had wandered away from Corrie - well not too far away from Corrie come to think!

[mercia]

Rooney Lee was born in 1837, that's interesting isn't it?

[vinteuil]

... o, come now, if we're expected to know anything about footie - well, I'm orff....

[antongould]

....not so much footie as TV drama......