Alphabet associations - I

[rubbernecker]

No squibs round here squire - I am but a stone's throw from the Jubilee & Metropolitan lines

Why were we led to believe you were from Walthamstow*, then?

(* a 'god-forsaken part of North London')

[Tapiola]

Have been pondering this T since about 9.45 this morning and can't get a way in.

- Rather like the conference I have currently been helping to organise (and which has partially explained my enforced absence from this esteemed thread) in a major continental fleshpot and my concomitant frustration in failing to secure invitation thereto.

- Rather like repeated attempts to secure online access (and which has partially explained my enforced absence from this esteemed thread) during a period of Advanced Level/Facebook revision for The Teenager.

Greetings to all!

[rubbernecker]

Have been pondering this T since about 9.45 this morning and can't get a way in.

It's tight, innit?

Greetings to all!

Welcome back, Taps. You're safer here than in those fleshpots

[Angle]

It is almost 12 hours since I first looked at T and have made no progress.

Is the T musical? Which of the elements, if any, are musical? Am I not paying attention?

[Tapiola]

You're safer here than in those fleshpots

Cheaper too...

Or so I have heard.

[amateur51]

Why were we led to believe you were from Walthamstow*, then?

(* a 'god-forsaken part of North London')

I'm not responsible for m'learned friend Caliban's more fluorescent flights of geographical fancy, now am I?

Tis Willesden Green here, heavy on the Willesden, light on the Green, and just round the corner from Central Brent Mosque, so not that god-foresken, issit

[vinteuil]

It is almost 12 hours since I first looked at T and have made no progress.

Is the T musical? Which of the elements, if any, are musical? Am I not paying attention?

... the T not musical; the three elements are.

Our fellow-boarder Mandryka surely knows Matteo... .

I'm orf to bed - - more clues tomorrow if needed...

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not responsible for m'learned friend Caliban's more fluorescent flights of geographical fancy, now am I?

Tis Willesden Green here, heavy on the Willesden, light on the Green, and just round the corner from Central Brent Mosque, so not that god-foresken, issit

Evening all. I'm in the same boat as Taps, I have only been allowed brief visits here by the rather hectic rhythm of this week And in that time, I too have failed to penetrate "T".

Monsieur l'Amateur, I have never led anyone to believe that where you lived was anything but a mecca for the faithful, nor that it was anywhere other than the upper reaches of the Harrow Road. Where on earth Rubbers got the Walthamstow idea from ( "northern"?? and anyway could your header be clearer, Ammy??) is beyond me unless there is some recherché little private witticism that has escaped me.

I'm going to be only an occasional bird of passage here this week I fear. The 7am call on Saturday really upset the carte à pommes of Caliban's nocturnal constitution... and I have to meet a client for breakfast somewhere at 7.30am this Friday

However cordial whatsits all round. No sign of our dear Ofcachap?

[Tapiola]

This T is beyond fiendish, but I am going to hazard a guess then retire for the night:

Trigonometry.



EDIT: Matteo Ricci brought trig to China; Ptolemy was an early exponent (he was known as Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare), and...erm...Hollingsworth contains four letters which spell the word "trig".

I'll get me nightcap...

[Angle]

Now up a tree in Barking Creek. Good night, all. Sweet dreams

[mercia]

Our fellow-boarder Mandryka surely knows Matteo

Matteo and Mandryka are both characters in Strauss's Arabella

[vinteuil]

Matteo and Mandryka are both characters in Strauss's Arabella

... getting there! And Matteo's partner (the one he ends up with) in Arabella is??

[mercia]

the one he ends up with

Zdenka?

[vinteuil]

... so we have:

1.) Zdenka/Zdenko in Strauss's Arabella
2.) Handel's eponymous hero Giulio Cesare
3.) perhaps Robert Hollingworth's take on Giovanni Croce...

[Tapiola]

Trouser role/travesti?