Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

I've just remembered the lady police officer who knocked around with Curly Watts for a time...she was definitely more than a bit tasty - quite arresting in fact (boom!boom!).

[Don Petter]

I seem to have sent this thread splintering in all directions.
I must try to get it back on track, so, quickly, here is the solution:

440

[At the RFH, the signal over the PA before the start of a concert and at the end of the interval, inviting the audience to take their seats, is an electronic ‘A’ at the concert pitch of 440Hz.]


And equally quickly, here is an absolutely conventional ‘A’:

Which A links a metalworker, a Frith painting and a Wells novel?

[vinteuil]

DFNLWA.

???

or is this part of the quiz? I know about the Dairy Farmers of Newfoundland and Labrador (DFNL) and the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) - have they merged?

[Tapiola]

Sorry guys, I will rejoin you once we hit "D" again, or thereabouts. Still thinking about Carla.

Looking for a smiley for "corrupted thoughts"...

[Norfolk Born]

???

or is this part of the quiz? I know about the Dairy Farmers of Newfoundland and Labrador (DFNL) and the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) - have they merged?

Too cryptic for you?

[Norfolk Born]

[QUOTE=Don Petter;25850]

440

[At the RFH, the signal over the PA before the start of a concert and at the end of the interval, inviting the audience to take their seats, is an electronic ‘A’ at the concert pitch of 440Hz.]

Any fool knows that - I had dismissed it as too obvious an answer and was trying to find something REALLY obscure.

[Don Petter]

440

[at the RFH, the signal over the PA before the start of a concert and at the end of the interval, inviting the audience to take their seats, is an electronic ‘A’ at the concert pitch of 440Hz.]

OFCACHAP:

Any fool knows that - i had dismissed it as too obvious an answer and was trying to find something really obscure.

Ah! I was afraid it might be too easy!

On to the real A, then, as above.

[Nick Armstrong]

any fool knows that - i had dismissed it as too obvious an answer and was trying to find something really obscure.

(I've been to the RFH times without number, and had no idea about the bongs... Ofca, off you and me go to the dunces' stools in the corner again! )

[Don Petter]

It was thought to be a very radical and modern touch when the RFH was opened in 1951. Festival of Britain and everything bright, new and beautiful, and all that.

[Norfolk Born]

As you say - on to the real A, then.
The answer is, of course, Adamson.
Actor Peter Adamson, who played wife-beater Len Fairclough, was briefly an apprentice artificer at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead before being accepted at RADA. After leaving the cast of Coronation Street, he moved to Surrey and became an enthusiastic racegoer. When interviewed for Thames TV's 'Afternoon With A Star Programme' in 1984, he was filmed in his lounge of his beautiful house just outside Epsom. One wall was graced by Frith's painting 'Derby Day'. Of his five daughters, the second was named Anne (some authorities drop the 'e') and the fourth Veronica.
AOB:
(1) DFNLWA = Department For Not Leaving Well Alone
(2) The answer to the alternative 'A' question was, of course, Appleyard (Keith Appleyard, and the Appleyards).
(3) I'm quite sorry that Kieran and Michelle seem to be parting - I though they were really good together.
Goodnight all!

[Tapiola]

As we are on to "B", OFCACHAP, may I wish you and all a Bonne nuit.

[Don Petter]

As we are on to "B", OFCACHAP, may I wish you and all a Bonne nuit.

Hold on! This thread seems to have been usurped by TV posts.


The main, musical, thread is waiting for an answer to:

Which A links a metalworker, a Frith painting and a Wells novel?

[Norfolk Born]

I just thought that it would make a nice change to have an answer that didn't involve a display of specialist knowledge of, let's say, musical nomenclature or the pitch of messages to the audience at the Royal Festival Hall. Unless, of course, one has to be musically trained, which I am not, rather than just a music lover, which I am, in order to have a chance of answering questions such as the recent 'X' and 'A'.

I have not claimed that my answer to your 'A' is correct in all respects.

It may not be correct in all particulars.

I may have made part of it up.

I may have made most of it up.

Indeed, the whole thing may have been a fabrication.

As regards the 'real' 'A' question - which Frith did you have in mind (my initial enquiries appear to have turned up three)?

[Norfolk Born]

I've been watching Andy Roddick being comprehensively dismantled in Melbourne. Once his serve starts to malfunction, he has nothing back on which to fall.
Thanks for the Betty Driver 'heads up'; I recorded Desert Island Discs while watching tennis, and will listen to it as I tuck into my bacon sarnie.
(It's young Simon I feel sorry for - he's going to end up on the psychiatrist's couch).

[Norfolk Born]

The main, musical, thread is waiting for an answer to:
Which A links a metalworker, a Frith painting and a Wells novel?

I haven't forgotten your question, DP, but simply can't 'get a handle on it', as they say. And it seems a pity to log on yet again, discover yet again that nobody has got the answer or attempted it for a while, and then log off again without a harmless bit of TV chat.