Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Your interpretation leads you astray, Lestrade. You are being too clever, not something of which I have had occasion to accuse you before

[slips out of character] For 'motorways', include autobahnen and other local variants. For Western Europe include the entire EU and probably beyond

Yes but why not A roads, 'routes départmentales' etc...?

Got my Saturday morning brain in, Sherley... Maybe Watson has some ideas in the meantime... ?

[amateur51]

Yes but why not A roads, 'routes départmentales' etc...?

Got my Saturday morning brain in, Sherley... Maybe Watson has some ideas in the meantime... ?

Why indeed, Lestrade, why indeed?

What sort of vehicles are found rarely, if at all, on such thoroughfares?

[vinteuil]

What sort of vehicles are found rarely, if at all, on such thoroughfares?

Well, the continent's answer to Eddie Stobart - Norbert Dentressangle....

And Norbert Brainin a quarter of the Amadeus Qtt

[antongould]

and the writer of the music for Lili Marleen?

[amateur51]

Well, the continent's answer to Eddie Stobart - Norbert Dentressangle....

And Norbert Brainin a quarter of the Amadeus Qtt

Fabuloso, vints!

[amateur51]

and the writer of the music for Lili Marleen?

... Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze

Well found anton

An O from vints, I reckons

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You'll get a slap, fhg, you'll get a slap!!

Promises, promises!

By the way I don't understand the bangles - classical connection...

Eternal Flame (a hit single by the popular beat-combo The Bangles, m'lud) isn't too far off the "Eternal Light" of Lux Aeterna? Or is it? My Latin ever struggled to reach the mediocre!

[vinteuil]

...
An O from vints, I reckons

here's an O -

Which 14th century English gent ultimately acquired his greatest fame in the last works of a German and an Italian?

[amateur51]

here's an O -

Which 14th century English gent ultimately acquired his greatest fame in the last works of a German and an Italian?

Would that be the chap called originally by Shakespeare John Oldcastle but latterly Falstaff, which is the title of the last opera by Verdi and who appears in the final opera of Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor?

[vinteuil]

my dear Ammy!

ping!! pong!!!

less than five minutes - full marks for swiftness and completeness...

so, are you prepared for a P already???

[amateur51]

my dear Ammy!

ping!! pong!!!

less than five minutes - full marks for swiftness and completeness...

so, are you prepared for a P already???

At my age, vints, I'm always prepared for a P - which reminds me that dear Bob Holness died the other day - I must do an obit in the relevant place

What musical P connects an access facility over water, an avian beastie and a musical group founded by the namesake of a victim of anti-Jewish prejudice

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, the continent's answer to Eddie Stobart - Norbert Dentressangle....

And Norbert Brainin a quarter of the Amadeus Qtt

Damn! He's good, that Watson, ain't he Sherley?

You two seem to have got all this sewn up so while you mind your Ps and Qs, I'm orf back to the Yard for some lunch

[amateur51]

Damn! He's good, that Watson, ain't he Sherley?

You two seem to have got all this sewn up so while you mind your Ps and Qs, I'm orf back to the Yard for some lunch

Is that Bleeding Heart Yard (let my stalkers complain about THAT one ) or the trendy gay bar in Soho, Calibs?

[mercia]

an access facility over water

would that be a wartime "access facility" ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Is that Bleeding Heart Yard (let my stalkers complain about THAT one ) or the trendy gay bar in Soho, Calibs?

Well I was continuing your Lestrade metaphor and imagining a pie and porter at Scotland Yard, but for late luncheon on a winter Saturday, I suspect Bleeding Heart Yard is the better of the two options you propose! Perhaps at any time!

Haven't been to BHY for a year or so, good thought! Nice place in the winter, genuinely Dickensian (Little Dorrit) and fine nosebag