Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Judge Holden's rifle

something to do with (I'm not sure how) "et in Arcadia ego"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

something to do with (I'm not sure how) "et in Arcadia ego"

... now we're cooking with gas! (The new Music ensemble prefers microwaves.)

[mercia]

nosey hound

ah yes, of course Mr Dogg known to his friends as Snoop <doh>

I think we have some inflated egos going on here

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Anna]

think we have some inflated egos going on here

Oh <Enlightenment Suddenly Dawns emoticon> and the Italian Ensemble could be Alter Ego? Gosh, Ferny is a clever little soul! Not as clever as ower mercia though who cracked it!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh <Enlightenment Suddenly Dawns emoticon> and the Italian Ensemble could be Alter Ego?

Gosh, Ferny is Not as clever as ower mercia though who cracked it!

His round, I think!

[mercia]

Gosh, Ferny is a clever little soul!

isn't he though

[mercia]

I didn't quite get to grips with the Judge - is he a comic book character? and what's with the gun?

[Anna]

isn't he though

I got as far as the inscription on the rifle, I would never have got Snoop Dogg (for nosy hound I was looking for a bloodhound or a famous sniffer dog!)
So we look forward to a Jolly J from mercia!

I didn't quite get to grips with the Judge - is he a comic book character? and what's with the gun?

Never heard of that character either.
That puzzle puts my feeble Harold to shame in its complexity!

[Nick Armstrong]

What? How? Who? Where? Why? What is the I, and how do the clues work?

I have less understanding of this puzzle than of any on AA hitherto...

[Anna]

What? How? Who? Where? Why? What is the I, and how do the clues work?

I have less understanding of this puzzle than any on AA hitherto...

Well Duckie, as far as I understand it the clue is in Alter Ego .......... which results in ........... Oh come on, keep up at the back ......... Basic Freud, innit!

[Nick Armstrong]

Well Duckie, as far as I understand it the clue is in Alter Ego .......... which results in ........... Oh come on, keep up at the back ......... Basic Freud, innit!

Id would satisfy the I criterion, not Ego... although it means I... Am I being very dense?

[mercia]

What is the I

I assume I is the I ego = I

oh dear, are we going to have a linguistic argument

I'm out of my depth

[Anna]

Id would satisfy the I criterion, not Ego... although it means I... Am I being very dense?

Well, if you are being dense then so am I, as I assumed the answer was Id !!!!!!!!! We therefor await Ferny's judgement!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I cheated a little, Cali.

Ego Tripping is a 2008 Album by rapper, Snoop Dog (= nosey hound)
Alter Ego is the Italian New Music ensemble (one of whose collaboration projects with a group of composers was called "Microwaves")
Judge Holden is a character Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian - a superb work of literature that also happens to be a "Western". Said Judge calls his rifle "Et in Arcadia Ego" with some degree of irony: the world of the novel is far from arcadian, but the rifle represents Death, anyway.

So, by your leave: a trio of "Ego"s that is the I of the puzzle.