Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

Careful, Cloughie: you might end up lumbered with the X!

No chance - I'm no goal poacher.

[rubbernecker]

Thank you all for your concern for my well-being. Mrs R is awake and calm has now been restored in Rubbers Mansions. Since you are all too coy to step up to the plate to drink from the chalice and grasp that X by the goolies, I have an X prepared. Yes, that's X as in WeXford. There, I've poached it myself

[rubbernecker]

Without further ado then:

What X connects
- a song penned four years before the composer's death but not aired until 150 years after his birth;
- the formulation of a strategy for Kennedy;
- an intoxicant identified, but not taken, by Verlaine?

[Flay]

Without further ado then:

What X connects
- a song penned four years before the composer's death but not aired until 150 years after his birth;
- the formulation of a strategy for Kennedy;
- an intoxicant identified, but not taken, by Verlaine?

MDMA perhaps?

[rubbernecker]

MDMA perhaps?

Oh, you are good. Explanation for the less mentally blessed?

[Flay]

Oh, you are good. Explanation for the less mentally blessed?

I gave my heart unto my love: Elgar - XTC, his last song
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC refers to JFK; the Bay of Pigs I think is what you are after.
MDMA = ecstasy. I guess Verlaine must have known about it. Don't know.. But foretold in Clair de Lune: "The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy"

[rubbernecker]

I gave my heart unto my love: Elgar - XTC, his last song
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC refers to JFK; the Bay of Pigs I think is what you are after.
MDMA = ecstasy. I guess Verlaine must have known about it. Don't know.. But foretold in Clair de Lune: "The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy"

Right band, but not so obscure. I was thinking of the fiddler rather than the President...

[Flay]

Right band, but not so obscure. I was thinking of the fiddler rather than the President...

Sorry, you've got me there, no idea...

[rubbernecker]

Sorry, you've got me there, no idea...

Er... their greatest hit?

[Anna]

Er... their greatest hit?

Oh, Making Plans for Nigel (Kennedy?)

[Flay]

Er... their greatest hit?

Making plans for Nigel <doh>

[Flay]

Snap!

[rubbernecker]

Hurrah!

XTC by Elgar, Making Plans for Nigel by XTC, and the Verlaine reference was actually 'C'est L'extase' (set by Debussy and Faure). Ecstasy, XTC, HDMA, call it what you will, it comes in the form of a little white pill. I'm sure if it had been around in Verlaine's day he would have taken it along with the absinthe and the opium

Y, Z or A for Flay

[Flay]

Three Ys (first names)

The first I hope will get the right notes in the right order tonight
The second made a twelve-stringed bipolar instrument
James would not wish the third to handle his flute.

[Flay]

Three Ys (first names)

James would not wish the third to handle his flute.

Oh boogerboogerboogerboogerboogerboogerboogerbooger.. .. OK, the Y is silent in the third I really haven't woken up today. Mrs Flay says that I snore, but I know she's wrong because I never hear it. Perhaps I am getting OSA?