Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

A quick U linking a happy pair, holy beams and the heavenly host

[antongould]

A quick U linking a happy pair, holy beams and the heavenly host

.....might be quick to you Rumpole ....see you in 2015....

[Nick Armstrong]

.....might be quick to you Rumpole ....see you in 2015....

Touché, o nocturnal one... perhaps I was indeed using "quick" in the gouldian sense .... although I did wonder if some deft googling might create an opportunity for completion!

[antongould]

Touché, o nocturnal one... perhaps I was indeed using "quick" in the gouldian sense .... although I did wonder if some deft googling might create an opportunity for completion!

Everything leads me to Unle Joe's Creation....

[Nick Armstrong]

Everything leads me to Unle Joe's Creation....

There you are you see! You may have to forgo resting on the seventh day! Spit the 'slaw, Tone

A propos: cf the Horlicks I'm about to post on the TTN thread. It definitely AIN'T the Creation on now!

[antongould]

There you are you see! You may have to forgo resting on the seventh day! Spit the 'slaw, Tone

A propos: cf the Horlicks I'm about to post on the TTN thread. It definitely AIN'T the Creation on now!

So are we saying the answer is Uncle?

If so my coleslaw will have to be easily the poorest ever i.e. I put the 3 elements into Google and when I got past the adverts the page was awash with Uncle Joe?


Yours
Anton (lost)

[Nick Armstrong]

So are we saying the answer is Uncle?

If so my coleslaw will have to be easily the poorest ever i.e. I put the 3 elements into Google and when I got past the adverts the page was awash with Uncle Joe?


Yours
Anton (lost)

No.... look into the Creation more deeply. Who are the participants?

[antongould]

There's your Uriel .........

[Nick Armstrong]

There's your Uriel .........

So what might the three references be?

......

Shall I dish up so anton can moVe on?

Among Uriel's recitatives/arias in The Creation are:

a happy pair - No. 33. O glücklich Paar, und glücklich immerfort (O happy pair, and ever happy henceforth)

holy beams - No. 2. Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle (Now vanished by the holy beams)

the heavenly host - No. 9. Und die himmlischen Heerscharen verkündigten (And the Heavenly host proclaimed the third day)

[antongould]

I may be some time as my hectic weekend continues but Ferney's may be over, and he, or indeed anyone else, can Vault in.....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I may be some time as my hectic weekend continues but Ferney's may be over, and he, or indeed anyone else, can Vault in.....

Fair dos. (? "Fair does"? "Fair do's"??? "Fair di"?!)

How about:

A V to link Semiramide, Dido, and Artaserse (but not, disappointingly, La Gioconda).

[antongould]

Fair dos. (? "Fair does"? "Fair do's"??? "Fair di"?!)

How about:

A V to link Semiramide, Dido and Artaserse, but not, disappointingly, La Gioconda.

Could I produce such a class question? - Verily NO

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Verily NO

Is the correct answer.

- not really

[vinteuil]

Fair dos. (? "Fair does"? "Fair do's"??? "Fair di"?!)

How about:

A V to link Semiramide, Dido and Artaserse, but not, disappointingly, La Gioconda.

... is this {Semiramide} & {Dido} & {Artaserse}

or

{Semiramide} & {Dido-and-Artaserse}

??


[Now you see the point of the Oxford comma... ]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... is this {Semiramide} & {Dido} & {Artaserse}

or

{Semiramide} & {Dido-and-Artaserse}

??


[Now you see the point of the Oxford comma... ]

... and I usually use it - I got into the habit when I wanted to annoy Miss Kirkstall, my English Teacher; a Cambridge graduate (ours was a charity school) - but lapsed here.

"Dido, Artaserse, and Semiramide." (The order of the names isn't significant.)