THE BRITISH THREAD II

I think you've got to be British to get this one.

Should I explain it, or is it too soon?

(I will confess that the solution to this was not provided by me originally, but by my pal)

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Please do explain it.

It's rhyming slang. Brahms and Liszt, pissed. Pissed means drunk.

Did you get it, Izzy? Well done.

Britishness helps a lot. Brahms and Liszt, pissed or drunk, so an anagram of Schubert is suggested.
Cheers! can mean Thanks, or just ta.

Add TA to your anagram of Schubert, and you get bruschetta, or toast.

Fiendish, but logical.

I got it when provided with the answer.

And it is logical, but not fiendish, that any number of such puzzles might be thought up by those who get paid to think such things up in order to pass away the weary hours of those whose hours are less wearying if they use their brains trying to figure out what the silly ****** had in mind when sat at a desk spread with books of all types trying to find clues to the words he has already fitted into a pattern using moveable black squares to make it easier.

He might be getting a tenner off the tomato growers association for reminding Grauniad readers, I assume it the Grauniad, that they haven't had bruschetta for a long time. Or of Italian bread bakers. (Unit 69 . Solihull Ind. Estate. PRI CK5.)

It is so so complimentary to one's dinner party guests to offer them bruschetta rather than steak and kidney pudding, Hollands, double chips, double bread and butter and gravy with a mushy peas side salad.

There's a nice vignette of a crossword compiler in Micheal Frayn's Towards The End Of The Morning. A title redolent with menace and cynical drollery.

The objective of a compiler is to bring the reader's minds into congruence with his own. He works with Pavlov's conditioned response ideas where the reward is a suffusion of golden glowings from top to bottom at the contemplation of the intelligence the reader has proved him or her self to be blessed with by them solving the puzzle.

I do sugar lumps myself.

What about this then? Best goal of the season or what?

The guys in blue waved their arms in the air like girlys and seemed afraid to tackle him, maybe they were bribed by a gambling syndicate or something to let him through

You really are an absolute prick.

Ah memories! That player in red cutting through the enemy defence like a knife through butter reminds me when I did the same in a trial for Leicester City Football Club in 1969..
I hit the back of the net twice and our team of triallists went on to beat the other triallist team 4-2, so I went home like a hero to wait for the manager to come round with the sign-up papers.
I'm still waiting (sniffle)

All goals are of equal value izzy. What was the No.8 doing?

Your team is surprising us all.

I'm not going to assert that Romeo isn't a prick but I must admit that when I see a goal like that I often wonder if the two teams haven't had a little flutter on the result. It has to be a little one because the bookies start screaming "unusual betting patterns" if they get skinned.

Compared to the Rooney/van Persie match winning goal at the weekend it was nowhere.

Was it bollocks, they weren't talking about Rooney on match of the day.

The England match on Friday will be a bit different, England and Southampton rarely if ever meet.

I don't trust anything they say on MoD.

Money runs the PL. I hope you don't think the FA would allow Southampton to qualify for the CL.

I saw that goal and I was well impressed.

Thanks. Just three seasons ago both Lallana and Lambert were playing League 1 football, as was Southampton for that matter.

It is Roy of the Rovers stuff.