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TRAINING: Monday 15th August 2022

Kev
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2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Given the context was about the coffee cart, I'm a bit disappointed you didn't include expresso love in your post somewhere.

Is expresso love a euphemism for a quickie? 

 

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    1 hour ago, ManDee said:

    Is expresso love a euphemism for a quickie? 

     

    Is that what the masters and mistresses of the universe (executives) get up to?

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    13 minutes ago, ManDee said:

    Is expresso love a euphemism for a quickie? 

     

    Maybe. For those that don't know, Expresso Love is a 30-year old Dire Straits song. Music lyrics in the early 1990s were probably more subtle with their references to that particular physical activity than the music of today. (Mind you, not as appalling as the Starland Vocal Band's nearly 50-year old "Afternoon Delight"). I've always thought Expresso Love was blending two themes - appreciation for a woman with a love for coffee ("tastes just like a peach", "with the honeysuckle musk" and "I don't want no sugar in it"* are all, in my view, references to coffee).

     

    NB: *Demonstone - please direct your complaints about the double negative to Mark Knopfler.

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    3 hours ago, binman said:

    Sorry Kev, I was making a silly joke - a play on words from that stupid dire straits song combiing your comment you don't like something for nothing  and radomly working in free kicks

    As in 'money for nothing and your kicks for free'

    Safe to say, quite a stretch.

    But I agree with you about free kicks btw. 

    Except it's chicks for free....have you been singing Alex the Seal whenever our lips are sealed comes on for 40 years too Bin??

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    51 minutes ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

    Except it's chicks for free....have you been singing Alex the Seal whenever our lips are sealed comes on for 40 years too Bin??

    Oh yes, so it is.

    My joke was a total bust from start to finish!

    Chicks for free?

    The 80s were certainly another time.

    Can't imagine a major record label would be putting out police's Don't stand so close to me in 2022. 

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    Or Ringo Starr’s “You’re sixteen (you’re beautiful and you’re mine)”

    😳

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    8 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Or Ringo Starr’s “You’re sixteen (you’re beautiful and you’re mine)”

    😳

    Hey he might have written that at the age of 12 to 17 WC.  At least i hope so!

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    1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I've always thought Expresso Love was blending two themes - appreciation for a woman with a love for coffee ("tastes just like a peach", "with the honeysuckle musk" and "I don't want no sugar in it"* are all, in my view, references to coffee).

    NB: *Demonstone - please direct your complaints about the double negative to Mark Knopfler.

    100% about the coffee.  The Stones also pioneered the coffee analogy into rock & roll with their very raw... "Brown Sugar" 

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    18 minutes ago, binman said:

    My joke was a total bust from start to finish!

    "Can't get no satisfaction", but don't "sell your body to the night", wait until, "touced her perfect body with your mind", and then "one more cup of coffee for the road"

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    1 hour ago, Demon Dynasty said:

    Hey he might have written that at the age of 12 to 17 WC.  At least i hope so!

    I don’t know how old he was when he wrote it but he was 33 when it was released. Twice the age you’d hope for him to have been. Any way you cut it, that’s a big bunch of wrong. 😁

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    5 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    I don’t know how old he was when he wrote it but he was 33 when it was released. Twice the age you’d hope for him to have been. Any way you cut it, that’s a big bunch of wrong. 😁

    The Beatles opened their Melbourne concert at Festival Hall in 1964 with "I Saw Her Standing There" which starts with the lines, "Well, she was just seventeen, you know what I mean". 

    Times have changed. 

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    1 hour ago, Demon Dynasty said:

    The Stones also pioneered the coffee analogy into rock & roll with their very raw... "Brown Sugar" 

    "Brown Sugar" was definitely NOT about coffee! 

    It's also not the original working title of the song which I wouldn't dare post on a family forum like Demonland.

    They no longer play the song in concerts given the belated backlash to the lyrical content.

    Ripping tune all the same and one of their all time best tracks.

     

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    Back on topic (Dire Straits) - this was posted here in December 2020 after it was announced that Josh Mahoney was going to Essendon and that Mark Williams had been hired as an assistant at Melbourne.

    "I know we've been in dire straits, but I didn't expect to lose Mahoney for nothing and get Chocs for free."

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    7 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    "Brown Sugar" was definitely NOT about coffee! 

    It's also not the original working title of the song which I wouldn't dare post on a family forum like Demonland.

    They no longer play the song in concerts given the belated backlash to the lyrical content.

    Ripping tune all the same and one of their all time best tracks.

     

    I laughed at the thought, then googled. They ARE still performing!!!  60th anniversary tour this year. 

    I'll never bag Geelong again!  

    Oh, who am I kidding  😈

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    8 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    "Brown Sugar" was definitely NOT about coffee! 

    Will Ferrell Anchorman GIF

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    9 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    I don’t know how old he was when he wrote it but he was 33 when it was released. Twice the age you’d hope for him to have been. Any way you cut it, that’s a big bunch of wrong. 😁

    Ringo didn’t write it… it’s written by the Sherman brothers and was originally recorded by, I think, Johnny Burnette; although lyrically it’s probably something more suited to Jerry Lee Lewis.

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    17 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    The Beatles opened their Melbourne concert at Festival Hall in 1964 with "I Saw Her Standing There" which starts with the lines, "Well, she was just seventeen, you know what I mean". 

    Times have changed. 

    Well, they weren't long 17 themselves in 1964

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    16 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    Back on topic (Dire Straits) - this was posted here in December 2020 after it was announced that Josh Mahoney was going to Essendon and that Mark Williams had been hired as an assistant at Melbourne.

    "I know we've been in dire straits, but I didn't expect to lose Mahoney for nothing and get Chocs for free."

    Sin bin for you.

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    2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    threads often go off topic

    Well post 1, opening line mentionned the Coffee Truck.  I rest my case.  Say no more.

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    On 8/17/2022 at 11:51 AM, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Maybe. For those that don't know, Expresso Love is a 30-year old Dire Straits song. Music lyrics in the early 1990s were probably more subtle with their references to that particular physical activity than the music of today. (Mind you, not as appalling as the Starland Vocal Band's nearly 50-year old "Afternoon Delight"). I've always thought Expresso Love was blending two themes - appreciation for a woman with a love for coffee ("tastes just like a peach", "with the honeysuckle musk" and "I don't want no sugar in it"* are all, in my view, references to coffee).

     

    NB: *Demonstone - please direct your complaints about the double negative to Mark Knopfler.

    God I loved that song when we all balanced and I walked home at 3.30 pm

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