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Not trying to impress, young man, just responding to a question from Red and Bluebeard, by the sounds of it, the only other chap of culture on this site. ( Demonland is fast becoming Boganville! I am attempting to lead you bogans to the path of culture and beauty. )

It was written in the late 1920's. It's a Pagan Mass, if you like, it's full of passion and joy in life. It's exuberant like Verdi's Requiem is at times, nothing like Bach except in its sense of exhilaration, and, thankfully, nothing like Mahler's 8 which, to my ears is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The only decent music in it is the orchestral prelude to the Second Part. No, Janacek is more down to earth and passionate. There's really no-one to compare him to, you know. I suggest - if you have Spotify - to listen to it, or, there are performances on You Tube.

Maybe you'll be lucky enough to sing Janacek's Glagolitic Mass one day...

I'd rather go chopin...

Mahler Schmahler.

Ah, so you're a chorister, yes, no? Anyway, give me Bruckner any day. Or Bach, or Janacek. Now there vass a composer...

I hate Mahler 2: it's lightning hitting a scheissenhaus, the resurrection bit a regurgitation of Catholic mumbo jumbo. Give me number 7 and 9 any day. Or, Das Lied von der Erde.

No I’m not . You should have seen the sights at Casey yesterday. They could have come from Romsey I suppose. But they were frightening....

Resurrections only happen in Mahler Symphony number 2. You are such an uncultured hick, Moonshadow.

Medicinal intervention can help. Do you, by chance, have a sympathetic GP? Please don't shoot any more elephants and saw their horns. It is not kosher any more. Same with hippos. Settle down, Bitter, take a hobby, learn golf, learn Hungarian, learn how to cook your grandmother's favourite recipes. Meditate. Mindfulness. Eat less donuts. Read Dostoevsky. Get cultured. Ignore the Romsey riff raff. What more can I tell you.

Smoking bananas is so De Rigeur. Anyway, smoking is banned on public transport these days. They have CCTV cameras in every nook and cranny flat.

I am a lawyer. Can I help? My fees are nowhere like Robert Richter's, the great defender of the Catholic faith. just ask uncle George. The Vatican would be just about totally impecunious when he sends his Pell bill. Then again, Jesus saves, the Vatican is simply loaded due to his divine in financial interventions, a bottomless pit. Sorry I used the word bottom in relation to matters Sub Judice, as it were,

Get em all. Celebrate in style. I can tell you're' Epicurus's only sonne...'

For what this is worth. I've recently returned from a trip to the Hilltops/Young/Mudgee wine producing areas of NSW. In Mudgee I stayed at a Motel run by an ex WA dude and we had a conversation about AFL footy. ( AFL footy is not big in Mudgee.) It turned out he is the brother of a certain West Coast Eagle backman who played in the Worsfold era. One of the things he said was that the Whoosh was also called the Chemist. Yes, that was/is his profession. He then said West Coast players were using drugs in that era. Not all of them, just most of them. He claims it was a well-known 'fact'. He mentioned the usual suspects, the dead one and those still alive, including a surfing type who played a few games for the Demons in 1996. He also said drugs were and are rife in the AFL. He said Essendon's biggest problem was they were caught. For what it's worth...

You, like my dear wife, is obviously a Polack. I like the word 'doupas'. Brings back memories...

Lovely stuff, Nut.

I believe all of the above is perfectly plausible.. Do you by chance know what GAGF means? I heard another rumour that he was he copper who organised the boot camps...

W Who is the back pocket Jones? You surely mean Johnson...

I saw Hudson kick about 29 goals on him in the first half at Glenferrie Oval. If Barry Bourke hadn't come to his rescue by ruining Hudson's knee he would have kicked 60 for the game. Biffen was a better forward. He was toooo slooow and luuugubrious to be a defender against a skillful forward. Beside, these days you can't just thump players any more. In 1976 he kicked a lot of goals as a Full Forward. I loved watching him.

I recall Grigic and Cuthbertson played a good game once...

He was a reliable, dedicated and consistent performer. Give him his dues...

I grew up next to Deer park. It was mainly a land used to test ordinance and chemicals. That's why there has never been a great anybody from Deer park. Albion, where I was raised, now that's a different story...

50 years expired in 1967...

I'll take Sean Wight instead of Hughes, Wilson for Grinter, Woewodin for Healey and the way things are going, Oliver for Robertson - the latter two because there is already enough fire power to sink any defence in the history of the AFL. Leg speed and ball movement makes me lean towards Woe and Olllie.

The list is saturated enough already, enough already, I repeat, with blokes who can't kick to a target, unless, like Tyson, it's to an opposition, player with pinpoint bloody accuracy.