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Daisy your imagination is far better than mine or perhaps you are just a man with more varied and higher tastes. As one gets older, I find myself occasionally regressing to youthful thoughts and desires. It can get me into trouble particularly when I ask the lovely continental lass in the organic shop I attend whether she can help with a bj. I need to make it clear that I am asking for a banana juice thus avoiding the deep scratches she left me down both cheeks!

and your initials bj stand for? No I suddenly understand, best left to ones imagination.

Love it Bub somes up my own view perfectly

Yes I know what you mean old friend. We somehow keep hoping that sport and sportsmen and women are clean. However, it has got to the stage where I view any exceptional result with suspicion. In any sport. If you go back in history individuals have been taking performance enhancing substances to aid performance. It's only the type of substance, and the highly organised and systemic nature of it that has changed. However, the history of athletes taking stuff goes back over 100 years. However, the magnitude of illegal usage has simply gone to another level. Australian and Australians are not exempt. That's why I have been careful about condemning EFC when clearly drug use has permeated Footy for a long time. It's just the lying and cheating by those that have been involved and the whole avoidance of culpability that has made me angry. A little like Lance. When you consider what all the other members of the peloton have taken over the years, the penalties for lance have been disproportionate in a sense. There were many others that took the same stuff for as long or longer than Lance who have not been punished or punished as severely. However, Lance lied, cheated and bullied all and sundry. Basically, I think all professional sport is a corrupt business in which there are so many people making a living who have reason to maintain their silence. I love my Demons and will to the day I die but I have no illusions about the AFL or the purity of the game. However, there is still a thrill to see them run out onto to the ground, watch in awe at some of the freaky skills and stand proudly with our fantastic tribe of supporters when the song is sung after a win. And that feeling is going to become more common. But God help me, if the club or any players get embroiled in performance enhancing substances I will walk away and never ever take out another membership. The lifelong love affair will be gone forever.

No Bitters that would be insulting to compare you with the Mad Hatter.

Bitters are you a creation of social media or the real deal? I like to think the latter. Funny when I typed in latter it came up with Katter!

It is not what I said but left unsaid Daisy, you know the iceberg!

bitters you are intelligent and clearly a man of interesting and varied tastes and behaviours but you do let yourself down by dropping your normally high moral standards that I would normally associate with others. Why do you do this? Some may think you have a personality disorder although I suspect you are tired at the end of a busy day and just enjoy an old fashioned stir by making outrageous comments that are often in bad taste and unbecoming of a MFC supporter. Of course I suspect that many turn to this page just to read your comments and blatant exhibitionism which encourages your perverse comments. I am one of those readers that is intrigued by your madness!

Thank god for the insurers otherwise there would be some Demonlanders missing in action next year and forever more. Sensible decision Earl. A boat trip with other Demonlanders may be a little cramped depending on who joins the trip. Perhaps 2 or 3 days in Constantinople may be sufficient with a mandatory trip to the steam baths for Bitters, Biffen and Picket. Frankly, Spain is looking better by the day, traveling overland through the Basque Country down to San Sebastián and down to Granada and Seville. Tequila, paella, senoritas and sunshine are a heady mix. And perhaps a bullfight for those wishing to get the full experience. No problems with insurers, however, lots of stamina is a prerequisite.

You are such a compassionate and sensitive soul Biffen. Such thoughtful and caring words.

Thanks Timothy, very decent of you. Remember though that although there is a very short material life, the spiritual life is ever present and ever lasting. As time has passed I believe that most of us connected by the eternal spirit soul. Even Bitters.

i attended the London Olympics and have never been more disappointed in an international sporting event. Never again. Decided at that time that Rio was off my list.

i am disappointed Bitters because I think you would be a great asset to the tour and a source of great interest to the Spaniards and in particular the Senoritas. However, it will at least mean that you cannot be expelled from the country for indiscriminate acts. .

Yep you don't miss a thing Bub

For obvious reasons I prefer not to disclose my age. I value my private life and therefore some things are best left...well, private. Also, I find others stereotype you once that know your age. You know the comment or inference that someone is obviously young, or middle aged or an old fuddy duddy. Just like my novels, I like readers to sense the vitality of youth but also sense the ever present possibility of loss and indeed death. There are many wise young people and many older people who are unfamiliar with the the term. I like decency, courtesy and respect. I like conversation without personal insult or attack. I despise egotists and boasters. That may make me seem old but l know many young people who share those values just as I know many middle aged and older folks who don't. So for me age is unimportant. However, attitude is what counts. It is important to understand and learn from history whilst living in the present and giving thought to the future. The MFC represents those things. We have a wonderful history that is about success and failure. We now have a club that is beginning to build on our past success having learnt from our past failures, and a club that is building a future that my children and my children's children will be proud of. I may be old but I feel young and contrary to rumours , not yet dead.

Earl seems to have completely ditched Spain with his middle east suicide tour. I had great respect for Earl before reading his madness and desire for a cheap but deadly quick buck as deadly as a land mine. Forget it, I am planning my own tour of the bullfights and spanish bars. Let me know if you want to join the tour of sensory pleasures as against a final journey! Tour numbers are very limited and applicants will have to pass my own suitability test, which mainly deals with "lifestyle issues."

Hilarious Redleg. You have a very very dry sense of humour.

Hare Krishna Emerald. I recommend you purchase a full set of the "Srimad Bhagavatam" translated into English by His Divine Grace A.C, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON or the International Society of Krishna Consciousness. These volumes provide all the answers to life's questions (excluding the date of our next premiership flag), and will keep you reading for the rest of your life indeed eternity. I can guide you along the way if you wish. If you want a flavour of these works without the expense of purchasing all volumes, I recommend a read of the "Mahabharata" which is a revered text with profound spiritual themes and an enthralling narrative culminating in an apocalyptic war. As you know, I do not support organized religion, however, I think that the only answer to the age of Kali Yuga lies in matters of the soul. However, this involves the destruction of this current world as we know it. This includes the destruction of the AFL, the football media and all the wrongs of this wonderful game. Of course, at the end of it all, the MFC and it supporters survive.

Not my intention as a dead alcoholic writer, and I would have preferred it to be one of the original veterans of this esoteric and simply mad thread. I started reading this thread almost in a voyeuristic way and always curious about its sudden change in direction and subject matter. It was like picking up a book of short stories in which imagination and entertainment was paramount. However, unlike some i decided to take part because I wanted to join the orgy. Very rarely have I failed to be entertained. However, I understand that it is not to everyone's taste, particularly for those whose interest is strangely on football matters and the MFC.

the posters on this thread never disappoint.

Your posts normally suggest that you are an intelligent, thoughtful, and personable chap. Have you taken leave of your senses? French is derived from Roman times and Latin as you know, similar to other languages such as Spanish and Italian. French is the language of love good man. It is also the language of diplomacy, science, literature and philosophy. Peasants do not speak French. They speak dialect or indeed speak in few words. Similar to the peasants here particularly those that gather in tribes to watch the Tigers and the Magpies or in SA, Port Adelaide. We also have a few here on Demonland, but who will not be named as we know who they are. Also I value my neck given the importance of the mind body connection. Although, I have to say there are a lot of headless people in these illiterate times of Kali Yuga. For those wanting to find out about Kali Yuga consult Google. The French along with the Indians know all about Kali Yuga. However, I am getting distracted from the main point of my post. I will be reporting your outrageous and frankly obscene comments to the Academie Francaise. I hope you are not planning a trip to France anytime soon. If I was planning to make love to a beautiful woman, I would want her to whisper sweet nothings in French. Remember Francois Hardy "only you can do it". Yes I know that is English. But lost in translation of course, for the French words are beautiful....que vous pouvez le faire...... and the grunts even better! Knee trembling stuff Moon. I suggest you go to Alliance Francaise and then we can converse in French just to raise the tone of posts on this site.

Understand completely, so is my beloved current wife. Surprisingly, she is someone of beauty, intelligence, virtue and morals, unless of course the Pie's are playing and her normal self evaporates and she transforms into a rabid one eyed Pie.

And I have always considered you to be a person of utmost decency and consideration OD. As far as footy picks, you can go for careful analytical consideration, hunch or plain guesswork. I go for the latter plus a dash of bitters (hope). That being the case I go for the Dees in a close one. If i go for careful analytical consideration, I see our glaring weaknesses helpfully pointed out by many demonlanders and i start to get very nervous. So I guess you can say heart over head which is probably appropriate because footy is all about passion. Have a great trip to SEA with Mrs O. I never asked but is she a Demon?

Earl, given the logistical, political, and terrorist problems, let alone the lack of replenishment and entertainment along the way, I fear that even your resourcefulness will be fully tested. I assume that you have contacts on all sides including friends amongst the hill and desert tribes. My main concern is that there are potential enemies on all sides including coalition forces. I assume that our own intelligence forces are monitoring this thread and will have tipped off other agencies including the CIA. I strongly recommend that your default position is a tour of Spain. I am sure that you will have no trouble filling spots on a tour of libidiness Spain. Of course no wives or girlfriends allowed which unfortunately might mean that Old Dee will miss given the strict rule of Mrs OD.

A point of explanation on hijabs. I love them and see them as important from a religious and most importantly cultural viewpoint. However, one has to be a little careful in ones behaviour. As a young man, I was almost shot in Turkey when I made a pass at a woman only to realise that I had mistaken the mother for the daughter. Neither mother or daughter were impressed, even less so the angry Turk that happened to be the husband and father.