Demonstone

Snaffled! Thanks for the tip.

I've recently re-read all the "Yes Minister/Prime Minister" scripts and, although it sounds very much like something Sir Humphrey might say, the saying has been around for a lot longer than that. I can't take any credit for it.

I suspect you'd find that many, many Australians would quickly be able to name Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Sam Kerr for example among the current players and that's just for starters.

By the look of that footage, Rex was hoping to do some gardening, but was unable to as he'd lost the plot.

There are many grammatical ways to walk into a bar. An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars. A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.” A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A dyslexic walks into a bra. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

Every "short" break must logically be balanced out by a "long" break over the course of a season. Players say that there is little difference between six and seven days rest, but supporters love to whinge about it.

Rick did say it on The Young Ones, but it's a very, very old gag.

Which Jordan is that, Deemania?

I'm surprised that neither coach could find a vote for Tim English. I thought he was very good.

I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.

I've answered my own question by having an ebay blitz on MFC reading material, and have had some success. Although I've long owned "The Coach", it was the only Ron Barassi book in my collection and it's all about North Melbourne and its 1977 Premiership season. There are now four new additions to the Demonstone MFC bookshelf - Barassi subsection: 1. Peter McFarline's 1985 biography which, 100 pages in, has proved to be a very good read indeed. 2. Peter Lalor's 2010 biography which is much longer and, presumably, even more comprehensive than McFarline's. 3. A slim volume from 2011 called "Wisdom" in which Ron discusses his 31(!) favourite motivational quotes. 4. An even slimmer 1981 collection of dated and lame football anecdotes which are meant to be funny. It has Barassi's name on the cover in a naked attempt to lure potential buyers to shell out the then asking price of $3.95. If you ever get a chance to read it, turn that chance down. This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

It was one of those rare examples of the first team to reach 100 points not winning the game.

Baker is a decent VFL footballer, but that's his level.

Time to get our Rocks Off and Rip This Joint! Best one-two punch opening tracks of any album I can think of.

Wishful thinking, Luci?

For all the angst, wailing and gnashing of teeth, we find ourselves in second spot on the ladder at the end of Round 19. I'm confident most of us would have taken that if it was offered before the season began. Have faith, fellow supporters. Things are never as bad as they seem.

Gravity isn't a theory, it's a Government conspiracy to keep the people down.

Having first read the last three chapters of this book (covering the 2021 season) on the day it turned up in the mail, I have now finished the rest of it and would like to offer my praise to Ian for an outstanding effort. He has covered the 57 years in remarkable, well-researched detail featuring interviews with an amazingly wide range of players and officials that have been involved with the club during that period. Unlike many footy books, the author was able to unearth new information and facts that were previously unknown, as least to me. Should you be wavering in your decision to buy the book, waver no more. It's excellent and highly recommended, in particular for those of us who have followed and loved Melbourne Football Club for a long time. I'd rate it as 9.95 out of 10, only deducting the .05% for a very small number of spelling and factual errors.

Nailed it. We lost the battle but that doesn't necessarily mean we won't win the war.

Thought I'd leave some on the table for you.

The perils of dropping your bundle five minutes into the first quarter.

You're quite right. Some people don't think it matters. It shows. Others would say that anything worth doing is worth doing properly. Different strokes and all that.