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Tried to book an appointment last time I was in his neighbourhood and was shocked to learn he wasn't seeing anyone anymore mainly because he died 78 years ago.

Think I found something. The first time a good friend of mine saw “Professor” Stanley Unwin”, the peerless purveyor of mangled mumbo-jumbo known as Unwinese, he was a little thrown. It was a quiet night in, just us two, the TV & a nice bag of magic mushrooms. Was this craziness his own psilocybin twisted perception or…well, what was this ? Carl was born too late to have heard or seen Stanley’s TV & radio appearances. He had missed out too on the long summer holiday of 1968 when our teenaged gang of four wondered at the circular sleeve (how mad was that !) and delighted in the Cockney Psychedelia of the Small Faces’ LP “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake”. It was #1 on the charts for 6 weeks & Stanley Unwin was a pop star. So, “are you sitting comftybold two-square on your botty? Then we’ll begin.”

Speaking of bums. Can any of you guys recall where this silly saying came from, " are you all sitting two square on your botty"? It was either a TV show or radio show many years ago, when I was a kid. I think it was an Englishman that said it and it was repeated many times in the show.

Warning, don't light a banana at the beach, you could get "smoke on the water".

The banana smoothie is an accepted leader in the smoothie genre, but the banana milkshake lags well below chocolate, strawberry and vanilla in the milkshake department. As Professor Julius Sumner miller used to say on TV some years ago, " why is it so"?

And you watched every other player in the AFL as well?

Do you think you may have exaggerated a tad with your opening sentence? He is obviously a very good footballer as I have said, but I just don't like the word champion being thrown around, as easily as it is on here. When I think champion, I think of Selwood, Dangerfield, Sam Mitchell, Nick Reiwoldt as examples of some current players and possible future champions such as Bont and Cripps in the younger brigade. Would I like him at Melbourne, of course? Could he be a champion in years to come, of course, if he starts to regularly dominate games and become a matchwinner. I haven't yet seen that with Kelly.

GM K HB D M G B T HO FF FA AF * SC * Total 24 301 265 566 90 14 16 94 0 13 12 1,977 1,916 Average 24 12.5 11.0 23.6 3.8 0.6 0.7 3.9 0 0.5 0.5 89.9 87.1 Kelly GM K HB D M G B T HO FF FA AF * SC * Total 21 230 299 529 87 11 11 90 9 13 19 1,951 1,903 Average 21 11.0 14.2 25.2 4.1 0.5 0.5 4.3 0.4 0.6 0.9 92.9 90.6 Tyson I know stats aren't everything but they are a start.

Must be a nice place.

Unlike others on here, ATM, I don't see the champion in Kelly.

I amended my post, probably after you replied, but what I added was that the player we picked up with pick 53, that we got in the deal for Tyson/Salem, was a kid called Hunt. We ended up with Tyson, Salem and Hunt, for 2, 20 and 72. A pretty handy day's work.

You were right, there was a bit more to it. " Melbourne was so keen on Tyson that they parted with pick No. 2 in last year's NAB AFL Draft to land him. The deal also involved the swapping of picks 20 and 72, while the Demons received Tyson and picks nine (Christian Salem) and pick 53. " We gave up picks 2, 20 and 72 for Tyson and picks 9 and 53. We then used pick 53, which became pick 57 because of compo picks, to pick up a kid called Hunt. Wonder if the media realize that?

If people want to visit the past, then the question is simple today, would you swap Tyson and Salem for Kelly. I wouldn't.

I have no problem with the competition being formed, I am just personally finding it hard to garner any interest. On the other hand if we made the GF, well !

I miss your pictures. Reading was never my strong suit.

Good to see footy talk in the media, instead of talking about 35 year old tennis players.

I have been trying to get interested in the Women's AFL competition. I just can't.

Been waiting to use this joke again for about 30 years, so thanks Biff. Actually I don't know what a pie costs. I also haven't bought a pie for about 30 years. I would imagine they are now a few dollars.

At the piecost.

Probably and then put on about 500 KG.

I am on a diet and have lost 3 kgs, training the house down.

I'm here.

Unfortunately the most edible thing in the photo is the plate.

You have got me interested.

Or at the fruitshop looking for nice bananas.