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I'm a big fan of stop motion/claymation work... have a lot of Aardman Studios early work on DVD as well as Svankmajer's shorts and his takes on Faust and Alice in Wonderland, David Borthwick's extremely disturbing Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb and finally the Quay Brothers animations. I have a number of the German Expressionist cinema works on DVD including Nosferatu, Cabinet of Dr Calligari (including the hand tinted colour version), The Golem, Waxworks etc.

Funnily enough I didn't mind that too much... I think it was slightly redeemed by the new Spiderman character who brought a little humour to the film. The first two Capt America films were far worse. The Independence Day films are a whole other level of bad.

I thought I would never see a film worse than Independence Day...well, on my flight back from the U.K. it finally happened; Independence Day: Resurgence. Absolute garbage.

Maybe it's GNF...didn't he lead a merry chase last year over Dangerfield (I think it was)?

To quote the Joker: "Why so serious?".

Nothing to do with gullibility...it's a bit of harmless fun and exercises for the grey matter.

A 'pat' of butter Mac the knife Anyone care to work out the ocean bound part.

My favourite comment re this trade period (from Facebook): "Richmond lost Vickery. They're the biggest winners so far this trade period."

I would have thought that was Wheatley

Well, typically anglo saxon names were derived from the family occupation (baker, smith, cooper, tailor etc), so you may well be correct.

"ocean bound" would mean "bound for the ocean", in which case leaving Port is the obvious answer. As I said above, I think the closest to the mark so far is gundogmillionaire with their guess of John Butcher. spread butter = But(ch)er - albeit minus one 't' spread wings = Butcher bird ocean bound = leaving Port. At 197cm, Butcher meets the requirement of a tall forward who can back up in the ruck. I'm not saying that he is the player that could do that, in fact I'm positive he is NOT good enough, but as an answer to the riddle, I think it ticks all of the boxes.

Did he sign a contract at the Lions? This article says he was keen to sign on, but there is no indication as to whether it was completed: http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl/teams/brisbane/josh-green-commits-to-brisbane-lions-and-wants-new-deal-before-round-1/news-story/78ee2319990ce047d669bd8e36a33a24 The seasons where he played most or all games he was averaging around 27 goals which is not too shabby... he only played 11 games this year because of injury, so that plus the fact that the contract was never signed/withdrawn (if that is the case), would explain his form slump statistically.

I've always liked Green as a player and certainly would not be averse to having him at the club (although not sure how we'd slot him in). He, Rich and Zorko are lions players I've always enjoyed watching go round and wished we'd had on our list.

gundogmillionaire's theory is actually not too bad at al... "spreads butter" could also mean makes the word "butter" longer, so "butcher" (never mind the fact a 't' went awol along the way) spreading wings could also refer to a butcher bird. The leaving port equating to being ocean bound is also very good. Just not sure we would want Butcher at the club :-)

I posted this in the FA & Trade Whispers thread, but it's probably more relevant in here: According to this "commentator", it will most likely be 66 or 84 that gets Lewis across the line. http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/sport/afl/news/2016/10/hawthorn-hawks-champion-jordan-lewis-will-be-joining-melbourne-demons-according-to-jay-clark

According to this "commentator", it will most likely be 66 or 84 that gets Lewis across the line. http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/sport/afl/news/2016/10/hawthorn-hawks-champion-jordan-lewis-will-be-joining-melbourne-demons-according-to-jay-clark

Hey, we're all entitled to our own opinions... even though you are patently wrong on that one I will never hold a grudge for such trivial matters.

Jaegermeister will give you wings and eventually leave you shitfaced and all at sea Someone who spreads butter is known as a "smearer" Join the dots.

What goes on in the way of "attacks" in these rumour threads is utterly insignificant when you compare it to the attacks that border on bullying, that occur in numerous other topics... for example, and regardless of what you might think of their manner of posting or their remarks, it only takes Saty or Stuie to put fingers to keyboard and press the Enter key, to have the usual suspects jumping on them... sometimes with just cause and often with no good reason - and that's when things get completely derailed (and yes, I do see the irony in that last comment ;-) ). Rumours will always have detractors and doubters, and apart from the PMs that Generation Dee was getting (which are totally out of order if they are attacks), the responses have been quite gentle and for the most part NOT personal; the doubters should not be silenced (abusers on the other hand...), as that is as much a part of the banter that makes these threads interesting as are the rumours themselves.

Sorry, but if you go back to that Hogan thread (as daunting as that may be when you look at the numbers of pages), you will find I made a response to you at the time that cited the newspaper article stating Hogan's desire/intention to remain at the MFC, and I stated in that response that the article predated your revelation by two or three days, which it did.

That's a bit harsh... GNF was considered questionable on his Hogan claims as they were essentially just repeating what had been in the press a couple of days previous to his comments. Generation Dee in my opinion does NOT deserve criticism because he has actually come up with a previously unheard "rumour" that he was prepared to give substance to by alluding to his sources... a big difference.

No, that's Toby Jugs... he'll get those as he gets older.

Looks like he's on a roll

It may be that the club has some off-field role for him?

Perhaps he will be offered the captaincy in order to keep him there?