Red and Bluebeard

I guess another epic spew from Gawnie is too much to ask for ...

Nice appetiser for the Demonland podcast later that same night ...

Don't they, OD? What is unnatural about a huge rabbit producing chocolate eggs?

The Aussie sense of fair play, which seems to have gone missing for some time ...

Nice image! I can just see an enormous mouth in the La Trobe valley spewing up lumps of brown rock ... because you just can't keep a carbon-based non-renewable energy source down!

Didn't Essendon do that? I am sure there are plenty of previous examples, without even mentioning underarm bowling ...

No, here in Oz we nurse them

I am with you DC. The ICC are giving out wet tram tickets, and Cricket Australia seems to be hanging people. The truth is surely somewhere in the middle --- what they did was wrong and worth punishment, but the punishment has to fit the crime (as Mr G and Mr S would say). The other bit that smells a bit fishy to me is that according to Cricket Australia, there were only 3 people involved, and none of them were bowlers. Sounds weird, at best.

You say that like you think the previous 948 were any different ...

Yeah, the one with the messianic complex

So you did find Handel?

Nobody mentioned Collingwood, DC ...

Try harder, Ernest. Be impressed!

Thanks for the recommendation. Shall do.

Mantovani maybe, but in some ways I prefer Burt Reynolds ... And don't get me started on the difference between a Bach chorale and a bacchanal ...

Then don't forget your chopin Liszt

I don't think I can Handel this ...

You never know your luck in the big city. Can you compare it to another work? Verdi Requiem? Bach Mass in B Minor? Mahler 8th?

You be Beethoven, I'll be Bach!

Yes. I recall a memorable 16-part version Ich bin der Velt ... Bruckner and Janacek are not at the top of my list, but Bach, now you are talking!

There is enough Mahler to go around for everyone. No shortage of good stuff of his.

Nothing wrong with a bit of Mahler Symphony no 2, especially at about 100 decibels for the last minute or two. Highly appropriate for our next premiership ...

Seriously, you could not make this crap up. First, an ambit claim to sue the AFL on behalf of Essendon, for "deceptive and misleading conduct". Must have had a serious irony bypass to even contemplate that. Second, the claimants seem to be getting legal advice of the same quality as James Hird ("Tiny chance of success, even if everything goes our way --- so what are we waiting for?"). Third, the AFL's conduct, including lack of support for ASADA and the laughably stupid verdict delivered by the AFL Tribunal (which ASADA appealed against to WADA, and won), was one of the major reasons that there was no smoking gun found at Tullamarine (although there was something that looked like a smoking gun, and smelt like a smoking gun, and felt like a smoking gun, but that everyone in the room swore was actually an elephant, because there was a sticky label on it that said "Elephant"). Fourth, the AFL are dumb enough to threaten splitting from ASADA (as if!) if certain documents come to light, which makes it apparent to Blind Freddy's dead cat that the AFL have something to hide. Surely that same dead cat could work out that the smart thing to do is to keep quiet and let the nongs who brought the case eventually come to the startling conclusion that this is a grand waste of time, energy and (lots of) money. Sounds like there is an opera or two in that lot, or perhaps a mini-series. Pass the popcorn, and whose shout is it anyway?

Nice work Moonie, but you left out Old Dee and Beelzebub fighting over the last banana fritter ... And jazza, bless his memory, would have an inch-thick steak with produce grown on his own farm.

Sounds like he was around to change Norm Smith's nappies ...