Earl Hood

Uncle I take note of your comments. I am more than ready to undertake whatever practical measurements are necessary to back up my theoretical ascertions about gender based physical differences. In fact Inlook forward to the opportunity.

If this were the case Uncle it would discriminate against women surely?

Good point Uncle but then who is the Ernest who keeps posting with us? I am starting to think Twilight Zone stuff myself. Come to think about it, while I was on my 5th daiquiri at Hemingway's I saw this guy in the corner, in the shadows with black hair smoking a cigarette and talking to a camera I couldn't see! Time for me to get out of Manly I think.

I did add a photo but it just collapses into an imagepeg, not the first time?

Has anyone seen Ernest lately? I have been sitting on a daiquiri for hours here in Manly at Hemingways, still hasn't shown up.

His old man is there in the Adelaide rooms tonight, Jake said dad was there with all his mates from Romsey in Victoria! Do we need to get BBO to start working on Lever to get him over the line?

Is that Rodney on the right?

Around 2010 I think.

What is this anti Argentinian Malbec diatribe I am witnessing Uncle. Think yourself lucky to be offered such a luxury in the third world. Invariably drinkable in my experience.

Where is Hemingway when I need him? We need a ruling on this important issue!

Recidivist relapser = redundancy? Sorry to get all grammatical but we do need to lift this thread back to its former lofty heights! Ummh is that also a redundancy?

Has this thread reached its nadir? Talk of ablutions, nasty stains, I mean really. I think of the halcyon days on this thread when I could converse with the likes of Hemingway, BB, Moons, even DC occasionally or Uncle about the political situation in Cuba and other parts of Central America or the world in general at an adult level and feel we were adding our bit to the sum total of human knowledge. Well those days seem to be passed us now with this talk of toilets and ablutions! Where to from here for this thread I ask?

Demonlanders I am need of advice. I am headed to Sydney this Friday primarily on family business with the good wife. However she has then taken the opportunity to book tickets for the Hawthorn v Sydney game on Friday night and asked me if I wanted to go ( as if I had a choice). I naively responded yes as I have never attended a sporting event at the SCG so this would be a unique experience for me and I would not particularly care who won so could just sit back and soak up the atmosphere. Now she is demanding that I wear Hawthorn colours on the night and has packed a yellow and brown jumper and scarf in my suitcase! I have drawn a line in the sand on this and said I will need to seek guidance from my Demonland advisors before I can make a decision to wear those colours. Your advice on this is most welcome.

Que? Too many ...tions and ....treaty's for me to follow. I gather this about some cheap red?

It's been a bad week for me too Uncle. A slight accident on the way home yesterday, taking a short cut via Merri Creek.

These bananas go to waste every year, tonnes of them in Queensland because they are too long, too bent, too straight, too thick or too thin for all you pedantic bananaophiles that inhabit this thread. Just stop and think for a moment about how wasteful your demands are and lift your game!

I am sure you have Uncle but sorry what are you talking about? Sorry I have been out of the loop this week, what with being summoned to the Palace at short notice this week by Her Majesty. You can imagine my apprehension on the 20 hour flight to London as I presumed the worst, perhaps it was a life threatening health issue for our Majesty or our own Sir Prince Phillip! Or perhaps Her Majesty was planning to abdicate in favour of Prince Charles, in which case I would be asked to take on even higher honours, I am sure, as we were both class captains at Timbertop all those years ago. However it transpired that I was informed by Her Majesty in a personal audience at the Palace that Prince Phillip will be withdrawing from Public life in August some 30 years after he should have, in her words! Anyway I have just landed back in time for tomorrow's clash somewhat jet lagged to all this chatter.

What is this football related rant doing on this thread? Where are the moderators? However it is a fair comment, but my reply is we have reverted to our normal state over the past 20 years. Last year was an anomaly for so few injuries, our norm for as long as I can remember is 10 to 12 on the injury list with 4 or 5 of those being in the best 24. That is our lot I am afraid, unlike the Dorks, the Cats over the past 10 years.

Is this a remake of Who shot Liberty Valence?

A remarkable resemblance to Slim Pickens, me thinks.

I beg your pardon?

Yes Uncle I am stocking up the cellar as we blog! The last thing I need is an extra tax burden when I order my usual latest vintage 10 dozen Grange for the year! I mean don't they realise that such wine taxes will cost thousands of grape picking jobs, done by 457's and backpackers by the way.

Brian or Brain Taylor? I am not sure who Brain is! Certainly not the bloke on 7 surely.

As I said earlier Special, sheer luxury! The stories I could tell you about growing up, six of us kids, in a shoebox on the High Street, no parents, they died before I was even conceived! Don't go looking for sympathy from me. Abject poverty can be character building! Look what it has done for me, Special. Toughen up, embrace your abject poverty and turn it into a positive experience, you can aspire to a better life if you just work hard enough. Now you may not get paid award rates but don't let that deter you just keep working for the better life that is always just over the horizon.

Special has Batman Park become overgrown with trees since I walked past just a few weeks ago? Very odd! The trees must be blocking the view to the Yarra. Do you get WiFi in there?