Thank you for your kind consideration, but I'd rather not revisit scenes of previous anguish. Rus's approach to evangelism was tantamount to placing his target's head between a Bible on one side and the collected works of GKC on the other, popping the whole ensemble in a vice and then continually and relentlessly tightening the handle. On that basis, I'd prefer to have my eyeballs remain in my head.StevieG wrote:For your viewing pleasure, I have linked a "discussion" from the past in my previous post.TheFallen wrote:[Oh God. Yes I do now remember Rus (thanks for that) - and my eyeballs have only recently stopped bleeding.
You exhort in vain here, I'm afraid, Stevie. Wos is sadly (well actually, quite the opposite) fated never to get past the mere nursery slopes of the proselytising Everest that was Rus. This is down to missionary technique. Although reaching for many sources (including publications such as My Little Catholic Monthly and The Divine Justice League Of America comics), Wos merely and tenderly sprinkles copy 'n' paste snippets out there to drift gently down like feathers upon the heathen, then runs away. Compare and contrast with Rus's far more robust and single-minded approach, which as you well know involved the non-stop wielding of a giant leaden Chesterton sledgehammer as he strode forth, brimful with righteousness, to smite the unfaithful.StevieG wrote:Wos, in the interests of furthering your education, I have pulled out a typical discussion from the archives:
A typical day in the life of the Close (feat. Rusmeister)
If you really want to earn your title, you must aspire to these goals.
Unnecessary - I've already been all over that.StevieG wrote:May I suggest you check out the StevieG/Sgt.Null Pink Floyd extravaganza starting here...
I have to concede a fair degree of grudging admiration for the minutiae-ridden scholarship therein. I still remain entirely convinced of the utter unsurpassability of the Floyd Holy Trinity of DSOTM, WYWH and A... plus okay, maybe about 50% of TW. However as a direct result of going through your and Sarge's über-anal outpourings recently, I will own up to having been nigh on compelled to add a fair few tracks from The Division Bell, Pulse, The Later Years... and even a couple from AMLOR to my personal iPod.
As a side note, I will proudly and firmly place myself on the Gilmour side of the rift. I'm all for the musicality being the overarching goal, rather than the "disappear up one's own arse" grand concept side of things. Although regularly an accomplished lyricist, to my taste from The Wall onwards, Roger sadly fell into the latter categorisation. And yes I do of course realise that is fighting talk.
I quite literally know of nobody who can make a guitar sing, soar and cry even half as magically as Gilmour can. His ability to capture and evoke emotion is unparalleled. Combine that breath-taking and literally goosebump-inducing mastery with Wright's keyboards and Mason's drums (okay, and Waters's basslines and voice during that Holy Trinity period... and of course not forgetting more than honourable mentions for supremely skilled musicians such as Dick Parry and Clare Torry) and that was a spellbinding fusion which in its day attained genuinely unmatchable heights.
However, I digress into Vespers territory here. Let me take up more typical and appropriate Tank cudgels once more...
(Well, to be more accurate and as should be stultifyingly obvious by now, my Tank weapons de choix are the rapier and the scalpel. I'll leave the blunt instruments to the ham-fisted rest of you...)
Both correctly and inevitably - how could you do otherwise?StevieG wrote:I really must bow down to your superior linguistic talents.
Oh the shame! And it's no analgesic to point out that this was no misspelling, but a mere typo. That is still inexcusable carelessness on my part! As a result, I must immediately excoriate myself and mortify my flesh... even to a far more vigorous degree than Wos would have to, were he inadvertently to catch a glimpse of a well-turned female ankle.StevieG wrote:(you will note however that I corrected your misspelling of the word "childishly". Yeah, that's right, go back and check your post.) BOOM! A linguist has misspelt a word!
Mind you, speaking of typos...
Leaving aside the fact that I don't think anyone would claim that most of that list are any more than average actors at best (Kidman? Seriously? Whose sole claim to fame revolves around once being married to a midget scientologist who refuses to come out of the closet?), I have to admit to chuckling wryly at the gloriously twisted and bleakly ironic typo as highlighted above.StevieG wrote:Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Health Ledger (RIP), Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce...
The correct form would be "misspelt". The other alternative is a classic American oversimplification. Just like everything else American.StevieG wrote:(Although now I'm second-guessing whether "misspelled" or "misspelt" is more correct...)
(I could go into an educational diatribe here about how over time, language tends to become more regular - and from a verb declension point of view, more "weak" - but I'll spare you).
You surrender too easily - I was expecting to see at least the joyfully raucous and anthemic AC/DC called into evidence. Now sure, I know that they're not through and through Aussie... but I'd have awarded a point nonetheless. You'd have got a further half point for citing INXS, but after that I was struggling and could only come up (barely) with Men At Work.StevieG wrote:I started listing bands off the top of my head, but had to stop... it didn't really help my argument.
You do not indeed and Wos, you should consider yourself especially blessed. Cail had a true gift for the pithily expressed and bang on the money epithet - especially given the fact that he's a mere American - and as a result is much missed. I have even been prepared to turn a blind eye to his unwitting misspelling of the word "flunkey". Needless to say, I have pointed this error out to you in the past, Wos, but both on balance and reflection, I think it should stay exactly as is... in memento Caili.Wosbald wrote:Actually, my title was a benison lavished upon me by Cail in his limitless munificence. Ya don't get much more street-cred than that.
As it should be. Only vanishingly rarely do I bestow accolades. As such they are beyond priceless and should both be cherished with hot tears of helplessly grateful joy and worn at all times as a highly visible badge of ultimate pride. It's good to see that you've instinctively realised this.StevieG wrote:It has been added to my signature. There's no taking it back nowTheFallen wrote: And you know what? I think you're right... and be sure to put that on your CV. The highest of praise indeed.
Quite right too. And as is mandatory, I shall now employ the stylistically correct riposte to all Aussies: fuck you too cobber - and the sheep you're trying to romance.StevieG wrote:The best form of defence is attack. So I will revert to my native vernacular in order to counter your argument: fuck you mate.
Plus of course a suitable closing emoji...