Anyhow. Those Bowie lines you quote were *exactly* what I was thinking of when I wrote the <Dylan & You> post.

How do you *do* that? Am I so obvious? Do I leave great big stonking clues, or is it a Sherlock Drew thing?

Remember with <Sid Barret>

"Who will say a kind word for Sid?"

We will.

"Take the motherless children off of the street
And place them at the feet of a Harlot...

Only a matter of time until
Night comes steppin' in."

This has a rather fine montage of newsreel footage of Ruben and Co. crosscut with scenes from the Denzel George Washington film.

Ironically, it seems Ruben Carter was almost certainly guilty as charged.

OR WAS HE????

I'll go on the record-

He for sure didn't write <My 61 Memorable Games>

This <youtube> "HD" button is amazing-

Here is a big fat <Niel Young> with a big fat <Canada button> on his guitar strap and a big fat Fender stratocaster....

Play extremely loud.

Niel not being a folk singer here.

WAHHHHHHHHH WWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWOO

1. Slam. Oof! Ten, nine, out!

2. Kerpow! Doh! Ten, ten, ten, out!

3. Punch. Weave. Aha! SLAM. Tweet, tweet.

4. You sure he should be back in the ring so soon?

5. Crunch. Ten, out!

6. No. Yeah. You right.

7. Thummmmp! Ouch. The towel, quick.

8. Look at that guy! The towel already, quicker.

9. It's OK, Reuben, you won't remember this in the morning. And out!

10. And out! He wants to know if we'll change the title to <61 KO's I can't Remember> ... ?

11. Uhhh, no.

12. In that case, Reuben sez he's gonna buy a gun before he goes in the ring again.

13. OK. Wanna go shopping for groceries over in Paterson, Rube?

14. Two shots ring out in the bar-room night...

15. Hey, Officer Pupkin! You gotta bust this guy for DWB.

16. Driving While Black?

17. Nah, Dreaming With Bob.

I've heard of <Illegal Smiles> but I can't recall actually ever cracking one.

- They all say that, buster. BTW, that stretch paddywagon you ordered? It's here. You're in back.

- Come off it ... if <El Dom> was *really* get busted/whacked in real time, he'd put it on twitter. It's got nothing to do with chess.

- *Everything* has something to do with chess. Even marmalade, corrugated iron, Ytterby, and Triceratops.

<Stout Cortex silent upon a Peak Experience/ Thistledown whispers of rust on neural girders/ A synaptic cellar full of dead survivalists ...>

Secondly, it's a bit hubristic to name your gaff a thinking-place. A gaff gaffe, in other words. And hubris tends to get clobbered by nemesis.

Thirdly, I want my Frogs back. They had the advantage of a distant relationship to the French Defence, which allowed <Deffi> to post a Winawer here occasionally. A tradition we would see continued.

I'm sure there are other reasons too. Like 'popular demand', but a mullah told me that that's as filthy and depraved as democracy and amounts to war against god. Perhaps the only war I'd ever volunteer for, though I somehow can't see the other side showing up.

But never let it be said that the Phrontistery died unmourned without offspring. Before expiring, it got to commit the sin of Onan -- it spilled its seed in a cultural desert. And that in turn begat the new spelling of this forum ...

Welcome to ... <Phrogspawn>.

Our collections department will get back to you then.

We regret to inform you that *au pairs* -- known in La France as "la jeune skivvy etrangere" -- are not currently supported.

The <Trigman> has arrived!

Yup..Right here...

And while I disappeared of the face of the earth,<Dom>'s forum seems to have aged a page while <JFQ>'s scales have scaled a scale...

And not the one I use, mind you...

CDEFGABC...

That's about as much music as I know...

Yes,yes not the candidate for Travis Bickle's forum..

And where in cat's hell has <achieve> been? There's only one post by him on this page...

Damn, I should have never gave him the link to that translation service...He's perhaps translating the website itself...

And <Dom>...When is my <Frogspawn> membership expiring?

Do I even have one?...

And I was promised French mathemati<ciennes> when I arrived...

Well you wouldn't recognize the old place. They've put a motorway through.

In other respects, however, my old Aunt has never looked better.

This place has not reverted- it's gone forward and is now called <Phrogspawn>, specializing in the <Phrench Dephence> and phood that smells like people's pheet.

Speaking of French mechanics, have you seen <Christian Bale> with his shirt off?

Well Ok he's not French but he did star in <The Machinist>, which is an extended visual pun on <Crime and Punishment>, one of the greatest French novels ever written.

Whether he's in a feature role, or just starring on <youtube> clips screaming at the gaffers on set, you can't find a tastier bit of all right than <Christian Bale>, I can tell you.

I believe <Dom> will confirm. He once threw <Phil Collins> back because he was too small.

Ahhhhh!

Ahhhhh!

I keep seeing ph's everywhere...

Man...I'm phphobic.

This is all <Red October>'s doing I'm sure...

Oh yeah,and a certain <Trig> was speaking French the other day...

I love French and the French...

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He once threw <Phil Collins> back because he was too small.

Now *that's* a Sportsman!!

>

What's wrong with France?...

I visited Paris once, it's pretty pretty...

The best French wine currently available is <Screaming Eagle Red- Now In Gallon Format>.

You should be able to pick up a bottle if you live near a 7-11.

The bridge at midnight trembles...

The wind howls like a hammer,
The night blows cold and rainy
My love she's like some raven
At the window with a broken wing

woo

I miss so much on discussions because of that...

It's some kind of Trojan horse in the software...

Suddenly <Youtube> is Helen and I'm Troy...

And I'm searching for Agamennon already...

If you have an actual PC infection you should get it fixed man.

Those things are not a joke.

I'm currently running 90000 securtiy devices on my laptop.

But I don't use Youtube all that much so I don't bother...

And you shoud bother about the infection-

If it's a Trojan, your computer may be being used as a drone for criminal purposes.

It's not expensive just to take it in to a good PC repair place and get it cleaned up.

I got mine airhosed recently.

Computers aren't my forte and I guess I'm just too lazy to move my bum around..

Interior, night, low ceiling, candle flickers. Scary movie noises continue -- lifted from an old vinyl record, and run through a computer program that scrambles them with random words sung by Leonard Cohen ... "it's lonely here, there's no-one left to torture" ...

Woooo. Tap. Mumble.

- You don't know me from the wind.

- Maybe not, but in *this* wind I could make a pretty good guess.

- Hey, there's somebody at the window.

- Yeah? Er, who-oo-oo?

- Some bint in a black cloak with feathers, she keeps saying 'Nevermore'.

- Pay her no attention. She's just an escapee from the Tower of London. Or is it the Tower of Song? Anyhow, she's called Rapunzel.

Cohen: "I was sixty years old, just a kid with a crazy dream..."