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Whilst other wee lassies pinned Cassidy and Osmond to their bedroom walls, young Esme longed to crush Richard Tauber up against her oak panelling.
Perhaps more operetta than opera, Tauber was a passionate and consummate performer, as seen here in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, where it’s…
ON WITH THE MOTLEY

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Adherents of synesthesia, ignore the monochrome and listen to Scriabin’s colour..

Alexander Scriabin plays his Etude Op. 8 No. 12

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Breathtaking choices, Sgt. of different intakes and for different reasons.
Only an aumaton would remain unmoved by both the Beethoven and the Gorecki, or fail to weep lengthily at the latter.

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@Forget Me Not wrote:

:lol:

here I roam
in my shell
built of gossamer lies
and tranquilised dreams

with harlequin smile
and crocodile’s tear
I wander here alone
and realise my fear

the beast wallows
in the depths of my soul
barely contained by the
illusion of self-control

so I just stare out
of the shattered mirror
of my mind
and see what answers
I deign to find

JINGS!

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@Forget Me Not wrote:

melancholy and madness…
is that all that remains of me?
Would you be offended if I said ‘YES?’

forgive me
for I still sin
never learning
from my past
so painful to try
Okay then..two hail mary’s..a quick flagellation and an aspirin..

as I start to wander
in that realm where
demons scream
and angels die
What? Asda’s frozen dessert aisle?

don’t let me
lose myself
to that shaded memory
which I’ll never forget
… don’t say goodbye
I have to..it’s time for my tea and a gobbet of arsenic..

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The Lodge Ladies limber up on a stroll to Lidl to stock up on snacks for the finger buffet. Big Irene in the white bunnet plans to detach the digits personally with her bicuspids..

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These are my favourites, Cath, in order of appearance..

Cincinnati kid

Busted

Song for you

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Toto -Hold the Line

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@smiley wrote:

@bat wrote:

Human remains have been found on Saddleworth Moor. It hasn,t been confirmed yet whose remains they are, but of course everyone hopes and prays that they are the remains of Keith Bennett. His poor mother has suffered unimaginable grief for 40 years. Brady always denies knowing where Keith is buried; he,s lying. He knows full well he just wants Keiths mum to suffer. Bastard. :evil: :evil:
evil

I don’t think they are the remains of Keith Bennett – I also disagree with the comment that he knows and just wants his mum to suffer. He’s in hospital dying at the moment, he was on scene telling the police where all the remains of his victims were back when they were digging them all up – so why would he simply hold out on ONE set of remains after giving the rest up? It makes no sense, there’s no motive for it.

Papers seem to have forgotten to mention that these moors are located in Lancashire, they also forget to mention that Lancashire & Yorkshire had a huge war where thousands upon thousands of people were killed. The papers also forget to mention that many battles took place upon both the Yorkshire and Lancashire moors, remains that would have been buried, swept away in rivers or simply embedded amongst the scenery only to be uncovered hundreds of years later.

These remains could be the remains of anyone. Usually if remains are found after 30 odd years, there’d still be pieces of clothing or personal possessions laying around. After hundreds of years, however, these things can rot and wither away. The remains found were simply bone. No material, no clothes, no items.. just a skeleton.

Just because they were found in Lancashire people have jumped the cannon “oh it must be Ian Brady again” — the man’s on his death bed, he’s given all known locations of his victims, he’s not holding out. He’s weeks, perhaps even days away from rotting in hell for eternity, the evil nice guy he is will get what he deserves very soon – but the fact of the matter is you just cannot squeeze blood out of a stone. You can’t force someone to tell you what they don’t know.

It’s probably the remains of a War of the Roses soldier or something. Thousands of civil war remains have been found up on the moors, from Saddleworth in Lancashire to Ilkley in Yorkshire.

A shrewdly considered analysis of the situation by Smiley, and absolutely spot-on with the assessment of Ian Brady’s intentions. Blood, indeed, can not be squeezed from a stone.
The passage of time, the geographical and historical circumstance of his hasty interment, render it likely that only – if ever- by purely accidental means, will the remains of Keith Bennett be returned to his mother.

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You’re not a happy wee cotton-tailed carrot muncher are ya, Forget Me Not? Tober up, man. Then craft me a poem.

Sgt. – a tour de force yet again. Wasted here. You know what to do about that!

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