[crackerd]

Our Founder's mellifluous reading of this article on medieval canine history in the native tongues (plural) would inarguably rate as Grammy Award-worthy! We also need to have Polmaise providing background vocals (Robt., where art thou?). So who'll make the first pledge for gyttyng 'er doone?

To whet appetites for feedyng the fundraising efforts, here's a depiction of a French nobleman's medieval kennel, which - Dr. A, please take note -

outstrips the creature comfort levels of even the late T. Boone Pickens' mutt mansion!

MG

 

[Happy Gilmore]

If was then where the trailer was back over by there a tree and was fenced by that wood shed to the pile by the river. Thanks you found a couple more sticks need by for the yard dogs hahalol

 

[Chris Atkinson]

My friend MG,

It's a true honor and thanks for the thoughts.

I don't know that I'd sound too good reading some of that stuff aloud.

The one quote at the very top got my attention:

the greatest defect of the species was that they ‘lived not long enough’.​

Dogs didn't live long enough 700 years ago. The same is true today!

 

[crackerd]

Au contraire, you'd be great - Mr. Atkinson, International Dogman of Mystery! You have the experiences - and the contacts on distant shores - that a lot of us can only dream about.

Agreed on the quote up top on the article, also tried to let it trip off my tongue in the argot of the era:

‘the moost defaute of houndes is that thei lyven not longe inowe’

Didn't work, not for a syllable - thus a hail call to Polmaise! C'mon out of hiding, Robt. - we miss ya'.

My friend MG,

It's a true honor and thanks for the thoughts.

I don't know that I'd sound too good reading some of that stuff aloud.

The one quote at the very top got my attention:

Dogs didn't live long enough 700 years ago. The same is true today!

 

[crackerd]

And oh, yeah, Mr. Atkinson, 'bout that arcane Mr. Acker Bilk reference: Enjoy - with the audio amplified at about the volume of a "permission back:"

MG

 

[badbullgator]

Damn Chris, what have you done now?

 

[crackerd]

Damn Chris, what have you done now?

Corey, somewhere in Japan, amidst the flattened and demolished US Eagles' scrum, there is a koan for all this - !

MG

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Damn Chris, what have you done now?

Bookface gossip groups get so dull. Nobody actually knows anybody but, they know everything about everybody.

 

[badbullgator]

Damn Chris, what have you done now?

Corey, somewhere in Japan, amidst the flattened and demolished US Eagles' scrum, there is a koan for all this - !

MG

Better than 4 years ago. The Eagles are getting much better and now we have professional rugby in the US I think we will get even better.

 

[badbullgator]

Damn Chris, what have you done now?

Bookface gossip groups get so dull. Nobody actually knows anybody but, they know everything about everybody.

Hasn’t it always been that way? At least for the last 8-10 years

 

[crackerd]

Better than 4 years ago. The Eagles are getting much better and now we have professional rugby in the US I think we will get even better.

Like what I'm hearing re MLR - the imports seem to be turn up the caliber of play a notch - and who knows: if it succeeds in generating more interest, you may even see a rebranding of the Five (er, Six) Nations Championship into the "Eight Nations" annual tournament, with a two-fer of USA and Argentina joining the fray. I mean, c'mon, they let in Italia, and the Argies and Yanks are lots of Eyeties plus a few Fijians these days anyhow. Of course the Japanese would be lobbying for Nine Nations - and pretty justifiably.

MG

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Well done Chris.

I remember some time back reading the accounts record of I think, King John and it provided a small sum for "two poore men to sleep with ye dogges." Would that some today were as thoughtful in such a practical way.

Mike, how pleasant to hear Daddy Ack once again. I used to say my only claim to fame was HRHs' YLM "Sandringham Sydney" pinching my cheese sandwiches; but I'm even more distinguished. I had a piddle standing next to Acker in the gents in Birmingham Town Hall. I did the same with Buddy Rich; did you know he's only four foot tall?

Eugene

 

[crackerd]

Hold on, Eug - sure you ain't got Buddy Rich confused with "Little Stevie" Winwood (Yew Tree Close, Edgbaston)?

Ye olde Brum Town Hall, Lords (and Ladies) help me, my last appearance there might have been waiting behind you and Daddy Acker at the Last of the Proms featuring the bloody George Melachrino Strings and Orchestra! No kin to our fellow trans-Atlantic Brummie and his crew, the Sun Ra Arkestra, by the way. Then was Sir Simon Rattle in his lustrous locks at town hall doing Gershwin's greatest hits before dashing off to the Berliner Philharmoniker to become the second coming of Otto Klemperer (yes, Mr. A - Colonel Klink's Daddy was a famous conductor - though to clarify Col. Klink no kin to our resuming faithful correspondent Col. Blimp).

But Eug, what visuals, you and ol' Acker Bilk, Strangers at the Sh-urinal, pis- er, passing in the twilight, you might say. If only Pat Roach had come up from behind and given you the two of youse the heave-ho for missing the target...either John Osborne would have had an instant sequel to "Look Back in Anger" or "My Beautiful Laundrette II: The Jasper Carrot Castrato Songbook" would have materialized!

Well done Chris.

I remember some time back reading the accounts record of I think, King John and it provided a small sum for "two poore men to sleep with ye dogges." Would that some today were as thoughtful in such a practical way.

Mike, how pleasant to hear Daddy Ack once again. I used to say my only claim to fame was HRHs' YLM "Sandringham Sydney" pinching my cheese sandwiches; but I'm even more distinguished. I had a piddle standing next to Acker in the gents in Birmingham Town Hall. I did the same with Buddy Rich; did you know he's only four foot tall?

Eugene

MG

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Mike,

A friend, Sylvia Billingham, was a violinist with the CBSO when Louis Fremaux was stick wagger in chief ... didn't like him much, but there wasn't a lot she wouldn't do with yer man Rattle.

Between the TH and the Odeon me and Management saw Ellington, Basie, Ella, Buddy Rich, and Acker. At The Hippodrome as a kid I saw Roy Rogers with Dale Evans, Trigger, and Bullet, plus Spike Milligoon the night before the Birmingham pub bombings. I sang a couple of times at the TH, but fortunately the show closed before they found out where the odd noises were coming from.