George Melly RIP
 

Don't know whether he was well-known
across the pond, but I just heard of his demise.
David

[quote=davieddy;109640]Don't know whether he was well-known
across the pond, but I just heard of his demise.
David[/quote]
PS You don't have to say much.
Any acknowledgement would be appropriate.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Melly[/url]

R.I.P.
 

[QUOTE=davieddy;109647]PS You don't have to say much.
Any acknowledgement would be appropriate.[/QUOTE]

:sad: I never had the good fortune to meet you George Melly, or know of your work but since David has mentioned you I take it you were one of us.
I will be following up on you to enjoy eternal life.

"Dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return,
Was not spoken of the soul"

Mally :coffee:

[quote=mfgoode;109665]:sad: I never had the good fortune to meet you George Melly, or know of your work but since David has mentioned you I take it you were one of us.
I will be following up on you to enjoy eternal life.

"Dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return,
Was not spoken of the soul"

Mally :coffee:[/quote]
You should be a preacher Mally.
All we need now is "Nimrod" from
Elgar's "Enigma" variations...

David.

P.S. Or "******"Blues or whatever.

Yo! Ho! Ho!
 

[QUOTE=davieddy;109668]You should be a preacher Mally.
All we need now is "Nimrod" from
Elgar's "Enigma" variations...

David.

P.S. Or "******"Blues or whatever.[/QUOTE]

:smile:

Yeah I missed my vocation Dave so I'm making it up now.

In this forum people talk of a previous life when they are evolutionists. I talk of a future life they cant ever imagine.

I would recommend 'Just a closer walk with thee' on the pipe organ full blast.

Shiver me timbers! '16 men and a dead mans chest,
Yo! ho! ho! and a bottle of rum!'

Mally :coffee:

[quote=mfgoode;109675]:smile:

I would recommend 'Just a closer walk with thee' on the pipe organ full blast.

Mally :coffee:[/quote]

Or the Cavatina from Beethoven's quartet Op 130
or "Abide with me". When it comes to "Songs to cry to"
we are "sans pareil"

David

Cavatina!
 

[QUOTE=davieddy;109678]Or the Cavatina from Beethoven's quartet Op 130
or "Abide with me". When it comes to "Songs to cry to"
we are "sans pareil"

David[/QUOTE]

:smile:

Now please dont kill me!

Beethoven was deaf at the age of 3 ASFAIK so he didnt know the noise he was making! Just letting off steam! :grin:

Mally :coffee:

[quote=mfgoode;109683]:smile:

Now please dont kill me!

Beethoven was deaf at the age of 3 ASFAIK so he didnt know the noise he was making! Just letting off steam! :grin:

Mally :coffee:[/quote]

I wasn't thinking of killing you
even if you were applying to be a
Muslim doctor in this country of mine.

My (doctor) father used to trot out the
following argument against abortion:
"Then you would have killed Beethoven"

David

With a biography as short as that, I don't think it was necessary to mention his sexuality. That would be like writing a one-page biography about me and saying I like fat girls. If we're going to honor the man, surely there's something better to put in there then the type of people he liked to sleep with.

Sexuality !
 

[QUOTE=jasong;109766]With a biography as short as that, I don't think it was necessary to mention his sexuality. That would be like writing a one-page biography about me and saying I like fat girls. If we're going to honor the man, surely there's something better to put in there then the type of people he liked to sleep with.[/QUOTE]

:smile:

In this modern world we have to amend our puritanic way of thinking as to what is right or wrong Jasong

Self conservation is a very important force in us humans. Ask any of the evolutionists amongst us. It is of primary importance for procreation or carrying on the race. Well sex is an essential part of SC. There is no two ways about it (pun intended!)

George Melly went thru a normal phase in life. Ask any public school boy about this. Up to adolescence a boy is bi-sexual. He is a 'two in one' and an experience then could change his whole life . Later George turned to what is accepted as a normal life for adults.

I think you should re -read his history and I reproduce it for your convenience.

["Technically, Melly was bisexual, but moved from strictly homosexual relationships in his teens and twenties to largely heterosexual relationships from his thirties onwards. He married twice and had a child from each marriage. He married his second wife, Diana, in 1963.[1] Their son, Tom, was born two days after the wedding. Diana recently published an autobiography of their life and (open) marriage together, which is included in the bibliography. In an incident that others might have considered hugely embarassing, Diana and George participated in a televised celebrity couples quiz in the 1970's. Asked separately what made them decide to marry, Diana announced "I was pregnant!" and George, in his turn, merely said, "The less said about that, the better." At the time of their marriage, such situations were considered scandalous."]

Perhaps he was more oversexed than you Jasong! And at an earlier age !

BTW: 'No eunuch can be a genius' Mally's axiom.

Mally :coffee: