Celebrity Croakers 2017
Mar 13th 2017, 12:51 pm
#151
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
I don't care whether or not other people "get" some artforms that I enjoy. I have an ongoing debate with my elderly mother, who tends not to like any classical music unless the composer has been dead for a good hundred years or so, whereas I love(some) contemporary classical stuff, especially modern choral music. She is determined that "it's all too clever for its own good" but at least is prepared to acknowledge that perhaps there's more to it than that. She will not choose to listen to it, but doesn't deride my choice to do so. Wise woman, my mum.
Mar 19th 2017, 12:21 am
#152
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Mar 19th 2017, 12:44 am
#153
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Wrong singer, I know 
Last edited by DaveLovesDee; Mar 19th 2017 at 12:55 am.
Mar 19th 2017, 3:34 am
#154
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Roll over Beethoven........room needed for one more!
Last edited by Yorkiechef; Mar 19th 2017 at 3:37 am.
Mar 19th 2017, 8:48 am
#155
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
I think our Yorkie friend is insinuating that, because he can't see the beauty in the artwork, there isn't any. And, by extension, those who do see the point of such art are metaphorically walking around naked.
I don't care whether or not other people "get" some artforms that I enjoy. I have an ongoing debate with my elderly mother, who tends not to like any classical music unless the composer has been dead for a good hundred years or so, whereas I love(some) contemporary classical stuff, especially modern choral music. She is determined that "it's all too clever for its own good" but at least is prepared to acknowledge that perhaps there's more to it than that. She will not choose to listen to it, but doesn't deride my choice to do so. Wise woman, my mum.
I don't care whether or not other people "get" some artforms that I enjoy. I have an ongoing debate with my elderly mother, who tends not to like any classical music unless the composer has been dead for a good hundred years or so, whereas I love(some) contemporary classical stuff, especially modern choral music. She is determined that "it's all too clever for its own good" but at least is prepared to acknowledge that perhaps there's more to it than that. She will not choose to listen to it, but doesn't deride my choice to do so. Wise woman, my mum.
It's a curious thing, musical tastes. Hard to know where they come from.
Mar 19th 2017, 8:57 am
#156
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Mar 21st 2017, 7:11 am
#158
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Martin McGuiness.
I claim my £5
I claim my £5
Mar 21st 2017, 7:45 am
#159
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Mar 21st 2017, 1:18 pm
#160
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Mar 21st 2017, 2:45 pm
#161
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Colin Dexter, writer of the 'Inspector Morse' books, aged 86.
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Mar 22nd 2017, 10:43 pm
#162
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Can I have Billy Connoly as my new pick please. Gord downie as my joker. Ta v much.
Mar 23rd 2017, 1:46 pm
#163
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Current standings:
197 - SchnookoLoly
185 - DaveLovesDee
97 - haggis88
55 - Oakvillian
34 - bats
RivingtonPike is still missing a joker.
Novo - you have Michael Grove as a pick, presumably that's supposed to be Michael Gove?
Mar 23rd 2017, 3:03 pm
#164
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Mar 23rd 2017, 3:04 pm
#165
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Re: Celebrity Croakers 2017
Seriously...I was really thinking this was the year that Charles Manson finally went... its long overdue!