How do I stir up the Cambridge Philosophy budget scoffers?

My personal preference, in case anyone cares, is to be elevated to the perpendicular while attached to an oversize hockey-stick and then have my body cleansed deeply with tropical fruits rubbed all over me by midgets standing on little step-ladders.

MG:-

I always knew that senior officers were kinky cnuts.

Backwards we have stunc.

And where, may I ask is this long post you've been promising?

I'm waaaaaaaaaiting.

Lola:-

The long post is long enough for me to have to make an early start on it.It is an attempt to provide a refutation to your remark about movies not being suitable for significant learning.It also provides me with the opportunity to sport my literary skills for your entertainment and to have a good dig at the philosophers at Cambridge.Or anywhere else for that matter.It is all under control and will be revealed as and when these other entertaining diversions dry up.

Lola:-

I ought to add that the long post is one of my versions of two fingers up the noses of the authors of the Malleus Malificarum.

I also wish to have you in anticipation mode as I fear you read posts a trifle casually,as is your right,
and deny yourself a proper appreciation of the art much like those tourists who pass the Mona Lisa at approximately four miles per hour and then return home boasting at having "seen" it.Thus I am engaging in curtain raisers and drum rolls so that the meaning of your remark from way back-"This is no ordinary rabbit" can be seen as a successful prophesy.A salute to your perspicacity.

oh goody, I can't wait to have my head bitten off. Oh joy!

But I do NOT read your posts in a careless manner........I never hurry when I'm having fun.

Lola:-

That's a nice way of going about things.

Who's mentioned biting your head off.From where I sit that's your best bit.

The long post is all about ladies having slow,long drawn out,langourous,funstery fun.
I'm going to try to make it better tonight just for you.

By the way-when is your birfday.I have a brilliant Spoonerism (check trivia) which I intend to save up for the occasion.

see: Monty Python in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

And thank you for the compliment.......but you haven't seen my other bits.

Do you think Monty Python refers to a man's naughty bits?

Lola:-

Men don't have "naughty bits".

Oh no, not another smoker.....laughing

ok then, will you answer the question if I refer to it as a dick?

Lola:-

That's the general consensus among that class of persons who's minds turn on what one might term salacious allusions.

It could be a metaphorical reference to Field Marshal Montgomery who's column of tanks snaked into North Africa.The idea presumably being to suggest English humour would infiltrate the mind of the world and defeat the forces of fascism by laughter.I prefer that but I'm only an innocent country boy.

My time has evaporated.Vanished from my hand.

Oh no, not another one of those too. A smoker and an innocent (not) country boy.

And...........
Buy a computer, lovey. Give it up, you can't ride in a horse and buggy forever.......not if you want to get somewhere before it's too late.

Lola:-

I'm innocent enough never to have thought ever that Monty Python was a phallic joke.It's such a poor one if it is.

It surprises me a little that the one who pointed out the connection should object to McG's avvie in such strident terms.

If I bought a computer for my residence it would be just another distraction in what is almost an oasis of calm and comfort.

And have you not noticed how easily threaders run off.

There's another reason too.I like to consider what I say before saying it.I think instant responses are inevitably trivial most of the time.

Is there somewhere to get?

So much is timing, spendi.

But I understand if you feel you can't control yourself without external measures........that is, it might be nice to have an apartment with no electronics.......but the internet is a good source for me.....and I like stimulation.

McG's avie is just somehow too explicit. Not that I can't get into explicit.....but there's something about the gaudiness of it that annoys me. Autoeroticisms are nice, essential sometimes, but McG's avie is a cheap laugh. It's tawdry, tacky, thrashy, tatty....... I'm all for hands on mouses of all kinds. But I like a little class in my salacious pastimes.

And I liked my thought about Monty Python......and I'll bet I'm not wrong about it either.

Lola:-

Yeah.Timing is important.

I don't care much to disagree with Lady Lola but I think McG's avvie is quite creative.It is a high-tech version of a grand tradition.The best,and deservedly most famous,example hangs in The Louvre and will never be for sale.That is bald too but in da Vinci's time it was acceptable or at least it was amongst the better classes.Henry Moore specialised in more complex arrangements which are likely to appeal to the Major General's taste.McG's "gaudiness" is in keeping with modern trends I should have thought.

Please feel free to disagree with me.......I like people who do that. I'm not sure why I don't like McG's Avatar. I have nothing against masturbation......so maybe it's because it's McG's Avie. Maybe I feel it's disrespectful........but I'm usually not concerned about respect either. So, I don't know. In a museum I'd probably like it. But as an avatar, well........I have this negative reaction every time I see it. Must mean something to me.......I'll have to think about it, I suppose.

Lola:-

McG's avvie has nothing to do with masturbation surely?

The difficulty with things like that,as Mrs Whitehouse discovered,was that the mind of the beholder needed to be fascinated with certain subjects before the connection is made.(c.f.the Monte Python thing).Associations are a part of a trick-cyclist's tool-box.

good morning

Come on, Spendi, restore my faith in your good judgement and tell me you don't believe that.

You're so good at identifying and using nuisance. Is your genius limited only to words? You can't do it in pictures too?

Tell me you're joking.