Handel vs. Elgar death match

[Elgarian]

It no longer elicits endless frenzied reactions...

Yes it DOES!                         Yes it DOES!                                Yes it DOES!                                                        Yes it DOES!                                 Yes it DOES!

[Elgarian]

Just wait 'til you see the photo he's got of Handel . . . .

It's the photo of Elgar he might have that really worries me.

[karlhenning]

Oh, don't even go there.

[Elgarian]

Oh, don't even go there.

[karlhenning]

E - D - Wuh
A - R - D
E - L - G - A - R

[karlhenning]

(Coincidence?)

[Elgarian]

(Coincidence?)

Ahem.

Karl, I suppose it will be blindingly obvious when I see it ...

but ...

will you give me a hint what the heck it's about?

[karlhenning]

Mickey, six letters.

Edward, six letters.

[karlhenning]

Mouse, five letters.

Elgar, five letters.

[karlhenning]

As for the connection, that was suggested by the footwear and gloves featured in your peculiar . . . picture.

[Elgarian]

M - I - C

K - E - Y

M - O - U - S -E

Should I be seeing something here? (Gloves? Footwear?)
Should I jump over this nearby cliff if I don't?

[karlhenning]

No, under no circumstances should there be vaulting over cliffs.

[Elgarian]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Yes, I see. Elgar as Mickey Mouse. Yes indeed. Leading from our previous interchange, I was trying to show my worst nightmare of the kind of image DavidW might have up his sleeve. And you were basically telling me that you'd seen that, viz: "Elgar as Mickey Mouse". But I didn't realise you were merely telling me that you'd recognised the Michel Souris-ness of my chosen torso....

Next, time, shall we try discussing something simpler, like applying General Relativity to 10-body planetary systems? Or analysing the spangularity coefficient of double-edged bubblegriffs?

[71 dB]

After all this Disney nonsense I tell my opinion:

Elgar > J. S. Bach > Handel > everybody else

That's my opinion. Nobody can deny it. 0:)

[Elgarian]

After all this Disney nonsense

I can't be certain of course, but I think Elgar would have enjoyed the nonsense, being fond of his 'japes'.

[71 dB]

I can't be certain of course, but I think Elgar would have enjoyed the nonsense, being fond of his 'japes'.

I wasn't referring to the "number-of-letters" thing but overall discussion. Some people just can't discuss about Elgar seriously. Handel vs. Elgar is an interesting issue and we don't need Boy George or Mickey Mouse here (all I have from Boy George is a DJ mix from 1995 on React label: "Poptartz, CD 3").

[knight66]

Does that mean you have no Mickey Mouse? Oh!

If you look at the origin of this thread, it has been full of japes from the start. There is another thread for the serious side of Elgar...as well you do know.

Mike

[Wanderer]

Mouse, five letters.

Elgar, five letters.

This can't be coincidence...

[knight66]

Elgar is an anagram of the name of a horse, not a mouse! Remember the Ken Russell film? All those white horses running slowly round fields...that proves it.

He never actually existed, his music has been written by a number of little known composers who banded together to give the music a 'brand.' Who is fooled into thinking that the same person penned the wonderful Gerontius as wrote that dreck 'The Kingdom?'

So, I can now reveal, the name was produced as an anagram of Glaer, a mythical horse who was ridden by Norse gods.

I rest my case.

Mike

[Elgarian]

So, I can now reveal, the name was produced as an anagram of Glaer, a mythical horse who was ridden by Norse gods.

Well you've almost convinced me, Mike. But I subscribe to the idea that 'Elgar' was a pseudonym used by the reigning monarch of the day; so Queen Victoria composed Enigma, George V the Coronation Ode, and so on. 'Elgar' is an anagram of 'Regal' you see. Obvious once you spot it.