Hey Neil,
Thanks, mate, for all those KPS's. I find, in some disbelief, that I've been posting there for nearly 10 years myself, so I calculate that I came on board at half-time. What a huge contribution you've made to the Kinks community. Your sterling work has certainly made a difference to my life; I've found new friends on- and, more to the point, subsequently off-line, for which I am enormously grateful. Not to mention finding new music - Decemberists, Fountains of Wayne - first heard of in the digest.
The KPS is, almost all of the time, such a civilised place to be and I'd say that that - albeit you'd expect it of Kinks fans, in all their different varieties - owes a lot to you, Neil. "Act nice and gentle" seems to be your watchword when an intervention is judged necessary and it works.
Anniversaries always seem invidious and artificial to me; I'm not a great celebrant. It's just another day; here comes yet another day, just like any other day. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", T.S.Eliot has his protagonist say in 'The love songs of J.Alfred Prufrock', and all these tributes to you are a sort of love song that could have happened anytime.
But ... 3,000 with all the zeroes. Put 3000 into Wikipedia and you get a 'disambiguation page'. Wonderful word, that; you can hear Ray using it - gotta stand and face it / life is so disambiguated). And hey, what about 3K, kindly Kinks komrades? The action in Matt Groenig's brilliant 'Futurama' is set in the year 3000. We discover that the 3,000 metres in athletics has never been a men's event at the Olympics, and the women dropped it in 1996, so perhaps more to the point is Major League Baseball's informal '3,000 hit club', membership of which entails making 3000 or more base hits (whatever they are) in their professional careers. This from Wikipedia: " A player's 3,000th hit is not a surprise, as the player has been gradually approaching the mark for some time. However, teams will often interrupt the game in which the player reaches the mark in order to honor him on reaching a historically significant milestone ... Getting 3,000 hits is generally
considered ... one of the most reliable marks that a player deserves admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame." Neil, consider yourself inducted.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer the pace of the digest format over the other forums with their tangled threads, icons and nom de plumes (nom de keys?). Long may you - and the digest - run. May you stay forever young. Thank you for the digests, thank you for the days.
Cheers,
have a cup of tea
Dave Quayle
Thanks, mate, for all those KPS's. I find, in some disbelief, that I've been posting there for nearly 10 years myself, so I calculate that I came on board at half-time. What a huge contribution you've made to the Kinks community. Your sterling work has certainly made a difference to my life; I've found new friends on- and, more to the point, subsequently off-line, for which I am enormously grateful. Not to mention finding new music - Decemberists, Fountains of Wayne - first heard of in the digest.
The KPS is, almost all of the time, such a civilised place to be and I'd say that that - albeit you'd expect it of Kinks fans, in all their different varieties - owes a lot to you, Neil. "Act nice and gentle" seems to be your watchword when an intervention is judged necessary and it works.
Anniversaries always seem invidious and artificial to me; I'm not a great celebrant. It's just another day; here comes yet another day, just like any other day. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", T.S.Eliot has his protagonist say in 'The love songs of J.Alfred Prufrock', and all these tributes to you are a sort of love song that could have happened anytime.
But ... 3,000 with all the zeroes. Put 3000 into Wikipedia and you get a 'disambiguation page'. Wonderful word, that; you can hear Ray using it - gotta stand and face it / life is so disambiguated). And hey, what about 3K, kindly Kinks komrades? The action in Matt Groenig's brilliant 'Futurama' is set in the year 3000. We discover that the 3,000 metres in athletics has never been a men's event at the Olympics, and the women dropped it in 1996, so perhaps more to the point is Major League Baseball's informal '3,000 hit club', membership of which entails making 3000 or more base hits (whatever they are) in their professional careers. This from Wikipedia: " A player's 3,000th hit is not a surprise, as the player has been gradually approaching the mark for some time. However, teams will often interrupt the game in which the player reaches the mark in order to honor him on reaching a historically significant milestone ... Getting 3,000 hits is generally
considered ... one of the most reliable marks that a player deserves admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame." Neil, consider yourself inducted.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer the pace of the digest format over the other forums with their tangled threads, icons and nom de plumes (nom de keys?). Long may you - and the digest - run. May you stay forever young. Thank you for the digests, thank you for the days.
Cheers,
have a cup of tea
Dave Quayle
