There's thread drift and thread drift, but this particular one takes the biscuit. Very little has actually been said about the song that is the supposed subject of this thread. I haven't counted, but it's only half a dozen or so posts.

(GUEST         08 Oct 24 - 04:48 AM) was me, my cookie having evaporated without my noticing. In response to that Robert said "To shear 200 was within the realm of possibility, but I don't think a native Australian would have been likely to claim that. I think that's Bert Lloyd being Bert Lloyd.". Whether that particular bit was introduced by Bert or was there before is not important: the whole song is a tall tale, not expected to be regarded as a true one.

Dick said "Until you or Nick Dow or Robert produce examples of Lloyds fake scholarship, your allegations are unproven." Plenty of examples have been well documented elsewhere and I see no need for this thread to be bloated by repeating them here.