Mention of The Smurfs made me think about the narure of this thread and its inherent contradictions.

You see one of my best mates is The Smurfs. He plays all the music and he does all the voices on their records. He is certainly the finest musician ant the cleverest studio engineer I have ever met, and a really nice cultured man. But all the gold discs on his wall are for being a Smurf - well maybe one or two others but certainly the most of them are.

Now some people see the Smurfs as garbage, a waste of the world's finite resources - Oasis won't even let them parody their songs. and yet some people obviously have derived much pleasure from The Smurfs.

I like the Smurf input into Mudcat - probably more than I do the anal music stuff.

I suspect I'm obnoxious on both counts. A good religious upbringing will do that for you.

You see brethren, Jesus had it about right when he said, he who casts the first stone, let him first remove Smurfs greatest hits from his own cd collection