This thread is becoming mostly just an excercise in various people trying to "one-up" the other and score some kind of petty verbal victory over them. The only respect in which it's unusual is that WAV is on one side and almost everyone else is on the other side. Other than that it's the normal vain and endless trail of ego-jousting that we see going on all the time on contentious threads here.

Nothing to get excited about, in other words... ;-)

So, may I join the fun too and take a petty shot at someone?

Ahem. I shall now take a shot at Foolestroupe.

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Foolestroupe, the Leonard Cohen song is not 'First we take Manhattan, then we take New York'. It is 'First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin'.

And if I may paraphrase your own remarks to WAV (after correcting your many typos):

There are far too many widely educated people here - in almost ANY field of knowledge (since many people apart from professional musos (?) also have music as a hobby, while earning their pay from Street Sweepers to Rocket Scientists) to tolerate people like you, Foolestroupe, from just 'making it up as they go along'.

You are rapidly digging yourself into a hole of ridicule and no respect, mate!

Truly, it is better to keep one's mouth closed and be thought a Fool, that to open it and remove all doubt!

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Heh! Now, wasn't that petty? Oh my, but it was such fun. MMMM...mmm!