To clarify (in the hope of short-cutting more back-and-forth on this minor point) - several posts ago (middle of the previous page?), a contributor who is not (unlike me) one of the crazy band of regulars on this thread, offered an attemptedly humorous comment about homosexuality being 'made compulsory'.   Jim picked up on this, Ake responded to Jim, offering the (alleged) musical ability of the original 'joker' as significant in some way.

Hey ho.