Why, Dave, from some of the responses I got on that other thread. Have you looked at them? They suggested to me that some of those who accused me of 'pomposity', called me 'dinosaur', and so on, seemed to have lost the important distinction of doing it for pleasure ~~ of themselves and the spectators ~~ and doing it to attract 'attitude' in the onlookers. I appreciate there was always a 'fun' aspect, represented by Betty & Hobbyhorse and other such comic elements; but a distinction seems to me to have been lost, in the responses I got there, between wanting the audience to laugh with you at those parts, and inviting them to them to laugh at you because the whole gestalt was somehow a bit comic & OTT. I am happy if I have this wrong and this is not your perception; but that was how I felt the feedback I got there ~ hence this thread.

~Michael~