Adam Wood.

Chonak, the TYRANT who BANS PEOPLE from our BELOVED MESSAGE BOARD... but he brought me Maple Leaf Cookies from Canada, so I also appreciate his great kindness and generosity.

I think Francis is a total nut, but I also think he's brilliant and I love him. I'd spend 8 hours on a plane with him, as long as we had an empty seat between us. (I am NOT sharing an arm rest.)

I both like and admire matthewj, but almost everything he says on the forum makes me SO MAD

I believe that the sentiment is mutual, Noel. Of all persons on our delightful forum, it is your occasional, um, unseemly? retort that causes me chagrin. But then, my experience is that many (not by any means all, but many) people with this or that unseemly attribute are really quite admirable persons with genuine human spirits. And, we could use more people who contribute as much as you to the cause of Catholic liturgical music.

Otherwise, I am disqualified from further comment on this thread. There are none whom I 'can't stand'. I may add, though, that Adam is one of the very most enjoyable interlocutors, both amusing and informative... and, occasionally, delightfully droll.

And Chonak? How could you hate anyone who brought maple leaf cookies? I buy Canadian ones every week at my grocer's. The brand is 'Dare', and they also make very good lemon cremes and coconut cremes. (By the way - why do we over here call cookies 'cookies'? They are baked, not cooked, and should, therefore, be called 'bakies' .......if not biscuits.)

DARE IS WHAT CHONAK BROUGHT ME. THEY ARE THE BEST.

I've never been on an 8-hour flight to anywhere...

I vote, based upon FNJ's title, for melofluent. I love you all, and my affection for Jackson is the same as Noel's. I have tried the patience of others whom I truly love, Kathy most of all, Richard a close second. I have also been edified by the support of many whom I'm offended in my zeal and rash responses and who've forgiven me nonetheless.
I thank God for all of you, and if He graces me, I think His face will most resemble Mahrt's.

matthewj should be a Canadian chameleon. They have good cookies there.

Why would you do that!? Canada is a very beautiful country. I've been all over the east and would be thrilled to live there. Except that, maybe, or so I've heard, after the new wore off I would find myself surrounded by folk who were far more liberal than I, even than most Americans. One of the things that is so magical about being up there is that 'south of the border' means Maine and Vermont! The more north I get, the more joyful is my spirit. Too, me being a royalist, it is very satisfying for me to be in one of HM's dominions. Where do you live?

Well, yes, I brought Matthew some Dare cookies, since my roundabout route to the colloquium last year took me through part of Ontario, and he didn't find them anywhere in Phoenix.

PGA and I have gone around before, but that's mainly because I like to play devil's advocate and play up whatever side he's not, just to make the point. That being said, I do respect the fact that he always stays on topic and does not resort to ad hominem arguments. That Stimson guy, however, you just can't reason with.

I don't understand this thread. Cookies are called biscuits and biscuits are called scones. I am very careful with sarcasm because sometimes Americans don't seem to get it. That was not sarcasm . In Ireland the more you slag off someone, that means criticise them, the more you probably admire them. Unless you actually hate them. Then everyone will pretend you are only joking. We have a very high suicide rate.

I am honored to be mentioned in this list. Curious, Adam... what is your definition of 'nut'?

Adam lives in California, so....

"California's a great place to live . . . if you're a grapefruit." - Rod Serling

One of the things that is so magical about being up there is that 'south of the border' means Maine and Vermont!

Having grown up in Maine (with a wife from Vermont), I constantly marvel at the fact that one can drive north, completely leave civilization, and then cross a border and suddenly approach not just civilization, but old European-looking civilization (Quebec). That and poutine.

I imagine it might be good to consult this thread before putting one's forum name on the Colloquium badge, in case folks hate your guts, or worse, think you have nothing of value to contribute (I just ask that if the latter is the case with me, you might graciously pretend otherwise; the former is fine with me :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-wmOYelnM

kenstb... tnx... for the kind words.

i have been re-examining my position for 50 years. when do we arrive?

OK... starting a new order of Catholic Church Musicians...

N.U.T.S.

What do the initials stand for?

JulieColl, since you have the degree in theology, you might have some ideas.

. . . And while we're on the subject of JulieColl!

"SSPX France" this. "SSPX France" that. We get it, Jules - you love SSPX France. Why don't we all just move to St. Nicholas du Chardonnet, eat croissants, never bathe, smoke a lot of cigarettes, and sing the Integralist version of "Kum-ba-yah"?!?

I do so out of love, Kevin. I love the French. (I'm actually guilty of at least three out of the five above, not going to say which ones.)

Zat ... mai woork een practissse, but not een theoreee.

It's the bathing isn't it Stimson?

No, Clerget, that's just the odor of mendacity.

And from antiquity....
https://youtu.be/QSo0duY7-9s