Nuts are we

[altariel]

I am loving this page of snooker chat, and this is my favourite bit:

"If Ronnie is the Mozart of snooker, then Alex was its Beethoven."

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Ronnie is the Mozart of snooker in that Mozart swore a lot, but then he had Tourette's... I love little Paul and was delighted when he won (partly because I can't stand the ground that carries O'Sullivan). I wonder if Paul put the famous Plan B into operation?

Yes, Alex would have to be the Beethoven. Or in other contexts the Van Gogh, the James Dean, the Christopher Marlowe...

Re:

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd be pleased about Paul winning, which did mitigate the blow of Ronnie's defeat - a little *g*

I guess this would make Steve Davis the Fleetwood Mac, and Stephen Hendry the Stock-Aitken-and-Waterman.

Re:

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Dunno about those musical affiliations (I see Davis as Cliff Richard), but if the Irish folk song The Parting Glass hadn't been written last century, its first verse could have been made for Alex's epitaph:

Oh, all the money that e'er I had,
I spent it in good company,
And all the harm that e'er I did,
Alas, it was to none but me.
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall,
So fill to me the parting glass,
Goodnight, and joy be with you all.