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This thread is on life support. It would be a kindness to let it go.

ok, if thats the consensus of opinion

It's not... So there.

Hear hear

Well, those who wish to see this thread survive to reach 700 will have to start thinking of things to post in it. As the old maxim says "Use It Or Lose It".

I remember old Maxim well. He'd bounce me on his knee as the samovar gurgled. Bounce, bounce. Varya would look across with her face afrown. Bounce bounce. Quicker and quicker. I never understood why he'd suddenly pass me to Varya and scuttle out of the room.

Acrouch?

Appallingly tall and awkward, that shmuck: Yefim used to call him Maxim Gawky...

Why don't ypu go for a Chekhov?

A Pedant interposes: might it be that the young 'uns don't know how to reach the exalted heights of the six hundreds-odd without mucho scrolling? Could be why we're starved of young (yum yum) blood... May Poseur live long and thrive.

Time for one of those explanatory notes?