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Concerning the recordings by Alessandro Moreschi, the last castrato, he cut six sides for the Gramophone and Typewriter Co. in 1902 and 1904. Mr. Gaisberg of G&T sought to record the voices of both "Professor" Moreschi and Pope Leo XIII.

At first, the Pope refused to allow the recordings to be made ...

This rumour raises an important question in my mind, however. Suppose that eventually the EA DOES close, what will happen to the stories ? As the author of about 120 of them, this is of great concern to me. This is my literary legacy [Lah de Dah !] and I don't think that I have copies of all of them.

Beau Geste, I agree with you completely. I would rather err on the side of compassion even if someone is trying to make a fool of me than turn away someone who needs help.

Advice, even good advice, is cheap. We lose nothing by giving good advice to someone who asks for it and may well need it. Even ...

Balls, definitely, my dick is "my dingaling": my favourite toy. I'll give up my teddy bear, but not THAT !

Greetings and welcome.

The photographer was Robert Mapplethorpe. Though best known for his pornographic photos, he was, in fact, a superb photographer, in demand as a portraitist by celebrities. He was also a fine photographer of flowers, having mastered the extremely demanding dye-transfer colour printing process.

Like ...

I know where you're coming from. When I was a teenager, homosexuals were regarded as filthy, unnatural, vile, evil, disgusting, contemptible, well, you get the idea. I was fifteen when I suddenly realized that I was "one of THOSE".

I couldn't even stand to look myself in the face in the mirror, but ...

To me, you look like a man in his mid to late 20's. If you are 20, then you look mature for your age.

With my luck, when my ship comes in, I'll be waiting at the airport.

I tried the two-steel-bars device several years ago, though the screws were at the ends only. I found it to be excruciatingly painful. Though there was severe pain in the cords, the worst pain was in the scrotum. Unfortunately, I did not have access to a topical anæsthetic.

I left it on as long as ...

I had been plagued by anxiety, about 24/7, since early childhood, and occasional panic attacks. About 10 years ago, my physician prescribed Prozac which gave me hot flashes and severe vertigo. He changed my prescription to Paxil and, for the first time since I entered elementary school, I found ...

Mebbe so, but, I seem to be inconsistent with the pattern shown by many of those who have posted in this thread. I have had castration fantasies ever since the onset of puberty . They have nothing to do with domination and submission.

In my personal relationships, I have always been dominant, some ...

Shaky ? If fasting makes you feel shaky, you may very well have diabetes. This is one of the earliest symptoms. Diabetes, especially type II which is likeliest at your age, can be controlled by any of several drugs, such as Metformin, Avandamet, Actos, Actoplus Met, etc.

Shakiness was the first ...

I agree with Blaise. There are various causes for vertigo and defective equilibrium, some serious and some not. Are you on any blood pressure medications ? Some cause vertigo as a side effect. Sorry I can't remember the name of the worst offender in this respect, as I have been off it for years.

I ...

Happy Birthday, young man. May you have MANY more to look forward to.

Only 63 ? EGAD, I was in high school when you were born. Well, young feller, enjoy this one and you should be able to look forward to many more to come.

I recently attended the competition of the finalists in the tryouts for the Connecticut Opera Company. One of the contestants is a young man named Alexander Korn. He is a natural male soprano, like Richard Maniaci.

He is evidently a normal male (he shaves, for example) yet he has a true soprano ...

The complete expression is "Many happy returns of the day."

To JVC321

A 12-volt car battery can deliver hundreds of amperes if the resistance is low enough. However, human body tissues are not good conductors of electricity. For a car battery to deliver 100 amperes requires that the resistance be 0.12 ohms. The resistance of a penis is, I would guess, about ...

It approaches zero on the Y-axis as it approaches infinity on the X-axis. In terms of the duration of the present, it means that the value of the duration of the present is less than any specifiable number, however small it may be.

The reasons that the subjective present seems to have duration are ...

In a recent interview by a falsettist, Michael Maniaci and the falsettist [whose name I did not catch] both mentioned that the falsetto voice has a very narrow dynamic range, mainly loud, and a different timbre from a true soprano voice. I have also noticed that the falsetto voice is "white", that ...

As I see it, Mac, all we have is the past as we retain it it in our short-term and long-term memory. There is no present because it has no duration, being only the boundary between the unborn future and the dead (but remembered) past.

[I admit that this poses a philosophical question. If the ...

You didn't mention whether you are still troubled by kidney stones, but I suspect that you are. I discovered a preventive for kidney stones about 30 years ago which has proved successful ever since.

I recommend taking 500-1000 mg. of magnesium every day. After a very painful kidney stone in my late ...

When I was a young man, I used to wear briefs for support, but as my nads deteriorated with age, I finally reached the point when I said, "They're not doing anything for me; why the hell should I do anything for them ?" So I went back to boxer shorts which I'd worn as a kid, before I had anything ...

When a member becomes a perceived menace to other members, any action, however drastic, is justified. However, ISP bans, admittedly the last resort, can be very unfair to others.

I once tried to join a forum which interested me, only to be told that I was banned. I wrote to the administrator in ...