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Agreed. Anyone who can offer further insight into MVR and his comrades and the aerial conflict in WW1 will always be a welcome presence in my book, and the wider view that we all share a common interest should always rise above personalities if it can further our knowledge.
It's probably also worth noting with regard to another issue mentioned earlier in this thread, that although not everyone who contributes to online forums may be a professional historian in the monetary sense, I suspect that most amateur historians, are only amateur in that minor regard, and almost certainly every bit as committed to taking research very seriously indeed.
We'll probably never pin down the origins of colloquialisms and idioms such as eponymous Circus references, but anyone who can give it a good shot should be afforded the opportunity to do so, because when all is said and done, we're all after learning what we can.
Al
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Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Ash: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
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