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Date:         Fri, 19 May 2000 10:30:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Not this thread again!!!!!! (WAS: Cool accessory -- not
              politically correct)
Comments: To: Joel Walker <jwalker@BAMA.UA.EDU>
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Once again Joel, a breathe of fresh air. Or maybe brass air. Being a reed player myself I don't hold with brass folks but in the spirit of the list I say live and let them brass player just hush up.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Walker" <jwalker@BAMA.UA.EDU> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Not this thread again!!!!!! (WAS: Cool accessory -- not politically correct)

> > Then, someone mentioned that she should bring a gun to protect > > herself and her children. That's when it started. (And this > > thread is starting to sound very tired and familiar) FOR TWO > > WEEKS the stupid subject went back and forth, and my delete key > > got the best workout it had ever had (or has had since). > > yeah! i remember that!! it was all about violins in america and > how carrying buns in your car would cause violins and all that > stuff. i still don't understand it all, but hey! i've got me a > fiddle right under my back seat!!! let some Pillsbury doughboy > try to mess with me and i'll fry his undercooked butt!! that > g-string on my fiddle is a mean one! > > personally, i prefer brass instruments, but you have to keep > shining them all the time and the spit valve makes a horrible > noise if the tubas aren't playing to cover it up. :) > > > PLEASE - I IMPLORE YOU, my delete key implores you - stop this > > madness before it gets nasty!!! > > aw, lettem get nasty! i'm all keyed up now for some violins!! and > that one fellow has already posted about backpacking git-fiddles > ... a veiled threat if ever i read one!! next thing you know, > someone will come up with the fact that, in a camper with the top > popped, you can play a bass or cello standing up!!! > > i never liked them string section folks anyway!! all frayed > around the edges if you ask me. and the drum section ... wound > way too tight. > > > PS: I am withholding my opinion on the whole gun subject, since > > I think it is silly to even discuss it on this forum. It is > > pretty easy to figure out that there are about two or three > > subjects that ANY group of humans WILL NEVER AGREE ON, and gun > > ownership is certainly one of them. > > the only subjects that are verboten are sex, religion, and > politics. cause any discussion of those starts violins... and the > next thing you know, the whole damned orchestra is whacking each > other with batons and throwing sheet music at each other ... or > trying to tune their instruments and creating a horrible racket. > :( and if it's after 9pm, the park rangers show up in their > little nazi trucks and throw us all out of the park!! and after > we PAID for three days, too!! i tell you, it was not a pretty > sight. :( > > > To quote Rodney King during his trial: "Can't we all just get > > along...?" > > i'll get along when they pry my trombone from my cold dead > fingers!!!! i ain't gonna take much more of this violins!!! i'm > tired of elevator music and all those damned string quartets!!! > where's some dixieland jazz ensembles?? how about some sousa > marches! yeah, that'll lift the spirits! get rid of those wimpy > violins and cellos and guitars!! > > > Off the soapbox, > > so, then, like if the director is off the soapbox, can we take a > break?? > > :) > > hey, it's Fryedaye, right? :) > > but i still don't like violins.


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