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.