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I actually minded ironing quite a bit less than most other household tasks, but I seem to have quit doing that too. Our cats spend a lot of time on our ironing board and I did have it covered with a blanket which fell on the floor some time ago so now there is kitty hair all over the ironing board ...

Will O'B wrote:Sorry if this report wasn't as exciting as you may have been anticipating.

I'm very disappointed. Please try to do better next time.

Texas has one or two odd ones. Perhaps the oddest is Walden. One that I used to pass by between Austin and Houston all the time was Old Dime Box. White Settlement is thinking of changing their name to something more PC. Negro Bend and Guy Town might want to do the same. Tom Bean strikes me funny. So...

In ancient times, you could see lots of jugglers at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference each year. One year they even had instruction during breaks. I worked with a pretty adept juggler who managed to teach it to several of our programmers, but I don't seem to have the attention span to master ...

Congrats. Great guitar--cutaway, too! My first good guitar was a little Martin--all mahogany, a 00-17, I think, much like the current 00-15. It was also purchased in Houston for Christmas--in 1961, for just $99.95. (For comparison, my parents' new three-bedroom brick house in the then-new Westbury d...

I prefer "The Ghost Breakers", with Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, and Willie Best.

Zombies in Cuba. Who knew?

My girlfriend plays Irish guitar and is interested in learning tenor banjo. Does anyone have any recommendations for an inexpensive starter for a Christmas gift? Thanks, Dan. Define "inexpensive". Take a look at the Gold Tone IT-250. Elderly Instruments has one at http://www.elderly.com/n...

djm wrote:More importantly, if humans had not invented the Hubble Space Telescope and put into space, would this stellar event have occurred at all?

A much more interesting question than that stupid tree falling in the forest bit.

Les Cruttenden wrote:ear V dots gets my vote......I hate it....how can so many folk be wrong !...I think we should start it up again........Les.

Please do. I seem to have missed the whole thing. I've never even seen sheet music with ears drawn in place of the dots.

The one where I wonder about people thinking they highlight the quality of an instrument by recording themselves displaying an inability to grasp the basics of rhythm and intonation hasn't been up for a while. Oh, good. Something someone said made me think that you were no longer with us (not dead,...

And so it is that I decree: "Chiff" = n. start-of-note chiff and "Turkey" = n. airiness or complexity of sound, previously (and erroneously) known as "chiff" I think that settles it. wink so, therefore Dale should rename the site "Chiff and Fipple with Turkey"...

crackpot Oh no. Fairy circles do exist. They are quite common around here. The crop circles that we heard so much about in the 1990's might be the result of the fairies doing more elaborate dances. I bet they got a new caller. "Circle right, circle left, promenade round and do-si-do." Tha...

Hi, Fiddles are almost always glued together with animal or even fish glue. Animal glue is made by boiling up the skin, hooves, etc of some unfortunate creature. This is probably what is rotting and causing the smell. That does seem likely, doesn't it? In that case, a hot knife and a precision stea...

I'm 63. I was sitting in a Mandarin class at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Our homeroom supervisor walked into the classroom, told us what had happened, and then told us to go back to the barracks. We were all stunned. A couple of friends and I sat around on our bunks with our guit...

I believe I noticed this on my Burke also. I felt that I was blowing out very hard to clear the whistle and the amount of spit that showed in the seams was quite small. I didn't feel it was a problem myself. Spit didn't show up in the crack during regular playing or when I blew it out more gently. ...