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missy wrote:and, of course, you follow the crick back to the holler.

Back at Northern Illinois University, the trickle of water going past Cole Hall was called "Watson Crick."

I guess someone thought it would be funny to make a pun that required both scientific literacy and a drawl to understand.

s1m0n wrote:

Caj wrote: You are quite literally judging a book by its cover.

Not so; I am judging a band by your representation of same. If the picture I have is faulty, you know know whom to blame.

Balderdash. Your brilliant analysis quite literally begins, "with titles like that...." And then it ends.

Some of their self-produced albums, like "We'll Never be Sober Again" or "The Pint of No Return" are exactly what I imagined the Pogues would become. With titles like that, they're either writing bad pastiche or subtlety-free parody. Shane McGowan wrote songs about other things,...

but realistically, what someone from Binghamton NY has in common culturally with someone from east-central Mississppi seems to me to be a very small subset. I defnintely wouldnt include any of NY, and "blue-out" at least half of the PA portion. Hey, I resemble that remark. Actually, those...

Unspectacular. I think everyone was expecting McGowan's "rock'n'roll paddy" concept to converge to something more punk rock, but in the end the Popes evolved into something more like American country music. And not the bluegrass variety, but the annoying CMT "Big Ticket" kind. I...

Well actually, I do see a difference. The gadget isn't going to get bored, and you're not going to feel guilty that you might be trying its patience. Exactly. This severely reduces the difficulty of the exercise: instead of having to learn a tune on the spot with few attempts---a challenge that bui...

Basically I think it's a bad idea to use technology to ease the learning process. You want to develop the ability to play a tune after you hear it. To acquire this skill, you must repeatedly listen to tunes and try to play them. You're not supposed to use technology to reduce the difficulty of this ...

Many of the suggestions in Teach Yourself: Training Your Brain are surprising, such as cuddling a baby, cheating at school, reading out loud, and doing your university degree in business studies. And don't forget getting a Nobel prize. Research says that people who get Nobel prizes also score very ...

All these thick fake russian accent in GoldenEye! I never understood why they had all the Russians speak English in that movie, just with an accent so you knew they were Russians. As movies push for greater realism, this comes across as progressively cornier. Other Bond movies weren't above a subti...

Azalin wrote:I've been practicing for years now for more than 1-2 hours a day because one day I want to stop playing this music the wrong way...

Boy, playing with me at IAW sure has motivated you.

Caj

izzarina wrote:

Redwolf wrote:And, of course, there's Hugh Laurie....

I didn't even realise that he was English Shows you how attentive I am to such details.

Oooh, then you haven't seen him in Black Adder yet?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0uKLhFm4P8E

Caj

The waiting list for a set of seth pipes is approx 4 years and would set you back $9,200 + about $1600 import duty if you were in the uk This is about the same waiting time as high-end concertinas, and a price that would fetch you the very best of concertinas. I would not swap those pipes except fo...

Kevin Costner, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. . That was the worst, I guess. Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. In his first line in the movie, he's trying to (a) say his line, (b) do an accent and (c) hold his head still and make eye contact. You can see the struggle on his face; I think from ...

They were never all there at the same time! Surely they know better than to do that. You get a shaky egg, a tambourine, an electric bass, a set of spoons, some bones, a washboard, and a triangle all going to the session at once, and the dialog would go something like this: A: Was that a slow air? B...

Once one of our group played a beautiful set on a low D, and I was so engrossed in the music that I leaned too far and toppled off my wobbly chair. Unfortunately I toppled into him, ultimately putting a dent in the whistle. Thankfully this dude is a builder and repairer of fine instruments, so he sa...