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08-01-2008, 07:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | | need a snappy comeback
Maybe I'm dull or something but I've never known how to reply to people who say "That's a big violin!" or "You should have got a violin" when I'm lugging my bass around (I am smaller than the average bass player). Any ideas?
When I occasionally show up with a fiddle and people ask what happened to the bass, I tell them I washed it and it shrank.
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08-01-2008, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | You could tell them that it mutated after falling in some radioactive goo. Now it fights crime at night. 
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08-01-2008, 08:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | "That's a big violin!" "Yeah - I got it to match the size of my head."
"You should have gotten a violin!" "Nah - then it would have SOUNDED like a violin, too."
You're welcome. 
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08-01-2008, 08:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Iowa (Quad Cities) | | | I felt the need to overcompensate for something.....
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08-01-2008, 09:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | "Obviously, you're not a golfer." |
08-01-2008, 10:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Seattle | | | You could whack them with your bow and say "You still think it's a violin?"
Or pull a REALLY BIG machine gun out of the case.
edit: "That's not a violin, that's my WIFE!"
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08-01-2008, 10:09 AM
|  | Remember 12/21/2012! ...it's my birthday! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cheviot, OH | | | oh "expletive deleted"!!!! I brought the wrong one!!!!
And to really drive home the point, carry on with some more sarcastic whining and fake sorrow till it's not even funny anymore.
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08-01-2008, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | "That's a big violin!" - Yeah, I ordered it online from a shop in TX. I guess everything really is bigger there.
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08-01-2008, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Georgia | | | It said, "Just add water" on the package. I guess I put in too much.
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08-01-2008, 10:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Racine, Wisconsin | | | (them)......"that's a big violin" (you)......."I like ice cream" |
08-01-2008, 10:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | "I went with quantity over quality..."
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08-01-2008, 10:31 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | 'No, it's regular-size; we're just shrinking...'
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08-01-2008, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by mjt0229 "Obviously, you're not a golfer." | My fav so far. Plugging in for the laughs.  |
08-01-2008, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ham Lake, MN | | | Stolen from the guy on Last Comic Standing (Tavre IIRC): "This is my violin. I made it myself. Sometime I get millimeters and centimenters confused..." and if there is a pretty girl handy lean toward her and say "I'll show you later." |
08-01-2008, 10:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Poulsbo,Wa | | | Tell them the case is actually their coffin, disgiused as a double bass case.
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08-01-2008, 10:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | | I always reply with "You think THAT'S big?...." |
08-01-2008, 11:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | "Yeah, she's really let herself go since the baby." |
08-01-2008, 11:26 AM
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Endorsing Artist: GHS Strings | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: 818 ~ 805 ~ L.A. | | | Tell them they need tighter pants.... |
08-01-2008, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada | | pull out your endpin and threaten them with it.  "You wanna call it a violin again, punk?:"
A related story (sort of): My bass teacher, on going to a store to buy a new cane tip to put on his endpin. "It's always fun walking around downtown Toronto with a giant metal spike." 
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08-01-2008, 11:57 AM
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Luthier, Custom Builder | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: West Lafayette, Indiana | | | When they say something about it being a big violin tell `em that your violin took too much viagra and this is what happened....
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