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10-12-2009, 02:46 PM
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10-12-2009, 02:49 PM
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are you linking to a personal email? |
10-12-2009, 03:06 PM
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Thanks, R. (whered you go?).
Yeah, Kev. I did link to my email then read your post and went back in with the Snopes link.
Anyway, true or not, sounds like a swell time. 
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10-12-2009, 04:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ubley, North Somerset | | | My favourite line, for some reason: "Provocative rising to one's feet during solo performance is forbidden"
This would make an excellent teeshirt. You are required to wear it 80% of the time. |
10-12-2009, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by padmavyuha  My favourite line, for some reason: "Provocative rising to one's feet during solo performance is forbidden" | Yeah, I guess they never heard that old line..."A standing ovulation".
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10-12-2009, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Thanks, R. (whered you go?). | Sorry, first I quoted the whole thing in case it was a problem on Kevin's PC and not the link, then decided that it would be better if folks just followed the link so they got the whole story. I have no basis to judge the authenticity, but there's some pretty informed discussion, and I didn't want to imply anything otherwise by only posting part of it. The comment by one poster "it's truthful without the impediment of accuracy" may best sum the whole thing up.
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10-12-2009, 10:49 PM
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10-13-2009, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Yeah, I guess they never heard that old line..."A standing ovulation". | Is that where you muff your solo and get egged? |
10-29-2009, 11:13 PM
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Makes me want to see "Swing Kids" again. |
10-29-2009, 11:47 PM
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I heard about that movie when it first came out then forgot about it. Thanks for the idea....I'll see if I can find it.
Was it good?
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10-30-2009, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton I heard about that movie when it first came out then forgot about it. Thanks for the idea....I'll see if I can find it.
Was it good? | Swing kids is an excellent film. I use in my history classes to illustrate how so many Germans were drawn into the Nazi movement. And I also introduce them to some great music. I always enjoy watching the kids get into the music and dancing.
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10-30-2009, 10:06 PM
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10-31-2009, 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer I've seen this list before. Think it's been e-mailed to me a few times. Wow were those German guys ever strict. You know the world's shortest book, " A Thousand Years of German Humor". | Right next to 'Great English Cuisine' ! |
10-31-2009, 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Jake deVilliers Right next to 'Great English Cuisine' ! | I spent about 6 months in Great Britain doing recording projects in the 80's. It was the coldest winter I've ever lived through. The only way I could keep warm was to fill the bath up as hot as possible and then drink a few Cognacs. I'm not sure I was warm but at least I was numb. The English menus left lots to be desired excluding the Indian shops. I developed a life long taste for Indian food after that sojourn.
I'm guessing that the surname deVilliers is French? If so, hats off to French cuisine! 
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10-31-2009, 02:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ubley, North Somerset | | Yeah, we're pretty long on stodge and dead animals over here in Britain. High carbs for a cold climate.
But to put it in perspective - I was in the States in 2000, and was writing a travel poem in which I'd included the line "Can't you buy any food over here without sugar in?" but I cut the line as too brutal. Then I got a plane from NYC to Denver, and... the little packet of salt that came with my in-flight meal contained dextrose. The line went back in the poem.
Plus the yanks have this stuff they call 'cheese' HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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10-31-2009, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer | 'de Villiers' was French until the time of the Norman Conquest! |
10-31-2009, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by padmavyuha Yeah, we're pretty long on stodge and dead animals over here in Britain. High carbs for a cold climate.
Plus the yanks have this stuff they call 'cheese' HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! |
Point taken Padmavyuha. I will say that I'm a diehard fan of English humor and wit.
I remember flying over to London in the early 70's, getting to my room at the hotel and switching on the tele. I proceeded to watch the funniest thing I'd ever seen on TV. It was Monty Python and they were doing the parrot sketch. We did not have this show in the states at the time and, this brand of humor was so far out there, by American standards, that I thought I might be hallucinating from jet lag or something. The next day some of the English guys we were working with assured me that the Python's were very real and part of a long line of of crazy British humor. 
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10-31-2009, 03:31 PM
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+1.
I take no responsibility for being A WARBURTON. The old man was from Manchester, a piano player by trade. The town of Warburton is in that area.
Brits are whacko.
My old friend, tenorist Spike Robinson went over for the first time and was met by the promoter, a stodgy lady dressed severely, hair in a proper bun......the old School Marm type.
First words outta her mouth: "How the f*** are ya?".
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11-02-2009, 02:37 AM
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11-02-2009, 07:24 AM
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+1.
Don't forget Japan.
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