Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

Of all of our cohort (roughly speaking) who've more-or-less recently passed, it's her death I find most affecting.

I pretty much wore out this CD:

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understand like

 

[Haroldo]

Eat some fried chicken then play without washing your hands. Works wonders for deadening flats. So I’ve been told.

Shonna Tucker, it's alleged, just glops it directly onto her strings.

 

[Haroldo]

Scary is ballet dancers' feet.

And again speaking of one of the greats too soon gone (and ballet!):

 

[12BitSlab]

Shonna Tucker, it's alleged, just glops it directly onto her strings.

was it not Jaco who started the chicken grease on your strings thing?

 

[Haroldo]

was it not Jaco who started the chicken grease on your strings thing?

The plot thickens. Somebody in Wikipedia thought is was a 'misattributation' that Jaco coated his fingers in chicken grease - whereas actually it was James Jamerson who ate fried chicken beforehand to get good 'n' greasy. More detective work awaits! (See 'Removed MisAttributation'.)

Talk:Jaco Pastorius - Wikipedia

 

[beans-on-toast]

Shonna Tucker, it's alleged, just glops it directly onto her strings.

Deadening strings seems to be a common theme. Here they’ve bottled it in the form of finger-ease.

 

[Haroldo]

Deadening strings seems to be a common theme. Here they’ve bottled it in the form of finger-ease.

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Yep, and our own @JimmyM is a great fan of the original Eucerin if memory serves.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Shonna Tucker, it's alleged, just glops it directly onto her strings.

Yep, and our own @JimmyM is a great fan of the original Eucerin if memory serves.

Deadening strings seems to be a common theme. Here they’ve bottled it in the form of finger-ease.

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Lockdown, with an audience of a dog and a Webcam, provides me with way enough time to break in flats unaided by gypsy remedies

 

[beans-on-toast]

Lockdown, with an audience of a dog and a Webcam, provides me with way enough time to break in flats unaided by gypsy remedies

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The problem with deadening your strings with rib sauce and chicken grease is that dogs like to clean up.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Odin does, in fact, clean my plates.

 

[Al Kraft]

Odin does, in fact, clean my plates.

Having a German Shepherd is also a guaranteed way to never have to scrub a plate, pot, or pan when washing dishes.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I came across a book this afternoon at that same antiques mall that I bought that original catalog from an Alfred Stieglitz exhibition the last time we were there. The same seller had a 1847 version of Noah Webster's The Elementary Spelling Book. Pretty decent condition but decided dat ey ditnd knead aknee knoo edjukadin.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I came across a book this afternoon at that same antiques mall that I bought that original catalog from an Alfred Stieglitz exhibition the last time we were there. The same seller had a 1847 version of Noah Webster's The Elementary Spelling Book. Pretty decent condition but decided dat ey ditnd knead aknee knoo edjukadin.

Maybe close enough.
http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/websterspellingbookmethod.pdf

Noah Webster (Webster, Noah, 1758-1843) | The Online Books Page

 

[notJaco]

Yay!!!
I got excused from jury duty!
So Glad. I would have had to drive an hour and park three blocks away.
Not only that but my hearing what it is and my hearing aids being lame (lame, not cheap) I would have been a pain in the @$$ for the other jurors.

 

[GonePlaid]

Yay!!!
I got excused from jury duty!
So Glad. I would have had to drive an hour and park three blocks away.
Not only that but my hearing what it is and my hearing aids being lame (lame, not cheap) I would have been a pain in the @$$ for the other jurors.

What?

 

[Jeff Scott]

Yay!!!
I got excused from jury duty!
So Glad. I would have had to drive an hour and park three blocks away.
Not only that but my hearing what it is and my hearing aids being lame (lame, not cheap) I would have been a pain in the @$$ for the other jurors.

In some ways I wish I'd get picked for jury duty so I could mess with them.

They will cross me off their potential jurist's list permanently.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Watched two sheriff's deputies escort a shackled woman into the county courthouse as I took coffee this morning across the street. She was masked, the deputies were not. Trust there are no lip readers the jury.

 

[G-Dog]

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Mrs. Dog and I both have harrowing stories from jury duty. From traffic tickets to murder, and everything in between, we've seen it all. And it was real life, too, not just on tv. On one side, it's appalling the tricks lawyers try to play in court, much less the ignorant reactions of jurors in the jury room! On the other side, it's inspiring to see (un)common sense mesh with the law in some very sticky cases. Abd it can be true life heartbreaking and/or heartwarming in domestic cases.

Jury duty is not just a civic duty, but an education in civics and human nature. I highly recommend it!
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[Al Kraft]

In my experiences on jury duty many of the deputy marshals and deputy sheriffs were not very kind or respectful to the jurors as we were herded around.

 

[G-Dog]

In my experiences on jury duty many of the deputy marshals and deputy sheriffs were not very kind or respectful to the jurors as we were herded around.

We've found a distinct difference in attitude between very polite & grateful state courts and the very authoritarian federal courts. Don't know why that is.
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