Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

That was my line of reasoning, too. Paul turned music into money and more fame, which is a bit different.

I’ve held back commenting. Ringo is a great drummer. Any of us here would be ecstatic to play with someone like him. He is famous for being a Beatle. He parlayed that into a fortune. Well deserved IMO. One of the good guys in music.

 

[dagrev]

At my last company, we discussed the merits of the practice at some silicon valley companies of removing chairs from meeting rooms. I suggested that, if we were truly interested in shortening meetings and pursuit of physical fitness, we should replace the chairs with treadmills. The treadmills would start slow and gradually speed up as the meeting went on. The two day quarterly strategy meeting would have changed drastically...

On occasion I've seriously thought of having everyone stand during certain meetings where some want to talk more than necessary. (I typically read my mail standing in my office so as to not get too engrossed in anything not that important.) Thunderbird related email always requires sitting.

 

[PillO]

ThunderBirds are best meant for ganglion aliens. Uh, i'll just step aside now.
Ya see, no corner can contain me.

I'm offended! I am built like a fire hydrant but Thunderbirds are still meant for me! Under the 14th amendment, everyone can equally enjoy a Thunderbird!

 

[PillO]

That was my line of reasoning, too. Paul turned music into money and more fame, which is a bit different.

I suspected as much. I was thinking the pure ability to negotiate fame into other income/wealth. Paul had a leg up making money when he was getting all those royalties. Ringo was trading on name recognition alone.

And as long as we are talking Ringo… If Rod Stewart was so interested in model trains, why was it Ringo on Thomas the Tank Engine!?

 

[JJR58]

pin-ball has no "corners" (just sayin'...)

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[PillO]

Can actually be worse. (But possibly the diagram might help with that as well. Win! Win!) Fortunately not most of the time in my case. Extended worker meetings may be another story. But not as bad as HOA meetings where everyone seems to have the goal to out stupid the person next to them.

I often wonder in these situations. Is it that people won't think or that they can't think. I lean toward an atrophy model that suggests the former leads to the latter.

 

[PillO]

I’ve held back commenting. Ringo is a great drummer. Any of us here would be ecstatic to play with someone like him. He is famous for being a Beatle. He parlayed that into a fortune. Well deserved IMO. One of the good guys in music.

I'm impressed with Ringo also. Never overplayed - always served the song. I could point to rich and famous rock drummers who are not nearly as good... And are disagreeable people to boot.

 

[JJR58]

I'm offended! I am built like a fire hydrant but Thunderbirds are still meant for me! Under the 14th amendment, everyone can equally enjoy a Thunderbird!

Meant no offense. Maybe a corner really is needed for me.

 

[PillO]

Meant no offense. Maybe a corner really is needed for me.

I might not be as offended as I claim. But I might be as well, you won't know until a moderator contacts you, or doesn't.

Just trying to give you the Schrodinger's cat dog experience.

 

[Gaolee]

For what it’s worth, I find the strap button on the heel works better on Gibson style basses. I relocated the button on my LPJ shaped object (which has a wenge neck that’s crazy heavy) and it hangs better. I wear em low and I have long gangly arms, so results may vary.

I relocated the strap button on the 2013 EB for the same reason. Button at neck heel works far better than anywhere else. I haven't experimented with that button location on a FSO. It ought to work.

 

[Gaolee]

I'm offended! I am built like a fire hydrant but Thunderbirds are still meant for me! Under the 14th amendment, everyone can equally enjoy a Thunderbird!

No. You live in Canada. All bets at off.

 

[PillO]

No. You live in Canada. All bets at off.

I exist in Canada. Have to go to Vegas to live...

 

[JIO]

I’ve held back commenting. Ringo is a great drummer. Any of us here would be ecstatic to play with someone like him. He is famous for being a Beatle. He parlayed that into a fortune. Well deserved IMO. One of the good guys in music.

I agree - and still performing. He was the most 'neutral' Beatle, and skirted a lot of the pit-falls of his bandmates. A surviver I guess - more power to him!

 

[JIO]

Hope springs eternal.

I'm a strong advocate of the chaos theory.

 

[dagrev]

I often wonder in these situations. Is it that people won't think or that they can't think. I lean toward an atrophy model that suggests the former leads to the latter.

I won't disagree at all. I think some of the blame is to be found in the industrial education complex. Way too much telling students what to think (especially in the humanities at the under and post graduate level), instead if how to think critically for oneself. Too much thinking with emotions/feelings--which were not designed for that purpose (try doing a financial that way). Critical thinking has led me to the conclusion that Thunderbirds are quite possibly the most wonderful basses ever made. My feelings just happen to agree.

 

[RedVee]

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Abarth, who’da thunk ?

I'm offended! I am built like a fire hydrant but Thunderbirds are still meant for me! Under the 14th amendment, everyone can equally enjoy a Thunderbird!

Yay!

Just read a Rolling Stone interview with Geddy Lee about his book. He mentions Thunderbirds favourably and bemoans that his ignorance kept him from utilising a T’bird all those years until recently.

 

[MCF]

I suspected as much. I was thinking the pure ability to negotiate fame into other income/wealth. Paul had a leg up making money when he was getting all those royalties. Ringo was trading on name recognition alone.

And as long as we are talking Ringo… If Rod Stewart was so interested in model trains, why was it Ringo on Thomas the Tank Engine!?

Because Neil was too busy.

 

[MCF]

I won't disagree at all. I think some of the blame is to be found in the industrial education complex. Way too much telling students what to think (especially in the humanities at the under and post graduate level), instead if how to think critically for oneself. Too much thinking with emotions/feelings--which were not designed for that purpose (try doing a financial that way). Critical thinking has led me to the conclusion that Thunderbirds are quite possibly the most wonderful basses ever made. My feelings just happen to agree.

Not sure I agree with your first premise. I was a humanities major at UC Irvine in the seventies. Wonderful school. Wonderful professors. Not once was I taught what to think. I was taught to think critically and question everything. Maybe it’s different now. If it is, that’s a shame. But to say anymore would get into politics. We don’t do that here. I do agree with you about THUNDERBIRDS!

 

[GBassNorth]

That was my line of reasoning, too. Paul turned music into money and more fame, which is a bit different.

Yeah, but he never reached the heights of Thomas the Tank Engine like Ringo did.

 

[GBassNorth]

Not sure I agree with your first premise. I was a humanities major at UC Irvine in the seventies. Wonderful school. Wonderful professors. Not once was I taught what to think. I was taught to think critically and question everything. Maybe it’s different now. If it is, that’s a shame. But to say anymore would get into politics. We don’t do that here. I do agree with you about THUNDERBIRDS!

Campus life has changed a lot since the 1970's. For the good or bad can be debated elsewhere, but as a 1970's higher education student and more recently a campus recruiter interviewing under grad talent for potential employment it's a completely different world out there now.

I guess TBirds have even changed a bit since the 1970's, again not good or bad, just different.