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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Hehehehe... next thing you know, Nana and Jr will be out on the town, getting matching tattoes and wreaking havoc... oh wait, you'd probably be happier if that happened.
Back from church. It was good. Choir was brilliant. I dropped the Honeybaked Ham and the wines at my friend's house. Tomorrow I get to bake yeast rolls! And pecan pie! Enough for ten people, a real dinner at last!
reckon they saw you put it up?
nobody passed when we put it up...
hope they jest missed us this time around...
Ev'nin... [sip]
Back on the ground. Mostly.
Was on the way back from the airport, and KVI (radio station) had Brian Suits on his evening show. He just got back from over a year in Iraq as a LT in the Army reserves. He's a good guy. He did some reports from the field over the last year that were really compelling.
I called the show. Subject was 'guns in schools'. My point was that people who can carry in public ought to be able to carry in schools. Like teachers. There's no point in making schools some kind of 'free fire' zone for bad guys. Why create a whole area of town where bad guys know they can go and kill at will with nobody shooting back?
It seems so odd to say now, but I was on my high school rifle team. We had training classes there. We kept the rifles at the school. We cleaned them there. We didn't shoot them there but rather at the indoor range at the WNG armory down the street. We all kept guns in our lockers, or in our cars. We carried our rifles around the school to and from the parking lot. Nobody ever thought anything about it.
[sigh] Jus' don' make no sense.
jenb you havew a great time...
glad the choir was good... how many they got singin'...
'Course back in yer day, that wuz just fer protection from the Indians...
Let's see. Three altos, six sopranos, a tenor, three bass. We should have more on Sunday, usually we have 5 altos and 8 sopranos. I have to go over to the choir director's house tomorrow night because I'm singing - by myself - the Alto 1 part on a Mendelssohn chorus and it's hard.
It's nice to sing with people who can sing together as a group and are singing for the right reasons.
my point 'zactly... why do people hijack planes?... cuz nobodies armed... why do they rampage a schoool?... cuz nobodies armed... what you don't hear about, is some disgruntled P.O.S. goin' on a rampage in a doughnut shop... why? cuz there's bound tuh be cops there...
Heh... next time Luke goes to the doctor, have the doc stick him a few extra times to instill that proper fear...
...Vader's "mouth" was supposed to move?
I hear they're going to include that in Episode III and "restore" it in the next CGIfication of the Original Trilogy.
I'm kidding!
Heh, that's about the size of the choirs we were in for 15-20 years. So I sang tenor because I "could." I do it now because I increased my vocal range.
But instead of bein' the only tenor, I'm one of 25 in a choir of 150. But we're more of a praise and worship choir.
I love our choir, but sometimes I really miss the more serious choral stuff.
wow... small group... but that don't mean they can't be effective...
yer right about bein' able be a "part" of a group and havin' the right motivation...
we got lotsuh talent in our choir, but little ability to "blend"... and much to the director's hysteria, little to no carry over from rehearsals week to week... we can practice a piece for a month, but it's like they've never seen it before every week... I memorize the music, so its vey irritatin' tuh me as well...
Hair will back this up... but we had an uncle who was just about the worlds' most mild and most perfect gentleman. He was married to our aunt, who was very likely the most nasty and cruel woman to ever walk the earth. He died some years ago, proving yet again that the Lord is a merciful God.
He was an engineer for Boeing. He made models of new planes to test in the wind tunnels. He was the quietest, most meek and gentle guy you'd ever want to meet, but was the sort of guy that you'd want to go fishin' with for a week. Just damn pleasant to be around. She, on the other hand, was possibly used as the model for Cruella DeVille. She kicks dogs, just because the are there.
I'll never forget that evening in the basement of his house when we discovered that he was running a still. He was makin' everclear. He just turned around a smiled, and said:
"You gotta have sumpthin". :-)
Says volumes.
I keep gewttij asked tuh do tenor solos, cuz I can... my vocal chords ain't too happy 'bout it tho...
the good thing is our director picks some great, challenging, doctrinal music...
We Virginians understand about Papa's "recipe."
well did he cut yuh in?...
I gotta learn how how tuh distill muh own alcohol...
It's the biggest choir I've ever been in! And the room is smallish, with hard wood floors and the accoustics are great, so we don't need mikes.
We're pretty good at blending, and good enough at remembering what we did that the director changes the dynamics and such every time we practice. It's annoying. He's a "real musician" type and thus probably shouldn't direct a choir this small, but we all put up with each other.
And one of the basses is a cute young guy but we won't go there ;-)
I've had to accept the fact that I'm not on the soloist list. But when there are 15-20 guys who are good enough to be professional, I'm waaaaaaaaaay down on that list.
I occasionally will get a musical theater type solo in the Christmas show. But there's a group of us who call ourselves the "Not Ready for Praise Time" singers...
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