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| June 10, 2005
| KATI CORNELL SMITH
Posted on 06/10/2005 1:58:53 PM PDT by MRMEAN
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To: fatnotlazy
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posted on
06/10/2005 2:46:20 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: fatnotlazy
Reader's Digest had a great story years ago about some crazy guy in New York who used to carry a big white plaster bucket around, sit himself down in a subway car, and stare blankly into space for a while and talk to himself as the other passengers sat uncomfortably in the seats around him. Suddenly he would turn the bucket upside down, whip out a pair of drum sticks from his ragged jacket, and start banging on the upside-down bucket. The author of the story -- who may have been a percussion instructor at Juilliard or another exclusive school like that -- swore that he had never heard anyone play a drum as well as that guy.
I once gave $20 to a Jamaican guy in New York City who played kettle drums in Times Square. At first I thought he was just plain "good," but I was amazed to see that he could play any tune that any random passerby requested. It's one thing to hear someone like that play "Yankee Doodle Dandee" or "Mary Had a Little Lamb" -- those folks are a dime a dozen -- but there must have been several hundred people gathered around him when people realized that this guy could play requests that included the theme song from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Rossini's "William Tell Overture," "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, and a number of scores from Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto."
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:01:17 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
To: MRMEAN
BUMS UNITE!
Shop stewart Barny Arughhhh.
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:24:29 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
("Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.")
To: Jubal Harshaw
To: Alberta's Child
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly Complete with Josh White psychadelic light show ???
To: jwh_Denver
"What happened with your Dad?"
He was ok, just got his car smashed up.
To: Jubal Harshaw
"Well of course he caused an auto accident! He was blind for Pete's sake!! Have you no pity?"
LOL! I was expecting one like that!
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