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[Lady Jag]

Q: How can you tell if a violin is out of tune?
A: The bow is moving.

[Lady Jag]

THIS WAY YOU CAN WRITE OR CUT A CHECK

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFL!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Thread in need of bumping..........

[Fiddlstix]

[Fiddlstix]

90%

[Lady Jag]

Violin Practice
Little Harold was practicing the violin in the living room while his father was trying to read in the den. The family dog was lying in the den, and as the screeching sounds of little Harold's violin reached his ears, he began to howl loudly.

The father listened to the dog and the violin as long as he could. Then he jumped up, slammed his paper to the floor and yelled above the noise, "For pity's sake, can't you play something the dog doesn't know?"

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Soon......very soon......

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

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And now I’m going to be out for a couple hours. See y’all later tonight.

[Fiddlstix]

Must have been young Jack Benny trying to play "Love in Bloom".
LOL

[Fiddlstix]

Woo hoo!!

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[Lady Jag]

Have all 57 states contributed yet?

[Lady Jag]

Love in Bloom, how does it go?

[Fiddlstix]

That was Jack Benny’s “theme song” at the start of his show. Surely you remember it. He always messed it up (on purpose, of course)

[Fiddlstix]

Here it is:

Jack Benny: Love In Bloom

It's really a beautiful old song......
Jack really does a butcher job on it though.....

[Lady Jag]

Benny's cat would play along with Jack.

[Fiddlstix]

Here's a version by Bing Crosby. You notice a difference:

Love In Bloom (Bing Crosby)

[Lady Jag]

Despite the butcher job he does on the song I still remember it. Wasn’t that also used as background music for cartoons?

[Fiddlstix]

Actually Mr. Benny was a very accomplished musician. A master violinist, in fact. He even had his own orchestra for a while way back when (Little known fact).

[Fiddlstix]

Yes. It was. But it was Benny who really made it famous.