Les, As a fine, upstanding son of the soil, I'm sure you know whereof you speak. Just for the sake of morning clarity, however, you do know how many Irishmen it takes to change a light bulb, do you not? Why, 10, of course! One to hold the light bulb. And, 9 to drink until the room is spinning! Now, if I can just figure out where Jim hides the beloved branchwater... Cheers! Horace At 01:20 AM 3/19/1998 -0500, you wrote: > > >On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, ralph m martin wrote: > >> Les >> Jim and I have been noticing for quite some time, your flagrant use of >> common sense. Time and time again you are guilty of displaying this >> wretched behavior. >> We say,"to hell with the pianist...we give him a weird tuning and it is >> his responsibility >> to make it sound normal" >> >> Any further display of common sense will result in your being forced to >> listen to Irish folk music day and night for a period of six weeks. >> >> Consider yourself warned!!! >> >Have you ever noticed how, when Irish folk music is being played, every- >one listening is always boozing it up, big-time? At first I couldn't >figure it out but then it dawned on me: some music and drinking are just >MADE for one another, they naturally go together. For me it works this >way. First, when I start out listening, the music usually doesn't sound >too good. But then, after a couple of drinks, I find that it starts >sounding better. And so it goes--the more I drink, the better and better >the music sounds, until finally-- just as it starts to sound REALLY >GREAT--I pass out cold. :( > >I mention this because if I should accidentally express a common sensical >idea in some future post, I'm prepared to pay the price. I think I could >probably endure the two of you singing Irish folk songs night and day for >six weeks straight IF I had enough to drink. HOWEVER, you should be aware >that the more I listen to Irish music , and the more I drink, and the >better it starts to sound to me, the more inclined I am to JOIN IN! In >which case, you'll want to make sure that YOU'VE been drinking right >along with me! > >Now YOU have been warned! :-) > >Les Smith > > > > > Horace Greeley, CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer Controller's Office Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 650.725.9062 fax: 650.725.8014
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