Still further off-subject, but on the subject of grunting... I was recently replacing a few broken bass strings at the Church of What's Happening Now and Bar-B-Que place. My usual (only) method for this is to feed the wire down behind the keybed, then assume the Yoga position on the floor to do the proctology portions of hooking up the string. I then stand up and finish the installation, and repeat as required. After a couple strings, my liaison at the church (who had been watching intently) broke silence by saying, "You must be in really good shape". This off-the-wall statement made me say, "Huh?" He explained that not once in the sitting down or getting up process did he here me "grunt" or moan, or, for that matter, make any sounds. I replied that I like to reserve my grunts for the important stuff -- falling out of the attic (knee injury), riding an air-borne motorcycle sideways to earth instead of jumping off (broken ribs), tripping over big dog (permanent leg scarring), being hit in the head by lift-gate (bad headache) -- things like that. IOW, I like to pick and choose when I grunt. Getting down on the floor and back up does not qualify. It just goes to show the things that people observe that they don't always mention. Meanwhile, I'm thinking of making myself a hickory walking staff! At 09:37 AM 11/17/99 -0500, you wrote: >'grunt'...... means 1. To utter a deep, guttural sound, as a hog does. >2. To utter a sound similar to a grunt, as in disgust. >Of the two I prefer the latter...as in when you can't get a unision to behave >itself after the 5th or 6th try or the repetition spring thingee won't work >as you desire. >Jim tnayrB (FL) Jim Harvey, RPT Greenwood, SC harvey@greenwood.net ________________________ -- someone who's been in the field too long.
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