The Definitive Non-Answer Off Tropic answer to Tuning Hammers, How Many?

Avery Todd avery1@houston.rr.com
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:51:38 -0500


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At 04:48 PM 9/14/05, you wrote:
>Quentin (Sam Quentin? From California?)

It's SAN Quentin.

>  said: "Isn't it sufficient to have "only" one tuning hammer??? If 
> it is necessary, we can change the tips, but why carrying more than one?
>
>Well, the answer to this is oblivious,

Oblivious??? I thought it "might" be obvious!

>but I'll try anyway:

OK.

>
>This is the problem that Einstein* wrastled

"WRASTLED" with?

>with in his later years: The effect of a singularity in hammerness 
>is not universal

Man, this sounds like you've been working for the government too long!

>--at least not univeral in this universe. Specifically, generally 
>speaking, my Uncle Max and Aunt Min, relatively speaking, and many 
>odd sorts and even sports have examined this mummified unified 
>uniform unicorn (why not?) theory of tuningness but found flaws 
>related to the space-time continuum, that is to say, the space in 
>your trunk and the time it takes to decide which one to carry or use and ....
>
>... shall I continuum or quittum while I'm behindum? Heap Ug.

Please quit! :-)

>Anyway ...
>
>Even the aboriginal arboreal arbitrarily trivial tribe, the Jerkin 
>Tuneans of the South Tunean Islands--who subsist largely on a diet 
>of wrest plankton, hammerhead sharks (#2 tips, usually), bass bass 
>... which can be caught without trouble on a treble hook, left hook, 
>right uppercut, wrong underwear, goggle-eyed naked-ladyfish-shaped 
>artificial bait, that is to say, ensnared from their lair with lurid 
>leering lures, disnested and bested by Artifice (Melvin's 
>brother-in-law) and subterfuge (an undersea type of trefuge) but I 
>digress somewhat ...
>
>... have never  come to grips with the oneness of multiplicity, the 
>duality of the singular experience, the group singularity of 
>multiple but plural onenessess, nor, finally, last and least of all, 
>pant pant, thank goodness, the existential (whateverTHAT means) 
>existence of exhaustive examinations of the proverbial but 
>anti-adjectivial tuning lever question: Are two heads really better than one?
>
>Really now, I ask you. And since, technically, no two tuners know 
>nor nary care nor ne'er concur (since it can't be answered), why not 
>have three? Or four? Or more? Hammers Galore!

I thought you said you were going to quit! Oh well, I've been 
disappointed more than one time
in my life!

Avery  
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