troglodytes

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Hear here,
Thumper has laid out his position succinctly here.  I can appreciate 
where he's coming from.

Remember that email is a communications medium shorn of 80% of the 
communication we usually rely on; ie non-verbal cues--tone of voice, 
facial expressions, hand/body gestures etc.  As such we are stuck 
with words out of the human context.  lf we spoke what he wrote, it 
might be offensive.  He would speak in his own manner which he has 
honed through his life.  I've spoken to him and done business with 
him.  He's not a "red-neck" in the worst sense of the term.

Simply put, remember to moderate what you say because people can't 
see your tongue in your cheek and that left eyelid drooping, or... 
was it the right one?  If you're reading it, stick your tongue in 
your cheek and droop your preferred eyelid. ;-)

Andrew Anderson

At 05:16 PM 6/12/2006, you wrote:
>Dear Mr.Avery,
>     That comment was specifically designed for those
>few whose heads are in the cave located in their
>Southern Hemisphere, who "poo-poo" the whole very
>serious issue of the health hazards we may create for
>customers, in eagerness for their cash, by ignoring
>the real risks associated with mouse feces. Surely
>you, of all people, would trust information provided
>by the Government on this issue ???????
>    Jesus said: What does it profit a man to gain the
>world, yet lose his own soul ? " and I live by that.
>If a  piano is too contaminated to be healthy for a
>person to have in their house, I'll tell them and
>refuse to work on it. Besides becoming hospitalized
>and spitting up blood after tuning one such piano,
>there is the issue that the more money someone spends
>on a  piano, the more attached they become to it. And
>they may  force their child to practice on it, kicking
>the keys ( and air ) up and down directly over the
>keybed, the most likely area of contamination ( see
>the proscription in the article about "aerosolized
>contamination" ) and then the child will put their
>fingers in their mouth, pick their nose, etc..
>     I don't want that on my soul.
>     It is a  very serious and common temptation for
>tuners to work on pianos that should, for health
>reasons, be seriously cleaned, totally restored or
>trashed. I enjoy the beautiful music pianos create as
>much as anyone. But humans are more valuable, in God's
>sight. I have offered a number of solutions to this
>problem, here, and, quite frankly, have been assailed
>with a  lot of extremely un-Godly ridicule. That, as I
>sense it, is the nervous response of tuners who don't
>want to admit to themselves that they have been guilty
>of aiding their customers in becoming attached to
>boxes of filth that posea serious health threat.
>According to a scientist I spoke with at UGA, there
>are 142 dangerous diseases that are spread by rodents.
>Not just "hantavirus."
>
>Peace,
>       Thump
>
>
>P.S. Most of the people on this list are not
>"troglodytes". ( At least I hope not! )
>
>
>
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