<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Here's proof I am not a wimp..<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(you'll love this, Skolnik...)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:5198D989-783B-44DD-BBF7-B8C094506E11@oswego.edu"></SPAN><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Jan 11, 2007, at 4:42 PM, David Skolnik wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Michelle<BR><BR> Now there, don't get bent. That was "child", as in "honey-child". That, and your tender years, or ears.<BR><BR> As far as WIMP, well, if you want to really dispel <I>that </I>appellation, you could go to the limit with Ed Sutton's advice:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><FONT size="2">Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:35:16 -0500 (EST)<BR> From: <A href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">ed440@mindspring.com</A><BR> Subject: Re: [CAUT] huge pitch raise question<BR><BR> A good experiment is to intentionally break strings on a piano that's going to be junked. WEAR EYE PROTECTION. Tune a string as unison with it's upper neighbor, and the next upper neighbor, and the next....</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2"><BR> </FONT>You can really show'um...pull up those strings on a good piano, and don't wear eye protection. Yeah, now who's a wimp, eh? <BR><BR> David S<BR> <FONT size="1"><I>Urtext edition. All smilies expunged<BR><BR> <BR><BR> <BR><BR> </I></FONT>At 10:41 AM 1/11/2007, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Awwright now.<BR> That's it..<BR><BR> So far I've been called "jerk", now "child" and someone very <BR> important in this group (and to me) even called me a... (prepare <BR> yourself..) WIMP.<BR><BR> :(<BR><BR> I will only admit to being a jerk- and there's PLENTY of you on here <BR> I see.</BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>