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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>As a non Caut, ageing, partially s=
ighted, hirsute tuner/tech, I find this thr=
ead....HILARIOUS !!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thank you all for reminding me of&=
nbsp;the
'warped' side of this 'strange' business.</FONT>=
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>I now return to the "lurk and =
;learn"status.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hubert Liverman</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Opelika,Al</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jlolson@cal.net href="mailto:jlolson@cal.net">Jeff =
Olson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 21, =
2006 12:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Reactions, =
was
disability insurance</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BR:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"I smiled and thought, "This guy is =
really
warped."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That just made me nostalgic for Monty =
Python. That was a pretty funny routine he came up with. =
:)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I first started tuning, people =
would often
say "My son/daughter isn't home from high school yet." So I grew =
a
sparse beard. Then they expressed reservations about their =
daughter or
son hanging out with a hippie.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sometimes there's just no winning in =
this strange
business :-).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>JeffO</FONT></DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=piano57@insightbb.com =
href="mailto:piano57@insightbb.com">Barbara
Richmond</A> </DIV>
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href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 20, =
2006 1:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] =
Reactions, was
disability insurance</DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jtanner@mozart.sc.edu =
href="mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu">Jeff
Tanner</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org =
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University =
Technicians</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 20, =
2006 12:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] =
Reactions, was
disability insurance</DIV>
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<DIV>But my all time favorite was a Doctor -- yes, an MD, a =
college
educated man -- who, when he found out what I did, said, "I =
thought you
had to be blind to do that."</DIV>
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<DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I arrived to tune this guy's =
piano and one
of the first things he said to me was when he was a child, the man =
who tuned
his family's piano was blind, so as a child he thought all piano =
tuners were
blind. Then, of course, he discovered later that no, a =
person
didn't need to be blind to be a piano tuner, but didn't I think it =
would be
a fine Monty Python scene--John Cleese at the desk of a vocational =
school
asking, "So, what do you want to be?"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The unsuspecting would-be =
piano
tuner would say "Why, I'd like to be a piano tuner, =
sir."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"All right, please step into that =
room and your
eyes will be plucked out....."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I smiled and thought, "This guy is =
really
warped."</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"I think I'm in luv."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We were married nine months
later....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond (coming up on our =
14th
anniversary)</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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