<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>In a message dated 8/19/04 12:00:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sarah@gra= phic-fusion.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will not belabor any of my points, as I s= aid I will not.  I stand by all of them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However:.........</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And then you again belabor your points.......</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't have a side in this. I don't know who had the operation and who= still pees standing up. In fact, I mostly read the board, and rarely post. = I don't read it however, to learn who is a transexual, what their life is li= ke as a transexual, how they feel about being a transexual, or who shot Geor= ge. I read it to learn from other technicians, with the *occasional* drift i= nto a little good natured, off topic conversation. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I read the post by the tech who apparently offended the transexual, and= no offense, but if I were to find myself in someone's home working on their= piano and a hairy guy in a tutu jumped out from behind a door, I'd grab my = hammer too - along with a couple of other choice parts...... </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've commented before that every time I post to a thread it dies. Here'= s hoping that this time this works to the group's benefit..... I'm tired of = my mailbox being stuffed full of emails of people arguing about who offended= whom, who shot George, and I don't want to know anyone's sexual preferences= (unless you're a cute blonde girl with big boobs, but we'll take that one t= o private email....  ;)  )  All I want to hear from you or an= yone else is answers to people's questions about action regulation, tuning t= ips, tool talk (and I don't mean *your's, or your lack thereof.....) and stu= ff related to pianos. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you're a transexual, fine. Now we know it. Do you have anything wort= h talking about that pertains to pianos? If you do, talk about it, because f= rankly I'm sick and tired of having to delete all this crap. If I wanted to = read this I'd subscribe to the National Enquirer.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sorry for my two cents worth, but I have to wonder what's happening aro= und here - this *is* Pianotech isn't it?......</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Larry</DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>