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@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

Please excuse this post placed under “Humor”. It is about Father’s Day, and being posted on the day itself, I felt that the discussion would be very limited and short lived. Never the less I wanted to share my thoughts with the group. Being a comeback of three years I have done virtually no posting in the technical sections of trumpet playing, so I am posting these thoughts in the section that I have the highest comfort level in.
It’s Father’s Day today in the United States, which caused me to reflect on the past 40 years of my life. During this time I have lived in the Florida Keys, a 112 mile long chain of beautiful tropical islands interconnected with roads and bridges south of the Florida Peninsula. I raised my family there, and now my children, who are well into their own independent lives, are raising their children. Over the last 40 years I have witnessed many touching situations. The following is one of the most memorable and touching experiences I have had in the Keys involving a father and his children, outside of my own family. It’s about a friend of mine, Doug P....r who was born in the Keys, as were generations before him dating back to the mid 19th century, when they came over by boat from the Bahamas. Doug was a true “Conch”.
Doug P.....r lived all his life in the Florida Keys and was on his deathbed. He knew the end was near. His nurse, his wife, his daughter and two sons, were with him. He asked for two witnesses to be present and a camcorder be in place to record his last wishes. This is where I came into the story as a witness. When all was ready he began to speak:
“My son, Bernie, I want you to take the Ocean Reef houses.”
“My daughter Sybil, I want you to take the offices over the Marathon Government Center.”
“My son, Jamie, I want you to take the apartments between Mile Marker 100 and Tavernier.”
“Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings on the bayside on Blackwater Sound.”
The nurses and witnesses were literally blown away, as none of us realized that this wonderful man, the consummate father and husband, who lived his whole life so modestly had such extensive holdings. As Doug slipped quietly away, the nurse said, “Mrs. P....r, your husband must have been such a hard working man to have accumulated all this property.
Sarah, his wife, replied, “The asshole had a paper route.”

Why, I oughta........<|>…9¥@$$#$&” haha! You had me all the way till the end. Good one. What a setup! The name, the details....as if.......yeah, really got me good.

I don’t think I’d be able to really stretch out in those cramped conditions...

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

But then, what is a farm without its FARM DOG:

Ha, ha. She looks so familiar, as though I spent time with her, yet we have never met.

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

I know of this one VERY WELL

Not too many people know the story behind this painting, Doc. The cold, snowy February morning I decided I should take advantage of the fresh snowfall and clear blue sky and take some reference photos. That was a Saturday. The following Monday someone asked me if I could do a painting of a winter farm scene. Who was that someone?

trying to downsize these images with photoshop. let's see if this helps.
now, if you would like to look at a time-lapse video of most of my work on this painting, go to my facebook page, @Wayne R Mathisen and use the sound, too.
https://www.facebook.com/1592745394281517/posts/2299820856907297?sfns=mo
I will try to improve the quality and filming of these as this is my first one.

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

Yes, there are many variations on abstract painting which succeed as art and not as garbage, but like any artistic endeavor, there is a whole range of competence and lack thereof. One would not look at abstraction, however slight, and declare it to be photographic, but to be offended at such a compliment reveals a lack of character and ability IMO. A lot of art consists of sycophants stroking fragile egos over what, from any rational perspective, is crap, not art.

To a great extent I agree with you. I go back and forth with what the world has accepted as Art today. A cleaning person collected one display and threw it in the trash, quite innocently too. This cleaning person was the only honest person employed by the museum. Everyone else pretended it was art.
A huge rock is on display in some museum in LA.
Not doin' it for me.

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

Me thinks Mrs Tree has a bug up her ash!

I think she meant, beech, beech, beech!

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

I am aware that there are artists who are insulted if you say their work looks like a photograph. I've known one personally in the past who threw a punch at me for saying so. I've dabbled with painting myself and tried but never could get that photographic look. I am drawn to art that has that look and I admire the talent of those who can do it. When I made the remark about Wayne's work, I truly meant it as a compliment, and I wasn't worrying about getting slugged because he lives many, many miles away from me...

Don’t worry about saying that to me. I take it as a compliment. I have refrained from punching people for far worse comments than that!

@Vulgano-Brother said in A little humour:

G. Raffe, famous musician who specialized in novelty tunes.

And high notes

here is another one to view. North Carolina Mountains Overlook

@Tobylou8 said in Artist on BOARD:

I can't remember the movie but it was Sandra Bullock and she was working in a "Starving Artist" paint shop. She pressed buttons and a sponge would make a mountain ridge, another one would paint birds. It was a funny scene. Anyone remember the movie?

Sounds like a horror movie to me

@administrator said in Artist on BOARD:

Why aren't their any paintings of Hoboken?

Well.......I have never done a cityscape and Hoboken would be quite a ways down the list if I were to start

I forgot to mention, that last Lighthouse Painting was from a photo by Ivan Hunter he kindly allowed me to use for reference. Thanks, Ivan!

Some Other Yogi quotes.
When driving to Cooperstown with Whitey Ford and their wives after Whitey said he thought they were lost, Yogi said, “yeah, but we're making good time”
When asked how many slices he wanted his own small pizza to be cut into, 6 or 8, he said, better make it 6, I don't think I can eat 8 slices.
When playing the game 20 questions on the train, his first 2 questions were always: 1. is this person alive?
2. Is this person dead?
“ Nobody eats at that place anymore, it’s too crowded”
“ when you come to the fork in the road, take it”
“ Pair up in threes and do laps around the outfield”
“ it gets late out in left field early at that stadium”
In response to Mayor John Lindsey's wife telling Yogi he didn’t seem to be bothered by the heat at all: “ You don’t look so hot yourself” he said.

The company was very good to Tony when he got hurt on the job. They let him take Aleve.

I spend a bit of time in airports. Not record breaking amounts, and I'm sure many if you spend more time than I, so save your replies....I get it.
But here are some of my observations.

1. There is a weight limit on checked bags. I see people at check-in who had an overweight bag. What do they frantically do? Transfer that surplus weight to their carry on, which, if I am not mistaken, goes right into the same plane that would been overweight, had they not taken care of the problem.
2. Announcements are fun, too.
   "For security reasons, do not leave any bags unattended. If you think anyone has put anything into your bag without your knowledge, please notify airport personnel immediately" need I elaborate on that?
3. On board, you see the same types shoving their (oversized) carryons into an obviously too small space, over, and over, and over. Never once altering the direction or angle of this water buffalo sized bag.
4. Announcement comes on that you must sit in the seat you were assigned, because the weight distribution of the plane is determined by the weight of each passenger.
   HOW DO THEY KNOW HOW MUCH EVERYONE WEIGHS?
   Is there someplace that information indicated? I think not.

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@moshe said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub

I thought it was a stunningly beautiful photograph.

But another poster said that it is a painting?

Morris / moshe

Haha, nope, it’s a painting. I'll make sure to let you know when it’s a photo.
One thing that happens is people look at some of these paintings on a small screen like a phone and that makes it look much more like a photograph.

It is a fine work of art on a big or a small screen.

The check's in the mail, George! Oops. Did I say that out loud?

@moshe said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@moshe said in A little humour:

@neal085 said in A little humour:

Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.

Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

And I thought that my puns were bad

I never saw it coming ...

Morris / moshe

In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.

There are arenas of puns?

Pun gladiators?

Pun matadors?

Peanut vendors?

Morris / moshe

Well.......in a manner of speaking......yes.....
And I had already used, "world of puns" so I resisted the lazy approach and came up with another nomenclature (how'd you like that description?) .
And as far as gladiators, maybe more like couch pertaters.
Instead of Matadors, maybe Bull throwers?
Peanut venders? I don’t know, you can’t spell PUN without them letters right there.

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub Several years ago Yahoo! lost a number of months of my important e-mail. It took me about a year to transition to gmail, but I'm glad I did. My wife still suffers with Yahoo!, but her account is enormous, and she's been reluctant to change. She started the move to gmail recently; it's going to take awhile.

(There's a hint in this message somewhere; I bet it won't take you long to discover what it is.)

Switch email?

Things believed by some blondes, ( Maybe, because I tried to convince some of my younger sister's friends of these myths growing up.)

1. If you are driving in thick fog, turn on your high beams and drive faster. The heat generated from your headlights along with the wind created by your higher speed will push away the fog where you need to drive.
2. Pigs are really just shaved sheep.
3. The Moon, of course, is the closest planet to the earth.
4. We ( the US ) own the moon. Our flag is there.
5. New Mexico is part of Mexico.
6. Before 1960, EVERYTHING was black and white. no colors existed.

Sadly, I was only able to convince them for a short time.