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@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.

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

You would have felt right at home in Minneapolis.
Full of Swedes and Finns and other Scandanavians.
An old woman taught me how to do the "skoni" accent,
which she always laughed at.
The accent of stereotypical Swedes as seen in movies.

As a person of German Baptist ancestry, I too found it amusing.

Morris / moshe

Hold on here, a minute. I see no mention of Norwegians. Just saying.

I wasn't born yesterday.

I did a Google search.

There is no such place as North Weegia...

Morris / moshe

"you can tell if a man is from Norway, when his head cannot fit through the doorway"
that has always been my guide.
There are two kinds of people in this wide big world.
Norwegians, and those who pine away wishing they were.

Ole ( the Minnesota Norwegian ) would sometimes need to have his wife Lena help him fix the car.
"Lena, I need to have you look at the blinkers and tell me if they vurk, ok?"
"Okay"
"Yust stand beck dere and tell me ven I try it. Ready?"
"Yah, I’m ready"
"Here, ve go, now tell me if the left one vorks"
"Yah-no-yah-no-yah-no............."

@Niner said in A little humour:

Now this is pretty corny...for a corn soloist.

But it's from a hundred years ago. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1919-08-11/ed-1/seq-4/

Obviously one must play by ear, all the time. If, there was music written for it, those players from North Dakota, or Carolina would use treble clef, and of course, those in South Dakota and Carolina, bass clef, naturally.

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub
Wow, a definite departure, but like a lot of your work, the images make me think, and wonder, is there a message here ?

Not really, but maybe we could have a cup of real brewed coffee sometime!

This was certainly a challenge and I re worked it after several years because I didn't like the awkwardness of the cows. Now I am happy with it, though.

@Tobylou8 said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

I am so glad you all are taking my art so seriously. But, really, don’t be so stuffy. Have a little fun with it. But don’t milk it to death.

You steering us away from fun? I'll calf no part of it! Cud you please leave us alone? I don't know what the veal problem with us having fun is!

The problem is........cows don’t have fingers. Come on, let’s not be silly here.

@SSmith1226 said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@Tobylou8 said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

I am so glad you all are taking my art so seriously. But, really, don’t be so stuffy. Have a little fun with it. But don’t milk it to death.

You steering us away from fun? I'll calf no part of it! Cud you please leave us alone? I don't know what the veal problem with us having fun is!

The problem is........cows don’t have fingers. Come on, let’s not be silly here.

You think Cows have a problem by not having fingers! Cows never had fingers, but Steers are in real trouble. They are missing the parts that turned into Rocky Mountain Oysters. Now that is not being silly. It is a real issue if you are a steer or ox. No Bull!!! (Any more)

You, however, have a lot of Cajones, though

@Tobylou8 said in Set lists:

We have a set list. We practice the eventual list plus a few extras. Sometimes good tunes get cut, but the week of a performance, the list is set and there are no audibles for extraneous tunes. We've played one encore since I've been there. There are two folders, practice and performance. Only the performance folder attends the concert. I feel sorry for you having to lug all that music around. I used to play in a church band that did that. 500 charts and any song could be called up at any time. We played 8 different tunes on any given Sunday. I took my file "bucket" home to practice the tough songs (the ones George Rawlins recorded!!) and lo and behold an audible was called. The other trumpet player wouldn't let me look on his music, he turned it away!
Anyway, The conductor isn't going to change, none of them do, so maybe a little cart for your horns and file "folder". This is what I used for years and it is still in good shape!

I’ll message my shipping address. Can you get it to me by tomorrow?

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

What do you call a deer with no eyes?...No eye deer!

Me neither.
What do you get when you cross a Rhinoceros and an Elephant?

Elefino.

@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:

Hi BigDub,
How a person can take a flat surface and with some paint, create a scene that reminds me of up north is beyond me. When I try something like this, it ends up looking like a Jackson Pollock after a 5th of scotch. In short, a painting not fit for human consumption. I don't know if it's the lack of a steady hand, keen eye or patience that is the issue. Knowing my luck, it's probably a mix of all three.
Jackson Pollock was fortunate to travel in the right crowd, in the right place, at the right time. If not he would have had to fold up his drop cloth and go back to painting houses!
As for how a person can do what you said, I would have to say, it is a very long process with plenty of setbacks along the way. My desire it to get better. Every new painting I start. I know what I want to make better. It’s just a matter of figuring out how to accomplish that. I look at many other artist's work and ask myself the same questions- how do they get that to look like that? And what do I need to do to make that look like I imagine it looking in my mind? Sometimes, maybe many times, the lightbulb lights up and I get an aha! moment and I will try what I think might work and it does.

OK, everyone- it's time for another one. This one was done as a wedding gift for a nephew and this is what they wanted.

Here's another one, if you please.......

When I was still working, one of my friends was the maintenance person for the same store I worked in.
A woman in one of the departments was never comfortable with the temperature. It was either too hot or too cold. She constantly demanded, pleaded with my friend to do something about it......every day. At least.
One day, he decided to surprise her and showed her that he had installed her own thermostat, right there on the column near her work area. See, he said, turn it this way and it will get warmer, and this way, to the left, it will get cooler, just like that!
She never, ever, complained again.
End of story.
Not so fast, there. He, my friend, never wired it to anything...and when she retired, he gave her the thermostat in a box with a bow on it. Here. Now you can be comfortable wherever you go, he said.

@moshe said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Here's another one, if you please.......

I am still stunned by how beautiful those paintings are.

Some of them remind me of being on my grandparents' farm 60 years ago,
a time and place that I miss so much it moves me to tears.

So your paintings not only speak to my eyes,
they even speak to my heart.

I seriously thank you for blessing me with a few moments of wonderful memories that your paintings induce.

Morris / moshe

Wow, that is the best kind of comment anyone could say to me. I feel like my efforts are touching the heart.
I am very humbled, indeed.

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

Meet Your Second Wife SNL Style

This.
Is why it’s best to be in the dark about the future! We have enough to handle with the present, and of course, the past, too.

A US Marine retires after a long and successful career and takes on a new career as an inner city high school teacher.
He had ended his Marine service with a serious back injury and started his new job with a full torso plaster cast. It fit under his dress shirt and couldn’t even be detected.
The first day, he had been given a class that was notorious for giving every previous teacher terrible time.
Our Marine starts out his first day with this challenging class by opening the window for some fresh air. The wind came in so strong it blew his tie sideways so he grabbed the stapler, opened it up and stapled his tie to his chest.
No one in the class ever gave him any trouble at all the whole year.

I entered this recent painting in my County Senior Art Show in the professional Acrylic painting category. It was awarded first place. Now it goes into the State exhibit. Two years ago my entry won first place in the entire state. We'll see how it goes this year. You never know how a judge will feel about your particular style and subject matter.....