Posts made by BigDub

Anyone in the market for a trombone?
Amazon has them.

@j-jericho

The piano just had been tuned. Obviously.
LOL.

@dr-go
I know something that can go from zero to 200 in 2.8 seconds.
Me, when I step on the bathroom scale

The Honda in the foreground is the same model I took my motorcycle license test with, although it was not mine. If I am remembering correctly it’s a CB450, my friend let me borrow it.
It’s actually a 1969 CL350, and used to look like this…

This was pretty much the same bike I had. Not my actual, but a lot like it. Almost identical. Mine was a little nicer.

@flugelgirl
What exactly does the extra tubing do on the side of the first valve?
It looks complicated!

@dale-proctor said in New Toy (not a trumpet):

@newell-post said in New Toy (not a trumpet):

Sorry. I used to love cars. Now I hate cars. They are a necessary evil, but I just want ones that start and run reliably and drive comfortably.

How about motorcycles? I like them, too…

The Honda in the foreground is the same model I took my motorcycle license test with, although it was not mine. If I am remembering correctly it’s a CB450, my friend let me borrow it.

9 yr old: Dad! I have a pun you might like!

Dad: oooh! What is it?

9 yr old: it’s a humorous play on a phrase or word. I thought you knew?

@dale-proctor said in New Toy (not a trumpet):

@bigdub said in New Toy (not a trumpet):

@dale-proctor said in New Toy (not a trumpet):

@bigdub

He couldn’t stop - he was chasing the Riddler…

I saw the driver of the Batmobile, and, BRACE YOURSELF- it wasn’t Batman! So that opens up a real can of worms.

Maybe it was Bruce Wayne, then.

Looked more like commissioner Gordon, to be honest.

@dale-proctor said in New Toy (not a trumpet):

@bigdub

He couldn’t stop - he was chasing the Riddler…

I saw the driver of the Batmobile, and, BRACE YOURSELF- it wasn’t Batman! So that opens up a real can of worms.

This is the second time I have seen this in my neighborhood. I tried to get him to stop and let me get a better shot, but I had no luck. I imagine he has people wanting to do the same all the time.

Saw this one on one of my walks in my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago and regretted not taking a picture of it. Fortunately the owner was visiting the same house again, and I said to myself, not this time! 64 Pontiac Bonneville. Look closely, the keys were in the ignition!

@j-jericho said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said

It did not work. There were no disruptions as promised.

FWIW - The next time I went to the TB website after liking your comment, I encountered Server Error.

I never made the disclaimer

@administrator said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@dr-go said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

She says, they're Bison.

Sounds like Bull to me.

Does it work now?

It did not work. There were no disruptions as promised.

@administrator said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

Yes, American Buffalo are really Bison. But, either way, they are delicious to eat.

There is a Buffalo farm near me, ( believe it or not, in NJ! ) actually closer to our Daughter and son in law's place. Anyway, I took our granddaughter there to see them. I'd say she was about 3, or 4 at the time. The farmer came up to us and asked her, “do you like the buffalos?”
She says, they're Bison.

Absolutely true story. I was pretty embarrassed, as much as I would be, which isn’t a lot. The farmer handled it pretty well. He just said, I know, but most people know them by that name.

@georgeb said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@dr-go said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

You won’t hear a discouraging word... while the deer and the antelope play.

And the skies are not cloudy all day…….

ALL TOGETHER NOW ...
Home home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play...

Fun fact: two animals mentioned in the song are incorrectly named.
Buffalo are really Bison.
Antelope are not that, but are American Pronghorns.
That would just ruin the song, though. How would you fit those names into the lines and make them rhyme to boot? Haha.

You're welcome everyone!

@dr-go said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

You won’t hear a discouraging word... while the deer and the antelope play.

And the skies are not cloudy all day…….

You won’t hear a discouraging word from the Dub, that’s for sure

I probably told this story before. But it’s worth telling again for those who may not have had the torture of the boring story told to them.
Anyway, 6th grade group trumpet lesson, and a kid named Jack stood out on a certain line of music we were all playing in ……sort of……unison.
Stood out- in a very bad way. The teacher tried to make him feel better and approached him from behind his metal folding chair, to squeeze his shoulders teasingly like. Well, Jack was sort of leaning on his trumpet with his chin on his hands and the bell directly on the metal chair, with no place to go. The teacher was a big guy, and continued twirling him around while still applying good natured pressure on Jack's shoulders.
After he felt Jack was reasonably reassured that all would be ok, he stepped back to resume the lesson, when Jack looked at his rented trumpet. The only way I could describe the way it looked was if you were somehow able to shoot it like an arrow in a bow at a concrete wall.
We didn’t laugh. I laugh now. But we didn’t laugh then.
The teacher took it right away and had it repaired. Came out great. Couldn’t tell anything had happened at all. Crazy experience.
And that was 1962 or 63.

One of my former Bandmates with the community band's name is Steve Young. He hardly even knew he had the same name as the Hall Of Fame Quarterback for the 49ers.
An even weirder thing about him was that he played the viola, and quit to play more viola stuff. Now that’s weird.

@dr-go said in New old friend:

@barliman2001 said in New old friend:

Coolerdave - whom some of you may remember from TM days - has found the light and is now where he belongs: in this community of trumpet lovers.
Welcome, Dave!

Ohoh That means I will need to stop plagiarizing his Facebook memes that I have been posting in the Humor section. Coolerdave, can you find it in your heart to forgive?

Remember, most jokes are not entirely original. Nearly everyone “borrows” at one time or another….
Hmmm. I may have done the same thing at one time or another, or maybe the other way around