Posts made by BigDub

Seen today in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho.
Pretty clever.

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

My husband and I went through the McDonald's driveway window and I gave the cashier a $5 bill.
Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her 25c.
She said, 'you gave me too much money.'
I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar back.'
She sighed and went to get the manager who asked me to repeat my request.
I did so, and he handed me back the 25c, and said 'We're sorry but we don’t do that kind of thing.'
The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change.
Do not confuse the people at MacD's.

We had to have the garage door repaired.
The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.
I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.'
We haven't used that repairman since...

I live in a semi rural area.
We recently had a new neighbor call the local city council office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road.

The reason: 'Too many deers are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'
IDIOT SIGHTING IN FOOD SERVICE.

My daughter went to a Mexican fast food and ordered a taco.
She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.'
He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked,
'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?'
To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?'
He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.'

The pedestrian light on the corner beeps when it's safe to cross the street.
I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' co-worker of mine.
She asked if I knew what the beeper was for.
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red.
Appalled, she responded, 'what on earth are blind people doing driving?!'
She is a government employee.....

When my wife and I arrived at a car dealership to pick up our car after a
service, we were told the keys had been locked in it.
We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door.
As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked.
‘Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'its open!'
His reply, 'I know. I already did that side.'
STAY ALERT!

I believe all of these I have lived through personally. Me on the smarter side of the equation........usually

@Dr-GO said in Music. What is It?:

@BigDub said in Music. What is It?:

Music is when a child says, "I hear music"
Innocence of a child that we can’t even figure out what it is any longer

Innocence, Hell. My granddaughter says "I hear music" when let a fart go! Music? Only if you consider the lower br*-ass a wind instrument!

*back region

Well, that little sprout is only bearing the fruit of that which was put into her impressionable little heart

@Kehaulani said in pet peeves:

I thought "lay" was a noun while 'lie" was a verb.

Nope.

Music is when a child says, "I hear music"
We, on the other hand are so removed from the simplistic
Innocence of a child that we can’t even figure out what it is any longer.
Try to forget everything the world tries to tell us and let music be what you want it to be. Let everyone else fight and bicker about it.

People say to me, "A penny for your thoughts?".

But then they want change.

@moshe said in pet peeves:

@mafields627 said in pet peeves:

People that say "on today" instead of just saying "today."

That's like everyone on TV who says "tuna-fish sandwich".

What other kind of animal would "tuna" be other than "fish".

No other kind of fish is called "xxxx-fish".

New Yorkers who say "standing on line" instead of "standing in line".

People on TV who keep saying "I was laying down" when they mean "I was lying down".

People on TV who say "I'll drive further" when they mean "I'll drive farther."

People on TV who say "mis-CHEE-vee-us" when ther is no extra "i" in the word to
justify that pronunciation.

People on TV who say "conversate" instead of "converse".

Wow.
Only 9,980 pet peeves to go...

moshe

I get what you mean about Tuna, but there are other "fish" you may not have thought of.........Swordfish, sailfish, codfish, cuddlefish, jellyfish, goldfish, redfish, bluefish. Like when people say, Pizza Pie. Certainly. It’s not pizza cake, and Pizza means pie in Italian.
Also, I always hear people say, "Chinese Take-out" as if it’s one word. Maybe it’s just that on the east coast, people sometimes have Chinese food named eat it in the restaurant.
People say, Real-i-tor, rather than Real-tor.
That’s enough for now....

A man decides it’s about time he gives in and moves into a retirement home. He notices a woman staring at him as he gets settled in his room. Later, eating his meal he notices her again, just staring at him. She’s not even eating. Just sitting there. Everywhere he turns, there she is, staring. He finally can’t let this go any longer and decides to confront her.
"Excuse me, ma'am, but I couldn’t help but notice that you keep looking at me everywhere I seem to go"
"Oh, I'm so sorry, she said, I couldn’t help but notice you look so much like my third husband"
Now he felt a little bad for calling her on it like that, so he said, "How many husbands did you have?"
"Two"

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@BigDub
I didn’t mean to post this as a competition. To be honest with you, I never gave what I posted any thought until I saw the posts above mine and started doing the math. I then realized how ludicrous the pay was even at those times. Prior to my arrival to New Orleans I was a student for 21 years and considered those years in New Orleans as additional school experience. If asked of me, I would have some how paid for the experience. To actually be paid, although minimal, was great. Those were some of the best years of my life.

No worries, Steve. Believe me I was not the least offended. I really believe you did work cheap. Over the years, I have worked cheap, and never really made a lot of money at any time. But overall, I never wanted for more, never went hungry, and never felt deprived in any way. I passed on a promotion at one point, but it didn’t even come close to hearing my son tell me when he was a senior in HS that he didn’t think he could count on one hand how many games I ever missed seeing him play from t-ball all the way through high school. Bottom line, I am blessed beyond anything I could have asked for.

You win Steve. I wasn’t even really competing. That fifty cents I referred to was a fortune, to us. For doing absolutely nothing, except being a child, and not bragging here, his favorite for some reason. I think I took after him the most, so Aunt Olga and Uncle Mangnus doted on me quite obviously, now that I think about it.

One other thing that I remembered happening on Easter Sunday, second service. For the Hallelujah Chorus, they invite anyone who has ever sang it to come up front and join in singing it. Nobody turns around and stares at me when I start to play, usually.
This time there were two little girls who came up with Mom ( I am guessing ), and I was so tickled when they turned around as if they heard the ice cream truck coming down the street, biggest smiles on their faces. They probably couldn’t see me in the back of the crowded platform when they first came up, so when I started in it was a total surprise to them. As I said, the grownups are too proper, and, well, grown up to turn and stare. I bet it was all they could do not to. I'm glad I get to stand behind the bell, rather than in front of it........just saying.

@stumac said in A little humour:

When I started work in 1956 at 17 my pay was 25 cents per hour, 3 months later I turned 18 and my pay doubled.

Regards, Stuart.

In 1956 my Dad's Uncle Mangnus ( very Norwegian ) would give us boys 50 cents just for visiting he and Aunt Olga in Brooklyn. They had no kids. This brought them tremendous joy.

@barliman2001 said in Easter Services:

@BigDub I once had a spate of piccs... starting off with an old Selmer, then changing to a Besson Kanstul, then adding a Stomvi Elite, then a Votruba Pro... another, younger Selmer... and then I happened upon a Scherzer high G. And that one very soon told me that for me and my kind of playing, A/Bb picc was simply wasted effort. All the Baroque pieces that I was playing on A picc suddenly became much more manageable when I switched to the Scherzer high G... no more sharps anywhere... and then I got my claws on an old Selmer high G out of the estate of Maurice André... and that was one revelation. It beat the Scherzer and all the other piccs by such a margin that I sold every single one of them.

So it sounds like it’s two thumbs up for the high G trumpet over the Piccolo. Pretty amazing stuff that you are playing the same horn Maurice Andre used!
My thoughts are I will never find myself in a scenario where I will truly need any of these specialty horns. Never say never, though. I have found the C to be useful for me more often than I even imagined. A flugelhorn may be something I would enjoy.
I really get confused with how many steps a particular instrument would have to transpose from concert pitch. I am glad when I do arrange music for my Brass Group I don’t have to think that through. The program does it automatically. Very helpful.

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@Kehaulani
A whopping $1.75 an hour, mind you.

I can believe it, because I used to make 85 cents an hour and that was as a sophomore in college.

Well, yes, Uncle K, but you are so much older.....

@Newell-Post said in Easter Services:

@BigDub Piccolo trumpet is a harsh mistress. It seems like you should get a whole additional octave out of the deal for free. But unless you are a real master, you mostly just lose the lower octave and get tinny sound. Resist the call of the dark side. Borrow one if you must before investing.

Nobody’s talking about buying anything here....I only would try borrowing someone else’s, and that doesn’t seem likely. Like Patrick was saying, most people like to use a Trumpet in D. My use of the C Trumpet was availability mostly, and the part was written for C trumpet as well ( not that I couldn’t re write it ) but, yeah, I have heard a lot of similar comments about the piccolo trumpets. I have tried one, once, at Dillons. It was a Schilke so I think it might have practically played itself for me. I did find it not so uncomfortable. I don’t think the intonation would be very good on one of the piccolos I have seen on EBay for $99.95 with free white gloves and hard case.

@Dr-GO said in Easter Services:

My Easter gig went fairly well but certainly not flawless. The prelude "Let the Trumpet Sound" is written on 4 pages. As I transitioned from page 1 to 2, the left margin of page 2 was covered by page 1, so there was about 3 measures of improv until I could get page 1 out of the way. From that point on, things went rather well.
I had an almost identical situation like that myself for our postlude. I had the three pieces of music, each being two pages, all together and thought I had them in order ready to go. My second page for the postlude, E-luded me. I think looked through every last one of the sheets before I could find it. We were already playing. This made the second trumpet player more nervous than he already was. Sorry about that. No one should suffer for my disorganization!

@trickg said in Easter Services:

@BigDub said in Easter Services:

I feel very good about how things went for me as well. I knew my endurance was going to be tested to a high degree so in anticipation I was doing "two a days" practice sessions for the week or more leading up to Easter. It was just enough to help me through some high passages ( for me, anyway ) on the Hallelujah Chorus, Christ The Lord is Risen Today ( descant on C, two verses ) and the first part in Grand Choeur Dialogue. All of these then repeated in a second service as well. At one point, I reminded myself to breathe, breathe, breathe, and I am glad I did that. It really helped me relax as well. Also I was mindful the whole time who this was for, and it wasn’t me for sure!

What horn did you use for the Hallelujah Chorus? I keep thinking about getting a pic, but that's about as far as it goes - I've used my D trumpet on the Hallelujah Chorus 7 or 8 times now, and it always seems to get it done ok, whereas I've never felt great about my pic playing on the occasions where I've done it.

I used my Dillon C trumpet, though not a D, still made it a little more manageable than had I used my Bb. A piccolo would have even been nicer, but it seems that people like the D best for the Hallelujah Chorus. I am not accustomed to a piccolo but I would have made it my business to get accustomed to it if one was available. I was able to cleanly hit the D towards the end on both occasions. That would have been an E had I played it on my Bb ( you would know that.....) Thinking about that would have kept me up at night.....I used the C for all the music yesterday. It is surprisingly not a terrible horn now that I know its little intonation differences.