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Picard swears in French.

We could wipe male baldness pattern off the map with a combination of breeding and eugenics.

@Kehaulani said in This is a hoot and is very well done!:

When I saw my first Spaghetti Western, I was so disgusted by the violence that I walked out. Now, I watch it on late-night T.V. and don't even think a thing about it. Sad commentary.

I loved the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange and when the movie was to be showing at my University I didn't hesitate to budget $1.00 more to bring a date.

First date. Last date. Actually, pretty much the last time we ever talked.

My old routine:

Charlie Butler Routine (flowstudies, tongued scales.) Took around 45 minutes.
If I had a hard gig that night, I'd stop there. After Butler, "Total Range" last lesson. Arban multiple tongue studies, double tongue until the tongue got spastic, then the same with triple tongue. Upcoming concert material. Close before a long concert (brass quintet) I'd just do the Butler, rest a bit, and play through the concert music without getting tired.

Sometimes for fun, I'd transpose Clarke into weird keys.

@Dr-Mark said in glad there's no fighting here:

5.Some fight because from their perspective the other person is dead wrong.

I use Number Five sometimes.

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Something bots lack, from Strunk & White "The Elements of Style:"

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

Feel at home where I am. I'm from Pirate stock.

A beautiful evening song.

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Aleve and beer work for me.

I would suggest (wildly, at that) that the advertisements be placed in a column to the right.

Just learned that practice is more important than trim kits.

@Dr-GO I'm thinking something stronger some days. The beer takes care of the inflammation, but sometimes the pain persists. Doesn't cocaine have pain-killing properties?

It's not just my back though. After the Viagra you sent me I developed carpal-tunnel syndrome.

Sort of my sequence doing long tones.

I don't start on C.

My trumpet professor, Gerald Webster, noted that if we start off the day with our mouthpiece and play a middle high, middle low, middle loud, middle soft "natural" pitch it tends to be the same each time. He called it the "Heimatton," and everyone's is individual. I start my expanding long tone sequence with my Heimatton (Eb) and work from there. The high notes don't seem as high and the low notes not so low.

@Dr-GO said in Sleep Faster:

the release of melatonin on a 25-hour cycle

Frank Zappa arranged his life around a 25 hour day. He'd go to bed an hour later each night, sleep and do it again.

I learned Zen practice from my shampoo.

"Lather, rinse, repeat."