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-Mark Karlin, editor of Buzzflash.com
Submitted by grinch (not verified) on November 23, 2006 - 2:04pm.
When a music student brought his French Horn to my shop for repair, he complained that the instrument 'felt stuffy' and he couldn't blow air through it. It's not unusual to find partial blockages in brass instruments if small items get lodged in the tubing, but when I tested the instrument, the horn was completely blocked.
After much probing and prodding, a small tangerine dropped out of the bell.
"Oh," said the musician when I handed him the fruit. Seeing the bewildered look on my face, he explained. "My mom used the horn for a cornucopia in a Thanksgiving centerpiece.
from: Reader's Digest
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Where would we be without the artwork of ...
Norman Rockwell for all things American?
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
;-)
;-)
A little Thanksgiving humor
from our friends.
Searching for something appropriate for thanksgiving...
I could not find anything by Ogden Nash except for a purely political bit...but I did find something crude but refreshing and true:
"Here I am a 5 O'Clock in the morning stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird's butt.
RoseAnne Barr
back to google for something better...lol.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
Horn Of Plenty...
When a music student brought his French Horn to my shop for repair, he complained that the instrument 'felt stuffy' and he couldn't blow air through it. It's not unusual to find partial blockages in brass instruments if small items get lodged in the tubing, but when I tested the instrument, the horn was completely blocked.
After much probing and prodding, a small tangerine dropped out of the bell.
"Oh," said the musician when I handed him the fruit. Seeing the bewildered look on my face, he explained. "My mom used the horn for a cornucopia in a Thanksgiving centerpiece.
from: Reader's Digest
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
LOL- I love it, Grinch!
Thanks for the great Ogden Nash quote and the hilarious
French Horn story.
Thanksgiving is about having fun, too.
;-)
Check your Thanksgiving knowledge.
Here's a fun fact sheet I found
when I searched for the Rockwell image.
It's for young and old, alike.
Enjoy.
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/thanksgivingth.php
( I did not know what 'Wampanoag' meant)
Happy Thanksgiving all !
We truly have much to be thankful for, starting with this historic month!