Comments on: Sunday Funnies: LOL July 25

By: Lihtox

Lihtox — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:30:00 +0000

Belated comment, but: before going to heaven, people go to purgatory to learn the harp *first*, and the sounds of their practice are piped into hell.

By: bAT L.

bAT L. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:50:36 +0000

I didn’t get an LOL out of the refrigerator magnet one, but I did find it funny in that the neighbor thought he could get away with such a simple tactic. You’ll notice that the blood spatters on the fridge are different from the first view, which most likely left traces of Bob, be that fingerprints, skin or hair cells, or even left more blood on him. Also, his fingerprints are now on the letters he moved, unless he used gloves which were not previously pictured. He also put the “(suicide)” and arrow where the body landed, but were it a suicide, the victim would have not yet landed there. This alone could still be regarded as a suicide from first glance, were it not for the absence of the weapon, which would lead investigators to look further into the incident.

Okay, maybe I have been watching too much Detective Conan and playing too much Phoenix Wright.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:46:10 +0000

The cool think about the Celtic harp is that you can play it sitting in bed.

I guess that’s true for most band and orchestra instruments. For a pianist or organist, you pretty much have to go to wherever the instrument is.

Living directly under a church organist is OK. They generally don’t have their own organs and they practice in the church. In J.S. Bach’s day (and even in my college piano teacher’s day when she was a young organist in Latvia) you either paid someone to pump the organ for you or you practiced with the sound off.

(Yes, there’s a name for the occupation of pumping the bellows so that the organ can make sounds. Organ blower.)

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:20:10 +0000

CIDU Bill (25) - I second that thanks! That was a cool song. Who knew scatting jazz music and opera could go together so well, and I can’t imagine it’s really easy to skip from one to the other on a moment’s notice! Now I want to see a duet between two people that melds the styles…

By: Detcord

Detcord — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:07 +0000

CIDU Bill (25)

Thanks for the excellent link to Kristin Chenoweth. I’ve been following further links of hers and frankly, she’s GOOD! I now wish I had taken the time to see Wicked when it was on in London - provided she’s one of the leads.

By: Prosfilaes

Prosfilaes — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:58:35 +0000

My brother-in-law is a composer, and my sister has described the nights where he plays three notes on the piano. The same three notes again. Three notes slightly differently. The first three notes again. Four notes starting with the first three notes. I’m not sure the instrument really matters.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:50:35 +0000

Powers #28, that looks to me like the proverbial “tin horn”. And Dave in Boston #26, the bagpipers I know are generally pretty good at finding places to practice that minimize the annoyance to their neighbors.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:55 +0000

Living over, under, or next to any musician who practices regularly can be annoying; it doesn’t really matter what they play, or how good they are. Listening to scales, exercises, and the same piece played five times in a row (or, even worse, the same two or three measures played 10 or 20 times in a row), just isn’t fun. If it’s any consolation to the unwilling listener, it’s not much more fun for the person practicing; I do know some people who claim to actually enjoy practicing, but for most of us, it’s a chore we do because we know it’s good for us (or, in my case, and too many others, something we know we should do, but find excuses to not get around to it).

By: billytheskink

billytheskink — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:42:46 +0000

Add me to the list of folks who were surprised at all the vuvazela outrage. I thought they were just called “soccer horns” or something back when they gave them out at my high school’s football games.

I figured most American soccer fans were familliar with them as I’d seen them for years at amatuer and professional soccer games, especially when Mexican Premier League teams would come to town on a US tour.
Apparently I was wrong, and the outrage against vuvazelas has resulted in them being banned from the upcoming MLS all-star game. Silly if you ask me.

The vuvazela buzz has nothing on 24 two-stroke dirtbikes racing a 20+ minute moto on a short track.

By: Powers

Powers — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:08:35 +0000

It’s older than that — try 1870!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Nbar5U4uMTh57R1L5eip0A