YSaC, Vol. 724: Cor asshat.

2010 July 11

let’s jam – $18


i am a professional oboe player and i am willing to play with you and jam. normally i charge $1000 for a playing engagement but i can play with you for $18/hr. you have to be pretty good beause i don’t slow down my playing. it wouldn’t be fair to the music to keep this racehorse from running if you know what i mean. so $18/hr and that probably won’t last but email anyway and we’ll see

Poor, maligned oboe players. Let’s all stop for a moment and think about how much better the world would be if there were more oboe players willing to jam. Imagine how much better Led Zeppelin would have been if only Robert Plant had played the oboe. Or if the Clash had used an oboe on Rock the Casbah. Or if Dream Academy had used an English horn on Life in a Northern Town. (Oh, wait … )*

Anyway, Lucy sent this one in, saying, “I actually don’t know what he means. I do know that if you throw in the eternally sleazy “…if you know what I mean” at the end of a strained metaphor, you are more jackass than racehorse.”

Thanks, Lucy!

*Hot English horn action at :34.

121 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 July 11
    Bianchi Sound permalink

    I believe he means $18 obo.

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  2. 2010 July 11
    SilvaNoir permalink

    Only if they’re firm obos

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    • 2010 July 11
      Julia permalink

      He doesn’t think his firm obo can last for an hour, and I agree that might be tricky.

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      • 2010 July 11

        Maybe he’s a big fan of Sting?

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      • 2010 July 11
        sarajean80 permalink

        I’d give him twenty minutes before it becomes a semi-soft obo.

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        • 2010 July 11

          20 minutes? I’m not sure he’d last that long if he’s going at racehorse speed.

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  3. 2010 July 11
    LimeLolly permalink

    I like jam.

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    • 2010 July 11
      Meredith permalink

      No, I think you like jelly, cause jam don’t shake like that.

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      • 2010 July 11

        I don’t think Sparky’s ready for this jelly.

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      • 2010 July 11
        LimeLolly permalink

        I think we’re all grateful or grapeful the jam doesn’t shake.

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  4. 2010 July 11

    I’ll only pay $18 dollars an hour if you’re a professional flüglehorn player, if you know what I mean.

    I managed to borrow daringly split an infinitive steal a computer.

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    • 2010 July 11
      Meredith permalink

      What a crazy random happenstance, I AM a professional flüglehorn player! When can I start?

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    • 2010 July 11

      what?

      you’re here?

      *sigh* and after I gave Manda your tutu as well.

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      • 2010 July 11
        MandaB permalink

        I *just* saw that, Dev. I love it!

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        • 2010 July 11

          it is rather cute isn’t it?

          although if she’s going to keep stealing borrowing computers you might not need it after all

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        • 2010 July 11

          No, keep it, I’ll get it covered in sand.

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  5. 2010 July 11
    Julia permalink

    “i am willing to play with you and jam”

    Jam? That’s kinky. Is it strawberry, grape, or apricot?

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    • 2010 July 11
      sarajean80 permalink

      Black cherry. Everyone knows that’s the kinkiest of jams.

      What?

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      • 2010 July 11
        Julia permalink

        Whatever the flavor, make sure it’s sugar-free jam, otherwise you could get a nasty yeast infection.

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        • 2010 July 11

          Ugh. *brain bleach*

          Yet another reason why you should only use flavored lotions and lubricants intended for use in certain areas. They’re less sticky anyway.

          What?

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        • 2010 July 11
          Grampdaddy permalink

          The problem is, Bridgete, the peanut butter slides right off those flavored lubricants. Just can’t make a good sammich that way.

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        • 2010 July 11

          But the lotions would work fine, they’re not terribly slippery. Although they taste kind of weird before they’re absorbed into your skin. I don’t know how it works, all I know is after it’s absorbed, you taste like strawberries. I don’t know what it tastes like. I’ve never tried such a thing.

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    • 2010 July 11

      I don’t care what flavour he prefers, he’s not playing with my jam

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  6. 2010 July 11

    [corey] I read this ad to my husband, a musician who also works at a university with a big music program. He thinks there is a 50/50 chance this is either a fake (because apparently CL is full of fake musician ads) or it was posted by a recent grad with a music degree and a head full of dellusions. [/corey]
    That being said, this reminded me of the ads that me and my friends posted on the bulletin boards back in high school looking for musicians to join our punk rock/ska cover band. Instead of a horn section we wanted about twenty kazoo players.*

    *yes, we were serious.

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    • 2010 July 11

      I think I’d believe it a little more if the guy was a cellist wanting to jam. There are some pretty awesome cello parts in popular music these days. I notice because I really, really, really want to learn to play the cello. Just because I love the sound, not because I want to be in a band and come up with a cool rock cello part (although here’s an awesome local band that uses a cello: The Grownup Noise). If I joined a band I’d want to be the singer.

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  7. 2010 July 11
    MandaB permalink

    [oboe Matt] This is in poor taste. I immediately recognized this as a fellow oboist wanting to share the joy of the oboe with the world and asking a reasonable, no, bargain of a price, to do so. Clearly you people have no respect for the lung power inherently needed to produce those haunting melodies. Did you know the hole at the end of the reed where it meets the instrument is the same circumference as a wire coat hanger? You try jamming for hours on end, blowing air through that tiny little hole! Don’t event get me started on keeping two reeds wet at once. It’s time the oboist got some respect. [/oboe Matt]

    I can’t even type that with a straight face. To use the words oboe and jam in the same ad is just ridiculous to me. If there’s one thing I learned when I first started playing oboe, it is this: Oboes don’t jam. I believe that is the first rule of Oboe Club. Never jam.

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    • 2010 July 11

      Is oboe jam anything like toe jam?

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    • 2010 July 11
      Windrose permalink

      Manda, isn’t the second rule that you have to be gay? I think I read that on here recently. I suppose that might be optional, especially if you meet someone with a firm oboe.

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      • 2010 July 11
        Bianchi Sound permalink

        The second rule of Oboe Club is “You DO NOT Talk About Oboe Club.”

        No, seriously, don’t. Who wants to hear about f*#king Oboe Club?

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        • 2010 July 11
          MandaB permalink

          Hell, even I don’t want to hear about Oboe Club.

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      • 2010 July 11
        sarajean80 permalink

        A bunch of guys sitting around polishing their oboes …

        Pretty sure there’s Rule 34 for that.

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      • 2010 July 11
        MandaB permalink

        I can’t discuss it, Windrose. Rules. Sorry.

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    • 2010 July 11
      Grampdaddy permalink

      Maybe oboes don’t jam, but your brother had a jammin’ tuba – if I remember correctly, it was due to a wedged Superball….

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  8. 2010 July 11
    Windrose permalink

    Wow, how did it get to be Sunday, already? Did anyone see where Saturday went? I need about six more hours. Also, anyone want a love bird? 8)

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    • 2010 July 11
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      Windy — I’m guessing that you don’t want either of my cats to take it …..

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  9. 2010 July 11
    LitaRider permalink

    “Did you know the hole at the end of the reed…”

    I knew the hole at the end of the reed. Very talented.

    What?

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    • 2010 July 11
      MandaB permalink

      Lou Reed’s 2nd cousin. 🙂

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    • 2010 July 11
      Grampdaddy permalink

      I knew the light at the end of the tunnel – very enveloping.

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  10. 2010 July 11

    She placed her sweet tender lips,
    On my long black pole,
    The music of love began to grow,
    For she was playing Bolero,
    On a borrowed oboe

    What?

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  11. 2010 July 11
    sarajean80 permalink

    I’ve got a few extra dollars and a creative imagination, I’d pay this guy eighteen bucks to come over and jam. And by “jam” I mean he would have to stand in the front yard and improvise a one hour long oboe solo while I tossed water balloons filled with jam at him. And he’d have to wear the chicken suit.

    I would definitely pay eighteen bucks for that. Maybe even as high as twenty.

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    • 2010 July 11

      Best. Party. Idea. EVER.

      “Hey guys, enjoying the party? Have you jammed the oboist yet? It’s a lot of fun!”

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    • 2010 July 11
      abwh permalink

      I’m not so sure Sparketh is asking you to pay; sounds desperate enough that he/ she would be willing to pay YOU to jam with him/ her. I’ve heard of paying for instruction, but never just to “jam” (seriously; jam on the oboe?).

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      • 2010 July 11
        LimeLolly permalink

        Well how else can you get that oboe in there?

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        • 2010 July 11
          abwh permalink

          Ah, jam in the oboe, not on the oboe! Making a lot more sense now…

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        • 2010 July 11

          you want to put jam in the oboe? wouldn’t that be rather messy?

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        • 2010 July 11
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Astro-Glyde??

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        • 2010 July 11

          **appears in puff of smoke**

          Huhwhat?

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        • 2010 July 11
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Sorry Astro – wasn’t calling you, didn’t mean to disturb you…..

          Astro-Glyde is a – umm- a Greek condiment. Yeah, that’s right…..

          *Slips away quietly, trying to not attract attention*

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        • 2010 July 11
          CapnMac permalink

          Yeah, it’s like Foto-Flo*

          _______________
          *Obscure darkroom B&W developer reference; “like” in this sense used as in:
          “No beer, Tequila.”
          “What’s ‘tequila’ like?”
          “Oh, it’s like beer.”

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    • 2010 July 11
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      SJ – I’ll make the YouTube video for you, since I’m “kinda” in the neighborhood anyway.

      Looks like you might be able to charge an admission fee also. You’ll make millions or obo.

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  12. 2010 July 11

    Alright, folks – I’ve spent the last four years hanging around a conservatory, and I feel entirely qualified to do a little translation:

    let’s jam i desperately need money – $18
    i am a professional oboe player recent graduate and i am willing to play with you and jam among other things… *wink wink*. normally i charge $1000 for a playing engagement (at least, i would if i ever had any) but i can play with you for $18/hr, or, you know, anything at all. you have to be pretty good beause i don’t slow down my playing it has to cover up what i’m playing. it wouldn’t be fair to the music to keep this racehorse from running oboe in my pants if you know what i mean. so $18/hr and that probably won’t last (I DESPERATELY NEED MONEY) but email anyway and we’ll see both regret it

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    • 2010 July 11
      MandaB permalink

      I’m not sure what kind of drugs this musician is on that would lead them to think they could make $1000/hr, but I’d like some! And I thought trumpet players had the biggest egos…

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      • 2010 July 11

        I’m really glad I talked my sister out of playing the oboe. You know the difference between an oboe and a lawnmower? You can tune the lawnmower.

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        • 2010 July 11
          MandaB permalink

          Hence the reason the rest of the orchestra “tunes” to the oboe. It falls in line with the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” mentality. It really is best to just surrender.

          *fires up the old oboe… SQWOOOONK *

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        • 2010 July 12
          nonsensicalcat permalink

          Sad face from someone who played the oboe for years in my slightly younger days. I refuse to mock the oboe! But I will mock the guy who wrote the ad. Hey, guy! You suck! You are a creeper/asshat/assface/soiler-to-the-sacred-name-of-oboists!

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        • 2010 July 12
          MandaB permalink

          Cat, don’t be too sad. They only tease us as oboists because they love us.

          That is why you tease us, right???

          *looks around feeling slightly sad*

          I don’t mind poking fun at myself. Plus it means we can make jokes about the brass section. 😀

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      • 2010 July 11
        CapnMac permalink

        A grand would barely get you a quartet in NOLA, and this Sparky thinks he remembers $1000 gigs?

        Sounds like somebody has been whistling the wrong pipe.

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        • 2010 July 15
          Ledi permalink

          Manda, back when I started high school, we didn’t have any oboes (we were a music school, but for some reason not many people wanted to play something that sounded like a dying goose the first two years of learning). Instead the conductor demoted the lowest of the low flutists (myself in year 8 and 9, but I gradually clawed my way up to first flute by year 11) to play oboe parts. She called us floboes. We felt so dirty.

          We did get a real oboe two years out of the five in high school. She had a bad tendency to start giggling in the middle of solos. Shepherd’s Hey was hilarious apparently.

          It was a semi-decent (for a certain definition of high school ‘decent’) concert band, we played a mix of music. The Lord of the Dance and the Phantom of the Opera medley were probably two of my favourites, and in my last year there we were practicing music from the Lord of the Rings – didn’t quite get to performance standard before I graduated though. Londonderry Air was one of my year 12 ensemble performance pieces… one flute trying desperately to be heard over the rest of the band while playing in her lowest octave. XD

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  13. 2010 July 11

    Howdy, y’all. Good snarkin’ today.

    I’m just dropping by to say that I’m leaving on a trip tomorrow (overseas) and won’t be back for a couple of weeks. Save a slice of coffee for me on the 26th.

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    • 2010 July 11

      Aww, we’ll miss you!

      Also, for the rest of you, please accept this comment as my official request to take over Isaac’s corrections of Taco’s grammar.

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      • 2010 July 11

        It’s a big responsibility, Bridgete. I recommend taking small steps, concentrating on just the spelling at first, then moving up to grammar gradually.

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        • 2010 July 11

          Thanks for the tip. I should, however, be fine taking it on all at once. I find (and get annoyed by) the errors in published novels. Granted, that’s not hard these days, since it seems that no one hires editors anymore. However, even in a novel that is rather well-edited, I still manage to find the ONE error.

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        • 2010 July 11
          CapnMac permalink

          I have heard, from some editors and authors I know, that, there is some surmise that holding editors to such a high performance standard, competent use of English grammar and spelling (that came out “speeling” almost automatically[G]) would be indefensible in court.

          The presumption of being able to empanel a jury of competent English users being so unlikely as to make any disciplinary action by Employer prima facie capricious and/or felicitous, if not discriminatory per se.

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        • 2010 July 11

          The presumption of being able to empanel a jury of competent English users being so unlikely as to make any disciplinary action by Employer prima facie capricious and/or felicitous, if not discriminatory per se.

          That makes me sad.

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    • 2010 July 11

      Have fun in (overseas)! I’ve been there once, are you going to [location]? Try the Greek while you’re there.

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    • 2010 July 11
      CapnMac permalink

      Over seas vacationing having much to recommend it–especially vice underseas.
      Though, there is an appeal to inter-seas locales for recreation.

      If you wind up on a littoral, remember to shake out the cassock thoroughly–it is all too possible to have too much fine sand.

      Bon voyage!

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    • 2010 July 11
      MandaB permalink

      Safe travels, Isaac!

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    • 2010 July 11
      Grampdaddy permalink

      Be safe, have fun, come back to us rested and snark-full.

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      • 2010 July 12
        Windrose permalink

        Isaac, here’s an honorary punch to get you through the next couple of weeks! Punchity Punch Punch! Safe travel, and God Speed.

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  14. 2010 July 11

    Meh. If I were to “jam” with this oboist, he/she/it’d get angry, because nobody would hear he/she/it jamming out. I’m able to get pretty loud on my Euphonium, who, curiously enough, came with the name Margarita, nicknamed Marge. And if my good friend, Brandon, a tuba player, were to jam, no one would ever know. He is of such loudness that our middle school band director described him as “hoss” and that our high school band director frequently has to tell him to stop trying to play as if he’s four tubas, because he can’t hear the trombones over him.

    Now, a Euphonium-Saxophone Duo…

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    • 2010 July 11
      abwh permalink

      Now that would be worth whatever the gate!

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    • 2010 July 11

      Haha, your tuba friend sort of reminds me of this guy who was in choir with me back in high school. His last name lent itself to the nickname “Gusty,” which was quite appropriate for him. Even in A Capella choir, with 300 students (biggest HS choir in Oregon at the time), he still frequently had the opportunity to be a bit gusty. Even in such a large choir, we still only had about 30 tenors, including Gusty, so you’d hear him overpowering the other guys a lot. He was also in the school’s chamber choir, where I’m sure he got even more scolding for being too gusty there, the chamber choir being comprised of only 32 students. I wasn’t in the chamber choir, so I don’t know for certain, but knowing how particular the choir director was with quality even in such a large choir, you can bet she was even more particular with her chamber choir.

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    • 2010 July 11

      Hehe, we used to have a tubist (is that word?) that could play like nobody’s business. My director said they should put him on the Wheaties box.

      Personally, I like to take Clair (terribly creative for a clarinet, I know) on a stroll through the altissimo register. I get this maniacal look every time our conductor tells the clarinet section to play louder.

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      • 2010 July 11

        Tubaist? Tuber? Tubarista? Tubadier?
        Tubist sounds like an art movement or a tuba elitist to me, but you’re probably right.

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        • 2010 July 11

          I like Tubarista–whenever you get sick of them playing, they’ll make you a drink.

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        • 2010 July 12
          Windrose permalink

          How about Tubadore?

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  15. 2010 July 11

    Are we gonna let de-plane
    Bring us down, oh, no oboe
    Let’s go crazy, let’s get nuts
    Look for the purple Deshuminfinder
    ‘Til they put us in the truck of bees, oboe

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    • 2010 July 11
      abwh permalink

      Kudos on the “Artist Formerly Known As Prince Now Again Known As Prince Because No One Has A Way To Make That Funny Symbol In Print” reference!

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  16. 2010 July 11
    kelli permalink

    My snark seems to have been replaced by a nasty rash on my legs today.

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    • 2010 July 11

      Put some jam on it…

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      • 2010 July 11
        kelli permalink

        I would Ham, but I’m afraid if I did, it would attract oboe players.

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        • 2010 July 11

          Not if you use meat Gerbert jam…

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        • 2010 July 11
          abwh permalink

          Ham jam?

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        • 2010 July 11

          Puts a whole new meaning to making a Ham and Cheese Sandwich…

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        • 2010 July 11
          MandaB permalink

          I do not like oboes and jam.

          I would not, could not, with a flute,
          I would not, could not give a toot.
          I would not, could not with a sax,
          a tuba named Marge or a trumpet named Max.
          I will not play it here or there.
          I will not play it anywhere.
          I do not like oboes and jam!
          I do not like them, Ham in Can.*

          * My apologies to Dr. Seuss.

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        • 2010 July 11
          Camille permalink

          Would you, could you,
          With some bees?
          Would you, could you,
          With shoulder knees?

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        • 2010 July 11

          “Ham jam”?

          She might slap me if I put that on her legs…

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        • 2010 July 11

          Great band name though. They have a wonderful punk oboeist.

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      • 2010 July 11
        abwh permalink

        Hamajamarama

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  17. 2010 July 11
    abwh permalink

    The aspic-y gelatinous stuff?

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  18. 2010 July 11

    I talked to my jam about playing with this oboe guy but he worried that because he’s lacking fingers he’d just slow down that racehorse and possibly get it all sticky.

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  19. 2010 July 11

    pay no attention to this post, just testing the html tags so I can go all fancy later.

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    • 2010 July 11
      LimeLolly permalink

      These are not the posts you seek? 🙂

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    • 2010 July 11
      abwh permalink

      I did the same thing last night early this morning… safer; less finger-pointing and snickers…

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      • 2010 July 11
        abwh permalink

        …and snark

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        • 2010 July 11
          CapnMac permalink

          Now, I wish our stylesheet actually had a
          <snark> tag.

          Nothing elaborate, just an override to some differing font or a color change (which could have a 1+ iteration applied to keep it interesting).

          But, that would be some work for our hosts, right up there with keeping up with
          <corey> or <matt> or even <bees> tags.

          Rather like getting a time include on the date of the posts–this is not something Vigilance Theme ‘plays pretty’ with, sadly.

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      • 2010 July 11

        I figured Sunday was a safe bet, it’s usually pretty slow around here since everyone is nursing a hangover spending time with family or going to church.

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        • 2010 July 11

          Or studying for the bar.

          Oh right.

          *returns to books*

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        • 2010 July 11
          CapnMac permalink

          I remember days of old, when it was “applicants constesting to achieve the bar”–old, old language hearkening back to the adversarial nature of the legal trade.

          Even as it always caused me to mentally picture the would-be barristers having to cross glacis and rampart in a Forlorn Hope into whatever breech was forced in the Bar’s walls.

          An amusing image as I sipped a shirley temple with my grandfather and his cronies as they enjoyed adult beverages–to imagine them accomplished in armor, holding besieged Harfleur against the would-be attorneys, and sending paralegals to wall up the breech against the besiegers.

          Ah, best to remember that, in Peace nothing becomes more than modest stillness and humble snark; but in contesting the bar, take up the visage of the Not.A.Lion and stiffen the sinews and screw up the eye to tedious verbiage that it be effortlessly repeated in badinage like a cannon before galled stone!

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        • 2010 July 11

          Ooh. I should walk into the exam carrying a shield with a Not.A.Lion on it. And a standard. You always need a standard.

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        • 2010 July 12
          CapnMac permalink

          Hey, a tiara would work.

          But, if it’s a crown, I’d hold out for the 5-speed automatic with overdrive.

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  20. 2010 July 11

    And in this episode of the Bands of Hazzard, we find Oboe and Lute Duke once again being chased by sheriff Banjo P. Coltrane, while Dizi Duke in being held for ransom by Bass Hogg.

    *Cut to scene* we see the Gemshorn Lee jumping across a river because the bridge is out…

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    • 2010 July 11
      LimeLolly permalink

      They were just the ‘good oboes, never meaning no harm’.

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      • 2010 July 11
        CapnMac permalink

        And ‘splainin’ to Mom why it was they only showed his hands and not his face on tv . . .

        Just making us weigh, how little they know now/
        That’s just a bit more than grammar law allow’…

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  21. 2010 July 11

    I’m calling it a night, our net connection is behaving a little erratically again so I’m quitting before I lose my temper.

    I’ve already had to reboot the modem twice, so it’s not far from lost already

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  22. 2010 July 12
    Windrose permalink

    Wow, this Don’t Suck is really going to screw up my records! Bianchi Sound, Not Taco, and Not MandaB, here come your shared punches! Punchity Punch Punch!

    G’Night, Jamboree!

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    • 2010 July 12
      MandaB permalink

      Not Taco and Not Manda were both Grampdaddy, if that helps at all.

      -Sleepless in Indy

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      • 2010 July 12
        Windrose permalink

        Well, my policy has been, the points go to the actual name used. For instance, if Taco had gotten in the box as WindRose, the point would go to that handle. I may have to call upon a decision from a higher source. 8)

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        • 2010 July 12
          Grampdaddy permalink

          And I deny any responsibility for anything I may or may not have said. I think I have a dollar.

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        • 2010 July 12
          LimeLolly permalink

          That’s certainly a unique way of snarking your way out of a punch. Blame someone else.

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      • 2010 July 12
        Grampdaddy permalink

        “Not Grampdaddy” was performed by “Not Not Grampdaddy” on Saturday.

        “Get your programs here – can’t tell the players without a program!”

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  23. 2010 July 12

    ‘Then suddenly – high above it – an oboe, a single note, played by a $1000 per engagement player (who only charged $18), hanging there unwavering,’

    – Salieri in the film ‘Amadeus’

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    • 2010 July 12
      Jen permalink

      I’ve seen that film about four times, but never took any of it in. It was the default “I have run out of work for you and it is nearly the holidays” stop-gap of every Music teacher I have ever had. It makes me think of summer and sleepiness. Which, when I think back on the film, is singularly un-apt.

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      • 2010 July 15
        Ledi permalink

        …We had Mr. Hollands Opus as our Music Centre’s stop-gap movie, seen at least three times per year. The boys played cards on the drummer platform, I learned how to play 500 from them in year 9. XD

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  24. 2013 August 25

    Interesting how this post’s comments started out all sexual and stuff. That rarely happens. And by rarely, I mean ALL THE BLOODY TIME! 8)

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    • 2013 August 25
      nojazzhere permalink

      Windy…wasn’t it Freud who said, “Sometimes an oboe is just an oboe.”? Oh, it wasn’t? Well, he should have!!!!!!

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      • 2013 August 26
        One Moving Violation permalink

        Yes, Steve Freud said that. How is it that you know this stuff?

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  25. 2013 August 25
    CapnMac permalink

    Ah, misty watercolour memories for the way we still are,
    Just not so much in only the one place any more.

    As long as it means we’ve not reached a zenith of the cohort which is erudite, literate, and capable of snark.

    Or, that our extroversion is not discouraging to those voices in the background–perhaps overwhelmed by images orgiastic writhing jam-filled woodwinds and the kinky potentials required to keep all those reeds wet.

    Or, it’s all the delusions from how those encumbered with a firm obo seem obsessed with getting it stuck in somewhere–including jam (or jelly) reducing that to sounds and furies, signifying nothing.

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  26. 2013 August 25
    One Moving Violation permalink

    And now for something completely different.

    A man with an O.B.O.E jammed up his arse. Or Best Offer Everyone.

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  27. 2013 August 26

    kelli, it’s a rare privilege and a pleasure to punch you out of the box this morning. Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Space Jammers!

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