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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2004/06
From: "Judy Latz" <atlconcertband@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quotes and staples
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:12:43 -0400
Thank you, Herb. Well said.
Judy
> [Original Message]
> From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
> To: <doublereed@-----.org>
> Date: 6/9/2004 12:19:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [DR-L] Quotes and staples
>
> My understanding of the Geneva conventions is that they apply only to
> military members of an opposing state. Terrorists are terrorists.
Partisans
> were shot on sight and these insurgents are not an organized militia
> representing a state enemy. Now a discussion of human rights might be in
> order, and a chat about human decency would be germane, but not the Geneva
> conventions as far as I know. I am just a bassoon player and not an
> international lawyer.
> Herb
>
> > From: Rhondda May <rmay@-----.com>
> > Reply-To: doublereed@-----.org
> > Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:10:10 +0800
> > To: doublereed@-----.org
> > Subject: Re: [DR-L] Quotes and staples
> >
> > To the cork. Because when I was just a li'l sprout oboer I was taught
> > to do that and to sort of make the last tie slide under the cork, so
> > that reeds wouldn't come unwound. I think I just never changed once I
> > got beyond the stage when that was likely to happen. But on English
> > horn and oboe d'amore reeds, just past the cane, and lots of extra
> > rounds like a bassoonist (but, yes, I'm aware, a poor, poor
> > imitation!;))
> >
> > It does look better, and since I buy my nylon thread by the huge
> > spoolful from the wholesalers up in Sham Shui Po (district of Hong Kong
> > for all fabric, notions, boas, etc; mongrel computers and software legal
> > and not, and live snakes for soup in December - my former students
> > assure me it....wait for it... tastes kind of like chicken), I will be
> > bequeathing the leftovers to my former students in my will....
> >
> > Doublereeders, thanks for anything political, cultural, intellectual
> > that you post here. I'm in danger of beginning to think that nobody in
> > the US thinks there's anything wrong with egregiously violating the
> > Geneva conventions.....
> >
> > Breathe in, breathe out, grow tall-
> > rhondda
> >
> > hlmuller@-----.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Now for something more topically mundane, who wraps their staples to
> >>> the cork and who stops below the cane- and does it matter other than
> >>> looks or frugality?
> >>
> >> To the cork; for looks. Could have saved a couple spools of thread over
> >> the years.
> >>
> >> HM
> >>
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