Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 1997/07

From: Adam Calabrese <adam.calabrese@-----.gov>
Subj: Re: Oklahoma (clarinet unrelated)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:07:09 -0400

At 12:05 AM 6/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-06-24 14:28:05 EDT, you write:
>
><< Now I'm going to have songs from Oklahoma going through my head for the
> rest of the day. And I read these messages at 7:30 AM!
>
> If I were a rich man........
>Uhh, not from Oklahoma
>
> Hey Jude......
>Not this one either...
>
> Oh say can you see.....
>Or this one....
>
> Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry.....
>BINGO! You got one...
>
>Hope you didn't have to hum those tunes all day long....
>
>T. Nardin
>(from Oklahoma and knows all the tunes)

I guess that's one problem with email - subtle jokes tend to be
misunderstood. I was using the old ploy of trying to sing other songs to
get the current tune out of my head. The first two were songs I usually
use. The last I figured many of the musically-inclined would recognize as a
"standard" for doing the trick (At least I remember someone -with more
musical talent and knowledge than I- suggesting it while I was a music
major). My joke was that the Oklahoma tune came back in spite of my attempts.

Later,

-Adam Calabrese
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899