Klarinet Archive - Posting 000454.txt from 1998/01

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: GT G???
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 14:27:47 -0500

> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lou and Ruth Polcari wrote:
>
> > or are very interested avocets of clarinet playing or listening
>
> I'm sorry, I couldn't stop chuckling at this. Mr. Polcari was
> concluding his statement in description of the general membership
> of Klarinet (above). If "avocet" has any etymological relationship
> to "avocation", I've never known of it before now. And if it
> doesn't, then we've all just been characterized as a bunch of
> long-legged birds with up-curved beaks! If you play a Morgan
> mouthpiece, I'm sure no blight upon your character was intended!

I did a slight double take on that too. However, since one of my
other concurrent activities is reviewing papers written in distinctly
strange English by Russians, it rather passed me by.

Isolated like that, as a single line, it seems completely ridiculous.
Clarinet-playing avocets are a concept I just _can't_ get my mind
around...

Robin