Klarinet Archive - Posting 001388.txt from 1998/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Ralphing. (Not blowing chunks, puking, hurling, tossing your ,
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 05:37:51 -0500

Ralph VAUGHAN Williams, please, children.
Roger S.

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mark Charette wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:23:14 -0500
> From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Ralphing. (Not blowing chunks, puking, hurling, tossing your , cookies, heaving, etc. That's a different ralphing...)
>
> Shouryu Nohe wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mark Charette wrote:
> >
> > > Joshua M. Coleman wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 BKruse@-----.com wrote:
> > > > > It can't be "RAY-fur" because then it would be spelt "Ralpher"
> > > > Wouldn't that be pronounced (RAL-fuhr)?
> > >
> > > Not by Mr. Von Williams.
> > >
> > > Ding.
> >
> > I suspect that there's something to do with Ralph VAUGHN Williams here,
> > but as a lowly college student, I'm very clueless.
>
> As I ding myself, knowing better than to write Von vs. Vaughn. Forgot my
> vitamin E today, and now long term memory is suffering. Luckily my
> college days are well in the past. ("Mr. Charette, are you sleeping in
> class again? Perhaps when you're running that reactor you could grace us
> with your baby blues?" - Adm. Rickover, gazing in my general
> direction ...)
>
> > (Perhaps not as
> > clueless as the HS students...or Josh...Lord knows NO one could be
> > more...er, nevermind).
> >
> > Is his name not pronounced the traditional RalfVonWillyumz as it is
> > deceptively spelled, or what?
>
> What. Pronounced Rayf .
> --
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