Klarinet Archive - Posting 001302.txt from 1998/07

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Classical Music and Young People
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:52:41 -0400

At 04:08 PM 7/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hmmm.... well between my father in the Air Force, and other family in the
Navy
>and Army all have reported that officers do not speak like that. Maybe
that is
>unusual.

Well, SOMEBODY does, cuz when I tried to access your Geocities page from
here just now, my ever-vigilant employer returned this message:

>Morgan Stanley Web Access Control: your URL contains sex material
>and is restricted.

What is sexy about music?:-)

We also have Web Access Control over some other sites containing "Criminal
Methods." I happen to have been published on one of them, but it wasn't an
article on how to smuggle drugs or make a thermonuclear bomb using laundry
detergent, LeBlanc cork grease, and an M-80 (that's a firecracker, not a
clarinet model:-). It was a short story.

My best friend in high school (another of the misfits, albeit non-musical),
under the influence of one too many John Wayne movies, quit school at the
end of junior year and joined the Marine Corps. This is NOT a judgment on
the Marines, for any of you gentlemen who out there who might have served
in said Corps. But it sure as hell changes a guy. Before Andy went away,
he was so straight it made ME laugh, he was clean-living, and he could not
abide swearing.

Twelve weeks later he got back from Parris Island and Quantico and called
me up. The person I met outside my building looked vaguely familiar but
had filled out, thinned down, looked great in a uniform with pleats so
sharp you could shave with them, smoked unfiltered Camels...and used words
I'd never heard from him in combinations I wouldn't hear again until years
later, courtesy of George Carlin.

Ken

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