Klarinet Archive - Posting 000763.txt from 2001/09
From: "Franklin Kercher" <kranwli@-----.net> Subj: Re: [kl] War Jokes Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:00:15 -0400
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From: Tony Wakefield <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: [kl] War Jokes
Good one Tony! Hopefully if most Americans who don't know what a bin
liner is will think about for a minute.
>Are we living in a world of complete political correctness, having to
>profoundly conduct all our lives into having nothing other than complete
>respect for each other`s differences? This is something new isn`t it -
>within the last 50 years?
>
>I have a joke. It could be considered to be in bad taste by some, if not
>many, but last Friday evening it brought the house down in U.K.
>
>I did my big band gig, and I asked my band leader to temper his political
>outburts, as in the past his rantings about Hitler have been somewhat
>embarrasing, due to his indulgence in just a little alchohol thru`out the
>evening.
>
>Came the moment to play Ellington`s 'Caravan'. A wonderful arrangement
using
>bass clarinet, flutes and sop. saxes by Adrian Drover a Scottish trombonist
>who played with the Maynard Ferguson British band in the `60`s and `70`s.
>Our cocky bandleader announced that he had been asked to not politicise,
but
>never-the-less he was going to tell this one.
>Not quite so much a joke as a dedication. And that 'Caravan' on this
evening
>was to be dedicated to Osama Bin Liner!
>
>Yours apologetically,
>
>Tony W.
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