Klarinet Archive - Posting 000456.txt from 2002/04

From: "Stacy-Michelle" <stacy-michelle@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinex
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:04:49 -0400

LOL! Good one!!

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>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>From: Tom.Henson@-----.com
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:53:32 -0500
>Subject: RE: [kl] Clarinex
>
>
>Gary,
>
>I may be able to top that one.
>
>While in a college history class we were studying "The National Labor
>Relations Act of 1935" also known as "The Wagner Act."
>
>I raised my hand to answer his question about the name of this act and
you
>guessed it.
>
>I pronounced it with the German "V" sound as in Richard Wagner.
>
>The professor chuckled and said "Mr. Henson you've been listening to too=

>much opera."
>
>Tom Henson
>
>Gary said: << I'm glad someone else has had their clarinet problem inter=
fere
>with real
>life. When I was in college, I was talking to a bunch of my classmates
about
>
>a class project we were doing which involved fast food restaurants. We
were
>
>talking about that food bar in the center of the restaurant, you know,
the
>
>BUH-FAY. And while I normally pronounce it that way when talking about
food
>
>bars, for some reason while sort of talking out loud in a class discussi=
on,
>
>I called it, you guessed it, a BOO-FAY, like the clarinet brand. I only
said
>
>it once that way, but for some reason it struck a couple of people as th=
e
>
>funniest thing they had ever heard. I never did get their attention back=
.
>>>
>
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Musically,

Stacy-Michelle Valentine

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don=
't
live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundar=
y
line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
- Charlie Parker

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