Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2007/04

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad joke time
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:43:35 -0400

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:26:04 -0400 Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
ranted:
> Memo: To all would be clarinetist "comedians" who think they've suddenly
> encountered a clever "joke"...
>
> You haven't.
>
> These SAME instrumental jokes have been traveling around the internet ad
> nauseum and are listed on dozens of web sites.
>
> Your "discoveries" of witty material is not as revolutionary as you may
> think.
>
> A better, more worthwhile endeavor - find an original one that hasn't been
> traveling the vaudeville circuits for the past 40 years.
>
> End of rant - Now back to your regularly scheduled program...
>
> Glenn Kantor (GBK)

Oh, come on, Glenn. Nobody said these were new, or original, or
revolutionary. If we can't pause for 5 minutes every once in a while
and wade through a half a dozen "musician joke" messages without
reaching for the grumpy stick, then perhaps we should take our wrinkled
old sourpuss faces back to the rocking chairs and yell at the kids
playing ball in the street.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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