Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2007/04

From: Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad joke time
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:14:09 -0400

Now that's more like it... : ^ }

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Krive" <k.krive@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Bad joke time

> How about:
>
> 'Have you heard any Stockhausen?' Sir Thomas Beecham was asked. 'No.' he
> replied, 'but I have trodden in some.'
>
> Kent
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Kantor" <klarinet@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Bad joke time
>
>
>> Tim,
>>
>> I'm far from grumpy - in fact, if jokes are to be told I'm the first one
>> volunteering.
>>
>> The problem is, that EVERY TIME some one sends by email or attempts to
>> tell a "musician" joke, all we get are the SAME seventy-five one-liners
>> which by now have not only become tiresome, but rather downright
>> annoying. The teller, of course thinks we've all been living in caves for
>> the past century and have never encountered these before.
>>
>> Your recent "discoveries" of the latest and funniest are hardly that
>>
>> Music jokes? I love them and enjoy a great laugh - but please find some
>> jokes/stories/puns that are new, witty, or at least written within the
>> past decade.
>>
>> Not a lot to ask for.
>>
>>
>> Glenn Kantor (GBK)
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
>> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 5:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Bad joke time
>>
>>
>>> 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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