musical holiday

[eadg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt_Jazz_Festival

Early weekend in May in Belgium, I'm going, along with my
Kala bass uke and Roland micro bass combo (battery powered if
need be).
By motorbike too if things go to plan...I plan on 'borrowing'
my friend's Honda Blackbird for the trip (he's unaware of how
desperate my tactics are to prise him away from his pride and
joy ;).

Can't wait!

--
SR

[fourstring]

"eadg" wrote in message
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Need a pillion passenger?
(If my back is better by then!)
;-))

-C-
Anything is possible if you don't
know what you're talking about

[Desk Rabbit]

On 20/02/2012 10:06, fourstring wrote:
> "eadg" wrote in message
> news:4f41996d$0$2282$c3e8da3$1920...@news.astraweb.com...
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt_Jazz_Festival
>
>> Early weekend in May in Belgium, I'm going, along with my Kala bass
>> uke and Roland micro bass combo (battery powered if need be).
>> By motorbike too if things go to plan...I plan on 'borrowing' my
>> friend's Honda Blackbird for the trip (he's unaware of how desperate
>> my tactics are to prise him away from his pride and joy ;).
>
>> Can't wait!
>

Empty post again fourstring. You need to fix your newsreader.

[Pt]

I can see his post.
Maybe your newsreader is malfunctioning.

Pt

[Desk Rabbit]

I can see your reply, maybe his newsreader (X-Newsreader: Microsoft
Windows Live Mail 15.4.3538.513) is broken?

Windows Live Mail is notoriously broken as a Usenet client, it doesn't
quote properly for a start. It also allows you to reply within another
signature which effectively hides your content.

It breaks standards, ergo it's broken.

[Richard Melville]

I can read the post just fine. Of course I am using the old reliables:
Outlook Express and WinXP.


"Desk Rabbit" <m...@example.com> wrote in message
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[Derek Tearne]

Desk Rabbit <m...@example.com> wrote:

> Empty post again fourstring. You need to fix your newsreader.

But, remember, if you did that, Desk Rabbit would no longer have any
reason to post...

I have to say, given that the only posts from Desk Rabbit are complaints
about broken newsreaders, and the posts from the people with said broken
newsreaders are generally worth the tiny bit of extra effort to read,
I'm currently thinking the long term solution is to kill file Desk
Rabbit.

--- Derek

--
Derek Tearne - de...@url.co.nz
Vitamin S: improvisation from New Zealand http://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/
d'Groove: 12 piece party/covers band http://www.dGroove.co.nz/

[Brian Running]

> Early weekend in May in Belgium, I'm going, along with my
> Kala bass uke and Roland micro bass combo (battery powered if
> need be).

Takin' a band with you, or are you just going to crash the gig and
hope for the best?

[Brian Running]

> Need a pillion passenger?

Can you even put a pillion passengers on a Honda? Everything's so
strange and different over there.

[Rudolf Ziegaus]

Now wait a minute - there is something strange here - ah, I found it:
over there is where you live, because we live here;-)

Rudi

[*e#c]

Are you flying to Belgium WITH a Scooter? How many " extra bag"
surcharges is THAT ???...LOL

[eadg]

"fourstring" <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:jWo0r.123224$7N1....@newsfe24.ams2...

> "eadg" wrote in message
> news:4f41996d$0$2282$c3e8da3$1920...@news.astraweb.com...
>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt_Jazz_Festival
>
>>Early weekend in May in Belgium, I'm going, along with my
>>Kala bass uke and Roland micro bass combo (battery powered
>>if need be).
>>By motorbike too if things go to plan...I plan on
>>'borrowing' my friend's Honda Blackbird for the trip (he's
>>unaware of how desperate my tactics are to prise him away
>>from his pride and joy ;).
>
>>Can't wait!
>
> --
> SR
>
> Need a pillion passenger?
> (If my back is better by then!)
> ;-))
>
> -C-

It's more than feasable if you're fit Clive, Dover - Dunkirk
is my preferred route so I'll be passing through anyway.
Keep ya posted!

--
SR

[eadg]

"Brian Running" <runnin...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Need a pillion passenger?
>
> Can you even put a pillion passengers on a Honda?

I hope so, if only for Clive's sake, if things pan out ;)

> Everything's so strange and different over there.

Indeed, especially the sheer volume, nay, tidal wave, of real
ales available.

--
SR

[eadg]

"Brian Running" <runnin...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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It's a weekend away for the gypsy jazz outfit I play with
(and other interested parties) so there's more than a good
chance we'll perform in some manner but prolly more so for
ourselves than anything else. It will be a first for me if I
do go, I've heard a lot about these gypsy jazz festivals and
spontaneous jamming with total strangers is par for the
course. Django was born there IINM...

--
SR
(Aprillia Pegaso 650)

[fourstring]

"eadg" wrote in message
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You've got to con the bike outta yer friend first!
As I'm looking at minimum 6 months recovery (and
most likely a year) I think the best I can do is
invite you to stop by on your way to Dover (40 mins
from here) for a meal. That's a definite.
We'd love to meet you in the flesh so to speak!!

[Derek Tearne]

fourstring <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> As I'm looking at minimum 6 months recovery (and
> most likely a year)

That's grim. I'm seeing the elbow doctor this week. Chances are it
will need to be taken apart again. With all the risks that entails.

Recovery time is something I'll be keen to find out, whatever it is it
is too long.

At the moment I can play as well as I ever could, but with loose screws
that could change at any moment, or under the knife.

Not looking forward to this year's medical experiences at all.

[fourstring]

"Derek Tearne" wrote in message
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fourstring <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> As I'm looking at minimum 6 months recovery (and
> most likely a year)

>That's grim. I'm seeing the elbow doctor this week. Chances are it
>will need to be taken apart again. With all the risks that entails.

>Recovery time is something I'll be keen to find out, whatever it is it
>is too long.

>At the moment I can play as well as I ever could, but with loose screws
>that could change at any moment, or under the knife.

>Not looking forward to this year's medical experiences at all.

--- Derek

Is the cure worse than the ailment?
I dunno but my problem needed a 6.5 hr op...
described by the surgeon as 'technically demanding'
I've had (and still get) unbelievable pain levels and am
pretty much housebound. The whole thing has turned out to be a
much bigger and more serious deal than I bargained for.

Gigging is totally out of the question, the garden is a mess,
stuff needs fixing round the house and there's bugger-all
I can do about it.
I can't do a damned thing other than watch TV and read.
Cabin fever looms!
I do know my back will never be 100%, that was made clear.
As long as I can walk a reasonable distance again and play
bass standing up I'll be happy.

Like me I would imagine that your recovery time is totally
subjective and hope you don't have to get a warranty job
on your elbow!

This maturity thing ain't all it's cracked up to be but I look
on it as getting value back for all the tax I've paid...the cost
of my op to the NHS was about £25K...heh!!

Good luck Derek...let us know how it goes.

-C-

[Brian Running]

> Now wait a minute - there is something strange here - ah, I found it:
> over there is where you live, because we live here;-)

Well, how many is a pillion? I assume that's part of that archaic
metric system you Europeans cling so desperately to. Is a pillion
more or less than a brazilian?

[Brian Running]

> > Everything's so strange and different over there.
>
> Indeed, especially the sheer volume, nay, tidal wave, of real
> ales available.

The funny thing is, after a tidal wave of ale, things are either very
strange and different, or just perfectly okey-dokey. Hard to tell.

[Brian Running]

> It's a weekend away for the gypsy jazz outfit I play with
> (and other interested parties) so there's more than a good
> chance we'll perform in some manner but prolly more so for
> ourselves than anything else. It will be a first for me if I
> do go, I've heard a lot about these gypsy jazz festivals and
> spontaneous jamming with total strangers is par for the
> course. Django was born there IINM...

Sounds like fun. Of course, we'll see pictures of you in your gypsy
outfit?

[Desk Rabbit]

On 20/02/2012 20:36, Derek Tearne wrote:
> Desk Rabbit<m...@example.com> wrote:
>
>> Empty post again fourstring. You need to fix your newsreader.
>
> But, remember, if you did that, Desk Rabbit would no longer have any
> reason to post...
>
> I have to say, given that the only posts from Desk Rabbit are complaints
> about broken newsreaders, and the posts from the people with said broken
> newsreaders are generally worth the tiny bit of extra effort to read,
> I'm currently thinking the long term solution is to kill file Desk
> Rabbit.
>
> --- Derek
>

What are standards for if not to be broken by Microsoft.

I'm sorry my pointing this out appears to be a hanging offence.

Fuck you.

[Desk Rabbit]

Fixed broken Outlook Express top posting ;-)

Seriously though, I'm only trying to help fourstring because those of us
that are using real newsreaders that conform to the accepted standards
(And other services that may suck in Usenet data) are not seeing his
post correctly.

For some however this helpful advice seems to be a offence that requires
hanging, drawing and quartering. Ho-Hum :-(

[Derek Tearne]

fourstring <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> "Derek Tearne" wrote in message
> news:1kfu74w.190byu31qdvyfzN%de...@url.co.nz...
>
> fourstring <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > As I'm looking at minimum 6 months recovery (and
> > most likely a year)
>
> >That's grim. I'm seeing the elbow doctor this week. Chances are it
> >will need to be taken apart again. With all the risks that entails.
>
> >Recovery time is something I'll be keen to find out, whatever it is it
> >is too long.
>
> >At the moment I can play as well as I ever could, but with loose screws
> >that could change at any moment, or under the knife.
>
> >Not looking forward to this year's medical experiences at all.
>

> Is the cure worse than the ailment?

I broke my elbow a couple of years ago. They carefully pinned
everything together, and the bone should have all healed over nicely
binding the mess of metal into a solid lump. It didn't do so.

> I dunno but my problem needed a 6.5 hr op...
> described by the surgeon as 'technically demanding'

I suspect my elbow was close to 'technically demanding', although I
don't think it was quite as long an op. All of the surgeons and
specialists who see the X-rays and note how I'm moving my elbow almost
normally talk about how remarkable a recovery I've made. Well, right up
to the bit where they notice the gap in the bone...

> I've had (and still get) unbelievable pain levels and am
> pretty much housebound. The whole thing has turned out to be a
> much bigger and more serious deal than I bargained for.

> Like me I would imagine that your recovery time is totally
> subjective and hope you don't have to get a warranty job
> on your elbow!

It's one of those difficult situations in that I could carry on like
this, with dead bone, loose screws and the occasional attacks of serious
pain - often when doing something simple like picking something light
off the floor, rinsing a cup or opening a screw top bottle.

Eventually though, it will go bad in quite horrid ways if nothing is
done.

Seeing as I'm only 50 it might need to last several decades, and that is
unlikely.

> This maturity thing ain't all it's cracked up to be but I look
> on it as getting value back for all the tax I've paid...the cost
> of my op to the NHS was about £25K...heh!!

Indeed. I think I'm getting my levies worth from this.

[Oci-One Kanubi]

Oh, trust me, it is sooooooo much less than a brazillian.

-Kanubi

[Oci-One Kanubi]

Uhhh... he'll just ride it onto the ferry.

God I hate it when someone makes us look like ignorant Americans. O
wait -- yer an ignorant Canadian! Neverminnnnnnnndddddddddd.

-Kanubi

[JustWait]

I know Americans who travel overseas and carry a Canadian flag... I
wonder if real Canadians carry an American flag?...LOL Just kidding
guys... just kidding.

[Rudolf Ziegaus]

Thanx for pointing it out - I was too tactful to mention it;-)

Rudi

[Rudolf Ziegaus]

I admit I had to look "pillion" up in the dictionary - unfortunately I see
no relation to "Brazilian" - sorry, I don't gen your pun;-(

And of course we cling to our archic metric system and we also cling to its
inherent logic;-) - it's a long time we left the oldfahioned system of
inches and feet - wikipedia says Germany abandoned inches when it
introduced the metric system 1872.
Maybe you'll need another 35 years or so to finish the conversion to our
archaic system;-)

Rudi

[Brian Running]

> I admit I had to look "pillion" up in the dictionary - unfortunately I see
> no relation to "Brazilian" - sorry, I don't gen your pun;-(

There was a joke going around a few years back, when ol' Dubya was
prez --
George and Dick Cheney were sitting in the morning briefing when they
were informed that 30 Brazilian citizens had died in a ferry
accident. George leaned over to Dick and asked, "Dick, is a Brazilian
more or less than a million?"

> And of course we cling to our archic metric system and we also cling to its
> inherent logic;-) - it's a long time we left the oldfahioned system of
> inches and feet - wikipedia says Germany abandoned inches when it
> introduced the metric system 1872.
> Maybe you'll need another 35 years or so to finish the conversion to our
> archaic system;-)

Ha ha! You're whistling in the dark, Rudi. It's inevitable that the
world will once again return to the English measurement system, after
the metric system is exposed for the fraud that it is.

Did you know, that using the Fahrenheit scale, there's no such thing
as global warming?

[fourstring]

"Brian Running" wrote in message
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That's very convenient ;-))
And why do you guys purport to be true to Imperial measurements
when you so often express fractions as decimals?
Par example...2 3/4 inches as 2.75 inches.
And what's with big heavy stuff weights being expressed in pounds?
Tons are a lot neater.
We'll getcha sooner or later.
So what is the term for a motor bike rear passenger in the US if not
'pillion?'

[eadg]

"Brian Running" <runnin...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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LOL, of course, but I warn you now my clothing rarely veers
from that of an undertaker whether riding a bike or playing
in a band ;)

--
SR

[eadg]

"fourstring" <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message

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Without Red Molly (who rode pillion)* motorsiccle culture
just would'nt be the same.

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjFdDXauuA&feature=fvst

--
SR

[Brian Running]

> That's very convenient  ;-))

A convenient truth, aye.

> And why do you guys purport to be true to Imperial measurements
> when you so often express fractions as decimals?
> Par example...2 3/4 inches as 2.75 inches.

I don't know who you're thinking of, Clive. I don't even know what a
decimal is. Why, just this morning I paid four and twenty-eightieths
dollars for breakfast. I believe you're thinking of Canada, they do
everything wrong there.

> And what's with big heavy stuff weights being expressed in pounds?
> Tons are a lot neater.

Clive, you can check this out for yourself -- right there on my
driver's license, it says, "Weight 0.105 tons."

> We'll getcha sooner or later.
> So what is the term for a motor bike rear passenger in the US if not
> 'pillion?'

A "Brazilian." I thought I already made that clear. Look, I'm not
trying to cause trouble here.

[fourstring]

"Brian Running" wrote in message

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Brian...
You are an evil bugger....
You made my back hurt like hell laughing!!

Anywho...a 'Brazilian' is something to do with
female pubic hair styling I believe.

[Dave Curtis]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:14:34 +0000, Desk Rabbit <m...@example.com>
wrote:

I can see his posts just fine, and I'm using a "real" newsreader...

[Dave Curtis]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:52:21 -0000, "fourstring"
<fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>So what is the term for a motor bike rear passenger in the US if not
>'pillion?'

"bitch pad"

[Desk Rabbit]

Some will, some won't and some will fix the broken format, doesn't
change the fact the the sender's newsreader is breaking accepted
standards so that his post content may be invisible or distorted to some
readers. Pointing this out to the sender (Who may be oblivious to the
fact for obvious reasons) is the responsible thing to do for the sender
and the community.

[fourstring]

"Dave Curtis" wrote in message
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Well I sho'nuff ain't gonna be SR's bitch...no siree.

[*e#c]

Wow.... I thought it quite a little joke.....you...well....must be
having a bad morning. Shit the bed?

[*e#c]

No, we just wear a shirt with a big Maple Leaf on it. The chicks see
it, and wanna talk to us. We dont have to pretend...lol

[Oci-One Kanubi]

Ah, the old "I was just fooling" defense. How often does that work
for you? More to the point, whom does it actually work on? O,
wait... you play in a polka band, don't you? so I guess it probably
works on everyone in your band!

-Richard, His Bassic Travesty

[*e#c]

Hahaha.......no blow-job, huh? No, I play in three, soon four
different Groups.

So, how many are you in these days?

If thats condecending talk, so be it.

Oh yeah, dont forget to stick your index finger up your ass, then
pull it out to sniff it to see just how full of shit you are......

:) Have a nice day !!

[Dave Curtis]

Then you could just hop on "the back".