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  1. The incredible sense of anticipation and dread that comes when going through a Fast Food Drive-Through and ordering.
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    Guitar Talk

    Dig the sig too, Bluzeman! Old dudes cranking it? Ha! I was at a Guitar Center once where there was so much din it was almost unbelievable. Around every aisle there was someone just whackin' away in their own little world. Finally, I went up to the 2nd floor where the effects were and looked out over the railing on this sea of hair and guitars, and one of the floor reps was plugging in, and had this huge smile on his face, you could see he was up to something. He plugged into this big stack in the middle of the floor and was twiddling the knobs, turning it up as it turned out, to 10. And he hit this huge E chord that rattled the walls, literally drowning everything else out. He hit it a couple more times and the room went dead silent. Whole store, doink. Then he turned the amp down and off and unplugged and slowly but surely the din started up again. As I was leaving later I asked him what he was doing and he said once a day he has to do that, or else he'd go crazy. How's that ITalk working out Chas? Invisible Dan, the CV out sounds like a great idea. So, you could assign midi sounds to the output? That would be very interesting.
  3. dmiller, I'm like SO down with that. :) Like that's all SO like that, and all.
  4. Price checks in stores at tge register, for people who wait to get their check books out after the item's been finally rung up. The price of gas. 4 way stop signs where the other driver's right of way gives them the pass-through. You wave them on, they wave you on. You creep forward, they creep foward. More waving. Finally the good natured "you go first" ends up with the other car's driver flipping you off and speeding through the intersection in a huff. Getting the paper delivered on Sunday, one of life's simplest pleasure. And not having it there when I go out early Sunday morning to get it. Calling any major business in America today and getting a phone menu of options dithered off that don't include "please hold if you'd like to speak to a representative directly". Calling any major business in America today and getting a representative who give you another number to call. Cell phone services that offer simple family plans that aren't simple.
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    Guitar Talk

    Beautiful amp Mom! :) You'll get some nice sound out of that, I'm sure. GREAT! I'm way behind on my reading here, but this is a great Mom's day gift AND at a great price. 'S all good. Those extra watts will give you lots of headroom for the your sound, as you likely won't have to drive the amp at full bore all the time. That cushion will allow your Ibanez sound to stay sweet! But you'll have some extra oomph when you want it. The metal grilles are nice too, to protect the speakers, makes packing it out an easier proposition. The Guitar Center din. It never ceases to amaze me how low these kids turn everything up the second they plug in. Kids, watt're we gonna do with 'em? We're out the door here soon, hope everyone has a great day. Happy Mom's Day, and congratulations!!
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    Guitar Talk

    GAS!! More GAS!!!
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    Guitar Talk

    Awright, anyone still here? The Invisible One - where did you start building your Theremin, from scratch, a kit? Also, how do you amplify the sound of yours? does it have a preamp and output or...? And how's the 12 string gig go? Dust in the Wind is a classic., would sound nice on a 12 string. I took an hour or so to rewire the 9 volt battery pack for the Fernandes's "Sustainer" unit. About the only thing they didn't think of was the wiring for the plug/clip, which was just a little too short to easily get the battery replacement done in the back without laying it flat and doing. It's doable from a sitting position with the guitar in your lap but the wires were tight. Access is great, but the clip wire not so. It's been a few years and it finally developed a short so I added two longer wires and voilah. It's be fine now. Got an email asking more what it sounds like. Fernandes has some sound samples on their site, but they're kinda funky. If I get hooked up tonight I'll try to put up a sample're 2.
  8. CRacKS R Us Abigail! DM/TS - the relationship between squealiating and squills is unclear. How did they come together to form the new term? Someday an engles linguister will do a phd thesis on it and offer an answer, hopefully. I'm still working on the #1 reason as I feel it's the real answer to the question, Abigail. Maybe a collation of the posts on this thread. For the time being, I don't know, though. IMO. YMMVSBIIDSPW ("your mileage may vary some but if it does something's probably wrong") It's Saturday! There's a hammer somewhere with my name on it!
  9. This may seem like a cheap shot as I'm not interested in posting on this thread, but I read the last few pages and had to comment - Mike's been shot cold on this before, templelady and WW. And Mike's stated purpose for being on GS always come through - to find some interested people, proselytes. He's pimping on GS, to put it in rude terms. GS is where the ex-Way "action" is and so he cruises the streets here where there's a reasonable amount of response, versus some of the other boards, where posts from the board creators have sat unspoken to for months at various times. It's the way it is, GS is a focal point for whatever reasons bring people here and Mike's is to preach and find people who will move off board with him. But even though Mike says there are so-called "lurkers" who supposedly visit Mike in this vanity-press publishing house here who really support what he's doing, none of them post here (or if they do they hardly count as a large percentage) and offer additional insight, support or information. Why, if they did, they could start their own threads and populate them. AND none of them seem to be enough in number or interest to divert Mike's energies away from this board which again - seems to have no validated supporters of what Mike preacheth. So where they are, we don't know. What they do we don't know, but they don't do it here. And for sure, there's plenty of precious time to post here. For only one reason - to get these invisible lurking people to PM Mike and get into some heavy off-board breathing over PFAL. I know it's just me, but it seems oddly perverse. But MIke, you know I love you. I do, and so I check in from time to time to see if anything's changed here and lo, even these many years now, no.
  10. I know I'm going to take some heat for this but hey, it's time I took a stand on what I really think here. If it ruffles some feathers, so be it. I mean no harm. I think the Pro Way sites are fantastic and much better, MUCH better than the older Amateur Way sites. There, I said it. It needed to be said.
  11. Top 10 Reasons I Can Think Of: 10 - If it didn't get through the first 10,000 times, another 40,000 times will surely get the point across. 9 - The sound of my own voice is like beautiful music! 8 - I'm right, get with the program Beavis!! 7 - Hounding is an exageration. Dogging would be more like it. 6 - "Lost" - they keep sneaking in reruns, what else is there to do???? 5 - Any point worth making is worth making over and over and over and over and over. 4 - Any point worth making is worth making over and over and over and over and over. 3 - It's like holding your breath but without the part where you pass out. 2 - Hey, back off bugger! I'm healing here!!! and the number one reason I can think of on short notice for why we continue to hound those who clearly aren't going to change their minds..... is out there somewhere.
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    american idol

    Yah on the Leno/Clooney look. :) I know excie. TV, it's hard to see what's shown sometimes, really, you never know if what you're seeing is really there. But Elliot seems like he's really there. I like that.
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    american idol

    Paris, at her age she's bound to do well now. What a VOice. I see a 4-Way. Sort of a Ruben/Clay thing. At this point they're all offering something unique. Elliot though. When he hugged Paris it seemed so sincere. He's got a face that's photogenic in pose, frozen. The shot of them hugging is a keeper. Taylor sounds like a lot of people but seems to carve out his own sound a little more each week. What I do like about all of them is that their voices have a "sound". Singers we really like have that, like a Ray Charles. Stevie Wonder. They can sing the phone book and it sounds like something. B.B. King coughs and it sounds cool. They've all got some of that this year where in the past it wasn't always very distincitve to my ear. Dunno. They're all pret' good. :)
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    Guitar Talk

    I-Dan! Excited for you! That's great. I'm going to check these links out later....
  15. Squilliating is a form of squealiating. Squealiating is a modern degradation of a colloquiallism, used by the early Italian immigrants when they came over to the USA. Almost always used by mothers with their children, late at night when they'd cry, as in "So why-a-you a squeal-a-so-late a-like this?" Squills are the smaller and less well known cousins of the Japanese squid. They make a tiny squealing sound when caught and while a single Squill will seldom make enough noise to bother anyone a whole net full can make quite a ruckus, or so it's been said! Theyr'e very rare and considered a delicacy when served, and that's not often these days. I hope this helps.
  16. ***I didn't really post this*** Wonderful topic, and I was trying to figure out a place for this comment, under Stones. I think some of the squabbling, quibbling, kibbutiing and squilliating comes from wanting to be right. It's an "I'm right, you're wrong!" kinda thing. I don't have to be right all the time, I'd like to be and am in lots of things. Pretty close on others, circling the landing field on still other things. But aren't there people that just want to be "right" all the time and take great umbrage at being told or even suffering the insinuation that they might be wrong? Maybe some of this doesn't have anything to do with the Word, the Bible or the Way at all. It's just personalities.
  17. My pleasure Allan and Laleo, I was putting that up while you were posting.
  18. That speaks to Christian conduct in society in a big way. I think it's a part of Paul's core message as a PERSON, and how he chose to live his faith as he carried out his life's work. It eludes to a level of hmmm, call it "spirituality" that's very down to earth. I thought of it during the episode 4 part where they were discussing finding the "balance", a topic my wife loves (I could almost hear her laughing in your voices ladies, she is a very balanced person) and how so often we know exactly what it is as we swing by it to one extreme or another. :) Point being in regards to interaction here, on this wacky li'l internet board - it's possible to be grounded in one's own beliefs and yet accomodate others, for the simple purpose of allowing yourself and them to interact in a loving and meaningful way to the end that what you (Or I) have to offer actually has an opportunity to be read and considered in a real way. No one would say that Paul was given to entertaining "idol worship" or such things that he felt were contrary to his faith, but at the same time he knew that his participation with people of such beliefs didn't harm him because he knew what he was doing and why and when it came to things like sharing a meal blessed to another "god" or sharing time with those people he wasn't blaspheming his own faith. He put those kinds of things in balance. Yet and here's the kicker - he also knew that he had a responsibility to consider the feelings of other Christians who would see such things and wonder what the heck he was doing. It seems he says he proceeded carefully, thoughtfully and honestly to both himself and others, and in such a way that he would not offend anyone. Or maybe at least not everyone all the time. Paul wasn't a man given to blowing people off. He reads like a considerate individual, true to his beliefs, consistent in his pursuit of his life's work, always trying to find that way that would reach that person in front of him at that time. He got down and dirty, debated, hit the floor with his disseratations when it was time, witnessed to what he himself had come to know was true. And still aspired to this level of being non-offensive to others, living with a degree of dignity that's insipiring at times. Pretty cool. Whether viewed in a Christian context or otherwise, I think anyone can benefit from that. It doesn't compromise anything. It allows for ones own beliefs and ideas to stand on their own. If they're good, good will come.
  19. Goey wrote something that made me think while I listened to the Episode 4 awhile ago, and Allan, I wanted to share this with you, from a Christian viewpoint it says a lot towards what I would call wise advise in regards to Christian interaction with others. I DON'T believe it's describing a rule of practice that can be shoe horned to fit in any situation but the overall sense of it speaks, dare I say, profoundly to the mindset of a Christian. Here it is from Corinthians 10 - 27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. 28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: 29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? 30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
  20. Sorry Allan, that fish won't jump here. You've got a traceable history of trying to get a date with Mo here. Mo posts, you show up. And comment on what Mo posted. It's like an Al and Mo thing. Clear as a bell and sure as hard cash money on the counter. Now I'm not suggesting that there's anything improper going on, but the attraction is obvious. Is it just me? I've been wrong before, so let's not have any false expectations about the possiblities of my proposal. But there's something going on there. Sumpin'. I'm not throwing stones here. I've got stones, big ones. No kidding, stones LIKETHIS. Stones that would've required one honkin' slingshot from David, I mean picture a blanket. But I'm not throwing them. I'm just making an observation. And another one - if I throw stones too often will I eventually toss my cookies too? I dunno. I need to learn to play nicer, I know that.
  21. Boy, that sure does feel good when I stop, lemme try that again... Thanks ChattyMcKathy for your patience. And CK too. And a big hearty huzzah for the entire room! Coffee's on me! No, not like that....!!!
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    Guitar Talk

    Juzt noticed - thread has 363 posts and 3,563 views. That's "about" 10 views per post...? I tested the Tube Screamer, and am seriously considering a purchase Bluzeman! Very nice, everything you said, and from what I've read a near essential once it's put into the chain. I'm "sold' figuratively speaking.
  23. Belle, my moving on from TWI wasn't like you describe, so thankfully I didn't have those kinds of fears or concerns but I can understand them and how they'd effect a person. It was difficult to make changes that I knew would effect my friendships and contact with some people over the years, but that was a choice I dealt with in my own way. In my heart, I levelled it all out that as best I could and didn't worry about the things I couldn't deal with immediately. Some things never even came up, so they just sort of went away on their own. For dealing with the "Greasepot Syndrome", a couple thoughts Belle, and I'm sure you've already put these together - when you were "in" the Way there were hurricanes, accidents, all sorts of bad things going on in the world. Whose fault were they then? Maybe it's still their fault. If anything, we need to find that guy and get him straightened out. As with anything in life that's new and different, it's kind of like jumping in a pool on a cold morning. You're there, you know how to swim, you know you're going to love it once you get going. But there's that first splash. So you grab a big breath, lean over and - dive in. BRRRRRRR!!!!! BRWWRRAWWWWRRRR!!!! It's all good from there. :)
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