A Plea For Restraint

elendil · Post by **elendil** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:39 pm

Lately I've noted with distress the growing number of threads devoted to music in general and whistles in particular. A reminder of this sort really shouldn't be necessary but--this is an election year. The fate of the free world is at stake. Could everyone please, for God's sake, exercise a little restraint and keep the whistle nonsense to a decent minimum so the rest of us can get on with the nation's business without the distraction of having to wade through "On Topic" posts?

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:14 pm

elendil wrote:Lately I've noted with distress the growing number of threads devoted to music in general and whistles in particular. A reminder of this sort really shouldn't be necessary but--this is an election year. The fate of the free world is at stake. Could everyone please, for God's sake, exercise a little restraint and keep the whistle nonsense to a decent minimum so the rest of us can get on with the nation's business without the distraction of having to wade through "On Topic" posts?

It's not funny.

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:17 pm

ok. Is it true Dean was a recorder player? I hear that's why he dropped out of the race.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:54 pm

elendil wrote:Lately I've noted with distress the growing number of threads devoted to music in general and whistles in particular. A reminder of this sort really shouldn't be necessary but--this is an election year. The fate of the free world is at stake. Could everyone please, for God's sake, exercise a little restraint and keep the whistle nonsense to a decent minimum so the rest of us can get on with the nation's business without the distraction of having to wade through "On Topic" posts?

middling · Post by **middling** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:09 pm

I will happily oblige because all I know about whistles is that I found a brand new low whistle in a filing cabinet I bought at a thrift store and I'd love to be able to play it better-- okay, at all. (It's a beautiful low whistle. This really happened.) I thought it was destiny or something, especially when I read some of these posts and discovered that I understood the telephone sanitizer references.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:39 pm

middling wrote:I will happily oblige because all I know about whistles is that I found a brand new low whistle in a filing cabinet I bought at a thrift store and I'd love to be able to play it better-- okay, at all. (It's a beautiful low whistle. This really happened.) I thought it was destiny or something, especially when I read some of these posts and discovered that I understood the telephone sanitizer references.

Was this a filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory at the bottom of a broken stairs with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?

rodfish · Post by **rodfish** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:52 pm

elendil wrote:Lately I've noted with distress the growing number of threads devoted to music in general and whistles in particular. A reminder of this sort really shouldn't be necessary but--this is an election year. The fate of the free world is at stake. Could everyone please, for God's sake, exercise a little restraint and keep the whistle nonsense to a decent minimum so the rest of us can get on with the nation's business without the distraction of having to wade through "On Topic" posts?

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Uhm, let's see....restraint it is; Uh, Kerry or Burke...oops, I mean Bush?

Rodfish

middling · Post by **middling** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:13 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Was this a filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory at the bottom of a broken stairs with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?

Finally, a peer group.

The filing cabinet was actually just in a big warehouse. There were no stairs and no sign (and incidentally, no leopard) but there was a Mormon woman changing a baby's diaper on it.
I got a discount.

antstastegood · Post by **antstastegood** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:08 am

I need to clean my filing cabinet.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:52 am

I need to file my cleaning cabinet.

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:32 am

I'm gonna file my cleaning cabinet.

EricWingler · Post by **EricWingler** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:36 am

Perhaps what we need to keep us interested in politics is a reporter that will ask the tough questions for which we demand an answer. Will the "No Child Left Behind" act be extended so as to provide whistle education for all children? Would you support a National Whistle Act that would supply citizens with the low cost, high quality whistles they need?

I'm sure we can think of other important questions that need to be asked.

bigjake842 · Post by **bigjake842** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:15 am

"Was this a filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory at the bottom of a broken stairs with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?"

Hello; my name's 'Ford'. What's yours?

elendil · Post by **elendil** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:33 am

Now that NWA (National Whistle Act) is an interesting idea.

Last Saturday as my wife and I were getting ready for our usual walk she mentioned that her co-worker was going to a riverboat casino with her gal friends. I reacted as I usually do, with disgust, and said they'd be better off learning to play a musical instrument.

Could a NWA be the key to rescuing people from an empty life?

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:10 am

"Could a NWA be the key to rescuing people from an empty life?"

Sure. But then again, outright and downright dirty gambling could just as well rescue recorder players from an empty life.

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