You know you're obsessed when...

[TheSpoonMan]

You pick up a pen from the desk and your first thought is, "Ah, a conical bore. I wonder how it plays."

(true story)

[brewerpaul]

You pick up a pen from the desk and your first thought is, "Ah, a conical bore. I wonder how it plays."

(true story)

Probably just fine. It's just a tube with a couple of holes...

[undone]

You pick up a pen from the desk and your first thought is, "Ah, a conical bore. I wonder how it plays."

Or a song plays on the radio and you immediately begin imagining how to play it on a whistle!

[King Friday]

Me too man! I had this nice wooden pen that seperated in the middle giving it the appearence of one of a tuning slide. I'm such a nerd

[Tommy]

Seems like I just read that someplace else.

[Mitch]

or - you start looking at trees and think "is that a hardwood?" and you are tempted to persuade your neighbors that "that yellow-box hedge is so much trouble, why don't you replace it with some neat color-bond? I'll take care of the removal "

[cutterpup]

or - you start looking at trees and think "is that a hardwood?" and you are tempted to persuade your neighbors that "that yellow-box hedge is so much trouble, why don't you replace it with some neat color-bond? I'll take care of the removal "

If anyone wants to make some whistles out of American Holly just let me know.I'll even cut it for you if you make me one too

[CountryKitty]

I thought being obsessed was when the number of whistles you owned exceeded the number of tunes you could play.

(...Or is that the number of notes you can play---WHOA hit me early!)

[BrassBlower]

Or a song plays on the radio and you immediately begin imagining how to play it on a whistle!

Corollary: A song plays on the radio that does contain some sort of "flutey" thing (e.g. Simon & Garfunkel's El Condor Pasa) and you wonder if it really is a whistle, and if so, what brand (Clarke, Shaw, etc.).

[crookedtune]

No, REALLY obsessed is when the number of whistles that you own outnumbers the number of whistles that are left to buy!

[izzarina]

Corollary: A song plays on the radio that does contain some sort of "flutey" thing (e.g. Simon & Garfunkel's El Condor Pasa) and you wonder if it really is a whistle, and if so, what brand (Clarke, Shaw, etc.).

YES! I've done this

[emtor]

When you come across Louis Armstrong's trumpet and you bring it home, butcher it and start making a whistle from the brass . . .

[crookedtune]

When you come across Louis Armstrong's trumpet and you bring it home, butcher it and start making a whistle from the brass . . .

Oh, no. That's just wrong. And I thought South Park was sick.

[Chiffed]

When you come across Louis Armstrong's trumpet and you bring it home, butcher it and start making a whistle from the brass . . .

Oh, no. That's just wrong. And I thought South Park was sick.

My old friend Ian was once given a white hanky used and signed by Satchmo.

His mother washed it and sent it to Goodwill.

Back to the topic: You know you're obsessed when every jacket, car, desk-drawer, and briefcase contains at least one whistle, just for emergencies.

[emtor]

You know you're obsessed when every jacket, car, desk-drawer, and briefcase contains at least one whistle, just for emergencies.

. . . then I'm obsessed