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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:38 pm
by DavebytheSea
Great Plum wrote:I embaressingly played the piccolo in the band...
How can this be done ........??

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:39 pm
by Great Plum
Have you seen that instrument?

I far prefer the flute!

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:45 pm
by DavebytheSea
Great Plum wrote:Have you seen that instrument?
Yes ................. of course. A sweet little thing - if rather strident in tone. ... .. preferable to the ocharina any day.

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:49 pm
by Great Plum
DavebytheSea wrote:
Great Plum wrote:Have you seen that instrument?
Yes ................. of course. A sweet little thing - if rather strident in tone. ... .. preferable to the ocharina any day.
True, but when you are an impressionable teenager - it was hardly cool...

having said that, it was better than a tuba! ;)

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:54 pm
by DavebytheSea
yes, Matt - to be embarassed playing it is one thing - as you say "not cool" - but to play it embarassingly requires an altogether higher order of skill than is customary.

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:35 am
by HowardH
Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:32 am
by englishangel
HowardH wrote:Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!
Please see Cheddar Gorge, there is a typo/error there which no-one has yet spotted, so I am going to point it out NOW.

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:09 am
by Jude
J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote:now there's a thought!! hold onto to it JR - we may end up performing it as it only requires one on each instrument - and some can double up!!!!
I see a double entendre' in there somewhere, Jude.............

............but I'm to much of a gentleman to.................
See JR - always looking for the worst in a person! I didn't mean it like anything other than some can have more than 1 musical instrument to play...... I'm sorry if I offended your shell pink ears, but there was no intended entredere at all.... :cry:

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:52 pm
by J.R.
Jude wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote:now there's a thought!! hold onto to it JR - we may end up performing it as it only requires one on each instrument - and some can double up!!!!
I see a double entendre' in there somewhere, Jude.............

............but I'm to much of a gentleman to.................
See JR - always looking for the worst in a person! I didn't mean it like anything other than some can have more than 1 musical instrument to play...... I'm sorry if I offended your shell pink ears, but there was no intended entredere at all.... :cry:
No offence taken and I'm gald you've added the word MUSICAL !

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:05 am
by Great Plum
HowardH wrote:Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!
the perils of your father being an English teacher...

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:19 am
by Jude
Great Plum wrote:
HowardH wrote:Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!
the perils of your father being an English teacher...
Matt please excuse my speel chocks at present - it's hard enough to read what has been written let alone type a reply!

And what is a few speeling mistkates between friends?

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:46 am
by DavebytheSea
HowardH wrote:Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!
Oh, dear! - and I pride myself on NEVER making a spelling mistake. I must have been so tired that I was seeing double. Mea maxima culpa. SO embarrassing!

(By the way, I have just checked the spelling of Tsh! Tsh! in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary)

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:57 pm
by englishangel
DavebytheSea wrote:
HowardH wrote:Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!
Oh, dear! - and I pride myself on NEVER making a spelling mistake. I must have been so tired that I was seeing double. Mea maxima culpa. SO embarrassing!

(By the way, I have just checked the spelling of Tsh! Tsh! in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary)
And what did it say? I must admit I would have writen tsk tsk.

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:00 pm
by Mid A 15
englishangel wrote:
DavebytheSea wrote:
HowardH wrote:Come along, gentlemen. There are typos and then there are errors ....
two rs and two ss - embarrassingly
Tsh! Tsh!
Oh, dear! - and I pride myself on NEVER making a spelling mistake. I must have been so tired that I was seeing double. Mea maxima culpa. SO embarrassing!

(By the way, I have just checked the spelling of Tsh! Tsh! in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary)
And what did it say? I must admit I would have writen tsk tsk.
Do you mean written EA? :wink:

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:17 pm
by englishangel
Mid A 15 wrote:
englishangel wrote:
DavebytheSea wrote: Oh, dear! - and I pride myself on NEVER making a spelling mistake. I must have been so tired that I was seeing double. Mea maxima culpa. SO embarrassing!

(By the way, I have just checked the spelling of Tsh! Tsh! in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary)
And what did it say? I must admit I would have writen tsk tsk.
Do you mean written EA? :wink:
Yeh!