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Ron.M

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From: Scotland

Joke!

A bunch of guys are in the pub.
They have been drinking all afternoon and evening.
Suddenly one of them rushes to the toilet to be sick and returns with vomit all down the front of his jacket.

"Oh no", he says..."This is my best suit....the wife will kill me! What am I gonna do?."

One of them comes up with an idea, "Look when you get home, just say some idiot was sick on you up at the pub, but he apologised and gave you £20 to get your jacket dry cleaned."

So the guy staggers home and his wife opens the door.

"And just where have you been all day? You're drunk!!.....and what's that on your jacket?"

So he launches into the story and holds up the money as proof.

"But there's £40 there?", she says.

"Oh yeah", he slurs...."The other £20 is from another guy who shat in my pants.."

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 3 2010 4:16:49

gj Michelob

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RE: Joke! (in reply to Ron.M)

thank you.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 3 2010 6:34:05

michel

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RE: Joke! (in reply to Ron.M)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 3 2010 10:07:20

HemeolaMan

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RE: Joke! (in reply to Ron.M)

Personal experience Ron?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 7 2010 12:21:46

Ron.M

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RE: Joke! (in reply to HemeolaMan)

No way Hem,

Mine are much worse than that!

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 7 2010 12:40:34

gj Michelob

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RE: Joke! (in reply to HemeolaMan)

HemeolaMan... does your name have anything to do with the asymmetric 12 beats of a "Hemiola":

HEMIOLA: l[...] ater extended to its modern sense of two bars in simple triple time articulated or phrased as if they were three bars in simple duple time. (The pulse stays constant, and the duration of the beat changes.) An example can be found in measures 64 and 65 of this excerpt from the first movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 332:

The effect can clearly be seen in the bottom staff, played by the left hand: the accented beats are those with two notes; hearing this passage one senses that "1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2" is the musical pulse.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 7 2010 13:27:50

HemeolaMan

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RE: Joke! (in reply to gj Michelob)

yes, but there are many ways to spell hemeola/hemiola

obviously hemiola deriving its name from hemi, half and ola, a swedish woman lol.

hemeola is another way of spelling it less commonly accepted but still used =)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 7 2010 22:01:59

gj Michelob

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RE: Joke! (in reply to HemeolaMan)

quote:

yes, but there are many ways to spell hemeola/hemiola

obviously hemiola deriving its name from hemi, half and ola, a swedish woman lol.

hemeola is another way of spelling it less commonly accepted but still used =)

How ignorant am I about music theory, really? Cool name and royal initials "H.M."

I think we once had a thread on how each came to use thier Foro's names and avatars. Michelob is my assistant's (Michelle) nickname, she introduced me to internet blogs and forums, and on the first registration used her nickname to have me post....

Not as sophisticated an etymology as your moniker has.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 8 2010 5:31:59

Ron.M

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RE: Joke! (in reply to gj Michelob)

gj,

I had never heard the word myself until a few years ago.
It sounded sorta "medical" to me somehow.

Then I realized I was confusing it with Hematoma (another uncommon word).

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 8 2010 5:42:34