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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | A salesman at my music store described the playing of an Ovation like "dancing with a pregnant lady" Discuss. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I wouldn't know; I never danced with me when I was--I was always on the totin' side of the bulge. :D
However, I am able to say this--if I could manage to play Gertrude all throughout both of my pregnancies (and with the second one I bore a decided resemblance to a beached whale), how hard can it be?
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I think he was trying to say that they are difficult to hold due to the round back. But the cognoscenti know better and he openly exposed his ignorence. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and you dissed my thread.
JW, you suck! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I used to work with a guy who liked to dance with pregnant women. Mostly tall ones. I think it was because he was short and liked to stick his face in those bigguns.
I don't think he'd like Ovations though because they don't have breasts. Thanks for soliciting my thoughts, Jeff. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
A salesman at my music store described the playing of an Ovation like "dancing with a pregnant lady" Discuss.
There is a nice little twist I could make from that statement but I think it might earn me a holiday. :D
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Location: Brisbane Australia | There are a few "pregnant ladies" I have seen that I wouldn't mind dancing with.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by stephent28:
and you dissed my thread.
JW, you suck! Aww, did someone forget to give Stevie his bottle?
Did'ya even read Mark's post? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The salesman was gay. |
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Location: NJ | . . . not that there's anything "wrong" with that . . . |
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Location: Location Location Location | If you got her pregnant, sounds good. |
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Location: NJ | ". . If you got her pregnant, sounds good . ."
(offer void in Alaska) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by stephent28:
and you dissed my thread.
JW, you suck! Aww, did someone forget to give Stevie his bottle?
Did'ya even read Mark's post? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | yeah. that one. consequences of "time" are no excuse....
O.K. . . Everyone take a big puff before you read this next bit...
Does Time Exist?
June 23, 2007
"Physical laws that use time as a reference work equally well for time reversal - going backward - a particle hitting another particle, generating other particles and emitting photons will work just as well running backward according to physics... time reversal and this disconnect with the laws of physics seems to be a mystery. This disconnect is used by many to express the opinion that time exists. However the fact remains that equations of space and time break down at certain points and time falls out of some of them as an unnecessary factor.
Think of this: photons live in “null” time. They live and die in the same instant because they travel at the speed of light and therefore if time exists for them, they do not experience it. They experience zero flight time over zero distance no matter how far apart the start and finish line are. They live in a go-splat world. A photon leaving a star a billion light years away destroys itself in our eye the instant it is emitted, having not aged even a fraction of a nanosecond in its long trip. Space and time are that warped!
The space and the time have been warped because of the speed of the photon. It travels at the speed of light. Our very definition of speed involves time so when we say the speed of light we assume that time exists, but for the photon time does not exist.
A photon experiences zero distance and zero time due to its incredible speed. Every photon that lights our office or illuminates our book arrives the instant it is emitted. It has not aged even though we can calculate that it moved from the bulb to our book and then to our eye at about one nanosecond per foot of travel. The photon did not experience the “time” that we measure or calculate. It aged not at all. Time does not exist for any particle moving at c. It only exists for us as calculated or measured in a laboratory. But does it exist as a real dimension? Does it have a physical basis?
A photon in flight between point a and point b is invisible to any and all observers. It does not exist in flight and can only be detected at b when it actually arrives. The photon in flight experiences null time - time zero - no time - non-existent time, and travels a null path - or no path at all, regardless of the length of its travel. Time for the photon does not exist, nor does distance. Those measurements of time and distance for the photon are for our domain only - the human one.
Now consider an extension of that thought - most of the particles that make up our world vibrate and exchange energy with each other. That occurs even at temperatures close to zero. There is also a froth of virtual particles that pop into and out of existence continually at all times even in a so-called perfect vacuum. All the energy exchanged through photons is timeless because all photons are moving at c. Even gravity moves at c. Gravity is also timeless within its self. The exception is for atoms that bump into each other and exchange energy through vibration and bumping. Or do they? Do they actually touch or isn’t there an exchange of particles moving at c that keep them apart?
If the energy transfer by photons is timeless, the photons are timeless, gravity is timeless all due to the speed of light as experienced by the particles that carry them, then does time exist or are we merely measuring external events by counting uniform progressions that we experience and can see?" |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | That's particle theory. Now on to wave theory...
Excellent book on both, "The Dancing Wu-Li Masters".
No, the 'Masters' are not pregnant... ;) |
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Location: south east Michigan | "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
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Location: Cicero, NY | "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
Buckaroo Banzi
Sure that wasn't Stephen Wright? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . "Are you aware you're socks don't match?"
"I go by thickness." |
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Location: big island | me: "baby doll, you've got your slippers on the wrong feet."
my two year old: "but daddy, i don't have any other feet". |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | What time is it? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
What time is it? For those in my loafers, too dang late!!!  |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | So if time doesn't exist, then my strumming can't be "out of time", therefore I have rhythm! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
So if time doesn't exist, then my strumming can't be "out of time", therefore I have rhythm! Bzzzzz! Rhythm is based on time. What you're strumming are random strokes!
Bzzzzz! Wrong Iffy. Random is based on the lack of proper or predictable timing which infers time exists.
Bzzzzz! OK, where's Al's Capt Morgana?
Buzz...  ... ahhhh, time has stood still!
Bzzzzz! ... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
So if time doesn't exist, then my strumming can't be "out of time", therefore I have rhythm! My thoughts exactly. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
So if time doesn't exist, then my strumming can't be "out of time", therefore I have rhythm! . . . as postulated by the "Second Law of Thermodynamics" |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Originally posted by TAFKAR:
So if time doesn't exist, then my strumming can't be "out of time", therefore I have rhythm! Unfortunately your premise is wrong. Rhythm is not a function of time, it is a function of soul. Therefore, one's lack of rhythm is completely independent of the existence of time. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Down here in NC they don't worry about particle theory. They do practice wave theory though. Driving around everyone you see will wave at you.
Especially on the drive out to War Eagle's cabin, but then it might just have been the only car they saw all day.......... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | you've always been middlin' |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | middlin' or meddlin'
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Location: 6 String Ranch | These guys have the Queen's wave down. But everybody waves at you. People standing on the side of the road. Cars coming at you.
Those that come to the October NC gathering will have to stop in that general store.
They sell gas, lunch, hunting liscenses, plunbing supplies, honey, milk and other baked goods. Where else can you see a big John Deere parked out in front for decoration? |
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Location: NJ | ". . Where else can you see a big John Deere parked out in front for decoration? . . ."
I dunno . . your CT house comes t'mind . . . |
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