rayfallon

Isn't there a set of Olds Ultratones with the Kanstul valve cluster on the DCP Marketplace? They're decent - good instruments. Don't use the valve rotors. Too noisy and you'll #### off a good player with them. BTW I'm not disputing the response that says go to the Bb. Just that I saw these G horns recently on DCP.

C'mon... you hear the giant S P R O I N G as the dogapult releases, then the little urchin sailing through the sky, heading toward the pool... You know you want to...

My method for breaking puppies is related to my method for breaking kittens. For cats I use a catapult - check wind speed and direction - do the math - aim it for the neighbor's pool. Puppies you have to use a dogapult, but same general principle. Make fewer allowances for wind direction, but more for drag.

90 - what a coincidence - that's how high the snow is stacked outside my livingroom window (90"). When you shovel you have to pile it somewhere - that window always wins. I could be in St Maarten tomorrow, but then I'd have to pay to stay somewhere - plus there's going to be more snow to shovel and I'd hate to miss it. (#### #### #### #### !!!!)

By the way, speaking of "not smart enough" - it's snowing like the end of the world up here again. I didn't appreciate what I was missing out on in New England while I wasn't here. Of course, just as Tom has most of us with 46 years, pretty sure he has us beat with snow most years too.

No idea - found it on Google or somewhere. I'm not smart enough to make an avatar out of something meaningful.

46 years is quite an accomplishment. Congratulations and best wishes for another 46.

Ya see? This is a wise man... I go to Puerto Rico - come back - and 3 days later the biggest storm of the year. Tom times his tour, months in advance, to avoid a storm. Say hi to Ken MacLean - we had many many good discussions/debates about brass playing, most often about how the judging community could love the way that Sky played - he just about convinced me a few times. And of course the reality is that I should have been talking about how MY team played - stupidity of youth. And of course Mr Cardaneo, who was one of the guys judging these groups correctly while I was trying to change the conversation to other groups. Have a great cruise - put your feet up - put on the 1965 Grey Knight Crusaders and bask a little.

In case anyone was worried... I lived through the epic shovel out - took me about 5 hrs. For those of you that were not concerned at all. {insert Bronx Cheer sound\ That's all...

It's @#$*ing snowing like a mother@#$*er up here! Picked the wrong week for @#$*ing Puerto Rico. I'm a dumb @#$*!

Ouch...

Huh! Why am I not in that one? Oh yeah, The Rebs kept firing me over and over... OK, forget I asked that...

I'm setting you up with an appointment to speak to Representative McCarthy - not Joseph, Charlie. Or the other dummy, Ted Cruz from my abandoned state.

I just watched Alan Arkin in Gross Pointe Blank tonight. He's a funny dude, and an incredible actor.

I was 15 during the Summer of Love... Probably needless to say,... No love...

Well the thing is, most of you were already carrying zip guns and the like, so they were just making it "official" The Russians wouldn't have stood a chance anywhere but next door to Carnegie Hall.

How did I miss this post? it was longer than "The Old Man and the Sea" which is the only thing I know about Cuba except that they tried to scare the #### out of us all when we were 10 or so. Commie ########.

Why don't we designate one of these BHoF I&E shows an official Guess Who Union. (I think we would need a first Union in order to have a Re-Union later).??? Sky's would be fun - Boston is kind of far for many - of course Bridgeport is close to everything everywhere. Or we could just all go to all of them.

Leave the gun... Take the cannolis.

Nah TW - just saw it on one of the other threads I don't read.

OK, JetBlue was one of the first to fly to Havana over 3 years ago, although to date, only charter flights. When I got out of the USAF, because of my Top Secret Clearance and the fact that I had been flying in Spy Planes, the State Department put a lifetime ban on travel to Communist Countries, not including Cambridge Massachusetts. I'm guessing that that went away years ago, but I really don't know. In general I'm still ###### off at Communists for trying to shoot me down all the time. I get that they're probably still ###### off at me for helping coordinate bombing missions and air strikes, but as my mom always said, "if they can't take a joke, f*ck 'em"

OK, back from sunny Puerto Rico, red like a balloon, and figured I'd get caught up on everything I missed on "Guess Who"... OK, I'm caught up now. Anyone going to the Renegades Chinese New Years Parade? I'm thinking about it as I fly free and I want to catch one of my daughter's Blue Devils Winter Guard shows this year before she gives up the activity (as if she ever will). OK, that's all for me - shoveling snow tomorrow for the first time in my 60s - that might not be true - I was 60 when I moved to Texas in April 2012 so I probably shoveled before I moved, but my memory allows me to make unsupported statements all the time. One of those "The older I get, the better I was" sort of deals.

Folks that know me well know I used up all my drink coupons within 3 yrs of returning from overseas. No Bacardi for this boy... errr... old man. As for coffee, never got the taste for it. Just going for the sun, and to get Carrie thawed out.

Heading to Puerto Rico tomorrow to escape this ungodly cold - flying for free of course. Probably won't be around til next Friday, but we haven't exactly been tearing up Whoville lately anyway.

The only hard and fast rule I've had for all 5 of mine that marched is that once it got to be March, they were committed, come what may, until the end. I've had a couple of them beg me to come get them about the mid-way point of the season, only to have it turn into the best year of their lives. They can drop in/out of anything, but not once the commitment is made - once you're on the bus, you're on until everyone gets off. Gotta have SOME rules.