Well young fella-me-lad...I knew that as I played footy in most of those places....nah....I was referring to your riotous activities on the pier the other night

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"Show me the Mini!"

Yes well 'those' people who did the riots were all from Melbourne who've come down to their holiday houses

so you say. I think you organised the whole thing.

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I don't know my name anymore.

If I organised it i would have sent them to YOUR side of the bay

Ummm. On the subject of the names - flute and cush - well cush anyway.
I spent some time in the army and while i was there some of us set up a book.

It was fine until we start having people welching on their bets. We "employed" a huge bloke to do some debt collecting. He was a mountain of a man. Anyway he said he had "crook knuckles" and would need a "cush" to do the job. We sort of said "where the **** do you get a cush". He smile and said "no worries". Went to the Q-store and withdrew a pair a woollen sock and filled them with sand. He told us that a sock full of sand does a dentless fractured skull.

I dont think he ever whacked anyone - I think just the image of hime creating a shadow and swinging his sock fulls of sand was enough.

I was down at Blairgowrie for the night last night... didn't go past Rosebud as we tend to take the Freeway home. Wish i'd known about this mini cafe earlier so i could cruise past. Next time.

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- Simon -

i thknk i better cover myself here..

when boho said "my family have a holiday home up there. flute would know where it is" i got the impression that boho had a relative called flute..

hence my shock and horror...



i do give out a few headaches, now and then.


(at the puck pun, i imagine..)

A bit off the subject, but why not... My wife's uncle (a classical/folk music buff) was over from sydney the other day and was surprised that i was able to recognise a timpani in a piece of music.

Do I not seem like the sort of person that would know of such things?

I studied music practically and .er.. theoretically all through high school.

I was stunned...

The situation was...

*music playing*

*timpani roll*

Oli "the musically inept(but improving)" wife says: Is that thunder?

Michael (me) says: That would be a thunderous musings of the timpani, dear.

The man from uncle says : That's a big word, Timpani.

I say: Indeed. It's a big drum, too.

U.N.C.L.E. says : How do you know about the timpani?

I was stunned...

Me : "I thought everybody knew what a timpani was?"


unbeleivable...

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Pop Quiz for Cush: What's a Theremin?

Well done on the Timpani front, too.

ppftt.... theremin... next..

one (or two) antenae that repond to the proximity of your hand

one controls the pitch, on the volume....

i was actually considereing making my own at one point...

the uninitiated need only listen to the beach boys - good vibrations or the "good guys" commercials...

is it really hard for people to beleive i am at all musical....

you should've seen how savage the mother-in-law and aunties were when they found out i could play the piano.. (a bit... and badly..)

mind you... there's no way to tell if i googled that...

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Very impressive, Googled or not.

You can buy DIY kits on eBay. FASCINATING INSTRUMENT if you ask me.

Also, check out "A Little Drop of Poison" by Tom Waits from the Shrek 2 Soundtrack OR Limewire "Art of the Theremin" for some chick who has made a bunch of recordings of famous classical tunes on a Theremin! And YouTube should have some stuff, too...

so true

Point Nepean.

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- Simon -

It's short for "there in a minute" eg. I'll be theremin woman!

Dromana, Mcrae, Rosebud, Rosebud West, Tootgarook, Rye, Blairgowrie, Sorrento, Portsea, Tasmania, Antarctica...

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