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Old 02-18-2024, 09:44 PM
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You'll be pleased to hear that Donald Trump has launched his own line of Trump-branded shoes.

Sure to be good value, and possibly a future escalating collectable asset, if you don't scuff them too much!
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1. My wife would kill me (justifiably) if I wore those to a wedding.
2. I think the wedding party would also hate me.
3. I'd hate myself, too.

I did go out and buy a pair of shoes, ones that Mrs. Reasons looked online for so they meet her approval. I didn't break the bank. They seem to be pretty nice, but maybe not Vimes' Boot Theory nice. They'll probably last 10 years because they'll get worn infrequently.
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Old 02-20-2024, 12:10 AM
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That would have been my recommendation, if I hadn't just caught up on this thread - take the coward's way out and find some cheap dress shoes that can at least last the one day.
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Old 02-25-2024, 11:44 PM
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We went to see Beethoven's 9th yesterday, and in the percussion section, there was aiant cylinder suspended on a frame so it could be turned with a large hand crank. It looked like it maybe had some kind of slats on the surface, but I can't be sure. The guy playing xylophone or glockenspiel or whatever was also playing this instrument during some parts where the music is swelling. I couldn't totally discern the exact sound it made, but it did seem to give it a kind of vaguely rumbling quality.

I have asked four people in person, I looked up the instruments played in Beethoven's ninth, the instruments listed by the Colorado Symphony, scanned through the whole list of percussion instruments listed on Wikipedia, read several threads from old music forums, and searched around a site called odd music or something that I already closed, tried a thousand different search terms, and am no closer. It is not a hurdy gurdy, of course. I know what a hurdy gurdy looks like because I am not a fool.

The closest thing I can think of is that it reminded me of this:


Except obviously it was smaller, like maybe 4 or 5 feet tall, with a hand crank instead of a fire, and possibly slats instead of horns. And I'm almost positive it was made of wood.
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Old 02-26-2024, 12:06 AM
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lisarea only comes by to exploit our obscure instrument knowledge: :rolleyes: But I don't even know what a hurdy gurdy looks like. :sheepish:
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Old 02-26-2024, 12:33 AM
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"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy", he sang

We had a child-sized one when I was a kid, and I could even kind of play it.
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Was it a wind machine?



wooden cylinder :ffnod:
on a frame :ffnod:
turned with a hand crank :ffnod:
slats on the surface :ffnod:
sound a kind of vaguely rumbling quality :ffnod:
but you already scanned through the whole list of percussion instruments listed on Wikipedia :shrug:
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Old 02-26-2024, 09:06 AM
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Wind Machine - The Evelyn Glennie Collection - YouTube
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Old 02-26-2024, 04:04 PM
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I must have missed that one. I don't think it had that fabric cover part on it, so it would have sounded different, but it's definitely what it looked like apart from that.
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Old 02-26-2024, 06:10 PM
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But I don't even know what a hurdy gurdy looks like. :sheepish:
God, man. Even if you're too young to have been subjected to Donovan, did Bugs Bunny cartoons teach you nothing? :sadno:
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Sorry my Bugs lore is not up to snuff.
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Old 02-26-2024, 09:29 PM
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The YouTubes don't have the full episode, but it's available here:

Bugs Bunny - Hurdy-Gurdy Hare - Dailymotion Video
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Old 02-26-2024, 10:17 PM
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The Bugs Bunny instrument, in that cartoon, is more like a barrel organ - it only has to be cranked and requires no musical ability by the player, other than cranking it at the correct speed.

A true hurdy-gurdy still has to be cranked, but also needs to be played, using a set of keys similar to those on a piano. Usually, the person playing a hurdy-gurdy cranks it with one hand while playing the notes using the other hand.
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My eldest grandkid shared this today.

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Latest edition of French newspaper, only published on February 29th, is already sold out. (BBC News article).
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Holy shit, I have to have this. But not from Amazon, and definitely not for that fucking price. But I will have it before I die, this I vow.

Before even steam-powered modems, in the Before Time, I only ever knew this movie as "Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster." 7-year-old me thought this was the greatest thing ever, even though I knew then that the non-animated cartoon montage of the monster changing form was a cheap copout. This even has the spheres Gojira pulls out of Hedorah's final form, AND OMG the flying form is a separate piece. I would have flat-out murdered somebody to have this set then, but this also pre-dated direct TV-to-merch tie-ins, at least pervasive and effective ones. Plus a faithful reproduction of the Big G's most adorable form, fuck the rest of you nerds, Showa Era forever.

Given a time machine, I would definitely give this set to my younger self, and then, y'know, kill Hitler or whatever.
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An economist is predicting recession and people don’t believe him.

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This doesn’t engender confidence. I get that dude isn’t a historian, but the fact is that every educated person at the time knew the earth was round. They laughed at Columbus because he thought the earth was much smaller than accepted estimates(as if the Americas weren’t there)

By invoking Columbus, he is accidentally arguing that he might be accidentally correct.
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Dunking on the Tesla Cybertruck and Elon "Jews will not replace us" Musk definitely qualifies as picking the low-handing fruit, but it's pretty goddamn lulzy just the same.

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To be fair to Musk *one* Carrot isn't really that hard to... Hmmm, I see the only way to avoid arbitration is to physically mail in an opt out form within thirty days of purchase.
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