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Social The Lounge v 204: Sour Grapes.

Favorite type of grape


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Here's something a lot less awesome.

In high school, one year the band was asked to play Stairway to Heaven for the graduation ceremony. A high school band.

Our first chair trumpet said "screw that", because it was as lame as it sounds and she wanted to continue to have a social life.

The conductor asked me to play it because I could play any of the brass instruments (I was first chair french horn) and there was a huge trumpet solo, and I said yes.

Even if this doesn't sound incredibly lame on it's face, understand that the trumpet player was pretty hot, I'd had designs on her for months and actually had a shot, and playing the solo reduced that shot to a zero percent chance of success.

I live with that regret to this day.

Solo was fun, though, even if it was lame.


damn.. the female trumpet players I've known were always meh.

& if the one you knew was1st & was playing solos... her embouchure must have been magnificent.
 
I'm not Fawlty.

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Oh boy, I didn't mean this to start a tiff

@WPEM

I don’t consider it a tif. Some posters like to use that term but they don’t like the repercussions of what using it means about them.
 
@Lead might make a thread on this and/or some other Biden noms.



Transportation Sec ain't sexy but maybe Mayor Pete will make it sexy.

AG is interesting with the front runners being Doug Jones and Sally Yates imo. I think Cuomo is floating his own name. Not sure why he would be picked.

I think he should go with Jones, progressives would love it and Justice needs a shake imo. They fell off white collar crime completely after 9/11. I think 2008/9 was the first major financial crises where heads didn't roll.
 
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