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"hk" wrote in message
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wrote:

Ha, ha, ha..... what a bunch of ****....perv.. I have to know if
there is one person here reading these fantasies, who thinks wafa is
"not" full of ****.. Go ahead, post up guys, who is falling for this
crap...?? Anyone? Anyone at all??? I won't hold my breath...;)



Stop projecting. I'm not the uneducated failure. You are.


Seems to me that some people, particularly professional academics, place a
misguided emphasis on the value of a formal "education", as if anyone
without one is a second class citizen.

In my working experience, I found just the opposite to be true. Some of the
smartest, most talented people I knew graduated from "oh-hum" colleges or
universities .... if they attended or graduated at all. Their professional
accomplishments were due and motivated by a sincere desire to succeed, hard
work and dedication, rather than an expectation of success due to their
superior "education".

I've also witnessed highly educated, egotistical blowhards that, when laid
off, can't grasp the concept of how they possibly could not be needed. Most
of the time the company was better off without them.

Eisboch

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On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:03 -0400, "Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade,
Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq. LLC"
wrote:

On the other hand, I was a war hero during the big one, and was
excellent at impersonating the academy's music professor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M1F8hVfjM

Did I ever show you my fireboat welcome home?

No? Well - take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QxLaG7YGQ&NR=1

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:03 -0400, "Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade,
Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq. LLC"
wrote:

On the other hand, I was a war hero during the big one, and was
excellent at impersonating the academy's music professor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M1F8hVfjM

Did I ever show you my fireboat welcome home?

No? Well - take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QxLaG7YGQ&NR=1

Big Jim says "don't pee into the wind".

Anybody over 45 remember...
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:03 -0400, "Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade,
Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq. LLC"
wrote:

On the other hand, I was a war hero during the big one, and was
excellent at impersonating the academy's music professor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M1F8hVfjM

Did I ever show you my fireboat welcome home?

No? Well - take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QxLaG7YGQ&NR=1

Well, mine was better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAIvN...eature=related

Anybody over 45 remember...
 

Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
...

wrote:
Ha, ha, ha..... what a bunch of ****....perv.. I have to know if
there is one person here reading these fantasies, who thinks wafa is
"not" full of ****.. Go ahead, post up guys, who is falling for this
crap...?? Anyone? Anyone at all??? I won't hold my breath...;)


Stop projecting. I'm not the uneducated failure. You are.


Seems to me that some people, particularly professional academics, place a
misguided emphasis on the value of a formal "education", as if anyone
without one is a second class citizen.

In my working experience, I found just the opposite to be true. Some of the
smartest, most talented people I knew graduated from "oh-hum" colleges or
universities .... if they attended or graduated at all. Their professional
accomplishments were due and motivated by a sincere desire to succeed, hard
work and dedication, rather than an expectation of success due to their
superior "education".

I've also witnessed highly educated, egotistical blowhards that, when laid
off, can't grasp the concept of how they possibly could not be needed. Most
of the time the company was better off without them.

Eisboch




Your mistake was in assuming I was referring to formal education.
You didn't ask...you assumed.

Abraham Lincoln, after all, had very little formal education, and no one
would refer to him as uneducated. My Russian grandfather had no formal
education, yet he could speak, read and write six different languages
fluently.

My comment about JustWait was based upon the absolutely idiotic nonsense
he posts here, the stuff that reads as if it were first spit up by Rush
Limbaugh, and then heated up and served up again by Fox News.



--
Republicans - They Take Special Pride in their Ignorance.

Anybody over 45 remember...
 

"hk" wrote in message
. ..
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
. ..

Eisboch wrote:
STOP. I have this bizzare image of you on stage with one of those
pointy Viking hats with the horns on the side, hands clasped before
you, belting out a "tune".

Eisboch



Wish it were so. These days, I can't carry a tune with a bucket. Back in
junior high, though, before my voice changed from boy soprano to gravel,
I could sing. A little.

At that first opera, we had seats on the side of the house, probably the
second balcony, and one of the female leads had absolutely spectacular
cleavage. That hooked me. The same weekend, we got to see "West Side
Story" on Broadway.

I think the kids in the choir were charged about $20 for the whole trip,
including trainfare. The school picked up the rest. That was in the days
schools had a little money.

Opera has fascinated me for a long, long time. Virtually every aspect of
it is way, way, way over the top.

BTW, if you want a real treat, listen to Anna Netrebko's "Violetta" CD.
Violetta Valery, the woman who "strayed." Some of the most beautiful
vocal music ever.



No thanks. Opera does absolutely nothing for me. However, I *can*
understand your early introduction to it.
My intro was the Boston Symphony Orchestra, probably at about the same
age. The power of the orchestra blew me away and stuck in my head. Even
today, once in a while, Mrs.E. and I get tickets and journey into Boston
just to hear a beautifully played piece of music.

But .... NOT opera!

Eisboch


A lot of people don't like opera until they go to the right opera.
Seriously. I like some of Wagner's music, but I cannot stand sitting
through his operas. If you went to see the Magic Flute or La Boheme or any
of several others, I bet you'd enjoy it.

I didn't like ballet until I was about 30. Then I went to one here in DC
and got hooked.

Try these two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSX3HyWBqW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4sONjSaHWA


The latter has Netrebko when she was a young girl...the last few bars of
her as a coloratura soprano are just incredible for such a young singer.
She does an even better job of it now...her range and phrasing are just
remarkable.




Ballet?

Ballet???????

Sorry. You just tip toed over the line.

No thanks.

Eisboch

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:27:02 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"hk" wrote in message
m...

Eisboch wrote:

STOP. I have this bizzare image of you on stage with one of those
pointy Viking hats with the horns on the side, hands clasped before
you,
belting out a "tune".

Eisboch




Wish it were so. These days, I can't carry a tune with a bucket. Back in
junior high, though, before my voice changed from boy soprano to gravel,
I
could sing. A little.

At that first opera, we had seats on the side of the house, probably the
second balcony, and one of the female leads had absolutely spectacular
cleavage. That hooked me. The same weekend, we got to see "West Side
Story" on Broadway.

I think the kids in the choir were charged about $20 for the whole trip,
including trainfare. The school picked up the rest. That was in the days
schools had a little money.

Opera has fascinated me for a long, long time. Virtually every aspect of
it is way, way, way over the top.

BTW, if you want a real treat, listen to Anna Netrebko's "Violetta" CD.
Violetta Valery, the woman who "strayed." Some of the most beautiful
vocal
music ever.

No thanks. Opera does absolutely nothing for me. However, I *can*
understand your early introduction to it.
My intro was the Boston Symphony Orchestra, probably at about the same
age.
The power of the orchestra blew me away and stuck in my head. Even
today,
once in a while, Mrs.E. and I get tickets and journey into Boston just to
hear a beautifully played piece of music.

But .... NOT opera!

Classical music I can buy into - I was introduced to classical music
by one of my mother's step-brothers who was a classical musician with
the Chicago Symphony.

Opera - sorry, I can't buy into that for a variety of reasons.

I agree. When I was in elementary school/Jr. High, those of us that seemed
to have an interest in music were herded onto the school bus occasionally
for a trip to Boston to hear classical music performed by the Boston
Symphony Orchestra ... or an evening event with the Boston Pops.

Nobody ..... and I mean nobody .... was dragged into Boston to listen to an
opera. Even the music teachers weren't that cruel.

Eisboch

Anybody over 45 remember...
 

Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
. ..
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
. ..

Eisboch wrote:
STOP. I have this bizzare image of you on stage with one of those
pointy Viking hats with the horns on the side, hands clasped before
you, belting out a "tune".

Eisboch


Wish it were so. These days, I can't carry a tune with a bucket. Back in
junior high, though, before my voice changed from boy soprano to gravel,
I could sing. A little.

At that first opera, we had seats on the side of the house, probably the
second balcony, and one of the female leads had absolutely spectacular
cleavage. That hooked me. The same weekend, we got to see "West Side
Story" on Broadway.

I think the kids in the choir were charged about $20 for the whole trip,
including trainfare. The school picked up the rest. That was in the days
schools had a little money.

Opera has fascinated me for a long, long time. Virtually every aspect of
it is way, way, way over the top.

BTW, if you want a real treat, listen to Anna Netrebko's "Violetta" CD.
Violetta Valery, the woman who "strayed." Some of the most beautiful
vocal music ever.


No thanks. Opera does absolutely nothing for me. However, I *can*
understand your early introduction to it.
My intro was the Boston Symphony Orchestra, probably at about the same
age. The power of the orchestra blew me away and stuck in my head. Even
today, once in a while, Mrs.E. and I get tickets and journey into Boston
just to hear a beautifully played piece of music.

But .... NOT opera!

Eisboch

A lot of people don't like opera until they go to the right opera.
Seriously. I like some of Wagner's music, but I cannot stand sitting
through his operas. If you went to see the Magic Flute or La Boheme or any
of several others, I bet you'd enjoy it.

I didn't like ballet until I was about 30. Then I went to one here in DC
and got hooked.

Try these two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSX3HyWBqW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4sONjSaHWA


The latter has Netrebko when she was a young girl...the last few bars of
her as a coloratura soprano are just incredible for such a young singer.
She does an even better job of it now...her range and phrasing are just
remarkable.




Ballet?

Ballet???????

Sorry. You just tip toed over the line.

No thanks.

Eisboch



For a guy like you, who went to Amity Regional, the "artsy-craftsy"
public high school in New Haven County, you seem to have a closed mind
on many of the performing arts. Amity had great theater and music shows,
Broadway musical comedies, folk music festivals, all sorts of good
stuff. Didn't you go to any of them?

Hell, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe were married by Rabbi Robert
Goldberg at a synagogue in Woodbridge!* Just by osmosis you should be
more artsy-craftsy! :)



* Bet you didn't know that.






--
Republicans - They Take Special Pride in their Ignorance.

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On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:07:37 -0400, "Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade,
Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq. LLC"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:03 -0400, "Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade,
Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq. LLC"
wrote:

On the other hand, I was a war hero during the big one, and was
excellent at impersonating the academy's music professor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M1F8hVfjM

Did I ever show you my fireboat welcome home?

No? Well - take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QxLaG7YGQ&NR=1

Well, mine was better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAIvN...eature=related

Larger perhaps - not better.

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On Aug 8, 5:08*pm, hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
...

wrote:
Ha, ha, ha..... what a bunch of ****....perv.. * * * I have to know if
there is one person here reading these fantasies, who thinks wafa is
"not" full of ****.. Go ahead, post up guys, who is falling for this
crap...?? * Anyone? Anyone at all??? * I won't hold my breath...;)

Stop projecting. I'm not the uneducated failure. You are.

Seems to me that some people, particularly professional academics, place a
misguided emphasis on the value of a formal "education", as if anyone
without one is a second class citizen.

In my working experience, I found just the opposite to be true. *Some of the
smartest, most talented people I knew graduated from "oh-hum" colleges or
universities .... if they attended or graduated at all. * Their professional
accomplishments were due and motivated by a sincere desire to succeed, hard
work and dedication, rather than an expectation of success due to their
superior "education".

I've also witnessed highly educated, egotistical blowhards that, when laid
off, can't grasp the concept of how they possibly could not be needed. *Most
of the time the company was better off without them.

Eisboch

Your mistake was in assuming I was referring to formal education.
You didn't ask...you assumed.

Abraham Lincoln, after all, had very little formal education, and no one
would refer to him as uneducated. My Russian grandfather had no formal
education, yet he could speak, read and write six different languages
fluently.

My comment about JustWait was based upon the absolutely idiotic nonsense
he posts here, the stuff that reads as if it were first spit up by Rush
Limbaugh, and then heated up and served up again by Fox News.

--

Well, of course you are lying again. I would rather be known as an
illeterate man, than a dishonorable man, any day. You are trash, no
matter how you package it...