What do you want for Christmas?

[imbetter]

What do you want for Christmas? NO GETTING INTO RELIGIOUS STUFF!!!



I want a new steinway grand piano lol but I'm probaly not going to get one.

[asyncopated]

I want a new steinway grand piano lol but I'm probaly not going to get one.

When happened to "two front teeth"?  Kids were so much less demanding in my day.  I'll write to santa about the piano, and see if he has a spare one lying around.  Failing to obtain a steinway, will a pearl river do?

[pianistimo]

certainly not a partridge in a pear tree.  whoever thought of that?  i think THEY were on peyote.

[jre58591]

cold hard cash. that way i can get whatever i want.

[Mozartian]

I'm asking for way too many CDs.. lol

[quantum]

A Bosendorfer or Sauter would be nice. 

Cash is a good idea.  I get a lot of stuff I have no use for every Christmas.  Cash can get stuff that is practical, and the money won't go to something I'll never use. 

[ihatepop]

All the sheet music in the world.

ihatepop

[jre58591]

All the sheet music in the world.

ihatepop

not even me or thal could do that. if you break into the library of congress, that will be the next best thing.

[ihatepop]

not even me or thal could do that. if you break into the library of congress, that will be the next best thing.

Yeah, but that was just a wish.

ihatepop

[musik_man]

This year it breaks down into clothes, CD's and books.

Some of the books are of a religious nature.
*runs away*

[thalbergmad]

I want a new banjolele

[quantum]

I want a new banjolele

Didn't even know such a thing existed.  Google does wonders.

[thalbergmad]

Didn't even know such a thing existed.  Google does wonders.

Ain't you ever heard of George Formby?

The greatest ever English Musician.

Thal

[ahinton]

Ain't you ever heard of George Formby?

The greatest ever English Musician.

Thal

Thank God (sorry to mention Him, but at least you can't now accuse pianistimo of having first introduced Him here!) that I'm a Scot, then. I'll take that Bösendorfer 290, then, thanks (maybe then I'd even do some practice - not that that or anything else would ever turn me into anything remotely resembling what anyone could understand and recognise as a pianist).

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

I want "Scrappy Doo" as well.

You know, the one that talks.

Puppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Come on Santa.

Thal

PS. Dear Santa,

Please send Hinty the Bosendorfer, but only if he has been a good boy.

Thanks

[ahinton]

I want "Scrappy Doo" as well.

You know, the one that talks.

Puppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Come on Santa.

Thal

PS. Dear Santa,

Please send Hinty the Bosendorfer, but only if he has been a good boy.

Thanks

It really is most kind of you to think of sending this particular entreaty to Santa on my behalf, but I rather fear that the specific condition that you impose upon the delivery to me will almost certainly disqualify me from any likelihood of actually getting the glorious instrument; I'm more than sure that our susanistimo, among others, will agree that, in some respects, I am almost completely lacking in the kind of "good"ness required...

Ah, well...

Best,

Alistair

[le_poete_mourant]

well, i know one thing that i am getting from my girlfriend (and what she is getting back is the same).     I'm looking forward to that.   

As a Jew, I think it is perhaps one of the first Christmases I have really looked forward to. 

I think perhaps, to be religiously equal-handed, you should have asked "What do you want for the holidays?"

Other than that, I guess I would like to be able to walk.   

[rc]

I don't want a thing from anyone...  That's only because I don't want to get anyone anything either.  I just went to the mall yesterday for a few things and the consumer frenzy is disgusting, I want as little to do with that crap as possible.

Instead we'll go out and have a dinner.

[mycrabface]

What do you want for Christmas? NO GETTING INTO RELIGIOUS STUFF!!!



I want a new steinway grand piano lol but I'm probaly not going to get one.

Electric violin
Irritating people to stop irritating me
i need a new table clock.
repair a friendship
book of chopin etudes
all my songs back (I stupidly deleted my whole itunes library)

[ahinton]

No one has yet said "pianistimo" - though it's only a matter of time, I guess...

Best,

Alistair

[prometheus]

I am going to fast before Christmas this year, like I do every year.

I hope it will be not too hard.

[ahinton]

I am going to fast before Christmas this year, like I do every year.

I hope it will be not too hard.

If it is, it will be "hard and fast" (which is an English expression that isn't actually intended, by the way, to describe the manner in which some poeple play certain works of Liszt, either...)

Best,

Alistair

[mycrabface]

I am going to fast before Christmas this year, like I do every year.

My friend's brother told her he was gonna fast. forty-five minutes later she saw him stuffing his face with chocolate cake.

[prometheus]

That's stupid.

Actually, not eating for a few days is very hard. It is a mental difficulty. After about a day you can only think about food and about eating.

[ahinton]

What do I want for Christmas? Well - for starters, how's about a Bible, some written contradictions to some of the texts therein, some exotic foods, some longer shorts, some alternative therapies and, of course, above all, "pianistimo"; what a wonderful forum this is?...

Best,

Alistair

[prometheus]

For some silly reason I can not comprehend I found that exceedingly amusing.

[mephisto]

I want a guitare.

[ahinton]

For some silly reason I can not comprehend I found that exceedingly amusing.

If you're quite sure that you cannot comprehend it for whatever reason, silly or otherwise, it may be less amusing that you thought!

Best,

Alistair

[prometheus]

You are misreading that, obviously. I do know 'quite surely' what I found amusing. I just don't know why.

And since no one really knows what humour is and how it works this is not quite unexpected.

[pianistimo]

alistair, i am not a commonidty.  but, i did hear on sesame street yesterday a song that went 'all i want for christmas is you... i don't want a hula hoop or blah blah blah ... cause that would be boring... all i want for christmas is you....'  i thought it was kinda cute - even though i don't celebrate christmas per se either.  but, i do get into the shopping frenzy afterwards.  after x-mas sales are the best.  usually - i tell my friends and family i'm sending presents late - and then i buy them after x-mas.  terrible - i know.  but, you know what...

in the russian orthodox belief - christmas is jan 6th.  so, for my husband's family it works out fine.  not sure the reasoning behind it.  everyone has had eggnog and nobody really cares if it was a few days short or long.  in fact, why doesn't someone start a trend and just have x-mas the day after thanksgiving?  just an idea. 

le poete morante- what is the matter with you, now?  did you break a leg, too?  why can't you walk?  or, is this a disability that's been with you a while.  in any case - prayers for you that you can walk.  it's a pain going down stairs on your backside.  i almost wore a couple of pants out that way until i could stand on my leg.  it takes a lot of patience.  even now - when my daughter jumps onto me - i'm cringing and saying 'don't jump on my bad leg.'  she's pretty good about it now - and only hits me from the left side.

[ahinton]

alistair, i am not a commonidty.

I think that you mean "commodity", Susan dear - and I know well, of course, that you are no such thing...

Best,

Alistair

[pianowolfi]

Pianissimo.

Pianowolfi

[thalbergmad]

I think that you mean "commodity", Susan dear - and I know well, of course, that you are no such thing...

Best,

Alistair

Just remove the "comm" and you are getting close.

Thal

[ahinton]

Just remove the "comm" and you are getting close.

Thal

By writing it in the key of D, I presume you to mean...

Go on - go listen to those CDs for which you asked instead of pianissing off pistimo, just this once...(!)

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

I have listened, but  am listening again as the 1st attempt was interrupted.

Thal

[ahinton]

I have listened, but  am listening again as the 1st attempt was interrupted.

Thal

...probably by having to fulfil the duty to read posts to this forum by some Scottish composer or other, on whose behalf may I apologise wholeheartedly...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Interrupted by "Murder She Wrote".

Thal

[ahinton]

Interrupted by "Murder She Wrote".

Thal

Ah! - well, there's nothing quite like having one's work interrupted by murder, regardless of who wrote it...

Best,

Alistair