Pianistimo... for you

[wishful thinker]

In this Holy time of Christmas, I would like to say that I am sorry.  I am sorry for goading you, and and i am sorry for doubting you.  We may share different slants on the "good news", but we have both still heard it.

So Merry Christmas to you, Susan, and to your children, and your husband, and to all your family.  I am sure that so many people would be as proud as you are to know and to have them.

God bless you and Merrry Christmas 

[ahinton]

In this Holy time of Christmas, I would like to say that I am sorry.  I am sorry for goading you, and and i am sorry for doubting you.  We may share different slants on the "good news", but we have both still heard it.

So Merry Christmas to you, Susan, and to your children, and your husband, and to all your family.  I am sure that so many people would be as proud as you are to know and to have them.

God bless you and Merrry Christmas 

May I echo these sentiments - except to say that I am not sorry if I have in any way goaded you, if only because I hope that your convictions will make you able to contend with that (please do try harder to do so next year!) without merely riding roughshod over other people's observations while you display those convictions. We don't all dance the same way home - and never will - but what's far more important than anything else here on this forum is the piano, its repertoire and all that. Let us all celebrate that and keep the bib-bib-bib-bib things in their rightful place but not beyond that place!

Merry Pianistimas,

Alistair

[cmg]

There once was a dear lady from Philly
Who, when Biblical, oft grew very silly
Yet once in awhile, she brought us a smile,
And a thought:  Dear God, she's really a dilly!

Dear pianistimo,  I don't know how many souls you've saved here, but I do know many minds have been lost in your efforts.  Still and all, you're a total Fun Zone, and a lovely one at that.

Merry Whatever!!

[ahinton]

And a thought:  Dear God, she's really a dilly!

Whatever a "dilly" may be, you have a slapped wrist for your gratuitous reference to God here - you surely know what adverse consequences that can cause!

But good wishes to you for the festive season - and for the holidays - and for Christmas, too, if it comes to that(!)...

Best,

Alistair

[cmg]

Whatever a "dilly" may be, you have a slapped wrist for your gratuitous reference to God here - you surely know what adverse consequences that can cause!

But good wishes to you for the festive season - and for the holidays - and for Christmas, too, if it comes to that(!)...

Best,

Alistair

Well, "dilly" is an American Southern slang term for "doodle" (another Southern slang term) and just might roughly equate with the UK-ism "noodle," but I'd only know that from numerous viewings of the film version of "Howards End."  (That Helena Bonham Carter, you know!  Cute as a button.)

And that gratuitous reference to You Know Whom is just one symptom of a lost mind induced by Our Lady of The Illogical!  Consider my wrist slapped, sir, and rightfully so!  I don't dare wish you a Merry ( . . .)mas, for fear of the other wrist, but one SHOULD turn it, you know.  Have an Enjoyable Amount of Merry-Making at This Special Time!

--Michael

[thalbergmad]

Our Lady of The Illogical! 

HAHA, that is something special.

Thal

[ahinton]

Well, "dilly" is an American Southern slang term for "doodle" (another Southern slang term) and just might roughly equate with the UK-ism "noodle," but I'd only know that from numerous viewings of the film version of "Howards End."  (That Helena Bonham Carter, you know!  Cute as a button.)

And that gratuitous reference to You Know Whom is just one symptom of a lost mind induced by Our Lady of The Illogical!  Consider my wrist slapped, sir, and rightfully so!  I don't dare wish you a Merry ( . . .)mas, for fear of the other wrist, but one SHOULD turn it, you know.  Have an Enjoyable Amount of Merry-Making at This Special Time!

--Michael

Please do not let yourself get unduly pianistimotional about those things that may be induced by "Our Lady of The Illogical!"

Thank you for the explanation of "dilly"; "don't dilly-dally" (as the English colloquialism of yesteryear had it) - meaning "do not delay" - is clearly shown here to have a quite different origin.

But please do not assume that it is not possible or acceptable for you to offer Christmas wishes to us, for it is - and we accordingly accept them both gratefully and graciously!

Have a good one too!

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

HAHA, that is something special.

Thal

No doubt - and even less doubt that the subject alluded to here is even more so - which is, apparently, more than can be said for the identities of mes chats...

Best,

Alistair

[cmg]

HAHA, that is something special.

Thal

The Order's official carol, by the way, is "O Wholly Fright."

Merry Hoozit, Thal.

[ahinton]

The Order's official carol, by the way, is "O Wholly Fright."

Or is it
"In dulci jubilo
With Pianistimo..."

Fill in the rest (or, as the old saying goes, "if you want any more you can sing it yourself")...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

i wish to now sing for you handel's messiah.  i like that piece because Christ is not portrayed as a baby.  shhh.  don't wake Him up.  bah humbug.  He's been awake for ages.  i think his going to ring a bell soon.

anyways - the fun of x-mas is the after christmas sales.  everything beforehand is too expensive.  i just went to the craft stores.  a load of markers is 19.95.  after x-mas $3.00.

but, just in case you think i haven't appreciated your ***...i will  now sing another song.  it is in love to all of you.  it's entitled 'all through the night.'  we must have love for each other to type so much on pianoforum!

and, thal i am taking off my signature and replacing it with a less dogmatic one.  apologies on my part to any offendees and may it be known that a candle is lit in my head for each of you through this season.  peace, joy, love - susan

i am such a computer nerd.  i can't seem to do anything with photobucket.  i have the pics over here and photobucket over there and piano forum here.  must wait for my son to take a break from gaming.

[asyncopated]

i wish to now sing for you handel's messiah.

"Thou shalt break them, thou shalt break them, with a roooooooood of iiirrrrronnnnn!"

[cmg]

"Thou shalt break them, thou shalt break them, with a roooooooood of iiirrrrronnnnn!"

   And next you know, she'll try "All We Like Sheep . . ." and we'll be debating the significance of THAT!  I can't go there.  Gotta get dinner.

[pianistimo]

what's for dinner?  that you're getting?  i assume you mean that you are a hunter and gatherer? 

hubby and me just had a fine lunch at 'the pony inn.'  don't laugh.  it serves authentic pennsylvania dutch food.  but, the thing is - they don't put a lot of sauce on things.  it kind of makes me think the british might have fiddled with these recipies before the germans did.  anyways - the 'inn' was built in the late 1800's and has been restored.  it's not gamey and it's really nice!  i mean - some of these buildings over here haven't been properly restored and you have water leaks from the roof, etc.   but, they put some kind of coating over the original stone walls (perhaps a white water sealing paint) and it looks and smells and feels good.  the original wood is used - but was sanded really well and is actually square.  kindof unusual and shows a tremendous amount of painstaking renovation.

well, anyways - i had this onion soup with a bean base? and it was really thick and good, then stroganoff -which was delicious.  and apple pie.  i have to say that it all was very good but the apple pie was really awesome.  refining recipies over hundreds of years is a good thing.  it was simple food - but really good. 

[ahinton]

i wish to now sing for you handel's messiah.

Behold the Lamb of Pauillac (er, not - that's not right - must have gotten corrupted in translation somewhere...)

i like that piece because Christ is not portrayed as a baby.

You mean Handel decided how to portray Christ in his oratorio?

shhh.  don't wake Him up.  bah humbug.  He's been awake for ages.

How very Pianistimo-like of him! New York is famously the "city that never sleeps"; you, Pianistimo, are the form member that rarely does so...

anyways - the fun of x-mas is the after christmas sales.  everything beforehand is too expensive.  i just went to the craft stores.  a load of markers is 19.95.  after x-mas $3.00.

Ah, the fun of Christmas! To celebrate the birth of the sales. Christ was born to save us all; you were apparently born to save $16.95...

it's entitled 'all through the night.'

As I said, you hardly ever sleep, do you?!

we must have love for each other to type so much on pianoforum!

Or maybe St. Vitus Dance of the fingers (and you seem to do more dancing than most, in both senses, it would seem - not that I am seeking to equate your fingers to poles, of course)...

and, thal i am taking off my signature

Don't look now, Thal; you might get yourself over-excited...

and replacing it with a less dogmatic one.

Less dogma? That sounds great! What's the chance of you turning this into a full-blown New Year's resolution for 2007?

  apologies on my part to any offendees and may it be known that a candle is lit in my head for each of you through this season.  peace, joy, love - susan

Watch that candle - we don't want to you risk burning the brain, Susan dear!

i am such a computer nerd.  i can't seem to do anything with photobucket.  i have the pics over here and photobucket over there and piano forum here.  must wait for my son to take a break from gaming.

Well, this at least appears to demonstrate that you have mastered the gentle art of compartmentalising. I'm abit worried about your son's gambling habits, though; I hope that the casinos of Philadelphia aren't making too much out of him...


Anyway, that's enough of all that!

See if you can manage to take a brief holiday from Pianostreet over the Christmas period; it's not that we don't want to hear from you, Susan - it's just that you surely deserve to spend some time with your family and give them your undivided attentiopn during the festivities (to say nothing of those sales)...

Have a good one! - and yes, your warm seasonal thoughts are accepted and appreciated as genuinely felt and are duly reciprocated.

Best,

Alistair

[counterpoint]

"Thou shalt break them, thou shalt break them, with a roooooooood of iiirrrrronnnnn!"

There's a ship
The Black Freighter
with a skull on its masthead
will be coming in

[counterpoint]

Ah, the fun of Christmas! To celebrate the birth of the sales. Christ was born to save us all; you were apparently born to save $16.95...