Thal sightings

[quantum]

The person who professed he never visited the Audition Room has been sighted.

Crop circles are appearing in the form of "."

[prometheus]

So?

He said he would leave this part of the forum to focus more on piano, sheet music and other things.

[pianistimo]

crop circles?  where? 

thal is actually in the middle of a religious crisis.  on the one hand - he sees the mountain as something one climbs and then on the other hand mountains like 'everest' that you need a little help to get to the top.  but, mum's the word on my part now.  i will not quote the bible.  just going to say that personally i think thal is more caring than he lets on.  he probably wouldn't hurt a flea.  not even his pet earwig. 

and, agreed that everyone comes to their own religious views and really don't need anyone going door to door to convince them of another view.  it's not my point to go door to door.  i think i've learned the most from people being honest.  even bluntly honest at times.  i think best friends can tell each other to 'sod off' and it doesn't really make the other person go away if they don't want to.  you know what.  i still like thal as much as i did when i first met his 'personality' on the forum.  i think he's kinda cute, too.  i don't think i'm much of a real threat to him because i'm married.  and, of course, he's unavailable and doesn't want a 'tamborine banger' as he calls us.

[wishful thinker]

Actually, I think its all been a hoax, a red herring    Thal has found his little yoonie, and they have gone off to make beautiful music togther 

[ahinton]

crop circles?  where?

Maybe "crop" is a subtle mis-spelling here... 

thal is actually in the middle of a religious crisis.

Can you be certain of that? If so, on what do you base your assertion here? (There's two non-combative and non-teasing questions, elspeth - if you're reading this...)

on the one hand - he sees the mountain as something one climbs and then on the other hand mountains like 'everest' that you need a little help to get to the top.

I think that even experienced mountaineers would need rather more than just "a little help" to scale Everest's summit...

you know what.  i still like thal as much as i did when i first met his 'personality' on the forum.  i think he's kinda cute, too.  i don't think i'm much of a real threat to him because i'm married.

Does the very fact of being married alone mean that you are not a threat to him? (not that I'm suggesting that you are a threat to him or anyone else in any case, mind...)

and, of course, he's unavailable and doesn't want a 'tamborine banger' as he calls us.

Who's "us" here? Does he call all forum members "tambourine bangers"? (I was not aware that he does). I cannot in any case imagine what his attitude might be to any orchestral percussion player when called upon to play the tambourine, can you?

Best,

Alistair

[nicco]

Lets give the poor guy some space.

[pianistimo]

ahinton, why are you bringing elspeth into this?  she is an innocent party and certainly has not partaken in tamborine banging, as thal so succinctly puts christians who speak their minds in that category.  now, i've not heard the tamborine concerto but i think there is a triangle one.  the thing is - the religious threads are not on my mind right now.  so, you caught me at a place where i am focused more on playing the 'isle of joy' on my new casio privia.  it is so cool to play that i stayed up til 2:00 am on sunday night and then monday had to go to a kindergarten musical rehearsal - so today - i am quite off track and tired.

now, what's the second question?  i didn't get it.  i mean is this a crop circle '.'   that little dot.  thal usually makes a bigger mark.  i'd imagine if he tried to make a crop circle, he'd make it where people would notice it from the air.  maybe on top of mt blanc.  you know - making sure people knew he got to the top.  it would be the letters T H A L   W A S
H E R E

about the religious crisis part.  i can't be absolutely sure - but you know the saying 'thee protesteth too much.'  well,  if he didn't care a whit about God or religion - he just wouldn't get upset because it wouldn't matter to him.   atheists tend to just laugh and chalk it up to chance or possibility.  now, thal has a mother who was/is deeply devoted to God.  that makes a difference, imo.  how do i know this?  she obviously taught him to win.  i mean - you don't go weight lifting and hope to be a loser.  winners have to have focus.  but, there's always an element to winning that is spiritual.

just so you don't take it the wrong way - i'm not saying non-christians are losers in this life.  but they will be in the next if the bible is true (which i believe it is).  they may not lose out on the kingdom of God - but their positions will be granted another.  why else would Christ give the 'parable of the talents' and 'the good steward.'  i mean He gave each of us physical talents - but also spiritual gifts to use to be close to Him and thereby have the 'spirit' to deal with a battle of the mind.  winning that one is trickier because you don't always see your opponenet.

the only perceived 'threat' to thal from me is to challenge beliefs.  but, i'm not planning on doing that if he isn't involved in a conversation.  i mean - if we go on a religious thread (which i never started, btw) and debate - that is different than saying 'i love you'  and 'i want to have your babies.'  thal wrote that one FOR me.  ok.  i think he's kinda cute...but i mean there are a lot of cute guys out there.  a dime a dozen.  but what thal has that is different is a lot of wit, strength, he likes to cycle, he likes to get out, you know - - stuff that is not boring.  i think when he finds the right woman - he'll be happy.  in the meantime i guess he likes to hang out with 'mental martin.'  but, since mental's married - it's kinda hard to go out as a four-some.  maybe yoonie has softened him by now?  he will be 1/2 the hardened wishful criminal he was before - and he will not dare show her the pretend plots he has made with headstones to view when he gets angry at people he doesn't like.

oh, nevermind my ramblings.  i mean, if you could see sorabji's every move - you might think it a bit odd when he stands over the trash can and picks out the dryer lint and pulls it apart and puts it back in.  i mean --everyone has eccentric things that they hope noone will see.   one of the characters on bart simpson - mr smithers - occasionally makes me laugh my head off because of his occasional very usual behaviors.  perhaps i am getting him mixed up with sorabji.

[ahinton]

ahinton, why are you bringing elspeth into this?  she is an innocent party and certainly has not partaken in tamborine banging, as thal so succinctly puts christians who speak their minds in that category.

Because (as I know she will herself appreciate) she made a reference earlier on another thread in this section of the forum about you and people who ask you questions (go check).

about the religious crisis part.  i can't be absolutely sure - but you know the saying 'thee protesteth too much.'

...would be ungrammatical, for starters...

well,  if he didn't care a whit about God or religion - he just wouldn't get upset because it wouldn't matter to him.   atheists tend to just laugh and chalk it up to chance or possibility.  now, thal has a mother who was/is deeply devoted to God.  that makes a difference, imo.  how do i know this?  she obviously taught him to win.  i mean - you don't go weight lifting and hope to be a loser.  winners have to have focus.  but, there's always an element to winning that is spiritual.

just so you don't take it the wrong way - i'm not saying non-christians are losers in this life.  but they will be in the next if the bible is true (which i believe it is).  they may not lose out on the kingdom of God - but their positions will be granted another.  why else would Christ give the 'parable of the talents' and 'the good steward.'  i mean He gave each of us physical talents - but also spiritual gifts to use to be close to Him and thereby have the 'spirit' to deal with a battle of the mind.  winning that one is trickier because you don't always see your opponenet.

It seems as though you're getting back to being true to form here - although I'm at least relieved to learn that you aren't saying that non-Christians are losers in this life; that said, I do hope that you don't mean that devout Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, etc. "will be (losers) in the next life", for I'm sure they'd not appreciate hearing that...

the only perceived 'threat' to thal from me is to challenge beliefs.  but, i'm not planning on doing that if he isn't involved in a conversation.  i mean - if we go on a religious thread (which i never started, btw) and debate - that is different than saying 'i love you'  and 'i want to have your babies.'  thal wrote that one FOR me.  ok.  i think he's kinda cute...but i mean there are a lot of cute guys out there.  a dime a dozen.  but what thal has that is different is a lot of wit, strength, he likes to cycle, he likes to get out, you know - - stuff that is not boring.  i think when he finds the right woman - he'll be happy.  in the meantime i guess he likes to hang out with 'mental martin.'  but, since mental's married - it's kinda hard to go out as a four-some.  maybe yoonie has softened him by now?  he will be 1/2 the hardened wishful criminal he was before - and he will not dare show her the pretend plots he has made with headstones to view when he gets angry at people he doesn't like.

oh, nevermind my ramblings.

If you don't want readers here to "mind your rambl;ings", it might be better not to "ramble"; tha said, I can't imagine anyone taking exception to this one...

i mean, if you could see sorabji's every move - you might think it a bit odd when he stands over the trash can and picks out the dryer lint and pulls it apart and puts it back in.  i mean --everyone has eccentric things that they hope noone will see.   

You mean what, exactly? You've lost me here completely...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

well, i don't know sorabji personally - but i find eccentric behavior kind of reassurring.  it's like we're all part of the same human family.  everyone has something odd or eccentric about them. 

[quantum]

well, i don't know sorabji personally - but i find eccentric behavior kind of reassurring.  it's like we're all part of the same human family.  everyone has something odd or eccentric about them. 

What do you mean not everyone sees their psychiatrist 7 days a week for sessions?  Good thing I'm just on my way for a session right now, I think I need to talk.  Last night I had a really interesting discussion with the tree on my neighbors front lawn, and I can't wait to talk about it.

[mad_max2024]

everyone has something odd or eccentric about them. 

Not me... I'm perfectly normal.
It's everybody else that's odd...
 

[prometheus]

If you are the only person in the world that is perfectly normal then what does that make you?

[quantum]

Isn't it great when every thing seems so weird it's normal. 

I'll go say hi to Norma now.  Norma is the 2nd concrete sidewalk square as you turn left from my front door. 

[elspeth]

ahinton, why are you bringing elspeth into this?  she is an innocent party and certainly has not partaken in tamborine banging, as thal so succinctly puts christians who speak their minds in that category.

Percussion was never my area of expertise - being a piccolo player I never had problems getting attention while playing with an orchestra!

[ahinton]

Percussion was never my area of expertise - being a piccolo player I never had problems getting attention while playing with an orchestra!

Ah! - Shostakovich would have loved you! - and no doubt you have, de temps en temps, managed to elicit plenty of appropriate attention within the orchestra when playing some of his orchestral piccolo parts! Had the piccolo not existed in the early part of the last century, Shostakovich would probably have had to assume pride of place in the responsibility for inventing it (which said, one orchestral oboist once said to me that she had mixed feelings about Shostakovich because, far too often when he gave her a decent passage to play, she found herself being doubled by the piccolo at one or two octaves' distance)...

Best,

Alistair

[wishful thinker]

de temps en temps

Have you gone all continental on us now, Mr Hinton?   This is at least the second time that you have said this since returning from your festive fraternisation with the enemy 

[ahinton]

Have you gone all continental on us now, Mr Hinton?   This is at least the second time that you have said this since returning from your festive fraternisation with the enemy 

But these are by no means the first occasions on which I have used the phrase de temps en temps on this forum, so my doing so in these two instances has no conceivable connection with my recent visit to the nation next door. As to "festive fraternaisation with the enemy", it's perhaps a good thing that I'm not taking the last of your words here any more seriously than you had intended it to be be taken! As to the question of "going all continental", I had thought that the EC's 27 member states included both UK and France, that the strong bond between those two countries goes back centuries and that, in any case, "this sceptred isle" (as the Bard once called Britain) has technically been but a sceptred promontory ever since the opening of the Channel Tunnel so, at least as far as I am concerned, the UK is part of a continuously expanding continental Europe. Clearly, when Iceland joins the EC, its geographical position will not permit its being brought into the continental fold (any more than is Malta which is already a member state), but the remainder of that expansion - however great or small it may eventually be - will involve countries that are part of the same land mass.

Who knows where that will end? The accession of Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey (officially regarded as "candidate countries" for membership - see https://www.eurunion.org/states/offices.htm) will probably occur sooner than that of Switzerland, Norway and Albania, and even those will probably precede that of Morocco, Israel, Lebanon, the ex-Soviet states, etc., but these will be interesting and vastly changing times, sans doute(!). There are some, however, who see one aspect of the fallout of this expansion as being an increasing excuse for the spread of the English language - and, let's face it, many of those from eastern European EC states who have gone west to seek work have found more success if they have, or rapidly acquire, at least a reasonable proficiency in English - in parts of Spain they call this "the English cancer" (except that they call it that in Spanish, of course - and I cannot remember their word for it!).

À bientôt!

Alexandre

[wishful thinker]

oooooo we're in a very _serious mood today, aren't we Hinty? 

[ahinton]

oooooo we're in a very _serious mood today, aren't we Hinty? 

"WE" are, are "we"?! Non; ce n'est pas vrai, M le Penseur-Desireux...

Do be careful not to trip over your subscript, won't you?!

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

alistair - are you saying that your real name is alexandre now?  or are you just delusional?  is this what promptedm1469to talk about who's ruling the world next? 

[wishful thinker]

Big Al has been to Francia and picked up some nasty foreign habits 

[rebby]

hey i heard that thal still gives sheet music out to people if they ask

[ahinton]

alistair - are you saying that your real name is alexandre now?

Non. It's surely obvious what the reference is!

or are you just delusional?

YOU are asking ME this question?! You with your - well, you know (I won't repeat it)...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

pole dancing.  i know what you're thinking.  well - as it so happens (for the millionth time) i don't own a pole.  i don't pole dance.  it is a FANTASY of my husbands.  ok.  (for the millionth time).  yes.  we don't talk about it anymores.  basically because there's no stage and lights either.  this is in the bedroom mind you - and not in a public setting.  talk about stage fright.  i could barely do this for my husband and i don't even know how to accurately gauge if i were doing it 'right' or 'wrong.'  as i see it - any attempt at this point would be just hilarious anyways.  he'd probably say - well if you want to know - go read a book about it.  the fact of the matter - noone learns anything technique-wise from books.  not even piano technique.  have you ever read a book about piano technique and understood a word they were saying?  how much more so pole dancing?  well.  i'll leave it at that for now. 

what does de temps en temps mean?  temptation doubled?

[ahinton]

pole dancing.  i know what you're thinking.

If you really know what I'm thinking when I read those two words from you here, you will realise that I am thinking "here goes Susanistimo beginning a post with the words "pole" and "dancing"".

well - as it so happens (for the millionth time) i don't own a pole.

That's an awful lot of times not to own a pole, but I assume that it means that your husband is not Polish.

i don't pole dance.

You don't? Even after all this? - and what is about to follow?...

it is a FANTASY of my husbands.

What is?

ok.  (for the millionth time).  yes.  we don't talk about it anymores.

Who doesn't? You and your husband, presumably (although I'm sure you'll correct me if that's wrong).

basically because there's no stage and lights either.  this is in the bedroom mind you - and not in a public setting.  talk about stage fright.  i could barely do this for my husband and i don't even know how to accurately gauge if i were doing it 'right' or 'wrong.'  as i see it - any attempt at this point would be just hilarious anyways.

This sounds increasingly as though you secretly wish that you could do it even if you think - or would have us think - that you can't (and, don't forget, you wrote these words here, not I)...

he'd probably say - well if you want to know - go read a book about it.  the fact of the matter - noone learns anything technique-wise from books.  not even piano technique.  have you ever read a book about piano technique and understood a word they were saying?  how much more so pole dancing?  well.  i'll leave it at that for now.

Being less of a pianist than you and far less of a dancer of any kind than you, I'll take what you say here as gospel (if you'll pardon the expression).

what does de temps en temps mean?  temptation doubled?

Much as you, the Preternatural Practising Pole-dancing Princess Pianistimo of Pianostreet, might like to think so, it actually - and, I'm sorry to say, far more prosaically - means "from time to time".

OK, now that's enough of that from me. Now go indulge your husband's fantasy (or one of them, assuming that he has more than one)...

Best,

Alistair