HELLO HELLO, I NEED HELP

[pianistimo]

did you star in it?

[ahinton]

No, he wrote the score for it (and you may not be overly surprised to discover that it has a prominent part for banjo); before you ask, however, I cannot let you have a copy of that score as it is in copyright, and were I to infringe that most precious of copyrights, I'd risk the wrath of the Thaleban.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

It is available on the hintonet.

Thal

[pianistimo]

somehow, this james francis cooke 'mastering the scales and arpeggios' book pales in comparison to the things you two come up with.  were i to ever want to look at (let alone buy ) something that thal wrote for banjo to accompany the scopes trial - i would have to be in my twilight years and way beyond the dancing stage.  frankly, i'd like to believe that i'll always be able to move my legs - and still watching re-runs of casablanca. 

[ahinton]

It is available on the hintonet.

Thal

You mean, like, for free? Where can I download it? Can't wait to see what Thalebanjo music is like.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

were i to ever want to look at (let alone buy ) something that thal wrote for banjo to accompany the scopes trial - i would have to be in my twilight years and way beyond the dancing stage.

The trouble with that argument is that one never knows quite when one's twilight years arrive - and I've already stated in another place that I'd be wary of walking with you in the twilight. What's dancing got to do with it? You seem very keen on that.

off to drink the rest of the beer that i didn't pour in the beef ragout.

Yuck! I can't abide beer of any sort at any price or none (unless used moderately in cooking as you did); wasteful as it may sound, you could instead have poured the surplus down the drain and it might have cleaned the garbage disposal on the way down, thereby lessening the risk of getting Brillo pads caught in it in future...

I have no doubt that you dish was very tasty.

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

well, if it is any consolation - the 3/4 bottle of beer is still on the counter this morning.  i may well pour it down the drain as it is now flat and room temperature.  i suddenly remembered last night i had to drive and pick up my daughter.  i don't want to kill anyone within a mile from my home.  let me rephrase that.  i don't want to kill anyone period.  i hear that when people are drunk they are more likely to kill someone else than themselves because they are too relaxed to care what happens to them.  btw, i am one of the MAD mothers.  i think drunk drivers kill way more teenagers than happens the other way around - and i certainly don't want to be a drunk driver.  here in pa - the one teenager that drank and drove after graduation two years ago - totalled his car around a tree and it was left there for 6 months for the other kids to look at.  quite effective, really.

anwyas,  what were we talking about?  i forgot.

twilight years.  walking in twilight.  now, why - alistair do you say such a thing?  i suppose in england they have plenty of streetlights.  unlike pennsylvania.  here we have one streetlight for every block.  but - alistair - my husband should be the one to be wary here.  despite the fact his name is john.  (shhh).  and despite the fact that i live in a reputable neighborhood.  at least i thought i did.

[ahinton]

twilight years.  walking in twilight.  now, why - alistair do you say such a thing?  i suppose in england they have plenty of streetlights.  unlike pennsylvania.  here we have one streetlight for every block.  but - alistair - my husband should be the one to be wary here.  despite the fact his name is john.  (shhh).  and despite the fact that i live in a reputable neighborhood.  at least i thought i did.

I was referring to posts #23 adn #24 in the "p v. p" thread. What does your husband's name have to do with this and why need I "shhh" about it?

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

oh.  you had me confused there for a minute.  i was thinking- 'now, what would alistair be referring to.  certainly not my eyesight.'  i plan on having the exact cataract surgery my husband had done when i get to be in my late 60's early 70's.  but, wait - that's more than 22 years from now - and i expect orwell's world to be here before then.  alistari, what if we don't make it to our twilight years in one piece?  what if we are in two or three pieces?  what if the world is taken over by the 'it's' and 'thems.'  what if our money suddenly becomes useless tommorrow? 

this is where organic gardening comes in.  i always knew it would come in handy.  although i was slightly saddened by the episode of sponge bob where - mr crab's friends (spongebob and ?) buy him a new mattress because of his back problems and he gets really angry because he keeps all his money in his mattress and it is now at the junkyard.  they have to go and fight the guardworm to get the mattress back.

[ahinton]

oh.  you had me confused there for a minute.

That's nothing to the confusion you cause me sometimes; an example follows...

alistari, what if we don't make it to our twilight years in one piece?  what if we are in two or three pieces?  what if the world is taken over by the 'it's' and 'thems.'  what if our money suddenly becomes useless tommorrow? 

this is where organic gardening comes in.  i always knew it would come in handy.

As I mentioned earlier, we none of us know when those twilight years may come, since we none of us know when we'll come to our end. AS to the number of pieces in which we may be at any time, I imagine that it would be very painful and hopelessly impractical for further survival if any of us is in more than one piece. What you mean by the "its" and thems" is unclear, too. Our money might be abit less useful today in any case after the Chinese whispers have wreaked their own peculiar brand of havoc on the world's stock markets. What the connection between any of this and organic gardening may be, God only knows. Oh, wait abit, I shouldn't have mentioned Him...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

if there suddenly was no money, no oil, no groceries, no heat, no electricity?  how long does a potatoe take to grow.  and would one die of hunger before it was no more than a baby.  we must start growing potatoes inside the house right now, alistair.  if the stock market crashes at least we'll have our potatoes.   

ps beefsteak tomatoes are good, too.  i suggest we get the starters going in egg cartons.  i'll let you know how mine are coming along.  i will put them in my music studio for conversation pieces. 

[rach n bach]

Everybody go get a pasture and a few dozen head of cattle.  Potatos will get old after a while... As will tomatoes... 

Got beef?

In any case, I'm protected against a stock market dive via my put options... the market would have to dissapear to kill me... *crossed fingers*

[pianistimo]

put options?  what are those?

[rach n bach]

Baisically, your betting that the market will fall... the higher the stock is, the cheaper the put, conversly, the lower the stock, the more expensive the put.  In actuality, it is a contract between two traders.  The seller is obligated to buy a set number of shares of a particuar stock at a set price when the buyer decides to execute his option.  Or the buyer can sell his put to somebody else... if he feels that the market is going up. 

And then there are call options...

[pianistimo]

i knew i shouldn't have asked.  i re-read that just to make sure i didn't understand it.  if only investing came second nature. 

[ahinton]

if there suddenly was no money, no oil, no groceries, no heat, no electricity?  how long does a potatoe take to grow.

Longer than it took you to put an "e" on the end of one...

and would one die of hunger before it was no more than a baby.  we must start growing potatoes inside the house right now, alistair.

And who owns the seed? What you forget here is that every stock, every seed, every person is caught up in the situation and nothing you or I or anyone else can do will change that. On top of that, you and I do not live together, so we'd have to grow separate potatoes - and why in the house?

if the stock market crashes at least we'll have our potatoes.

What any of us might have following a stock market crash will very largely depend upon the extent of that crash, both economically and geographically. The American market began to rally this afternoon (UK time); if the entire lot goes down in a much bigger way than ever happened in the late 1920s, just don't expect to think that you own - or have any automatic as-of-right stake in - anything thereafter - not even the nearest potato, child, husband, church until that market has repaired itself sufficiently (if ever it does). Whatever investments you may have in your portfolio, the fact remains that, as an American citizen, you have shares in your local area and your country because you live there and pay your taxes; paying your taxes means that you have bought shares in the setup, just like I have here (the only difference being that you and I have been forced by our respective tax authorities to buy them, rather than purchasing them as a matter of personal choice).

Anyway, whatever happens, we musicians will carry on regardless as long as we have breath to do so - because we have to...

Best,

Alistair

[rach n bach]

i knew i shouldn't have asked.  i re-read that just to make sure i didn't understand it.  if only investing came second nature. 

 

Hey you can learn... I'm not out of college yet, and I think I am begining to understand how this all works, but your right, it does take a lot of work to understand.

[pianistimo]

noone can take my potatos away.  they will have to grab them really fast before i eat them.

[ahinton]

noone can take my potatos away.  they will have to grab them really fast before i eat them.

Just put that "e" back when they are plural and you (and they) will probably be OK...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

thanks alistair.  i really do appreciate you a lot, you know.  and despite us growing potatoes on separate continents - (if you so choose to begin growing a few things by seedlings) - we'll have something to plant in the ground in april.  unfortunately, here the deer sometimes come and eat entire gardens overnight. 

[penguinlover]

Yeah, but potatoes grow underground.  I grew them once in the desert here, and it took forever. I think they said it should take 88 days, but I think it  took much longer!  I am so impatient, I kept digging them up to see how they were growing!  That didn't help things, I was worse than a kid.

[pianistimo]

i hope thal doesn't see this.  i forgot.  yes.  they grow underground.  well, we'll just plant the tomatoes early.  (hope the 'e' is ok - because it's plural).

[ahinton]

well, we'll just plant the tomatoes early.  (hope the 'e' is ok - because it's plural).

I hope that the tomatoes themselves will be plural, too.

Best,

Alistair