Bloody Morons...! (accordion)

Subject: Bloody Morons...!
From: LindsayInWales
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:12 AM

A young friend of mine who plays the accordion, as I also do, was passing the local music shop last Friday when the proprietor called him into the shop and handed him a scrap of paper with a phone number on it, telling him that the lady whose phone number it was had a 120-bass accordion (Ladies model) she wanted to give away to someone who would appreciate it as she could no longer play. My friend immediately thought that I might like to have it so that I could give my old 72-bass a long needed overhaul - which I can't do as it is in constant use!

Anyway he rushed home and phoned this lady up, "Oh dear, I put it out for the dustmen yesterday..."

Hanging is too good for some people, isn't it...?

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Morticia
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:15 AM

Kendall here. depends on your opinion of accordions LOL

Now, if that had been a banjo...

Seriously, you do wonder what some people use for brains.

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:16 AM

a lady indeed

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:33 AM

As a comparative newcomer - wot does LOL mean? (I managed to work out IMO, but LOL defeats me!).

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: LindsayInWales
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:47 AM

LOL means Laughing Out Loud

My favourites have to be LMFAO and PMSL

still bloody pissed off about the fate of that poor accordion tho...

I'm also into old motorcycles and a few days after I moved to a new location with my collection of Ariels back in 1974, one elderly neighbour said, "Oh I wish I hadn't given those two WNG's to the dustman last week..you could have had them...."

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:55 AM

Come on then, you've got me all confusted, expand please.......!! :0)

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:58 AM

Then there's ROFL or if particularly amused ROFLMAO

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 06:11 AM

Omigod, just getting a pitcture of Kevin doing just that and trying to dispel it from my mind.

My latest guitar acquisition (a Czech Vittoro) came from a skip. And I got a trombone yesterday for £15 from Portobello market.

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 06:11 AM

Try the Acronym Server.

(One of many, but it found ROFLMAO).

John

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 10:02 AM

It's likely that SOMEBOFY rescued it, but who knows?

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 12:09 PM

Calm yourselves. If she put it out for trash and nobody rescued it, it was probably completely ruined.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Tam the Bam (Nutter)
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 12:17 PM

Maybe the lady had put it in the bin before your friend had heard about it, I mean you can't really blame the lady for doing that.
there's always two sides to a story, and anyway it was just an accordion, and saved a lot of suffering.

Pity she didn't have a banjo or a Bordhran, and this is from a man? who plays ? the bordhran. And I also have an accordion and I am looking for a Banjo. so the next time someone comes to the local folk cloub and starts telling Bordhran/banjo/accordion jokes. I could ruin their night by saying I've got all three.

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Johnny in OKC
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 01:27 PM

Speaking of Bloody Morons,

I am pretty damn sick of so-called musicians
who disparage banjos, bodhrans, accordions, and
any other instrument they CAN'T PLAY.

Every instrument deserves RESPECT, and so do
the musicians who play them.

It's NOT FUNNY. Repeat: NOT FUNNY.

Love, Johnny

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 01:33 PM

Actually it's hilarious.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 01:44 PM

Hey, I can add something to this thread that is similiar but ends on a positive note. Not my usual style, but whatever!

Back in the 1950's, in the Seattle area, my good friend Ken bought five boxes of a musical instrument. No one really knew what it was, but for fifty cents, he figured he couldn't go wrong.

Those boxes survived intact until he passed away seven years ago. Since then, I have been helping his widow in the building of her new home. I also took the olde house apart. In doing that, I discovered these five boxes. They lived in my shop for a couple for years until I knew that I was NOT the person to figure out what it was and restore it.

"Bride Judy" suggested we give the boxes to a man she knew that builds steam calliopies as a hobby. I did this a year and a half ago. Sometime in the next few weeks, we are all invited to hear the first performance on this antique and restored BARREL ORGAN. Cheers, Bob

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Gareth
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 01:55 PM

Oh I dont know - I've rescued a 'Puter from a skip before now.

Better RAM - Hard drive, and speed than the machine I am typing this on.

My aged mother loves it, it replaced her old AMSTRAD PCW.

All I need to do is repace the LAM card with a modem - Whot I am Not going to do is connect her to the internet - Cos (South Wales joke) if you think my oppinoins is baaaaaD - You want to hear hers !

Gareth

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 02:21 PM

A barrel organ would be a very cool thing to have, especially for busking.

That's so sad about the accordion in the trash.

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 02:28 PM

Carol, this is an opportunity to review. Maybe write a song about it, which captures the beautiful sadness of the glorious potential and the hideous waste reprersented by a fine squeeze-instrument lying in the dustbin. "Accordion In the Trash". perhaps.

I am sure it wil be a chart-topping hit, done right!! It has all the pathos, bathos, mathos and gathos of the very best popular music.

A

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 02:50 PM

Maybe it could be sung by a lady in Spain!!! (says Bob, looking for his coat!)

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: GUEST,JB
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 02:55 PM

That lady almost had perfect pitch!

Know what that is?

Throwing an accordion down a toilet bowl without it hitting the sides.

JB

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 03:34 PM

I don't write songs, Amos. I have no talent for it at all. That's JtS's job.

I must say, it certainly is a good thing that none of us has ever heard any of these sparklingly witty accordion jokes before.

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: GUEST,Guess Who
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 07:03 PM

Well I'm going to hit back at some of you for some of the things that have been said; I can't but defend my favoured instrument, the accordion. I enjoy to hear any well-played instrument, and have a fairly large collection of all sorts, but I particularly love the accordion. If we all loved a particular instrument and none of the others were played, life would be bloody boring wouldn't it? We all know the joke about what's the difference between a trampoline and a banjo/accordion/autoharp/bagpipes/ad nauseum, and the answer is that you take off your shoes before you jump on a trampoline - my particular aversion is to "finger in the ear" folk songs with 99 dismal verses all with a chorus......

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: Johnny in OKC
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 07:52 PM

People who are TOO BLOODY STUPID
to play an accordion, banjo, piano, etc.

Let them go back to their
THREE-CHORD guitars and call
themselves "folk singers".

If you can't play it, SHUT UP because
you don't know what the hell you are
talking about.

And while we're at it, LEARN to
read music. Get off your lazy butt
and learn.

LOVE, Johnny

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: LindsayInWales
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 07:54 PM

Johnny in OKC I love yer mate..... :) xxx

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 01:48 AM

Right on Johnny!

Subject: RE: Bloody Morons...!
From: JennieG
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 02:24 AM

Shortly after my father-in-law died several years ago his widow found out that the ladies across the road were having a garage sale so she got rid of all his old wood-working and car-working tools!!! FIL had been a motor bike mechanic before he retired. My husband was somewhat miffed that his mother hadn't thought to ask him first if he would have liked to have them (he would have!)

Cheers
JennieG