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BS: Best mediocre singer etc.

25 Nov 08 - 04:09 PM (#2501484)
Subject: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Ernest

ha - I have been faster than Joe!

:0P

Ernest


25 Nov 08 - 04:21 PM (#2501491)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: PoppaGator

Why, me of course!

(Perhaps in the interest of avoiding characterization of yet another "best" or "worst" thread, this opne should have been entitled "Most mediocre singer...")


25 Nov 08 - 04:30 PM (#2501500)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: McGrath of Harlow

Best mediocre singer would have to be Anne Oxymoron.


25 Nov 08 - 04:37 PM (#2501512)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Amos

Well, I am certainly my own favorite mediocrity, and always have been. No else forgives me quite as much, or as readily.


A


25 Nov 08 - 04:49 PM (#2501525)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Leadfingers

I have aspirations to Mediocracy !!


25 Nov 08 - 05:13 PM (#2501547)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Hawker

You mean I have competition! XD
Lucy


25 Nov 08 - 05:38 PM (#2501573)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Severn

I've been practicing real hard to be able to become an amateur. You can politely bill me as "a noted singer" and maybe on a good night, I'll actually be able to hit two or three of them, but it's a range I'm trying to become at home on. If the deer and the antelope can learn to play, I can learn to sing!

Color me medium ochre, or maybe a little burnt.

And maybe the Media Ogres will pay attention some day, because I HAVE heard worse, and Great Medi-Oakers from Medi-Acorns Grow.

But I'm heading down to the local Mead Hall for some Meady Okra Gumbo, so I'll be back later....

Dare To Be Average!


25 Nov 08 - 06:34 PM (#2501632)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Bill D

"Best mediocre" ranks right up there with the concept by a guy I knew who was 6'8"...joined a circus as a midget.


....."World's tallest midget"


25 Nov 08 - 06:48 PM (#2501636)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: The Fooles Troupe

.... but .... but .... but there's so MANY to choose from!

:-)


26 Nov 08 - 06:30 PM (#2502463)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Ebbie

"Well, I am certainly my own favorite mediocrity, and always have been. No else forgives me quite as much, or as readily."

That's a profound thought, Amos. Thank you.


26 Nov 08 - 06:41 PM (#2502471)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Bobert

Ummmnm, there's somethin' about Garrison Keiler's voice??? No, it ain't like Kris Kristofferson who really cannot sing but just above that so...

...I'd have to vote for Garrison Keiler...

B~


26 Nov 08 - 06:46 PM (#2502472)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Ed T

Da werld is imperfect.. wen u haf dis, u cant haf da odder


26 Nov 08 - 06:54 PM (#2502476)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Bobert

Heck wid the "odder"... Jus' sing on key... It ain't all that hard, gol danged it...


26 Nov 08 - 07:01 PM (#2502483)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: pdq

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, and Jorma Kaukonen are all in the "shut up and play your guitar" school, although Jorma sells the song most of the time.


27 Nov 08 - 01:13 PM (#2503001)
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From: kendall

The trouble with mediocrity is, it keeps getting elected president.


27 Nov 08 - 01:36 PM (#2503015)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Bobert

Better in the White House than in my band... ***grin***...

B~


27 Nov 08 - 02:33 PM (#2503045)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh

Didn't "Mediocrity" used to be something commendable (i.e.. related to "moderation in all things")?


27 Nov 08 - 03:02 PM (#2503069)
Subject: RE: BS: Best mediocre singer etc.
From: Genie

Severn, you will never be mediocre as a punster.
(Much worse, I'd say ...... ) ; D