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2010-06-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2010-06-11 00:30|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 One-armed piano players must perform for free.

Actually, Ravel's "Concerto for the left hand" was composed for a pianist friend who had lost his right hand during WWI.

Posted by JFM 2010-06-11 07:31|| 2010-06-11 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless a customer specifically requests it, margarine may not be substituted for butter in a restaurant.

I remember one my grandmother's friends telling us that 'Oleo Margarine' (artificial yellow coloring added - as in all 'yellow' margarine) was a communist plot. You couldn't even buy 'yellow' margarine in Wisconsin until the late '60s.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2010-06-11 08:06|| 2010-06-11 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 In the 50s and 60s, you couldn't buy margarine colored yellow in Wisconsin. There were signs at the Illinois state line advertising colored oleo for sale, and the stores did good business. My cantankerous, stingy grandfather looked grumpier than usual when he sat down to the task of adding the yellow food coloring to the white oleo to make it look more appetizing.

The Arizona law about cutting down cactus is not totally out of left field, IIRC. People have been poaching and cutting saguaros and other species, causing drastic reductions in cactus populations.

Speaking of "Out in left field": The original "left field" that gave its name to this expression was the old ballpark in Chicago on Damen Ave. That was the site of the last Cubs World Series victory in 1908. It was torn down a few years later to make room for the University of Illinois hospitals, after the Cubs moved to Wrigley Field. The University built its first mental health sanatorium just beyond the left field fence at that ballpark. So something coming out of left field was coming from the direction of the sanatorium!

Posted by mom 2010-06-11 10:03|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2010-06-11 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The graphic is insulting and demeaning ... to chimps.

Posted by xbalanke 2010-06-11 10:18|| 2010-06-11 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 It's OK. They're progressive chimps.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-11 11:45|| 2010-06-11 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 When I lived in San Francisco, there was still a law on the books prohibiting "unsightly" people from being on the streets. Nothing implied GolfBravo, just saying.

Posted by Mercutio 2010-06-11 13:39|| 2010-06-11 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, Ravel's "Concerto for the left hand" was composed for a pianist friend who had lost his right hand during WWI.

Ada a stewardess sez garbage

Posted by Shipman 2010-06-11 15:57|| 2010-06-11 15:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, Ravel's "Concerto for the left hand" was composed for a pianist friend who had lost his right hand during WWI.
That happens to be true. aul Wittgenstein (November 5, 1887 March 3, 1961) was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously regarded as impossible for a five-fingered pianist. He commissioned several pieces for the left hand from prominent composers, including Richard Strauss, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel and, later, Benjamin Britten.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-06-11 16:45|| 2010-06-11 16:45|| Front Page Top

#9 #2 Ditto here on Guam when I was growing up in the 1960's and early 1970's. Many Locals gave the "evil eye" of suspicion as per fake butter = margarine.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-11 19:35|| na 2010-06-11 19:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Margerine is only a molecule or two away from being a plastic.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-06-11 19:39|| 2010-06-11 19:39|| Front Page Top

#11 So what Deacon, Gold is only a proton away from Lead.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-06-11 22:52|| 2010-06-11 22:52|| Front Page Top

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