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Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:21 pm
by David Richoux
From the folks at The Onion.

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:30 am
by Jess Haney
Richard Sloane needs to be punched in the throat. Who is he to decide what expression is. He probably listens to crap music :x

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:54 am
by David Richoux
tank wrote:Richard Sloane needs to be punched in the throat. Who is he to decide what expression is. He probably listens to crap music :x
Like Kenny G ;-)

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:56 am
by tofu
tank wrote:Richard Sloane needs to be punched in the throat. Who is he to decide what expression is. He probably listens to crap music :x
You are aware that the Onion is made up and employs such things as satire and other forms of humor? Surely we tuba players still have a sense of humor and the capacity to laugh at ourselves. :mrgreen:

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:07 am
by windshieldbug
What if you play a tuba WHILE clogging? :twisted:

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:41 am
by Jess Haney
tofu wrote:
tank wrote:Richard Sloane needs to be punched in the throat. Who is he to decide what expression is. He probably listens to crap music :x
You are aware that the Onion is made up and employs such things as satire and other forms of humor? Surely we tuba players still have a sense of humor and the capacity to laugh at ourselves. :mrgreen:
True just sticking up for my fellow low brass enthusiests....with some trash talk :)

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:07 am
by David Richoux
tofu wrote:
tank wrote:Richard Sloane needs to be punched in the throat. Who is he to decide what expression is. He probably listens to crap music :x
You are aware that the Onion is made up and employs such things as satire and other forms of humor? Surely we tuba players still have a sense of humor and the capacity to laugh at ourselves. :mrgreen:
If I had put smile and winks all over the first post it might not have had the same effect. (You might note that the image painted in the bell of my Sousaphone avatar comes from an early 1950s Mad comic book...)
me at dia de.jpg

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:59 pm
by ken k
we should start a boycott of the Onion. Lets take it tot he extreme and play their game...
that would be pretty funny too!!!

k

Re: Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:39 am
by David Richoux
I dunno - "Sousaphone Hero" was pretty good, actually...