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I found it interesting to awaken to Tubenet flooded with posted replies by LoyalTubist. My question is this, "Is there anything LoyalTubist doesn't have a comment on." Amazing!

He is a vertible encyclopedia of knowledge - just ask him!

How can you dis someone with the handle "Tuba Loyalist?" Doesn't that make you disloyal to the tuba?

There are a lot of posts though.

hmm... but then some guys post a lot more than others.

I don't know, just don't be disloyal.

Alex C wrote:How can you dis someone with the handle "Tuba Loyalist?" Doesn't that make you disloyal to the tuba?

I didn't intend to "dis" TubaLoyal. I only meant to comment that there was "no subject left unturned." Or, put another way, he seems to have a comment for virtually every subject. You may form whatever other opinion you choose.

No Chord Left Behind!

C'mon: someone start a poll!

(Isn't anyone a 'concerned viewer of posts' anymore?)

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Alex C wrote:How can you dis someone with the handle "Tuba Loyalist?"

He can dis you back in 7 languages!

(and none of them, as far as I can tell, is trumpet!)

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To answer the question, I won't usually comment on things I don't know about or care about. I know nothing about building houses or masonry. I don't care much for hockey. I might make some snide remarks about repairing tubas, but the best thing I can do is take the horn to a competent repair person.

And I only speak five languages(English, Spanish, German, Bahasa Indonesia, and Russian), but I am learning Vietnamese. It's difficult because it's the only Asian language which uses gender. A man says "I love you" differently to a woman differently than a woman says it to a man. Words basically only have one or two syllables. I read somewhere that when the French acquired Indochina, the people spoke Mandarin. The Vietnamese language is an amalgamation of Mandarin and French, with other words thrown in for fun.

LoyalTubist probably has an overactive mind wondering about things like:

If I want a cheeserger, I can ask you to feed me, but why isn't there a similar verb if I want a drink of water? After all, I can't convey the same sense by saying "drink me"...

ScottKoranda wrote: "quench me"?

I admit it is not exactly standard/common usage...

Nah--not a parallel at all. "Quench", like "slake" implies that I'm thirstly to the point of imagining my thirst as being as a orange-hot piece of iron about to be plunged into a bucket of water or quicklime that's just out of the kiln. One quenches or slakes a thirst, not a person.

I may not be particularly thirstly, but would like a glass of water, just like I might want that cheeseburger even though I'm not particularly hungry.

I mean, we have words for throwing water at someone, as in "soak me" or "drown me", but nothing parallel to "feed". Very strange. If I were a plant, I could say "water me", but that doesn't apply to a person...

On the other hand, I can say "Beer me".

Chuck(G) wrote:LoyalTubist probably has an overactive mind wondering about things like:

If I want a cheeserger, I can ask you to feed me, but why isn't there a similar verb if I want a drink of water? After all, I can't convey the same sense by saying "drink me"...

Clearly. Your use of "feed" implies the definition "to give food to." Whereas your attempted use of "drink" is "to give drink to." These are not at all the same. Of course, that still doesn't answer the original question...



Doug "who notes that the closest idea would be either 'fix' or 'serve', but only if 'me' is an indirect object in both cases, such as 'feed me (a cheeseburger)' and 'fix me) a drink'"

I am lactose intolerant. I don't eat cheeseburgers.

I am viola intolerant, but I still perform with violas.

I couldn't play tuba after eating a cheeseburger. If you understand lactose intolerance, you know why.

I only play tuba with violas with my ears closed. If you understand viola intolerance, you know why.

Do you understand lactose intolerance?

I know what it means, and I'm sorry you suffer from it. As you may have noticed, I often make jokes and take things not very seriously. I was merely implying that listening to viola playing gives me nausea, cramps, and gas. I do not mean (well very much) to offend viola players; it was just a general sport for myself and my trombone section. The violas actualy seemed to expect it.

Scooby Tuba wrote:First off, Chuck "I'm a vegetarian" (G), what are you doing eating cheeseburgers?

You ever hear of Gardenburgers?



Besides, I was attempting to couch my question in terms the readers of this BBS could relate to.