Doc's "Advice For A Tubenet Newbie"

[TubaRay]

He posted over 100 times in one night! Impressive. I watched them accumulate because I have no life . . .

That was impressive, wasn't it?

Yep... And now he's off in another country sharing more great experiences! Who doesn't want to know more about Vietnam???
Tim

Yeah. Who?

[LoyalTubist]

I think the colors blue and green sharing the same word in the Vietnamese language is fascinating.

I have green eyes. When I flew here to Saigon, I broke my glasses. I went to an optical shop and bought a new pair. I bought a pair of blue frames.

"Oh," the optometrist said, "They go with your blue eyes!"

"I have green eyes."

"Same word in Vietnamese."



They differentiate them by saying:

Green as the grass.

Blue as the sky.

[windshieldbug]

But how do you say blue/green? How do they know you're not just stuttering?

[tubatooter1940]

You really believe those guys when they tell you blue and green are the same ?

[LoyalTubist]

I will get back with you on this.

Most Vietnamese people have brown eyes, so they don't worry about it.

Incidentally, Hanh just bought some shampoo for me this weekend while I was at work. She only paid attention to the brand but not what it was.

It was this:



My hair is brown and this shampoo REALLY WORKS! It is getting darker every time I use it. And my formerly WHITE beard is now grayish.

For any teenaged boy who is embarassed by the almost invisible hair he has on his chest, this is a Godsend! Use it twice and that hair will be visible to everyone!

(I won't get anymore graphic than this.)

[trseaman]

Tim

[windshieldbug]

who is not allowed to say, "razor" anymore

How do you manage to walk that razor's edge?

[Captain Sousie]

who is not allowed to say, "razor" anymore

How do you manage to walk that razor's edge?

Why, by judicious application of Occam's Razor of course.

Sou

[windshieldbug]

Why, by judicious application of Occam's Razor of course

I have it on good authority that Occam used an electric shaver. Oh, this is all just too complicated for me!

[MaryAnn]

You really believe those guys when they tell you blue and green are the same ?

Well....once again I asked my cubicle-mate (who is Vietnamese) if this same-word-blue-green was right, and he said that the glasses guy did not explain it well enough, that there were "words missing" in describing the colors. I didn't quite get what he was trying to tell me though. He also said there were words missing in the "Merry Christmas" translation. If I could get him on this board....he and LT could have some intellectual linguistic discussions, but he does not play tuba.

MA

[windshieldbug]

I thought electricity came a LOT later, but what do I know?

Apparently, not much.

The earliest known artifacts that may have been batteries are the Baghdad Batteries, from some time between 250 BC and 640 AD.

attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham

But, what're a couple a thousand years among friends?

[djwesp]

21.

"If you aren't old enough to drink, you aren't old enough to post, unless asking questions." This is assuming you already used the search function to see if your question has been answered previously. Only fitting that rule #21 is the 21 rule.


Wes "not my rule, chuck's rule" Pendergrass

[LoyalTubist]

I think it's better to think of it this way:

Most countries I have been in do not grant full adulthood to anyone until they are at least 21. Just because you drink at 18 doesn't mean you can do everything. Here in Vietnam, men are not allowed to marry until they are 22!!! But they can still drink at 18.

Actually, in the United States there are still many things you can't do at 21. Try to rent a car.

[ken k]

I think it's better to think of it this way:

Most countries I have been in do not grant full adulthood to anyone until they are at least 21. Just because you drink at 18 doesn't mean you can do everything. Here in Vietnam, men are not allowed to marry until they are 22!!! But they can still drink at 18.

Actually, in the United States there are still many things you can't do at 21. Try to rent a car.

so do they start drinking at 18 in preparation for marriage at 22???????

[Tubaryan12]

Thanks for bumping this. I could not remember the post where "13" became a thing.

[Mark]

Hmm... Methinks much of this has been forgotten, depite its relevance.

People who need advice the most are the least likely to take advice.

[iiipopes]

I wish Doc's list, as added to sequentially throughout this thread, were a sticky on EVERY bulletin board/forum/chat group/blog, etc.

I know I have tripped over each and every one of these pointers over time.

Thanks, Doc!

[Tubaryan12]

Thanks for bumping this. I could not remember the post where "13" became a thing.

It's also a lie...and I'm also a racist...Just ask Ryan.

lol

[TubaBeage]

Read by this newbie, probably not absorbed - misatkes will be made.

[MaryAnn]

#12. Rick Denney really is the Tubenet Genius.

Doc

And it's a damn shame we don't see him any more. Wah.