What is your deepest darkest secret?
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
+1Ken Herrick wrote:and I keep reading them
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I once owned a Chinese tuba.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I used to be a saxophone player
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
Alas... I'm not very deep.
Or dark.
Or secret.
That's a hard question...
Or dark.
Or secret.
That's a hard question...
Thanks for playing!
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I haven't played with an organized group since TubaChristmas. And before that, last TubaChristmas. 

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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I own an alto clarinet.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I’ve actually met Al Fine and his head looks nothing like you’d think...
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I voted for someone no one will admit voting for.
But not in the primary...
But not in the primary...

I am committed to the advancement of civil rights, minus the Marxist intimidation and thuggery of BLM.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
Secret #2: it's sell/buy time again. You can own the best tuba in the world, but if it's not a good match for you, then it's simply time to move on.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
Might be generous to call some of the groups i play with organized.bort wrote:I haven't played with an organized group since TubaChristmas. And before that, last TubaChristmas.
Definitely would be to call me that.
So we get along fine!
Thanks for playing!
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I'm a retired military dentist too young to slow down, now reinventing myself with a 6 month University and brewery based course in the Brewing Arts, and the future looks tubular and hoppy 

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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
Still a cheaper hobby than golf. Or fishing.bort wrote:Secret #2: it's sell/buy time again. You can own the best tuba in the world, but if it's not a good match for you, then it's simply time to move on.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
...and definitely cheaper than boating or RVing.MN_TimTuba wrote:Still a cheaper hobby than golf. Or fishing.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I suggest an arranged tuba marriage.bort wrote:Secret #2: it's sell/buy time again. You can own the best tuba in the world, but if it's not a good match for you, then it's simply time to move on.
The TNFJ will pick a tuba mate for you.
It will be yours for life, until sweet merciful death do you part.
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find...

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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I played a Lawrence Welk special - and enjoyed it.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
Whatever is lodged in my colon.
MISERICORDE, n.
A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
For the first time in my professional life, I'm playing a BBb tuba ....
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
I put syrup AND peanut butter on my waffles. I don't care what you think, it's the only way.
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Re: What is your deepest darkest secret?
Oh no, Tony. That is deep and dark!tclements wrote:For the first time in my professional life, I'm playing a BBb tuba ....
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