Famous Quotes About Tubas
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Golden Toilet....
bloke wrote:oldest punchline in the world wrote:Hey Harry! I just found the guy who sh!t in your tuba!!!
Hoo-boy,
I hadn't heard that one for a while.
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The act of playing the tuba is called tubation.
Many people gathered together and playing their tubas is called mass tubation.
Many people gathered together and playing their tubas is called mass tubation.
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Just a minute. I can play sharp any time you want. Of course, it is always best to save the energy of having to open the beer.windshieldbug wrote:How many tubist does it take to open a beer?
None. They're not good with sharp objects, so it should already be open when you hand it to them.
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A tuba in the hand is better than one in the bush. (or is that supposed to be about a bird?)
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Room for another?
"Tuba players have the biggest instruments."
...from a bumper sticker affixed to my '64 Chevy.
Karl "should have heard the comments my wife got from the low-rider crowd" Hovey
...from a bumper sticker affixed to my '64 Chevy.
Karl "should have heard the comments my wife got from the low-rider crowd" Hovey
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Made me lol, so good it deserves to be mentioned again.IowegianStar wrote:- Garrison Keillor from "A Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra"The tuba player is normally a stocky, bearded guy whose hobby is plumbing. The only member of the orchestra who bowls over 250 and gets his deer every year and changes his own oil. In his locker downstairs, he keeps a pair of lederhosen for free-lance jobs. Anyway, there's only one tuba in the bunch and he's it.
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This isn't really a quote, but it leads to one. In high school, prepping for a marching contest my freshman year, we had before school field practices. It was so cold one morning the four of us souzy players all had our valves freeze. Wait - there's a catch - mine froze open. The next guy's froze with 1 down. The next guy...you get the picture. So we all just shrugged our shoulders at each other, paid careful attention and played the notes we could, which, as it turned out, was just about everything.
At the end of practice, back inside for debriefing and much needed hot chocolate provided by the band booster mothers, I told the director what happened and, per his "standing orders," that we just kept going as best we could. "So that's what happened. I could hear it all, just at such a low volume I couldn't figure out what was happening...."
At the end of practice, back inside for debriefing and much needed hot chocolate provided by the band booster mothers, I told the director what happened and, per his "standing orders," that we just kept going as best we could. "So that's what happened. I could hear it all, just at such a low volume I couldn't figure out what was happening...."
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