Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

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Yet another horrible slam on tuba playing!

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From the folks at The Onion.
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Richard Sloane needs to be punched in the throat. Who is he to decide what expression is. He probably listens to crap music :x
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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
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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:
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What if you play a tuba WHILE clogging? :twisted:
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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 :)
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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...)
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we should start a boycott of the Onion. Lets take it tot he extreme and play their game...
that would be pretty funny too!!!

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I dunno - "Sousaphone Hero" was pretty good, actually...
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