A thread for bad ideas...

[humBell]

False snooze.

Bad idea becuase i am still awake...

[MartyNeilan]

Groom of the King's close stool.

[humBell]

Groom of the King's close stool.

Like this fellow?

[Three Valves]

Bad idea?? Show up in Detroit tonight as a “moderate” only to get shouted down by a couple of Old Bolsheviks!!

[roweenie]

Groom of the King's close stool.

Like this fellow?

The Poopsmith!!!!!

I wonder though if anyone is overly devoted to rotaries...

Rotary dialed phone.

Me? I love 'em!



FWIW, does anyone remember these handy-dandy gadgets?

[Heavy_Metal]

I wonder though if anyone is overly devoted to rotaries...

Rotary dialed phone.

Me? I love 'em!

The one on the left has the wrong dial.

[humBell]

Alas, i am relatively young. I do remember the days of rotary phones but vaguely.

I even remember radio shack with affinity, although they had gone pretty heavily for radio controlled toys by my day.

Still, i did spend time wiring up my 150 in one electric kit with the springs for connections. I just never bothered to do the math for how it all worked.

I assume little thing makes the appropriate clicks to dial a number on a rotary phone? Or did it make the tones so you could navigate an automated menu despite having a rotary phone? Probably did both, now i think of it.

If only someone could devise such a gadget for switching between rotars and pistons...

And i'm glad the poopsmith got due recognition here!

Sadly this reminded me that i hadn't checked in on that sight for 7 or 8 years.

I been remiss!

[roweenie]

I wonder though if anyone is overly devoted to rotaries...

Rotary dialed phone.

Me? I love 'em!

The one on the left has the wrong dial.

I'm curious - how can you tell from that photo? Also, it's missing the center dial card/assembly, so that might be throwing you off?

FWIW, it's an early model 102, and it's the exact same dial that's in the 50AL - - - (?)

[humBell]

Remind me....

You stuck your finger in the numbered hole, rotated dial.... clockwise? until it the curved bar, let it go, at which it clicked the right number of times, then repeated with next number, right. likea real slow and simple musical song.

[windshieldbug]

Remind me....

You stuck your finger in the numbered hole, rotated dial.... clockwise? until it the curved bar, let it go, at which it clicked the right number of times, then repeated with next number, right. likea real slow and simple musical song.

Then you emptied the water by spinning it in order to keep it from gurgling...

[humBell]

glass sousaphone goosenecks

What else would i use to play my glass sousaphone?

[Heavy_Metal]

The one on the left has the wrong dial.

I'm curious - how can you tell from that photo? Also, it's missing the center dial card/assembly, so that might be throwing you off?

FWIW, it's an early model 102, and it's the exact same dial that's in the 50AL - - - (?)

The position of the zero is key. Western Electric always had theirs in the roughly 4-o'clock position. Pretty much everyone else- Automatic Electric, Kellogg, Stromberg-Carlson (before the cross-licensing agreement with WE for the latter two) placed it at the bottom. So someone changed the dial on that 102.

[The Brute Squad]

Doubling on string bass for a pit when you haven't played one in several years.

[windshieldbug]

glass sousaphone goosenecks

What else would i use to play my glass sousaphone?

Your glass jaw...

[roweenie]

The one on the left has the wrong dial.

I'm curious - how can you tell from that photo? Also, it's missing the center dial card/assembly, so that might be throwing you off?

FWIW, it's an early model 102, and it's the exact same dial that's in the 50AL - - - (?)

The position of the zero is key. Western Electric always had theirs in the roughly 4-o'clock position. Pretty much everyone else- Automatic Electric, Kellogg, Stromberg-Carlson (before the cross-licensing agreement with WE for the latter two) placed it at the bottom. So someone changed the dial on that 102.

Yes, you are correct. I've always suspected that the dial on that 102 was not original to that telephone.

I've contemplated getting a #4 dial assembly for it - low on the priority list at present.

[windshieldbug]

carbon-fiber anything-in-particular

There, I have to disagree.
A carbon-fiber anything-in-particular probably saved my life.
Now THAT, in-and-of-itself may have been a bad idea...

[humBell]

glass sousaphone goosenecks

What else would i use to play my glass sousaphone?

Your glass jaw...

[humBell]

Doubling on string bass for a pit when you haven't played one in several years.

I feel your pain.

I have not had it so bad, i guess, even if i have not played enough bass to keep any calluses.

But with the concert band i learned tuba for, they found i played string bass and have me play any string bass part which differs significantly from the tuba part, and that often took me out of some of the tuba parts that were beyond my level as i was learning. I think better in phrases on string bass...

Bassists for concert band are harder to find than tuba players, apparently.

[humBell]

Letting sleeping dogs lie.

They tend to wake up eventually.

[humBell]

NON-exploding cigars

While playing tuba?

For the discerning smoking tuba player, the integrated water pipe.

Would you call it a hooka tuba or a tuba hooka?

"Hooka tuba my soda cracker?" sayin'...

(huka tooba... huba tooka... i suppose listing all the permutations might just be... a bad idea. will get back to ya if any particularly strike me)