My PHAT LEWT came in the mail today!
- happyturkeyman
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My PHAT LEWT came in the mail today!
My order from the whistle shop came today! I'm so happy!
It consisted of (2) clarke originals of the unfinished variety, one green sweetone, one feadog, and three redtop gens (G, F, and D).
What blew me away was the clarkes!
The originals sound great, have perfect transitions, and (IMO, but probably not IYO) have a great air requirement!
The sweetone sure is a different instrument than my trusty jerrytone - sweet instead of chiffy, easier to blow up to the second octave, great for airs. Between it and my Jerrytone the pair can tackle pretty much anything.
The two higher Gens are almost perfect, I don't think I shall tweak them at all.
The gen and feadog D are unimpressive at best, but half the reason I ordered a bunch of cheapies was to have some fun tweaking them!
I am the happiest I have been in a LONG time
In summary: Kudos to the fine people at Clarke. Kudos to the fine people The Whistle Shop. Kudos to the fine people at UPS. And as for the rest of you, I wub you all!
It consisted of (2) clarke originals of the unfinished variety, one green sweetone, one feadog, and three redtop gens (G, F, and D).
What blew me away was the clarkes!
The originals sound great, have perfect transitions, and (IMO, but probably not IYO) have a great air requirement!
The sweetone sure is a different instrument than my trusty jerrytone - sweet instead of chiffy, easier to blow up to the second octave, great for airs. Between it and my Jerrytone the pair can tackle pretty much anything.
The two higher Gens are almost perfect, I don't think I shall tweak them at all.
The gen and feadog D are unimpressive at best, but half the reason I ordered a bunch of cheapies was to have some fun tweaking them!
I am the happiest I have been in a LONG time
In summary: Kudos to the fine people at Clarke. Kudos to the fine people The Whistle Shop. Kudos to the fine people at UPS. And as for the rest of you, I wub you all!
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.
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My wife and I were at the Biltmore Estate in NC one weekend and I stumbled across a tray in the giftshop that contained Clarke "Woodstock" models in D and C. I bought 1 of each because, well because buying whistles is what I do! Anyway, they appear to be standard green colored Megs with the normal plastic fipple. Does anyone else have these? They play and sound OK and look quiet nice too.
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Saw those at the gift shop in the concert hall in Atlanta.SirNick wrote:My wife and I were at the Biltmore Estate in NC one weekend and I stumbled across a tray in the giftshop that contained Clarke "Woodstock" models in D and C. I bought 1 of each because, well because buying whistles is what I do! Anyway, they appear to be standard green colored Megs with the normal plastic fipple. Does anyone else have these? They play and sound OK and look quiet nice too.
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Yes... Somewhere between 1986 and 1996 it became increasingly cool to spell werds uncorreckly. It also became kewl, leet, or strait up dope to use the wrong word completely. I blame this on the poor education system in the united states. Since so many students are failing remedial english they just figured lets spell all the words wrong that everyone else spells wrong and make them right... Ignorance is bliss, so lets make the Masses ignuerant and bring about Life long happyness I guess....
A,B,D,C,K,O,P "Hewk awn phonix werked phor mee"
In the imortal words of Chief Wiggam's son "Ralph"
"Me fail english? That's unpossible."
And yes all spelling airors were deleberate, I swear it
Peace, and long life
_\\//
Live Long, and Prosper
Peace in the Light /|\
Cyfiawnder
A,B,D,C,K,O,P "Hewk awn phonix werked phor mee"
In the imortal words of Chief Wiggam's son "Ralph"
"Me fail english? That's unpossible."
And yes all spelling airors were deleberate, I swear it
Peace, and long life
_\\//
Live Long, and Prosper
Peace in the Light /|\
Cyfiawnder
Justinus say guiness in hand worth two in ice-box.
THANK YOU. I couldn't figure out what "Lewt" was, but I was too embarrassed to admit my ignorance. I thought I was the only one who didn't know what it meant.Nanohedron wrote:Phat Lewt?
Oh. LOOT.
At first I thought you got some mail-order Thai food. Then I thought you received an obese Renaissance-type instrument. Then I actually read the post.
I am so unhip.
Luckily, I can blame it on my not being an American, instead of on my age (hey, I'm sufficiently with it to understand the usage of "Phat").
Spelling issues that bug me: confusing "their" and "there", "your" and "you're", "its" and "it's", plus the insistence on adding an apostrophe before the "s" when writing the plural of a word. Argh.
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This reminds me of a sign that hung at my workplace for several years.Wanderer wrote:I saw this one yesterday in a book published by Baen Publishing...it made me sad.tuaz wrote: plus the insistence on adding an apostrophe before the "s" when writing the plural of a word. Argh.
"JEEP DRIVER'S KEEP OFF THE SCALE'S!"
It hung on a large scale with a platform embedded flush in the concrete floor, and forklift drivers kept damaging it by driving up too far and getting their front wheels on the platform... no, there aren't any rocket scientists where I work!
They finally got smart and raised the scale platform slightly above floor level, but they still call forklifts "jeeps" for reasons I just don't understand. :roll:
Regards,
Gary Humphrey
♪♣♫Humphrey Whistles♫♣♪
[Raindogs] The ones you see wanderin' around after a rain. Ones that can't find their way back home. See the rain washes off the scent off all the mail boxes and the lamposts, fire hydrants. – Tom Waits
Gary Humphrey
♪♣♫Humphrey Whistles♫♣♪
[Raindogs] The ones you see wanderin' around after a rain. Ones that can't find their way back home. See the rain washes off the scent off all the mail boxes and the lamposts, fire hydrants. – Tom Waits
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Uhhh... sorry for the misunderstandings! "phat lewt" comes to me from the geeky RPG gamer community - but at least I didn't say "|^h47 13|/\|7" as many would.
Speaking of geek language...
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
Look! it's google in 1337 5P33|< (They call it h4x0R)
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/
And google in Klingon!
Are geeks cool? I suppose "phat" isn't the geekiest of words, but somehow it found its way into one game or another. Well, I guess they adopted it sometime after it stopped being hip. If there's one theing those geeks hate it's being hip.
Oh, Cyfiawnder, I promise it's not the school's fault. Well, maybe it is if you consider that without school I may not have been pulled into a geeky, outcast crowd. But I can spell pretty well when I try. And yeah, I did just start a sentence with "but." I don't care.
That's just overkill. I'm sorry.
Speaking of geek language...
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
Look! it's google in 1337 5P33|< (They call it h4x0R)
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/
And google in Klingon!
Are geeks cool? I suppose "phat" isn't the geekiest of words, but somehow it found its way into one game or another. Well, I guess they adopted it sometime after it stopped being hip. If there's one theing those geeks hate it's being hip.
Oh, Cyfiawnder, I promise it's not the school's fault. Well, maybe it is if you consider that without school I may not have been pulled into a geeky, outcast crowd. But I can spell pretty well when I try. And yeah, I did just start a sentence with "but." I don't care.
That's just overkill. I'm sorry.
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.