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FWD - Re: Help to quit smoking

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In a message dated 1/22/2008 10:00:17 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
harry.porter@verizon.net writes:

DRAlNBRAMAGE wrote:

As far as the non smokers/quit smokers sensitivity to smoke while you
play Video Poker. Get a different job if you don't like the company
working conditions.

It might be an interesting experiment to play alongside you ...
especially if, for once in my life, I decide I don't give a damn how
actions, that I find convenient, inconvenience someone next to me.
.........................
Harry I never understand anything you say but you forget I'm a former
symphonic trumpet player. I was the guy in the pit during Turandot waiting to
play
the very loud high note solo fanfare. When Ping Pang and Pong got tired of
fooling around on the stage and when the violins got tired of sawing quiet notes
  for thirty min they woke me up to do my part. Sometimes I missed the notes
which is why the performance you heard me in was in Podunk Iowa, a Barry Obama
state I might add.

Consider I did an exercise at the end of the day in which I removed the
tuning slide from the trumpet, tied two #9 round balloons [one inside the
other]
to the end of the lead pipe and with mouthpiece in place as if actually
playing the instrument I'd expand the balloons a little by bursting short notes
at a cadence of about twenty a minute. I got the exercise up to five minutes
non stop, enough to play any Bach oratorio tune and make it look as easy as the
  old fat guys in the Johnny Carson trumpet section made their double high
G's look.

Now consider I live in the desert. Last time I looked it was only partially
paved so there is still a huge dust problem. Compounded with that, my part
time job helping the Mafia bury bodies adds to my chronic sneezing condition.
OK. When I play VP and am about to sneeze I turn my head sometimes to the right
  sometimes to the left to keep the Video monitor clean. You will never see
anybody sitting next to me on either side. Maybe you'd like to try. Go ahead.
Make my day.
Drain

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To: vpFREE@Yahoogroups.com
From: DRAlNBRAMAGE@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:19 pm
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: Help to quit smoking

#2

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, vpFREE Administrator <vp_free@...>
wrote:

To: vpFREE@...
From: DRAlNBRAMAGE@...
Date: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:19 pm
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: Help to quit smoking

In a message dated 1/22/2008 10:00:17 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
harry.porter@... writes:

DRAlNBRAMAGE wrote:
> As far as the non smokers/quit smokers sensitivity to smoke

while you

> play Video Poker. Get a different job if you don't like the

company

> working conditions.

It might be an interesting experiment to play alongside you ...
especially if, for once in my life, I decide I don't give a damn

how

actions, that I find convenient, inconvenience someone next to me.
.........................
Harry I never understand anything you say but you forget I'm a

former

symphonic trumpet player. I was the guy in the pit during Turandot

waiting to

play
the very loud high note solo fanfare. When Ping Pang and Pong got

tired of

fooling around on the stage and when the violins got tired of

sawing quiet notes

  for thirty min they woke me up to do my part. Sometimes I missed

the notes

which is why the performance you heard me in was in Podunk Iowa, a

Barry Obama

state I might add.

Consider I did an exercise at the end of the day in which I removed

the

tuning slide from the trumpet, tied two #9 round balloons [one

inside the

other]
to the end of the lead pipe and with mouthpiece in place as if

actually

playing the instrument I'd expand the balloons a little by bursting

short notes

at a cadence of about twenty a minute. I got the exercise up to

five minutes

non stop, enough to play any Bach oratorio tune and make it look

as easy as the

  old fat guys in the Johnny Carson trumpet section made their

double high

G's look.

Now consider I live in the desert. Last time I looked it was only

partially

paved so there is still a huge dust problem. Compounded with that,

my part

time job helping the Mafia bury bodies adds to my chronic sneezing

condition.

OK. When I play VP and am about to sneeze I turn my head sometimes

to the right

  sometimes to the left to keep the Video monitor clean. You will

never see

anybody sitting next to me on either side. Maybe you'd like to try.

Go ahead.

Make my day.
Drain

I have had that actually happen. This lady sitting to my left needed
to cough. So she turned toward me covered her mouth with the
traditional closed fist where the thumb and index finger kind of
form a circle with the rest of the fist extending away from the
cougher. Only problem was she did not close the circle. She had an
opening of about one inch in diameter through which she managed to
cough all over me. To make matters worse she did it a second time.
That time I asked her if she ever thought of coughing toward the
screen instead of on the person sitting next to her. Her response
was "What the f*** are you talking about". I told her if she did not
know, that the next time she did it I was calling security and file a
complaint of physical abuse. She shut up, but kept on playing. She
did not cough on me again though.