tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post3293518291527889596..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: What's (Still) Opera, Doc?SippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-83428823780454874242009-02-20T00:36:00.000-05:002009-02-20T00:36:00.000-05:00Canadians build their humor into the naming of the...Canadians build their humor into the naming of their coins, but we just cut to the chase and put our best jokes into the banking system directly.<BR/><BR/>Every time on the teevee they mention why they're spending a trillion dollars, I just fill in the punchline, "To Get To The Other Side!"<BR/><BR/>As is his wont, Sippican praises me more than I deserve. He is a true Roman, in the best sense of the word, without all the blood 'n' gore 'n' stuff...Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08791314877257904422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-57712149642919979492009-02-18T23:04:00.000-05:002009-02-18T23:04:00.000-05:00"interest"Ha! F'ed it up again.... ('Cuz I'm tire..."interest"<BR/><BR/>Ha! F'ed it up again.... ('Cuz I'm tired and got a couple Sierra Nevadas in me)<BR/><BR/>verification word: <I>unctrite</I><BR/><BR/>I knew Unc Trite. He never did anything important....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-21240303673647109232009-02-18T23:00:00.000-05:002009-02-18T23:00:00.000-05:00I mean: "Of ineterest TO you."Hahahaha! Good. ...I mean: "Of ineterest TO you."<BR/><BR/>Hahahaha! Good. (Sorry. I was tired and had a couple Sierra Nevada's in me.)<BR/><BR/>Me? I'm a Wagner guy. Big, bombastic, preposterous.... The grand daddy of Heavy Metal. <BR/><BR/>GrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-16873777951337254122009-02-18T07:50:00.000-05:002009-02-18T07:50:00.000-05:00Gray- Thanks for reading and commenting. That was ...Gray- Thanks for reading and commenting. <BR/><BR/>That was very interesting indeed. There's a nice little clip of Caruso singing something from <I>Aida</I> in the left-hand column. The narrow range of the recording technology doesn't make it much less extraordinary to hear Caruso go up and get it with power. He must have been astonishing to sit in front of. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/music/17vaul.html?_r=1" REL="nofollow">A Vault In Paris</A>SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-74741143016635849802009-02-17T22:49:00.000-05:002009-02-17T22:49:00.000-05:00Hi. I comment occasionally at American Digest--th...Hi. I comment occasionally at American Digest--that's how I found your blog.<BR/><BR/>I thought of you when I read this:<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/music/17vaul.html<BR/><BR/>Thought you might be of interest.<BR/><BR/>--GrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-6722224448835840862009-02-17T22:42:00.000-05:002009-02-17T22:42:00.000-05:00Ron's about as pleasant a person as I've encounter...Ron's about as pleasant a person as I've encountered on the Intertunnel.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-55873040488937154742009-02-17T20:59:00.000-05:002009-02-17T20:59:00.000-05:00Ron, I assume you would be amused to know that our...Ron, I assume you would be amused to know that our two-dollar coins are referred to as Twonies. Loonies and Twonies. Looney Tunes gets free advertising in every pocketful of change.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600030574995481267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-39046985449099380112009-02-17T14:30:00.000-05:002009-02-17T14:30:00.000-05:00For a number of Manhattanites what they know of Br...For a number of Manhattanites what they know of Brooklyn comes from Looney Tunes, also!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Would songs about Canadian dollar coins count as Loonie Tunes?<BR/><BR/>Or was it Claude Levi-Strauss the guy who composed the music for the spinning space station in 2001 and designed the pants Kubrick wore when he shot that bit also?Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08791314877257904422noreply@blogger.com