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Originally Posted by olyve
I like our vinyl. I know you're talking about a different thing, but music of old sounds better with the imperfections.
Depends on your definition of "quality" I guess though. wink

Don't throw away your LP's, the tone arms of the world shall rise again!

The best quality LP's still exceed the best CD's in accuracy and quality of sound reproduction.

A very able mathematician-physicist friend of mine estimated that CD's would need to contain 3 to 5 times the quantity of information as they do in order to begin to compete with audiophile-quality analogue LP's.

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True about CD v. vinyl -- used to be a big issue among DJ's when I was active.

Now it is all digital computer files which can have as much quality as your sound card can deliver.

But I digress


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I think that his style and attitudes, in general, have a depressing and negative effect on the people who listen to him. He is usually morose, whiny, full of put-downs, often nasty, and sometimes even trivial [Typically American, now that I come to think of it].
Continuing the spirit of good-natured contentiousness, there is an idiom about the pot calling the kettle black.

(The originator of the idiom may have been William Penn, British founder of the state of Pennslyvania. Said idiom allegedly resides somewhere in his writing, Some Fruits of Solitude...a piece of work I have no interest in reading for the sole purpose of locating the exact phrasing or context. I have to assume that my disinterest is a direct result of having been born in the United States.)


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Originally Posted by Almost Naomi
Continuing the spirit of good-natured contentiousness, there is an idiom about the pot calling the kettle black.

If it is indeed true that I err in this regard, I shall ascribe it to my American heritage and background.

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If it is indeed true that I err in this regard, I shall ascribe it to my American heritage and background.

Ahhh...but if it is indeed true, and you can't change that to which you were born, what possible hope is there for such mortals as we...???

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Originally Posted by Chuck Howard
"IPA" stands for India Pale Ale, which is a style of ale known for its distinct "hoppiness." It's certainly my favorite.

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chuck, nu-man is above that sort of thing. american micro brewery is too, well, american.

Once again, your judgment about me is in error, as is also your notion about micro-breweries. It is, perhaps, an example of the inward-looking self-absorption of the American character to imagine that micro-breweries are an exclusively American phenomenon.

On those rare occasions when I quaff beer, I enjoy it very much, though it must, of course, adhere to the deutsche Reinheitsgebot, --- the German Purity Law. No contamination by North American commercial additives, please!

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rolleyes Your ignorance is showing, Numan. Most North American micro-brewers would die before they used additives, "commercial" or otherwise.

As for micro-brewing itself, I, for one, never claimed it to be an American original. I said that American micro-brewers raised the bar on IPA. I would consider their worthy efforts to worthy of art. I would also submit that you don't know enough about beer to argue the matter.


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Originally Posted by Chuck Howard
"IPA" stands for India Pale Ale, which is a style of ale known for its distinct "hoppiness." It's certainly my favorite.

And you've got great IPA, world class, just over the line in Delaware at Dogfish Head.


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Originally Posted by olyve
Love your style, SM!

I love zydeco (truly I do...fascinated by it) but I love ballet too.
Sorry can't help it...dancin is dancin and dancin is good.

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I don't own a tie either and anymore panty hose.

My daughter was in marching band....so well. You know.

I'm not up on tv preachin....so I'll take your word for it.

I seem to remember the Sanford Marching Band years ago when they marched onto the field and spelled "Urine". That, I liked.


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Originally Posted by Almost Naomi
Ahhh...but if it is indeed true, and you can't change that to which you were born, what possible hope is there for such mortals as we...???

I know, but I still hope --- perhaps forlornly.

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