neveronfriday

- sorry - I deleted my response as you have yours. Peace (for now)?

Try to be a good sport, mate. You have your type of humour (which is certainly a matter of definition), I have mine. Let's leave it at that, ok?

Allen. Stop whining, please. You have dealt out heavily yourself and some people have taken you up on it (in a much milder fashion). I, for one, have been closely follwing many of your posts, not to catch you doing it but to read what you had to say (and yes, you have lots of good and interesting things to say). I could not help but notice that you have a knack for, err, overstating your case here and there. And I used profanity once, I think - today, when I expressed a bit more forcefully that you should keep it down. So don't make an issue of it. You're too smart for that.

Good grief, what dialect is that?? Is it "Was hast Du denn da"? ← Ding, ding, ding. That's 1 Euro 50 for you. You are welcome to collect at my place. I'll add a couple of generous shots of Tequila, or any other poison you subscribe to. Or you can double and figure this one out: "A Rat bat si." ("Fränkisch")

"Waddehaddedudennda?" See if you can figure that one out.

The answer might take a while. Allen is searching.

Dialect (but don't tell 'em. They might not get it).

@ J.A.W. "[...] der, wo [...]" "[...] die, wo [...]" "Wasn das" instead of "Was ist denn das" [many people think that "Wasn" is actually the way it is said). "anschliesen" instead of "anschliessen"/anschließen" (I hope the 'sharp' "s" shows up here) "das" instead of "dass" "nich" instead of "nicht" "wechsle" instead of "wechsele" etc., etc., etc. ... The additional problem here is that we have a trillion dialects which seem to force people to write the way they speak. Want more examples?

Here in Germany, the list is endless as well. I don't think there's a point in posting a list here though.

I wonder why?

compaired definately his | mine | your's to (instead of too) ... right, err, A.? perfactly seperate paralell ... The list is endless. I only picked recurring errors in posts submitted by native speakers (to stem the "we type faster than we think" reprimands). Am I right in assuming that English is going down the shute as fast as my own mother tongue, which, as far as I can tell, is spoken correctly by about 10% of the population? Could it be that "old Europe" is having an adverse effect on the U.S.?

Monkey film trailer

For all you vegetarians out there ...

I've got a one Gbyte player that I'm very satisfied with. It stores more than needed and because it runs on normal small batteries (which seem to last forever), it is virtually fool proof. The sound is good (I added a very good pair of headphones and kicked the ones that came with the player into the next trash can right away). The player is very small, has a good menu system and system updates have been frequent and stable. Transferring songs is a breeze and more than fast enough via USB2. I keep a system partition on my PC which is small enough when compressed to hold an operating system plus tools and have used the player to carry that partition with me whenever I'm asked to trouble-shoot other people's systems. Also in this respect, the player helped make life a lot easier for me. Love it. For my purposes, it's the optimal gadget and I often find myself wondering why anybody would want to have a 20 Gbyte (or even heftier) player. I already have problems deciding which tunes I want to play of the many I put on there. And the player can certainly store enough even for a very long trip.

Too lazy to look if this has been linked to here in the past, but I found this a while ago: Jeru: In the Words of Gerry Mulligan - An Oral Autobiography (Select links on the left to start listening straight away)

Hi, I've been searching the usual sites plus a hundred Google links thin for this one tune. The problem is that there are apparently two versions of this tune available ... I just don't know which one to get. I only found one atrocious sound sample that doesn't tell me anything. So, is there anyone around here who has a copy of this tune and can get in touch with me via PM? Thanks.

Bunny Vs. Cursor

The Brick Testament

Bored?

Flash in the pan ...

http://amaztype.tha.jp/US/Books/Title?q=Benny+Goodman

Basketball ... a tad different ...

Switch!

I have to agree with Allen. I've just gone through a rather extensive remastering project for which Cedar was used (or better: had to be used) and if used correctly and by someone who knows what he's doing (usually by people who can keep their paws of the EQ, the real problem in today's remastering process), the results can be stunning, especially when we talk about fidelity. Don't knock it until you've seen the right engineers use it.