Ric or Rick?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:45 am

You ATE Roger? Did he compress Ok?

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:55 am

Paul...I was in a High School P.E. class with a guy whose last name was as far from Anglo Saxon as yours, and in the same direction...our coach, the intellectual giant, finally gave up and referred to him as "XYZ"...strike a cord with you?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:23 am

Pardon me, Dana, but I AM Anglo-Saxon; the distillation of the tall, Nordic, blond-haired, blue-eyed ideal...

except I'm bald and Polish.

I never got called "XZY" in PE class, but I did get called "Whiz" a lot.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:58 pm

So your bald, tall, Polish, blue-eyed and into distillation!!

Hmmm... do the Authorities know about this??

red_rob · Post by **red_rob** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:46 am

Let's have a picture Paul - with your 381 if you please

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:57 am

Paul, I think the reason you never got called XZY is because it would more likely be XYZ.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:53 am

Thank you, Bob...my glaucoma was flaring up but I've managed to beat it back once again...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:00 am

Bob, my PE teacher was dyslexic. He would never have called me "XYZ".

Did I get it right that time?

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:02 pm

.....heck, my name is a problem when ordering a pizza. So now my "pizza name" is "Rose"

Gads, that's pretty hilarious (from a Friday evening point of view)!

simer4001 · Post by **simer4001** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:22 pm

Paul, I'm glad to hear you compared yourself to the Pope because I'm afraid we will be looking for a new one soon. What would your qualifications be? Other than a RIC (notice the abbreviation)player and living in San Francisco?

By the way I obviously use RIC. But when I write letters I address it to Rick N. Backer.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:35 pm

Brian, the only thing JP and I have in common at this stage is that we're both Polish and bald. No comparison intended!!!

I'm a Rick (notice the abbreviation) player (RIC is the abbreviation for the Corporation that builds and sells Ricks). I live in SF. Both of those facts and $5.00 around here will get me a (small) cup o' java.

That will get me good and jangled, which helps my jingle.

simer4001 · Post by **simer4001** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:19 pm

$5.00 for coffee? Now you know why I left

I remember being down by the old Hills Bros plant and you could smell the coffee any time out there. Good Luck with your jingle... or is that jangle? Regardless, All the Best... your Holiness!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:31 am

Knock it off, Simer!

I remember the Hills Bros. thing from years back, when I was a regular visitor but didn't worry about cost of actually having to LIVE here.

...in my "pre-Holiness" days.

Sheesh...

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:12 am

Ok, Paul...I acquiesce to your expertise, although I won't go as far as genuflecting. I realize I've been typing 'ric'...I think I've been doing it to keep my bass and our trombone player separate in interband memos. I'll correct this tendency...verbal communication between musicians is certainly a high-context language.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:25 am

OK, IMHO the next Pope will be an Italian and I won't have to deal with this harrassment any more.

High-context definitely, which makes precise written communication both an obsession and a lost art, where I'm concerned.