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    Link Wray

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    21 hours ago, dustymars said:

      As a guitar player Jazz attracted me because it most challenging and more difficult to understand. 

    That's the stuff that attracted me to more complex rock, as well.

    As time went on, I became bored with distortion and drawn to acoustic tones and complexities. Which, in turn, lead me to modern (and some vintage) bluegrass (Punch Brother, et al) and the lightning speed and accuracy of those players. But the simple, slower and softer stuff that Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch do have a special place as well.

    Great thread.

    Bribing Santa

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    A bribe.

    Why didn't I ever think of that?

    :-k

    Fantastic, Steve, I rode for several decades when I was a younger man. Now and then I think I'd like to have a bike again, even if just a smaller 350/500, something to putter around town.

    Heck yea.

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    Stupid Jokes

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    In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news: “There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just be blunt – prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will be murdered this year.”

    Visibly shaken, the woman stared at the mystic’s lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then down at her hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself.

    She simply had to know. She met the fortune teller’s gaze, steadied her voice, and asked: “Will I be acquitted?”

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    Stupid Jokes

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    A doctor of psychology was doing his normal morning rounds. He entered a patient’s room to find him sitting on the floor, sawing at a piece of wood with the side of his hand.

    Meanwhile, another patient was in the room, hanging from the ceiling by his feet. The doctor asked his patient what he was doing, sitting on the floor.

    The patient replied in an irritated fashion: “Can’t you see I’m sawing this piece of wood in half?”

    The doctor inquired: “And what is the fellow hanging from the ceiling doing?”

    “Oh. He’s my friend, but he’s a little crazy. He thinks he’s a light bulb.”

    The doctor asks: “If he’s your friend, don’t you think you should get him down from there before he hurts himself?”

    “What? And work in the dark?”

    Stupid Jokes

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    A man walks into a post office one day and sees a balding, middle-aged man standing at the counter methodically placing “Love” stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.

    Curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing.

    The man says, “I’m sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, ‘Guess who?'”

    “But why?” asks the man.

    “I’m a divorce lawyer.”

    Link Wray

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    8 minutes ago, Larsongs said:

     It was a paradigm shift.. 

    Interesting.

    A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. It is a concept in the philosophy of science that was introduced and brought into the common lexicon by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn. Even though Kuhn restricted the use of the term to the natural sciences, the concept of a paradigm shift has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events.

    Kuhn presented his notion of a paradigm shift in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).

    Kuhn contrasts paradigm shifts, which characterize a Scientific Revolution, to the activity of normal science, which he describes as scientific work done within a prevailing framework or paradigm. Paradigm shifts arise when the dominant paradigm under which normal science operates is rendered incompatible with new phenomena, facilitating the adoption of a new theory or paradigm.[1]

    As one commentator summarizes:

    Kuhn acknowledges having used the term "paradigm" in two different meanings. In the first one, "paradigm" designates what the members of a certain scientific community have in common, that is to say, the whole of techniques, patents and values shared by the members of the community. In the second sense, the paradigm is a single element of a whole, say for instance Newton’s Principia, which, acting as a common model or an example... stands for the explicit rules and thus defines a coherent tradition of investigation. Thus the question is for Kuhn to investigate by means of the paradigm what makes possible the constitution of what he calls "normal science". That is to say, the science which can decide if a certain problem will be considered scientific or not. Normal science does not mean at all a science guided by a coherent system of rules, on the contrary, the rules can be derived from the paradigms, but the paradigms can guide the investigation also in the absence of rules. This is precisely the second meaning of the term "paradigm", which Kuhn considered the most new and profound, though it is in truth the oldest.

     

    And yet we have to apply warnings telling people to not eat "Tide Pods"...

    Stupid Jokes

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    A guy is sitting home alone, when suddenly he hears a knock on the door.

    He gets up to answer. There are two policemen outside. They ask him if he's married. He says yes and the policemen want to see the photo of the wife. He gets one and shows it to them.


    The policemen exchange sad looks and one of them says:


    "I'm very sorry, but it looks like your wife was hit by a truck."
    "Yeah I guess, but she's got a great sense of humor and cooks a heck of a breakfast."

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    Link Wray

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    11 hours ago, Larsongs said:

    Rumble was so bad *** when it came out the had to censor it from Radio Stations as it made Kids go crazy & turn into Juvenile Delinquents!

    I've always wondered what caused that.

    “Christmas Eve Blues”

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    3 hours ago, dhanners623 said:

     I recalled the lonely stretch of I-10 between San Antonio and El Paso. Miles of flat nothing.

    I've traveled that stretch of road dozens of times. Between the Phoenix (Mesa/Apache Jct.) trips to Fredericksburg Tx. and the Mesa trips to Lake Charles, La. I knew every Stuckey's and rest area along that route.

    I-10 wasn't done at one point and there was a long uphill climb, eastbound, with a rock wall to keep you from going over the edge. As a young hippie in an air cooled VW van, I once held up traffic on that hill for several miles. I need to research that place.

    Thanks for the memory.

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