LucySorets

Glad to hear all is well.

Stevee T, I can't tell you lol... I have to go, lunch time, see you soon

Duncnic2000 - I'd recommend you give Engines another spin. I was aware when I purchased that disc that Joe had experimented with techno, which is why it was one of the last of his discs that I bought. However, after a couple of listens I loved it, and it continues to be one of my many favorites.

JS_JS - I have 'To hell with the devil' though I haven't listened to it in years. I thought it was fantastic and will probably dust it off and give it another listen soon. I don't know what Stryper's done since then.

A little boy and girl are playing in a sandbox. The little boy has to go to take a pee and he was told by his mother to always be polite and don't talk about private matters in public.

At first he holds it in for a little while because he does not know what to say to the little girl to excuse himself.

Then he remembers what his Mom had said at the restaurant to excuse herself from the table.

So he turns to the little girl and says "Will you excuse me I have to go powder my nose".

And saying that he leaps out of the sandbox and runs to the washroom.

When he comes back the little girl looks up at him and asks "Did you powder your nose?"

"Yes" said the little boy stepping back into the sandbox.

Mortician's Common Sense?

A man who just died is delivered to the mortuary wearing an expensive, expertly tailored black suit. The mortician asks the deceased's wife how she would like the body dressed. He points out that the man does look good in the black suit he is already wearing. The widow, however, says that she always thought her husband looked his best in blue, and that she wants him in a blue suit. She gives the mortician a blank check and says, "I don't care what it costs, but please have my husband in a blue suit for the viewing." The woman returns the next day for the wake. To her delight, she finds her husband dressed in a gorgeous blue suit with a subtle chalk stripe; the suit fits him perfectly.

She says to the mortician, "Whatever this cost, I'm very satisfied. You did an excellent job and I'm very grateful. How much did you spend?" To her astonishment, the mortician presents her with the blank check. "There's no charge," he says. "No, really, I must compensate you for the cost of that exquisite blue suit!" she says. "Honestly, ma'am," the mortician says, "it cost nothing. You see, a deceased gentleman of about your husband's size was brought in shortly after you left yesterday, and he was wearing an attractive blue suit. I asked his wife if she minded him going to his grave wearing a black suit instead, and she said it made no difference as long as he looked nice.

Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?

A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"

Q: And why did that upset you?

Q: How was your first marriage terminated?

A: By death.

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?

Zinc, your sandbox humour got me thinkin back to some of the late great Rodney Dangerfield's best zingers...

On Being Ugly:

"I was so ugly as a kid , the cats used to cover me up when I played in the sandbox"

"My mother had to tie a porkchop around my neck to get the dog to play with me"

On Being Poor:

" We couldn't afford tinsel for the Xmas tree so we'd sit grampa in front of it in his rocker and wait for him to sneeze"

"If I didn't wake up excited on Xmas morning, I had nothing to play with"

mikesb

Great Rodney Dangerfield ! I just copied and sent them off on my mailing list.

useless information which has the potential to be useful to a very small number of people:

if you happen to buy an Abit AG8 3rd Eye motherboard and a Prescott P4 560, you will have to buy a seperate heatsink/fan for the processor, cause, as I just found, the heatsink/fan made by intel, supplied with the processor, doesn't fit the motherboard when you've intalled the processor.

Ozzy box set information

Epic Records has set 03.22 as the release date for Ozzy Osbourne's upcoming box set, which is now titled Prince Of Darkness. The set will feature 51 songs on four CDs and span Ozzy's 25-year solo career.

More Rodney:

On his stupid dog:

"My dog, his favorite bone is still in my arm"

" I finally taught him to go on the newspaper... I wish he'd wait till I was finished reading"

DelfinoPie

Slansh - I keep listening to Blue Bossa..... every time I listen to it, it makes me smile... lol...

it's growing on my more and more.....
been checking out the rest of your tracks... really really nice.... some superb ideas... I really love the Hungarian Bach thing.... I used to play that prelude in an old band... my bassist used to play the left hand part... it was sort of a cover of an amazing track by Jeff Berlin....

anyways... back to da Blue Boss..
I imagine guys saying stuff like

"dude... check this track out... and these guys are playing at like 65 bpm... it's amazing...."

--- "65 bpm??... that's like way slow dude... I practice at 220.."

"dude... not playing hemi-demi-semi-squiddly-iddly- mashy-gashy-quavers you don't"

Clarky, listening to Slansh I cringe when thinking bout what his day job could potentially do to his magic hands!!!!!

tmckissick1, not sure if you got the answer you were after yet...

The idea of most reverb/echo/etc effects in general are to reproduce some setting (or an artificial ambience) to you guitar amp OUTPUT. a simple example is an echo. This is meant to take the sound of your distorted (or clean) output and make it sound like you are in a tunnel or on the edge of the grand canyon. so it needs to be AFTER the preamp(which provides the distortion) and before the power amp (that is what the effects loop provides, a place to sit between the two.

However, some other effects (such as WAH) are generally better in front of the preamp to effect the tone of the note(s) prior to entering the preamp and becoming distorted. These are usually plugged in between the guitar and amp.

Lastly, distortion effects are typically a replacement for the preamp overdrive (or distortion channel) and typically are used between the guitar and the clean channel.

So if you have a multi-effects unit, you may want to experiment with using it in the loop, although the distortion effects may not work as well. or use it before the amp.

did anyone watch the wife swap the other night...with the gay couple and the African American woman? The AA woman was so out of line and rude and disrespectful, of all people in the world who has had to deal with being discriminated against, and to claim to be a Christian woman...she should be ashamed of herself for how she treated the Gay couple. so there...lol..

999...hmmmmm....

XtrChessReal, Conan rules! I think the hip dance he does then cuts the strings is hysterical. I think he's one of the funniest guys on t.v. - and that hair! lol!