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Rand al'Thor

06:10

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Ah, that's true. So we're in a bit of an odd situation where a star-wars tag could be relevant for this site but it's not needed for that particular question (but it'd sort of fit there if the tag was already created for another question).

Maybe someone should ask a question about a Star Wars novel to resolve this issue more clearly ;-)

Prince North Læraðr

Hehe

I'm not very familiar with the Star Wars literary canon

Rand al'Thor

Btw North, on the subject of music and April Fool's, I discovered yesterday that this is a thing:

Loophonium

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Prince North Læraðr

WHAT IS THAT

I'm cackling

Is someone just playing tuba in the background?

I'm so confused

Rand al'Thor

Loophonium

The Loophonium is a brass instrument created by Fritz Spiegl. Designed in 1960, it is a cross between a euphonium and a toilet. The Loophonium has been named by some as "the most unusual musical instrument of all time". It currently resides in the Walker Art Gallery. == Etymology == The Loophonium is a portmanteau of loo, a British name for a toilet, and euphonium. The Loophonium's alternative name, the Harpic-cord (or Harpic-phone), is a play both on the harpsichord instrument and the Harpic brand of toilet cleaner. == Origins == The Loophonium was designed and fabricated by Fritz Spie...

Prince North Læraðr

God that's absolutely cursed

Rand al'Thor

06:13

I couldn't find a video where you can see the instrument itself being played, but apparently it is an actual instrument.

Prince North Læraðr

I hate that so much

But now I gotta show all my music major friends

Rand al'Thor

@Tsundoku Trying ...

> This post appears to be a duplicate of Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2022

Prince North Læraðr

I'm definitely going to suggest the Loophonium for our solo instrument composition contest for next semester

It's not going to get chosen but for the memes

Rand al'Thor

Done!

@PrinceNorthLæraðr :-D

Prince North Læraðr

I'm also thinking of suggesting the pyrophone

Pyrophone

A pyrophone, also known as a "fire/explosion organ" or "fire/explosion calliope" is a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or similar forms of rapid combustion, rapid heating, or the like, such as burners in cylindrical glass tubes, creating light and sound. It was invented by physicist and musician Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner (born 1852 in Strasbourg, France - died 1882 in Bonn, Germany), son of composer Jean-Georges Kastner, around 1870. == Design == It is well known that if a flame of hydrogen gas be introduced within a glass or other tube, and if it be so placed...

It literally shoots fire

It sounds pretty atrocious in my opinion but c'mon

It's an instrument that makes sounds through literal combustion

Rand al'Thor

06:18

That reminds me of something else.

Hold on ...

Flamethrowing Guitar & Smokin Bass

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Prince North Læraðr

Jesus

That's just a safety hazard

Man literally walked in front of an open flame

Rand al'Thor

More amazing than having a flame-throwing guitar is the fact that he built it himself in his shed. He also built the underground bunker in his back garden where the video opens.

Prince North Læraðr

And shooting fireballs in his shed

That shed is going to catch on fire

I'm so concerned

Rand al'Thor

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Colin Furze is a walking safety hazard. As long he wears his patented safety tie, he'll be fine.

Prince North Læraðr

Geezer

Rand al'Thor

06:23

1000 ROCKET BIKE

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^ more of a safety hazard for you

(yes, he literally put 1000 real fireworks on the back of a bike and cycled along while they were going off)

Prince North Læraðr

This man...

Is like everything Nile Red is NOT

Rand al'Thor

I don't know who that is, but they sound less fun :-P

Prince North Læraðr

Nile Red is GREAT

He's a chemist that does chemistry things

Making the stinkiest chemical known to man

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His latest video involved him making stinky stuff from scratch

Rand al'Thor

Also, standing inside a fireworks display.

Prince North Læraðr

God why

Rand al'Thor

06:27

When commenters said "it's not safe to transport 1000 fireworks inside your van, what if they all went off?", he set off 1000 fireworks inside his van to find out.

Tsundoku will be annoyed if I onebox all of these videos, so used links instead :-P

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I feel like we can't truly appreciate that until Youtube makes an extension that does smell as well as audio and video.

Prince North Læraðr

HAHAHA

I do NOT want to smell what he made

Librarian

06:40

Q: Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2023

Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, the purpose of which is to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site. One use for this post could be to gather links for promotion on Literature's communi...

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verbose

07:55

@PrinceNorthLæraðr So many possibilities. Theremin? Cuica? Glass harmonica?

Bookworm

Q: Does Stanley Fish's essay How to Recognize a Poem When You See One devalue the interpretation of poetry?

Literary theorist Stanley Fish once wrote a famous essay about found poetry entitled How to Recognize a Poem When You See One. You can read it online here. In short, Fish taught a class on linguistics and left the names of the next reading assignment on the board. He told his next class, who were...

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Rand al'Thor

11:09

I made some additions to my answer on the 2022 Q4 best-of.

Rand al'Thor