That I've never understood...it's usually funnier if it's alse. When it's true it's tragic.

OK on is growing up.

the other is ..being a musician.

the joke is that you can't do both of those, grow up and be a musician at the same time.

Because musician's aren't grown up.

hilarity ensues.

because it is a (cultural thing) that anybody going into music is immature.

mostly rock music I guess.

@JasperLoy it's a cultural joke.

lots of jokes can be understaood by -assuming- they are jokes. ('hmmm they are drawing a distinction between growing up and being a musician, and that you can't be the same at the same time. therefore, since this is a joke it must mean that musician's are immature. Ha ha ha, that';s hilarious, musician's are so immature. I think')

@JasperLoy No you're being humorless. THe point is that it is being presented as humor, so it must be humor to somebody. It may be vulgar or inappropriate or presumptive, or culturally inaccurate for you (you may only know musician's that are hardworking and teach counterpoint and practice 10 hours a day)

@JasperLoy Sure, you never know what anybody is ever thinking. People say things that are not exactly lies, but what they want others to hear (which may be what they're thinking or not).

or the thoughts didn't getting expressed exactly in the words.

or...

or actually there's an implied context that the speaker and listener don't share.

(I vote for the latter)

so do you have any good jokes?

Here's one:

How do you keep your violin from getting stolen?

(do you know much about classical music or playing?)

I'm so sorry.

Anyway

the answer to the qn is...

Put it in a viola case.

Ouch.

See... @KitFox doesn't play the violin -or- viola but she gets it because she realizes that since it is a joke, it must be something to avoid, a viola case, because no one would steal it.

(@KitFox: please play along for effect)

Well, I play violin and my friend plays ...oh. Right.

argh! shhh...

anyway, violas are for idiots, I've heard.

Hey!

OK, well that's kind of true.

It's like singing baritone.

Same as bassist jokes....

what is it, the middle registers?

What do you call a drummer who breaks up with his girlfriend?

??

no what?

Homeless.

ba da bing!

What do you do when a drummer shows up at your door?

I don't know. What?

Pay him for the pizza.

ha HA!

How do you know when a drummer's at your door?

I think you guys are missing the point of viola jokes.

@JasperLoy Good guess, but no.

Why do they call a viola in German 'ein Bratsche'?

I dunno, why?

@JasperLoy YOu're treating the joke thing wrong.

It's the sound they make when you sit on them.

Haha

Oh, and the answer is the knock keeps speeding up and slowing down.

Yes.

The whole point is that many viola players learnt the violin first; so when they play the viola, they haven't got the finger spacing quite right, so they play out of tune. So the viola has a reputation for always being played out of tune.

I hope there are no anybody here. Nobody wins.

I used to date a drummer. He's the one who told me all these jokes.

@DavidWallace I think there's a set of violin jokes by viola players. Just as bad

Yes, but they tell them out-of-tune.

Electricians have that rivalry with plumbers.

@DavidWallace or that they couldn't 'cut it' as violinists.

If was any dumber, I'd have been a plumber.

That's the most common.

AFK learning other jokes.

@Mitch Yeah, that too.

But it's hard to switch between the two.

Hi @David. Are you back for regular?

No, I take high octane.

92?

92 is high where you come from?

I think so. I think it's 85, 87, 92.

I should really know that.

Really? We have 91, 95, 96, 98.

So our 91 is called "regular".

The others are interchangeable; most outlets would only have one of the higher-octane options.

Same here as far as availability.

I might be wrong about the rating.

I don't think Wiki's right for our area.

Aedia has been moving, settling in, etc.

Vitaly.

I think Gigili may have left.

Monica I don't know.

And yes. Vitaly.

I think we could still summon him by talking about spiders though.

We saw a tarantula today.

My eldest son and I.

It's so cute how mothers with young children say "we".

Pardon?

"We saw a tarantula".

It's an appropriate collective pronoun.

Well, we did.

It is. But it's also a cute collective pronoun.

Have you been drinking?

It says "everyone understands how I and my children are joined at the hip". Which is how it should be. Cutely.

Like you weren't already talking about either of your children, but "we" means "I and my children" by default. Without a prior referrent, or whatever the term is.

A father wouldn't say "we" without a prior referrent.

I'm glad you liked Spider, by the way. Have you read any of the edits?

No, I only read it once; I'm not sure at what point along the way it was. But I was in an odd mood when I read it. I shall have to read it again when I'm less weird, in order to appreciate it properly.

I wish I could say something constructive and helpful, rather than just using adjectives like "fabulous" and "terrific".

I did think that the Russian bits might go over the head of an anglophone audience.

Oh, thanks. I asked and I want to know, but now I have to go.

If you think of stuff, you know how to reach me.

poof

@KitFox I wondered whether he was thinking of her as his sister, when he called her Sestronka.

OK, bye then.

But then he said it later; but the Sestronka bit wouldn't have been noticed by an English speaker. Oh, never mind, I'll email you.

Me off too.

@DavidWallace I would.

@JasperLoy Is that the same as Ramadan?

eid el-fitr?

I could follow a link, but....

@Mitch Would you say "we saw a tarantula" though, if you hadn't been talking about your children already?

Hey!

@DavidWallace on chat yes, because typing is hard.

Greetings, tricephalic guardian of the parts beneath.

I knew you would succumb eventually!

Resistance is futile.

@Mitch It looks like "Hari Raya Puasa" is the name in some austronesian languages

@DavidWallace I wouldn't say 'we saw a tarantual', I'd say 'Aughhhhhh!!!!'

Resistance is voltage divided by current.

@DavidWallace ⇒ voltage = futile current

@Mitch Then you could call KitFox to come and squash it.

@Mechanicalsnail finally followed the link...wow, didn't know so many names.

@DavidWallace and @Vitaly to say 'Stoooppppp!!!'

All your antipodes are belong to us.

All my antipodes are in Spain.

afk

@DavidWallace What's the definition of a minor second?

@DavidWallace antipodemap.com

sorry, mixed messages. THe definition of a minor second? Two violists playing in unison.

freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm

the antipodes of the Antipodes is at the tip of Cherbourg, France.

(it took me a while to find that)

sneezes

heard a sneeze, wonders if expecting a bless you or a gesundheit

decides on...distracted by wikipedia surfing

oh and I'm impressed with your lyrics 'superpower'. Songs I've been listening to for years I'll look at the lyrics and think 'OMG is that what they were talking about?'

@Mitch curtsies

like Ten Years After, like Kit?

or probably Me & Julio

down by the schoolyard? no, it was the sassafrassy reference.

take me back to a south tallahassee / down cross the bridge to my sweet sassafrassy

can't stand up on my feet in the city / got to get back to the real nitty gritty

to me that will always be:

something something something tallahasse/blah blah something sweet sassafrassy

bah blah blha blahb lblhabl lh blhab nitty gritty.

Yeah, that one's a bear.

yes sir no sir dum dede dum dum

to a lot of people it's just HOME SWEET HOME

and I looked up the lyrics and...holy crap..that's kinda weird thing to say about your girlfriend.

home sweet home sounds like 'laaaa... laaaa...laaaa'

Yeah, well.

Where as with Van Halen..yep...that's all he's talking about, he really think his teacher is hot.

(you couldn't hear me sing la la la right, but trust me it sounded sorta like the song.)

laaaa... leee.... looooo

I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking

always liked those kind of shoes, too

no no no, don't take 'em off, don't take 'em off

I think of all the education that I've missed / but then my homework was never quite like this

howdy @sim, @Jasp

Man you find the darnedest stuff going through the review queue.

@Robusto Hey, check this out. Smoothing=0 gives this:

But setting smoothing=3 does this Wild Thing:

gibbers and shrieks, cackles and collapses

I am going to stop recommending that answers be comments instead, because they keep interrogating me.

continues to gibber