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#1 User is offline   Jonathan Icon

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 06:52 PM

Here, Detective Ellsworth Pigero is certain that he has solved The Case of the Air-Conducting Tattler:

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One thing...This thread, in conjunction with more recent ones, has enabled me to resolve a certain mystery—Jonathan, who has LDS, on this thread, somewhere among the 1300 posts, said:
In addition to the above quote, I've heard stories of Pigero air-conducting for friends, with weeping eyes and jowls aquiver. It's said to be the most pompous and maudlin thing that you will ever experience, and gut-busting and pants-wetting hilarious.
When I first read that I was puzzled, not to mention appalled. I used to give informal conducting lessons in my Auckland apartment as part of the carousing that went on there. They were fun nights. So I thought, who among that lot would have reported this in the above terms to Jonathan, with his LDS, behind my back? What kind of low-life pretending to be my friend, enjoying my hospitality and drinking my wine, would do that?
I now know.
I'm not going to name him, but he will read this and know that I know, and know that I regard him as scum, and that he can expect to be treated as such by me from now on.

My guess would be that Pigero is currently very angry at someone (when is he not?) and has decided that that person is therefore Evil Scum. Pigero's angry little brain has probably realized that the Evil Scum was one of the people who witnessed his pompous air-conducting routine, and therefore the Evil Scum must be the person who has been laughing about Pigero and sharing stories of his maudlin pompousness.

Well, what Pigero's angry little brain fails to realize is that practically everyone who has witnessed his air-conducting routine has thought that it was comical. At least that's my understanding of it based on what I've heard from people who saw it. People, plural -- more than one.

Contrary to Pigero's loopy opinion that those who laugh about his air-conducting were just pretending to be his friends, I think it would be more accurate to say that their fondness for him was the reason that they were willing to overlook things like the preposterous self-importance of his air-conducting, as well as his other abundant defects and dysfunctions (and, obviously, many of his ex-friends eventually reached a point where they were no longer willing to overlook them).

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 01:33 PM

Jonathan,

Mr. Perigo seems to have backed off from his original charge.

Of course, he may just be looking for another pretext to go after the Predesignated Piece of Evil Scum...

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 05:15 PM

Heh.
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 06:57 AM

That was several years ago. I was given said uproarious information via a direct email sent by an eyewitness (I don't remember who it was and of course wouldn't say even if I did remember).

"Informal conducting lessons." Uh, yeah. I've been working with a degreed, professional conductor for years now, and I can assure you, his little gig there as described is not conducting instruction: it is simply karaoke.

Well, maybe more like Guitar Hero.

Man, he's slow on the uptake. That got started up on him, what, at least two years ago now.
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 07:02 AM

Conducting karaoke.

Now there's high art for you...

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Posted 02 June 2009 - 07:14 AM

Drunken carousing, conducting karaoke...

Next thing you know it degenerates into a wicked game of "hide the baton." :o

Those things are expensive, too, if you get a good one.

It's all fun and games until someone has to explain things at the emergency room.

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