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Baseball, politics, and a lecture on the intricacies of Eldgers Op. 39.

 

That's a wide range for a few gun-toting weenies.

Next you'll be wanting to debate 45 acp versus 9mm parabellum.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with 9mm parabellum.

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It is graduation time and graduation is on my mind. My youngest son is officially done with High School as of Tuesday and we now await the ceremony on Saturday. He slept in until noon yesterday and I

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Winnah! First MLB win for Taylor Rogers, who was very impressive against the Rays. I do have to say that I haven't seen a worse lineup against the Twins this year.

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2. Sheepskins – Diplomas are called Sheepskins because paper was fragile and this made them poor keepsakes. Parchment is made of animal skin and because of its durability… diplomas were printed on it and thus referred to as a Sheepskin. For sheep this can be very traumatic. We take their wool and make clothing. Then we take their skin and make parchment paper for diplomas; and something to serve burnt ends on. The Greeks come along and take the rest and put it on a vertical rotisserie.
 

 

Yeah, but Chief's diploma was still chiseled on rock.

 

(It had to be said.)

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Heads up, Gibson scratched for tonight due to a stiff back and will remain on the DL. Hughes is starting in his place. Hope I don't strain my neck tonight looking up at flyballs.

 

This was a little weird too. Gibson had a side session postponed Sunday because nobody was around at the Twins complex when he was scheduled. The follow-up clarification didn't seem to actually clear anything up either.

 

https://twitter.com/MillerStrib/status/737008229851365376

First his shoulder and now his back.  Nothing going right......

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Actually, Brian ... you don't have this quite right. Pomp and Circumstance is the larger work; or rather, it's the name given to a grouping of marches. And the one that most are familiar with, because it's used at graduations, is March No. 1 in D major. The official title of that particular march is Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (and NOT March No. 1 in D major from Pomp and Circumstance.) Sometimes you'll hear orchestras do several of these marches together in a concert, but rarely would you hear all five of them; and most often you'll just hear them performed individually as each is its own work in and of itself. It's not like Pomp and Circumstance is a larger work, like a symphony, and one the marches is an equivalent to one of the movements in that larger work. Put it a different way ... a symphony would be like a book, one large book, with one story start to finish, and the chapters in that book would be like the movements in a symphony; Pomp and Circumstance would be like a large book of stories; each story is separate from the next ... different plot, different characters from one to the next. The marches grouped under the title Pomp and Circumstance would be like these individual stories in this larger collection.

 

And I'm sure that's all clear as mud. But I tried.

And, further, to confuse matters even more, this particular march also has a subtitle, "Land of Hope and Glory," which refers to words that were written to go with this music. So, the complete title, if you will, of this march is Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, "Land of Hope and Glory."

 

:)

 

Here endeth the music lesson. For now. Unless I have something to add later. About this or something else.

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And, further, to confuse matters even more, this particular march also has a subtitle, "Land of Hope and Glory," which refers to words that were written to go with this music. So, the complete title, if you will, of this march is Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, "Land of Hope and Glory."

 

:)

 

Here endeth the music lesson. For now. Unless I have something to add later. About this or something else.

Now you're just showing off!

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I was thinking more on the lines of the 10 commandments on stone tablets.

 

I SAID 11 COMMANDMENTS!!    11, DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!! 

FIX IT NOW, OH THEE NAMED CHIEF!!

 

http://cdn.jewishboston.com/uploads/2016/03/charlton-heston-as-moses-in-the-ten-commandments.jpg

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And, further, to confuse matters even more, this particular march also has a subtitle, "Land of Hope and Glory," which refers to words that were written to go with this music. So, the complete title, if you will, of this march is Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, "Land of Hope and Glory."

 

:)

 

Here endeth the music lesson. For now. Unless I have something to add later. About this or something else.

Actually, Brian ... you don't have this quite right. Pomp and Circumstance is the larger work; or rather, it's the name given to a grouping of marches. And the one that most are familiar with, because it's used at graduations, is March No. 1 in D major. The official title of that particular march is Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (and NOT March No. 1 in D major from Pomp and Circumstance.) Sometimes you'll hear orchestras do several of these marches together in a concert, but rarely would you hear all five of them; and most often you'll just hear them performed individually as each is its own work in and of itself. It's not like Pomp and Circumstance is a larger work, like a symphony, and one the marches is an equivalent to one of the movements in that larger work. Put it a different way ... a symphony would be like a book, one large book, with one story start to finish, and the chapters in that book would be like the movements in a symphony; Pomp and Circumstance would be like a large book of stories; each story is separate from the next ... different plot, different characters from one to the next. The marches grouped under the title Pomp and Circumstance would be like these individual stories in this larger collection.

 

And I'm sure that's all clear as mud. But I tried.

Actually, I always thought the name came from when the limo of an old rich guy pulled up next to the limo of another old rich guy, the first guy rolled down the window and asked, "Pardon me, but do you have any gray pompand," the second guy said, "In this circumstance, I do," and this tune was on both car radios.

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Off topic, but what kind of cookies did you bake the other day? I was already under a nyquil spell by the time you returned from playing tennis. 

Heh ... just plain ol' peanut butter. Sometimes it's good to just bake a regular kind and not get too fancy.

 

edit: And I used creamy pb, not crunchy! :)

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I believe we have a new - absence without leave graduate - Byung Ho Park.  It's time to talk about our international signing and what has happened for the last few weeks.  I believe an incomplete impacts graduation. 

Hey might be one of those guys who gets to walk the line, but receives a blank sheet of paper.

 

"hey, what gives?"

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Well I guess somebody has to bat third...

I'm going backwards through the comments, and I don't even want to look at the lineup.  

 

That is maybe reason #1 for a change in mangler.  Uh, manager.  And I'm not even going to get into reasons 1A, 1B, 1C, etc.....

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