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Re: POKE IN THE EYE

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Subject: Re: POKE IN THE EYE
From: "jeremy wise" <jeremy.wise@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:43:52 +0100
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Murray wrote:
He enjoys conducting with a baton given to him by Jeremy Wise (no less) and
has only poked one of his eyes out with it (thanks Jeremy).

Murray Aitken
Eb Bass
Aveley and Newham Equal Opportunities Band


Hi Murray

Funnily enough this nearly happened to me once - while rehearsing London
Overture I got a bit carried away and ended sticking my baton through my
eyelid. Needless to say the band were helpless (with laughter that is) and I
quickly changed by stick technique to a more arms length approach.

Jeremy






"Judith Hayes" <judith.hayes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gillian wrote...
> >When I first started playing in about 1969, I was the first girl in my
> >band.
> And by the time I came through the band a few years later, it was nearly
50
> percent girls.  Only the basses didn't have a female representative!  Well
> done that Mum!
>
> Allan Hawley wrote...
> >But really, is it because when women join a band, men suddenly find their
> >styles being cramped? You know, can't tell those dirty jokes, or swear
when
> >the bloke next to you empties his water key all over your shoe
>
> Er... Allan, if the stories are true (I'm sure they are - no-one could
> invent the things I heard!) then if it's just dirty jokes and the odd
> expletive then things are much improved in these men-only bands (not
> singling any particular one out, that wouldn't be prudent).  I would fear
> for the personal safety of a lone women on one of their coaches...
>
> Paul Warder wrote...
> > (iii) Women get pregnant and leave you with an empty chair for several
> >months or more often than not (and quite understandably) don't come back
at
> >all.
>
> Not in our band, matey.  My mate went into labour at half time and was
back
> at the next rehearsal.  In any case, it's not as if you are getting taken
by
> surprise, like you are when a stroppy bloke leaves in a huff!
>
> And as a last blast on this subject, all Monkey's recent mournful
rebuttals
> are just coming over as an attempt to make him sound the reasonable one,
and
> all those expressing perfectly reasonable outrage sound as if the
problem's
> theirs!
>
> Anyone who now wants the last word - you're welcome to it.
>
> Judith.
>
>
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