Dale, you going to have to get out that old C&F Public Service bulletin about people driving with whistles.
On a flutemakers group, I received an email that had a you tube link to another case of people driving under the influence of tinwhistles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWX3KYFhem4.
I know that Dale had an interesting write-up on with a name of the condition and even an interesting looking graphic of a skeleton with a whistle launched into it.
Remember folks, all it takes is a sudden airbag deployment and you’re an instant vegetable.
this is seriously making me rethink my habit of playing at stoplights, which i’ve been doing pretty regularly the last few weeks. I dont play while actually driving, but i never thought about the airbag going off or getting rear ended at a stop light and having a whistle shoved into my cranium. thanks for the warning
“Txistu” (pron. chees-tu, tabor pipe) is Basque, but the rest of the text language is not. If ever you’ve seen written Basque, you’d be able to tell. Instead, it’s some sort of Romano-Iberian like Galician or Catalan or Castilian. Didn’t hear enough of the speech to be able to guess.
Wow, What Trixle said “this is seriously making me rethink my habit of playing at stoplights, which i’ve been doing pretty regularly the last few week”.
I’ve been keeping a whistle on the passengerseat for a while now to play at the lights and in trafficjams (hey, with two kids and a busy hotel, you need to take advantage of every free second !). Never considered what would happen if my airbags went of… Good thing no one ever slammed my rear while I was doing this. Imagine the headlines : “Man speared to death by tinwhistle !”…
I had not yet considered being rear-ended while playing my $2.50 bamboo whistle at stoplights. Hmmmmm…I would probably play it safer, but since my wife knits beside me while I drive 60 mph (in spite of all my warnings of needle through a lung) I guess I’m ashamed to stop!!
while on the road, i only play at traffice jams and railroad crossings and construction work IF my car is in park. at drive thru businesses, i’ll whistle while in line waiting.
Here’s a trick. Attach a piece of clear flexible plastic hose about 9" long(25 cm). It gets the whistle down lower. That way if the bag deploys you’ll get a sore mouth and maybe lose some teeth at the worst. OK, break your jaw at worst…but it’s better than being impaled.
AlonE (who should know) is right. The spoken and written language is Spanish. “Txixtu” may be Basque (I don’t know for sure) but “txistu” (flute) and “txistulari” (flute player) appear in my Spanish dictionary, which says that they are Basque words.
Darn, “The Laughing Imp”, you’re right. That must be Elvis’ new music video!
John Skelton told one class that one of his students was given a ticket for playing whistle while stopped at a stop light. The officer supposedly said something about having to have both hands on the wheel at all times. I find the threat of a fine more intimidating than being impaled.
Wait, you guys seriously play while in the car? That’s nuts, even if you’re stopped at a traffic light it seems nuts to me.
As for playing while the car is in motion that’s up there with the guy I saw reading a novel or the woman I saw doing her makeup on the motorway. Pure idiocy. They don’t deserve to be on the road.
I’m all for enjoying a hobby and everything but surely you can go however long it takes to drive somewhere without playing?
