OK kiddies. Time for a little end of term exam to see if you’re getting the hang of this whistle thing.
Q1 Wally has $100. Does he:
a) Put it towards a Copeland and waste valuable practice and forum time earning the rest of the money to pay for it?
b) Buy a Burke immediately?
c) Order a Sindt and figure out how to make the $15 he saved convince him that his choice was worth the wait?
d) Buy a box or two of Generations in the hope of finding one that is playable?
e) Spend it on something totally unrelated to whistling?
Q2 Emma has just broken her left hand. Does she:
a) Continue to play her Sindt-improved by switching hands and concentrating on improving her top-hole technique?
b) Tape over the left-hand holes and concentrate on improving her right-hand technique?
c) Try earnestly to improvise with her feet?
d) Spend her time posting constantly one-handed to the C&F message board?
e) Sell Carl her Sindt-improved for $80 knowing that he’ll sell it back in a few weeks for half the price to help finance his first flute?
Take as long as you like. Remember, getting the right answers is very, very important. Oh, and don’t forget to give your reasons; we don’t want anybody just guessing do we?
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A1) Wally posts a topic requesting comparisons of Copelands, Burkes, and Sindts. During the course of the thread he is contacted by someone selling a Copeland for $175 and a Sindt for $65. Not being one to pass up a deal, he buys both.
A2) Emma purchases a tabor pipe in G from Mack Hoover and hires a Information Technologist to program a voice chat option into the Chiffy Chatroom. (or Ban!) Oh yeah, and while she’s on Mack’s order list she also purchases a Narrow Bore brass D, after painstakingly punching out a message asking people for comparisons of narrow and wide bore. After all, he only takes 20 orders per month and she might as well make the most of her spot
Emma is impressed, sells him her Sindt. Beside she never cared for its post-soviet recycled nuke sub looks. She keeps the money to buy an Elfsong as soon as she heals.
Wally thinks he was shrewd on that one.
He loves the no-frills gunsmith design. Also the sound won’t have him nicked sissy-voice at the session. If someone still dares, it will do a better job than a Burke in the following collective brawl. This is why he’s spending the remaining $20 on an extra self-defence tube, in wicked blue steel.
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Wally and Emma both visit the C&F board and note the bizarre nature of many of the posts. Wally puts his $100 in the bank and saves his lunch money toward a bouzouki. He also loses 50 lbs. Emma advertizes her Sindt on eBay and sells it for $275. She buys several harmonicas. She and Wally eventually make a CD together which is fantastically successful. They dedicate it to C&F.
Emma is also my little grandaughter’s name and she’s a real cutie pie but unfortunately I can’t post any pictures of her till they somehow get on the web.
Wally busks on a street corner for a few hours to earn the extra $5 to buy an Elfsong C/D combo.
Emma would like to take this injury as an opportunity to learn a new instrument by ordering a tabor pipe. Unfortunately, however, she doesn’t have health insurance and had to pay for her medical treatment out of pocket, so she has no money left to buy even a Susato. After several heartbreaking one-finger posts on C&F, several kind people offer to send her a tabor pipe to help her get through this crisis. She’s last seen busking on a street corner, playing that tabor pretty well and raking in the tips, looking suitably pathetic with her poor broken arm.
Redwolf
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Well, with all the excitement of the last few days I forgot to pass on the examiners’ comments. Now don’t go thinking that I’m the examiner; there are many more qualified chiffniks and fipplefops around here, and of course we sought their advice. Don’t ask why they chose me to relay their opinions—trust is a mysterious thing.
Overall the examiners thought that this year’s class displayed an excellent grasp of whistlethink. Every candidate passed with flying colours—even madguy who wasn’t really a candidate at all. Blackhawk looked shakey for a while for falling into the trap of choosing from the available options—surely no experienced exponent of whistlethink would do that. But no, by completely misinterpreting question 2, Blackhawk showed that he was only foxing. The examiners were deeply impressed by that.
The anecdote about the grandaughter went down extremely well and the failure to post a photo, although disappointing, was entirely excusable given that the reason offered was ineptitude. Photos of pets would have been good but, with WhOA in the wind, they rightly took a back seat. These candidates are well aware that nobody ever got a bargain Copeland on this board by rifling through old photos of Fifi and Towser when the post advertising the whistle was being made.
What can I say? Well done to all and keep up the good work. Whistlethink is a wierd and wonderful thing. One can only wonder at the failure to date of logic texts to recognise this exciting and inventive new style of reasoning.
Oh, by the way, Wally and Emma now live together. They pooled resources to buy the Copeland and the Sindt. But I don’t think it will last. Now Emma’s hand is better, they keep fighting over who gets to play the Copeland.
Well, I knew they were living together but the rest of your story is hogwash. They moved to a fairy tale castle in Luxumbourg which they bought with the earnings from their CD smash hit. Are you sure you’re the prof for this course?
On 2003-01-23 10:35, SteveK wrote:
Well, I knew they were living together but the rest of your story is hogwash. They moved to a fairy tale castle in Luxumbourg which they bought with the earnings from their CD smash hit. Are you sure you’re the prof for this course?
Steve
I’m sure I’m not. But I already told you that. That’s the lovely thing about whistlethink—the less you pay attention to all things not directly related to expanding the whistle collection, the better you do. A shame the examiners couldn’t take account of this brilliant oversight. I’m sure they’ll remember when next term’s exam comes around.
On 2003-01-23 10:13, Wombat wrote:
Oh, by the way, Wally and Emma now live together. They pooled resources to buy the Copeland and the Sindt. But I don’t think it will last. Now Emma’s hand is better, they keep fighting over who gets to play the Copeland.
Emma needs to be careful… She can rebreak that hand in a serious fist fight.
Congrats on a classic educational experience. But given the commercial stance of the Australian educational services export industry, you won’t get your diplomas until Wombat Worldwide has negotiated an extortionate arrangement with a gown and chiffboard rental service for the conferring ceremony.
On 2003-01-23 16:51, Roger O’Keeffe wrote:
Congrats on a classic educational experience. But given the commercial stance of the Australian educational services export industry, you won’t get your diplomas until Wombat Worldwide has negotiated an extortionate arrangement with a gown and chiffboard rental service for the conferring ceremony.
Roger and Blackhawk, it’s worse than that I must confess. We left the design and delivery of diploma certificates to one D.Spillane. Now I’ve been trying to keep track of his movements, but he always seems to be … how shall I put this … elsewhere. This is not a mistake we’ll make again—next term it’ll be someone reliable, … like ManUnited perhaps.
On 2003-01-23 16:51, Roger O’Keeffe wrote:
Congrats on a classic educational experience. But given the commercial stance of the Australian educational services export industry, you won’t get your diplomas until Wombat Worldwide has negotiated an extortionate arrangement with a gown and chiffboard rental service for the conferring ceremony.
Roger and Blackhawk, it’s worse than that I must confess. We left the design and delivery of diploma certificates to one D.Spillane. Now I’ve been trying to keep track of his movements, but he always seems to be … how shall I put this … elsewhere. This is not a mistake we’ll make again—next term it’ll be someone reliable, … like ManUnited perhaps.
