First, for everyone, I am not charging any shipping for any whistle you purchase before Christmas.
Second, I have new Christmas whistles, including a candy-cane decoration whistle, suitable for hanging on the tree, or playing. Key of D. Pictures will be on my website by tomorrow morning.
Finally, … well … here’s the announcement I just sent to my newsletter folks…
Hi, all! Well, I have decided that I love you all so much, I’m going to give some lucky person from C&F a nifty Holiday gift. And my newsletter buddies get to know about it first!
Nine Shoes Farm is a new business, selling some of the best-tasting, and most unusual jams and jellies on the planet. They also offer a line of Holiday Gift baskets, and that’s where you come in…
If you bought (or buy) a whistle from me from November 1st through December 15th, I will enter your name into a drawing for a gift basket of your choice, worth up to $35, from Nine Shoes Farm.
Go to http://www.nineshoesfarm.com to look them over. They are absolutely scrumptious! I will hold the drawing on December 16th, and push like all heck to get it delivered to the lucky winner before Christmas.
Best wishes for the Holiday Season to each and every one of you…
Bill Whedon (serpent)
Serpent Music
If I learned nothing else from the Aeneid, at least I know always to rap on any piece of huge statuary given to me, to check for hollow places. There’s almost always a catch, ain’t there?
Must … resist. The last three whistles I bought were all Serpents, and I feel like I ought to buy at least a Syn or two before buying more. But the Serpent’s making it awfully hard . . .
It’s been 30 years since grad school Latin, and I’d still, to paraphrase Twain, rather decline two beers than one Latin noun.
That’s Mark Twain, who once said “Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth,” not Shania twain, who once said “Ooh, look – a bunny.”
I only took Latin reading, so whereas I can go from Latin to English with frightening alacrity and only five or six reference books, taking perfectly good English thoughts and cramming them into a Latin container is decidedly less certain and ofttimes fraught with peril. My apologies if I have used the accusative instead of the more proper ablative, persnickitive or crepuscular cases.
I think the original is i’m afraid of Greeks and the gifts they give, a reference to the Trojan horse. But Bloomfield’s version is very good; it even rhymes.
My favourite Latinism: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Don’t know any Latin (though I know a Latina), but I DO know that the late Ed Norton would say here “Sheesh. Whadda grouch”. Or in this case, a coupla grouches.
Yes - nice offer, especially since I am most likely going to be purchasing one of his whistles in the next few days
And about using sinister “marketing” techniques - If our friend Bill was really intereted in making a secret killing using underhanded methods, do you really think he would have chosen to go into whistle making? A real get-rich-quick scheme, that…
Give the guy a break - he makes a quality product for a very reasonable price, is extremely responsive to his customers, and clearly loves what he does.
