Group Photo of SF C&F gathering (caption contest)

Whistle
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TONY! What did you do to my camera? :imp:

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Steven, I warned you about witchcraft in my mom’s house.
Tony

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You see what happens with too much backpressure?

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Impressed by Tony’s avator, the bay area chiffers do there best to impersonate the new king of message board fashion…

dang it, I look like a squirrel again!

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Switchfoot, you don’t look too bad there.

But MurphyStout and Vaporlock look seriously disturbed. :smiling_imp:

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In the village of Midwich, “The Cuckoos” take time out from the hum-drum routine of world domination…

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This is the first sign of WhOA. I guess some of us become chronic carriers. I’m afraid we had a bit of an outbreak there. My bad. Go to eBay for temporary relief.
Tony

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You think it looks odd now!? They both looked down right EVIL! :devil:

You should have seen the way Murph looked BEFORE the edit. His eyes glowed red and sinister. To protect my family and the users of this board I felt compelled to edit it out though. I applied the Red Eye editor and some color smudge liberally. Murph was also doing his best to avoid looking directlty AT the sheet music, but there was this terrible, insiduous pull towards it. One eye was looking away and the other was straining to see it. The total effect was one that scared and intrigued me at the same time. I think I also saw his hands quiver as he resisted the attempt to make the big box he was holding move and make music.

Calling him to the dark side, it was.

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Vote’s in…the “eyes” have it…

PhilO

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“Blackhawk…! Look into our Eyes…!
You will hear, and you will obey…!
Don’t resist us, do not try…!
Come to us from San Jose…!”

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Oh! SF meant Science Fiction!

John

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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

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Oh, I saw that at the time - you could tell it took all his strength to resist the call of accordion (kind of like the call of Cthulhu, except more polkas). It’s worse than crack cocaine - first you just hold the accordian, then you play it (“for just one tune”) . . . the next thing you know you’re playing “champagne music” on TV in a cloud of bubbles. :open_mouth:

And Limuhead didn’t even resist - he did play a tune before putting it down. You just know that pretty soon he’s going to be adding accordion to ukelele and whistle on stage. And wearing white buck shoes. :tantrum:

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Caption: Hey, who invited Lawrence Welk?

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I thought maybe this was a photo of an invasion of the Crystal People I keep hearing about. Scary!

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Who is who? I recognize Weeks, Murphy (can’t mistake the piano accordion) and Tony Higgins (the eyes give him away). But who are the others?

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http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/Chiffgathering.html

All your questions answered here. Well, not really. But you’ll find out who’s who anyway.

Carol

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Thanks for that link. I really enjoyed seeing everyone having a good time.

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LOL! :laughing: If I had to wear shoes to gigs, I’d charge a whole lot more!

My caption submission:

“Hi! We’re the San Pablo Whistle Serenaders, and we loooove ‘Tony’s Chili’ brand chili!”

(It really was good!)

Aldon

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You can play my caption:

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