Hey Jessie-- lighten up there. Nothing Stu said was meant to piss you off. He isn’t like that.
And there’s nothing wrong with having a large collection or in keeping them in an airtight container for moisture control. I’m sure he didn’t want to make an enemy of you.
Just to reiterate for those who didn’t notice it in my first post, my anger at Stuart has little to do with this thread. It just seemed he decided to insult me for no apparent reason in this thread, but it’s because he is angry at me for buying a flute from him and selling it for $50 more. I say it was mine to do with as I wished. He also says I overcharged him for postage when he won something in the raffle and wanted it expedited to another country. My mom mailed everything for me, as I had a very young infant at the time and I have to say that I didn’t look at the receipt for the 50 or so things she mailed (I paid for all domestic shipping and told foreigners that I would pay for slow and cheap shipping, but if they wanted it faster, they could chip in) and I don’t know if I overcharged him by a few dollars or not, but he says I did. Whatever. I wasn’t intending to. I spent hundreds of dollars and even more hours raising $5400 for Jerry Freeman and I think Stuart has been completely petty with me. I told him that. Then he stated on the Wilkes flute thread that “someone” had bought a flute from him and sold it for more and that he would never do business with “that person” again and he was so horrified by the idea of someone making a small profit on something. I think his attitude toward me is petty and uncalled for. So now you are all up to date.
Well, I think tupperware is for sissies, and I’m
glad you don’t use it.
P. S. I add that i’m not alone in this opinion.
See Immanuel kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Sissies,’ especially
the section on the transcendental unity of
tupperware. The problem isn’t tupperware per se, mind you,
but tupperware as a flute container. People who use tupperware for
other purposes may or may not be sissies,
but those who put flutes in tupperware are definitely
sissies.
I keep my flutes in my underwear.
I’m sure, Jim, you’ve read Nietzche’s “Mensch und Tuppermensch” in which he argues that using Tupperware negates one’s existence.
Cheers,
Aaron
Yeah, and bringing all that up publicly isn’t petty at all. I specifically didn’t mention it, particularly when you were selling the flute, because I thought my feelings were petty. But they came up, and I told you how I felt. I’m sorry that the way I felt about what happened turned you into the victim. Oh, yeah, and I kept it to private messages, because I didn’t think that people should be influenced by those thoughts I had.
I sold you a flute. It was then yours. You can do with it what you want, of course. But to go right back into the “community” we’ve got here on C&F and turn a little profit on it just seems unsavory to me. Which is the WHOLE reason I wrote you (Jessie) a private message about it, and I kept it private because I didn’t want to be so petty as to tell the world. Now I wish I’d kept to the tenuous moral high ground and just said nothing.
Oh, well! So, the Olwell flute sold! And it’s not in Tupperware. Or Rubbermaid. Actually, now I think it was a Rubbermaid footlocker kind of thing that I was thinking of in the first place.
How on earth was that insulting? If I lived in a dry climate, I would probably put all my flute cases in such a container to keep the humidity constant. Sure, I guess it was a little bit of a jab, but it was good-natured, because I don’t think anything that’s happened between us is grounds for war, or even enduring bad feelings.
Sigh!
Stuart
Don’t you mean Underware? That’s where I keep my flutes. It’s humid and abounding in wood nutrifying oils. It also enhances my manly outline.
I’m sure, Jim, you’ve read Nietzche’s “Mensch und Tuppermensch” in which he argues that using Tupperware negates one’s existence.
oh, god
And this stuff about undies.
Please, this is a family site!
Sure, I guess it was a little bit of a jab, but it was good-natured, because I don’t think anything that’s happened between us is grounds for war, or even enduring bad feelings.
It isn’t and won’t be grounds for war or enduring bad feelings, IMO.
Everybody has now expressed themselves and we can
get on with music. That would be the best way
to minimize bad feelings.
Forgive my pomposity in trying to keep the peace.
I love you all.
Stuart, the fact that you didn’t mention it while I was selling the flute is completely irrelevant. You SO DID air it publicly. May I show you exhibit A, posted to the Wilkes flute thread (where Sven had told me lies about a flute and I had reported the lies before being set straight on the matter)?
So…people had seen you selling the flute and then they had seen me selling the flute. You aired it in public and people knew you were talking about me. You called me nasty (I wasn’t nasty; I was frank). And then you came onto this thread, where I wasn’t even involved (!) and threw an insult my way. It was getting out of hand. I won’t stand by and have you do that. So now it’s all out in the open.
Jessie, don’t be too hard on Stu. He can’t help it if he’s strongly opinionated and too dumb to keep his opinions to himself when dealing with another strongly-opinionated person. 
Stu, if it makes you feel any better I bought a Doyle flute from Jessie and probably won’t part with it for what I paid her for it. That’ll show her.
Let’s try and put this thing behind us now.
Kum-by-ah my Lord…Kum-by-ah
Come on now everybody sing!
Kum-by-ah my Lord…Kum-by-ah…
Wow I feel better already. 
Doc
I don’t even think I need to reply! Wow! This is great!
I had no idea I had such importance and influence. It’s kinda cool to be powerful.
Mwwwwaahahhahahahaha!
Stuart
I don’t think it was meant as an insult, but as you say, you chose to take it that way.
I saw it for what it was, a comparison to the large plastic storage containers you can get that resemble tupperware on steroids. I too thought you had a storage method like that, with racks built into it for humidity control.
Aodhan
Take that, you … you…! [bonks jim on head with Rubbermaid tote lid]
In keeping with the maxim that living well is the best revenge, and within the materialistic paradigm derived of it, one prefers imposing and largish humidors custom built by such as make them for the afficionados of fine and esoteric cigars for suitable dignity when one considers the repose of idle flutes. One finds that exotic endangered tropical hardwoods are in reliable good taste for the cladding, as are burls of any kind. Any marquetry should be subtle if employed at all. Now, ignoring the starving children of one’s own community, if only one could otherwise justify that kind of thing…
Jeeves? Would you requistion the Rudall & Rose from its recumbent repose in the flute-i-dor?
This is getting good…maybe I should go get some popcorn