Has anyone noticed the graphic at the top of the C&F main page (the Skull & Whistle - sounds like a pub, hmm.) It reminds me of a case study I read as an undergrad about a guy who had a tamping rod for setting mining explosives blown through his head and lived to tell the tale.
On the other hand it could be x-ray photographic proof of the WhOA disease process in its final stages (before one attempts to buy one of every whistle made in every key and color).
What concerns me is that with the FBI’s new powers of investigation, they might find this graphic on the C&F main page and think that The Chiff and Fipple is some kind of doomsday cult. Does anyone else share this concern?
Has anyone tried to buy one of every whistle made yet?
Dale, what were you thinking?
Concernedly yours,
Vinny
PS BTW When are the Crystal People coming for us with the special food?
[ This Message was edited by: Vinny on 2002-05-31 11:20 ]
Vinny, I believe that graphic (which I found rather macabre and don’t like…but it will change eventually) was chosen because of the driving while whistling topic that resurfaced. And I think the railroad story in particular was mentioned. Whacked the guy’s personality center, didn’t it?
That’s a reconstruction of what ACTUALLY happened to Phineas Gage, if I’m not mistaken. Paraphrasing from accounts of the time:
… the first newspaper account of the accident, that appearing in the > Free Soil Union > (Ludlow, Vermont) the day after the accident, and here reproduced as it appeared in the > Boston Post> , reported, Phineas Gage was the {founder} of a {session made of men} working for the contractors preparing the bed for the Rutland and Burlington Rail Road near Cavendish, Vermont. On 13th. September 1848, an accidental explosion of a charge he had set blew his {Rudall and Rose low D whistle} through his head. The {iron whistle} was 3 feet 7 inches long and weighed 13 1/2 pounds. It was 1 1/4 inches in diameter at one end (not circumference as in the newspaper report) and tapered over a distance of about 1-foot to a diameter of 1/4 inch at the other. The {whistle} went in {beak} first under his left cheek bone and completely out through the top of his head, landing about 25 to 30 yards behind him. Phineas was knocked over but may not have lost consciousness even though most of the front part of the left side of his brain was destroyed. Dr. John Martyn Harlow, the young physician of Cavendish, treated him with such success that he returned home to Lebanon, New Hampshire 10 weeks later.
Some months after the accident, probably in about the middle of 1849, Phineas felt strong enough to resume {session playing}. But because his personality had changed so much, the {pub owners} who had employed him would not give him his place again. Before the accident he had been their most capable and efficient {whistle-player}, one with a well-balanced mind, and who was looked on as a shrewd smart {improvisationalist}. He was now fitful, irreverent, and grossly profane, showing little deference for his fellows. He was also impatient and obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, unable to settle on any of the plans he devised for future action. His friends said he was “No longer Gage.”
Gosh, how many sessioneers know folks like that?
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[ This Message was edited by: sturob on 2002-05-31 11:31 ]
So these guys are hiking through the Washington woods and come upon a dead scuba diver in the middle of the forest, near a recent fire. He’s just laying there completely splayed out, apparently the victim of a helicopter water scoop.
That’s what xray reminds me of. Considering the steel people carry around in em after bone work, its not completely out of the realm.
I figured that it was a public service warning to those who drive and play whistles at the same time.
PUBLIC SERVICE BULLETIN
Jubilee Music Instruments recommends that you do not play the whistle and drive and the same time. We also do not recommended that you play in the passenger seat with a designated driver. After all, the air bag could deploy and cause terrible results.
Remember a Medula Obongata is a terrible thing to waste.
Vinny wrote:
What concerns me is that with the FBI’s new powers of investigation, they might find this graphic on the C&F main page and think that The Chiff and Fipple is some kind of doomsday cult.
Under “freedom of religion” it’s still legal to be a member of a doomsday cult though, right?
We also do not recommended that you play in the passenger seat with a designated driver. After all, the air bag could deploy and cause terrible results.
Real whistle players can’t afford new cars with fancy gimmicks like passenger-side airbags. We’re all saving up to buy Loren’s Bird’s Eye Vegetable Rose.
