Don't be a bunch of I-TOLD-YOU-SOs!!! :-)

[CeeCee_C]

K.., So....

Wait... I'm not 16.

So, like... Wait............... I'm *still* not 16!

As an aside, why must teenagers use "like" as 25% to 40% (anecdotally) of the words in each sentence? In fact, this abominable practice seems, more and more, to be continuing into adulthood. I actually told my niece that she could raise her IQ by 50 points just by using "like" appropriately. What did I get in return? Like, an eye-roll.

But I digress.....


Acoustic Music got an Eastman 815 last week. I've been playing my 515 but thinking about the 815.

Guess what? (i know... you guessed it!)

I went down there this afternoon. The 515 stayed with them and the 815 came home with me.

And... O.....M.....G(osh)..... What a difference. The sustain, the tone, the presence is an order of magnitude better.

Now I'm wondering if the spousal unit will notice that it's not the same instrument. My bet is YES. Having a PhD statistician with an eidetic memory on your team at work might be a good thing. On the other hand, having one on your team at home...

So all y'all said that I'd succumb to MAS. Is it still MAS if the total number of instruments doesn't change? In spirit, I think it's still MAS. Money was spent. It's a new instrument.

So go ahead... Get your jollies at my expense! But remember, I went with the full disclosure approach. That must be worth something.

Regards,

CeeCee
1919 Gibson A1
2012 Eastman 815
2012 Eastman 315
4 cats
5 guitars
an amp that goes to 11

[Santiago]

Congrats on both the new mandolin and in successfully using eidetic in a sentence! I'm impressed on both accounts. Since we're in full disclosure mode: I had to look it up.

[Mike Scott]

Hmmmm......................as I last recall you were like awaiting a gloss top MF-5-is that still in play? If so then yes .....MAS like for sure! Really! Looking at your list of instruments I would say MAS and GAS run rampant in your life. Like I think it is time for some therapy.

Actually, I understand your "like" aversion. My problem is I am now starting to inject it into my conversations and I am 65!!! Ack! Perhaps I need therapy.

[CeeCee_C]

Hmmmm......................as I last recall you were like awaiting a gloss top MF-5-is that still in play? If so then yes .....MAS like for sure! Really! Looking at your list of instruments I would say MAS and GAS run rampant in your life. Like I think it is time for some therapy.

Actually, I understand your "like" aversion. My problem is I am now starting to inject it into my conversations and I am 65!!! Ack! Perhaps I need therapy.

Re. Collings: I ended up ordering an MF so as not to break the bank.

Re. the "Like Disease": Mike just, like, say NO!

CeeCee

[JeffD]

Congratulations. I think you made the right decision.

[Beanzy]

Look him in the eye, pause, then tell him it wasn't performing well enough so you had it upgraded and left the old one at the shop. Hold the stare.

Reckon he'll buckle

[CeeCee_C]

Granny Weatherwax - Terry Pratchett? (Full disclosure - I did *NOT* look it up!)

[Beanzy]

Yup!

[multidon]

I had an acquaintance once who was a violin player. Once he found out I taught violin he would come over and play for me sometimes, very proud of his latest accomplishments. He then told me his teacher told him that he had progressed to the point that he needed a better instrument. One day he brought me his new $3000 violin to show me and made me swear not to mention it to his wife. He said she would kill him if she knew he spent that much money on a violin and at that point she had no clue that the cheap instrument had been replaced by the expensive one because all violins pretty much looked alike to her so she didn't even notice the seamless switch. Maybe that approach would work with your situation?

[Tomando]

Hmmmm......................as I last recall you were like awaiting a gloss top MF-5-is that still in play? If so then yes .....MAS like for sure! Really! Looking at your list of instruments I would say MAS and GAS run rampant in your life. Like I think it is time for some therapy.

Actually, I understand your "like" aversion. My problem is I am now starting to inject it into my conversations and I am 65!!! Ack! Perhaps I need therapy.

If I had a nickel for every time I've overheard 'like' used inappropriately, I'd be ordering an MF5-V, with extra pearl n perfling...

[CeeCee_C]

Don -

I wasn't serious about withholding the information. It'd be dishonesty by omission. So it's more rhetorical than anything else. Would the spousal unit notice? We'll never know.

CeeCee

[Randi Gormley]

I recall days when the going expression was "you know" so I can give "like" a bit of leeway. Stuff like "at this point in time" on the other hand, gets, like, an eyeroll.
Isn't it odd how straightforward we are in our written speech (barring the odd misspelling and missed homonym) when our spoken sentences are rife with fill-ins and space holders? I've occasionally told young 'ins to try taking a pad down to the beach or the subway and try to write down exactly what everybody around them says; it's an eye-opener.
And on the subject of an eidetic memory, I wonder whether ear-training is in any way related ...

[CeeCee_C]

I used to work with someone who used the F-bomb as a substitute for "ummmm". That was a little hard to take. Not that I'm particularly sensitive to the use of obscenity. But using obscenity and/or profanity (apologies to the more devout among us) is like using cooking spices. A little bit goes a long way and can add emphasis where it's needed.

I do wonder if the over-use of "like" is a valley-girl derived phenomenon. It's partly my own fault. I've allowed myself to become sensitized to it.

[Bill Baldridge]

You have a problem with "like," but not "spousal unit"? Congrats on the new mando!

[Mandobar]

Everyone should have a partner who encourages their interests

[Bernie Daniel]

Like, OMG, No way! , Shut up! (meaning really no way!), you guys, and awesome. This is over 20% of the average teen age girl's lexicon.

I think the girls are actually worse at this then the boys (it wasn't valley girls for no reason).

I think this because boys are usually talking about objects like cars, video games, or sports etc whereas as the girls are generally talking about people, themselves or their feelings, or the boys. Anyway its not a great trend....for either sex.

Congrats on your new mando!

[pjlama]

Consider the 815 a snack mandolin, like you know, you're waiting for your entree and couldn't get by without an appetizer.

[Sid Simpson]

One of the good things about all of this (upgrading your old mando while waiting for the new one) is that you should be motivated to play more. I recommend that. Even if it doesn't assuage your guilt, it will improve your playing!

[JEStanek]

AS much as I dislike the over use of like and the seemingly endless question marks at the end of a sentence, I loathe corporate speak even more. Challenges, opportunities, resources, skin in the game... etc. Loathe it.



Jamie

PS. Enjoy your new obsessions. And good on ya for not hiding things... I loathe that, too.

[journeybear]

It may not have the same weight if it comes from you as from a third party, so if you want to print this and show it to the spousal unit, be my guest:

If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

That should, like, take care of, like, the whole dealio. Totally.

[CeeCee_C]

I agree with you completely.

Every time someone at work refers to a lesson as a "learning" or even worse, speaks the infamous word (Ni) ... No, not ni, PARADIGM, my tortured brain screams ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH.

BTW, as long as we're disemboweling English as she is spoken, when did "de-plane" replace "disembark" in our lexicon?

Hmmmm... apropos of absolutely nothing remotely relevant; disembowel ----> disembowdler -----> disembowdlerize

What would be the meaning of disembowdlerize; to un-expurgate a work previously expurgated?

Aren't words wonderful toys?

[MikeEdgerton]

I don't recall telling you so, so I can't say I told you so but I do admire your enthusiasm.

[MikeEdgerton]

Everyone should have a partner who encourages their interests

Mary, how come you never posted that picture on this thread?

[allenhopkins]

Far, far be it from me to be an "I-told-you-so" -- but --

Are we not communicating with the person who wrote in this two-week-old thread:

"I know I keeper when I find one...My point is simply that I'll only be buying mandolins until I find the right one(s). And then I'll move on to some other OCD-induced obsession. If the next one is the right one, then I'm done."

And, when your Collings arrives, you'll be up to three with the Gibson A-1 and the Eastman. Probably you're going to need a mandola, and resonator mandolins sound tres cool, and one of those century-old bowl-backs would be perfect for "ethnic and classical." Octave mandolins are well-suited for vocal accompaniment. Be the first on your block to own a mandocello!

And so it goes. Would anyone be interested in the number of times I've said, "Well, I really don't need any more mandolins"?

Didn't think so...

[almeriastrings]

And so it goes. Would anyone be interested in the number of times I've said, "Well, I really don't need any more mandolins"?

Need is relative... and probably irrelevant at the same time!

You know you really have it bad when you start calling your instruments "inventory" or "the herd" and need to start using tie-on tags on all the cases to remind you what's lurking in there.

Other clues include losing an entire room of the house to serve as a "storage facility", and owning multiple examples of the exact same make and model. Even worse is when you start obsessing over and collecting cases.....

I would say with only three there is some way to go yet....