| Author | Message | ||
| jalevinemd
Junior Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 16 Registered: 12-2003 |
I am relatively new to the club and see the stocking reference pop up every once in awhile. Could someone tell me the origin/significance. I'm admittedly quite intrigued. Thanks, Jonathan | ||
| keavin
Advanced Member Username: keavin Post Number: 208 Registered: 12-2002 |
i think you might want to check with 'santa' on the stockings | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1257 Registered: 9-2002 |
Ah-lalalaaaaaa ... Brother Jonathan, now THAT's a DEEP one. About the same caliber as "what is a 'Paul'? " Long time ago hidden in the darker pages at the beginning of this joyfull club there once was a fierce knight of the low frequencies longing for a new weapon ...the ultimate bass. Alas-alas-alas ...it would only be a dream because that ultimate bass was faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ar to expensive for him (a characteristic commonly encountered by drooling around these threads). Taken by despair he took an awfull decision and went out to gert the money where it is: at the bank . He decided to lend one of his wifes nylon stockings and pull over his head to stay unkown. So it IS statistically proven that most Alembics are sold in places with the highest rate of bankrobbery. And in that same place there is also a high sale of nylon stockings. You buy that??? Nei-ei-eih ...thought so. I invented it simply for saying that if I would have to nuy that bass I need to rob a bank, and for doing so ...you need ...right!!!! It became Alembic "slang" for saying: "I would love to buy it but I don't have the money" Paul the bad one PS: DON'T believe Paul the good one when he says it is the best strap on your bass. He's the one who uses his head as an amplifier. Can you imagine the ideas coming out of it ...and NO it is not for sale or for rent. | ||
| jalevinemd
Junior Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 17 Registered: 12-2003 |
Paul, I needed a good chortle at work today. And while the first story may have been somewhat lacking in truth, the emotional narrative would, no doubt, have made a wonderful movie! Much appreciated. Although I am new to these pages, I feel quite comfortable in saying..."thank you brother Paul." Jonathan | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 363 Registered: 11-2003 |
Brother Paul, what do you suppose would happen if Paul TGO were to try using his head as an amplifier inside the house that our new brother Dave is using for an amplifier? Hummmm Sam | ||
| dean_m
Advanced Member Username: dean_m Post Number: 292 Registered: 7-2002 |
Paul, You are so good at telling that story. What a wonderful story. Please tell me another one... Please, please, please!!! Oh yeah!!!! Welcome to the club Jonathan!!!! Peace, Dino bptfo | ||
| lbanks
Junior Username: lbanks Post Number: 17 Registered: 7-2003 |
...hmmm, a bank..... | ||
| elzie
Advanced Member Username: elzie Post Number: 299 Registered: 8-2002 |
Sam, reverb! I guess I came back at the right time. The stocking that Paul TBO talks so romanticly about is really his disguise for obtaining free stuff, or so he wants you to believe. I think it is really his way of feeling, oh how do I say this, happy. I think Uncle Freud would say he is getting in touch. I would rather say that maybe he really wants to play on stage with the stocking on, but he would be disappointed to find that Devo did it first... LOL! Just kidding brother Paul! Paul TGO | ||
| bob
Intermediate Member Username: bob Post Number: 181 Registered: 11-2002 |
We just passed an April Fool's Day, and somewhere I saw a list of classic jokes, including one right around the time color television was coming out. Apparently there was this commercial (possibly even in the Netherlands?) that told viewers they could convert their black and white TVs to color, simply by stretching a silk stocking over the picture tube. So maybe Paul TBO just likes they way it looks, from the inside looking out? | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1260 Registered: 9-2002 |
HA_HA_HA! Hey Brother Bob: there is another reason for that stocking and one you should know of as an decent photographer! David Hamilton -the english/french photographer with the nice-nude-thin-girls- used it over his lens to obtian that special "pastel" look in his pictures. Paul the bad one PS: so with the stockings over my head I only see beautiful-nude-thin-girls in pastel colours. LOL | ||
| dadabass2001
Intermediate Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 108 Registered: 6-2002 |
Okay, not a likely Alembic product but how about nylon fitted and stretched into a pair of sunglasses. That way Paul could enjoy beautiful views and not wind up trying to eat and drink thru nylon like Woody Allen (Take the Money and Run? ... Sleeper?) Mike | ||
| bassman10096
Advanced Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 305 Registered: 7-2003 |
Unrelated (and probably obscure), but struck my fancy: How about the scenes in "Take the Money" (I think) where, during the Woody character's childhood, he plays cello in a marching band? | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 405 Registered: 7-2002 |
Oh yeah, I remember that scene..I love that movie...he kept trying to set the stand down to read music, and the band kept marching on...a classic. The escape from prison with the soap-made fake gun in the rain was priceless. Valentino | ||
| adriaan
Intermediate Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 187 Registered: 6-2002 |
Bob, you're right about the colour TV prank: it was in the Netherlands, late 1960s I think. It is kind of a tradition to make an announcement on a nationwide news or current affairs program for a fake event "next Thursday" or whichever day of the week April 1 falls on, and see how many victims turn up. But the quality of those early pranks is astonishing. |
