--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for everyone who responded to my question about our
> > relationship to dead people like Jesus. As I had hoped I
> > was able to read some fascinating perspectives. Some really
> > took the ball and ran into some complex worldview shifting
> > perspectives, Turq, Marek, and Edg (special mention goes to
> > Edg for the pantsless puja story which had me laughing.
>
> Not to blow the whistle on geezerfreak or anything,
> but he pulled a stunt once that still cracks me up
> every time I remember it. He's an audiophile, the
> definition of which seems to be "Someone who's not
> happy with his $20,000 sound system; it's just not
> 'right' yet." And at the time I knew him, he had
> this *enormous* collection of jazz vinyl records.
> Records get dirty, and so he had not one turntable,
> but two. One was to play the records, but before
> you got to actually do that, there was the record
> cleaning ritual.
>
> He'd stand there and put the record on the record-
> cleaning turntable and set it spinning. Then first
> came the pass with the antistatic brush, followed
> by squirting superspecial record-cleaning liquid
> on the surface of the disk, followed by setting the
> "tonearm" of the record-cleaning turntable in place
> and letting it do its thing. Its "thing" was that it
> was a tiny vacuum cleaner that moved across the
> record and sucked up all the cleaning fluid, taking
> any dirt and grit with it.
>
> Suffice it to say that this ritual took a little time,
> maybe 2-3 minutes per record side. And so I'm sitting
> there on his sofa one night, waiting to see what won-
> derful album he's going to play me next, and he's in
> the middle of the ritual and notices me sitting there
> impatiently, and he starts in with the puja. He raises
> the antistatic brush above his head and chants "Apavitra
> apavitro vam..." and I start cracking up. Then he takes
> the record-cleaning fluid and waves it above the turn-
> table in tiny circles, the way we would do with the
> puja offerings. At this point I'm basically *dying*
> of laughter, almost falling off the sofa.
>
> I guess it's one of those "You had to have been there"
> kinda things, but your reaction to Edg's tale reminded
> me of it, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to
> thank geezerfreak, belatedly, for a memory that has
> made me laugh many, many times over the years.
>
Ha-Ha! reminds me of a governor at Livingston Manor who would
sometimes end group meditations with "Jaaaaaaai...Edgar Hoover..."
Talk about falling out of our chairs! still cracks me up...
