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Lead story -- the joys of discrimination learning.

In other news, researchers found that even after several bars, 99% of londoners were unable to tell the difference between Sviatoslav Richter and my niece Alice playing the piano. Lead researcher psychologist Professor Hugh Poynty-Hedd said: "These are remarkable results. People were unable to tell expressive from inexpressive playing, and so in these times of financial hardship the message is clear - the inexpressive tunes we played sounded the same as their expressive counterparts."

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originally posted by Claude Kolm:
I don't think I could tell the difference between a cheap Shiraz and an expensive one, either.
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this is why it's such a great shame that dressner lost his mollydooker notes. if i recall correctly, the trick is to stand a spoon up in the middle of the glass, and then count how long it takes for it to finish falling over. i think one of the mollydookers had something like a 97 SECOND FINISH!!!!

something like that, anyway.

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the score is the cosine of the angle with the vertical at which the spoon reaches equilibrium, times 100
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
After several bars, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference either.
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those sound like my kind of bars!
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Could you hum the melody after six bars of any piece by J S Bach. I had heard you were a musical genius at the age of six. You and Irving Mozart, so I understand.
 
Fatboy.

And the vulgar little monkey.

Ah, the memories. I'm glad to see you still responding to my pet name, Nathan, lo these many years later. I'm glad this particular endearment stuck, because "shit for brains" fails to capture something.

And, speaking of academics, where's fatboy retaining water these days?
 
originally posted by fatboy:
in the newsLead story -- the joys of discrimination learning.

In other news, researchers found that even after several bars, 99% of londoners were unable to tell the difference between Sviatoslav Richter and my niece Alice playing the piano. Lead researcher psychologist Professor Hugh Poynty-Hedd said: "These are remarkable results. People were unable to tell expressive from inexpressive playing, and so in these times of financial hardship the message is clear - the inexpressive tunes we played sounded the same as their expressive counterparts."

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Richter.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Are Ritas always lovely?

ETA: In France, amusingly, that's a fairly common name for one's canine pet.
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According to Family Feud in the late eighties, the leader was Médor.
 
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