Prediction!

[harman/kardon]

DNU

Topics like these will always make me unsure. But no biggie, my very dear friend.

DNU

 

[Hyperion]

False.

TPBM thinks we should continue sans acronyms in this thread.

 

[old_tv_nut]

True - post better messages (please)!

TPBM is trying to think up one more acronym.

 

[harman/kardon]

False, enough is engough.

TPBM likes a proper pronunciation.

 

[Hyperion]

Always.

TPBM thinks making sure you know someone's name and call them by it (correctly pronounced) is a common courtesy that everyone should abide by.

 

[harman/kardon]

Thats' true, Don! Ahhmmm... sorry! That's true, Tom!

TPBM got a nickname in Primary School.

 

[Hyperion]

True.

TPBM thinks nicknames given by colleagues can be friendly gestures.

 

[harman/kardon]

True.

TPBM thinks that "Rubber Duck" (movie "Convoy"?) is a funny nickname.

 

[Hyperion]

10 - 4

TPBM doesn't often 'put the hammer down'

 

[harman/kardon]

True.

TPBM would like to drive a BMW 507. (At least for a weekend or so...)

 

[Hyperion]

True.

TPBM would like to drive any Porsche 911, at least for a weekend or so...

 

[harman/kardon]

False! The only Porsche I am interested in is the 1986 monster Porsche 959!

TPBM thinks that the sound of a Bentley Blower is music - in a way...

 

[Hyperion]

True.

TPBM privately attaches names and/or personalities to mechanical things.

 

[bobsvinyl]

True. I call my mother-in-law Mrs. Darth Vader.

TPBM thinks his appliances have privately called him funny names.

 

[Hyperion]

Very likely.

TPBM thinks appliances always go wrong at the worst possible moment.

 

[harman/kardon]

True, according to my experience.

On recordings, TPBM thinks that Gould's hum is a bit too loud, but Garner's is okay.

 

[Hyperion]

True, if you say so.

TPBM hates surface noise when playing vinyl disks.

 

[harman/kardon]

True-ish, but I can tolerate somesurface noise on my records of the fifties.

TPBM has an LP from about 1950. 51 or 52 is okay as well.

 

[Hyperion]

Possibly - not sure of the age of some on mine (inherited).

TPBM has some LP's that he/she never plays.

 

[harman/kardon]

Yes, 100 LP's with Bach cantatas released by Rilling, I don't like him, Rilling, I mean his style of interpretation. (I prefer Harnoncourt) I got the collection from my father.

TPBM has some LP's he plays for more than three decades.