Covert Briefs [was Re: Benjamin Truehaft]

[Ron Torrella]

On Tue, 15 Oct 1996 JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:

>  It is my contention that such articles as Ron Torella posted to the list
> (Covert Briefs) have no place on Pianotech.
         [blah blah blah]
> Just my opinion.

Thanks for your opinion, Jim.  Sorry you didn't approve.  There's a button
on your keyboard for posts such as the one I posted -- the letter D, for
Delete.  Having already received that particular article several weeks ago
(and getting a good belly laugh out of it -- something the doctor says is
good medicine), I thought it would be appropriate to share with a group of
piano technicians and other members of that ilk.

The drivel that one often reads on this list -- which is more often the
case than not -- has caused me to seek treatment for RSI in my left, third
finger.  No, not because I tend to salute the screen with that finger many
times when I download 20 or 30 messages, most of them filled with *truly*
mindless repetition (no slam intended, just a matter of fact that some
folks still don't understand that we don't need the entire friggin' post
they're quoting to be reposted), but because I have to hit that darned D
key so many times.

I'll bet you'd really be P.O.ed if I posted the entire proposal our
colleague, Stephen Birkett, has asked me to make available to the online
piano technician community ...  :-)

OK, fingers poised over the D key?

Have a nice day.

Ron Torrella, RPT

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