[Trombone-l] Fwd: RE: Re: My good day!

[Kenn Murrah]

I'm confused ... who felt insulted, the pig or the bagpipe player?



On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Phil Burton <phil at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> I passed on the quote from Hitchcock to a friend who plays Bagpipes, and
> this is his reply...  Phil
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> New one on me.  Actually, historically, it was a goat, not a pig.
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> Ya gotta understand, also, that Hitchcock was a Brit, not an inhabitant of
> the fair, true blue north country.
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> Bob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Burton [mailto:phil at montanalinux.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 1:21 PM
> To: Bob Kampfer
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [Trombone-l] My good day!
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> Bob,
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> This insult is a new one to me, perhaps you have heard it before???
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> Phil
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> "I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he
> saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm.
> Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equaled the purity of the
> sound achieved by the pig."
>         - Alfred Hitchcock
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