For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 29, 2013

Uncle Phil asked for it. And, if Mike were older there are a ton of bad jokes that could be said about Phil’s comment.

Horn players do it with their … never mind.

Love It!!

Elly would agree.

Awesome!

He set himself up for that one… no excuse.

Buzzing!

Uncle Phil’s head is all mush if you ask me.

Very well put Mike!

Oh boy. Not touching this one. Even that could be a dangerous statement! :-D

How can you even see those lips with that huge brown caterpillar living on them.

if you are a band geek long enough and learn to play even a little, you too can get paid very little working in bars and have women take you home to take care of you

route66paul: What do you call a bar musician without a girl friend? Homeless!

All “muscle” . . . and no brains.

Elly would have been rolling on the floor and laughing.

Until the government in its wisdom decided that smoking was the worst thing anybody could possibly do, most musicians smoked. Including wind and brass players.

I started playing flute when I was forty. I was a three pack a day smoker, and I naively thought it would help me cut down if not quit altogether. It didn’t happen. My instructor never brought it up – though if the anti-smoking ’’experts" are anything to go by, he must have known.

I did two years of flute, after which time I was playing the music I liked ‘competently’ (according to my retired head of the woodwinds department in a major university instructor), and certainly recognizably.

There is no doubt that smoking tobacco is bad for your lungs, but it’s not the boogeyman we have been told it is. It’s just one more effort to micro manage our lives. If they cared at all about public health, they’d clean up the food and water supply.

musclehead: just like Arnold