[SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.

[Elden DuRand]

Joe:

You and Ken can share the kudos!

I, too, was a wierd kid.  I liked Spike Jones and later, Stan Freeburg and still have some of their records.

A few years ago, I used a piece of Spike's "Dance of The Hours" in an answering machine outgoing message.  It was the part with the gunshots (I announced a little musical interlude so they could compose their message).  People would call for a legitimate business purpose then, everybody in their offices had to hear what made the caller laugh so much.  I had to retire that message after only a few days as the machine constantly filled-up with people calling to hear the message.  MOst of what I got was laughs and hang-ups.

Sometimes, being inventive has it's shortcomings.

Take care - Elden
edurand at mchsi.com
http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand 

> -----Original Message-----
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>  Behalf Of Joe Prindle
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 06:08 PM
> To: The SEL email discussion list
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.
> 
> 
> No, I am runner up. As soon as I posted that 
> reply, I got an offlist email from Ken Christison 
>  saying it was the Spike Jones rendition of 
> "Chloe". Ken said he had been trying to send a 
> reply to the list with a link to a Youtube video 
> of it, but his emails wouldn't go through. So, 
> Ken gets the kudos and I am in good company as a 
> runner up.