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A double dactyl is two of something, that is certain
But a pterodactyl is only one, and that's confusin'.
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Flippety flappety,
Peter O'Dactycal
None fly with one wing but
some fly with two.
It's not a question just
ornithological.
Reptiles might fly just as
Some mammals do.
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...is "ptero-" = wing?
Remember BC (the comic strip)'s apteryx : "I am a wingless bird with hairy feathers." a-pter = without wings.
Come to think of it, arachno-dactyly is a condition of very long slender limbs, like a spider's (usually associated with the descritpion of Marfan's Syndrome, and attached to the description of Abraham Lincoln as a hypothesis). If dactyls are fingers or arms or even legs, why is the poetic dactyl a "foot" ?
"Because dactyls aren't fingers, Silly," I hear you say, "they've been feet all the time!" Yes? No?
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If anyone cares, I noticed this morning (as the radio was doing a thing about Flanders and Swann, and we heard a song where they wrote words to a Mozart horn concerto), that the double dactyl is the rhythm of this Mozart horn concerto. If you've heard it, you know what I mean, if you haven't, there's no way in HELL I'd be able to communicate it in text over the Internet!
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Now you know why I call him "Faldo the Great". Good one.
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Truly the Internet is a wonderful thing. google plus thirty seconds yields http://www.hornplanet.com/hornpage/museum/articles/ill_wind.htmlHave fun! [I didn't find a place with sound but I didn't look very hard. And there are other takeoffs as well... ("I once found a modem and wanted to buy it" usw.) ]
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Apparently, etaoin, you are a bad referer.
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the double dactyl is the rhythm of this Mozart horn concerto
Dear Bean - so it is! I hadn't thought about it before. I posted the words from the Flanders & Swann version back in January, but the link doesn't seem to function now. Of all their work, that is my favourite.
I liked your unprecedented piece of poetry. Looked the guy up because I hadn't heard of him before. What a sad story! What would be a good album to get to hear him?
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Apparently, etaoin, you are a bad referer.
do you mean the link doesn't work, or did you happen to grab the clarinet concerto that I posted first?  or is it too early in the morning for me to grasp the deep wit of your remark?  
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do you mean the link doesn't work?
The link you clicked was not located on the Classical Archives.
Please notify the site's webmaster responsible for the URL http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?… that they should not provide deep-links to the files on our servers.
(Deep-linking to the Classical Archives files isn't allowed.)
Instead they are invited to COPY the file (after receiving permission) to their
own server and provide a link to that local copy.
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re pterodactyls pair-o-dactylsre Jaco Pastorious He was Joni Mitchell's bass player during the 70's. I'm fond of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. I also like his self-titled album. He also was in the band Weather Report. Try the album Heavy Weather. I'm sure musick will come up with some more good reccomendations. After all, he reccomended him to me 
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I called Dag to ask about albums by Jaco for you, dxb. Dag's the real fan of Jaco (being the REAL bass player in our household; I also play but my skill is nothing compared to his). One of the songs that Dag really likes is actually Jaco's version of America the Beautiful, which apparently is on his live album called "Invitation". The guy manages to play two or three part harmony with a single pair of hands on his bass!!! It IS quite nice. And sounds pretty much impossible to learn. Now, asking Dag advice about one of his favourite musicians is kind of hopeless because every album is accompanied by a statement like "Oh! That's a WICKED album, too!!" So he suggests, in no particular order, Word of Mouth, Portrait of Tracy, and his self-titled album. Hope that helps!
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OKaay! I shall sally forth next weekend, plastic at the ready. Thanks for the advice.
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ok. sorry. try this: http://www.classicalarchives.com/mozart.htmland then scroll down to find the horn concertos. they are a bit testy there, no? Jaco rocks! too bad he couldn't stay off the drugs... no telling what he'd be playing today. his work with Weather Report is terrific. love Heavy Weather.
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Since you's already covered most of the Jaco story, I'll add "Night Passage" by Weather Report as a prime contender for the best of Jaco in WR... and "Bright Size Life" by Pat Metheny and a mentor of mine named Bob Moses, which opened most peoples' ears to Jaco.
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yep, faldage, that was the message I got as well. The heading at the top of the screen was Bad Referer.
But apart from that, it's a great site, etaoin. I might even fork out good money for it. Thanks for drawing it to our attention.
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I love Double dactyls.... I wrote one about a horny songwriter (which is as close to a horny poet as you can get...)
Jiggery-Pokery
Ziggy Stardustian
Rumored to have had a
Fling with a Stone.
Mick says it was a lie
Bi-sexuality
Isn't his thing unless
Keith's home alone.
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Are you guys all played out on this thread? I hope not. Hi, my name is Lisa and I'm a dactylholic...
Trippily-Frippily
Tim Leary, PhD
Author, Philosopher
Observed the mind.
On acid his world seemed
Kaleidoscopical
Still he sought answers 'til
Death he did find.
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Welcome, Lisa! ...not at all played out...never...just outtta site-outta mind... I have to ask... do you have a sister named Alba? How many times have you heard that one...??? -------------- ...meanwhile... Orkinzie Morkinzie musick dichotomuse yanking yer chain as it dangles in air few of his comments are misunderstandable spoken nonsequitur no one should care
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Actually I have one of those long Italian names that ends in "ello" but no one, and I mean NO ONE has ever pronounced it correctly so I stopped using the whole thing. No one mispronounces (or mis-reads since we are not actually speaking aloud...) just Tross. So, I have never heard the "do you have a sister named Alba" line... It's a good one though, I like it. I may change my screen name to it...
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ctually I have one of those long Italian names that ends in "ello" but no one, and I mean NO ONE has ever pronounced it correctly so I stopped using the whole thing.
One of our regular contributors here is trilingual - she is an Italian mathematician with excellent English. If anybody could say your name properly, it would be emanuela
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Yes, please let us all have a go at the loooooooong Italian name -- it sounds delightful to me.
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