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Here's a classic piece of advice from Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. He must have recorded it umpty-nine times, as was the practice back in the days when the the master recordings would degrade after a finite number of pressings. It's an oddly laconic version, as compared with his original manic lecture to the hapless youth. But truth is truth, whether served up hot or cool, so listen up cubs!
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umpty-nine? where'd you get that?
ReplyDeleteWhat we have here....is a failure to c'ommunicate. (said the chain
ReplyDeletegang boss).
The famous number theorist and hyper-inventive mathematician (in part for a steady diet of speed), Paul Erdos, categorized society thusly:
children = "epsilons" (a small quantity, such as found in beginning calculus epsilon-delta proofs)
women = "masters" ('obviously!', say some)
men = "slaves" (thus it follows)
So, at least to his sensibilities, it was all squared away and he could get on with mathematics.
Perhaps parenthetically, in number theory there are currently and thus far thought to be only two sets of "trans-infinities", and the sets do not intersect.
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ReplyDeleteR. Crumb likes his 78's. Coincidence? Yea, probably (couldn't resist).
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Anon #1: Where'd I get it? In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee, sometime in the late nineteen-tenties. It cost a dollar three-eighty.
ReplyDeleteAnon #2: Erdos's crank only got him to an exoteric minor truth. He should have delved into Pythagoras more deeply.
Anon #3: Lots of the music I treasure was first recorded on shellac discs. Crumb loves the music and fetishes the discs; I can get by without the discs.
we anons are not interchangable.
ReplyDeleteBut now I remember-- umpty-nine was about how many little liver pills Carter's had. Or was it umpteen?
On another note-- is StuporMundi thinking of changing the handle to, say, Louis Jarvis?
Anon #1a: it was umpty-something. Maybe the number of welts after someone pounded lumps on you.
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