My conertina is distracting me.

[rayce]

My wonderful 2003 Tedrow is keeping me from working on 4 research papers due in 3 days. Any remedies? Or am I doomed to late night scrambling?

[Geraghty]

Find a trusted friend or relative and give the concertina to that person to be held until you can produce four completed research papers.

[Jody Kruskal]

Someone on this forum once suggested:

 

"the only way to deal with temptation is yield to it."

[Woody]

Find a trusted friend or relative and give the concertina to that person to be held until you can produce four completed research papers.

Or even better - find a trusted friend, relative or colleague who can produce the four completed research papers for you thus freeing up loads of time for playing the Concertina!

[Chris Timson]

Personally I have the opposite problem. Everyday life keeps getting in the way of playing my concertina. Most working days I seem to waste valuable playing time sitting in an office telling computers to do fundamentally uninteresting and certainly unmusical things. The problem is that otherwise I don't get the money to be able to buy more concertinas.

 

Ay de mi! Life is so unfair, sometimes.

 

Chris

[Stephen Chambers]

Someone on this forum once suggested:

 

"the only way to deal with temptation is yield to it."

 

I thought that was Oscar Wilde...

[Jody Kruskal]

Someone on this forum once suggested:

 

"the only way to deal with temptation is yield to it."

 

I thought that was Oscar Wilde...

Yes, I believe you are right about the quote being from him. I had no Idea Oscar Wilde played concertina.

[Chris Timson]

He was obsessed with it. Don't you remember his famous comment "All art is quite useless, unless it involves the concertina", from the introduction to The Anglo Of Dorian Gray?

 

Chris

[Stephen Chambers]

I had no Idea Oscar Wilde played concertina.

 

Perhaps he took it up after hearing Marie Lachenal play, when he was having photographs taken by Debenham & Gould at the Glen View Studios in 1887? (Marie was married to the photographer Edwin Debenham.)

 

[michael sam wild]

Plagiarise dear boy and keep playing!

 

 

[Stephen Chambers]

Plagiarise dear boy and keep playing!

 

Who made me the genius I am today

The mathematician that others all quote

Who's the professor that made me that way

The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat

 

One man deserves the credit

One man deserves the blame

And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hi!

Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache-

 

 

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics. Plagiarize!

 

Plagiarize

Let no one else's work evade your eyes

Remember why the good Lord made your eyes

So don't shade your eyes

But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize

Only be sure always to call it please "research"

 

And ever since I meet this man

My life is not the same

And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hi!

Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache-

 

 

I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It was on analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold. Bozhe moi! This I know from nothing. What I'm going to do? But I think of great Lobachevsky and get idea - ahah!

 

I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk

Whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk

With friend in Akmolinsk

His friend in Alexandrovsk has friend in Petropavlovsk

Whose friend somehow is solving now

The problem in Dnepropetrovsk

 

And when his work is done - ha ha! - begins the fun

From Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk

By way of Iliysk and Novorossiysk

To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk

To Tomsk to Omsk to Pinsk to Minsk

To me the news will run

Yes, to me the news will run

 

And then I write, by morning, night

And afternoon, and pretty soon

My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed

When he finds out I publish first

 

And who made me a big success

And brought me wealth and fame

Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hi!

Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache-

 

 

I am never forget the day my first book is published. Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory. This book was sensational! Pravda - well, Pravda said: perzhnavisk. It stinks. But Izvestia! Izvestia said: parachnavor. It stinks. Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles, changing title to "The Eternal Triangle," with Ingrid Bergman playing part of hypotenuse.

 

And who deserves the credit

And who deserves the blame

Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hi!

 

Lobachevsky by Tom Lehrer

[michael sam wild]

Nowadays you don't even need Tipex as my students found early on. But as we are in England I insisted they spell it sulphur or honour or colour etc.

 

Cut to the paste:)

[JimLucas]

Someone on this forum once suggested:

 

"the only way to deal with temptation is yield to it."

I thought that was Oscar Wilde...

Yes, I believe you are right about the quote being from him. I had no Idea Oscar Wilde played concertina.

And this is how rumo(u)rs get started.

Pretty soon this "fact" will have been copied all over the internet, usually without attribution, but occasionally with Concertina.net cited as the "authoritative" source.

[rayce]

Well, my papers weren't that great, but I got a little better at concertina!

[michael sam wild]

And that skill and pleasure will last all your life. I suppose we all make a decision , sensible or not, as to how much to devote to our professional or other qualifictions and how much to our other personal development.

sometimes it can lead down alternate trails whose desination is not clear or charted at the outset.

 

 

What 'roads less travelled' have others here taken. I settled for a full personal life and a 2.2 in Zoology and a life as a teacher but overall and looking back Je regret rien. One never knows how it will turn out.