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Ok I bet your wife never made this request.

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:18 am
by quincy451
Ok my wife is way into cats. She wants a lynx point Himalayan kitten. Now she offered to trade a new guitar for it. I don't want much. Just a solid top classical guitar that is hopefully well made with good sound. I intend to add electronics after the fact on it. So I can get exactly what I want in terms of the electronics. Wife has not been brought up to speed on that.

After all we was talking about my guitars and she said they looked a like to her. So I bought them out. One is nylon string, one steel. One has a cut away and one does not...etc etc etc. Yea about the same she says.

So then she brought up a request that about had me busting up:
She wants to use my old guitar for taking kitten pictures.
I am like you want me to remove the strings right? Well of course she says.

She thinks a picture of my guitar with a small kitten poking out the sound hole would be cute.

Bet you never got that request....

Now the question is should I let her do this?

Re:Ok I bet your wife never made this request.

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:47 am
by haoli25
I would say NO, David. Cats (or dogs) and guitars are not a good mix. Cats will scratch them and dogs will pee on them. We have a big stupid cat named "Stevens", (hey, Yusuf wasn't using it anymore) and I have convinced him that evil spirits dwell inside of all of my guitars. His well-being depends on continuing that myth. :laugh:



Bill

Re:Ok I bet your wife never made this request.

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:28 am
by willem
Well i say do it man you never know what sound you get out of that.

I bet its gonna be a miauwing sound..

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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:26 am
by dennisg
I think that was the inspiration for Harry Chapin writing "Cat's in the Cradle."

- Dennis (in Seattle)

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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:32 pm
by Moondog
Happy wife = Happy life

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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:27 pm
by chard
Moondog wrote:
Happy wife = Happy life
'nuf said.

So I'll say more: ;)
Use your least valuable guitar -- they all look the same to her anyway -- and she'll be happy and grateful. Share the photos when they're done!

Re:Ok I bet your wife never made this request.

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:39 pm
by haoli25
dennisg wrote:
I think that was the inspiration for Harry Chapin writing "Cat's in the Cradle."

- Dennis (in Seattle)




As I remember the story, Harry's wife Sandy had written a poem called "Cat's In The Cradle" years before meeting Harry. It was a (not-so-flattering) poem about her ex-husband. Harry set the poem to music for her and listed Sandy as a co-writer on the album.

Bill

Re:Ok I bet your wife never made this request.

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:43 pm
by AndyT
If wife is unhappy, Everybody is unhappy.

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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:45 pm
by BigBear
That's a good one!! I wonder if my Golden Retrievers would fit in the sound hole? LOL! :laugh:

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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:41 pm
by Catman
fjvdb wrote:
Use your least valuable guitar
No, no, NO! You have to buy a special guitar for this! And I should know...

CatMan