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April 16, 2024 at 7:03 pm
The lyre used to be such a popular musical instrument, and yet no one has been playing it for generations. Perhaps because it evolved into a guitar?
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April 16, 2024 at 7:23 pm
(April 16, 2024 at 7:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The lyre used to be such a popular musical instrument, and yet no one has been playing it for generations. Perhaps because it evolved into a guitar?

Actually, it was the lute that evolved into the guitar.

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April 16, 2024 at 7:41 pm
Well then, maybe the lyre evolved into a lute and then into a guitar?

Anyway, maybe I'll teach myself to play a lyre. But if I walk into a music store and ask for a lyre, they'll probably think I'm trolling them.
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April 16, 2024 at 8:37 pm
(April 16, 2024 at 7:41 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Well then, maybe the lyre evolved into a lute and then into a guitar?

Anyway, maybe I'll teach myself to play a lyre. But if I walk into a music store and ask for a lyre, they'll probably think I'm trolling them.

Lyres are mostly used for folk music intros. These are always REALLY long intros, which gives the audience a chance to retreat to a safe distance.*

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#10925
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April 16, 2024 at 9:44 pm
When lyres grow up.

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April 17, 2024 at 2:44 am
(April 16, 2024 at 9:44 pm)brewer Wrote: When lyres grow up.

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Pretty much. The lute was likely a different evolution of the lyre, but the harp is a more direct one.
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April 17, 2024 at 2:57 am




I'm currently watching this episode, and I'm surprised that they didn't actually try a simple solution: Surgeon!Dad cucked Dead!Dad years ago and the kid was the result. Okay, so, as I'm typing this, one of Archie's friends at the bar posits that explanation, even if it's just "the kid was illegitimate". But, somehow, neither Archie nor Mike came up with that answer. And even that bar friend somehow thinks "the kid was a zombie" before coming up with that solution.


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April 17, 2024 at 1:26 pm
Boy I love working from home. Wearing my new flamingo print lounge pants and a Woodstock T-shirt.
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April 17, 2024 at 2:02 pm (This post was last modified: April 17, 2024 at 2:03 pm by brewer.)
(April 17, 2024 at 1:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Boy I love working from home.  Wearing my new flamingo print lounge pants and a Woodstock T-shirt.

The bird or the event? (shirt, i think i got the pants)
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April 17, 2024 at 2:10 pm
(April 17, 2024 at 2:02 pm)brewer Wrote:
(April 17, 2024 at 1:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Boy I love working from home.  Wearing my new flamingo print lounge pants and a Woodstock T-shirt.

The bird or the event? (shirt, i think i got the pants)

Event.  But there is a bird sitting on the guitar neck.
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