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To: Don Earl who wrote (4736)	12/23/2003 9:02:29 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20039

OT Re: You can't teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. Thanks for reminding me. A few years ago a friend of mine who'd been a music professor at UC-Berkeley told of the time when Zubin Mehta was the conductor of the San Francisco Symphony. Every year, a certain matron would come to the board of directors meeting and demand that the Symphony play Wagner. Mehta, year after year resisted, pointing out that Wagner wasn't the best they could do. Yet she persisted. Finally, in exasperation Mehta told her that "Madam, it is impossible to make a silk ear out of sow's purse." She promptly joined the opera board.

To: Don Earl who wrote (4736)	12/24/2003 7:22:01 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 20039

...when they mouth off at the local bar... I was at a redneck bar in Charleston TN last night, lifting Buds with the locals, when talk turned to politics. I was shocked to hear the anger these blue collar types had toward our pResident. They were shocked, but not surprised, to hear from me how he continued to read about a pet goat after the Towers were struck, how he spirited the bin Ladens out of the country post-911, and how practically everything he does or says turns out to be phony. And these were core GOP folks. I have thought for some time now that the RWEs have been underestimating the anger out there that is directed toward them. I think they are in for a nasty surprise next November.