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Take one rubber band, attach one end to the handle on the top drawer of your desk, attach the other end to a lower drawer on your desk (depending on length of rubber band/intended frequency response). Make sure you don't break the rubber band, you need it in a loop so you have two strands.
Take one strand in the fingers of your left hand and adjust tension for pitch as you play on the other strand. Hours of fun.
Oh, just managed a pretty useful rendition of Misty.....
TJ
You work alone don't you?
Paper airplane cubicle bingo:
Get together with a few office buddies around the watercooler with a map of the cube layout for your area. Write down point values for different cubicles, head back to your own, and start making paper airplanes.
The rest should be obvious.
Bonus points:
Extra points awarded for causing the paper airplane to "nose in" to the crack where four cubes join, but only if it stays put and sticks up like a flag.
Automatic "win" for driving that anal retentive twerp (there's one on every floor) into a hissy fit.
Automatic "loss" for picking off the boss as he comes around the corner to see what all the fuss is about. Normally, this would be a "win" but the problem was that picking off the boss inevitably caused a conclusion to the game.
I was paid (bribed?) to keep my musical talents to myself. Some things, I was told, are just too good to share.
Our offices (yah right - 8'x8', no door, half height walls - sounds cubiclar to me) were spaced around a mezzanine and we invested much quality time in launching paper helicopters, attempting to land unnoticed on the receptionists head.
These days I am the sole indentured servant of a major backwards double sob and fun is nowhere to be found in the toil description. Pity poor me.
You work alone don't you?
I know you were eagerly awaiting the formation of the TJ Rubberband Big Band but you're right, it isn't going to happen, I work alone. Can't even do a duo. It's a shame because I want to express my talents with like-minded musicians.
"I work alone". That sounds really sinister when you say it slowly.
TJ
TJ I will pay $5 for an MP3 of the James Bond theme as performed by you on rubber band.
You mean I can make money doing this?!
TJ
You mean I can make money doing this?!
As long as you don't forget to flip a few coins (royalties) to "Money Penny."
Signing up new affiliates, TJ? ;)
As long as you don't forget to flip a few coins (royalties) to "Money Penny."
Apparently Monty Norman owns the publishing rights to the tune, so I'd have to probably cut him in a share too.
Can one submit this stuff to mp3 dot com or similar?
Since my first post, I have mastered a number of other tunes, and even managed my own composition "The India Rubber Ska (c)(p)".
TJ
Syzygy
(First link I could find that had a soundbite [jr.com] - sorry it's on a commercial site, I'm not trying to make anyone buy it!)
BTW if you get lots of rubber bands wrapped together you could play rubber ball by Bobby Vee
Bouncie bouncie - bouncie bouncie!;)
Ray
I can turn almost anything into a noisy drum.
Incidentally, I hate to get back to f@rting but this is quite funny. It may get snipped but it's funny so what the hell! I remember a few years ago a guy I worked with telling me that he has woke that morning suffering from a serious wind problem (gas for our friends in the colonies) and as he was striding into work. He let go uncontrollably.
The problem was that he was striding and it was released as a PARP, parp - PARP, parp - PARP, parp, PARP , parp. He immediately thought of the introduction to Sandie Shaw's "Puppet on a String" and burst into song".
"PARP parp
PARP parp
PARP parp
PARP parp
I wonder if one day that, you'll say that, you care
If you say you love me madly, I'll gladly, be there
Like a puppet on a string ... "
If your ever in East Anglia/Midlands let me know
Drummers are ten a penny round here!:)
That's why we sometimes have 2
EW
Probably much older than you - not long to go before I`ll be a roadie with a zimmer frame!
EW
not long to go before I`ll be a roadie with a zimmer frame!
That'll make the perfect rack for my rubber bands.
You're in.
We can discuss salary and perks later
TJ
Can you turn Lix Hurley into a drummer for us - the boys would luv it!
ummmmmmm
If your ever in East Anglia/Midlands let me know
Is that in Idaho? I'd have to go all the way to Sandpoint to find a good drum circle; so I don't get to go - too far to walk. I heard there were a couple of good ones over in Missoula too. Alas.
So you'll remember Sandie Shaw too?
More to the point: when I first watched Dr No Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny looked old and sexy. Now she looks young and sexy. Isn't digital remastering wonderful? ;)
