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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Jun 2013, 19:00

Title: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Jun 2013, 19:00
It is also Jón Sigurðsson's birthday.
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: celticgeek on 16 Jun 2013, 19:24
Pen-blwydd Hapus! 

Iechyd Da!
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: cesium133 on 16 Jun 2013, 19:47
An 88-string guitar? Wouldn't that be the size of a piano? Or IS it a piano?
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Post by: mustang6172 on 16 Jun 2013, 20:40
I think a harpsichord would be closer to a guitar than a piano; however, I have no idea how many strings a harpsichord would have.
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: celticgeek on 16 Jun 2013, 21:09
And having an account cracked on your birthday is an especially crappy thing to happen.
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Post by: GarandMarine on 16 Jun 2013, 21:50
Happy birthday Jeph!
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Post by: Near Lurker on 16 Jun 2013, 22:28
33?

...geez, when I signed up for this forum, then, he was younger than I am...
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Post by: Loki on 16 Jun 2013, 22:31
...I expect he is still younger than you?


Happy Birthday Jeph!
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Jun 2013, 23:06
An 88-string guitar? Wouldn't that be the size of a piano? Or IS it a piano?

I win on obscure cultural references! Lehrer had a monologue about how folk music should be performed on folk instruments, and since his piano didn't qualify as such he asked his audience to pretend he was playing an 88-string gee-tahr.
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Jun 2013, 00:41
I think a harpsichord would be closer to a guitar than a piano; however, I have no idea how many strings a harpsichord would have.

5-octaves (sometimes missing a sharp key in the bass), so 60 or 61 strings per stop; small harpsichords have just the one set of strings, but larger ones may have two or three (separately selectable by a stop mechanism), so up to 183 strings.  Exceptionally, in Ireland only (strange but true), some instruments had a range of 5 octaves and a tone, so up to six more strings.  Instruments with four courses of strings exist but are very rare.

Oops, where am I?  Oh yes - Happy Birthday, Jeph!
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Jun 2013, 01:33
You mean this isn't the physics subforum and the string theory thread?
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Post by: Loki on 17 Jun 2013, 02:01
[thread derailing]
Oops, where am I?  Oh yes - Happy Birthday, Jeph!

You had ONE job!  :x
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: toffee-skye on 17 Jun 2013, 02:17
Happy Birthday Jeph! thank you for all the comics!
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Post by: Welu on 17 Jun 2013, 03:49
I got the 88 string guitar reference before it was explained! Whoo!

Happy day of birth, Jeph!
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Post by: Zebediah on 17 Jun 2013, 04:19
Punnishment. Jeph must be punnished.

Also, when did the forum get autocorrect? It kept trying to "fix" my joke.  :roll:
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: techkid on 17 Jun 2013, 04:26
[bad pun]
Also, when did the forum get autocorrect?
The forums knew that the server would collapse from the collective groans of us Questionables.

Happy birthday Jeph!
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Post by: Masterpiece on 17 Jun 2013, 04:36
*waves*

Happy birthday, Jephzibah! Thank you for bringing all of us forumites together!
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: TadPrime on 17 Jun 2013, 04:42
Happy increment day!
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Jun 2013, 05:03
Also, when did the forum get autocorrect? It kept trying to "fix" my joke.  :roll:

That's not the forum - probably your browser.
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: jwhouk on 17 Jun 2013, 05:37
Happy birthday, Jeph!
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Post by: TheEvilDog on 17 Jun 2013, 07:15
Breithlá shona duit Jeph.
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Post by: ankhtahr on 17 Jun 2013, 09:38
From me as well: Happy Birthday Jeph!
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Post by: Emoroffle on 17 Jun 2013, 10:27
Feliz cumpleanos senor artista.
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 17 Jun 2013, 10:31
...I expect he is still younger than you?
On the contrary, NL is quite a bit younger than Jeph. Jeph's age when NL joined the forum (nearly nine years ago, wow) is lower than NL's current age, which I'm guessing is rather close to mine (25).

Oh, and happy birthday, Jeph!
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Post by: FunkyTuba on 17 Jun 2013, 10:44
HBJJ!
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Post by: Storel on 17 Jun 2013, 16:55
An 88-string guitar? Wouldn't that be the size of a piano? Or IS it a piano?

I win on obscure cultural references! Lehrer had a monologue about how folk music should be performed on folk instruments, and since his piano didn't qualify as such he asked his audience to pretend he was playing an 88-string gee-tahr.

I got the 88 string guitar reference before it was explained! Whoo!

So did I. Those interested in hearing Tom Lehrer's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer) performance of "The Folk Song Army", including his intro at the beginning that contains the 88-string guitar line, can check it out here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygMhtNQJ9M).

Happy day of birth, Jeph!

Oh, yeah, this too.  8-)
Title: Re: The Happy Birthday Jeph thread
Post by: Kugai on 17 Jun 2013, 19:01
Quap'la Jeph

Long life and prosperity to you.    :)
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Post by: onefish on 18 Jun 2013, 08:59
Yay, happy birthday! Thanks for writing a comic I've been reading and enjoying since it was on Keenspot!