OT - Please Do Not Answer Easy Questions

MUTTLEY wrote on 3/16/2004, 12:29 PM

Look folks, I have a very small role to play here on this forum and I am continually annoyed to no end when someone else answers a simple question that I could have answered.

Here are a few examples of Mutt in action:

Example Number One

And this one:

Example Number Two

Not to shabby huh ? But let me point out that the only way I was able to jump in on these topics was because of the abnormal hours I keep. Luck and timing my friends, luck and timing.

So all you big shot pros and know it alls, please leave topics like these alone. Throw me a bone every once in a while wouldja ? Leave a few scraps every now and again so I feel like I have a little something to to offer. Save your greater efforts for the those truly complex and mind-numbing questions that I, for example, might ask.

I appreciate your full cooperation in this matter and thank you for your time.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

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AlanC wrote on 3/17/2004, 9:47 AM

One for Muttley

How do you turn on a USB-based sound system?

MisterPat wrote on 3/17/2004, 9:50 AM

It all depends on if you have dials, switches or voice activated, but you have to turn on the microphone to activate the speakers firstly, if you have voice activated control.

MUTTLEY wrote on 3/17/2004, 12:35 PM

DAMN ! I coulda got that one !!!

... but funny nonetheless.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

Randy Brown wrote on 3/17/2004, 2:03 PM

<<DAMN ! I coulda got that one !!!>>

Ya snooze ya lose bud ...but you know you never did answer my question (the first reply).
Thanks,
Buford

epirb wrote on 3/17/2004, 3:32 PM

A USB sound system stands for Usually Sounds Bad.
Therefore I reccomend getting a SKA or Sounds Kick A$$ system,
or try carpooling.

MR.Vegas Obvious Guy.

VOGuy wrote on 3/18/2004, 3:04 PM

Don't feel too stupid earthrisers... I have been called back to re-record several times in my career due to:

(1) Engineer forgot to take recorder out of "Safe" mode before recording.
(2) Engineer threaded tape oxide-out. (That was some time ago.)
(3) Producer thougt backup DAT wasn't necessary (Happend 5 times.)
(4) Producer didn't plug mic into camcorder - audio was recorded from quite a distance by camcorder mike.
(5) Engineer bulk-erased tape AFTER recording.
(6) Engineer put wrong machine in record mode, recording over my part.
(7) Engineer recorded to removable hard drive, along with another project. for another client, which the client took with him
(8) Unknown reasons, but there was no audio on the recording.

Some of these happend at big-time hollywood studios.

kentwolf wrote on 3/18/2004, 7:52 PM

>>...Throw me a bone every once in a while wouldja ?...

That *is* pretty funny!

efiebke wrote on 3/18/2004, 8:27 PM

"How many licks does it take to get to the center of a totsie roll totsie pop?"

I'm still waiting for the answer!

ROTFLMAO!

LOVE the humor! :)

Ted

CrazyRussian wrote on 3/18/2004, 8:43 PM

This is pretty funny, but the most funniest part of all is the feeling I have about the very fist post.... I really think he was serious. I think, it was NOT ment to be funny...that's why it took him 20 threads to answer... and i remember some of his previous posts on different topics, in all of them he sounded like .... nothing else but Universal-Studios-like production

but, yeah....

throw me a bone ....

Funny

MUTTLEY wrote on 3/18/2004, 9:37 PM

CrazyRussian, sorry ya didn't seem to understand the nature of tongue-in-cheek post, but apparently most others did. I was only humored after one of the simple basic pat answers I gave in another thread ( that I linked in my original post ). This whole thing was a self-deprecating poke at myself. And yea I let it go awhile before piping in cuz, quite frankly, it was more funny just to read along. As for the " Universal-Studios-like production ", I'm not sure I understand what your getting at but I will say that I'm sorry if you didnt appreciate my attempt at humor.

Regardless, I enjoyed the ride, glad a few others appeared to as well. After all, if we can't poke fun of ourselves, who can we poke fun at ?

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

Randy Brown wrote on 3/19/2004, 6:50 AM

Crazy Russian, you would understand Ray's delightful humor better had you seen his recent "Valentine's" video. You owe it to yourself to check it out if it's still up at his website. And even if we didn't know Ray so well I know what the hell he's talking about man...you get help from this forum so much that one just wants to give something back! And it's very frustrating (when one of your genius buds here had to take the time to give someone an answer to some very elementary question that could EASILY be found in the help files or a search here) when you could have answered it. My problem has been that I have beat the pros to the punch and felt good about giving back to the community and then, I'll be damned if I didn't give a wrong answer!
One of these days though....
Randy

cubelodyte wrote on 3/19/2004, 7:35 AM

Let's put this tootsie roll pop thing to rest.

One.
A-tuh-Hoo.
Thrrrrrre.

Three!