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i just heard a fully grown adult say "it's a long story; i'll give you the twitter version"

[context - smith was bowled out for a duck in the cricket]

me: how much does smith make for a game?

dad: half a million dollars?

me: tell you what. for only a quarter of a million, i, too, will stand in front of a large crowd of people and not score any runs.

dad: you're the wrong gender

me: oh, right, my mistake.

me: for fifty thousand dollars,

conductor: now it's written as staccato but I think that's a lie

conductor: brahms is dead, who cares.

you might call it the daft punk of the mendelssohn era

my conductor, referring to a really annoying bit in the piece we’re playing

[scene: playing through a mendelssohn concerto]

conductor: from letter N, for.... nendelssohn

flute: wait, did you say N or M?

conductor: N for.... nancy mendelssohn. was that his wife's name, nancy?

conductor: ok, we can skip this, it's in a nice friendly key you can sightread later

someone behind me: uhhhhhhhhh

conductor: ok, from letter P, everyone that's in 12-8

flute: wait, are some people not in 12-8?

conductor: yeah

brass: yeah, we're not

flute: what is this? P for protest!

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