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In the style of the tMP Dictionary, but the other way round, i.e. give a definition that doesn't (yet) have a word to go with it, then the next person gives the word and another definition, etc...
I'll start....
- The feeling you get when you realise you should have come in half a bar ago.....
PeterBale
21.03.2007, 08:55
In the style of the tMP Dictionary, but the other way round, i.e. give a definition that doesn't (yet) have a word to go with it, then the next person gives the word and another definition, etc...
I'll start....
- The feeling you get when you realise you should have come in half a bar ago.....
How about: havimisseditosis?
The propensity for players of large instruments to belittle those at the top end of the band
steve butler
21.03.2007, 09:07
honesty
The propensity for players with small instruments to drool at big boys
Bassis Envy :biggrin:
The feeling a conductor gets when he realises he just beat too many/ to few beats in the bar...
Percussionalia :tongue:
The sinking feeling you get during a major solo when you realise your 1st valve slide is full of water...
Bubblisteriapanicosis.
The explosive noise caused by coughing, belching, sneezing and breathing in simultaneously.
steve butler
22.03.2007, 13:31
vibrato.
The horrible feeling when you realise you should have used the solo part after all!
oopsmissisolo
The slight deafness suffered by principal corents due to the sop player aiming just above their right ear....
bassmittens
02.04.2007, 16:12
squeakiisoppittus
The dizziness experienced from chucking your lungs down a bass at fff for 6 bars without a breath.........
lungemptivertigosis
The narrowing of vision caused by holding the last note of "Pines of Rome" on just half a beat too long at ffff..
Ipswich trom
10.04.2007, 14:48
Appianismosis
Ipswich trom
10.04.2007, 14:48
Appianismosis
The feeling of horror that overwhelms you when you realise you are playing an arrangement of a classical concerto in the wrong key.
mikelyons
09.02.2008, 09:32
Orchestraclefinosis
The feeling you get in the pit of your stomach just before you play the fff pedal C when you can hear the rest of the band is ppp and you don't know if you are in the right place or not but you are going to go for it anyway.
steve butler
09.02.2008, 10:11
S*itorbustosis
The feeling you have after just completing a virtuoso (in your head) solo performance, only to be greeted by tepid applause bordering on silence.
mikelyons
16.02.2008, 13:11
Deflategoitis
The main way of making friends and achieving success in the brass band communit.
steve butler
16.02.2008, 15:26
firstroundplusbrownnosedness
The correct method for controlling a sustained ppp top Eb
mikelyons
19.02.2008, 18:31
clenchandhope
The single child who is brought up in a brass band family.
steve butler
19.02.2008, 20:55
pete de foie bras
the term for a tuning slide that wont budge
Mesmerist
19.02.2008, 21:49
triggamortis
the inability to "swing" in a brass band
steve butler
19.02.2008, 22:53
hornogomy
the ability to play two instruments at the same time
Mesmerist
19.02.2008, 22:57
multiplability (usually only occuring in the female gender)
roger webster type ability
mikelyons
23.02.2008, 14:15
superduperscreamability
The sound made by a BBb bass player missing the bass rest in front of his chair and hitting the Flugel player sitting in front of him.
MrsDoyle
04.08.2009, 16:19
Bangranquez
A bass player receiving a parking ticket
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