My wife and I were at that game with a flight booked to Las Vegas with a departure roughly 2.5hrs after the game ended. To beat the crowd to the parking lot after the game ended we watched the last play from the lower deck close to an exit ramp. At that plays end we tore outta there "stunned/ya gotta be kidding???" at the final play and outcome.
Let this sink in..... On 12-31-23 it be will 123123. On the flip side, you can tune a piano but you can't tune-a-fish.
Years ago, I cut this cartoon out of our local newspaper, placed in in a small frame, and mounted it on the wall of my studio. About 2 in 10 students ever actually notice it. The ones who do get the joke- and LTAO.
This no doubt will emotionally shatter both the Human and Chimp.
Sad.....
Zoo Bans Woman Having 'Affair' With Chimpanzee From Seeing Him BY SARA SANTORA ON 8/23/21 AT 12:05 PM EDT
A woman in Belgium has reportedly been banned from visiting the chimpanzees at a local zoo after developing a close bond with one of them. According to zoo officials, her "affair" with the primate was preventing him from bonding with the other chimps, reports ATV.
Multiple outlets report that Adie Timmermans has been visiting Chita, a 38-year-old chimpanzee at the Antwerp Zoo, each week for the past four years. In that time, Timmermans claims that she and Chita have forged a strong friendship.
"I love that animal and he loves me," Timmermans said in an interview with ATV, according to LadBible.
Timmermans's relationship with Chita has reportedly consisted of the two waving and blowing kisses to each other through the glass. On the surface, the interactions seem harmless. But zoo officials say that their friendship has proved detrimental to Chita's social status with the other chimpanzees.
"When Chita is constantly surrounded by visitors, the other monkeys ignore him and don't consider him part of the group, even though it's important for him," a spokesperson for the zoo told ATV. "He then sits on his own outside of visiting hours."
In an effort to promote Chita's social wellbeing, the zoo allegedly banned Timmermans from visiting him.
"I haven't got anything else. Why do they want to take that away?" she asked in her interview with ATV. "We're having an affair, I'll just say. Other dozens of visitors are allowed to make contact. Then why not me?"
The zoo explained that Chita might be too focused on Timmermans to bond with his peers.
"An animal that is too focused on people is less respected by its peers," the zoo said. "We want Chita to be a chimpanzee as much as possible."
LadBible reports that Chita has spent 30 years at the zoo. Sarah Lafaut, curator at the Antwerp Zoo explained that prior to his time at the zoo, he was someone's pet, but eventually became "unmanageable." Though he's learned chimpanzee behavior at the zoo, he still has a bond with and an interest in humans. Which, apparently, isn't unheard of.
A 2014 study conducted by Stephen Ross and Hani Freedman showed that chimpanzees that had been separated from their mothers early and raised primarily by humans showed "social deficiencies" many years later.
"Grooming is the glue that holds chimpanzee society together," Ross told Wired in 2014. "We found chimpanzees that were around humans a lot early in life tended not to do a lot of this behavior, even much later, after they learned to live with other chimpanzees. They just weren't good at maintaining these social bonds, and that was expressed by these lower rates of grooming."
Sadly, Chita may always struggle to bond with his peers. Hopefully, handlers at the zoo can help him learn to adapt to life with his fellow primates.
We had the largest back yard on the block. It was exactly 50 yards deep-perfect for young boys' backyard pickup football games. My backyard was the neighborhood Muni.
We'd start up a game, get right to the good part, and I'd get called in to practice. "Jim Brown" had to leave the game to become Pablo Casals. At that point, the others would continue the game right outside my window. "We ain't goin' home just because you have to practice...." Sometimes, they'd group at the window, and try to taunt me with my own football! I'd flip them some birds, and get back to work. It was all good- Once I got into the musiking, I didn't care what went on in the rest of the world, anyway.
In my original post, I mentioned that 20% of my students 'got it'- that's because they were the actual dedicated ones-future music majors and professionals. The other 80%? Hobbyists, dillitants, and 2nd-teamers. Kids who played backyard football instead of practicing. All were welcome in my studio, and each got the best I could give, without favor to any. Still, I could tell who was whom just by the way they reacted to the cartoon... or if they even noticed it at all.
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Gary Larsen (the cartoonist) must have a musical background. About 10% of his output was directly related to music... with an insight that could only come from being an insider.
at the final play and outcome.
