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Title: Scrotumgate
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 28, 2009, 04:36 AM

Budding male cellists can heave a sigh of relief :

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/exposed-the-myth-of-cello-scrotum-1517846.html

 :-[

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: mahesh2k on January 28, 2009, 04:56 AM

Baroness Elaine Murphy, a cross-bench peer and former Professor of Psychiatry at Guy's Hospital, has confessed to manufacturing a medical condition which only existed in her imagination.

:D

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: tomos on January 28, 2009, 07:36 AM

what about the poor guitar players lol

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: 40hz on January 28, 2009, 05:48 PM

Thanks Carol!

I always wanted to study the cello, but hesitated due to concerns about my health ;D

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: cranioscopical on January 28, 2009, 09:35 PM

This thread reminds me of the remark, attributed to Sir Thomas Beecham, addressed to a lady cellist with whose rehearsal performance he was displeased.

What did he say?

“Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it”

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 29, 2009, 04:44 AM

ROFL - what a brilliant comment. (Name dropping I knew his son ... albeit many years ago)

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: cranioscopical on January 29, 2009, 06:34 AM

Name dropping I knew his son ... albeit many years ago

-Carol Haynes (January 29, 2009, 04:44 AM)

Small world, and I've taken his Little Liver Pills  ;)

Title: Re: Scrotumgate
Post by: xtabber on February 02, 2009, 04:46 PM

He is also credited with:

Mary had a little watch
She swallowed it one day
She took a box of Beecham's Pills
To pass the time away.

(in response to someone asking him whether he was embarrassed by the advertising jingles for Beecham's pills)