Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Mine goes to 12

There is a great scene from the movie Spinal Tap:

Nigel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel: Exactly.
Marty: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty: I don't know.
Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel: [pause] These go to eleven.

Well Nigel, I can top that.  Mine goes to 12.  That's TWO louder.


Happy 12th birthday to my very special daughter, who may yet push me over the cliff.

The candles are stuck into fruit snacks.   They weren't going to stand up straight in the strawberries .


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