This explains the blatant favoritism towards all the posters from Lansing, MI. There’s a Tuba/euphonium museum in Okemos, the next town over from them.
Anyone who is already familiar with “Tubas in the Moonlight” by the Bonzo Dog Band is streets ahead in my book. You’re a class act, TubaDiva.
I hate “me too threads”, but let me join the consensus. Some people deserve “me too threads”.
<—running to TubaDiva’s house with Makita chainsaw, fresh 2-part gasoline and sharp chain. Here, hon, let me just widen that doorway a wee bit. You enjoy every drop of the Kudos Elixer being served your way in this thread.
You are more than the cat’s pajamas in my book. You are the deeevine, sublime, so fine lady who has taken my achy breachy tender striated slivvered heart, and nurtured it back with loving friendship into something resembling humanity.
YOu are the cat’s pajamas, the cat’s meow AND the bees knees. I’m honored to call you a friend, and relentlessly terrified of screwing up here so badly that I get a detention in TubaDiva’s Detention Hall . 
( then again, an hour alone with her…hmm… 
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Cartooniverse
p.s. then AGAIN, again, I dare not imagine who else would BE in said detention hall…hmmm…