So, my father-in-law shows up with a organ Says he got it at a recyling center-landfill site for five bucks. 1970's model "Venus with Genie." It's been a quarter century since I had an organ or piano. Maybe I'll learn to play it.

38 years as a music fan, none of them spent really playing anything. In fact, my mom was just given a piano that was at the Bible Camp I went to when I was a kid. The only song I ever wrote I wrote on that piano, though I didn't actually know how to play it.

Maybe I can become a prog rock God in my 40's. I can play Can for the moose and drunken VFW guys.

Sweet, man. Take some lessons, or something.

I asked for a banjo for Christmas. I hope I get one.

My grandad had an organ. He taught me to play it when I was a kid and I could even read music. This was when I was about 7 years old. Anyway I didn't keep at it and now I have no musical talent whatsoever. It's all forgotten. I had more talent when I was 4 feet tall than I do now.

I think I have an organ. It's electric, has two keyboards, some pedals, and a bunch of tubes on the inside. Could that be an organ?

It's buried under a huge pile of junk. Someone gave it to my folks when she moved.

That's an organ. Yes. Or maybe a time machine. Or a bomb of some sort.

I have all my major organs.

Mr. Grammar Lump, why is it "a obner" but "an organ?" When I say "An orgasm is to be strove for" or "I've an oliphant for a supervisor" am I being deterministically correct?

"An orgasm," "an adz" or "an umlaut" are perfectly correct. "A obner," however, is the only allowable exception to the "a/an" rule, making the English language that much more fun and arbitrary. This has been established through precedent, viz the original turn of phrase "I have a obner."

Also, it's funnier.

People who say "an historic..." are self-important prigs what should be beaten with jackhandles.

I could've swore this thread was going to involve either the word liver or the word kidney.

and yet, with the vow to never use it, you have used it.

Maybe aaron won't beat you with a jack handle now.

[obner]As I've played around with my organ I've discovered it has more sustains than I know what to do with. [/obner]

Thanks for picking up on that.