Word: convert
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...These are zealots and they're out to convert you to the worship of the ukelele. Ask why one of the lineup, Jonty Bankes, appears to be playing a bass guitar, and Hinchcliffe explodes: "How many strings does a bass guitar have? Four. A guitar has six. So, who is to say that what is labeled a bass guitar isn't a bass ukulele? Bill Wyman, Paul McCartney, it's time you admitted what you truly are." So next time you mime to a track, bass cranked up high, remember?it's air ukelele you're playing. www.ukuleleorchestra.com
...stoically by orchestra leader George Hinchcliffe, is a strange brew indeed. Even better are the medleys, which might fuse up to seven songs, including a Handel air, Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon and Hotel California by the Eagles. These are zealots and they're out to convert you to the worship of ukelele. Query that one of the lineup, Jonty Bankes, appears to be playing a bass guitar, and Hinchcliffe explodes: "How many strings does a bass guitar have? Four. A guitar has six. So, who is to say that what is labeled a bass guitar...
...income. But mainly theater owners. When they hear the word digital, they reach for their digitalis. Already feeling the hit from the 13% slump in moviegoing over the past three years, they aren't eager to spend the more than $3 billion or so that it would cost to convert approximately 36,000 film projectors to digital...
They stand in “the pit,” handing out flyers that explain exactly why everyone who doesn’t convert is going to hell. Effective message? Just down the steps, the garbage is full of leaflets...
...then divided into five smaller groups. One participant at the Pyneses' house, a retired pastor named John White, also attends a conventional church, where he gives classes on how to found, or plant, the house variety. "Church," he says, "is not just about a meeting." Jeanine is a passionate convert: "I'd never go back to a traditional church. I love what we're doing...