Crannog,
Dear fellow,
I have even worse news for you...
I have just been listening to a band called... 'Crannog' play a set beginning with The Clumsy Lover ...
I'm afraid your very existance is plagiaristic.
I am so, so, so very sorry....
Overall, Crannog, I should say you're well and truly stuffed there mate. The whole world is obviously against you. When I felt like that a few weeks ago I threw myself into the sea. But someone drew my fair body from the wave and made a harp out of my breastbone.
I'm now very popular at parties, wakes and ritual cursings of kin.
thank you for all your expressions of true sympathy - i take the noodle. But my plagiaristic existence will continue since a good friend from Ireland told me there once was at least one crannog in every second loch...
Actually things have moved on since then. All the Crannogs are going to be amalgamated into a big Barratt Crannog to be sited in the middle of Lough Neagh. There can only be one...
They have a lovely green knotwork door to the brewery at Crannog ales (that's at http://www.crannogales.com). It would make an ideal security entrance for the gated community at Crannog Mews®
Hey Breandan, fancy going to the "Feste d'Autumn", whatever the hell that is? I must remember to bring my packe de vingt-quatre et uno bottelli de Buckfaste
Does anyone else find these Renfair-type things a bit disconcerting? Apologies to anyone on the board who attends them but they remind me of "Mediaeval world" in Westworld.
Conan there's no problem with the hijack - it has already been established that crannog who started the thread has no legal right to exist, so there can hardly be any comeback.
I *was* your idea. It was just somebody else's first. A case of delayed morphic resonance. No Neolithic Briton was ever sued by a Neolithic Indonesian for inventing the flint spearhead ten years after him.
Can someone tell me why this "creative anachronism society" has a half naked, barefoot African serving dinner at their Autumn festival? Does it have something to do with their goal of "recreating the best of the Middle Ages and Renaissance eras"?
It's probably similar to the sort of parties that the Royal Family in this country throw, where they pick a liberal and enlightened theme like, say, 'Colonials and Natives', and then invite Hitler dressed up as Prince Harry, or something...
I always thought it had to do with faking creativity. They're really not all that hot on anachronism either. They use that word a lot, but I'm not sure it means what they think it means.
Come to think of it, I'm not all that hot on their take on "best" either. I dabbled around with it in my youth, and some of my oldest friends are still active, but it didn't really work for me.
SCAdians? They get awfully snippy if you use a dart or seam style in your costume that's not authentic, or if you can't document the historical authenticity of your character's name and background.
But they fight with lengths of PVC pipe.
I remember the early days of the SCA. It was fun. We had a guy whose "identity" was Fred of Numenor, and our Bard Gerhardt specialized in the rock'n'roll Air Lute. I got out when it became obvious that people actually prefered their SCA lives to their real ones.
Fiddlemouse, yer quite right. I used to play for SCA yulefests etc and a few I know started out in the SCA, were quite frustrated by the same sort of inconsistency you observed, and then left to start other more time-specific and historically-rigorous groups such as the Pike and Musket Society. Some SCAers really wanted to be as authentic as possible but others weren't so fussed and couldn't see the problem with dancing to CD music from a ghetto blaster instead of real musicians. It doesn't seem to work for anybody when some put a lot of work into their research and getting it "right" while others just want some kind of dungeons-and-dragons fantasy night. I found the Pike and Musket events more fun in the end even though they were even snippier about darts and seam styles (and using SILK ribbon, not synthetics!).
.... old mccrannog missed a lot of saturday night chat .... have yous no pubs to go to? cheers and according to this link http://www.waypath.com/mt/archives/000035.html everybody is a crannog.
not my idea
not my idea
how stupid I am - thought and was proud possible bandname "ceili minogue" was my idea (http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/585) but is not because since 1995 exists "ceilidh minogue" ( http://www.ceilidhminogue.co.uk/ )
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by crannog
Re: not my idea
How stupid you are!
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
You silly, silly man!
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Ottery
Re: not my idea
Sir, your airs of importance offend me!
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by sifudave54
Re: not my idea
Friggin' idiot. That is how stupid you are ;)
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Why Bother?
Re: not my idea
I am sorry to inform you, sir, that your band naming license has been revoked for malpractice.
Having clever thoughts that other clever people have already had is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put .
Please report to the Whipping With a Wet Noodle Room for the penalty phase.
KFG
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by KFG
Re: not my idea
Ooops =\
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by armandale
Re: not my idea
Crannog,
Dear fellow,
I have even worse news for you...
I have just been listening to a band called... 'Crannog' play a set beginning with The Clumsy Lover ...
I'm afraid your very existance is plagiaristic.
I am so, so, so very sorry....
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Ottery
Re: not my idea
its the luck of the Irish!
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by sifudave54
Re: not my idea
Overall, Crannog, I should say you're well and truly stuffed there mate. The whole world is obviously against you. When I felt like that a few weeks ago I threw myself into the sea. But someone drew my fair body from the wave and made a harp out of my breastbone.
I'm now very popular at parties, wakes and ritual cursings of kin.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
thank you for all your expressions of true sympathy - i take the noodle. But my plagiaristic existence will continue since a good friend from Ireland told me there once was at least one crannog in every second loch...
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by crannog
Re: not my idea
Actually things have moved on since then. All the Crannogs are going to be amalgamated into a big Barratt Crannog to be sited in the middle of Lough Neagh. There can only be one...
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: not my idea
Crannog Mews
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
Conán, Showaddy, stop it! This is getting too surreal, indirected, painfully funny
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Just a person
Re: my idea of work
Don't suppose many of you are interested in SCD. If you are, there is a mass of info on the above website on the "ceilidh dancing" button.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by geoffwright
Re: not my idea
What on earth is SCD - Scottish Ceili Disease perhaps? Scots Cant Dance? Shocking Crappy Drumming?
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
Found a saving grace! www.crannogales.com/
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
www.crannogales.com
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
try again http://crannogales.com
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
one more time - I'm suffering from Friday fatigue
http://www.crannogales.com
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
I think we've got the idea Breandan....
They have a lovely green knotwork door to the brewery at Crannog ales (that's at http://www.crannogales.com). It would make an ideal security entrance for the gated community at Crannog Mews®
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Ottery
Re: not my idea
Ha, showaddy! I told you that would happen.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by grego
Re: not my idea
Seems a bit fishy to me http://www.oceanandoak.co.uk/
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
The again, any literary contribution to http://www.crannogmagazine.com/
please
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
And he can even be found in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia http://crannogmor.atlantia.sca.org/
Preumably on the trail of the lonesome pine!
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by breandan
Re: not my idea
Hey Breandan, fancy going to the "Feste d'Autumn", whatever the hell that is? I must remember to bring my packe de vingt-quatre et uno bottelli de Buckfaste
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: not my idea
forgot this: http://crannogmor.atlantia.sca.org/page2.html
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: not my idea
Are these the renfairies that steal the plectrums?
Hey - is that Gandhi in the fifth picture?
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
Does anyone else find these Renfair-type things a bit disconcerting? Apologies to anyone on the board who attends them but they remind me of "Mediaeval world" in Westworld.
What's the standard of music like?
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: not my idea
'scuse me while I zina.
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/3638/comments#comment73027
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
Cheers. End of hijack!
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: not my idea
Conan there's no problem with the hijack - it has already been established that crannog who started the thread has no legal right to exist, so there can hardly be any comeback.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
I *was* your idea. It was just somebody else's first. A case of delayed morphic resonance. No Neolithic Briton was ever sued by a Neolithic Indonesian for inventing the flint spearhead ten years after him.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: not my idea
Yeah, that's because patents and lawyers weren't invented yet.
Dave, let's talk about the weather then! p*ssing down in London right now.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: not my idea
You were crannog's idea, goat? How did he talk your parents into it?
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: not my idea
Well, the Goats were Mounting it here, and the Goats were Mounting it there, here there, everywhere, on Old McCrannogs Farm ....
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Ottery
Re: not my idea
Can someone tell me why this "creative anachronism society" has a half naked, barefoot African serving dinner at their Autumn festival? Does it have something to do with their goal of "recreating the best of the Middle Ages and Renaissance eras"?
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: not my idea
. . . . as in "Hey is that Gandhi?"
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: not my idea
It's probably similar to the sort of parties that the Royal Family in this country throw, where they pick a liberal and enlightened theme like, say, 'Colonials and Natives', and then invite Hitler dressed up as Prince Harry, or something...
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Ottery
Re: not my idea
I always thought it had to do with faking creativity. They're really not all that hot on anachronism either. They use that word a lot, but I'm not sure it means what they think it means.
Come to think of it, I'm not all that hot on their take on "best" either. I dabbled around with it in my youth, and some of my oldest friends are still active, but it didn't really work for me.
KFG
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by KFG
Re: not my idea
Alas, poor Zina; Dave has reduced her to verb status...
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Michele Sims
Re: not my idea
What?! What?! Oh. I call that "Web Ferreting", thanks to Tish. ;)
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: not my idea
SCAdians? They get awfully snippy if you use a dart or seam style in your costume that's not authentic, or if you can't document the historical authenticity of your character's name and background.
But they fight with lengths of PVC pipe.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by sara g
Re: not my idea
I remember the early days of the SCA. It was fun. We had a guy whose "identity" was Fred of Numenor, and our Bard Gerhardt specialized in the rock'n'roll Air Lute. I got out when it became obvious that people actually prefered their SCA lives to their real ones.
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: not my idea
"Zina" is quicker to type, though
Fiddlemouse, yer quite right. I used to play for SCA yulefests etc and a few I know started out in the SCA, were quite frustrated by the same sort of inconsistency you observed, and then left to start other more time-specific and historically-rigorous groups such as the Pike and Musket Society. Some SCAers really wanted to be as authentic as possible but others weren't so fussed and couldn't see the problem with dancing to CD music from a ghetto blaster instead of real musicians. It doesn't seem to work for anybody when some put a lot of work into their research and getting it "right" while others just want some kind of dungeons-and-dragons fantasy night. I found the Pike and Musket events more fun in the end even though they were even snippier about darts and seam styles (and using SILK ribbon, not synthetics!).
# Posted on January 29th 2005 by Tish
Re: not my idea
.... old mccrannog missed a lot of saturday night chat .... have yous no pubs to go to? cheers and according to this link http://www.waypath.com/mt/archives/000035.html everybody is a crannog.
# Posted on January 30th 2005 by crannog