I soo can't believe that nobody recognised this momentous event of a fellow sessioner and great guy!! He turned another year on the 20th April!!!! Tunes, etc. will be had to mark the event tonight, Saturday 21 April at 7pm at bb and ciansdad's house in Sydney. Come one come all. I'll leave it to you to guess his actual age
Oh my holy oaks omnibus!!!! I think he kept it a secret to trying and keep up his persona as a YOUTHFUL prankster! Either that or the dementia is making him forgetting these things. It's tough when they get to that age .
Happy birthday you beautiful man. See you for a might tune or ten tonight.
i.e. If you want to see another fifty, perhaps it's time you gave up the drink & start into those steaming pints of Milk!
Mind you, rumour has it, you already look like Yukichi, so goodness only knows what you'll look like in another fifty!
N.B. They're banning smoke from our pubs here, from next weekend. Who knows, maybe they'll ban alcohol next & we'll all live to be 100!
Fine quote Conan! How are things? Birthday boy hasn't even had a drink yet and is still at work!! We've started without him though. Like good friends would
Why isn't anyone giving out with his actual age? I am already feeling sorry for him, suspecting how out of it he'll be when things roll to a close tonight. He won't be rolling. Listen Sydney gang, those that will be there around him, please promise me you'll carry him out and see him safely home, and his instruments. The last time he was really sick drunk he came too damned close to losing his instrument, or damaging it. So, I'm depending on those of you few who will still have your senses at the end to take care of the lad. He is getting on now, another year older...
"Let's not have a sniffle,
Let's have a bloody good cry,
And always remember, the longer you live,
The sooner you bloody well die"
Just thought I'd add a bit of cheer to balance the previous gloom...
Thanks Nicholas, it was a cut and paste, my only Latin is what makes up a sizeable portion of Cymraeg / Welsh... I always wanted to take it when I was a sprat, and Greek, and I dabbled in different glyphs ~ the graphic nature of my madness, but I never got those wishes met... I haven't given up yet though. I did at one time have the gift of talking about fish and fishing and swearing in Chamorran...
I've outsurvived everybody. It's 8.50am and everybody else has passed out. I'm still up for going out!
Ciansdad and I passed out for a while on the concrete outside their house, watching the wattlebirds feed at the bottlebrush plants over our heads, and feeling the warmth of the rising Australian sun, and feeling sorry for all the people in the UK who never get any sun, knowing that it will probably be drab and grey and drizzly over there.
I seem to have mislaid my concertina. I think I put it in the boot of my car, but my car's not here. I think it's in another suburb of Sydney...
Ach I'll find them tomorrow. Right now I have to sleep...
No need to feel sorry for us Dow, unless of course you'd be thinking of the poor marathon runners in tomorrow am's London. They'll be cooking in the balmy April morning sun at 23 deg C all the way along the Embankment. I won't be joining them.
Glad to hear you're still alive. I need someone to slag here.
Damn you Mark, you haven't misplaced your geographic positioning device again have you... By the way, every day in Austria was sunny, and we returned to sun here on this isle, which was sunny again today, in a nice, light breezy sort of way. But we were thinking of you birthday boy, and the impending visit of Hiroyuki... Pleasant dreams, the fairies will look after you tina for you. I asked them to pass the word down to their lot in Oz. I just hope it didn't get into the hands of any concertina eating demons... Happy Belated Birthday, this time, as I second guessed it a couple of weeks earlier... Back to that over-proof Austrian rum, a toast to you and your mates ~ skoal!
I worry for the marathon runners in London Key. Whenever I've been there and it has been warm and sunny the air quality has been so poor that even a short dash leaves me chest tight and coughing... You are wise to stay away...
An all nighter again, keeping the standard of celebration up there with what was experienced at the national!
HAHAHA - sounds like a great party, i wish i went! Rather predictable behaviour from Ciansdad to pass out in an unconventional place. It would have been cold out the front too!
At 10:00 in the morning now im sure you are all in deep sleep
Actually, Dow you make it sound so beautiful. It was a gorgeous evening and the wee one has us all up for the next round. Sorry I couldn't bring it further than the sidewalk
I hope the neighbours are ok as they had a bit of a go at our noise and revelling. I blame it all on the man of honour See you tomorrow Dowsy, your car is out front, don't know what you did with your other belongings
I had considered "The All Night p*ss-Up" as a title. This one is tentative and if you can come up with a title that makes you and others smile, the possibilities remain open... Yes, I was actually thinking of you, while doing Spring cleaning, dust in quantity, and found myself possessed by the A-part, the B-part followed, and in keeping with the subject, you, only one measure out of 32 can be considered 'agreeable'...
Dow's Birthday
Dow's Birthday
I soo can't believe that nobody recognised this momentous event of a fellow sessioner and great guy!! He turned another year on the 20th April!!!! Tunes, etc. will be had to mark the event tonight, Saturday 21 April at 7pm at bb and ciansdad's house in Sydney. Come one come all. I'll leave it to you to guess his actual age
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ciansdad
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Oh my holy oaks omnibus!!!! I think he kept it a secret to trying and keep up his persona as a YOUTHFUL prankster! Either that or the dementia is making him forgetting these things. It's tough when they get to that age
.
Happy birthday you beautiful man. See you for a might tune or ten tonight.
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by late in the evening
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p.s. the above post should all be read in a thick Borat accent for maximum effect
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by late in the evening
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happday birthy dowster, may your lists be filled with newer tunes and your finger grow with every passing year.
Get the Sydney crew to play a (three-four)(swung)(english)(northumbrian) hornpipe from me to you!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by SirNose
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Many happy returns, Dow! Will you still be celebrating by Tuesday? There a smidgeon of hope that I might get to Kelly's this week.
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Tish
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Happy fifth birthday Dow, up to big school this year!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Alf Tupper
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Congrats Dow. Oh to be young & Fifty again!
You might like to check out this old timers secret:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3147888.stm
i.e. If you want to see another fifty, perhaps it's time you gave up the drink & start into those steaming pints of Milk!
Mind you, rumour has it, you already look like Yukichi, so goodness only knows what you'll look like in another fifty!
N.B. They're banning smoke from our pubs here, from next weekend. Who knows, maybe they'll ban alcohol next & we'll all live to be 100!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Ptarmigan
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Dow wouldn't survive without alcohol!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Alf Tupper
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In the words of Oscar Wilde:
The old believe everything; the middle-aged
suspect everything; the young know everything.
Happy Birthday, you know-it-all bollix!
Conan
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Conán McDonnell
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Fine quote Conan! How are things? Birthday boy hasn't even had a drink yet and is still at work!! We've started without him though. Like good friends would
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ciansdad
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Sung to "The Song of the Volga Boatmen"
Happy Birthday
(I prefer the original Russian, of course.)
Happy Birthday
Misery is in the air
People dieing everywhere
Happy Birthday
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
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Why isn't anyone giving out with his actual age? I am already feeling sorry for him, suspecting how out of it he'll be when things roll to a close tonight. He won't be rolling. Listen Sydney gang, those that will be there around him, please promise me you'll carry him out and see him safely home, and his instruments. The last time he was really sick drunk he came too damned close to losing his instrument, or damaging it. So, I'm depending on those of you few who will still have your senses at the end to take care of the lad. He is getting on now, another year older...
"Let's not have a sniffle,
Let's have a bloody good cry,
And always remember, the longer you live,
The sooner you bloody well die"
Just thought I'd add a bit of cheer to balance the previous gloom...
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
Re: Dow's Birthday
Happy Birthday, Dow, and to all of us here for another year gone by. In the words of George Burns, "the older the fiddle, the sweeter the music!"
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
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Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
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I've got the first line:
"In ancient times, babies like you were exposed on the windiest crags to die!"
I'm not sure about the second:
"Do I drink this, or insert (my) fingers into him? "
But whatever the true translation, it can be taken as read that the Romans were quite a peculiar lot.
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by nicholas
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Yup! "Do I drink this or insert my finger in it!"
~ In the company of 'strangers'...
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
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ceol - "hoc" is neuter; "eum" is masculine.
(That doesn't necessarily mean a person, but has to be something other than what is denoted by "hoc".)
You meant, "Hocine bibo, aut in *id* digitos insero"...!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by nicholas
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Thanks Nicholas, it was a cut and paste, my only Latin is what makes up a sizeable portion of Cymraeg / Welsh... I always wanted to take it when I was a sprat, and Greek, and I dabbled in different glyphs ~ the graphic nature of my madness, but I never got those wishes met... I haven't given up yet though. I did at one time have the gift of talking about fish and fishing and swearing in Chamorran...
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
"Angulus Latinum" ~ must credit my source, which I had elsewhere and forgot to add here...
http://tigress.com/emax/latin.html
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
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I suspect poor overworked Dow is getting well pickled by now...
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by ceolachan
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I've outsurvived everybody. It's 8.50am and everybody else has passed out. I'm still up for going out!
Ciansdad and I passed out for a while on the concrete outside their house, watching the wattlebirds feed at the bottlebrush plants over our heads, and feeling the warmth of the rising Australian sun, and feeling sorry for all the people in the UK who never get any sun, knowing that it will probably be drab and grey and drizzly over there.
I seem to have mislaid my concertina. I think I put it in the boot of my car, but my car's not here. I think it's in another suburb of Sydney...
Ach I'll find them tomorrow. Right now I have to sleep...
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Dow
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No need to feel sorry for us Dow, unless of course you'd be thinking of the poor marathon runners in tomorrow am's London. They'll be cooking in the balmy April morning sun at 23 deg C all the way along the Embankment. I won't be joining them.
Glad to hear you're still alive. I need someone to slag here.
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by Alf Tupper
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Damn you Mark, you haven't misplaced your geographic positioning device again have you... By the way, every day in Austria was sunny, and we returned to sun here on this isle, which was sunny again today, in a nice, light breezy sort of way. But we were thinking of you birthday boy, and the impending visit of Hiroyuki... Pleasant dreams, the fairies will look after you tina for you. I asked them to pass the word down to their lot in Oz. I just hope it didn't get into the hands of any concertina eating demons... Happy Belated Birthday, this time, as I second guessed it a couple of weeks earlier... Back to that over-proof Austrian rum, a toast to you and your mates ~ skoal!
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
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I worry for the marathon runners in London Key. Whenever I've been there and it has been warm and sunny the air quality has been so poor that even a short dash leaves me chest tight and coughing... You are wise to stay away...
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
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Dow, give us a full report on the state of your health and your musical instruments tomorrow...
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
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Can you believe this guy Key, he has the presence of mind to comment on a tune submission on his birthday, after an all nighter ~
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7092/comments#comment277128
He must be ill, or at least demented...
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
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An all nighter again, keeping the standard of celebration up there with what was experienced at the national!
HAHAHA - sounds like a great party, i wish i went! Rather predictable behaviour from Ciansdad to pass out in an unconventional place. It would have been cold out the front too!
At 10:00 in the morning now im sure you are all in deep sleep
Happy birthday, sleep well today
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by SamW
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Actually, Dow you make it sound so beautiful. It was a gorgeous evening and the wee one has us all up for the next round. Sorry I couldn't bring it further than the sidewalk
See you tomorrow Dowsy, your car is out front, don't know what you did with your other belongings
I hope the neighbours are ok as they had a bit of a go at our noise and revelling. I blame it all on the man of honour
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ciansdad
Re: Dow's Birthday
Happy 30th Dow, monk that you aren't ~
"The Depressing 30's" ~ hornpipe / reel
Submitted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7094
I had considered "The All Night p*ss-Up" as a title. This one is tentative and if you can come up with a title that makes you and others smile, the possibilities remain open... Yes, I was actually thinking of you, while doing Spring cleaning, dust in quantity, and found myself possessed by the A-part, the B-part followed, and in keeping with the subject, you, only one measure out of 32 can be considered 'agreeable'...
I was expecting a third part but it never came...
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
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'agreeable' meaning between the two parts. There is much in agreement within both parts...
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
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Late on the scene, as always. Happy Birthday, Dow, if you're still awake. Is there any cake left?
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by ragaman