time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

I was going through the request pile and noticed on the top of it a request for Dirty Old Town, the Ewan MacColl tune popularized by the pogues. I thought maybe I'd write it out because it's not a difficult tune, then I noticed that it claimed to have been requested by my account. On September 23rd, and in my time zone it's still the 22nd. I was given the option to delete the request and I did. What's the deal with that? Any instances of ghostly activity around here before.....

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by Ben Strong

Re: time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

That's odd. Normally they just add random typos to perfectly-writtent posts.

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by Marklar

Re: time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

I think you should wait until tomorrow and see if you request "Dirty Old Town"

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by Bren

Re: time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

I think I put that one in the Tunes base quite a long time ago!

I get the impression quite a lot of requests are made by people who don't check to see if these aren't already in the Tunes database.

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by nicholas

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Ooh, I've never looked at the tune requests before. I notice there's a request for 'Paddy Fahy's'.

tee hee

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by ethical blend

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ha, I've never been there either, there's even one for "Wild Rover". I'm never going back there, it scares me. I will end up in a smoking pit of eternal damnation typing "Do you have the CD? Why don't you learn it off that?" for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ..... et-cetera

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by ...

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'The Manchester Rambler' ~ Ewan MacColl

So I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill
And I'll lie where the bracken is deep;
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
Where the grey rocks rise rugged and steep.
I have seen the white hare in the galleys
And the curlew fly high overhead,
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead.

I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way,
I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way.
I may be a wage slave on Monday,
But I am a free man on Sunday.

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by Ben Steen

Re: time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

If it was a chicken or a "Crested Hen", would that make it a poultrygeist? (yes I know that is a fowl joke)

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by fauxcelt

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Get me some of that Manchester rambling powder!..

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by nicholas

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'Fowl' is too kind a word for that joke, fauxcelt. That was a real turkey!

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by ethical blend

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Still, mustn't grouse, eh?

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by ethical blend

Re: time-travelling poltergeist in the tune request machine?

Swan up to me, I think. Ooh, how pheasant for me. Think I'll go grebe some beers - must be my tern.

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by ethical blend

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Thank you benhall, I couldn't resist it and just had to give into temptation. I will try to behave better in the future.

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by fauxcelt

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Indeed:

http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Poultrygeist

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by Michele Sims

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Peace, peace, lads! I quail when you snipe.

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by nicholas

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Thank you, us birdbrains of a feather need to flock together.
Did any of you notice that when the first President Bush (George Herbert Walker) went on vacation, he never went quail hunting?

# Posted on September 23rd 2008 by fauxcelt

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Well, if either Bush was near me with a gun I guess I would just duck and cover.

# Posted on September 24th 2008 by nicholas

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Crested Hen and Grouse - ?
A bottle of each please

# Posted on September 24th 2008 by Bren

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If either George H.W. Bush or his son, the Shrub, came near me with a gun, I would also try to disappear and/or hide.
I thought Crested Hens was a musical drink.

# Posted on September 24th 2008 by fauxcelt

Tune requests before looking?

~ 'Four Poster Bed'
Requested on September 23rd 2008 by gerard igoe
Submitted on October 24th 2002 by Davetnova.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1078
~ 'The Walls Of Liscarroll' Requested on September 23rd 2008 by Meri Pixie
Submitted on August 11th 2001 by Jdharv
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/232
~ 'Con Curtin's Big Balloon' Requested on September 19th 2008 by Garry Rushworth
Submitted on July 1st 2002 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/821
~ 'Woman Of The House' (Mary Custy)
Requested on September 11th 2008 by Sarah Tomigaya
Submitted on October 11th 2001 by Jdharv.
~ 'Skibereen'
Requested on September 3rd 2008 by pingin
Submitted on March 16th 2006 by Irina {'Back to Skibbereen'}
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5604

# Posted on September 25th 2008 by Ben Steen

Poltergeist

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/321
"Woman of the House"

# Posted on September 25th 2008 by Ben Steen

Time-travelling tunes

Hopefully in 1 take this time ~

'Archibald Mcdonell Of Keppoch'
Requsted on September 27th 2008 by sweetbutbitter93
Submitted on March 24th 2007 by Pere.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6999

'Highlanders Revenge'
Requested September 27th 2008 by Cares
Submitted on April 29th 2004 by Johannes J.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2917

'The Bird In The Bush'
Requested September 26th 2008 by timtelford
Submitted on April 3rd 2002 by Josh Kane.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/629

'Plains Of Boyle'
Requested September 26th 2008 by vsammon
Submitted on April 21st 2002 by Josh Kane
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/652

'Moning Dew'
Requested September 25th 2008 by kronsteiner
Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy {'Morning Dew'} http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/69

# Posted on September 27th 2008 by Ben Steen