been recording myself playing on the webcam recently, a handy tool to get a feel on how your progressing but i cringe very time i see my face, how do you stop yourself pulling them dodgey coupons ?
i think you mean it's obvious that i'm not from Belfast. i,m familiar with "dodgy" and i figured you were talking about making funny faces while playing. my question was more about the origin of "coupon" as a word for face. anyway , keeping a straight face is something that must be practised every bit as much as playing a tight triplet. One thing to remember, the pipes are going to make some strange, unexpected little noises from time to time. Try not to look so surprised, hehheh
cheers, pipewatcher
don't 'try' not to pull faces, just enjoy your own playing and then, eventually, this will come through - both in the music and your facial expressions
As long as it is only your own face that your pulling people won't mind too much. It is when you start pulling other peoples faces that they get worried.
I can't imagine. The rhyming slang supposedly originates from East End costermongers and petty criminals not wanting to let their clientele ( and the police ) know what they were talking about. Try asking someone to "take a butchers' " and see if they fail to understand.
But every local dialect and slang has it's own rules.
PS There was a whole discussion elsewhere about the uses of gay slang in music-hall songs. Everyone denied it, then up came the story about "Any old iron". Iron hoof = poof ==gay.....
Here is a man walking about, very smart, elegant even, including a green tie, a colour-coded clue to his inclinations, but he has failed to keep up with the latest fashion for these young men, a wristwitch, so he is still walking about with a watch and chain combination, hence he is an "Old Iron"......
You couldn't make it up.
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been recording myself playing on the webcam recently, a handy tool to get a feel on how your progressing but i cringe very time i see my face, how do you stop yourself pulling them dodgey coupons ?
# Posted on February 9th 2009 by molloy
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Keep the Kamera pointed at the woman.
# Posted on February 9th 2009 by Krick Stahlschwanz
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please explain the phrase 'dodgey coupons"
# Posted on February 9th 2009 by pipewatcher
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Your obviously from Belfast then. Why did the fireman not win the lottery? Coz he burned his coupon!!!!!
Dodgey - odd, Coupon - face
# Posted on February 9th 2009 by iwerzon
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i think you mean it's obvious that i'm not from Belfast. i,m familiar with "dodgy" and i figured you were talking about making funny faces while playing. my question was more about the origin of "coupon" as a word for face. anyway , keeping a straight face is something that must be practised every bit as much as playing a tight triplet. One thing to remember, the pipes are going to make some strange, unexpected little noises from time to time. Try not to look so surprised, hehheh
cheers, pipewatcher
# Posted on February 9th 2009 by pipewatcher
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no idea about the origin of coupon, just a local phrase, usually prefixed with busted.
# Posted on February 9th 2009 by molloy
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just to clarify - is it "Q-pon" or "ku-pon"?
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by airport
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I say "Q-pon", but I think it's correct both ways. lol
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by Invincible
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don't 'try' not to pull faces, just enjoy your own playing and then, eventually, this will come through - both in the music and your facial expressions
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by Brown Creeper
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As long as it is only your own face that your pulling people won't mind too much. It is when you start pulling other peoples faces that they get worried.
- Chris
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
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Round here it might well be called a boat race, but the question is, do you show or grind your Hampsteads, or mess with your Barnet whilst doing so ?
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by Guernsey Pete
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Got those Geurnsey Pete- Hampstead Heath. Barnet Fair. Ive always heard "horse race" , though. Do you think "coupon" has rhyming origins?
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by pipewatcher
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I can't imagine. The rhyming slang supposedly originates from East End costermongers and petty criminals not wanting to let their clientele ( and the police ) know what they were talking about. Try asking someone to "take a butchers' " and see if they fail to understand.
But every local dialect and slang has it's own rules.
PS There was a whole discussion elsewhere about the uses of gay slang in music-hall songs. Everyone denied it, then up came the story about "Any old iron". Iron hoof = poof ==gay.....
Here is a man walking about, very smart, elegant even, including a green tie, a colour-coded clue to his inclinations, but he has failed to keep up with the latest fashion for these young men, a wristwitch, so he is still walking about with a watch and chain combination, hence he is an "Old Iron"......
You couldn't make it up.
# Posted on February 10th 2009 by Guernsey Pete
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The Beatles´ manager was referred to, in a song by The Scaffold, as the Aintree Iron.
# Posted on February 11th 2009 by murfbox
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I've just bought a new whistle. Three piece, in a light grey check.
# Posted on February 12th 2009 by oldstrings
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don't you mean a light grey flippin'?
# Posted on February 12th 2009 by airport