Ahh, that's how you do it, Dave....presumably each set of dots is a tide mark after each slug!! My last one was meant to be a set of pipes but without the dots to seperate the fwd & back slashes Murrough interpreted it as a Bazooka!
But I'm not gonna go through all that again....
(By the way, thanks for the invite to your pub earlier in the summer, but we didn't get up as far as you. We spent a smashing week just south of Mallaig, me and the lad found a little cove with white sand and superb acoustics and spent a lot of time playing there, to the delight of many people walking along the coastal path. Some days we got upwards of 8 people sitting on the rocks pretending to have a picnic.)
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Is scraper's a shakey egg and spoon race?
Murrough: Great artwork that, you really are flau(n)ting your talents.
Nasty: Not so much of the racism , instead join with me in trying to convince Jeremy to come up with a box that allows us to plant a few bitmaps or gif's within these venerable magnolian pages. Am still waiting for reports of purple mushroom clouds over SE London. Remember though, it must have been Trevor's recipe, not mine, if that happens
lmao@the wicker man... I thought he kind of looked more like a 'lego' man, or "the thing" from old marvel comics... lol. I wonder has stan lee got any space for a flute player character???
...how do we go about convincing our beloved webführer we need/deserve such riches? by tormenting him with many more half-a$$ed attempts like this little lot? (I speak of my own feeble attempts, of course; everybody else was brilliant - and not a little obsessive - in the face of adversity)
It wouold be cool to have a .gif/ .jpg submission option, but you have to understand guys that this really would be a NIGHTMARE for poor Jeremy to set up.
Not only are images large in file size and would require a LOT more server space to host (costing more money), bt Jeremy would then have to monitor the images to make sure they are "appropriate". Sorry to bring a downer on this great suggestion, but I'm just thinkind about the practicalities fom Jeremy's point of view.
Scraper - It's the "less than" symbol!! I think the rule is that anything printed after that won't emerge from this here box. I was caught out on that one, too, which is why my beautifully-designed boehm-system flute had the fatal design flaw of no hole in the head joint, because I'd made it with a less than-small case o-more than! Of course I now don't understand why ANYTHING came out after [= ....
....
oh, well, since I'm here already ...
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Murrough - the inaugural southeast squeeze-in was either
1) an event which was the subject of anouther discussion thread
2) the Blythe Hill Tavern session first night, all squoze into a diddy wee bar; very cozy!
In the absence of any other entries, the winner is .....
(fanfare)
.... scraper!
Many congratulations! Just call this number 09876 543 210 (calls charged at £4.80 a minute) to claim your prize! And as a bonus prize for being the inaugural entrant, a lifetime's free membership of our very own SE (London) squeeze-in at the Blythe Hill (the lifetime of the session, that is). (That's all right isn't it, lads'n'lasses?) And if you were to find a piper about your person, and bring him with you, the members of the Association of Terribly Grown Up Lady Admirers of Gentlemen in Harness would be made up!
Thanks for awarding me the prize in spite of it being by default.
When I called the number to claim it, this very nice girl called Melissa answered and when I asked for Karen, she told me that she was tied up with another client. She didn't know much about the premier prize but kept mentioning the booby one!
Perhaps you should not be too hasty in awarding me the inaugral bonus of a lifetime's membership in the Blythe Hill session, after all I am the original 'Dot Man'.
Regarding Gentlemen in harness, pick fiddlers as they will bow to your every wish, whereas pipers will drone on forever
I wouldn't let that stop you; the Blythe Hill session is spiritual home to Dot Man Too (sic) aka Billy, ably assisted by Cath who knows (nearly) all the tune titles. And to the Nasty Wee Girl Who Plays No Instrument, and there can't be many sessions who'd put up with her for long. And what's a few rolled eyeballs (for there will be some, that I can't deny) between friends? (or at least, fellow tune addix). And you'd be able to meet The Man Who's Just Lovin' His New Wooden Boehm System Flute (and it seems to like him, too) aka Danny
That Melissa, she'll have to go. She's just got a thing about any man with a hairy hell-stick. I have to hand it to her, though: she did rustle up some handsome boobies there.
Too bad you bottled on the coast of Scotland challenge!
... forgot to mention Aidan, Teller Of Many A Fine Yarn, and, if you're lucky, Davy will turn up again, in Aidan's inimitable words (so I'll just cut-and-paste them ): That Gifted Flayer Of The Buck-Goat's Epidermis .... coming! ....
.... and milesnagopaleen showed up last week - a rare treat - miles, if you're listening, I'll try to remember to keep John Carty in my pocket on a Thursday, for when you come again ....
Name that instrument!
Name that instrument!
Name that instrument!!!
See what clever dicks can guess these traditional instruments...
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Feel free to submit your own also...
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
is the third one a concertina?
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by shoddy fiddle player
4 -fiddle - 5th banjo or banzouki
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by shoddy fiddle player
Re: Name that instrument!
Ha ha, very good, Murrough.
I've got flute (simple system), box, concertina, then...is it fiddle?, then mandolin/bozouki, then bodhran.
What about:
l"""""l
I===l
I===l
I::::::I
Give me a minute till I get the pipes built.....
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Nick Splease
Actually that one can't be the fiddle cos the fiddle has holes shaped like: ~
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Nick Splease
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{ \\\\ / / / _/ /// |
{ o |====== / /====/ /===/// |
{___//// / / / / / / \\\ |
/ / / / / / \\\_____|
/o/ / / / /
/ / J/ /J/ /
/o/ / / / /
/ / J/ /J/ /
/o/ / / / /
/ / J/ /J/ /
...and so on... quite an art form this. Like the playing, I think I'll just stick to flute.
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Nick Splease
hmmm. that's not what the pipes looked like when I typed it in.
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Nick Splease
Re: Name that instrument!
Very good, well done Domhniall! Like the piano accordion. Alan Kelly would be proud! good one. Anyone else got any others?
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
Was that last one a Bazooka or a Bouzouki??? :P
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
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triple concertina which can only be played by an octopus
(three times as loud)
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by geoffwright
shakey egg (recently banned in sessions)
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# Posted on October 1st 2003 by geoffwright
Otherwise known as a Lamb-Egg
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by geoffwright
Re: Name that instrument!
Nice one Murrough! The last one, \()) is of course the Bodhrán :0)
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by greenman
Re: Name that instrument!
singer
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by gian marco
Re: Name that instrument!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
(someones playing a slow air)
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by geoffwright
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
nah! they're singing Spancil Hill
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
Whistle wetter
\ /
\ /-----.
\ / }
\ /___}
\ ______/
Dave
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by showaddydadito
Aaaaaaagh It didnt look like that!
Trying again with dots in for the spaces
Whistle Wetter
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\........... /-----.
\........... / ......}
\.......... /___}
\ ____/
Dave
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Name that instrument!
Ahh, that's how you do it, Dave....presumably each set of dots is a tide mark after each slug!! My last one was meant to be a set of pipes but without the dots to seperate the fwd & back slashes Murrough interpreted it as a Bazooka!
But I'm not gonna go through all that again....
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Nick Splease
Re: Name that instrument!
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boehm system flute? Hmmm...
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
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# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
those dots take up more space up there than they do down here!
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
)(
o/o\O
/ \
No marks for guessing this one!
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
P.S.
Sorry, they got bent....working too hard
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
Another try
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o/ o \O
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
PS
Blew it again!!
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
Re: Name that instrument!
Give it up scraper. Stick to the fiddle.
(By the way, thanks for the invite to your pub earlier in the summer, but we didn't get up as far as you. We spent a smashing week just south of Mallaig, me and the lad found a little cove with white sand and superb acoustics and spent a lot of time playing there, to the delight of many people walking along the coastal path. Some days we got upwards of 8 people sitting on the rocks pretending to have a picnic.)
Dave
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Name that instrument!
I think it might be a pair of spoons...looks like Uri Geller got there before you though.
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Nick Splease
Re: Name that instrument!
Sounded great Dave, maybe next year.....back now to the fiddle!!
Ed
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
Re: Name that instrument!
Aye Danny, He must still have those powers.
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
Re: Name that instrument!
lmao@uri geller... very good
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
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Persistance pays Off!! I hope :-Þ
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
Re: Name that instrument!
Here's a left handed flute player Domhnaill:
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| | | | | | | | | | . . .
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/ / / / \ \ \ \ \ \__/ (c) murrough
with pint and all !!!
look, it's copyright protected now too... lol
think we've started a trend here.
why do I have to play the flute left handed style, when I'm right handed? :-?
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
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Is scraper's a shakey egg and spoon race?
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
caught out by the dreaded pointy brackets again! Rats to it!
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
Left handed flute player
...__ / / / / __
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{ {|=o==||==|=///=|=\\\=|==|]
{___////////////////
...| | | | | | | | | |
....| | | | | | | | |
...| | | | | | | | | |
..| | | | | ^ | | | | |
..| | | | |...| | | | |
..| | | | |...| | | | |.... . . .
..| | | | |...| | | | |....| |
./ / / / /...\ \ \ \ \...\__/ (c) murrough
Maybe it will work this time, but I'm not roo hopeful...
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
Last attempt
Almost, just got the pint wrong... last try:
...__ / / / / __
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{___////////////////
...| | | | | | | | | |
....| | | | | | | | |
...| | | | | | | | | |
..| | | | | ^ | | | | |
..| | | | |...| | | | |
..| | | | |...| | | | |.... . . .
..| | | | |...| | | | |....|.....|
./ / / / /...\ \ \ \ \...\__/ (c) murrough
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
Murrough: Great artwork that, you really are flau(n)ting your talents.
Nasty: Not so much of the racism
, instead join with me in trying to convince Jeremy to come up with a box that allows us to plant a few bitmaps or gif's within these venerable magnolian pages. Am still waiting for reports of purple mushroom clouds over SE London. Remember though, it must have been Trevor's recipe, not mine, if that happens 
Ed.
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by scraper
Re: Name that instrument!
Murrough. Yer picky looks like The Wicker Man :0)
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by greenman
Re: Name that instrument!
lmao@the wicker man... I thought he kind of looked more like a 'lego' man, or "the thing" from old marvel comics... lol. I wonder has stan lee got any space for a flute player character???
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
\())
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
^^^one of my da's bodhráns^^^
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by Murrough
Purple mushroom clouds over SE london...
... not your recipe, and not my nasty hand, if that happens
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
And that exploding microve down the D** and D*ck the other night: nothin' to do with me, guv!
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
Microve? microwave!
whaappen?
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
Bitmap/gif capability would be nice, but ...
...how do we go about convincing our beloved webführer we need/deserve such riches? by tormenting him with many more half-a$$ed attempts like this little lot? (I speak of my own feeble attempts, of course; everybody else was brilliant - and not a little obsessive - in the face of adversity)
# Posted on October 2nd 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
It wouold be cool to have a .gif/ .jpg submission option, but you have to understand guys that this really would be a NIGHTMARE for poor Jeremy to set up.
Not only are images large in file size and would require a LOT more server space to host (costing more money), bt Jeremy would then have to monitor the images to make sure they are "appropriate". Sorry to bring a downer on this great suggestion, but I'm just thinkind about the practicalities fom Jeremy's point of view.
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by Murrough
D'oh, the spelling gremlin jumped in there and sabotaged that!!!
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
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PP
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by Pied Piper
Re: Name that instrument!
okay then, clever d*cks, somebody draw the Inaugural Southeast Squeeze-In: I double-dare you!
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
The second one's a chest expander.
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by OrganicPeatCreature
Re: Name that instrument!
lol@chest expander. wtf is a southeast squeeze-in? lol
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by Murrough
Re: Name that instrument!
Lagerphone, PP?
# Posted on October 3rd 2003 by Tish
Re: Name that instrument!
OK! Nasty here we go:
S->[:||||:]
# Posted on October 4th 2003 by scraper
PS
Should have come out as S->[:||||:]
# Posted on October 4th 2003 by scraper
PSS
I give up in iso-8859-1 frustration
# Posted on October 4th 2003 by scraper
Re: Name that instrument!
Scraper - It's the "less than" symbol!! I think the rule is that anything printed after that won't emerge from this here box. I was caught out on that one, too, which is why my beautifully-designed boehm-system flute had the fatal design flaw of no hole in the head joint, because I'd made it with a less than-small case o-more than! Of course I now don't understand why ANYTHING came out after [= ....
....
oh, well, since I'm here already ...
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[={o}==ll==o=qQQQQQQQ!,#ô=ô=ô==]
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# Posted on October 5th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
It seems this is trickier than I thought.
PP
# Posted on October 5th 2003 by Pied Piper
YEAAAHHH!!!
So, scraper, maybe you could write yours
S-} [:||||:] {-E**1st1st1st
?
Cheers,
das schreckliche Maedchen
# Posted on October 5th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
Murrough - the inaugural southeast squeeze-in was either
1) an event which was the subject of anouther discussion thread
2) the Blythe Hill Tavern session first night, all squoze into a diddy wee bar; very cozy!
# Posted on October 6th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
Thanks Ms. Schreckliche. A good compromise.
Ed.
# Posted on October 6th 2003 by scraper
Inaugural SE squeeze-in: competition results
In the absence of any other entries, the winner is .....
(fanfare)
.... scraper!
Many congratulations! Just call this number 09876 543 210 (calls charged at £4.80 a minute) to claim your prize! And as a bonus prize for being the inaugural entrant, a lifetime's free membership of our very own SE (London) squeeze-in at the Blythe Hill (the lifetime of the session, that is). (That's all right isn't it, lads'n'lasses?) And if you were to find a piper about your person, and bring him with you, the members of the Association of Terribly Grown Up Lady Admirers of Gentlemen in Harness would be made up!
# Posted on October 6th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
I don't draw instruments. How about name that session:
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(#######)
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(#########)
(#########)
(#########)
__&__ (#########)
/ \ (#########) |\/\/\/| /\ /\ /\
| | (#########) | | | V \/ \---.
| (o)(o) (o)(o)(##) | | \_ /
C .---_) ,_C (##) | (o)(o) (o)(o) (C_) <
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# Posted on October 7th 2003 by ltruex
Re: Name that instrument!
Karen,
Thanks for awarding me the prize in spite of it being by default.
When I called the number to claim it, this very nice girl called Melissa answered and when I asked for Karen, she told me that she was tied up with another client. She didn't know much about the premier prize but kept mentioning the booby one!
Perhaps you should not be too hasty in awarding me the inaugral bonus of a lifetime's membership in the Blythe Hill session, after all I am the original 'Dot Man'.
Regarding Gentlemen in harness, pick fiddlers as they will bow to your every wish, whereas pipers will drone on forever
# Posted on October 7th 2003 by scraper
BHT
Dear Dot Man
I wouldn't let that stop you; the Blythe Hill session is spiritual home to Dot Man Too (sic) aka Billy, ably assisted by Cath who knows (nearly) all the tune titles. And to the Nasty Wee Girl Who Plays No Instrument, and there can't be many sessions who'd put up with her for long. And what's a few rolled eyeballs (for there will be some, that I can't deny) between friends? (or at least, fellow tune addix). And you'd be able to meet The Man Who's Just Lovin' His New Wooden Boehm System Flute (and it seems to like him, too) aka Danny
That Melissa, she'll have to go. She's just got a thing about any man with a hairy hell-stick. I have to hand it to her, though: she did rustle up some handsome boobies there.
Too bad you bottled on the coast of Scotland challenge!
Drat! Somebody wants me to do some work.
# Posted on October 7th 2003 by nastyweegirl
... forgot to mention Aidan, Teller Of Many A Fine Yarn, and, if you're lucky, Davy will turn up again, in Aidan's inimitable words (so I'll just cut-and-paste them
): That Gifted Flayer Of The Buck-Goat's Epidermis .... coming! ....
# Posted on October 7th 2003 by nastyweegirl
.... and milesnagopaleen showed up last week - a rare treat - miles, if you're listening, I'll try to remember to keep John Carty in my pocket on a Thursday, for when you come again ....
# Posted on October 7th 2003 by nastyweegirl
.... and I forgot bigdave ....
sorry bigdave, it won't happen again (gulp!) ....
;o)
I can't help wondering (since my near-typo of the word epidermis) what WOULD happen, were you to, all accidental, like, flay a buck-goat's epididymis?
:oO
# Posted on October 7th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Name that instrument!
What's this:
( 0 ) ====== ### ... (my new 12 string Taylor guitar)...
/[O)))) ... (my new deep shell bodhran, playing top-end).
# Posted on October 10th 2003 by irish ruff