I read on a thread that Bodrhans make great cat-litter trays but I suppose if you had a cat you could hollow it out and use it for bagpipes?? Maybe I'll have a go with my cat later...
Not about ITM Mark. Does it count? Around these parts its too late already. Everything has gone crazy post wise. Been after something at the music shop for weeks but its caught up in the Christmas mayhem.
shadow sounds piezo - braggs sounds smooth fiddle. that´s what I learned at last nights session while talking to an expert (I really think he is - he builds guitars and bouzoukis and really knows to play them ... ). Anyway the session was mostly playing fun and I don´t expect comments ... ;o)
Picked up a copy of O'Neill's at a local shop only to discover that it was a 'new and improved' edition. This one has only a thousand tunes in it compared to the eighteen hundred plus tunes of the old (unimproved) edition AND they've left out all the airs! What's been improved?!
Don't you hate kids (i.e. teens) who are far more talented and ambitious about their playing than you were when you were their age? And what's even worse is when you really enjoy playing with them, and they with you. I mean, it's just awful.
Would it be considered not within the idiom of traditional irish music to play a harp with a fiddle bow and to pluck your fiddle strings with either nails or pads of your fingers? In so doing, would it matter if the fiddle strings were gut or metal?
ROFL -- Joe, that should perhaps be more properly "yoik", not yolk, but I do love scrambled eggs.
If you add a little milk (as you whip the eggs), salt and pepper, and some cheese (just before the eggs finish cooking), it's utter heaven, and don't overbeat the raw eggs -- which would cause premature coagulation of the eggs' protein, even before hitting the pan -- so stop beating before the bubbles get too large.
Put the butter in a cold pan, and then heat both -- the progress of the melting is a good indication of the readiness of the pan. Wait for foaming butter, let it subside, but not disappear.
You have to keep the heat higher than most people think of cooking eggs, about medium high to just below full out high, and slowly but deliberately push, lift, and folding the curds across the pan (which really needs to be heavy, nonstick, and thick so it will hold the heat evenly, and should really be quite small -- eight inches for two eggs or so, to keep the egg batter at a depth of one quarter inch, so the curds come out nice and plump) as soon as they form. Use a wooden spatula or nonstick-safe turner with a flat edge to snowplow a two or three inch swath of eggs across the pan in one pass.
Milk provides sugar, proteins and fats, which makes for a wonderful pillowy effect, helping to create large curds. The larger the curds, the more steam is trapped inside, for puffy, fluffy eggs that last to the table.
Even if you like your scrambled eggs dry, you should leave the curds a bit wet, as the rest will cook during the time you turn off the heat and get it out of the pan. Two eggs should cook into big curds in about thirty seconds.
And of course, the eggs should be consumed as soon as possible out of the pan. Otherwise as they get cooler, they will toughen up rather than being tender and light.
According to Elaine Corn (author of 365 Ways to Cook Eggs), scrambled eggs should be "a dreamy mound of big, softly wobbling curds, yelolow as a legal pad, glistening, a hair breadth away from undercooking. When cut, the eggs should be cooked enough to hold their shape, but soft enough to eat with a spoon -- a cross between a custard gone right and wrong. If you can't deliver on the texture and consistency, you can kiss the taste goodbye."
You want lush scrambled eggs with big curds that melt in your mouth.
Yummy!
(BTW, our best hijacks have nothing to little to do with music. *snort*)
Oh, and I'd like to give a bodhran solo. Do you think it's asking too much too have some good shakey-egg players back me up? And maybe some spoons, too.
Cuchulain, is it true you had 3 female warrior tutors apart from Maeve? If so, please tell us a bit about them. Thanks. Sean nos style discouraged, prose will be lovely.
I've an old Clark whistle that I keep in a bag with a bunch of other stuff -- heavy stuff, and I sometimes carry the bag by a strap. Now the whistle has got a definite curve to it. It doesn't seem to have adversely affected the tone, and people can hear me better around corners. I highly recommend it.
I touched the boobs and stuff of the woman living next door to my parents after she attacked me one day when we were having a secret smoke in her living room whilst her husband was out working late and her kids were in bed and then I accidentally dropped charcoal on her new rug and burnt a hole in it.
Once when I was little I got in with a bad crowd and smashed some windows at the local first school, and I still feel guilty about it. Both my parents are teachers.
"3 Hail Marys (is that right?) or whatever it is you're supposed to do to repent" - sorry that's not in the least bit amusing. One day when I was little I drank too much ribena and felt sick, so I rushed up to my brother's bedroom and was deliberately sick on his floor right in front of him and it was red. Then I ran away and he chased after me and beat the living shite out of me and I had bruises all over my face for a week.
PS Jan (about 43 posts before this one) I meant the cat. However I love my cats too much to do this to them, really. Anyone know how many degrees farenheit equal one cubic decibel?
Foul!!!! Andee isn't playing by the rules. New topic with every post. Penalty declined. Fourth down. Bring on the punter. Pun intended, making it a triple entendre.
Now this is a thread to my likin. Oops - I hear my daughter waking up - wandering half asleep at night. Or should I say *sound* asleep. She needs a milk nightcap before returning to bed. She'll be fast asleep before her head hits the pillow . Do any of you find yourself running a milk bar at night? Xuse me, gotta go. Customer waiting.
Like the bagpipe cat idea. Has anyone tried this one? Grasp a tom cat firmly by the scruff of its neck and place it belly up on your left shoulder. Stretch out away from you, holding it firmly at the nuts with your chin but relaxed around its neck with your left hand. Plummet up an down with your fingertips while stroking some rosined ponytail across its guts. Meowwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Bagpipes, fiddles - Any other musical use for cats?
(just kidding)
Gary, looks like I'm not the only one to score a penalty (incorrect terminology?) There seems to be lots of talk about milk including breast, cow's, and soy. Also lots of talk about cat bagpipes. Maybe we should make a separate thread for each of those... ;o)
Anyone see SNL last night with Elijah Wood hosting? One of the actors dressed up as Gollum during the monologue & pitched a new sitcom, which is that before they enter the Land of Mordor, Frodo & Gollum move to Denver & share an apartment together (along the lines of "Perfect Strangers"). They run the opening credits, it's called "A Hard Hobbit to Break." It's hilarious, like Frodo opening the fridge & having all these fish spill out, he glares over at Gollum perched on the arm of a chair eating a fish, then they both laugh! I am not making this up. I seriously need to find out when the movie opens in the States if it hasn't already. I thought my dad said Wednesday.....
Great wee bit of goss here. Some guys I know play in a ceilidh band, and do so with this guy, a flute player/piper from N.London whom I've known off & on for a good few years, but from totally seperate sources from how I know these guys.
So they were doing a wedding. Someone asked for some Greek Music - so Zorba the Greek got an outing. All the guests are doing the going round in a circle holding hands doing pretend Greek dance, as you do, p!ssed at a wedding. Yer man the flute player/piper, wearing a kilt, sporting which you can nearly get away with murder, finds some posh, big, hotel-style plates and starts lobbing them into middle of the circle, like wot goes on in the Plaka in Athens. Now this is a wedding, and there might well be little kiddies or sozzled adults tramping round all over the place. Apparently no-one bats an eyelid, and yer man gets away with it no probs! Amazing what wearing a kilt gives you a licence for......
and then there was the time I visited a friend and he had this huge mangy fierce old tomcat who decided that my lap was the best seat available. Nervously stroking its head hoping it would get off or settle down when BANG! the wind blew the door shut causing old puss to extend his claws into my
Andee I was talking about my post not being amusing, not yours! One day when I was little my older brother was in the bath and I was cleaning my teeth. I thought it would be funny to pour a load of cold water all over him. Needless to say he got very angry and jumped out of the bath and beat the living shite out of me, until I was cowering against the bathroom radiator and begging for mercy. Then I shouted for my mum to try and get him into trouble for hitting me, but she believed my brother and I got told off for being naughty.
I'm sorry, I simply must violate my own terms of engagement and respond to one of the previous postings, instead of hijacking it elsewhere:
Mark, was it at least funny when the cold water got onto your brother in the bath?
Speaking of Star Trek, I seem to recall that Scotty didn't take kindly to 'synthehol', I suspect he kept a bottle or three of single malt down in engineering with his dilithium crystals! (How's that for a hijack ?!)
I've got a D whistle, which I keep in the door pocket of my car. I thought this would be a good idea as everytime I got stuck in traffic on my way to work, I could try to teach myself to play. Unfortunately, just after I bought the whistle I changed my job which means the drive to work is no longer motorway but a series of twisting country lanes. My practice has suffered severely as a result. Can anybody tell me tell me which part of it I blow - the open bit or the squashed green plastic bit?
O.K. i tink I have de idea, Zina.
Shouldn't your name be written Li Zi Na in the Chinese fashion?
Is yours a Chinese name? If so, from which province?
Isn't an interrogative form in Mandarin denoted by the addition of "Ma" to the affirmative, Ma? like so.
my experience is, a foto of hawaii toast topped with strawberries is hijack enough to bring a thread to a halt ... but I refrain from giving the foto link, because this thread with only about 70 posts is not ready to enter any highscore...
... a few posts here really are clever/funny/remarkable. but folks, com´on, try harder to give your best! proof your high skills in hijacking a thread!
Is it true that chocolate is only deadly to dogs, and pretty much ok for cats? I hope so because my 22lb and 3oz cat just ate a box of Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies.
1. I too suggest the Spillane/Glackin "Forgotten Days"
2. Always love a musical bubblebath
3. What does it matter?
4. Hi Matt! Really enjoy listening to the latest disc.
5. Viggo Mortenson, but I'd push him aside for Colin Firth.
There, a hijack and answers for several threads.
D.
This thread is actually perfectly simple to hijack.
Go back to the original post that started this, which stated the rule of new topic with each posting - if anyone chooses to break into a discussion, they will have hijacked the thread. So far virtually everone has followed the rule. Discuss anything at all and you will have hijacked the thread.
So here goes.
Yes Andee - many old fashioned alcoholic drinks use animal products in the making. Within the past couple of decades most commercial Cider producers in the UK (that's "Hard Cider" to our american cousins) still put dead chickens (complete with feathers and beaks) into the vat at the appropriate stage.
Stuff it with texturized vegetable protein or better yet seitan (wheat gluten, texture is like meat). Make the stomach thing part out of a hollowed out block of tofu or maybe out of a big wonton type doughy thing.
First of all, catch your haggis! But only in the haggis shoot season (only when there's no R in the month), and from what I've heard you've got to know, or preferably be one of, The Right Sort of People, to get onto a haggis shoot. Damned expensive, old chap.
Trevor
Speaking of Cider (House Rules) & dreaminess, it's one of my all time fave books. I refused to see the movie til I found out Tobey Maguire played Homer Wells. The night after I had seen it, I had an incredibly vivid dream that I was the nurse that took over delivering babies & raising children at the St. Clouds orphanage with Dr. Homer Wells/Fuzzy Stone. I woke up crying, but this was last year. Deb Wah is right, in the end, Firth defeats Bloom & Maguire.
So how hard will it be to forgive the cat? Between the cookies(one of my favorites) and the varnish! Do hope it feels better though.
Should one stay within one's age group whilst fantasizing? While I admit that Colin Firth probably defeats all, a close second is Ioan Gryffyd (plays Horatio Hornblower), a bit young.
D.
But then someone might hijack the hijack of the hijack... or factions might form, one of which is hijacking the original hijack, another hijacking the hijack of the hijack, and others hijacking both.
good point dow: this thread is actually impossible to hijack... if you reply to another thread (like this) you're hijacking (by hijacking the hijack) and if you don't, you're hijacking anyway. both ways you're on-subject!
aaargh. nice one cuchulain.
Impossible to hijack? Isn't it impossible not to hijack? As Mark said, your always hijacking something, whether its the original topic (heh) or another hijack.
I'm homeschooled. Once I get my schoolwork done, even if it's the day before, I get to stop. I can also take little breaks every now and then. Gives me lots of time to play music, not to mention making posts here. So that's why. I guess I should give my school higher priorty than my music, but I don't like to.
Yep. I know what you mean. The only bad thing about homeschooling is that you don't have someone pounding you to get your work done on time, so you can fall behind easily.
No Deb, you don't have to stay within your age group for fantasies!
I've dug myself a hole--I will confess--I made up the whole story about the thin mint cookies. The 22.3 lb cat is real though. And Thin Mints are my favorite, too--actually I think February is Girl Scout Cookie month. You can't really get them any other time of the year. Unless you keep them in cold storage all year round...
I know from previous discussions here that an average of two beers each actually makes for a good session (give or take depending on certain varriables). I'm interested if anyone has tried playing sober yet and what effect that has on dynamics?
also...while playing may a$$ off at a sesh, I took of my glasses and was enjoying a buzz...as I was spinning I spilled some Murphy's Stout all down the front of me...I made it no concern as I managed to save a good warm swallow...now I had not been a big fan of Murphy's in the past but from that day on I can't say enough for its magic...as now I've noticed that I have just as slender a body with just as beautiful a head. Anyone else notice the same? ('bout themselves I mean)
Tim
What's this nonsense about letting Saddam Hussain out on bail? If they do, you'll see a runner the like of which has never been seen before in history.
Trevor
One thing, though -- sheer number of comments isn't always a good indication of how *dense* the thread was in terms of the quality of the posts. For instance, http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/112 is a good example of a thread absolutely packed with stuff that players could conceivably get a lot of use from, but also a lot of really good crack...
Several and a half metric miles North East of Sligo, split by a cascading stream, her body on earth, her feet in the water, dwells the microcephalic community of Puckoon.
A wonderful novel by Italo Calvino entitled "if on a winter's night a traveller" would no doubt be enjoyed by enthusiasts of this thread as the plot gets hijacked in each chapter as the book progresses. Great fun.
Andee, Thin Mints are my fave too, but I always stocked up around election time in November, at least back home. I'd vote in the morning, buy 3 boxes, then, as my craving kicked in throughout the day, come back at least 2 more times to buy more cookies. I wonder if they thought I was trying to vote more than once.
I love Thin Mints. We generally buy several boxes and freeze the things, because they're really good frozen. They generally don't last nearly as long as I always hope they will when we buy them...
Do Thin Mints really make you thin? How? Do they induce vomiting? Or just in cats? Or out of cats? Are they made of mince? Can haggis be stuffed with them?
but if you tape several whistles together lower to higher keys it realy works quite well around the tomato plants as a drip irrigation system, just fill the cat and squeeze.
I say we make this the longest thread just for the sake of it. Cuch, yes, it was funny when the cold water hit my brother, especially as I poured it directly onto his willy for extra amusement value. I've joined the internal coherence factor for a change since I usually have a tendency to hijack normal threads.
minced meat? puking cats? failed the butcher´s fridge?
btw on my first day at this years willie week i found an old broken mini fridge on the beach at spanish point. I wondered if the book is a fake. isn´t it? or failed somebody else by repeating the tour?
to mike a long story short: only what´s played exists. so here come a few new tunes to play:
"music for a found tamagotchi" (thumbpipe)
"the minced tomcat" (catsprey)
"squeeze my cat" (reeeemeoweel)
"the polcaholics gigaset" (polonophonic gesamtkunstwerk)
Has anyone ever tried taping 2 fiddles together so you can rock out like those rock star guys with the double necked guitars? Have you ever seen a flying V type shaped fiddle?
Is The Cat That Ate The Candle the same as the one that Kittled In Jamie's Wig? And if so, why was it so busy piddling about with candles and wigs, when it should have been chasing The Mouse In The Cupboard?
If you tied two bodhrans together, back to back, and got the frequencies, amplitudes and phasing just right when hitting them from both sides, wouldn't they emit silence - a bit like the Unseen University clock in Terry Pratchett's Disk World that strikes silences?
Trevor
i have in my hand as i type - which explains why you're not seeing any caps - a photo that was given to me at our sunday night session of a guy contriving to play 3 violins at the same time. he's sitting on a wall holding the first jammed between chin and shoulder, the second is held across his lower chest with his left hand in the playing position, and the third is resting on his right thigh - one leg is crossed over the other - with his right fore-arm holding it in place against his lower abdomen. his right hand is holding a bow in the approved fashion and is apparently drawing it across the strings of all three fiddles. he also has a silly, rather worried looking grin on his face - well, i mean to say, holding 2 stradivari and a guaneri like that, out of doors and sitting on a stone wall...
OK, I've put the photo down now, so caps are back!
It's obviously a photocopy of something that's quite old, judging by the guy's clothing - a very smart suit with the widest lapels I've ever seen, cuff links, and a crease in his trousers you could shave with. And he's sitting on a newspaper to protect said trousers from the wall. He looks about 40-ish with carefully brushed and oiled hair, and a longish nose. The background in the photo is very blurred and indistinct, but *may* be part of a mountain or hill.
The caption below the photo says "In terms of strange behaviour, it doesn't get much more bizarre than when a man attempts to secure a woman's romantic interest."
Has anyone also seen this photo and has any further infomation concerning its date or the identity of the gentleman concerned?
Trevor
Andee, you have relieved my mind! Glad to hear the cat is ok. I have to admit, being able to hang onto even 1 sleeve of the thin mints into Dec. was amazing. A box may last a weekend.
Deb.
maybe because...
- you have to be Xian to play Xtrad (Xmas Tradicionelle Songs&Tunes) well,
- even Jeremy is a bit Dadaistic,
- the craic is 90 when we touch 161
- it is good sport,
- it is like any other nonsense goin around at good sessions between the tunes and therefore is closely related to THE MUSIC
Jeremy - you missed my gig in Brighton 2 weeks ago - but then I should have told you that I was playing - and the name of the band - and the venue and the fact that I was living my other life as a keyboard player in an acid jazz outfit!!
I've just tried the bodhrán thing with a couple of spares - tied them together back-to-back and hit both sides at once. I think I got the opposite effect of the silence you tantalised us with, treobhar. Mirrors cracked, bookcases exploded and the cat blinked an eye, slowly. Perhaps I need to use two tunables...
No Dow I will continue to ignore your...oh bu%%er it, we both know that you haven't really gone to Japan, I saw you up in Brisbane two weeks ago busking in the mall with your cat-o-nine-pipes. Come on fess up!
My back-to-back bodhrán suggestion is actually based on real physics (Terry Pratchett's clock striking silences is based on real magic - it's the thaums, y'know).
The technology exists so that loudspeakers can emit "anti-sound" which cancels out the sound of the source. An array of mics picks up the source sound and feeds it into a computer which then generates the anti-sound and feeds it into the loudspeakers, resulting in silence (or a close approximation).
I actually experienced this effect a few years ago in a chamber orchestra concert in a church when it happened unintentionally during the rehearsal. Our harpsichordist was using an electronic keyboard (Technics, I believe) with the usual harpsichord etc sounds. The loudspeakers were placed alongside the cellos (3 of us). During the rehearsal the harpsichord was inaudible and the speakers didn't seem to be working when the cellos were playing, so we experimented and discovered that the low frequency sounds from the cellos were very effectively damping the vibration of the loudspeakers. We then moved the loudspeakers well away from the cellos and everything was ok.
Trevor
Who can tell me about whistles with recorder-type thumbholes? I'm told they're banned in contests because they have some unfair advantage. Is this true? And what advantage do they have?
Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather.
Down along the rocky shore
Some make their home,
They live on crispy pancakes
Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain-lake,
With frogs for their watch-dogs,
All night awake.
OK...you all know about leprechauns, but what of the cluricaun? I found this on a site today...its true, I'm sure I've been to a few sessions with them!
"The Cluricaun are a solitary fairy who rob wine cellars and ride sheep and shepherds dogs the live long night-found panting and mud covered in the morning."
I don´t really know it, Mark, but in accordance to my experiences of the many last years this is more than believe: it is the 24th of this month, late afternoon.
But maybe Jeremy can bring some clear answer to that very important question. especially because I really don´t know how to solve the problem of a global wandering "late afternoon" within 24 hours.
Why is it that any girl playing an instrument (be it harp, fiddle, whatever) has only to look up while playing and smile to make a career wallflower like me to sigh like a pat of butter on a hot skillet?
Clurican (sic) appears in several of Neil Gaiman's Sandman stories: a capricious ambassador / messenger from the fairy realm much given to frivolity, wine and exaggeration. As far as riding sheep is concerned - all sorts of comments and observations spring to mind, none of them publishable here.
Do sheep's knees lock, I wonder? Do androids tip electronic sheep?
Sorry about the smiling musician comment, it just kinda slipped out. It's been a long night in the salt mines. I'll just go and sit in the sad corner and scratch out a few laments as penance.
Oh, which reminds me -- we're having a housewarming session and party this Friday (anybody in town is welcome to drop in!), and I was just informed that someone is sending us a haggis from some gourmet haggis maker out in Oregon (!). I can manage tatties just fine, of course, but have a question. Neeps: mashed or cubed?
What are mealy puds, Steve?! And, while looking out for stuff on the Net, I note that some recipes reference "neeps" as turnips and some as rutabagas, so now I'm all confused! (Taters and tatties both refer to potatoes, Milo.)
So, which gender is a pratiehole? not really a big question for english speakers - but french, italian and germans need to know to translate the recipes right.
Clurichaun was the name of a band I was in. Really. Except that the flute player got all artsy and spelled it with an e on the end. Nobody could pronounce it. The cat that ate the candle is the same as The Old Cat Sh*t in the Shavings but, so far as I know, it didn't kittle in Jamie's wig.
Zina - mealy puds - also known as white puddings, are like sausages only filled with oatmeal, suet and seasoning. Just one of the reasons Scotland is just about the best place to get coronary heart disease.
Have never heard of a rutabaga!
Wee footnote - after years of backing and turn taking with other bodhranii I came in from the cold and played my first tune at our session tonight. Good feeling. Very happy. More smiley than a smiley person smiling too much.
Whoa...I guess we'll probably skip the mealy puds! Right, then, v you and Kenny, mashed turnips it is. Good for you on the melody playing! What tune did you play?
Groucho Marx smoked big cigars and said outrageous stuff. Jesus only said outrageous stuff.
-- cuchulain (aka Paul), on why, at age 10, he wanted to be Groucho Marx.
This thread is lacking in coherency--obviously. Also, when you're allowed to hijack, it's not as much fun. Glad to see the back of the other thread. It was getting out of hand. )
Easiest way is to invoke the Nazi Principle. I mean, we don't want to go annoying you three by having the temerity to talk about things that bore you...now, things that don't bore you, I'm sure you'd be just fine with... :-p
"You THREE"? Hey! What d'ya mean?
By the way, I've been meaning to try your scrambled egg recipe. I laughed my ass off when you posted it, but then it dawned on me that the recipe itself was probably serious.
Do you know that in the far future computers will be so powerful that they'll be able to generate virtual reality simulations of past events that are indistinguishable from reality. How do we know that we are not already part of such a VRS? Incidentally, it would sort out once and for all the logical conundrum of time travel - e.g from 3/4 to 6/8 and back, so that makes this post relevant to ITM - because couldn't the Webmaster could cut and paste events and characters from one VRS to another?
TRevor
I am just puffin' in out of the cold for a moment with a few recipes for you food lovers out there.
First, Sgarbh (Cormorant). This is now a protected species, so this recipe is included for interest only.
Pluck the bird and singe with a hot iron or open flame. Boil for 1-2 hrs or until tender, eat hot with potatoes and vegetables. A soup can be made from the stock using: 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 cup of barley, chopped onion, salt and pepper to taste.
Second, Guga (young gannet). Wash the bird in cold water and soda, place into a pan of cold water and bring to the boil. Then skin and cook for a further 1-2 hours. Change the water 2 - 3 times during cooking. Remove from the pan when cooked and cut into portions. Serve with boiled potatoes.
Either of these could be used for cooking Puffin, but personally I would prefer a good tasty sandwich; say a BLT or a TLT.
As of the time of writing (6:35pm GMT, December 25, 2003) there is a backlog of 388 tunes in the request list, dating back to March 16, 2003.
Now wouldn't it be nice for someone to volunteer
Half a mo', I've just been called back to the mulled wine
OK, so hijack THIS!
OK, so hijack THIS!
Time to set a record: new topic with each posting -- no repeats. Ready, set, hijack!
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Do we know what the last date for posting christmas cards is?
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Mark Harmer
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So, is it true that bagpipes really do make good kindling for an accordian fire?!
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by golly
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I read on a thread that Bodrhans make great cat-litter trays but I suppose if you had a cat you could hollow it out and use it for bagpipes?? Maybe I'll have a go with my cat later...
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Mark Harmer
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Not about ITM Mark. Does it count? Around these parts its too late already. Everything has gone crazy post wise. Been after something at the music shop for weeks but its caught up in the Christmas mayhem.
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Clear Drops
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Got in under me again. Must be slow. The bodhran or the cat?
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Clear Drops
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I'm looking for the notes for The Hijacker's Hornpipe. Should I check the tune section first?
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Back for a while
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shadow sounds piezo - braggs sounds smooth fiddle. that´s what I learned at last nights session while talking to an expert (I really think he is - he builds guitars and bouzoukis and really knows to play them ... ). Anyway the session was mostly playing fun and I don´t expect comments ... ;o)
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by crannog
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Picked up a copy of O'Neill's at a local shop only to discover that it was a 'new and improved' edition. This one has only a thousand tunes in it compared to the eighteen hundred plus tunes of the old (unimproved) edition AND they've left out all the airs! What's been improved?!
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by golly
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Do you have to be a Christian to play "Christmas Eve" and similar tunes well?
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Back for a while
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Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle.
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Clear Drops
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Ok, maybe a hammered dulcimer isn't trad in ITM, but would the patrons please refrain from using it as a bar table to set their Guinness?
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by jrathbun
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Can anyone advise me where to buy a good quality shakey egg?
)
I got one from Sainsbury's but the yoke ended up all over the bodhran player.
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Back for a while
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Don't you hate kids (i.e. teens) who are far more talented and ambitious about their playing than you were when you were their age? And what's even worse is when you really enjoy playing with them, and they with you. I mean, it's just awful.
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by sts
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Hi Jack,
Shouldn't that be "yolk"?
Joe "Bongo" Quinn
# Posted on December 13th 2003 by Joe Quinn
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Would it be considered not within the idiom of traditional irish music to play a harp with a fiddle bow and to pluck your fiddle strings with either nails or pads of your fingers? In so doing, would it matter if the fiddle strings were gut or metal?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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I have a b-set of pipes and i can't seem to find tunes that play well in a session. can some one help
tia
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by I_Fel
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I have a brass generation G whistle, and I hate it! It's squeaky, noisy and ugly sounding! I love however, the generation Bb.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Max Becher
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ROFL -- Joe, that should perhaps be more properly "yoik", not yolk, but I do love scrambled eggs.
If you add a little milk (as you whip the eggs), salt and pepper, and some cheese (just before the eggs finish cooking), it's utter heaven, and don't overbeat the raw eggs -- which would cause premature coagulation of the eggs' protein, even before hitting the pan -- so stop beating before the bubbles get too large.
Put the butter in a cold pan, and then heat both -- the progress of the melting is a good indication of the readiness of the pan. Wait for foaming butter, let it subside, but not disappear.
You have to keep the heat higher than most people think of cooking eggs, about medium high to just below full out high, and slowly but deliberately push, lift, and folding the curds across the pan (which really needs to be heavy, nonstick, and thick so it will hold the heat evenly, and should really be quite small -- eight inches for two eggs or so, to keep the egg batter at a depth of one quarter inch, so the curds come out nice and plump) as soon as they form. Use a wooden spatula or nonstick-safe turner with a flat edge to snowplow a two or three inch swath of eggs across the pan in one pass.
Milk provides sugar, proteins and fats, which makes for a wonderful pillowy effect, helping to create large curds. The larger the curds, the more steam is trapped inside, for puffy, fluffy eggs that last to the table.
Even if you like your scrambled eggs dry, you should leave the curds a bit wet, as the rest will cook during the time you turn off the heat and get it out of the pan. Two eggs should cook into big curds in about thirty seconds.
And of course, the eggs should be consumed as soon as possible out of the pan. Otherwise as they get cooler, they will toughen up rather than being tender and light.
According to Elaine Corn (author of 365 Ways to Cook Eggs), scrambled eggs should be "a dreamy mound of big, softly wobbling curds, yelolow as a legal pad, glistening, a hair breadth away from undercooking. When cut, the eggs should be cooked enough to hold their shape, but soft enough to eat with a spoon -- a cross between a custard gone right and wrong. If you can't deliver on the texture and consistency, you can kiss the taste goodbye."
You want lush scrambled eggs with big curds that melt in your mouth.
Yummy!
(BTW, our best hijacks have nothing to little to do with music. *snort*)
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Sorry, Joe. My mind was elsewhere and I'm left with egg on my face.
)
Maybe Jeremy could incorporate a spellchecker.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Back for a while
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A friend of mine went to Tajikistan. He also saw a 'a dreamy mound of big, softly wobbling Kurds'. But he was always a bit strange that way.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Ottery
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Should session selection start in the middle of the circle and go clockwise or start at the end and go counterclockwise?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Tim_Fiddler
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Can everyone please be quiet for the next seven minutes? I'd like to sing a long unaccompanied ballad.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by GaryAMartin
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Oh, and I'd like to give a bodhran solo. Do you think it's asking too much too have some good shakey-egg players back me up? And maybe some spoons, too.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Max Becher
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Does anyone have the music for that lovely melody "Jig of Slurs"?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Back for a while
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Well, They've captured Saddam Hussein - how's that for a hijack!
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Nick Splease
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Fly this website to Cuba!
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Kenny
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In a helicopter, Kenny? We'd never make it!
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Cuchulain, is it true you had 3 female warrior tutors apart from Maeve? If so, please tell us a bit about them. Thanks. Sean nos style discouraged, prose will be lovely.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by emily_bmore
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I've an old Clark whistle that I keep in a bag with a bunch of other stuff -- heavy stuff, and I sometimes carry the bag by a strap. Now the whistle has got a definite curve to it. It doesn't seem to have adversely affected the tone, and people can hear me better around corners. I highly recommend it.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by cuchulain54
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I touched the boobs and stuff of the woman living next door to my parents after she attacked me one day when we were having a secret smoke in her living room whilst her husband was out working late and her kids were in bed and then I accidentally dropped charcoal on her new rug and burnt a hole in it.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Dow
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Try dipping your rosin in Guinness before applying it to the bow. It does wonderful things for your playing!
Trevor
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by lazyhound
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Do you know that 4 gills make 1 pint or 34 2/3 cubic inches? Michael, are you listening?
Trevor
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by lazyhound
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Hey Mark, this game is called hijack--not confessional booth!
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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Once when I was little I got in with a bad crowd and smashed some windows at the local first school, and I still feel guilty about it. Both my parents are teachers.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Dow
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Ok, so say 3 Hail Marys (is that right?) or whatever it is you're supposed to do to repent...
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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Who do you think is dreamier, Frodo or Sam?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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"3 Hail Marys (is that right?) or whatever it is you're supposed to do to repent" - sorry that's not in the least bit amusing. One day when I was little I drank too much ribena and felt sick, so I rushed up to my brother's bedroom and was deliberately sick on his floor right in front of him and it was red. Then I ran away and he chased after me and beat the living shite out of me and I had bruises all over my face for a week.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Dow
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Ok, sorry Mark, just trying to keep things light.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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If gut strings are made out of sheep do you think wire strings are made out of metal sheep? Is that where steel wool comes from?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Mark Harmer
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PS Jan (about 43 posts before this one) I meant the cat. However I love my cats too much to do this to them, really. Anyone know how many degrees farenheit equal one cubic decibel?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Mark Harmer
What not to do at ROTK
What not to do at the Return of the King:
1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, "Wait... where the heck is Harry Potter?"
2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
3. After the movie, say "Lucas could have done it better."
4. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.
5. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."
6. At the end, complain that Gollum was offensive to Ethiopians.
7. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.
8. When Shelob appears, pinch the guy in front of you on the back of the neck.
9. Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep" Monty Python style.
10. When Denethor lights the fire, shout "Barbecue!"
11. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, "Where's Waldo?"
12. Start an Orc sing-a-long.
13. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for tense moment and shout, "I see dead people!"
14. Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.
15. When Shelob comes on, exclaim, "Man! Charlotte's really let herself go!"
-Max
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Max Becher
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If a vegan breastfeeds her child, does it make her a hypocrite?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by darinkelly
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Hi Darin!
If you mix equal parts half and half with soy milk, what do you get?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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Constipated?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by darinkelly
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could be, especially if you are lactose intolerant with an allergy to soy....
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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Ok, ok, so I've got the cat inflated. Now how do I stop up the drones?!
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by golly
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wasn´t cuchulain the guy who ended up doing the job of the dog he killed?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by crannog
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Golly,
Are you bowing it in the right place? You need to rub the rosin carefully across the tail.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Mark Harmer
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Foul!!!! Andee isn't playing by the rules. New topic with every post. Penalty declined. Fourth down. Bring on the punter. Pun intended, making it a triple entendre.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by GaryAMartin
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If you're right Crannog, all I can say is it's a good job Cuchallain didn't kill the bull!
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Bannerman
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Me and my daughter have got the flu so we are drinking loads of honey and lemon!! cough...cough...mmmmm.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Twiz
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My gals not good with the flute...should I tell her to inhale before she blows?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Tim_Fiddler
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Now this is a thread to my likin. Oops - I hear my daughter waking up - wandering half asleep at night. Or should I say *sound* asleep. She needs a milk nightcap before returning to bed. She'll be fast asleep before her head hits the pillow . Do any of you find yourself running a milk bar at night? Xuse me, gotta go. Customer waiting.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by FiddleTramp
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Like the bagpipe cat idea. Has anyone tried this one? Grasp a tom cat firmly by the scruff of its neck and place it belly up on your left shoulder. Stretch out away from you, holding it firmly at the nuts with your chin but relaxed around its neck with your left hand. Plummet up an down with your fingertips while stroking some rosined ponytail across its guts. Meowwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Bagpipes, fiddles - Any other musical use for cats?
(just kidding)
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Clear Drops
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Gary, looks like I'm not the only one to score a penalty (incorrect terminology?) There seems to be lots of talk about milk including breast, cow's, and soy. Also lots of talk about cat bagpipes. Maybe we should make a separate thread for each of those... ;o)
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Andee
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Anyone see SNL last night with Elijah Wood hosting? One of the actors dressed up as Gollum during the monologue & pitched a new sitcom, which is that before they enter the Land of Mordor, Frodo & Gollum move to Denver & share an apartment together (along the lines of "Perfect Strangers"). They run the opening credits, it's called "A Hard Hobbit to Break." It's hilarious, like Frodo opening the fridge & having all these fish spill out, he glares over at Gollum perched on the arm of a chair eating a fish, then they both laugh! I am not making this up. I seriously need to find out when the movie opens in the States if it hasn't already. I thought my dad said Wednesday.....
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by emily_bmore
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Great wee bit of goss here. Some guys I know play in a ceilidh band, and do so with this guy, a flute player/piper from N.London whom I've known off & on for a good few years, but from totally seperate sources from how I know these guys.
So they were doing a wedding. Someone asked for some Greek Music - so Zorba the Greek got an outing. All the guests are doing the going round in a circle holding hands doing pretend Greek dance, as you do, p!ssed at a wedding. Yer man the flute player/piper, wearing a kilt, sporting which you can nearly get away with murder, finds some posh, big, hotel-style plates and starts lobbing them into middle of the circle, like wot goes on in the Plaka in Athens. Now this is a wedding, and there might well be little kiddies or sozzled adults tramping round all over the place. Apparently no-one bats an eyelid, and yer man gets away with it no probs! Amazing what wearing a kilt gives you a licence for......
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Nick Splease
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The best film version of the Lord of the Rings is the book.
Trevor
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by lazyhound
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about the receipe for colcannon; how much cabbage do you use???
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by I_Fel
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and then there was the time I visited a friend and he had this huge mangy fierce old tomcat who decided that my lap was the best seat available. Nervously stroking its head hoping it would get off or settle down when BANG! the wind blew the door shut causing old puss to extend his claws into my
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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Andee I was talking about my post not being amusing, not yours! One day when I was little my older brother was in the bath and I was cleaning my teeth. I thought it would be funny to pour a load of cold water all over him. Needless to say he got very angry and jumped out of the bath and beat the living shite out of me, until I was cowering against the bathroom radiator and begging for mercy. Then I shouted for my mum to try and get him into trouble for hitting me, but she believed my brother and I got told off for being naughty.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Dow
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I'm sorry, I simply must violate my own terms of engagement and respond to one of the previous postings, instead of hijacking it elsewhere:
Mark, was it at least funny when the cold water got onto your brother in the bath?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by cuchulain54
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The irony of it is, in order to truly hijack a thread about hijacking, you have to stick with the topic. Logicians, am I right? Spock?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Speaking of Star Trek, I seem to recall that Scotty didn't take kindly to 'synthehol', I suspect he kept a bottle or three of single malt down in engineering with his dilithium crystals! (How's that for a hijack ?!)
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by golly
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Does sticking a quartz crystal inside your instrument help the sound? Where do you stick yours?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Mark Harmer
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ok, Scotty, O'Brien - who's dreamier?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Cath
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I've got a D whistle, which I keep in the door pocket of my car. I thought this would be a good idea as everytime I got stuck in traffic on my way to work, I could try to teach myself to play. Unfortunately, just after I bought the whistle I changed my job which means the drive to work is no longer motorway but a series of twisting country lanes. My practice has suffered severely as a result. Can anybody tell me tell me which part of it I blow - the open bit or the squashed green plastic bit?
Mike
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by mikemcdaid
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O.K. i tink I have de idea, Zina.
Shouldn't your name be written Li Zi Na in the Chinese fashion?
Is yours a Chinese name? If so, from which province?
Isn't an interrogative form in Mandarin denoted by the addition of "Ma" to the affirmative, Ma? like so.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Joe Quinn
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Too little accsess to ITM, music, sessions, cd's and instruments in Norway.
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by tufbo
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Take a look at:
badgerbadgerbadger.com
Dave
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by showaddydadito
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Which is more important - flossing or brushing?
# Posted on December 14th 2003 by Conán McDonnell
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What would happen if I stuck dilithium crystals inside my harp?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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my experience is, a foto of hawaii toast topped with strawberries is hijack enough to bring a thread to a halt ... but I refrain from giving the foto link, because this thread with only about 70 posts is not ready to enter any highscore...
... a few posts here really are clever/funny/remarkable. but folks, com´on, try harder to give your best! proof your high skills in hijacking a thread!
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by crannog
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Is it true that chocolate is only deadly to dogs, and pretty much ok for cats? I hope so because my 22lb and 3oz cat just ate a box of Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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Did you know that Guiness is not vegetarian? It's made with fish oil, to give it body. This is true.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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1. I too suggest the Spillane/Glackin "Forgotten Days"
2. Always love a musical bubblebath
3. What does it matter?
4. Hi Matt! Really enjoy listening to the latest disc.
5. Viggo Mortenson, but I'd push him aside for Colin Firth.
There, a hijack and answers for several threads.
D.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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This thread is actually perfectly simple to hijack.
Go back to the original post that started this, which stated the rule of new topic with each posting - if anyone chooses to break into a discussion, they will have hijacked the thread. So far virtually everone has followed the rule. Discuss anything at all and you will have hijacked the thread.
So here goes.
Yes Andee - many old fashioned alcoholic drinks use animal products in the making. Within the past couple of decades most commercial Cider producers in the UK (that's "Hard Cider" to our american cousins) still put dead chickens (complete with feathers and beaks) into the vat at the appropriate stage.
More contributions to this hijack please
Dave
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by showaddydadito
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What about the lips???
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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With the genuine Somerset rough cider it's the dead rat in the vat that does the trick.
Trevor
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by lazyhound
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Is it an automatic hijack if one mentions bodhrans? If a thread is hijacked, and then broght back on original topic wouldn't that be a hijack?
At what point is it the appropriate stage to place an entire chicken into a vat to build hard cider?
Deb
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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Is there a vegetarian form of haggis?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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Stuff your haggis
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Joe Quinn
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Stuff it with texturized vegetable protein or better yet seitan (wheat gluten, texture is like meat). Make the stomach thing part out of a hollowed out block of tofu or maybe out of a big wonton type doughy thing.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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Yum
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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First of all, catch your haggis! But only in the haggis shoot season (only when there's no R in the month), and from what I've heard you've got to know, or preferably be one of, The Right Sort of People, to get onto a haggis shoot. Damned expensive, old chap.
Trevor
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by lazyhound
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My cat jsut threw up thin mints girl scout cookies and hairballs all in one.
Not yum.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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Did it take the varnish off your floor?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Zina Lee
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See what happens when you try to use a cat for pipes?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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Speaking of Cider (House Rules) & dreaminess, it's one of my all time fave books. I refused to see the movie til I found out Tobey Maguire played Homer Wells. The night after I had seen it, I had an incredibly vivid dream that I was the nurse that took over delivering babies & raising children at the St. Clouds orphanage with Dr. Homer Wells/Fuzzy Stone. I woke up crying, but this was last year. Deb Wah is right, in the end, Firth defeats Bloom & Maguire.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by emily_bmore
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Cuch - spot on! To hijack this thread effectively you have to hijack the game and create coherence between posts.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Dow
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So how hard will it be to forgive the cat? Between the cookies(one of my favorites) and the varnish! Do hope it feels better though.
Should one stay within one's age group whilst fantasizing? While I admit that Colin Firth probably defeats all, a close second is Ioan Gryffyd (plays Horatio Hornblower), a bit young.
D.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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But then someone might hijack the hijack of the hijack... or factions might form, one of which is hijacking the original hijack, another hijacking the hijack of the hijack, and others hijacking both.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Dow
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good point dow: this thread is actually impossible to hijack... if you reply to another thread (like this) you're hijacking (by hijacking the hijack) and if you don't, you're hijacking anyway. both ways you're on-subject! aaargh. nice one cuchulain.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by rog
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Wait...how's that, again?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Impossible to hijack? Isn't it impossible not to hijack? As Mark said, your always hijacking something, whether its the original topic (heh) or another hijack.
-Max
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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All 5 of the above are true. So what's the longest discussion thread? Are we there yet?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Mark Harmer
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Mark,
Just clicked on your link to your christmas contemplative harp music. Absolutely lovely!
Didn't mean to get off topic!
D.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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Oh yes you did !
I have to agree. It is lovley.
Longest post? I haven't been around to long, but this one is pretty long. And growing steadily.
-Max
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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Sorry, I meant longest thread, not longest post.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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Ok Max, why aren't you in school? Why am I not working right now? God, my brain hurts!
D.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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I'm homeschooled. Once I get my schoolwork done, even if it's the day before, I get to stop. I can also take little breaks every now and then.
Gives me lots of time to play music, not to mention making posts here. So that's why. I guess I should give my school higher priorty than my music, but I don't like to.
-Max
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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You are doing better than me, I'm at work and posting more today than working. I am arguing with MS Word. We don't get along.
Well, I've managed to fiddle quite a bit of the day away. Time for home and the real thing.
Deb.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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Yep. I know what you mean. The only bad thing about homeschooling is that you don't have someone pounding you to get your work done on time, so you can fall behind easily.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Max Becher
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No Deb, you don't have to stay within your age group for fantasies!
I've dug myself a hole--I will confess--I made up the whole story about the thin mint cookies. The 22.3 lb cat is real though. And Thin Mints are my favorite, too--actually I think February is Girl Scout Cookie month. You can't really get them any other time of the year. Unless you keep them in cold storage all year round...
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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I'm pretty sure the longest thread is over 160 posts at the least, so, no, we haven't gotten there yet...
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Zina Lee
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another hi-jack
I know from previous discussions here that an average of two beers each actually makes for a good session (give or take depending on certain varriables). I'm interested if anyone has tried playing sober yet and what effect that has on dynamics?
(I say we go for 161)
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Tim_Fiddler
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also...while playing may a$$ off at a sesh, I took of my glasses and was enjoying a buzz...as I was spinning I spilled some Murphy's Stout all down the front of me...I made it no concern as I managed to save a good warm swallow...now I had not been a big fan of Murphy's in the past but from that day on I can't say enough for its magic...as now I've noticed that I have just as slender a body with just as beautiful a head. Anyone else notice the same? ('bout themselves I mean)
Tim
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Tim_Fiddler
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What's this nonsense about letting Saddam Hussain out on bail? If they do, you'll see a runner the like of which has never been seen before in history.
Trevor
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by lazyhound
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I propose that when this thread passes the 160 that it be knitted with another to make a giant oven-mitt for the residents of Puckoon.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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Let's see:
http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/911 has 168 comments, I think...
One thing, though -- sheer number of comments isn't always a good indication of how *dense* the thread was in terms of the quality of the posts. For instance, http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/112 is a good example of a thread absolutely packed with stuff that players could conceivably get a lot of use from, but also a lot of really good crack...
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Where the heck is Puckoon?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Several and a half metric miles North East of Sligo, split by a cascading stream, her body on earth, her feet in the water, dwells the microcephalic community of Puckoon.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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It's a Spikey subject.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Ottery
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A wonderful novel by Italo Calvino entitled "if on a winter's night a traveller" would no doubt be enjoyed by enthusiasts of this thread as the plot gets hijacked in each chapter as the book progresses. Great fun.
Greg
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by octogreg
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"Path to the Nest of Spiders" was pretty good too, but his short stories about the cosmos were fantastic.
Anyone for a drink?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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OK OK...I do stay out of tune, but I thought three months was the minimum...
Hows that for a Re:hijack?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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I didn't mean a record-long thread, I meant a record-long hijack. Oh, God help us all, I've unleashed a monster...
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Why are accordionist babes so much hotter than the regular kind?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by whistlemanhimself
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Andee, Thin Mints are my fave too, but I always stocked up around election time in November, at least back home. I'd vote in the morning, buy 3 boxes, then, as my craving kicked in throughout the day, come back at least 2 more times to buy more cookies. I wonder if they thought I was trying to vote more than once.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by emily_bmore
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I love Thin Mints. We generally buy several boxes and freeze the things, because they're really good frozen. They generally don't last nearly as long as I always hope they will when we buy them...
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Do Thin Mints really make you thin? How? Do they induce vomiting? Or just in cats? Or out of cats? Are they made of mince? Can haggis be stuffed with them?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by GaryAMartin
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Yes, if you eat two boxes in one go, cat or human...and is mince ever made of mint?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Zina Lee
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but if you tape several whistles together lower to higher keys it realy works quite well around the tomato plants as a drip irrigation system, just fill the cat and squeeze.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Dont
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I say we make this the longest thread just for the sake of it. Cuch, yes, it was funny when the cold water hit my brother, especially as I poured it directly onto his willy for extra amusement value. I've joined the internal coherence factor for a change since I usually have a tendency to hijack normal threads.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Dow
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Faction, not factor.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Dow
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minced meat? puking cats? failed the butcher´s fridge?
btw on my first day at this years willie week i found an old broken mini fridge on the beach at spanish point. I wondered if the book is a fake. isn´t it? or failed somebody else by repeating the tour?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by crannog
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Trevor
Its NOT Saddam Hussein, its Jungly Barry!
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by showaddydadito
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Greenwiggle, I wish you'd stop insulting me!
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Dow
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So she eventually sold the fiddle for £12,000 which means she can now afford to have her hip replacement done privately!!
And to think she would have readily accepted £200 for it from me.
Tanya - why were you banished?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by mikemcdaid
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A long story, Mike and we weren't allowed to mention her name for a while. Some members doubt if she ever really existed!!
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Back for a while
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to mike a long story short: only what´s played exists. so here come a few new tunes to play:
"music for a found tamagotchi" (thumbpipe)
"the minced tomcat" (catsprey)
"squeeze my cat" (reeeemeoweel)
"the polcaholics gigaset" (polonophonic gesamtkunstwerk)
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by crannog
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Has anyone ever tried taping 2 fiddles together so you can rock out like those rock star guys with the double necked guitars? Have you ever seen a flying V type shaped fiddle?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Andee
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Is The Cat That Ate The Candle the same as the one that Kittled In Jamie's Wig? And if so, why was it so busy piddling about with candles and wigs, when it should have been chasing The Mouse In The Cupboard?
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Aidan Crossey
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No, but for Riverdance they tied two bodhrans together and thumped them with Lambeg drum-sticks.
They should have tied up Michael Flatley instead.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Joe Quinn
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If you tied two bodhrans together, back to back, and got the frequencies, amplitudes and phasing just right when hitting them from both sides, wouldn't they emit silence - a bit like the Unseen University clock in Terry Pratchett's Disk World that strikes silences?
Trevor
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by lazyhound
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i have in my hand as i type - which explains why you're not seeing any caps - a photo that was given to me at our sunday night session of a guy contriving to play 3 violins at the same time. he's sitting on a wall holding the first jammed between chin and shoulder, the second is held across his lower chest with his left hand in the playing position, and the third is resting on his right thigh - one leg is crossed over the other - with his right fore-arm holding it in place against his lower abdomen. his right hand is holding a bow in the approved fashion and is apparently drawing it across the strings of all three fiddles. he also has a silly, rather worried looking grin on his face - well, i mean to say, holding 2 stradivari and a guaneri like that, out of doors and sitting on a stone wall...
OK, I've put the photo down now, so caps are back!
It's obviously a photocopy of something that's quite old, judging by the guy's clothing - a very smart suit with the widest lapels I've ever seen, cuff links, and a crease in his trousers you could shave with. And he's sitting on a newspaper to protect said trousers from the wall. He looks about 40-ish with carefully brushed and oiled hair, and a longish nose. The background in the photo is very blurred and indistinct, but *may* be part of a mountain or hill.
The caption below the photo says "In terms of strange behaviour, it doesn't get much more bizarre than when a man attempts to secure a woman's romantic interest."
Has anyone also seen this photo and has any further infomation concerning its date or the identity of the gentleman concerned?
Trevor
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by lazyhound
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Andee, you have relieved my mind! Glad to hear the cat is ok. I have to admit, being able to hang onto even 1 sleeve of the thin mints into Dec. was amazing. A box may last a weekend.
Deb.
# Posted on December 15th 2003 by Agnes Nutter
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definitely no irish music seshs in Honduras, Guatemala and Jamaica? I´m heavily disappointed!
so let´s all hitchhike there and implement the session culture.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by crannog
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Why hasn't this thread been deleted yet?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Back for a while
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maybe because...
- you have to be Xian to play Xtrad (Xmas Tradicionelle Songs&Tunes) well,
- even Jeremy is a bit Dadaistic,
- the craic is 90 when we touch 161
- it is good sport,
- it is like any other nonsense goin around at good sessions between the tunes and therefore is closely related to THE MUSIC
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by crannog
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Jeremy - you missed my gig in Brighton 2 weeks ago - but then I should have told you that I was playing - and the name of the band - and the venue and the fact that I was living my other life as a keyboard player in an acid jazz outfit!!
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by mikemcdaid
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hehehehe..."catsprey", Volker! LOL
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Zina Lee
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I'm going to the Mainland for Christmas.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Joe Quinn
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We cant be realy sure if a posting has'nt been submmited before.
The longer this thread lasts the more chance of a repeat.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Pete Stephenson.
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Mince words, not cats.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by cuchulain54
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ha cuchulian, this was such a good idea
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Aine Ni Scully
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I've just tried the bodhrán thing with a couple of spares - tied them together back-to-back and hit both sides at once. I think I got the opposite effect of the silence you tantalised us with, treobhar. Mirrors cracked, bookcases exploded and the cat blinked an eye, slowly. Perhaps I need to use two tunables...
())/
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by greenman
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Well you know what the Monty Python boys say.... 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.'
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by emily_bmore
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No Dow I will continue to ignore your...oh bu%%er it, we both know that you haven't really gone to Japan, I saw you up in Brisbane two weeks ago busking in the mall with your cat-o-nine-pipes. Come on fess up!
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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Which came first - the bodhran or the shakey egg?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by clunk999
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My back-to-back bodhrán suggestion is actually based on real physics (Terry Pratchett's clock striking silences is based on real magic - it's the thaums, y'know).
The technology exists so that loudspeakers can emit "anti-sound" which cancels out the sound of the source. An array of mics picks up the source sound and feeds it into a computer which then generates the anti-sound and feeds it into the loudspeakers, resulting in silence (or a close approximation).
I actually experienced this effect a few years ago in a chamber orchestra concert in a church when it happened unintentionally during the rehearsal. Our harpsichordist was using an electronic keyboard (Technics, I believe) with the usual harpsichord etc sounds. The loudspeakers were placed alongside the cellos (3 of us). During the rehearsal the harpsichord was inaudible and the speakers didn't seem to be working when the cellos were playing, so we experimented and discovered that the low frequency sounds from the cellos were very effectively damping the vibration of the loudspeakers. We then moved the loudspeakers well away from the cellos and everything was ok.
Trevor
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by lazyhound
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I love it "Catspreys" very funny.
hijack THIS: Anyone have a good recipe for Puffin?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Tim_Fiddler
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Who can tell me about whistles with recorder-type thumbholes? I'm told they're banned in contests because they have some unfair advantage. Is this true? And what advantage do they have?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather.
Down along the rocky shore
Some make their home,
They live on crispy pancakes
Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain-lake,
With frogs for their watch-dogs,
All night awake.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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Random session haiku:
This pint is so sweet
Jigs to make the heart flutter
A warm glow, clocks stop
Can you tell we don't have any patients today?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by emily_bmore
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Does that mean that cat-litter trays make great bodhrans?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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Em, you can't improve on that! It really says it all about sessions.
Trevor
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by lazyhound
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OK...you all know about leprechauns, but what of the cluricaun? I found this on a site today...its true, I'm sure I've been to a few sessions with them!
"The Cluricaun are a solitary fairy who rob wine cellars and ride sheep and shepherds dogs the live long night-found panting and mud covered in the morning."
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Greenwiggle
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I don´t really know it, Mark, but in accordance to my experiences of the many last years this is more than believe: it is the 24th of this month, late afternoon.
But maybe Jeremy can bring some clear answer to that very important question. especially because I really don´t know how to solve the problem of a global wandering "late afternoon" within 24 hours.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by crannog
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Why is it that any girl playing an instrument (be it harp, fiddle, whatever) has only to look up while playing and smile to make a career wallflower like me to sigh like a pat of butter on a hot skillet?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by golly
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Clurican (sic) appears in several of Neil Gaiman's Sandman stories: a capricious ambassador / messenger from the fairy realm much given to frivolity, wine and exaggeration. As far as riding sheep is concerned - all sorts of comments and observations spring to mind, none of them publishable here.
Do sheep's knees lock, I wonder? Do androids tip electronic sheep?
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Q
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Sorry about the smiling musician comment, it just kinda slipped out. It's been a long night in the salt mines. I'll just go and sit in the sad corner and scratch out a few laments as penance.
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by golly
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Golly, golly - no apologies necessary. I've lost my heart for less than a song and a smile before!
# Posted on December 16th 2003 by Q
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A puffin recipe? let me see. You'll need to make up some puff pastry to make a puffin pie
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Joe Quinn
Hey, Scottish contingent!
Oh, which reminds me -- we're having a housewarming session and party this Friday (anybody in town is welcome to drop in!), and I was just informed that someone is sending us a haggis from some gourmet haggis maker out in Oregon (!). I can manage tatties just fine, of course, but have a question. Neeps: mashed or cubed?
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Chappit - ie, mashed.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Kenny
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Really? Is it allowed to mash them up with the potatoes, or do they have to be their own separate entity?
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Taters?? What's tatersesss?
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Daniel K
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put em on the plate seperately and then its up to individual preference. Are you having mealy puds as well?
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by clunk999
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Actually if you wish to be completely authentic you should call them tatties.
Steve.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by clunk999
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What are mealy puds, Steve?! And, while looking out for stuff on the Net, I note that some recipes reference "neeps" as turnips and some as rutabagas, so now I'm all confused! (Taters and tatties both refer to potatoes, Milo.)
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Zina Lee
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So, which gender is a pratiehole? not really a big question for english speakers - but french, italian and germans need to know to translate the recipes right.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by crannog
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I raed smhweoree taht if you keep the fsirt and lsat ltretes in pcale you can slitl raed ok.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Pete Stephenson.
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Pete: No, you can't.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Anyone know a slow air called "apple praties"? Can't find it anywhere.
Trevor
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by lazyhound
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Clurichaun was the name of a band I was in. Really. Except that the flute player got all artsy and spelled it with an e on the end. Nobody could pronounce it. The cat that ate the candle is the same as The Old Cat Sh*t in the Shavings but, so far as I know, it didn't kittle in Jamie's wig.
Steve
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by SteveKendall
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Zina - mealy puds - also known as white puddings, are like sausages only filled with oatmeal, suet and seasoning. Just one of the reasons Scotland is just about the best place to get coronary heart disease.
Have never heard of a rutabaga!
Wee footnote - after years of backing and turn taking with other bodhranii I came in from the cold and played my first tune at our session tonight. Good feeling. Very happy. More smiley than a smiley person smiling too much.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by clunk999
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On national smile day.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by clunk999
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Whoa...I guess we'll probably skip the mealy puds!
Right, then, v you and Kenny, mashed turnips it is. Good for you on the melody playing! What tune did you play?
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Groucho Marx smoked big cigars and said outrageous stuff. Jesus only said outrageous stuff.
-- cuchulain (aka Paul), on why, at age 10, he wanted to be Groucho Marx.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by cuchulain54
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This thread is lacking in coherency--obviously. Also, when you're allowed to hijack, it's not as much fun. Glad to see the back of the other thread. It was getting out of hand.
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John
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Back for a while
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I agree John - that's why I've mostly kept out of it. It's just like some chatroom.
# Posted on December 17th 2003 by Nick Splease
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Fair enough. Maybe the challenge now should be to get it purged by talking about Tanya or politics or something.
# Posted on December 18th 2003 by cuchulain54
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Easiest way is to invoke the Nazi Principle. I mean, we don't want to go annoying you three by having the temerity to talk about things that bore you...now, things that don't bore you, I'm sure you'd be just fine with... :-p
# Posted on December 18th 2003 by Zina Lee
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"You THREE"? Hey! What d'ya mean?
By the way, I've been meaning to try your scrambled egg recipe. I laughed my ass off when you posted it, but then it dawned on me that the recipe itself was probably serious.
# Posted on December 18th 2003 by cuchulain54
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LOL -- Hey, I'm *always* serious where it comes to food! Heh. I'll send you the actual recipe if you like, out of Cooks Illustrated.
# Posted on December 18th 2003 by Zina Lee
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Do you know that in the far future computers will be so powerful that they'll be able to generate virtual reality simulations of past events that are indistinguishable from reality. How do we know that we are not already part of such a VRS? Incidentally, it would sort out once and for all the logical conundrum of time travel - e.g from 3/4 to 6/8 and back, so that makes this post relevant to ITM
- because couldn't the Webmaster could cut and paste events and characters from one VRS to another?
TRevor
# Posted on December 18th 2003 by lazyhound
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I am just puffin' in out of the cold for a moment with a few recipes for you food lovers out there.
First, Sgarbh (Cormorant). This is now a protected species, so this recipe is included for interest only.
Pluck the bird and singe with a hot iron or open flame. Boil for 1-2 hrs or until tender, eat hot with potatoes and vegetables. A soup can be made from the stock using: 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 cup of barley, chopped onion, salt and pepper to taste.
Second, Guga (young gannet). Wash the bird in cold water and soda, place into a pan of cold water and bring to the boil. Then skin and cook for a further 1-2 hours. Change the water 2 - 3 times during cooking. Remove from the pan when cooked and cut into portions. Serve with boiled potatoes.
Either of these could be used for cooking Puffin, but personally I would prefer a good tasty sandwich; say a BLT or a TLT.
# Posted on December 19th 2003 by scraper
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I was wondering if someone out there could give me a little advice.
You see, I've got this strange rash...
# Posted on December 19th 2003 by Schy
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That rash could be an accordion. Some say getting an accordion is rash.
This seems like the best time and place for this lovely link:
http://www.rowdymusic.net/stuff_accordion.html
# Posted on December 19th 2003 by GaryAMartin
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I thought it was "crispy pancakes of yellow styrofoam"?
# Posted on December 24th 2003 by Charley
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Isn't that the stuff they use for the alternative (dead quiet) banjo?
Trevor
# Posted on December 25th 2003 by lazyhound
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As of the time of writing (6:35pm GMT, December 25, 2003) there is a backlog of 388 tunes in the request list, dating back to March 16, 2003.
Now wouldn't it be nice for someone to volunteer
Half a mo', I've just been called back to the mulled wine
Trevor
# Posted on December 25th 2003 by lazyhound