Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Sorry. Herself brings one of her cheap romance novels to pubs where I play, and has learned how easy it is to run a tab with the bar keep for a few glasses of proseco or some other white sparkly that she loves.
At home she now coordinates my practices with her long walks with her dog!
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[Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??]
the ladies have their own art to pursue. winning hearts by showing off for passive supplicants went out a long time ago, though clowns like the former governor of california seem not to have grokked that yet.
however, if you are really, really, good, one of your fellow players who happens to be female might thumbs-up your chops, one peer to another.
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
No they are impressed by him.
Bono has admitted in interviews that he doesn't even play guitar:
When we started out I was the guitar player, along with the Edge—except I couldn't play guitar. I still can't. I was such a lousy guitar player that one day they broke it to me that maybe I should sing instead. I had tried before, but I had no voice at all. I remember the day I found I could sing. I said, 'Oh, that's how you do it.'
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
The box player is too busy for romance, he has his hands full holding the music together alone, while far too many rhythm players bob in his wake. Rhythm should never outnumber melody.
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
I apologise for attempting to ruin the direction of this thread, but I have a musical question, (I'm pretty useless when it comes to theory,)
During the first tune he shouts across G, but I don't think the tune is in G at all, there are two many dodgy flats in there, I looked up the ABCs and the tune is normally played in Emin, but it's not played in Emin neither, I then move it a touch and I think that means Fmin, so could someone confirm that the first tune is in Fmin
OK lets get back to where we were, do you not think it's strange that all the tunes have some connection to women, Fermoy Lassies, Miss Monaghan, Red haired Lass, of course the blond from Kerry didn't fit into any of those categories and hence the frosty attitude.
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
What is a "Lass", "Lassie"? Is it a female in general? I know that not all languages have a direct translation. I haven't noticed any tunes about "The Men of..." more so "The Boys of..." or "The ... Boy" But i do see "Maids" and "Woman" a lot. What do these words mean in context?
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
You need to look harder, Fiddlelearner - Boys of Ballisodare, Boys of the Town, Rakes of Mallow, Sporting Paddy - sure, there's loads dedicated to the menfolk.
Lass - a younger female, a girleen or a cailín etc., a 'young one' in some quarters - I'm sure others can add more!
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
I beg your pardon, fiddlelearner as I misread your comment - Men, boys, lads are all kinda the same thing. A young lad might be a 'garsún' - garsoon or a bit of a buck in time past.
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
A maid is a young unmarried girl and implies the innocence of youth as opposed to a woman, who being married or having been married, is more worldly wise. You sometimes find people in old novels calling a little girl or even a toddler " little maid". Lass or lassie refers to any girl or young woman especially in Scotland. These words come from a time and a culture when the lady was the person married to the lord of the manor, an aristocrat, the maid was her servant, often young, and the woman was the working class person living in the village, maybe the maid's mother. I should get out more!
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
I have the feeling ladies are impressed on an entirely random basis and that the quality of one's playing (or lack of it) brings no leverage to bear on this at all.
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Speaking as an ex-lassie, now a woman, "It's all in the twinkle of the eyes." But if they are a terrible player, that would put them at a distinct disadvantage, however lovely the eyes.
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
what a
boom-crash opera. The box player was pretty handy, the pretty lassie to his right looks like she rather be sailing, or in a laser light nightclub or something (the grass is always greener on the other side). But even if she was interested, no, box players do not impress most ladies, in my observation anyway, not those that don't know anything about the music, if that is the idea. Neither do fiddlers in the same context. Actually, bodhran players seem to...but not that a bodhran player playing like that. Talk about two people going their separate ways together!
Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
This may give a hint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5oYNql5AE&feature=related
I also enjoyed one of the comments, "Are they playing a specific song?"
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by y-nought
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I'll let you know when I'm a really good box player..
could you give me a hint as to where to find the hint ?
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by Theirlandais
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The bored lassie to the box player's right.
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by Dragut Reis
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Well, not that lady.
Though in fairness, what she was thinking was this: I wish that creepy video dude would aim that thing elsewhere.
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
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The lass behind the old guitar player was much hotter, in my considered opinion.
And she looked much more into it, too.
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by Joe CSS
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Joe, you had to go tell everyone, I was keeping that quiet
The red haired lass wasn't bad either..
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Personally, I usually go for the fiddlers.
But didn't we learn the boys take up guitar playing to impress the girls with Stairway to Heaven?
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by kuec
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Are you asking the question because Sharon Shannon didn't reply to your postcard?
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by MorganYYZ
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You do realize that these posts are accessible to the whole world?
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by gam
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Sorry. Herself brings one of her cheap romance novels to pubs where I play, and has learned how easy it is to run a tab with the bar keep for a few glasses of proseco or some other white sparkly that she loves.
At home she now coordinates my practices with her long walks with her dog!
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by zippydw
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Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
No, but being a cricketer with a very large box might.
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by ormepipes
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
"Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??"
I would have thought the answer to the question was self evident.
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by Gerry_McCartney
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"that aint a box kid its a boran"
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by Earl Cameron
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
[Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??]
the ladies have their own art to pursue. winning hearts by showing off for passive supplicants went out a long time ago, though clowns like the former governor of california seem not to have grokked that yet.
however, if you are really, really, good, one of your fellow players who happens to be female might thumbs-up your chops, one peer to another.
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by ceemonster
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
No, but fiddle players do!
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Probably one step above "being really good at Unix."
To impress, you might try another genre of music, and another instrument. Here is Bono partying with two teenage fans:
http://www.jaunted.com/files/5957/bono_sttropez_girls.jpg
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by polkageist
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I would also like to set Bono on fire.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Dragut Reis
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Are those women his daughters?
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by kennedy
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
No they are impressed by him.
Bono has admitted in interviews that he doesn't even play guitar:
When we started out I was the guitar player, along with the Edge—except I couldn't play guitar. I still can't. I was such a lousy guitar player that one day they broke it to me that maybe I should sing instead. I had tried before, but I had no voice at all. I remember the day I found I could sing. I said, 'Oh, that's how you do it.'
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by polkageist
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Whoops, forgot to put quotes around the last paragraph.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by polkageist
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The box player is too busy for romance, he has his hands full holding the music together alone, while far too many rhythm players bob in his wake. Rhythm should never outnumber melody.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by AlBrown
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It's the other sort of accordion that impresses the ladies: http://www.ep.tc/intunewithfun/
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by RichardB
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I agree with AlBrown. Fair play to him for being able to carry on through that atrocious random chord thrashing.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by DaveL35
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
I apologise for attempting to ruin the direction of this thread, but I have a musical question, (I'm pretty useless when it comes to theory,)
During the first tune he shouts across G, but I don't think the tune is in G at all, there are two many dodgy flats in there, I looked up the ABCs and the tune is normally played in Emin, but it's not played in Emin neither, I then move it a touch and I think that means Fmin, so could someone confirm that the first tune is in Fmin
OK lets get back to where we were, do you not think it's strange that all the tunes have some connection to women, Fermoy Lassies, Miss Monaghan, Red haired Lass, of course the blond from Kerry didn't fit into any of those categories and hence the frosty attitude.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
What is a "Lass", "Lassie"? Is it a female in general? I know that not all languages have a direct translation. I haven't noticed any tunes about "The Men of..." more so "The Boys of..." or "The ... Boy" But i do see "Maids" and "Woman" a lot. What do these words mean in context?
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
You need to look harder, Fiddlelearner - Boys of Ballisodare, Boys of the Town, Rakes of Mallow, Sporting Paddy - sure, there's loads dedicated to the menfolk.
Lass - a younger female, a girleen or a cailín etc., a 'young one' in some quarters - I'm sure others can add more!
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by the wounded hussar
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
I beg your pardon, fiddlelearner as I misread your comment - Men, boys, lads are all kinda the same thing. A young lad might be a 'garsún' - garsoon or a bit of a buck in time past.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by the wounded hussar
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and lets not forget the most famous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FmPhJkdTwU
the problem is, when you are a boy you want to be a man, when you are a man you want to be one of the boys.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
A maid is a young unmarried girl and implies the innocence of youth as opposed to a woman, who being married or having been married, is more worldly wise. You sometimes find people in old novels calling a little girl or even a toddler " little maid". Lass or lassie refers to any girl or young woman especially in Scotland. These words come from a time and a culture when the lady was the person married to the lord of the manor, an aristocrat, the maid was her servant, often young, and the woman was the working class person living in the village, maybe the maid's mother. I should get out more!
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Sky fiddler
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
I have the feeling ladies are impressed on an entirely random basis and that the quality of one's playing (or lack of it) brings no leverage to bear on this at all.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by nicholas
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I figured that "Maid" didn't mean servant in every context.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
Speaking as an ex-lassie, now a woman, "It's all in the twinkle of the eyes." But if they are a terrible player, that would put them at a distinct disadvantage, however lovely the eyes.
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by minijackpot
Re: Does being a really good box player impress the ladies??
what a
boom-crash opera. The box player was pretty handy, the pretty lassie to his right looks like she rather be sailing, or in a laser light nightclub or something (the grass is always greener on the other side). But even if she was interested, no, box players do not impress most ladies, in my observation anyway, not those that don't know anything about the music, if that is the idea. Neither do fiddlers in the same context. Actually, bodhran players seem to...but not that a bodhran player playing like that. Talk about two people going their separate ways together!
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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I have to add... box players are sexy too!
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
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Perhaps she is jealous because the box is getting all the squeezing
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Free Reed
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'I have to add... box players are sexy too!"
why?
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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bollards!
# Posted on May 28th 2011 by mcknowall
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mcknowall always has the
last word..
when he's around.
there's more than one way to skin a kangaroo, eh.
# Posted on May 28th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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He didn''t shout "G", he shouted "Gee", trying to atract her attention.
I don't know whether her long hair hides some earplugs?
# Posted on May 31st 2011 by geoffwright