Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
John, it may appear to you that it's a waste of time and money to blast people into space just so that they can repair tiles on their own rocket and bring back all the used bog paper from previous expeditions, but your life would be very different without the 'spin-off' inventions from the wonderful space research.
How would you like to live in a world that still had no Teflon knickers?
No widgets in your can of Guinness.
And that other thing.
Whatever it was.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Aye, a' suppose yer richt enough John J.
Those bloody snobs in Morningside are a' - "Fur Coats an' nae Knickers'!
Am frae Hillend, but lang afore yon Ski thing on the hill brought a' thon money folk aroon' there.
Still better then comin' frae Musselburgh!!
Can't say anything against Inverness though, cause my son was born there!
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Well, these new-fangled teflon knickers may SOUND all right, but they're nothing on the old knickers. The old knickers had style and class and feel coming out of their ears. Or whatever. Someday all the young whippersnappers will have no idea of what it was like to have our old knickers, and what a shame that'll be! Keep the old knickers alive! Or whatever.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
About the only major benefit of the space program is our enhanced ability to track and predict weather, resulting in more efficient (and more bountiful) farming. Sadly, we don’t seem to have the will to properly distribute the harvest.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
On a more serious note, though, what about things like telemetric equipment, angioplasty, solar energy use, variety of sensoring technologies used for environmental monitoring, that came directly from US or any other space programmes? I wouldn't name that a "minor benefit".
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Regardless of how you personally feel about the space program (I’m militantly ambivalent), there’s no denying the size of the impact, once you start trying to tally it up. The spin-off results are so varied and widespread that we take them for granted. The boost to research in computers and electronics was enormous and greatly accelerated the development and miniaturization of everything with electronic components or a computer chip in it, which includes (deep breath) cell phones, portable phones, medical devices, calculators, energy-efficient refrigerators, microwave ovens, CD players, instrument tuners, card readers, every automobile built in the past twenty years (with their modern safety features), barcode scanners, cash registers, …
There was also very broad societal impact, such as a huge increase in direct and indirect education subsidies and employment opportunities for the first wave of the baby boom. After the Apollo program was terminated, the science and technology job market went into a depression until the momentum of the microprocessor revolution saved it.
Not to mention the direct results, like global positioning systems, satellite communication systems of all kinds, greatly enhanced knowledge of our solar system and universe, the emerging ability to detect and head off disastrous asteroid collisions (finally, an unequivocal benefit!).
The total impact has been so big that we can’t begin to quantify it. And that’s only the potentially good side of it. The dark side is harder to trace, but includes some serious pollution problems generated by the computer/high-tech industries, the unknown effects of the ever-increasing intensity of radio waves penetrating our bodies and the horrors of high-tech war and space-based weapons.
But, of course, it pales beside the damage done to musicial sensibility by the bodhran.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Damn it Kris, you beat me to it!!
Of course the space programme has also forced the Americans into inventing all sorts of new fangled devices to cope with problems - like the high-tech pen that can be used in a zero-gravity environment - very important for serious space work - and millions spent on its development. The commies (being the cheapskates they are, sorry, were) used a pencil. How wierd!!
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Actually, I was just talking with a friend last night who really is an Internation Man of Mystery, and we were describing things that the US Gummint has given people very pricey grants to pursue, really weird stuff that no one could ever think would ever ever EVER work (like, transporting people by telepathy), simply to see if they came up with any interesting spinoffs, because, believe it or else, often they do.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
The things that are invented due to Star Trek... amazing really.
OK the teleporter still needs to be invented but the syringe that they had that injected without a needle exists now. After my operation on my ingrowing toe nail the other week I am really looking forward to that becoming more popular (although teleporting the offending bits of nail away would be better still.)
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
yeah, I read once where some medical equipment company asked for the little beeping sound that the communicators made, because the sound cuts through everything without huge amounts of fuss and they wanted to use it as an alarm sound for some piece of machinery.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Yes I think I prefer mobile. I wouldn't worry about it though Bob. There may be many things the Americans can't spell like colour, theatre, programme or gaol but the Irish can't spell Ceilidh so why worry?
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Ye's surely must've heard the very old one about the 2 astronauts who landed on the moon. After they nailed up the flag, took cheese, sorry, moon rock samples, etc, Neil says to Buzz,
"Fancy a pint?"
"What here, on the moon?"
"Yeah, I saw a pub sign over there on that crater."
So they duly went and quaffed a few jars. Whilst sitting in the boozer, rather bored as it happens, Neil again says to Buzz,
"Well, what do you think of this place, then?
"Hmmm.....it's ok I suppose....but it's got no atmosphere"
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
"How would you like to live in a world that still had no Teflon knickers?"
Teflon was invented at Dupont in 1938 as a side effect of working on refrigeration systems.
KFC, there aren't really any 'Teflon Knickers' - it was what we call a joke.
But I guess it's not funny any more...
But at least we know that ...
'Teflon was invented at Dupont in 1938 as a side effect of working on refrigeration systems.'
Interesting that.
That's very clever, that you you had that information in your head. I know lots of things that you'd know nothing about, but I guess I'll save them up till you you make a joke about them, then I can deflate your joke and sound really knowledgable...
Or maybe just look up the stuff I don't know on Wikipedia and make it seem like I'm really brainy ..
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
GFK = Gushet Free Knickers, because you don't need a gushet because they're made of teflon so you can wipe them clean etc etc. Invented by wee Jimmie Dupont the Gorbals stud in 1938. The same year he invented Kleenex Man-Size. Now we know who the international man of mystery really is.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
"KFC, there aren't really any 'Teflon Knickers' "
Yes, I'm afraid there are, and, as it happens, astronauts are among the people who are known to wear them.
Teflon impregnating fibers makes them fire retardant, moisture retardant, but breathable, nonstick, of course, and thus abrasion resistant as well as nonabrading, and, ummmmm, stain resistant.
Just the thing for knickers, especially if you're going to be sitting in a bomb for days at a time without being able to change them.
I suppose without the space program, we would never have had that REM song about Andy Kaufman... and therefore at least one good Jim Carrey Film. I'll drink to spin-offs.
"Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool"
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
I don't think enough research is being done on percussion in space (preferably outside the space station and obviously without space-suits).
Research into the effect of near-zero gravity on shakey eggs would benefit mankind, and NASA would also need to work on goat-skin that would withstand the sub-zero temperatures.
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"and NASA would also need to work on goat-skin that would withstand the sub-zero temperatures"
is that the same NASA that couldn't get the fuel gauge to work on the shuttle, and couldn't stop bits of foam falling off on take off. And sent a spaceship up after 2 years of soul searching about the quality of the thermal tiles THEN when it was up there they noticed that the said tiles hadn't been grouted properly.
Good grief Geoff - if you leave it to them they'll probably come up with a bodhran that doesn't work at all!
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I saw a harmonica in the Smithsonian Museum that had been into space in the Apollo program, one of those wee little Hohners with only 8 notes. I guess they had to settle for simple tunes like Oh Susannah and Sullivan's Polka. But things have advanced (or retreated) since then. I heard that someone brought one of those Martin backpacker guitars on the shuttle, so now we know that the pesky accompanists have even made their way beyond the planet, before even a fiddle, flute, accordion or pipes.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
The US of A don't have a space programme, unless there are shadows and winds blowing on the moon.
Take percussion out of "Moving Hearts" "Horslips" "The Who" "Cream" "Taste" "Altan" and millions of others and you don't have ITM or any type of music.
What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Please discuss.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Back for a while
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Sorry, I forgot to add an
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Back for a while
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Discussing logic with musicians.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Robby B.
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
John, it may appear to you that it's a waste of time and money to blast people into space just so that they can repair tiles on their own rocket and bring back all the used bog paper from previous expeditions, but your life would be very different without the 'spin-off' inventions from the wonderful space research.
How would you like to live in a world that still had no Teflon knickers?
No widgets in your can of Guinness.
And that other thing.
Whatever it was.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Ottery
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There's Teflon knickers?
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Yup.
No more hours of scrubbing with wire wool and Ajax - they just wipe clean ....
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Ottery
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As a proud Scot, ah dinna ken fit knickers are, so ah widna miss them, if they hadnae been invented, Teflon or no!!
Sounds like they'de an awfy din under ma kilt!!
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Ptarmigan
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Och, most Scots wear knickers except in Morningside.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Back for a while
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The Newfie Space Program - we're going to land an expedition on the Sun!
"You can't do that! Sure, you'll all burn up when you land!"
No, no - we're smarter than that. We're going to do at at night!
(Replace Newfie with Irish / Kerry / Belgian / whatever doesn't offend)
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by grego
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Aye, a' suppose yer richt enough John J.
Those bloody snobs in Morningside are a' - "Fur Coats an' nae Knickers'!
Am frae Hillend, but lang afore yon Ski thing on the hill brought a' thon money folk aroon' there.
Still better then comin' frae Musselburgh!!
Can't say anything against Inverness though, cause my son was born there!
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Ptarmigan
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I'm not sure if we ever met in Sandy Bells, Dick. Your face is familiar, though.
I didn't play anything in those days(not that I'm that great now) but I probably frequented the pub at the same time as yourself.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Back for a while
Re: What is the biggest waste of time? The US Space Programme or Percussion at a session.
Well, these new-fangled teflon knickers may SOUND all right, but they're nothing on the old knickers. The old knickers had style and class and feel coming out of their ears. Or whatever. Someday all the young whippersnappers will have no idea of what it was like to have our old knickers, and what a shame that'll be! Keep the old knickers alive! Or whatever.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Zina Lee
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"How would you like to live in a world that still had no Teflon knickers?"
Teflon was invented at Dupont in 1938 as a side effect of working on refrigeration systems.
Velcro was invented in France, circa 1940, by emulating burrs sticking to a dog's coat.
Tang was a common feature in American housholds before Sputnik.
There is T-foam I suppose, which, ironically, we never used in the space program, because it was a failure.
KFG
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by KFG
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there's much to be learned in exploring space. I'd have to say percussion.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by DADGADLad
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KFG, you're not a single person, are you? Nor even a man of mystery. You're a Panel Of Experts - right?
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by grego
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I prefer to be the expert behind the panel.
KFG
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by KFG
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About the only major benefit of the space program is our enhanced ability to track and predict weather, resulting in more efficient (and more bountiful) farming. Sadly, we don’t seem to have the will to properly distribute the harvest.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by fidkid
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Hey, and what about Chinese instant noodles? Heh? I was raised on that! They were created for the needs of Soviet cosmonauts, as I heard.
Oh, US Space Programme. Now I get it. All right. Yeah. I mean, is it that far from the percussion. Or isn't it. I'll get me coat.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by EastPole
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On a more serious note, though, what about things like telemetric equipment, angioplasty, solar energy use, variety of sensoring technologies used for environmental monitoring, that came directly from US or any other space programmes? I wouldn't name that a "minor benefit".
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by EastPole
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C'mon guys - you're missing the obvious. Why not put a shakey egg on the moon. In fact, why not put them all there.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by kris
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Regardless of how you personally feel about the space program (I’m militantly ambivalent), there’s no denying the size of the impact, once you start trying to tally it up. The spin-off results are so varied and widespread that we take them for granted. The boost to research in computers and electronics was enormous and greatly accelerated the development and miniaturization of everything with electronic components or a computer chip in it, which includes (deep breath) cell phones, portable phones, medical devices, calculators, energy-efficient refrigerators, microwave ovens, CD players, instrument tuners, card readers, every automobile built in the past twenty years (with their modern safety features), barcode scanners, cash registers, …
There was also very broad societal impact, such as a huge increase in direct and indirect education subsidies and employment opportunities for the first wave of the baby boom. After the Apollo program was terminated, the science and technology job market went into a depression until the momentum of the microprocessor revolution saved it.
Not to mention the direct results, like global positioning systems, satellite communication systems of all kinds, greatly enhanced knowledge of our solar system and universe, the emerging ability to detect and head off disastrous asteroid collisions (finally, an unequivocal benefit!).
The total impact has been so big that we can’t begin to quantify it. And that’s only the potentially good side of it. The dark side is harder to trace, but includes some serious pollution problems generated by the computer/high-tech industries, the unknown effects of the ever-increasing intensity of radio waves penetrating our bodies and the horrors of high-tech war and space-based weapons.
But, of course, it pales beside the damage done to musicial sensibility by the bodhran.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bob himself
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". . .it pales beside the damage done to musicial sensibility by the bodhran."
Something to pack the shakey eggs in.
KFG
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by KFG
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"C'mon guys - you're missing the obvious. Why not put a shakey egg on the moon. In fact, why not put them all there."
LOL and drawing attention.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bob himself
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Damn it Kris, you beat me to it!!
Of course the space programme has also forced the Americans into inventing all sorts of new fangled devices to cope with problems - like the high-tech pen that can be used in a zero-gravity environment - very important for serious space work - and millions spent on its development. The commies (being the cheapskates they are, sorry, were) used a pencil. How wierd!!
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by No Cause For Alarm
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But, seriously, the worst result of technology has got to be cell phones in the movie theater. GRRRRRR!
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bob himself
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Or even mobile phones in the cinema (or theatre)
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by No Cause For Alarm
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"Mobile" makes so much more sense, doesn't it?
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bob himself
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Actually, I was just talking with a friend last night who really is an Internation Man of Mystery, and we were describing things that the US Gummint has given people very pricey grants to pursue, really weird stuff that no one could ever think would ever ever EVER work (like, transporting people by telepathy), simply to see if they came up with any interesting spinoffs, because, believe it or else, often they do.
Your tax dollars at work.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Zina Lee
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InternationAL. It really is one of those days.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Zina Lee
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The things that are invented due to Star Trek... amazing really.
OK the teleporter still needs to be invented but the syringe that they had that injected without a needle exists now. After my operation on my ingrowing toe nail the other week I am really looking forward to that becoming more popular (although teleporting the offending bits of nail away would be better still.)
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by No Cause For Alarm
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yeah, I read once where some medical equipment company asked for the little beeping sound that the communicators made, because the sound cuts through everything without huge amounts of fuss and they wanted to use it as an alarm sound for some piece of machinery.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Yes I think I prefer mobile. I wouldn't worry about it though Bob. There may be many things the Americans can't spell like colour, theatre, programme or gaol but the Irish can't spell Ceilidh so why worry?
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by No Cause For Alarm
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So Zina - when are we going to see these modern medical miracles employed by Dr Dick. The show is being repeated on UK television now.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by No Cause For Alarm
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A Cell Phone is a Mobile, but a Mobile is not necessarily a Cell Phone.
I've been known to go places where the distinction is important.
KFG
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by KFG
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Of course not. It's a city in south Alabama.
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bob himself
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.Good session there I heard ... At a club they call Big Jack's
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bren
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Perhaps if the space program discovers extraterrestrial civilizations we will get new tunes?
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by grego
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It's a bodhran book!
KFG
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by KFG
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So I heard, Alistair. I wonder if they're going to be able to find me to send me my residual checks again, or if that's run out? Hm. Bet it's run out.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Ye's surely must've heard the very old one about the 2 astronauts who landed on the moon. After they nailed up the flag, took cheese, sorry, moon rock samples, etc, Neil says to Buzz,
"Fancy a pint?"
"What here, on the moon?"
"Yeah, I saw a pub sign over there on that crater."
So they duly went and quaffed a few jars. Whilst sitting in the boozer, rather bored as it happens, Neil again says to Buzz,
"Well, what do you think of this place, then?
"Hmmm.....it's ok I suppose....but it's got no atmosphere"
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Nick Splease
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"How would you like to live in a world that still had no Teflon knickers?"
Teflon was invented at Dupont in 1938 as a side effect of working on refrigeration systems.
KFC, there aren't really any 'Teflon Knickers' - it was what we call a joke.
But I guess it's not funny any more...
But at least we know that ...
'Teflon was invented at Dupont in 1938 as a side effect of working on refrigeration systems.'
Interesting that.
That's very clever, that you you had that information in your head. I know lots of things that you'd know nothing about, but I guess I'll save them up till you you make a joke about them, then I can deflate your joke and sound really knowledgable...
Or maybe just look up the stuff I don't know on Wikipedia and make it seem like I'm really brainy ..
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Ottery
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GFK = Gushet Free Knickers, because you don't need a gushet because they're made of teflon so you can wipe them clean etc etc. Invented by wee Jimmie Dupont the Gorbals stud in 1938. The same year he invented Kleenex Man-Size. Now we know who the international man of mystery really is.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Nick Splease
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Teflon knickers were doing really well
..until the bottom fell out of the market.
Coat!
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Geoff Pollitt
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Gushet Danny? Are you pished?
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Geoff Pollitt
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Not yet, Geoff. Early days, early days...
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Nick Splease
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"KFC, there aren't really any 'Teflon Knickers' "
Yes, I'm afraid there are, and, as it happens, astronauts are among the people who are known to wear them.
Teflon impregnating fibers makes them fire retardant, moisture retardant, but breathable, nonstick, of course, and thus abrasion resistant as well as nonabrading, and, ummmmm, stain resistant.
Just the thing for knickers, especially if you're going to be sitting in a bomb for days at a time without being able to change them.
KFG
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by KFG
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Yeah, but are they hydrogen sulphide-resistant, Jimmie?
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Nick Splease
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Bloody hell Mark! He's got you there.
We thought we were joking. You can't make it up can you?
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Geoff Pollitt
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It seems like you can't ....
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Ottery
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See, he only LOOKS like he has no sense of humor. In real life, he was sitting there laughing at you all...
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Zina Lee
If you believe...
I suppose without the space program, we would never have had that REM song about Andy Kaufman... and therefore at least one good Jim Carrey Film. I'll drink to spin-offs.
"Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool"
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by tulloch
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So is KFG winning? or Ottery?
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by showaddydadito
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If they find music on Mars Paddy Moloney will claim that there's an Irish connection.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by dafydd
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OK, I'll concede to KFC on the Space thing - he's too International and mysterious to beat.
Now, what about percussion at a session ...... (?)
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Ottery
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I don't think enough research is being done on percussion in space (preferably outside the space station and obviously without space-suits).
Research into the effect of near-zero gravity on shakey eggs would benefit mankind, and NASA would also need to work on goat-skin that would withstand the sub-zero temperatures.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by geoffwright
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there will be when he records an album with them
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by llig leahcim
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In space, noone can hear you scream ...
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Conway
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"and NASA would also need to work on goat-skin that would withstand the sub-zero temperatures"
is that the same NASA that couldn't get the fuel gauge to work on the shuttle, and couldn't stop bits of foam falling off on take off. And sent a spaceship up after 2 years of soul searching about the quality of the thermal tiles THEN when it was up there they noticed that the said tiles hadn't been grouted properly.
Good grief Geoff - if you leave it to them they'll probably come up with a bodhran that doesn't work at all!
hmmmm......
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by showaddydadito
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Maybe that was what those Flying Saucers really were - badly tiled NASA Space Bodhrans burning up on re-entry?!$!!
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Ottery
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I saw a harmonica in the Smithsonian Museum that had been into space in the Apollo program, one of those wee little Hohners with only 8 notes. I guess they had to settle for simple tunes like Oh Susannah and Sullivan's Polka. But things have advanced (or retreated) since then. I heard that someone brought one of those Martin backpacker guitars on the shuttle, so now we know that the pesky accompanists have even made their way beyond the planet, before even a fiddle, flute, accordion or pipes.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by AlBrown
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Shouldn't they have played "Fly me to the Moon"?
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Nick Splease
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What about a teflon bodhran ? Wipe the guiness off easy ...
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by matildamarmotte
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And doubles up as a frying pan, handy for camping...
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by matildamarmotte
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The US of A don't have a space programme, unless there are shadows and winds blowing on the moon.
Take percussion out of "Moving Hearts" "Horslips" "The Who" "Cream" "Taste" "Altan" and millions of others and you don't have ITM or any type of music.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by bodhran bliss
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Why shouldn't there be shadows on the moon?
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Conway
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Cliff Richard would sue.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by bodhran bliss
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Yer jumped into that one, Conway my son - get back to yer flute!
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Ottery
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Bodhrans are quieter but the US Space Program (sic) doesn't speed up on the reels.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Owell Mabee
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Given the subject, I was expecting a vacuous comment :-|
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Conway
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Nature hates a vacuum.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Well perhaps Nature ought to go on some sort of course to help it to come to terms with vacuums. Hating them will just not help anybody.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by showaddydadito
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She's far too busy for that, being a Mother.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Nick Splease
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I never understood what nature had against floor-cleaning devices ...
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Ottery
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I guess it's the daily drudgery of it all, and a feeling of disillusionment, that things could have been a whole lot better.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Nick Splease
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If only she'd followed her heart, and run off with with that slightly dishevelled flute player .....
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Ottery
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Nature hates Hoovers?
If you're not strapped for cash, you could take your session to the dark side of the moon:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_nick_20050811.ram
Be careful who you leave behind ...
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Conway
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I hate vacuums myself - it's that horrible rattling when Mrs. Ottery hoovers up the fishbones. And the smell when she empties the bag ...!
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Ottery
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And you have to be careful you don't get bit by a spider when you change the bag.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Oh, all the spiders get asphyxiated by the fishbones...
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Ottery
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You must chew 'em up pretty good then, Ottery dear. Generally I'd assume it'd be more like battery.
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Ha!
# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Ottery
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Definitley the US Space Programme!
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by paratroopers