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er, so what went wrong? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_cups/4860944.stm hope hibs turn up with a similar performance this weekend :D er... I was hoping you hadn't noticed the embarrassing score at Hampden. It was really worth dragging myself out of bed at 6am Sunday - NOT. What can I...

My fitb'a team, Hibernian FC, are playing the cross town Edinburgh rival Heart of Midlothian FC in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup in front of 55,000 animated drunks on Sunday. Game time is 6am Sunday Wisconsin time. I'll be sitting in front of the TV (SetantaUSA channel 615) in my green and whit...

I take your point, however, I still think playing the tune in D Dorian on a C whistle is more appropriate for a self-confessed newbie like Jason who is still feeling his way around the instrument. Half-holed notes sound rather ambiguous to beginners - heck, to many intermediate players too! Colin I...

It sounds more interesting and alive to my ear played on a D whistle with half-holing, and as Peter mentioned it's nice to play some of the F's as F#...Aggie Whyte played the first F in the B part as F# and the second one as F natural, which makes the tune even more mysterious and haunting (and old...

Michael, That's good, but it doesn't include the introductory countermelody that's the Bothy Band used. I have the Maids of Mitchelstown with counter melody notation on a pdf file however my attempt to email it to you failed. Please PM me with your correct email address if you want this file. Cheer...

As for the sheet music; since I don't sight-read, I generally just use it as a guide. I try to learn the tune by ear, but often use sheet music to see what the first note is, or other stuff I have a problem picking out. On this one though, there's just too much speed and ornamentation for me to pic...

Cigarettes?? Remember watching a television show where someone asked if they had a fag. Person passed them a cigarette. Does faggot still mean that or is it just a stick? Did I win anything with that guess? I recollect an incident that occurred on my first trip to the States (which of course involv...

Things I don't want to read in my Performance Evaluation at work: 1. "Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig." 2. "I would not allow this employee to breed." 3. "This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a defi...

emmline wrote:Dang! We finally got our house in pretty good shape. I sure hope your dad quit with the thrashing.

We bought him this really nice Norwegian Blue parrot (beautiful plummage) and only then did he stop thrashing us.
It was so sad though 'cos the bird used to pine for the Fjords.

My present house, between about '98 and '02. Lived through no staircase (used a ladder for a couple weeks,) no kitchen (about a year,) no roof (9 rainy months--25 garbage cans to catch the water were not sufficient,) and uncountable sawdust, insulation, and drywall particles. (in Yorkshire accent) ...

MarkB wrote:http://www.nakedwhiz.com/spatchdef.htm

MarkB

Boy, that's a relief. I thought your post might be regarding some kind of
nasty skin rash or something ...

Mine is the 'City of Edinburgh' plaid tartan.

Martin Milner wrote:
Getting a tune under my fingers at last after weeks of practise.

Making people laugh.

Me too ...

Unfortunately, in my case, the former often causes the latter!

flanum wrote:Ha
feck!

Then try the Glaswegian version of Windows 2000

http://www.firstfoot.com/Tartan%20Trivia/windaes.htm

By his own admission 'MacColl' wasn't his real name. Not by his own admission, he appears to have been born in Salford and not Scotland which would have been very inconvenient if the news had got out in his lifetime. He insisted that singers perform only songs from their country of birth in his clu...