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Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:00 pm
by Tyghress
ytliek wrote:Hi, nice to see you posting on the C&F Forums Tyg. We haven't bumped into one another formally but hopefully will one day soon here in CT. Good to hear you're still with the whistle shop Musique Morneaux. Be well.
Hello again! I fell away from the Irish music a few years back, so I don't get around to the sessions anymore, but I may pop in sometime to say hello. Which sessions do you attend?

I'm doing a bit of playing on the flutes, mostly F right now because it requires less air than the D, but gives a lovely mellow tune, nice and low. Then I try my Swiss picc again with the Basler music. But I always circle back around to a whistle for learning tunes.


Hey Jim Stone! Nice to see you around too.

As for FB and the death of this sort of group, C&F, I can't really say. I'm casually in FB to keep track of friends and family, but the proliferation of ads, the political mishagasa, the food pics and vaca pics and memes and cats and. . .now I can't always see the important stuff like death and birth notices. I used to be a cutting edge sort of Cat, but now I'm a Luddite.

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:25 am
by benhall.1
Tyghress wrote:As for FB and the death of this sort of group, C&F, I can't really say. I'm casually in FB to keep track of friends and family, but the proliferation of ads, the political mishagasa, the food pics and vaca pics and memes and cats and. . .now I can't always see the important stuff like death and birth notices.
Ooh! "Mishagasa" :) What's that? In this case, Google wasn't my friend. Nice word, though. :thumbsup:

Tyghress wrote:I used to be a cutting edge sort of Cat, but now I'm a Luddite.
Wot? Have you actually sabotaged bits of Facebook? Are you one of those who 'edit' Wikipedia? :)

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:35 am
by kkrell
benhall.1 wrote:Ooh! "Mishagasa" :) What's that? In this case, Google wasn't my friend. Nice word, though.
I bet it's Yiddish, tranliteration to Latin script, meaning "Foolishness, nonsense, craziness.":
http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish- ... /words/382

You're welcome.

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:50 am
by benhall.1
kkrell wrote:
benhall.1 wrote:Ooh! "Mishagasa" :) What's that? In this case, Google wasn't my friend. Nice word, though.
I bet it's Yiddish, tranliteration to Latin script, meaning "Foolishness, nonsense, craziness.":
http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish- ... /words/382

You're welcome.
Thanks Kevin. :thumbsup: :)

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:18 am
by Tyghress
The ONLY good thing about FB over C&F is the 'LIKE' button. In re: mishagasah yes, foolishness. But it sounds better in Yiddish!

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 10:46 am
by benhall.1
Tyghress wrote:The ONLY good thing about FB over C&F is the 'LIKE' button. In re: mishagasah yes, foolishness. But it sounds better in Yiddish!
[like]

:D

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 11:57 am
by Nanohedron
Tyghress wrote:In re: mishagasah yes, foolishness. But it sounds better in Yiddish!
There are a number of spellings, but in the media, at least, I've more often seen it rendered "mishegoss" (pron. mish-eh-GOSS), meaning foolishness, yes, but also craziness, chaos, senseless or madcap behavior, tomfoolery. It's directly related to the generally more familiar adjective "meshugge".

An L.A. deli was described in a review as a dignified restaurant "missing the mishegoss associated with the deli experience." A New York perspective, no doubt. A cage full of parakeets would be a 100% mishegoss. :)

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 12:32 pm
by ytliek
Tyghress wrote:
ytliek wrote:Hi, nice to see you posting on the C&F Forums Tyg. We haven't bumped into one another formally but hopefully will one day soon here in CT. Good to hear you're still with the whistle shop Musique Morneaux. Be well.
Hello again! I fell away from the Irish music a few years back, so I don't get around to the sessions anymore, but I may pop in sometime to say hello. Which sessions do you attend?
Playwright Hamden on Loretta's Sunday
IHSM Milford on the other Sundays
GAC Fairfield first Wed. monthly
Tyghress wrote:I used to be a cutting edge sort of Cat, but now I'm a Luddite.
Me too, and I'm attempting to ungadgetize myself from it all.

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 10:48 pm
by cboody
Nanohedron wrote:It's a lot slower in the Pub than it used to be. Looks like folks would rather get their jollies on Facebook these days. Obviously, I'm one of the holdouts.

The rest of the Board is plugging away pretty much the same as ever. :)
Which pub? My life has slowed a bit and maybe...

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 10:55 pm
by cboody
benhall.1 wrote:... and a musical reference for you:

Image
I'm a frayed knot.

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:58 am
by walrii
Nanohedron wrote:Image
Oh, I like that one.

My wife does FB and shows me stuff regularly but it's too stream of conscienceness for me. It's like having a conversation while stoned. C&F feels more intimate, like conversation over a good beer, both slowly savored.

Hello Tyghress, nice to hear from you again. I'm just back after a period of spending too much time on some technical forums, some of which turned a little nasty around the edges. I looked in on C&F again and it felt like coming home after an arduous journey.

Someone needs to explain the knot picture to me. I get the frayed knot pun but not the "musical reference."

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 10:08 am
by Nanohedron
walrii wrote:Someone needs to explain the knot picture to me. I get the frayed knot pun but not the "musical reference."
I didn't get it either, so the frayed knot was a gift that I couldn't pass up. Perhaps Ben might be kind enough to help us along.

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 1:41 pm
by benhall.1
Nanohedron wrote:
walrii wrote:Someone needs to explain the knot picture to me. I get the frayed knot pun but not the "musical reference."
I didn't get it either, so the frayed knot was a gift that I couldn't pass up. Perhaps Ben might be kind enough to help us along.
The tune: "The Frayed Knot". Do you know what? ... I've just looked, and the tune that was taught to me as "The Frayed Knot" is actually "The Knotted Chord". Still works for me. :)

Re: Reintroduction of Yours Truly

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:19 pm
by Nanohedron
Waidaminnit. Everyone knows that's called Junior Crehan's Favo(u)rite.