OT: We need a good fight

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:58 am

It seems obvious to me that any good fight around here has to have at least an undertone of politics or religion. How about the report today about Bush administration officials setting up a betting pool on when terrorist attacks or assasinations would take place. Or Pope John Paul II targetting North American communities condoning gay marriages.
(Both topics have been left vague in order to provide adequate room for argument over hazy details.)
Mike

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:42 am

Somehow I'm not feeling argumentative today. The Pope even failed to get me really fired up. I'm not sure I'd even argue about fifes right now. Maybe I need more coffee.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:04 am

Bloomfield wrote:If you think Martin's avatar is scary, you obviously haven't seen Martin. Talk about successful plastic surgery! Made his surgeon famous overnight, in fact (and rich).

That's perfectly true. The surgeon took skin grafts from another part of my body to try to make good on what mother nature had provided me with. Problem is, every time I ride a bicycle these days, I break out in an involuntary smile.

Burnsy-Pie wrote: (Both topics have been left vague in order to provide adequate room for argument over hazy details.)

Yes, what we need round here are rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:35 am

Martin Milner wrote:Yes, what we need round here are rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

I mean, what's the use in sitting up all night, arguing whether there may or may not be a God, when this machine goes and gives you his bleeding phone number the next morning?

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:17 am

burnsbyrne wrote:It seems obvious to me that any good fight around here has to have at least an undertone of politics or religion.

Well, we could keep it intellectual and discuss Irish history.

Oh, wait! That *IS* politics and religion.

energy · Post by **energy** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:55 am

pixyy wrote:Personally I would like to have some definitive answer on whether to learn Irish tunes by ear, or from sheetmusic.
It's a bit hard to do it by ear and since I'm used to playing from sheetmusic on my Baroque recorder I use all the MelBay books I can get my hands on. The little curly things above the notes also remind me where to use vibrato and it ensures I play the songs the same every time; upholding the tradition for generations to come.

cheers,
Mixyy

LOL!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:41 am

Pixyy, I'd just like to know how you can play flute while wearing a corset.

...Looks good in black, though.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:38 pm

I say we cut right to the heart of the matter:

Which sounds better:

1) Recorder

or

2) Whistle

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:31 pm

Which is the best simple tweak? bluetack flat or concave? Don't tweak it at all learn to play it the way it is. Traditional music can not be learned unless you were born in Galway. Scottish pipes or Irish pipes? Whistles are just toys. Learn to play the flute a real instrument. Most believable: Bloom or Martin? Just a few more subjects to fuel the fight.

Ron

MurphyStout · Post by **MurphyStout** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:46 pm

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... sc&start=0

Speaking of fights, this one is still worth a few laughs.

MurphyStout · Post by **MurphyStout** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:53 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
MurphyStout wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:Murphy, yer such a crab! One day you'll need a BIG favor from a box player.
HA! The only way that I'll need a favor from a box player is if the young lady is extremely good looking .
And when you dance attendance on this hypothetical morsel of melodeon playing pulchritude, all your diatribes and box-bashing will be forgot in the face of what? Your hair?

Ah, youth, youth.....

....shouldn't this be in the fight thread?

Alright, you want a fight! Nobody takes shots at the hair! You got something against long hairs? Are you a pro-bush Facist? But I don't want to get off track talking about unimportant things like politics. You're talking hair and that's serious. So back to the hair thing, unless you've got the sand to have a picture of you up on the forum so we can comment about it, I see no ground for you to stand on. Do you have a really nifty ID card? Did you ever have a 12" afro? NO! Besides chicks diG the hair. And as Susnfx put it "You could hide weapons of mass destruction in [my] hair" so I wouldn't go pickin fights with it. Pokin fun at boxes is one thing but we have business if you're taking shots at my hair. Where is Chris Laughlin when you need him?

Thanks go out to Bloo for the correction of this typo. It's good to see somebody has my back.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:23 pm

OK, I've watched you folks circle, casting your taunts, but enough is enough,
it's time to take off the gloves and get down to the nitty-gritty........

Oh, p.s........ is there any chance for a caged death match between any of you contenders?

pixyy · Post by **pixyy** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:44 am

Nanohedron wrote:Pixyy, I'd just like to know how you can play flute while wearing a corset.

...Looks good in black, though.

Oh great. Thanks a bundle Nano. Just went back and now I can't look at my own picture anymore without thinking 'corset' or wondering whether I did try to paint my T-shirt black just to look cool.

I may post the original picture later for proof that it was actually my t-shirt that's coloured like that. You know - fashionable and all that

corset....
*goes off muttering to himself*

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:11 am

pixyy wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:Pixyy, I'd just like to know how you can play flute while wearing a corset.

...Looks good in black, though.
Oh great. Thanks a bundle Nano. Just went back and now I can't look at my own picture anymore without thinking 'corset' or wondering whether I did try to paint my T-shirt black just to look cool.

I may post the original picture later for proof that it was actually my t-shirt that's coloured like that. You know - fashionable and all that

corset....
*goes off muttering to himself*

To me, this looks more like bicycling Lycra pants, of the shorts + bra combo style.
To play floot, y'gotta be into tandems, right?

madguy · Post by **madguy** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:16 am

jim mc_ wrote:
And Andrea Corr is not too skinny!

I guess you're right.... if you don't mind being black and blue from head to toe!

~Larry

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