It's Sickening

Mastersound · Post by **Mastersound** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:14 am

The thread continues...

Davey Spillane! He's the dude who plays whistles and pipes and stuff on some of Bryan Adams' stuff isn't he? He sounds great!

I really have a major problem when people try to tell me what I like, or should like, musically. If I want to listen to Bob Dylan, Aerosmith and The Corrs playing Smoke On The Water on Korean made hammered dulcimers and a Wurlitzer organ while singing through snorkels then that's my business and no one else's. The more "traditional" instruments and their attendant styles seem to suffer from a lot of snobbery. The mandolin people hate non-USA instruments and insist everyone should be Bill Monroe. The banjo people hate non-USA instruments and insist everyone should be Earl Scruggs. The other day somewhere on here (I think but it might have been somewhere else) someone was correcting some poor bugger who dared to say that they liked The Corrs 'cos it was Irish folk music.

John: Apologies to Andrea and Cees and any other whistle-ettes here if this offends, but someone on a border collie list recently passes on some similar wisdom. Apparently a grandfather said to his young grandson "make sure you marry a girl with small hands... it makes your dick look bigger".

Re. English speaking people attempting a second language: I learned a little bit of Bahasa Indonesia a few years ago, and while in Bali a friend tied a traditional Balinese head-gear for me... an udung. They were rapt when I kept refering to it as an udang, which is a prawn or shrimp! They were in stitches when I said "saya udang" instead of "udung saya"... I'd was trying to say "my hat" but I was actually saying "I am a prawn". Guess you had to be there.

Sorry if this post got long and runs onto another page.... but who's counting?

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Cody · Post by **Cody** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 7:38 am

On 2002-03-01 06:14, Mastersound wrote:
. . .The mandolin people hate non-USA instruments and insist everyone should be Bill Monroe. The banjo people hate non-USA instruments and insist everyone should be Earl Scruggs. . .

I have some relatives that are diehard bluegrass music lovers. My father-in-law and his brothers used to haul Jimmy Martin around on their bus to his gigs.
My father-in-law and his one brother are well off financially, but they love cheap beer and bluegrass. They have a bus outfitted as a tour bus with a kitchen, bunks, and bathroom. Old Jimmy could afford his own bus but he's a cheap old f*rt.
I met him once when my wife and I drove my brother-in-law's ex-wife up to a campground in Maryland where the gang was there for a bluegrass concert. They dragged me over to an Rv saying how they wanted me to meet someone.
This little chubby guy was sitting at a table and they introduced me to him. I thought it was Tommy Lasorda, but it was Jimmy Martin. He said, "So, you married Giles' daughter eh?" I said, "Yes. Yes I did." He indicated how that I better treat her right or him and the boys would come up and take care of me.
What a thing to say. My wife looked at me waiting for me to respond in the way I wanted to, but I just grinned and told him how he had nothing to worry about. I wanted to inform him that I should kick the livin' @!#$ out of him for even insinuating that i had no honor.
Sometimes that hillbilly crap gets to me. My wife's uncle doesn't have a good word for any type of music other than bluegrass. I need toplay the end of Aerosmith's Pump album one day for him. He will say how good those boys sound. Then I'll show him the Album cover.
Oh yeah, ole Jimmy used to go to the Pizza Hut close to his house after the lunch hour to get the leftover Personal Pan Pizza's for free.

. . ."make sure you marry a girl with small hands...

There's something that even I wouldn't have thought of.

Arcaic Lemons · Post by **Arcaic Lemons** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 9:07 am

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On 2002-03-01 06:14, Mastersound wrote:
The thread continues...

Re. English speaking people attempting a second language: I learned a little bit of Bahasa Indonesia a few years ago, and while in Bali a friend tied a traditional Balinese head-gear for me... an udung. They were rapt when I kept refering to it as an udang, which is a prawn or shrimp! They were in stitches when I said "saya udang" instead of "udung saya"... I'd was trying to say "my hat" but I was actually saying "I am a prawn". Guess you had to be there.
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While Dan was in Vietnam, he stated he wanted to have carnal relations with a snake; he thought he was asking if he could buy the boa.

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 9:38 am

While Dan was in Vietnam, he stated he wanted to have carnal relations with a snake; he thought he was asking if he could buy the boa.

At least it was a foreign language. Some friends of mine went to Alabama from Ontario and asked about Mobilay. Also about La Jolla (pronounced the way it's spelled-like-jello) in CA.

Steve

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:53 am

Hey John,

Everclear is a STRONG grain alcohol found at most liquor stores. Rootbeer extract can be found in grocery stores near the vanilla extracts and such. This recipe is worth it. Keep your Shnapps in the fridge or on ice. Best when icy cold.

Mary

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 9:09 pm

Everclear is also a really crappy rock band. The lyrics are all very whiney and self-pitying. extremely annoying....

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 9:23 pm

Hey there, I like Everclear, both forms. I don't think they're whinney. I think they put themselves down alot. Maybe have inferiority complexes. But you have to remember my range of musical tastes runs reallllly wide. I've got my Irish Trad, along with some hard core rock - Rob Zombie, Old country -Johnny Cash, mello- James Taylor. I just love the latest Dolly Parton CD, Little Sparrow and yet I'm a card carrying fan of Alice Cooper. Musically I get around.

The only music I really have a hard time warming up to is Rap. Just isn't for me, but lots of people do like it and that's fine by me.

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 9:57 pm

you think you have weird tasts? <a href="http://www.eccentrix.com/misc/telegrams ... l">Hah!</a>

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:02 pm

You too? Come clean now!

John Allison · Post by **John Allison** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:45 pm

Now I'm really confused...which type of Everclear do I mix with the Rootbeer extract???

And where can I get some blood pudding???

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:49 pm

Get the Everclear from the liquor store. Brew up your schnapps then put some Everclear on the cd player.

Steer clear of the blood pudding. You start eating that stuff next thing you know you're into head cheese and then, then, you'll end up with a pigs feet addiction.

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:57 pm

Rob Zombie and Johnny Cash!!! I thought I was the only one with both of them in their collection. I went to see Mr. Zombie recently (great show) and I was the oldest person there who wasn't escorting their own teenage child. I stayed away from the mosh pit, though - don't want to break a hip.

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John Allison · Post by **John Allison** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:01 pm

Well...I've seen head cheese made and I think I'll pass on that one. My neighbors would remove the ears and the tongue for other ungodly purposes, and then put the entire head in a pot of boiling water and let it set for several hours until EVERYTHING fell off the bone and congealed into one big gelatinous mess. Then they would scoop it out and press into loaves. There's nothing quite as disgusting as eating a sandwich and seeing chunks of eyes and brains and eardrums floating around on your bread!!

Come to think of it...they were a nice Ozark/Irish family who believed that whiskey was the cure to every ailment known to man...

John Allison · Post by **John Allison** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:21 pm

Couldn't find any pictures of head cheese on the Internet but I did find this interesting little website...the title speaks for itself:

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<a href="http://www.andreas.com/food.html">Ray's List of Weird and Disgusting Foods</a>
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Dave Parkhurst · Post by **Dave Parkhurst** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 12:45 am

Ahhh....another lover of Rob Zombie, I see. Wonder if he'd ever play a whistle on an album?