Up Wisely!!!

Brian Lee · Post by **Brian Lee** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:20 pm

Lately I've been thinking a lot about all the friends I've made since I started playing Irish music. I've given thought to all the festivals, sessions, ceilis, concerts, and stores I've been to now because of it. I've remembered some people who have become VERY dear to my heart, and some who are like family now.

And as I thought about it, I realized that there is one man really responsible for almost all of it. Our own humble Dale Wisely. He doesn't poke his nose into the board's comings and goings much, and when he does, it's almost always with a happy note, or some other silly such thing.

My life has changed quite a bit since I started playing over three years ago now. I've taken it all on as a sort of identity of sorts. And of couse, there's no end in sight!

My hat is off to you Mr. Dale Wisely! I truly wonder if you comprehend how many people's live's you've touched, and how many people you've brought together through the simple act of being you? I've met literaly HUNDREDS of peole, that, if I had lost interest in all this whistling business, I would never have met otherwise.

The circle of friends I hold in the highest respect, the deepest trust, and the most love have all been found through the graces of your work Dale.

Thank You - most sincerely.

UP WISELY!

Brian~

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:26 pm

Wisely Go Braugh!

M
(Did I spell that right?--oops, that's another thread

livethe question · Post by **livethe question** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:45 pm

Well said Brian! I have similar thoughts and feelings. My life if mucher richer because of Dale as, I suspect, are the lives of many others.

Thanks Dale

jim

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"...have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." Rainier Maria Rilke

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:02 pm

You indeed have touched so many, Dale, and I don't know how I can top Brian's post in expressing that. In recent months I have discovered a whole whistler family for myself that I would never have met if it weren't for your devotion to this site.

Whistler family - you know who you are.

Dale - Thank you.

Blackbeer · Post by **Blackbeer** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:22 pm

Oh boy well said. Just a new bee but this place and this community has warmed my life like nothing else has. Thanks Dale for such a neet place.

Tom

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:25 pm

Chiff & Fipple is my favorite "place" on the internet. Many thanks for the time and heart you've put into this site.

Carol

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:56 pm

To a man whose passion for a 6-hole whistle developed into one of the great Internet communities.

Here's to Dr. Wisely! Truly the undisputed king of Internet tinwhistle journalism, his vision has enriched our lives on many levels, methinks.

Thank you, Dale.

Isilwen · Post by **Isilwen** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:52 am

Hear, Hear!!

serpent · Post by **serpent** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 1:16 am

He's Dale, and he's Wise! Cried the Elfsong that day,
While the Serpent, he waited, to carry away,
On the back of a brewer, Sir Paul was his name,
The great wooden whistle, was "Copeland" it's name?

"But nay!" cried out Wisely, "Thou must not confuse,
The Sindt from the Grinter, man, which wouldst thou use?"
Cried the Chieftan, "I'm hopelessly lost in the dark!"
So the Wisely sent him to speak to the Clarke.

But the Clarke had a Sweetone, that none could deny,
And Rose, why, the prices were deemed much too high,
So Dale said, "Lads, ye'll find me unswerving bad,
But nary a one o' ye'd best post an ad!

Thanks, Dale!!
Serpent

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 1:23 am

On 2002-12-13 23:26, mvhplank wrote:
Wisely Go Braugh!

M
(Did I spell that right?--oops, that's another thread

Sorry to be a plonker but I think that should be 'bragh'. Perhaps spelling differs from place to place.

Concerning Dale, I echo the sentiment, however you spell it.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 4:42 am

On 2002-12-14 02:23, Wombat wrote:
(1)
Sorry to be a plonker but I think that should be 'bragh'. Perhaps spelling differs from place to place.

(2)
Concerning Dale, I echo the sentiment, however you spell it.

1 : Don't bragh about your spelling
2 : D-A-L-E

Before chancing upon C&F, I never imagined I would join some Internet community,
and have to write in a foreign language,
and getting involverine into flame wars,
and feeding more silliness in pointless threads
and daring my worst Acne brand puns since high school years
and endure cuteness

and hunt for emoticons

and love it all.

As we say over here :

Dale, c'est pas que dalle

Here's to you, Wisely guy!

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 4:50 am

Wiz

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 7:17 am

[/quote]
Sorry to be a plonker but I think that should be 'bragh'. Perhaps spelling differs from place to place.

I dunno- based on the pic I saw on the C&F Christmas Sale newsletter, it oughta be spelled "braghless)...

Dale may call himself the King, but in my book, he's Da Man! Can't thank him enough for the encouragement he's given me as a new whistlemaker, and for all the friends I've made via Chiff and Fipple. Paul

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 8:33 am

Who's Dale?

lollycross · Post by **lollycross** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 9:00 am

Yes, Cheers to Dale.
I don't know what I would do without this place either.
Lolly