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Shawnee123 · 08-15-2008, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Did you know "When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment," better known as "The Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" fits on the bagpipes if the player just pretends it's written in treble clef not bass?

No, but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it.

Pa- dum- dum

ZenGum · 08-15-2008, 08:02 PM

I do have a fair tolerance of bagpipe music, I was just poking fun. :P

Although it did seem a bit odd during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

TheMercenary · 08-16-2008, 08:40 AM

I love bagpipe music. My mother played it for me from before the time I could walk. Had bagpipes in my wedding.

Griff · 08-16-2008, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I love bagpipe music. My mother played it for me from before the time I could walk away. Had bagpipes in my wedding.

Fixed that.

Just kidding, I love the pipes.

TheMercenary · 08-16-2008, 08:51 AM

actually Ran away might have been more acurate.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-22-2008, 03:06 PM

Hey, it's rumored this is why Scottish regiments were so effective in the charge -- the pipers were deployed in their rear, and were to strike in and play on cue.

And then there's the one about how sometime in the latest Dark Ages the Irish hit upon telling the Scots the pipes were a great musical instrument -- and they've been waiting twelve hundred years now for the Scots to get the joke.

@Shawnee:
"When a felon's not engaged in his employment/his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans/little plans
His capacity for innocent enjoyment/-cent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's/honest man's

Our feelings we with difficulty smother/-culty smother, when constabulary duty's to be done/to be done
Ah, take one consideration with another/with a-noth-er -- the policeman's lot is not a happy one!"

@ Zen: Seem to remember the Olympic fanfare fits on the pipes. The Kenneth Clark show Civilization's theme song definitely does. Won't even get into Beethoven's Ninth...

which it does with one tweak, a substituted note.

classicman · 08-23-2008, 10:49 PM

What the ????

TheMercenary · 08-24-2008, 11:06 AM

????

xoxoxoBruce · 08-24-2008, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

What the ????

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

????

I'm guessing alcohol.

BigV · 08-25-2008, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

What the ????

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

????

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'm guessing alcohol.

From here.

classicman · 08-24-2008, 08:44 PM

or something harder perhaps. I've reread it a couple times and it still makes no sense.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-29-2008, 05:02 AM

Cool. A third verse -- productions of Pirates of Penzance usually have only the first two, per the Schirmer edition.

We're in rehearsal for it now, so I'll have a certain amount of Gilbert & Sullivan on the brain until about October.

Classicman, reread from post #19. Makes plenty of sense to me, with only some small and fairly obvious leaps to other tangents...

classicman · 08-29-2008, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Classicman, reread from post #19. Makes plenty of sense to me, with only some small and fairly obvious leaps to other tangents...

I never doubted that.

TheMercenary · 08-29-2008, 10:43 AM

So what ever happened to this story. Did it grow legs and run off.

08-15-2008, 08:02 PM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I do have a fair tolerance of bagpipe music, I was just poking fun. :P Although it did seem a bit odd during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-16-2008, 08:40 AM	#3
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I love bagpipe music. My mother played it for me from before the time I could walk. Had bagpipes in my wedding. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

08-16-2008, 08:51 AM	#5
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	actually Ran away might have been more acurate. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

08-22-2008, 03:06 PM	#6
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Hey, it's rumored this is why Scottish regiments were so effective in the charge -- the pipers were deployed in their rear, and were to strike in and play on cue. And then there's the one about how sometime in the latest Dark Ages the Irish hit upon telling the Scots the pipes were a great musical instrument -- and they've been waiting twelve hundred years now for the Scots to get the joke. @Shawnee: "When a felon's not engaged in his employment/his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans/little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment/-cent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's/honest man's Our feelings we with difficulty smother/-culty smother, when constabulary duty's to be done/to be done Ah, take one consideration with another/with a-noth-er -- the policeman's lot is not a happy one!" @ Zen: Seem to remember the Olympic fanfare fits on the pipes. The Kenneth Clark show Civilization's theme song definitely does. Won't even get into Beethoven's Ninth... which it does with one tweak, a substituted note. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 08-22-2008 at 03:26 PM.

08-23-2008, 10:49 PM	#7
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	What the ???? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

08-24-2008, 11:06 AM	#8
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	???? __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

08-24-2008, 08:44 PM	#11
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	or something harder perhaps. I've reread it a couple times and it still makes no sense. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

08-29-2008, 05:02 AM	#12
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Cool. A third verse -- productions of Pirates of Penzance usually have only the first two, per the Schirmer edition. We're in rehearsal for it now, so I'll have a certain amount of Gilbert & Sullivan on the brain until about October. Classicman, reread from post #19. Makes plenty of sense to me, with only some small and fairly obvious leaps to other tangents... __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-29-2008, 10:43 AM	#14
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	So what ever happened to this story. Did it grow legs and run off. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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