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Rench
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Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Rench » Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:43 am

A few know, or have seen me reference it elsewhere, but I've been learning to play the bagpipes for 3 years now (my poor, POOR family and co workers). Tonight will be the relative culmination of that, auditioning for my first pipe band. I've got to play 6 tunes, perfectly, solo.

Anyway, if you all could send your loudest, shrillest and most obnoxious positive thoughts, as long as they're in tune and on beat, that would be appropriate. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

-Rench


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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Jaeger » Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:47 am

Break a leg!

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Bo_9 » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:04 am

Hah!
I luv the "give a fuck" button! Thanks DerG.

Good luck on the pipes, that kind of thing is always nerve racking.
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by DerGolgo » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:16 am

I'm sending ya my good thoughts, on behalf of all my dead Scottish ancestors!
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I said I have a big stick.

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by calamari kid » Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:10 am

Knock 'em out!
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by guitargeek » Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:57 am

...so the octopus says "Play it? If I can figure out how to get its pajamas off I'm gonna fuck it!"
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Rench » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:24 pm

guitargeek wrote:...so the octopus says "Play it? If I can figure out how to get its pajamas off I'm gonna fuck it!"
That is fucking great! :mrgreen:

-Rench
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Rench » Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:45 pm

Passed!!! :mrgreen:

And for the record, my pipes are in fact completely blacked out. :mrgreen:

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Jaeger » Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:02 pm

Rench wrote:Passed!!! :mrgreen:
W00T! (Literally.)


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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by calamari kid » Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:08 pm

Nicely done sir, congrats!
Jaeger wrote:
Rench wrote:Passed!!! :mrgreen:
W00T! (Literally.)


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Shouldn't that be W00T-HONK-SQUEE-BRAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? :P
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by DerGolgo » Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:21 am

Huzzah!
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Bo_9 » Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:51 am

So now that you are official.
What would it cost to have you relentlessly follow around someone around for an entire day?
Just imagine, you walk out to go to work- dude playing bagpipes.
You are in your cube all day while behind you, -dude playing bagpipes.
Go to the gym after work - dude playing bagpipes.
Tucked into bed, while outside your window - dude playing bagpipes.
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"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Rench » Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:58 am

That's particularly funny because its what I just did to my sister for her birthday. At least the walk out the door part.

I'd do it for a 6 pack of Lite and the practice! :mrgreen:

-Rench
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Bo_9 » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:04 am

I know someone that hired a mariachi band to trail his son-in-law to a job interview at a big industrial outfit in KC.
He knew the owner well and let him in on the gag so they helped it along. Said they did an awesome job, followed him into the building, played while he waited in the lobby, and kept playing in the hall through the entire interview.
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"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Rench » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:52 pm

OK, final word on this, then you can all bleach the image of me in a skirt from your minds. :mrgreen:

So we finished our second and vastly less formal set on Saturday night to a cheering crowd of 800+ people. A guy comes up to me out of the crowd and says "Hey! I noticed all the others have lots of silver and extra trim on their pipes, but yours are all flat black, what's with that?"

:mrgreen:

-Rench
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Zim » Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:53 pm

And for that a fuck has been given.

My grandmother, of Scottish ancestry, used to say upon hearing the pipes, "can't you just feel it in your blood?". Aye, I can.
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by DerGolgo » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:07 pm

Rench wrote:OK, final word on this, then you can all bleach the image of me in a skirt from your minds.
A skirt? Why on earth would we picture you in a skirt? I picture you playing the pipes, all I see is the perfectly regular attire ... boots, shirt, jacket, kilt ... I don't understand your skirt reference.
:? :?
Zim wrote:And for that a fuck has been given.

My grandmother, of Scottish ancestry, used to say upon hearing the pipes, "can't you just feel it in your blood?". Aye, I can.
I dunno if my Scottish born granny ever said anything like that (she died when I was three), but aye, a feel it, too!
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by 2XSL » Mon May 12, 2014 2:09 pm

bagpipes r kool

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Bo_9 » Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:54 am

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I had no idea.
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"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by jae » Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:17 am

DerGolgo wrote:
Rench wrote:OK, final word on this, then you can all bleach the image of me in a skirt from your minds.
A skirt? Why on earth would we picture you in a skirt? I picture you playing the pipes, all I see is the perfectly regular attire ... boots, shirt, jacket, kilt ... I don't understand your skirt reference.
:? :?
Eh, why not a "skirt". As a very general classification for garments, I think it's a fitting description for a kilt. For all the years I've been wearing them my (literally) red-headed mother-in-law still calls me "skirt boy", though with some fondness.



Also, kind of a random thought, but is there some link between kilt-wearing and Ural-owning that I'm missing, or is it just a coincidence?
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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by DerGolgo » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:33 am

jae wrote:
DerGolgo wrote:
Rench wrote:OK, final word on this, then you can all bleach the image of me in a skirt from your minds.
A skirt? Why on earth would we picture you in a skirt? I picture you playing the pipes, all I see is the perfectly regular attire ... boots, shirt, jacket, kilt ... I don't understand your skirt reference.
:? :?
Eh, why not a "skirt". As a very general classification for garments, I think it's a fitting description for a kilt. For all the years I've been wearing them my (literally) red-headed mother-in-law still calls me "skirt boy", though with some fondness.



Also, kind of a random thought, but is there some link between kilt-wearing and Ural-owning that I'm missing, or is it just a coincidence?
There's nothing wrong with men wearing skirts. I don't even think there's anything wrong with women not wearing skirts, would you believe it.
What upsets the grandson of a bonnie scottish lass, aka me, and some damn hun, a nitpicky, antisocial über-kraut, aka me, is not equating kilt with skirt. Technically, the kilt does apparently fall in the skirt genus of garments.
It's that, in popular discourse, "skirt" is still equated by many with the traditional, misogynist definition of "girly". They don't call a kilt a skirt to describe the garment, but to shame the wearer. That is idiotic, wrong in every technical direction and assinine.
Yes, a kilt is a skirt. But the idea that a man should be ashamed of wearing a skirt, that I object to.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?

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Re: Audition tonight, wish me luck!!

Post by Pintgudge » Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:45 pm

It might be the sidecar, or just your naturally expressed uber-coolness.

That's what it is for me.

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