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"Tim" wrote in message
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If there is a noise worse than that made by a beginning bagpipe player,
I've not heard it.

That reminds me of Sean Connery in the movie "The longest Day" Where
he and another "bloke" were experiencing heavy artillary and shell
fire, then some regiment somes marching through the streets with a
bagpipe honking away.

Connery stuffs paper or cotton in his ears, the two look at each other
in discust while listening to the pipes oveer scoreing the artillary
blasts.

Connery says: "Aw, listen to all that racket.... "It takes a true
Irishman to play the pipes"


They either payed him a lot to say that or it's an in-joke.
I've read that he's a proud Scotsman.

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Better music:


* George Fredric Handel
* Antonio Vivaldi
* Johann Sebastian Bach
* Joseph Haydn
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* Ludwig Von Beethoven
* Franz Schubert
* Felix Mendelssohn
* Johannes Brahms
* Carl Maria Avon Weber
* Frederic Chopin
* Franz Lizt
* Richard Wagner
* Richard Strauss
* Antonin Dvorak
* Jan Sibelius
* Mikhail Glinka
* Peter Tchaikovsky
* Sergei Rachmaninoff
* Aaron Copland

The wife enjoys clasical music. I loaded 4 CDs worth on her new Ipod.

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/15/2007 12:58 AM, Chuck Gould wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
Hmm, I wouldnt fly one myself but why would a Jolly Roger make anybody
look any more foolish than some of the faux sailing stuff people do.
Every time I see someone wearing a captains hat I groan inside thinking
"What a doofus".

I agree up to a point on the captain's hat. There's nothing wrong, IMO,
with wearing a cap with a bill to shade the eyes from sunlight. I guess
this could be a Hooter's cap, a Yankees cap, or a cap splattered with
white paint and embroidered with the phrase "damn seagulls!"! I wear a
simple, black, "Greek fisherman's" hat that isn't the least bit ornate.
Now, make that a high white hat with a shiny black bill, a fouled
anchor on the crown and even the first suggestion of "scrambled eggs"
and I'd be agreeing with you whole heartedly.


"Burgees" put me in that mind too although I can
understand part of the reason for having them. Every time I see
someone trying to look "Yachtie" I want to burn and pillage.


Burgees serve a very practical purpose, as they identify members of
various power squadrons and yacht clubs and convey some particular
privileges as a result. We've been in and out of clubs over the years,
but we're in again and will probably stay with the club we joined about
a year ago. My club dues are about $500 a year, but I easily saved that
last summer by taking advantage of free reciprocal moorage as we cruise
through our regional islands. You need to fly a burgee to get the
recip. My club also owns and leases some "outstation" properties where
members can stay free of charge, but once again members are required to
fly a burgee when doing so. A burgee also expresses a certain amount of
pride in belonging to a specific organization- not unlike an NRA or
Ducks Unlimited bumper sticker. When a person belongs to a very large
club or squadron, and particularly when a person is a new member, the
burgee helps to identify other members of the same organization and
that can be a good "ice breaker" in a strange port.



You take yourself, "boating," and the "trappings" of "genteel boating"
entirely too seriously.

That's how they do it in Seattle.

A photo of how "serious" boaters dress while aboard their boats in the great
NW:

http://www.seattleyachtclub.org/Open...ayTrio2007.jpg

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A photo of how "serious" boaters dress while aboard their boats in the great
NW:

http://www.seattleyachtclub.org/Open...ayTrio2007.jpg

That's absolutely terrifying

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On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:50:30 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 1/15/2007 12:58 AM, Chuck Gould wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
Hmm, I wouldnt fly one myself but why would a Jolly Roger make anybody
look any more foolish than some of the faux sailing stuff people do.
Every time I see someone wearing a captains hat I groan inside thinking
"What a doofus".

I agree up to a point on the captain's hat. There's nothing wrong, IMO,
with wearing a cap with a bill to shade the eyes from sunlight. I guess
this could be a Hooter's cap, a Yankees cap, or a cap splattered with
white paint and embroidered with the phrase "damn seagulls!"! I wear a
simple, black, "Greek fisherman's" hat that isn't the least bit ornate.
Now, make that a high white hat with a shiny black bill, a fouled
anchor on the crown and even the first suggestion of "scrambled eggs"
and I'd be agreeing with you whole heartedly.


"Burgees" put me in that mind too although I can
understand part of the reason for having them. Every time I see
someone trying to look "Yachtie" I want to burn and pillage.


Burgees serve a very practical purpose, as they identify members of
various power squadrons and yacht clubs and convey some particular
privileges as a result. We've been in and out of clubs over the years,
but we're in again and will probably stay with the club we joined about
a year ago. My club dues are about $500 a year, but I easily saved that
last summer by taking advantage of free reciprocal moorage as we cruise
through our regional islands. You need to fly a burgee to get the
recip. My club also owns and leases some "outstation" properties where
members can stay free of charge, but once again members are required to
fly a burgee when doing so. A burgee also expresses a certain amount of
pride in belonging to a specific organization- not unlike an NRA or
Ducks Unlimited bumper sticker. When a person belongs to a very large
club or squadron, and particularly when a person is a new member, the
burgee helps to identify other members of the same organization and
that can be a good "ice breaker" in a strange port.



You take yourself, "boating," and the "trappings" of "genteel boating"
entirely too seriously.

Harry, he boats! He doesn't just brag about his nonexistent stuff and call
names.
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John H

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On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:03:06 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 1/15/2007 1:13 PM, Chuck Gould wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

If there is a noise worse than that made by a beginning bagpipe player,
I've not heard it.
That's one positive thing about Chuck - noise.

Ok, that was offensive and I apologize.

But you have to admit, bagpipes are right up there on the scale of
annoying music.

Nothing sounds worse than a badly played bagpipe, or better than one in
the hands of a master.


Please. Even in the hands of a "master," the bagpipes produce sound only
a few steps above noise.

You've obviously not heard well played bagpipes.
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***** Have a super day! *****
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John H

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JohnH wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:50:30 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 1/15/2007 12:58 AM, Chuck Gould wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
Hmm, I wouldnt fly one myself but why would a Jolly Roger make anybody
look any more foolish than some of the faux sailing stuff people do.
Every time I see someone wearing a captains hat I groan inside thinking
"What a doofus".

I agree up to a point on the captain's hat. There's nothing wrong, IMO,
with wearing a cap with a bill to shade the eyes from sunlight. I guess
this could be a Hooter's cap, a Yankees cap, or a cap splattered with
white paint and embroidered with the phrase "damn seagulls!"! I wear a
simple, black, "Greek fisherman's" hat that isn't the least bit ornate.
Now, make that a high white hat with a shiny black bill, a fouled
anchor on the crown and even the first suggestion of "scrambled eggs"
and I'd be agreeing with you whole heartedly.


"Burgees" put me in that mind too although I can
understand part of the reason for having them. Every time I see
someone trying to look "Yachtie" I want to burn and pillage.


Burgees serve a very practical purpose, as they identify members of
various power squadrons and yacht clubs and convey some particular
privileges as a result. We've been in and out of clubs over the years,
but we're in again and will probably stay with the club we joined about
a year ago. My club dues are about $500 a year, but I easily saved that
last summer by taking advantage of free reciprocal moorage as we cruise
through our regional islands. You need to fly a burgee to get the
recip. My club also owns and leases some "outstation" properties where
members can stay free of charge, but once again members are required to
fly a burgee when doing so. A burgee also expresses a certain amount of
pride in belonging to a specific organization- not unlike an NRA or
Ducks Unlimited bumper sticker. When a person belongs to a very large
club or squadron, and particularly when a person is a new member, the
burgee helps to identify other members of the same organization and
that can be a good "ice breaker" in a strange port.



You take yourself, "boating," and the "trappings" of "genteel boating"
entirely too seriously.

Harry, he boats! He doesn't just brag about his nonexistent stuff and call
names.
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***** Have a super day! *****
******************************************

John H

I have designed my own version of the Jolly Roger. Mine is one of
those alien heads superimposed on a stylized atom in place of the
crossed bones. I see people stare and can see em mouth "WTF". I also
go down the canal with my fenders down just because it drives people
crazy.

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JohnH wrote:

You've obviously not heard well played bagpipes.


There is such a thing???

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"Don White" wrote in message

Whoa now! I've got at least a dozen cousins and their kids etc who play
the bagpipes.


I'm sorry.

-W

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"Clams Canino" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message

Whoa now! I've got at least a dozen cousins and their kids etc who play
the bagpipes.


I'm sorry.

-W


Sorry??
I wonder if they can get me a front row seat for the 'Pipefest'?
Imagine one thousand pipers marching past you on July 08. Talk about heaven
on earth!
http://www.nstattoo.ca/site/index.ph...56&Itemi d=48