Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 24, 2012

Bearskin hat?

Gotta do what ya gotta do…

It’s called a busby and they used to be made of bearskin.

For an extra five bucks, he’ll even play Amazing Grace as he inflates your tires.

Thankfully, the source of the petro wasn’t illustrated.

SNERK!!!

Might be easier to find a piper than a “gas station” that still has a compressor!!

Since I KNOW people are picky, I;ll say it first…. He’s playing with the bag on the wrong side. And the chanter and blowpipe should be separate items; the blowpipe adds air, and the chanter hangs out of a separate attachment on the front of the bag. The chanter is where the fingers make the notes for the tune. He also forgot the sign: $2 for 10 minutes of air, $10 for 5 minutes of air, and $20 for 2 minutes. And yes, I DO like the pipes. I’ve played in a celtic band, but I can understand the terror some people have of the pipes.

Marge simpson, before she started dyeing her hair.

Can you play your own? When you can, you can call it whatever you want.

I like them, but I like droning and resonant strings etc. Give me quarter tones and I’m happy..There used to be a guy here in Plymouth (UK) who practised his pipes in his lunch break down by the Barbican. That was in the early 80s. If you’re out there, give us a bit of pibroch!

The pipers biggest request. “STOP”!!!

How much ya wanna bet there isn’t any window washer liquid in that container?

Love the expression on the driver’s face. It’s priceless.

Pipers are OK, I guess, but I really prefer Cessnas.

That’s an even older joke, than Linguist told yesterday!

Little-known facts about the origin of bagpipes:UN-STRANGE PHENOMENA; Feb 23, 2012

Somehow, I knew you were going to go there!

Wait, Dogsniff went where? The bathroom? Um,…. let’s drop the whole sensory organs thing, K?

Bagpipes have one volume setting: cochlea-splitting..Not sure how that rates on the Tufnel scale.

Pipes are nice to have when your roommate keeps you up all night with a drunken party when you have an important test the next morning. Nothing like a hangover to the tune of Amazing Grace.

Too much overhead! 8^)

poor guy prob’ly thought a cat was caught in his fanbelt

Wan of them buget pumps. Kan’t git any thing out of ‘em, mak a racket, and thy wun’t giv change.

Just noticed that in the June 21st “Pearls Before Swine,” the commenters got into a discussion about bagpipes. . . .

A number of years ago, shortly after anthropologists found bone flutes in prehistoric graves, Discover magazine ran an April Fool’s article about discovering the remains of bagpipes with Neandertal bones. “Experts” conjectured that the reason Neandertals died out was that they became so enamored of the instrument that they scared away all the game and starved to death.

Shoes and socks. With a knife in yer sock!

Aside from the fact that I really like both Irish and Scottish bagpipe music, some of my scariest childhood memories are of the " Kiltie " bands marching in parades withe their pipes and Lambeg drums.Historically, the British Army used the Pipe Bands to scare the bejasus out of the enemy. Native Americans were particularly terrified by these strange creatures making such god-awful sounds.

working up to the olympics? :)

How to make a bagpipe: Get a sack. Stuff two old cats in it. While holding on to it tightly, jab it with sticks. Pretend to blow in to one of the sticks. Voila! Bagpipes!

YES!! More jobs for the arts! Keep people’s appreciation and knowledge of arts and music alive, and it’ll be a much better world. It would help the economy, since every dollar paid to an artist gets spent three times over, and the jobs would be in the USA, instead of being outsourced. Thank you, Skip; I’m glad somebody “gets it.”

Their enemies called them “The Ladies from Hadies”.

Left-handed pipes? Like Paul McCartney’s guitar?

“The bagpipe is the only musical instrument deemed a weapon of war because it inspired its troops to battle and instilled terror into the enemy. The skirl of the pipes stirs men’s and women’s souls and its power and influence in battle as in life, is measurable.”

This seems to be quoted from a legal decision.

+++++

At least the piper doesn’t have to be extinguished before pumping petrol!

Insert hose in other end for Natural Gas.

I mustremember that, Matey.

I love bagpipe music.

But nobody mentioned it, did they?

Hey! That’s one more job than congressional Republicans have created in four years!

puddleglum: At least the dorms weren’t floating around in the Guinness. Moderation in all things. :-)

There is an island off the west coast of Scotland where it is traditional to play the pipes on the right shoulder, rather than the left. That would place the left hand on the bottom of the chanter, and the right hand on the top. As the right hand is dominant in most people, it may be an advantage to some players. Some of the highest caliber players and left-handed, and play on the usual left shoulder. If memory serves me correctly, that would include Jim McGillivray and the late Alastair Gillies.

What is the difference between a bagpipe and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump up and down on the trampoline. -———————————————————————————————————————

I have been a player of the pipes since the early 70’s. I love playing the pipes and have worked hard to be counted as a musical player. The problem with the public’s perception of piping is lack of experience with good piping, and too much experience of bad piping. There are too many people who take up the pipes and then go out playing in public without sufficient preparation or skill. The average person doesn’t know the difference, or didn’t in the past. They would hear a bad piano player or guitarist, and say, “Oh, that person doesn’t know how to play well.” Alternatively, they’d say, “That person needs to get to a teacher, or practice more before playing in public.” When they hear bad piping, they say, “Oh, that’s what bagpipes sound like. Yup, now I know what all the jokes are about. Bagpipes sound awful.”

What is the difference between a dead bagpiper in the road and a dead snake in the road? The dead snake will have skid marks associated with it.