BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues

Subject: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 05:16 PM

I rarely start these type of threads but since the "Originater" of these "folk venue" questions meets this topic's category, I thought it was only fitting.

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Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: kendall
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 05:50 PM

No

Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 05:58 PM

Does that include curtals?

Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 05:59 PM

Only in appropriate buffoon costumes, with cap and bells.

Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: Melissa
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 06:06 PM

When buffoons are present, I find it difficult to get a seat near the spittoon. Droolers need access to spittoons which means having too many buffoons in the audience tends to drive up the cost of entering the venue.

This means many of us are excluded due to cost.

On the other hand, having spittoons sitting around tends to discourage dehydrates and dry-mouthers because they feel excluded from the merriment.

I'm not loopy enough to have a clear opinion one way or the other on this subject (or any similar topics

Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 06:25 PM

Should poltroons who play spoons and sing Mrs. Ravoon, accompanied by bassoons, be allowed to ask rhetorical questions of buffoons in pantaloons during full moons?

Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 06:27 PM

Melissa... I find your post/opinion clear and eloquent. It certainaly adresses the subject matter in a unique fashion which some readers may not have considered. I look forward to further insight from you.

Subject: RE: BS: ShouldBuffoonsBeAllowedAtFolkVenues
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 06:40 PM

Thank you Spaw... you are my new bestest friend.

I have been sssooooo itching to say something about the same.

Can I start one?




BS:ShouldPeopleRespondToAttentionJunkies?

Subject:BS: ShouldPeopleRespondToAttentionJunkies?
From: VirginiaTam - PM
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 09:37 PM

Please do not contribute to this thread.

This thread is closed!

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Melissa
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 07:24 PM

I halfway expect this thread to be scolded or closed while I'm gone this evening so I decided to make up an opinion before I head out.


My friend has a scar on her head from interrupting a flying mug.
I had forgotten that there will be a fire of some sort where the cheap food is being cooked.

I will want my seat to be behind the beer pitchers in case they throw a wild one. If most sensible folks follow my lead, there will be plenty of room near the spittoons for the buffoons..and we can happily spit in the fire.
As long as buffoons are kept a safe distance from the fire (most of them would naturally avoid that area because of netheral flamability) I think they should be allowed at folk venues.

Some buffoons are natural Fools in the Tradition, and they will help keep the venue from becoming mired in Talk, Introduction and such..which will definitely be a benefit.
If we can hear the music over the sizzling fire, I certainly don't want to be hearing anything else.

It does make me wonder whether Musicians should be allowed at Folk Venues though..

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 10:03 PM

I think all sorts of instruments should be welcomed, including bodhrans, banjos, and buffoons. As long as they play in key, of course -- it doesn't have to be the same key, just some key or other. E# or maybe Cb are good.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 10:43 PM

Well, yes, but you are biased, being an expert in buffoon-playing yourself., Just because you are so good at playing the buffoon doesn't mean others want to -- or to listen to it, either...



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Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 11:51 PM

"I think all sorts of instruments should be welcomed, including bodhrans, banjos, and buffoons. As long as they play in key, of course -- it doesn't have to be the same key, just some key or other. " Rap

I have described the scene on the Cat before but I will intone the pertinent parts here:

Asked what key he was playing in, the kid said, Not any, really.

Well, then, what chords are you playing? Answer: Just kind of regular.

Is that what you have in mind, Rap?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 12:22 AM

Should moderators be allowed to insert spaces into thread headers?

Please define Buffoon. My paranoia is playing up.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Smokey.
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 12:27 AM

My paranoia is playing up

Try soaking it in cold tea, it improved the tone of mine beyond belief.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 12:31 AM

Smokey, how dare you suggest that my paranoia is less than perfectly tuned!

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Smokey.
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 12:34 AM

Well, when you said "playing up"...

Just point it downwards then.

Are they welcome in a folk session - that's the question. Furthermore, are they traditional?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 12:39 AM

Frans Hals painted a guy playing one. You can see the reed/mouthpiece on the neck, and the complicated hammer-and-strings arrangement inside the hole.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Smokey.
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:09 AM

I wonder if it was strictly necessary to wear a silly hat and take vast quantities of hallucinogens though.

Mind you, thinking back...

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:31 AM

Of course the acid was needed. How else can you play an instrument with eleven strings on the fretboard but only five over the belly.
Sympathetic vibrations, that's how.




Some days, I need lots of sympathy.....

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:57 AM

Of course buffoons should be welcome. They have just as much right as anybody else to be there as the cynics and self-righteous and those who think Bob Dylan could sing.

The people who should be excluded are those who correct other people's English. This is simply NOT DONE.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: theleveller
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 04:36 AM

What, ban myself? No way!

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Tangledwood
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 05:28 AM

They have just as much right as anybody else to be there as the cynics and self-righteous and those who think Bob Dylan could sing.


Shouldn't there be a comma after "there" and a "do" between "as" and "the"?   :)

Pardon my lack of knowledge regarding ethnic instruments, but is a buffoon an unclad bassoon?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 05:47 AM

Kindly inform me how buffoons might be kept away ?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 06:20 AM

You set up a buffoonery next door and they all go there instead...

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 10:57 AM

They can, with proper training, much love, and severe beatings, make nice pets.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: MikeL2
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 11:16 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Melissa - PM
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 07:24 PM

hi melissa

Musicians at folk events !!!! Whatever next ???

If they don't come whoever's going to by the beer??

Only musicians can afford to pay the prices as they are all millionaires.

regards

MikeL2 no millions but I can afford a couple of pints

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 11:29 AM

Can the buffoons who're putting the daft adverts on these threads be banned!?!


The one on here just now asks 'Do you want to be a guitar god'???????????????????????

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Will Fly
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 11:57 AM

This ad for being a guitar god is just a waste of my time! I am a guitar god - and a very reasonably priced one as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 12:26 PM

Personally I think the buffoon in question should never be allowed out on his own, far less should he be allowed to mix with normal people. As for doing his shoe laces up or going to the toilet unsupervised, forget it.

I would though recommend that he be encouraged to learn how to walk on water, preferably using a whirlpool at least 30 feet deep.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:46 PM

Oh for heaven's sake! Where would Shakespeare's comedies be without a buffoon or two?

Fred, you have buffoon confused with something else. A buffoon makes us laugh at his stupidity even while we note the witty sparkle in his eye.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 02:12 PM

Leenia. You're right. Baboon. Well, at least it rhymes with spittoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 02:24 PM

Buffoons need gossoons .... unless they don't know what one is... in which case, they may end up with all sorts of things

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: TheSnail
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 02:46 PM

Then there's Buffens.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 03:13 PM

Buffens, the Morris Team Slayer?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 04:51 PM

T'would be poltroon to fear a mention of Kendall's harpoon, which sets some women all in a swoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 06:00 PM

Sword dance my fanny! THIS is a sword dance. Too bad it's staged.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 10:41 PM

I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" last summer. [Shakespeare in the Park]

The buffoonery was wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: paula t
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 05:03 PM

My Buffoon has a wonky bridge. I'm not confident enough to have a go myself. Does anyone know of a good Buffoonier in the South Northants area?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: LadyJean
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 10:53 PM

There used to be a godawful woman who came to the late lamented Smokey City Folk Festival with her two children, named, I wish I was making this up, Rueben and Rachel. They were the loudest, rudest, most obnoxious kids I have ever encountered, and she would sit there oblivious while they ruined the festival workshops. Nobody quite knew what to do about them.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: kendall
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 09:39 AM

I know what I would have done.I would ask a simple question; "Why did you teach them to act like that"?

There was a Greeter at Wal-Mart who was on duty this day when an obnoxious slattern came blustering in with two brats in tow. She was screaming at them and making idle threats. The Greeter said, "Good morning, nice set of twins you have there." She replied, "What? that one is 6 and the other is 8. Why did you think they are twins"?
He said, "I just couldn't believe you got laid twice."

I'm afraid I wouldn't last long at Wal-Mart.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: kendall
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 09:45 AM

The floggings will continue until morale improves.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 10:16 AM

Although my eyesight is failing, due to an unfortunate boyhood habit, I have tried to follow this interesting thread. I really would NOT advise bringing Gaboon vipers to folk sessions. Although normally quite placid, they are enraged by one instrument in particular, and we have lost several banjo players that way. No musicians, though, thank goodness.

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 10:25 AM

What about vindscreen vipers then?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 05:50 PM

Should idiots be allowed to post?

Subject: RE: BS: Should Buffoons Be Allowed At Folk Venues
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Mar 10 - 06:27 PM

I dunno. I've always thought that buffoons, although they are a little weird-looking, are kinda cute.

CLICKY.

Don Firth