The curse of St. Pat's day continues...

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: InOBU
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 07:57 AM

Dear Dick... DON'T YOU KNOW IT!!!! Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: Amos
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:07 PM

LOL, Dick!!!

A

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 02:23 PM

So this Celtic band gets a St. paddy's day gig, and is very well received. The manager offeras them a gig for next year. Responds the band leader, "Great! Can we leave our instruments here?"

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: InOBU
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 02:17 PM

Hi Leenia and folks... Actualy this post is not about who to blame... and Doug's punch in the nose joke in the context of a Quaker meeting was not to be taken so serriously I am sure! But, for any of you who work on the 17th, from cab drivers to buskers, you know it is a DOG of a holiday. The joke in this wee piece of St. Pat's fate, is that EVEN at a sober and pleasantly grey place, the curse hits... two years ago, for example, the pub that booked my band, was closed by the court on the morning of the 17th, so I got another gig... and was paid vertualy nothing but tips... and the band's tip bucket was stolen that year. So there you are, maybe it is because my way back ansestor fought on Cromwell's side. Who knows?
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: radriano
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 01:28 PM

Curse of St. Pat's day indeed. I picked up a last minute gig for St. Patrick day with a friend of mine. Sounded real easy, you know, just play background tunes for a private party. Minimum pay but we figured the ease of the gig plus the presence of a tip jar justified it. So then the guy setting it up calls back to say he's got a friend who's a violin soloist who'd like to play along. And then he calls back and says he doesn't want to go broke on this deal and can he share the tips, oh, and by the way, here's a list of cheesy Irish songs we'd like you to do. Well, we set him straight on the tips business and I told the guy that I'd sing if he didn't mind my using a music stand to sight read the songs. Yeesh! Some easy gig.

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: Troll
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 01:25 PM

Larry, at least no one barfed in your pipes case. The late Gamble Rogers swore it happened to him once.(guitar case)

troll

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 01:19 PM

Don't be backward-looking. Instead of thinking about whom to blame, and whether or not to punch, see if you can find a method for safely removing the coffee residue from the bag.

Try looking up stain removal on a search engine.

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: DougR
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 12:38 AM

I suppose it would not have been considered friendly had you poked your friend, who was guarding the pipes, in the nose. Right? :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: PeteBoom
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:16 AM

And it COULD have been a Guinness... Which would have been alcohol abuse as well as pipe abuse... ;-)

Pete

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:15 AM

There ya go! They were actually not unattended... a fellow Friend was "watching" the book table... also didn't take invitory on what was sold, and has moved to Tex. whoops gotta run door bell larry

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:12 AM

Look on the bright side though - at least some fool didn't assume they were to be sold along with the books.....

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:05 AM

No offence Larry, but why'd ya leave yer gear unattended?

I could buy a WALL of seagulls for the price of elbow pipes, but I'll be damned if I'm leaving my twins alone... sober crowd or not...

Subject: RE: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: MMario
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:49 AM

Perhaps the pipes remind him of snakes - and he's trying to drive you away?

Subject: The curse of St. Pat's day continues...
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:45 AM

One year, having had a drunk fall onto a brand new set of Kintel bag pipes, shatering the chanter, I have been careful where I play on that ugliest of holidays... Well, just to show, you can't break the curse whatever you do... I decided to do my busking early, before most folks are TOO scuthered on the 16th, then, on the 17th, play a wee bit for our sober Quaker sisters and brothers after meeting at social hour. Well, having a host of things to do at the meetinghouse, I leave the Uilleann pipes under the book selling table, a coffee NO-GO zone at the meeting house, to run someone into the library for a moment..., what do I find this morning, but some sober Friend has spilt a cup of coffee into my pipe case, and the contents stink and are stuck together... now to put this in perspective, a set of Irish pipes, is a similar investment to a midsized new car. No permanent damage, thankfully, but the pipes now reeek! St. Patrick strikes again. Cheers, Larry