BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature

Subject: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 08:06 AM

I just started to read a comedy thriller by Peter Guttridge called The once and future con and was struck by the opening sentences:
" When the crumhorn player fell out of the minstrels' gallery... the lute player and the bloke who'd been blowing up a furry animal's bottom..grabbed their clleague as he toppled headfirst over the carved balustrade"

It goes on to explain, disappointedly, that the instrument in question was an utriculus , a bagpipe made from the head of a goat or sheep.
I kid you not.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 08:17 AM

Oh my gawd, RtS! That is scary and hillarious at the same time! Do you 'spose the author is a lurker here?**BG**

katlaughing

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 08:31 AM

I wondered that, too, Kat. BTW :sorry for typos: should be "colleague" in the quote and "disappointingly" in the text. As PeterT always reminds us: profreed!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 08:32 AM

Proving once again that there is no possibility left for an original thought.

And what kind of tripe are you reading Skiff? Pick it up in a waiting room at the Young Center did you?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 08:43 AM

Speaking of 'Spaw and blowing up furry animals' bottoms...there's this weird little story in Cervantes' "Don Quixote" about a guy who always carried a piece of cane with him. Whenever he saw a dog, he'd "insert" the cane in the dog's rear end. Thusly, but blowing into the cane, he'd inflate the dog so much that it would bounce. When people walked by and gave him strange looks, he'd "bounce the dog's guts" and say "If you think your life is hard, try this for a day! Ha ha!" By the way, this guy was insane. Not that all those who take pleasure in blowing up little animals' rears are insane...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 09:50 AM

He, Spaw, don't dis' the library at the Neil YOung Center, it's got lotsa books and I haven't finished colouring them all yet.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 07:40 PM

We know a song about this don't we?!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: MMario
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 05:04 PM

Unca 'Spaw? Is it all right for Mr_Roger_the_Skiffler to say utriculus out loud like that in public? Did he insult my brother? Should I bite him?

Mr. Mbo - that's disgust-ulating....

Dido

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 05:34 PM

Hey, don't kill the messenger!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:55 PM

At http://www.gmm.co.uk/ai/rustic.htm is a picture or Mr. Marshall's "goatherd's bagpipe" which might be approximately what the author was visualizing when he wrote his gripping prose.

T.

Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature
From: Willie-O
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 08:12 PM

I was going to add something to this thread but instead I think I'll just go practice a new tune on my clleague.

Don't ask what formerly living critter or part thereof is involved...

Bill C