BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale

Subject: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 11:18 AM

http://www.ktvq.com/news/town-of-garryowen-for-sale/

Garryowen, Montana, on the Crow Reservation, is for sale. It is named for the Irish tune Garryowen, anthem used by Custer's 7th Cavalry, and is the site of the Custer Battlefield Museum.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 11:34 AM

Is there a "buy-it-now" price?

Gary Owens

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Midchuck
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 12:58 PM

Been through it. Only in eastern Montana could it be defined as a "Town."

P.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 01:07 PM

I think we should all chip in and give it to gnu. It's actually in a pretty nice area.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 01:20 PM

I hope a Lakota buys it and renames it Sitting Bull.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 01:28 PM

"I hope a Lakota buys it and renames it Sitting Bull. "

Or Little Hawk?

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 01:30 PM

It's a move in Rugby Union.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 01:55 PM

I was betting that gnu started this thread, and hoping that I could get away with saying, "What? Moncton's for sale?

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Jack Campin
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 01:59 PM

Seems to be disallowed in Mornington Crescent, though - Google Maps doesn't find any directions between the two.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 04:33 PM

♩♩♬♬♪-la la la la la la la la LA-la·la-♪♪♫♫♫♫

But be careful the buyer pays up or you'll have no redress:- No man for debt shall go to jail...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 05:14 PM

... From Garryowen in glory.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 05:17 PM

Kim Bassinger bought a town once... She is now in bankruptcy...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 06:50 PM

maybe Bassenger's town didn't have the raw tourist appeal of Sitting Bull (previously Garryowen), where the whole family can "Ride with the Seventh"! Where kids of all ages can be pinned down for hours on Reno's Ridgetop by a horde of screaming re-enactors, Mom can be captured and wed to an authentic Sioux Warrior, and Dad can go down with Custer within a constantly shrinking circle of wounded troopers! Plus, the whole clan will receive half-priced Subway Value Meals when the fracas has ended, and watch actors re-create an actual Pow Wow!

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 07:08 PM

A Pow Wow? Why, Bobert would be on that like white on rice. What kinda smoke? Mexican Red Hair? Thai Stick? Acapella Gold (Yeah, I know)... no stems, no seeds that you don't need...

I kinda miss smokin weed even tho it is a long ago memory. I might take it up again some day if the docs tell me I may as well. Hopefully, if they do, I'll be able to get a prescription for the cheap medical maryjane the gubmint sells and then grow my own good shit.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Jun 12 - 07:31 PM

Custer was a hard-head...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 01:49 PM

Custer was a mercenary. Maybe he believed what he was doing was honourable duty but history... well, I am no history expert so I'll leave that one alone.

Odd... I found Mudcat when trying to find a recording of someone singing that song. Still haven't heard it.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 02:03 PM

Here's the thread.

Gee. I have been wasting other people's time here for over 11 years.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 02:24 PM

Custer was a rather complex individual. He testified in a case against suttlers licensed by the Federal Government who were selling bad food and defective poor quality supplies on the reservations, and he most likely had a native american mistress. He had more understanding of the ways of the plains tribes than most of his peers. But he had the job of attacking indians who had left the reservations, and gained a national reputation for it. He also developed a very effective method of defeating the tribes even when his troops were outnumbered, a combination of massed cavalrymen charging and dismounted troopers volley firing. This might have worked at Little bighorn except for the flooded state of the river at the base of Medicine Tail Coulee, which effectively halted the charge, along with Custer's mistaken assessment of the numbers of warriors. It was a great victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne, but provoked a national reaction that sealed the doom for the plains tribes' free life.
The battlefield is still quite an eerie and unsettling place, and is worth a stop if you ever find yourself in Southeastern Montana.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 07:26 PM

I think at one time most school kids knew this song. Here ya go gnu, about halfway through: CLICKETY

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 07:32 PM

Hell, So is Washington DC. What's new?

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 08:00 PM

kat.... thanks.

As someone posted some 11 yeras ago, if memory serves correct, they were right about why is isn`t sung much.

Thanks again, kat.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 09:00 PM

I don't think its is possible to beat that version.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 10:38 PM

I think most people today don't remember the song OR that it was associated with Custer.

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 11:07 PM

I think my mom and dad had it on a 78.

No problem, gnu.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: The town of Garryowen is for sale
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 11:20 PM

GARRYOWEN

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
But join with me, each jovial blade
Come, drink and sing and lend your aid
To help me with the chorus:

cho: Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail;
No man for debt shall go to jail
From Garryowen in glory.

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run
We are the boys no man dares dun
If he regards a whole skin.

Our hearts so stout have got no fame
For soon 'tis known from whence we came
Where'er we go they fear the name
Of Garryowen in glory.

Note: Official marching tune of Custer's Seventh Cavalry.
Garryowen, or Owen's Garden, is a suburb of Limerick.

@drink @Irish @gambler @fight
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TUNE FILE: GARYOWEN
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