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Subject: The Brain Fairy From: Dunc Date: 20 May 01 - 10:52 AM At a midday singaround a few years ago, at the Glenfarg Folk Feast, someone forgot the words of a song that he had been singing for years. A sound engineer called Ian Clelland voiced the idea of a Brain Fairy. Working around many festivals he had often observed the Brain Fairy's work. When festival goers were sleeping off a healthy nights singing and drinking, the Brain Fairy would visit and remove random lines of songs stored in the memory. In some cases whole songs would vanish or chords to tunes. So effective was the brain Fairy that the victims would have no knowledge of the stolen song parts until they arrived at that embarrassing, stunned silence, mid performance, when no matter what, no words come forth. Is the Brain Fairy a Scottish phenomenon? Does it collect more than folk lyrics? Has it visited you? |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Sorcha Date: 20 May 01 - 10:54 AM I can attest that it is neither a unique Scottish phenomenon, nor is it restricted to lyrics! The Brain Fairy once stole half of Red Wing from me, and it took months to get it back! LOL! Great name! |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: wysiwyg Date: 20 May 01 - 10:57 AM I think the one I know doesn't steal from me, but rather comes when I lose some, like a tooth, and leaves me something under my pillow. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: lady penelope Date: 20 May 01 - 10:58 AM Due to my unfortunate habit of sleeping with my head under my pillow, the Brain Fairy removed the best part of my brain and the remaining synapses are having trouble coping. I think I shall start a charity for those afflicted! TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Dunc Date: 20 May 01 - 10:58 AM As someone who forgets lots of things on lots of occasions..its nice to have someone other than myself to blame. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: SINSULL Date: 20 May 01 - 11:19 AM She removes my eye/hand vision on occasion - usually when I am late for work and frantically trying to find my house keys, the ones in my right hand. Once, she took away my memory of how to turn off the turn signal on my car. In desperation, I threw the car in reverse at forty miles per hour (true story) and tore up the transmission. Several tests and scans later, it was discovered that I had a minor thyroid problem which was affecting my memory. Within two days of starting medication, I was fine. So all of you fearing the onset of Alzheimers, get a blood workup before panicking. Fortunately for me, the car (a company car) was stolen three days later, so I never had to explain the state of the transmission to management. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: wysiwyg Date: 20 May 01 - 11:32 AM That's our Sinsull! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: MMario Date: 20 May 01 - 01:27 PM Sinsull is the Brain Fairy? Who ever would have guessed? In that case - why do you keep swapping the brain cell between my relatives and myself? We don't mind sharing the single cell, but it keeps getting covered with fuzz and lint. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: paddymac Date: 20 May 01 - 02:00 PM Gee - now I know who to blame. Though I've never known the Brain Fairy, his/her/its work is well know here abouts as the "Brain Fart Syndrome". Those more concerned with niceties and proprieties usually refer to the phenomenon as "senior moments." |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Lonesome EJ Date: 20 May 01 - 03:10 PM oh... Brain Fairy! I thought this was a thread about the lead singer for Roxy Music. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Amergin Date: 20 May 01 - 03:17 PM The Brain Fairy visited me once...at an open mike....I knew the words to a sung I was singing just before I was called...but she visited me on my way to the stage....I was halfway through the first verse (of one of my own songs no less) when I forgot everything that followed....so I said hell with that and went on to sing something else....what was the kicker in sthat I remembered the words as soon as I sat back down... |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Giac Date: 20 May 01 - 03:34 PM Whew! What a relief. I thought I might have moths in my head and they were eating parts of my brain -- all those sounds of little wings flapping. Now I don't mind so much. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 May 01 - 05:52 PM Paddymac, can I 'out' you as a TOG or have I done so already?? Brian fairy never been here... friend Brian is still with us.... We just call memory loss CRS Syndrome.... Can't remember sh*t..... LTS - would like to be a TYG, but is probably closer to TOGdom than really wanted.....
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: RichM Date: 20 May 01 - 11:01 PM Ah,yes... In order to remember the forgotten item, one must return physically to the location one was at just prior to the loss...is this a law of nature?? |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Dave the Gnome Date: 21 May 01 - 06:35 AM No, no, no, no, no, no. You've all got it wrong. During the 50's and 60's there was this thing called the 'Brain Drain' where all the good European scientists were lured to the USA by promises of better pay, conditions, funding etc. Still goes on a bit. Anyway, there were so many that they had to lay on special ships to take them over. And the ships became known as the 'Brain Ferries'. DtG |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: KingBrilliant Date: 21 May 01 - 08:08 AM Brain Fairies - they been goblin up bits of mine for years... Kris |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Dave the Gnome Date: 21 May 01 - 09:26 AM Perhaps you need to see someone on the national elf service??? DtG |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Steve Parkes Date: 21 May 01 - 11:39 AM Hey, I'm a victim too! There was a lady who went upstairs and then thought (as you do) "What did I come up here for?" Well, while she was there she made the beds, cleaned the bath, did a bit of ironing, and so on. Eventually she decided she was ready for a nice cup of tea. As soon as she walked into the kitchen, she remembered she gone up to get a tea-towel out of the airing cupboard to smother the chip-pan, which was on fire! Steve |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Fibula Mattock Date: 21 May 01 - 11:51 AM Hmm, are the Brain Fairies in any way related to the beer monkies? Y'know, the ones a friend of mine swears exist, although you never see them, but they take all your money and leave you with Unidentifiable Drunken Injuries... (and have I spelt the plural of "monkey" correctly, because it just doesn't look right...) Are the Brain Fairies responsible for Fridge Amnesia as well? |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Noreen Date: 21 May 01 - 12:10 PM LeeJ- good one! Fib- do you often forget where you left the fridge? Maybe the monkeys :0) take that too? |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Fibula Mattock Date: 21 May 01 - 12:16 PM Aha! Perhaps they do! Although I was thinking more about opening the fridge door and staring at the contents for 5 minutes because you can't actually remember what you wanted to get. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Wavestar Date: 21 May 01 - 01:33 PM Ahh, I know all of these syndromes but beer monkeys. :-) But what I want to know is, how is the Brain Fairy related to the Boob Fairy? -J |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Little Hawk Date: 21 May 01 - 02:13 PM My God, Sinsull, what exactly happened when you threw the car into reverse gear at 40 mph??? I've always wondered what would happen if someone did that. I also wonder how anyone managed to steal it after that...did it still function enough to be driveable? - LH |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: SINSULL Date: 21 May 01 - 02:39 PM An unbelievable amount of noise - grinding and shrieking mostly. Then the car stalled. And I went "Oh shit!" The car started again and I was able to drive it but in fits and starts with lots of noise. Now the man behind me - he made even more noise - things like "Stupid bitch!" "Goddamn idiot!" "Where did you get your license?" Nothing I wasn't already asking myself. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: RichM Date: 21 May 01 - 02:45 PM Fibula, I've resigned myself to fridge amnesia...except I call it a form of meditation ;) Rich |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Ruthie A Date: 21 May 01 - 04:35 PM I got fairy wings last Thursday (useful for embarrassing friends in public with) - I can tell you for sure that I'm not the Brain Fairy though. My maths teacher is. her powers are so great she only has to look at you from fifty paces for you to forget everything you've ever learnt, and your excuse for not having done the homework. Ruthie |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Jande Date: 21 May 01 - 05:05 PM Brain Fairy, eh? ::looks around suspiciously:: That thing must live here! [chuckle] ~ Jande |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Chicken Charlie Date: 21 May 01 - 05:29 PM In days of yore, Math ap Mathonwy, wisest of the Welsh, collected the words of all songs written or to be written and wrote them in "The Book of the Off-White Cow." He then began to bicycle around the British Isles selling subscriptions, but even though he had written in a very tiny hand, most people found that they did not have shelf space for 4,087 thick volumes. He therefore pronounced an hideous curse upon his life's work and consigned it to the flames. At his death, he was visited by the Angel of Retribution, who informed him that his female descendants to the seventh generation were fated to be metamorphosed into Brain Fairies--or, as they are called in France, with great fear and trembling, les fees du mots perduex. They must roam the world without rest until they have retrieved the words of all the songs in The Book of the Off-White Cow, inscribed them in a clear hand on China paper, and deposited them in an oaken chest hidden in a crypt beneath Glastonbury Cathedral. Prognostics maintain that when this chest is full, the world will end. CC |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: vectis Date: 21 May 01 - 05:54 PM We were about to rename Seaford Folk Club the Black Hole Club because so many song words disappeared there. Now we can relax because the problem is obviously that the Brain Fairy lives there. No more worries that altzheimers is infectious. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: lady penelope Date: 21 May 01 - 06:02 PM I'm sorry I don't seem to be able to remember what we were talking about! LTS , how do you know Brian's a fairy? TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 May 01 - 06:46 PM Oh come on, have you seen that knitted hat he wears.....! LTS Or am I thinking of someone else..... |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Murray MacLeod Date: 21 May 01 - 07:15 PM Fortunately, I have never been visited by the Brain Fairy, leastways, not that I am going to own up to, since I have discovered in the past week that I personally know two of the contributors to this thread, (one of whom is the instigator). IMHO the Brain Fairy is sponsored by whichever brewer happens to be picking up the tab for whichever festival it is you happen to be attending. As for Seaford Folk Club, if you permit performers to consume any of the ales brewed in Sussex, then you must expect the consequences. Over here in Florida we drink Budweiser, with never a hint of a visit from the Brain Fairy. Murray |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Chicken Charlie Date: 21 May 01 - 07:37 PM Ah, I knew there was a danger in drinking too much Guiness. I just couldn't remember what it was. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Grab Date: 21 May 01 - 08:47 PM Don't know about a Brain Fairy, but I've got a Music Marmoset that sits on my shoulder and occasionally rootles through my head to extract songs. Just wish the damn thing would sing occasionally - it must have a repertoire like Martin Carthy by now! A kit-car builder called Guy Frazer-Stanisland invented the Lard Fairy. So far, it's not targetted me for a heavy campaign. Yet. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: paddymac Date: 22 May 01 - 05:37 AM LTS - Well, um, er, I'm not too sure just what TOG is, but if it involves the ability to laugh at yourself, yeah, go ahead. There's a variant of CTS here - CRAFT. It involves conjugal things, or thing in the process of replication. Murray - I'm not a big consumer of Bud products, unless, of course, that's all there is. I have heard it said, however,that its distinctive flavor is related to the last pair of kidneys to process it. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Lyndi-loo Date: 22 May 01 - 06:57 AM Is the brain fairy always goblin up your brain cells so you can't find your way gnome? It's an elf a feeling particularly when your piskied! |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Dunc Date: 22 May 01 - 08:02 AM The Brain Fairy picks its lines very carefully. I entered a song I had written (and been singing for years)into a competition. I was singing well, getting a good reaction from the audience, right up to the line in the song which goes.... ...."That February night - I remember it well" but the next line had gone - which told what happened that February night. I didn't win the competition. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Snuffy Date: 22 May 01 - 08:57 AM Like most fairies, the brain fairy doesn't actually steal: (s)he often leaves something fairly useless in return. The other week I was singing a shanty at our local club and in the third verse the fairy stole "Serafina" and left me "kerosene-a" instead. Wassail! V |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 May 01 - 07:54 PM Paddymac - a TOG = The Old Geezer a TYG = The Young Geezer... it's a Woganism..... I'm rapidly descending into TOGdom, having been sat here for 10 minutes trying to remember what I was posting to.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Steve Parkes Date: 23 May 01 - 03:55 AM Liz, you've proved that you are a a TOG! Terry [Wogan]'s Old Girl or Geezer. I expect you were just having a Senior Moment. Such a shame in one so young! Senior Moment--wasn't that a cigarette advertising slogan from the fifties or sixties? (Actually, that peoves I haven't sunk entirely below the TOG event horizon, otherwise I'd remember the name of the fag, and sing the jingle! Steve Ah! Wasn't it Lyril? I know that was a washing powder, but at my age ... |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: paddymac Date: 23 May 01 - 07:20 AM LTS - Geezerdom, eh? Well, I suppose there is some degree of inevitably to the process, but I try my damnedest to fight it. There's a great line in one of the versions of "Roisin the Beau/Bow" to the effect that "the wildest of young men make the merriest of old men." I didn't know it as a lad, but I think it's a pretty good prescription for a well spent life. That, plus never take yourself too seriously. |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: UB Ed Date: 23 May 01 - 10:08 AM Faries wear boots, yeah you gotta believe me! |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Amergin Date: 23 May 01 - 12:33 PM Funny...I also had a visit or more from the beer monkeys...One time I was limping for weeks after they came and had their fun with me.....though I vaguely recall a ditch on my way home that night...... |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Mrs.Duck Date: 23 May 01 - 12:58 PM Damn, I was going to say something really profound but I forget what it was! |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: Mrrzy Date: 23 May 01 - 01:22 PM Brain fairy can hide the keys that are in my OTHER hand, hide my sunglasses on my head, hide something I JUST PUT IT DOWN RIGHT HERE... but the gremlins are the ones who take your car keys when they're NOT in your hand and put them in the butter dish in the fridge, where you can't find them until you're staring blankly into said fridge wondering what you wanted, and suddenly, right where you're looking, teleport your keys right where they weren't, a minute ago. Star Trek has nothing on this. True stories from my childhood: 1) Mom wants to empty her ashtray and get a new soda water. Goes to kitchen with empty glass and full ashtray, returns empty-handed. Remembers was going to get drink, goes back to fridge... WHO MADE DIS HORRIBLE MESS??? (Hungarian accent) - turns out she'd opened the fridge to get the drink and instead, tossed the contents of the ashtray into it! |
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Subject: RE: The Brain Fairy From: SDShad Date: 23 May 01 - 02:10 PM Oh, I'm well familiar with the Brain Fairy. Hides my hair ties around my wrist, my car keys in my left pants pocket (as I usually keep them in the right). But worst of all, at the Gospel Buckaroos' gig on Earth Day recently, the Brain Fairy changed around the order of the verses of a song that I wrote!. The nerve. S. |
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