BS: Is Bill Sables?

Subject: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 02:17 PM

A closet melodeon player?? Does he sneek off to the NETTY late at night to finger his buttons and surreptiously practice Morris Tunes? ( Remembering to wash his hands afterwards). Is his Banjo playing a smoke screen for his true musical bent???

I think we should be TOLD.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 02:19 PM

Whats a NETTY?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 02:30 PM

Its an Outside Kharsi !!!! ..Micca(at Cobbles)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 02:39 PM

Cheers Micca.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 02:43 PM

Talking of netties is 'Wor Geordies lost his penka' in the DT?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 02:57 PM

Bill is a true gentleman so I guess he can play the melodeon
but doesn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: nutty
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:13 PM

GEORDIE'S PENKER is indeed in the DT

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Fortunato
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:15 PM

Hey Micca, whats a Kharsi? Is it food for the ravenous insect in this Ogden Nash parody:

A hungry termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why sweet Ely May
Fell through the outhouse floor today.


Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Chance

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:23 PM

A Kharsi is an outside toilet, we call it a bog round ere!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:26 PM

Fortunato; thread creep - or didn't you read the REALLy REALLY IMPORTANT POEM thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:30 PM

Unfortunately, John in Hull just built a new one and it seems to not be working out well for him. Wanting to outdo the world of outhouses, he went all out! It's a beautiful little structure, all brick and very quaint looking. The problem arose, so to speak, when he opted for his own idea.....a two story outhouse. John, being somewhat fearful of heights has been using the lower level, but it's been a messy affair.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: bobbi
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:34 PM

Ohhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! An OUTHOUSE...

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 03:39 PM

LOL Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 04:02 PM

Well, he wasn't "in the closet" about it, at my house. Not watercloset, nor outhouse.**BG**

Click HERE, first photo is Bill and his "buttonbox!"

Loved hearing it, too!:-)

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 04:54 PM

'Spaw, John in Hull didn't invent it. If you just consult your handy copy of Vanishing American Outhouse: a history of country plumbing (Windmill Pub, 1989), that jolly little book of privy plans, photographs, poems, and folklore, you'll see some very good pictures.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 06:33 PM

Aha, this explains why Micca hasn't answered his phone for 3 days.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 06:47 PM

Spaw, John in Hull has discovered what so many others with two story outhouses have discovered. It isn't the operation that gets you but the overhead....

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 08:29 PM

Playing Patrish'e guitar tonight at the Jug! She didn't bring her melodeon!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 08:45 PM

Hollowfox, I haven't seen the book, but somehow, when I made the joke. I had a feeling there probably was one or two about.........Truth is always stranger than fiction!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 09:41 PM

Hey, Bill that melodeon in Kats pic is COBBLES, you swine, are you all bloody thieves in Yorkshire?. my tankard, Cobbles Melodeon, Erics wooly comforter, what next?? is there no end to this perfidy???.Theyd have the milk out of your tea and come back for the sugar.....( oh and thanks for a wonderful evening at the Jug!!!! good singing... and not too much melodeon..:o)) Spaw, we have just found a warehouse where John in Hull can bulk buy Kharsi paper and cleaning materials , and Liz.... and the horse!!!!! or a meringue..??? the mystery guest (at Cobbles)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Noreen
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 09:58 PM

You're up late, micca...

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 11:03 PM

Get to bed Noreen Miccas lying in bed in a drunken Cider induced stupor.

Good night Noreen Cobble.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Aug 01 - 11:14 PM

Privy, too. Cletus can probably supply John in Hull with corn cobs. Make sure thay are sealed in the original packaging before accepting them.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Tig
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 07:59 AM

IS Bill Sables ever going to take out his musical saw again. He could always use it to saw holes in some of the accordians!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: John Routledge
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:00 AM

Went to a session last night with fiddles flutes pipes etc. 35 people and only one melodeon which did not arrive till 10.30pm. Did we have a good night!!!

Happy music to EVERYONE John

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 11:08 AM

I think its time the melodeons fought back!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: John Routledge
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 01:16 PM

The price of peace is eternal vigilance *BG* *GB*

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 01:22 PM

Jane.... Have they got the Wind for it???????

Cobble

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 03:33 PM

I keep telling you lot, it's not melodeons you don't like it's melodeon tunes. They also make a handy doorstop.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: nutty
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 03:38 PM

Or a fashionable pitch pipe!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:50 PM

I see Bill as not answered these deep and probing questions yet have we hit the nail on the head????

Cobble minus guest gone home.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 07:27 AM

No he's just in the netty practising!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Alice
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:11 AM

Bill made no secret of his melodeon playing while in Montana. It is good for repelling grizzly bears and taming buffalo.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: GUEST,Bills netty attendant
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:20 AM

I can confirm to copious amounts of melodeon playing in the netty, particularly winster gallop, which appears to be Bills favoutite

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: bill\sables
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 02:56 PM

Bollocks to the last one

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Micca
Date: 12 Aug 01 - 09:21 AM

Maybe he is just on the inter-netty? playing his melodeon ,in private, and washing his hands afterwards?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Aug 01 - 10:25 AM

Ian and Sam work with a banjo, guitar and melodeon player called Bill Sables in the line-up Sables, Pirt & Stephenson (which has recently done a two week tour of America).
Quote from BBC 2 interview with Sam Pirt for 422. If the BBC say he is then he must be!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Aug 01 - 11:52 AM

Thread drift alert. But, talking of outhouses - here's a link to Lem Putt' masterpiece, The Specialist.

You've heard a lot of pratin' and prattlin' about this bein' the age of specialization. I'm a carpenter by trade. At one time I could of built a house, barn, church, or chicken coop. But I seen the need of a specialist in my line, so I studied her. I got her, she's mine. Gentlemen, you are face to face with the champion privybuilder of Sangamon County.

Tha was the opening paragrpah - now click on and read the rest if you haven't already.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: mouldy
Date: 12 Aug 01 - 01:06 PM

My dad used to have a copy of that. I wonder what happened to it? T'wasn't with the effects at my mum's. Perhaps it got used in the khasi...

By the way, Micca, I have found the Rubbermat!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: GUEST,CLETUS
Date: 12 Aug 01 - 01:35 PM

Hey Mr. Bill......Weeuns jez got back frum beein on the roed fer a spell. We wuz hopin ta make it big in the portable pottie biznus but we dun went belly up agin. We hadduz a bunch uv problemz an now "Crappers 'R Us" ain't in biznus no mor. We lost our last outhouse when the block we had a holtin the the wheelz dun let go an it went rollin off.

Paw likes ta play on hiz harmonica when he lets fly and I tell ya, it wuz a site ta beholt cuz Paw wuzza usin her at the time. I tell ya' it wuz rite funny with Paw sittin there trine ta steer it by scoochin his butt back an forth and blowin' reel loud on his harp at the same time. He wernt doin to bad til he got her off the assfalt and hit that row uv scrub cedar which started her ta flippin.

Ennyway we come on home heer an I hope yall woant menshun nun uv thizzeer ta Paw when he gitz heer cuz hiz privetz iz still rite sensitive after awhizzin thru them cedar treez......and he dun lost hiz harmonica.

CLETUS

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 12 Aug 01 - 06:43 PM

Hey Mouldy, what's this about a rubber mat. Micca never said anything about that.

Cobble.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Micca
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:43 AM

Cobble, it was the Rubbermat of Old Mark Hyam...We were talking about it in your presence, the one I said fits the tune of Hernandos hidaway

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 07:36 AM

And I thought it was a new kind of instrument.

Cobble.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:21 AM

I've been speaking to his netty attendant and despite what he says "Winster Gallop" is his all time favourite, with "Donkey Riding" a close second
Patrish xx

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:22 AM

(You know Bill, people only extract the michael from those they love)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: bill\sables
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:23 AM

Micca and Cobble, have you two old buggers nothing better to do than waste your time writing to each other on this thread? What about Micca writing a miserable song and Cobble singing it. See you both Wednesday.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 11:19 AM

SSSSSH!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: bill\sables
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 11:34 AM

It's OK Mrs Duck, They both know me well enough to know I am just winding them up.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Cobble
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 07:20 PM

I dont wind up easily, I dont I tell you, why me, why are you picking on me I did'nt do it, Micca help me what did I do wrong. Oh well its back to the tablets, men in white coat's, I can't go on.

Wobble.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Bill Sables?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 06:21 PM

No don't wind them up Bill otherwise they'll keep going forever. I was merely requesting hush about the appearance of the Green man of Plaistow. No that can't be right the Green man is in Leytonstone!