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Help name an Irish band

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dani 27 Feb 98 - 03:20 PM
Alan of Australia 27 Feb 98 - 05:55 PM
Joe Offer 27 Feb 98 - 06:04 PM
Dan Mulligan 27 Feb 98 - 06:26 PM
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Art Thieme 27 Feb 98 - 07:28 PM
BAZ 27 Feb 98 - 08:04 PM
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Alex 28 Feb 98 - 12:11 AM
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Jack mostly folk 28 Feb 98 - 11:11 AM
Ralph Butts 28 Feb 98 - 03:15 PM
Dan Mulligan 28 Feb 98 - 04:00 PM
leprechaun 28 Feb 98 - 04:17 PM
schmidt@paddy.de 28 Feb 98 - 05:38 PM
dwditty 01 Mar 98 - 06:49 AM
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Art Thieme 01 Mar 98 - 11:01 AM
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Tim O'Kane 01 Mar 98 - 02:13 PM
Martin Ryan 02 Mar 98 - 05:44 AM
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Subject: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 06:05 PM

Hi

I know this isn't a song request..... but just between us friends........ We're trying to think of a name for an Irish / Australian band. (2 fellas, 1 girl playing a mixture of Irish, Celtic and Aussie stuff.)

I can't think of anything that hasn't already been used.

Anyone got any suggestions????

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From:
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 07:12 PM

Aboriginal Gaels?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: John Nolan
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 07:22 PM

Paddy Spade and the Diggers


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: John Nolan
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 07:26 PM

Green Kangaroo


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 08:49 PM

Gaelic Breath, or Gaelic Bread (I guess this would work better for an Italian/Irish band... 'garlic') alice


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 12:18 AM

Hi,

Yes, this is the sort of stuff I'm looking for..... Keep the suggestions coming.

If it makes a difference, I'm the Irish one and the two blokes are Aussie. Any variations on "Paddy Spade and the Diggers"??

It got my 4 year old running into the room to see what I was laughing at!!!

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bert
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 09:48 AM

AussieMurphies
HarpanRoo


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 10:02 AM

Guinness and Foster

alice


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 01:59 PM

Celtic 'roo(t)s?

Regards


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Tim O'Kane
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 02:52 PM

St. Patrick and the Snakecharmers

Be sure to let us know what the "winner" is ...


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: MM
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 03:34 PM

Van Demons?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 04:19 PM

Koala Celts

alice


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bruce O.
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 04:32 PM

Shamrock and the Eucalyptuses


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 04:33 PM

Blarney From the Bush


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 04:34 PM

Irish Rose and the Dingoes

alice


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 04:41 PM

Nightingaels of Oz

....Tiger


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 04:54 PM

I don't know how my "Blarney From the Bush" got posted twice, but here's another one:
Colleen and the Convicts

Alison, this is all too much fun.... hard to concentrate on work when there's a thread like this going on.

alice, mt (btw, my middle name is Colleen)


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 05:06 PM

Foster Green
Harp & Foster
Celtic Dust Devils
Foster's Shamrocks
Oz 'n Green
The Penal Colony
Globespanners
From Oz to Here

......Tiger


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 06:19 PM

alison, you did say you used to live in Belfast??

The Belfast Outback
Wild Irish Wallabies
Shamrock & Shears
Celtic Kookaburra Band

alice


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: David
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 08:17 PM

Wild Colonial Ramblers


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Whippoorwill
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 10:18 AM

What about Emerald? (As in City and Isle)


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Paul Stamler
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 01:47 PM

Wallaby Stew

I also like "Harp and Foster", but think it works even better as "Foster and Harp".
Peace. Paul


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 02:09 PM

"Colleen and Bruce" (Would give you the chance to do a little comedy on stage about which of the blokes is Bruce. But this name is not suitable if you want to become famous and go solo.)

Isn't there a place called Ayer's Rock? How about "Ayer's Shamrock"?

"New South Ireland"

"St. Patrick's in Fall"

"Emerald" is easily the cleverest so far, but I needed the explanation. Maybe you could write a song--"I went from Ireland to Oz, Emerald Isle to Emerald City..."


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: dani
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 03:20 PM

Alison, I cannot for the life of me find the song I'm thinking of - neither in my head or the DT, but I'm sure I heard it on Fiona Ritchie's show. It was about the Irish going to Australia and how they pined for the home, trying to fit into a strange land. The refrain was haunting; something to do with green threads among the gold. Maybe there's an idea in it.

I have the great good fortune to be on my way to the beach - perhaps in the quiet it'll come to me!


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 05:55 PM

G'day,
Lots of good suggestions here, working out which not to use will be a problem.

We have sung as a duo: "Foster and Alison", but the bass player might feel a bit left out if we don't find a new name.

Cheers,
Alan Foster


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 06:04 PM

Gee, Alan - Alison didn't mention that you were included in this band. Maybe you'd better check and see who's going to be left out....
-Joe Offer-


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Dan Mulligan
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 06:26 PM

Tie Me Leprechaun Down


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Dan Mulligan
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 06:28 PM

Step Dancing With Matilda


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 07:04 PM

hi,

This is better than I could have hoped for. Thanks everyone, let's keep'em coming.

Joe, of course Alan is in the band, (we're in 2 bush-bands and a duo together).... the other bloke is Eric....

Alice, Yes I did live in Belfast.... loved the Wild Irish Wallabies, by the way.

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 07:28 PM

THE PADDYPUS BAND

art thieme


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: BAZ
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 08:04 PM

I'm not sure about a name but you could get some tunes from AborigO'Neill's music of Australia and Ireland.

Good Luck
BAZ


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Dan Mulligan
Date: 27 Feb 98 - 11:47 PM

digeridoo-ral-loo-ral-aye (sp?)


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alex
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 12:11 AM

McAlpine's Diggers Austral O' Pithicus Bruce, Al, O' Sis

How about a serious one - since you are from opposite ends of the planet. ANTIPODES.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Jaxon
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 10:05 AM

How about Aisling or The Real Sessiuns?

Jack


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Jack mostly folk
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 11:11 AM

Downunder Celtic Band or Celtic Downunder


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 03:15 PM

If I ever have to name MY band, I'll know where to go......Tiger


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Dan Mulligan
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 04:00 PM

Alison, I think "Wild Irish Wallabies" Is the best one so far. Dan


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: leprechaun
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 04:17 PM

I liked the idea about tying that leprechaun down.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: schmidt@paddy.de
Date: 28 Feb 98 - 05:38 PM

I know - I'm late, but here are a few ideas more:

Outback Band The shark in the morning :-)) Crocodile Dundalk Finnegan's Snake Van O'Dieman's Whiskey & Rum Irish Skippies


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: dwditty
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 06:49 AM

The Paddywackers
Spuds & Suds
Lucky Devils
G'Day Micks
Crocodile Dubliner
Guiness Gracious
Spuds on the Barby
Blarney Blokes

DW


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: dwditty
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 06:57 AM

Nick Knack & The Paddywacks


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 11:01 AM

the PADDY-MELONS

For years I've loved Banjo Patterson's poem _Santa Claus In The Bush_. But I had no idea what a "paddy-melon" was. Now I've been told it's a smallish kangaroo. Is that true? The poem NEEDS a good tune from someone. But that'd have to be cleared with the publisher of _The Collected Verse Of A.B. Patterson_ (Angus and Robertson) Last I knew they were at 89 Castlereigh Street---Sydney Art Thieme


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Iwashere2 (aka Joey)
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 02:05 PM

How about 'The Whifflin Whirligigs'.

(Sounds both Irish and Australian to me, and fun as can be.)


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Tim O'Kane
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 02:13 PM

The Tasmanian Banshees, although it's a mouthful


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 05:44 AM

I love "The Shark in the Morning"! Whatever about the name of the band, there's great potential for the tunes whose names no one remembers! How about "The Bard in the Bush"?

Regards


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bert
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 08:47 AM

How about 'DoubleCross' and tying in the celtic cross with the southern cross on you logo?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 09:19 AM

Has anyone suggested "My Wild Irish 'Roos?"


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ireland O'Reilly
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 04:11 PM

Why don'tcha call it "Shamrock Pub"? crazy, no? how about "Fianna Fail"? or "Finn MacCool"?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 09:59 PM

Well, if you could get an Argentinian or a cowboy into the band I'd suggest The All Beef Paddies, but I guess Australia is better known for sheep.

Do you want a funny name or a serious name? Maybe The Fatal Shore, after the book of that name. Shillelagh Law? (See Finnegan's Wake) Or The Whacking Sheilas (as in "whacking shillelaghs", from Arthur McBride) Sheila and the Shillelaghs?

Sheel-na-Jig? (as in sheel-na-gig) (see Wonderbra thread, perhaps)Or Sheila Jig, I suppose. Summer In The Wintertime?

Mutton Accordian? Dingle Dingos? Wombats of Wexford?

Your theme song should be The World Turned Upside Down.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: BK
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 10:42 PM

The song Dani refers to is "Green Among the Gold" (1991 Steve and Rosalind Barnes). One recording is on the CD "Emigrant Eyes" by Geraldine and Danny Doyle on the Rego label, R-3018. This CD is one of my very favorites. Listen to the song, it may suggest a name something like "Green & Gold." (Also my high school colors, yuck!)

Cheers, BK


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: belter
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 10:58 PM

how about these

The star of the outback - you could do a vairiant of star of the county down

the emerald conteneers


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bo
Date: 03 Mar 98 - 05:21 AM

If you're serious I would go with "Celtic Dreamtime" or Eirin's Walkabout

Crockodile DunCow Didgeri Dublin Spuds & Mutton Shorn & Shilaliegh

or

Aussi Eirin Jive from which you could all claim an initial.

Bo

Cheers.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ireland O'Reilly
Date: 03 Mar 98 - 01:28 PM

Tim Jacques: Wombats of Wexford??? what's a wombat, really. i'm curious.

Personally, i like "my wild irish 'roos". very amusin'


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 03 Mar 98 - 06:26 PM

Hi

what a wonderful bunch of people there are out there.... and quite a few twisted ones too!!!!

I loved all the suggestions especially Wild Irish Wallabies, and Crocodile Dundalk, (unfortunately the fellas didn't think the Aussies would get this....), I liked Double-cross too....

BUT THE WINNER..... (for the time being ... unless we get a better one so this is not an official end to this thread.. feel free to keep the suggestions coming).....IS........ (we need a fanfare or a drum roll here)............. Celtic Dreamtime(thanks Bo).

Thanks again for all your effort, it's been great fun.

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
Date: 03 Mar 98 - 08:35 PM

I've never laid eyes on a wombat, but understand it to be an Australian critter, a kind of marsupial. I think they are small harmless beasts that scurry about in the night, although for all I know there are wombats that grow as big as grizzly bears. The only marsupials we get around here are possums, a public nuisance that have been making their wicked way up from the US and sneaking into the few warm spots we have in the country.

The coolest critter in Australia has to be the flying fox.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Dan K
Date: 03 Mar 98 - 08:58 PM

If you know your Irish folklore you'll appreciate this one: The Hounds of Ulster


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 03 Mar 98 - 11:54 PM

Hi,

You're right a wombat is a marsupial. They crawl along on all fours and grow to about the size of a coffee table. They have wiry hair and long claws which they use to burrow. They are quite cute and seem to spend most of the time asleep because it's too hot to do anything else, (an Aussie will probably correct me and tell me that they're nocturnal.... I'm not sure.) The clever thing is though... they have pouches like a kangaroo, but the pouch faces towards their back legs, so that when they are digging the pouch doesn't get full of dirt!!! Clever eh??!!

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Helen
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 06:34 AM

The sad thing about wombats is that I have only ever seen one live one in the wild, but I've seen way too many dead ones on the sides of the roads. They are slow walkers, minding their own business, living quiet lives, and are therefore too slow to get out of the way of speeding cars.

Helen


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ireland O'Reilly
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 09:27 AM

I'm enlightened now about wombats! Thanks a heap, everybody!


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: aldus
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 09:37 AM

contarf, after the battle in which briab boru defeated the vikings.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: aldus
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 12:52 PM

CONTARF/THE BATTLE AT WHICH BRIAN BORU DEFEATED THE VIKINGS. IT MIGHT MAKE A GOOD NAME FOR A BAND


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bruce O.
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 04:03 PM

Have you ever heard what a kangaroo's foot can do on a bodhran?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Frank in the Swamps
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 05:06 PM

Bruce O. A kangaroos foot on a bodhran? Alan should write a song about it. I've gotta remember "Gaelic breath". I also like Tie me Leprechaun down. Leprechaun, what's your gender? Maybe we can work out an arrangement.

I love the way Mudcat threads can take off in unforeseen directions.

Frank.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 05:22 PM

G'day,
A wombat is like a travel(l)ing salesman: it eats roots and leaves.

Cheers,
Alan


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Corinna
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 06:04 PM

ROFL Tied leprechauns, paddypus, and suds on the barby...late to the party but Shillelagh Sheila and the Waltzing Wallabies, Colleen Belfast and the Bush Band Blokes, Blarney 'n Bush Band, Blarney Kissed (Kist) Outback, and Emerald Walkabout.

p.s. leprechaun and swamp man, the ties that bind...I have a comprehensive book on knots but I'm a bit outta practice...


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 06:22 PM

What do roots have to do with travel(l)ing salespersons? Oh, wait, I think I've got it.

I heard that joke about a giant panda. It dines in a restaurant, and when the waiter brings the bill, the panda draws a gun, shoots him, and walks out. The manager catches up to the panda in the street. "You can't do that!"

The panda takes out a dictionary and shows the manager the entry. "Panda (n). A bearlike mammal native to western China. Eats shoots and leaves."


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bruce O.
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 06:30 PM

Puns are said to be the lowest form of humor. Why do I love them so much?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 07:19 PM

I ran across a page on wombats once that claims that wombats also love chocolate biscuits (cookies-- for those in the US)...and it says that a wombat can run VERY fast for short distances and suggests not getting between a wombat and its chocolate biscuit!

a wombat

a wombat running directly at the camera

(you see what several hundred thousand bytes of bookmarks and an addiction to search engines can do!! *smile*)


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 07:27 PM

try that again...had too many https in the address..(see what careless cutting & pasting can do?)

a wombat running directly at the camera


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: leprechaun
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 10:06 PM

Thanks for the offer Frank in the Swamps, but Alison started this thread and if anybody gets to tie me down it'll be her.

Leprechaun in the Suburbs


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 04 Mar 98 - 10:17 PM

hi,

Thanks for the offer Leprechaun..... By the way you never did tell me what part of the world you are from... I'm assuming that Ireland is too obvious an answer.

It never fails to amaze me how these threads digress, there I am asking for names of bands and we end up with discussions on wildlife and offers of bondage!! Mudcat is brill!!!!!!!!

Oh and in case you haven't already guessed "root" has a completely different meaning here in Oz.

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: The Fenian
Date: 05 Mar 98 - 07:40 AM

Howabout you think of your own name it would mean more to you if you go anywhere. Someone asks what your name means you reply I don't know just somethin' I picked up off the internet. I don't think sos


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Ireland O'Reilly
Date: 05 Mar 98 - 07:47 AM

Bill D. : amazin'.... I know some people who're like wombats...you shouldn't come between them and a chocolate biscuit! I'm gettin' all I ever needed to know about wombats & more!

Okay, since we're supposed to be namin' an Irish band, here's another... "Riordan" Apparently, this is a Celtic word that means "Royal Bard"

Leprechaun: ARE you from Ireland?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bo
Date: 05 Mar 98 - 02:11 PM

I think it woud be fun to put together a commonwealth band with people from every culture but england. You could do a great album loyalist and rebel songs.

bo


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Sully
Date: 05 Mar 98 - 10:48 PM

Here's an idea, Alison. You say you like the "Wild Irish Wallibies", well how bout' lumpin' the whole Celtic/ Australian thing into something like:

The Wild Islanders or some kind of geographical spin on it

Slawn augus.

Sully


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 05 Mar 98 - 11:30 PM

hi Fenian,

We did think of some names ourselves but we thought it'd be fun to ask for other ideas, and from the amount of replies we've got I reckon the others thought it was fun too.

...and if someone asks me where we got our name... just think of the plug we can do for Mudcat.

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: leprechaun
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 12:46 AM

My grandfather was from County Tipperary, but I'm a native Oregonian. More band names - Diaspora, Colleen and the Koalas


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Sheye
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 10:31 AM

Late joining, I've been traipsing out-of-country for the past month.

I haven't had a TV for several months now and folks have asked me if I miss it. Are you kidding?? 52 channels with nothing on them - do miss the Olympics, though. And, my hunger for intelligent dialog and humour whilst staring at a monitor is quelled by you folks. (Never begin a sentence with a preposition, or is that propositition, leprechaun??)

Must babble, been away too long.

Way, to go Alison - excellent thread!! I liked Shamorck and Shears and The Bard in the Bush. Is the double entendre of that second one universal??

Speaking of double meanings, Australia has a teacher exchange program with Canada. One tale that came back to my Division was that of a young Canadian teacher that was at a high school rally and suggested to her students that they go out in full force and "root for the boys"!

Alison, I've tried to pick this up on the side, but my curiousity is outweighing my risk of embarrassment: What does "slainte" mean?

Later, Sheye


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 10:45 AM

OLYMPIC UPDATE!!

Picabo Street, after winning her GOLD, donated it to her local hospital so an Intensive Care Unit could be established. They named it after her. It's called the Picabo I.C.U. !!! Art


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bo
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 10:59 AM

Hi Alison,

I'd be tickled if you go with 'Celtic Dreamtime'. If you do, you can add to you influences a, Biafran born, Dutch Canadian lending two words to an Aussie Irish Band. : )

I really like the conflagration of countries, the borrowing of backgrounds, the knitting together of nationalities the.... (you get the idea.)

Bo


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bruce O.
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 11:46 AM

Ausian Osains?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Bruce O.
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 11:48 AM

Whoops, Osians


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 06 Mar 98 - 06:47 PM

hi Sheye,

Slainte is gaelic for your good health, (a bit like cheers).

Slainte

Alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 99 - 07:28 PM

refresh


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 01:07 AM

refresh (3 years later!)


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 04:12 AM

How about a slight variation on the first returned suggestion from "anonymous"---doesn't "Abigael" or even "Abogael" sound good? Or would it give offence to the Aboriginal folks?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 04:22 AM

How about a slight variation on the first returned suggestion from "anonymous"---doesn't "Abigael" or even "Abogael" sound good? Or would it give offence to the Aboriginal folks?


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Paddy Plastique
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 08:52 AM

Have Isaac MacSkittery and that Derryadd fella finally rowed all the way over ??
Are ye parading them as Aussies to keep them out of Howard's clutches & concentration camps ???
If so, it'd have to be 'Sheila & The Auld Orange Bandicoots'
If they're real Aussies, 'Sheila & the Marsupials'...


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Alice
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 11:09 AM

Please note that this thread was started in 1998. I refreshed it because there is another band naming thread going, and many ideas are in this one.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 06:43 PM

So there I was in reception, rushed over for 4 hours paid work and I waited, & waited & waited and .......
  Reel Ale,----, Pooh Set ,----, Stringulation,----, Burn Dance 
Caller the Wild ,----, Ballet Who?,----, Grey Gordons (Avg age?),----, Stepping Wolf 
Happy Tappers ,----, Strum Pets ,----, Green Go (Irish Tex Mex?),----, Pattern Rosta 
Top Step,----, Pitch Folk ,----, Boureed Treasure ,----, Stepping Tones 
Prattie Knaves ,----, Star Turn,----, Brawl of the Wild,----, Oak Carillon 
Born Dancing ,----, Slip Jug,----, Repeat Ye Sinners,----, Quay Personnel
Beats Me ,----, Beat Oven ,----, Fleadh,----, Fleadh Away ,----, Chorea Move
Munster Mash ,----, Hone Pipe,----, Back the Other Whey ,----, Shilly Shanty
Duple City ,----, Slap Jig ,----, Cygnet Your Tune,----, Forehand Reel
Differ Rant ,----, Single Base,----, Moos Through the Fayre,----, Shannon Door
Bow Tight,----, Perma Rant,----, Moutains of Moon,----, Count Me Inn
Miss Stew,----, Ballad Ears ,----, American Kerrymen,----, Bairn Dance
Reel Liable ,----, Bow People,----, Meddlesome Fiddle,----, Fiddle de de
Bad Sallad ,----, Ballet Huge,----, Bar Bar Slack Beep,----, Sarah Nade 
After 3,----, Dance On,----, the Promenaders,----, Any Old Fuel 
Melody On,----, Rib Band,----, London Derriere,----, Clove of Gaelic
Dozy DOH!,----, Bal Ants,----, Dance of the Lord,----, Clef For Me
Circle-ation,----, Sir Casian,----, Cross Hand Hold,----, Imp Proper
3 Time Blueser ,----, Clef Face,----, Da Bodhran Ron,----, Alley Mander
Capo di Monti ,----, Slip & Sligo,----, Hard Shoe Shuffle,----, Making Hey
Hoes Down,----, Happylation,----, 2 Short Planxties ,----, Long Wise Set
Start Urn,----, Liffey Little,----, Mountain Green Hairy ,----, Treble at Mill
Hopper, Bopper & Cholmondley (pronounced Chumly)
Jiggety (jigget - Jig; hop or jerk about; shake up and down.

And did I get any work? see above.


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: alison
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 01:41 AM

I LOVE "da bodhran ron"... howeever the original name still stands

Celtic Dreamtime is alive and well... although different people now.....

slainte

alison


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Subject: RE: Help name an Irish band
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 03:26 AM

whatever name they get, be sure to have lingerie printed up (further details from InOBU in this silly thread)


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