BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!

Subject: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:59 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/anthrax_inhaled;_ylt=AnPPs5Ggch6Irk5534gqDY.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 09:00 PM

or your bodhran

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 09:11 PM

This is indeed a matter of national, nay, international import-ance.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 10:07 PM

This is worth a song challenge.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 11:09 PM

Don't wodhrry about youdhr bodhran.

It's your djembe' that the djerms djump from.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 01:42 AM

Anthrax song by Donuel

: to the (quick toe tappin tempo and) tune by Martin Mull 'Jesus is Easy;

I paid a toll,
I got some change,
I went to town and bought some stuff and then I took the train
I ate a burger, a soda, and crap I shouldnt oughta ,
cuz now I got the anthrax and I'm wondrin where its from...

[CHORUS]
Anthrax is easy if you're startin to sneeze your gonna wonder if you'll ever grow old.
Anthrax is easy cuz its cured with Cipro and not contagious like SARS my stars - not contagious like the uncommon cold

I went to work,
and like a jerk,
I used the water fountain and got somthin on my shirt and in a letter,
I opened, I really should know better,
but Ed McMann just said I'd won and now I'm wondrin where its from .. .

(chorus)

I came right home ,
I used the phone,
I called my doc in quarantine and asked him for some pills and in the bathroom, later,
I used some toilet paper now I've got a sore not there before I'm wondrin where its from.

( chorus)

I watched the news,
took off my shoes,
I took a shower for an hour then I went to bed but in my dreams,
I screamed , the duct tape burst its seams,
We're told we should beware the air you don't know where its been

(chorus)

In the morning,
I got changed,
I went to town and bought some stuff and then I took the train
I ate a pizza,
eclair, and some stuff that had grown hair,
but now I got the anthrax and I'm wondrin where its from...

Anthrax is easy if you're startin to sneeze your gonna wonder if you'll ever grow old. Anthrax is easy cuz its cured with Cipro and not contagious like the uncommon cold - like SARS - not contagious like the uncommon cold [-take it james- piano riff-],,I'm telling ya they make buggers...[-more piano-]...like anthrax,,, every wheeeeere. cough cough cough

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Paul Burke
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:49 AM

Will we get terrorists sending bodhrans to US senators now? Do you think they'll guess what's in the package before they open it?

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:19 AM

The article did note that the affected bodhranist was doing "better than usual for persons with inhalation anthrax."

What if his better condition is caused by prior exposure and partial immunity built up from his years of beating on his skins?

In case of a terrorist attack could we be left with a world populated only by bodhran players?

Perhaps we all need to go find a friendly goat.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 06:16 AM

well, I went and took the temperature of my bodhran......well, I think it was it's temperature. Seems fine so far.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 06:56 AM

John... "In case of a terrorist attack could we be left with a world populated only by bodhran players?" ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The ultimate revenge for all the shite we put up with!! Of course, because we do so many duets with whistle players, they shall be spared as well.

Mwwwwaaaahahahahahahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Windsinger
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:32 AM

UGH.

Well, of my two bodhráin is need of a new drum-head...I WAS gonna repair it myself. :P

But if that's the way of it, some flunky in the local music shop can take the damned risk. God knows where those commercial hides come from.

Slán,

~Fionn

www.geocities.com/children_of_lir

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Windsinger
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:33 AM

(sorry, that should have read "one of my two.")

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 08:00 AM

Well as Anthrax is white and my bodhráin are red am I safe? - or will it give a nose bleed?

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:10 AM

Are there any records of people contracting inhalation anthrax from Mylar-skinned drums? I can't find any information on the Net, but it would seem pretty unlikely since it sounds like the anthrax spores are soil-born and Mylars live their entire lives without ever coming into contact with the soil. The soil in the higher altitudes of the Himalayas where drumskin-grade Mylars are trapped is buried under thick permanent ice sheets.

That's not to say that one couldn't become infected by using the skins of the inferior grade Hawaiian Mylar (nasty beasts with dreadful toilet habits), but any drum-maker who would use Hawaiian Mylar skins deserves to die anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodrhan!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:51 AM

How did that happen? Musta hit the wrong button.

Mr Red... depends on how hard ya beat them.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Bert
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 01:56 PM

To the tune of Botany Bay

Me Bodhran just come down with Anthrax
Me Whistle has got the bird flu
Me Banjo's got WestNile virus
And me Harmonica fell down the lou.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:35 PM

Bee-dubya-ell

Unconfirmed reports indicate that the mylar is a recently derived result of genetic manipulation of an unknown precursor animal. The original experimenter who created this mutant species apparently had prior employment in the "sex toy" industry and reportedly is in hiding and inaccessible due to threatened prosecution in several jurisdictions associated with his earlier research. It is thus impossible to obtain sufficient of the original research notes to assess the safety or stability of the species.

The wild mylars found in the Himalayas reportedly are the offspring of test animals that escaped during the creator's flight from prosecution on earlier charges. Other populations appear to exist, as mylar hides come from numerous areas; but consistency of mutant strains is poorly assessed.

The critical factor to be considered is that, as a recently created, manipulated, specie, the mylar is subject to frequent and rapid mutation, and may in fact already have assimilated mutatant genetic components via crossing with undesirable infectious agents affecting humans.

The exact form of the infection transmitted to humans is still a subject of debate in scientific circles, but the claim has been made that persons frequently exposed to mylar skins have been observed as incorporating "plastic" performance elements in their use of the skins, possibly as a result of having their genetic structure affected by the well know plasticalis obsenicus moderniroculus organism.

Further research pending.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Epona
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:57 PM

I like that, Bert.

E

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Kaleea
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:38 PM

Mine was made a few years ago in Texas, by Albert Alfonzo. A couple of weeks after I talked to him about the details of having it made, he called me to let me know that it would be a bit late. Seems he'd just gotten out of the hospital, having contracted a nasty sickness from the goat skins-born, raised & skinned domestically in the USA. It evidently took a bit of digging for the Dr's to figure that one out. Not bird flu, by the way, just something which happens sometimes as a reaction to breathing or ingesting little bits from the skins.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:28 PM

I'll stick to Nauga. In fact, I have been known to stick to Naugahide.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Bert
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:32 PM

Save the Naugas!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:51 PM

Just catching up--

He had collapsed after performing last week with his dance company, Kotchegna, at the Steadman Theatre in Mansfield, Pa., according to Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Dr. Calvin B. Johnson.

That's where WE are-- Mansfield! Been to Steadman many times.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Bert
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:52 PM

So YOU did it Susan;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:58 PM

Alert on student email from the Mansfield University system:

Information on Anthrax Incident

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To Campus Community Members,

          A member of the Kotchegna Dance Company which performed at Mansfield last Thursday, February 16, has been diagnosed with anthrax.

          Health officials have determined this to be an isolated case involving only the artist.

          The artist, from New York City, is stable at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre. There is no danger to campus or community members.

         For more information on the anthrax situation check online at http://www.mansfield.edu/news/story/default.cfm?SID=756

            Again, there is no danger to campus or community members.

David Werner
Interim President

Background:

The artist travels to Africa each year to collect animal skins that he tans and uses for his drum heads. Health officials believe that he inhaled anthrax spores while working on the skins during the tanning process in his shop in New York City.

Health officials say that the tanning process kills the anthrax spores and the drums that the artist used during the performance were not contaminated.

Health officials also say that this type of anthrax is not spread by touch.

**********************************************************

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 08:28 AM

gnu

do you use gnu hide?

BTW my bodhrain are stained with the blood of people who tell bodhrain jokes.................................

But I usually wait for a few of the bodhran jokes to pass and suck them in with the one that starts

"And what's the difference between a bodhran and a gaenocologist"

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 01:34 PM

Okay, I'll bite. "What's the difference between a bodhran and a gaenocologist"?

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 10:12 PM

My wife won't let me have one. She says they mess in the house and can't be housebroken.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 10:23 PM

I heard that about gaenocologists. Ya'd think not, but, hey, women know these things.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 12:37 AM

Unfortunately, the gentleman in question has taken a turn for the worse. He is reported to be having severe breathing problems.

Subject: RE: BS: Beware Your Bodhran!!!!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:23 AM

gnu - it has something to do with the gaena- (however it it is spelled) only having to deal with one at a time.........

cue toilet seat and the more polite drum seat versions.