Doesn't often sparkle here these days, does it?

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:00 pm

G#Gill;1317456 wrote: You clever little Noo Joiseyite

:wah::wah: I'm just a Joysee gull Gill, but I try:p

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:08 pm

AussiePam;1317464 wrote: Morning all. And it's midwinter / midsummer solstice! OK, in Australia, Fuzzy's grass is probably sparkling with frost (mine is just wet), while in America, tomorrow, Kathy's beach will be sparkling with sunshine. Kathy will be putting ice in her cosmo. AussiePam will be joining a bunch of mates in the pub this evening where there will be a roaring log fire (I'm digging out some holly and ivy type Chrissie decs to take along). BUT FIRST ===== I gotta skid onto the thin ice of this chilly Monday morning, COFFEEEEEE!!

(PS Think I caught a glimpse of Chezzie!!! )

Damn...You always catch me putting ice in my cosmos Pam:wah:

Have a wonderful winter's day Pam with your mates...ahhhh...sitting by a roaring fire is truly lovely:D

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:18 pm

chonsigirl;1317513 wrote: Heat up some hot cocoa Pam and fuzzy, sounds like a cold winter ahead!

You know chonsi I keep telling everyone it's going to be very very cold this winter and to have snow in March is usually the sign .......but the weather experts think I'm wrong. ( I don't think they venture outside much

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My boys will be enjoying eggnog tonight. (I'm sure my northern hemisphere friends will be impressed I actually made the effort to learn how to make it.)

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:22 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1317549 wrote:

(I'm sure my northern hemisphere friends will be impressed I actually made the effort to learn how to make it.)

Its milk and eggs.

Ill send you the recipe for frozen waffles.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:25 pm

And brandy, geesh!!!

Nah got those in the freezer. All set there. Ice cream, waffles and caramel topping with just a dash of grated chocolate. My boys love me.:wah:

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:58 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1317552 wrote: And brandy, geesh!!!

Nah got those in the freezer. All set there. Ice cream, waffles and caramel topping with just a dash of grated chocolate. My boys love me.:wah:

bribing is always the way to their hearts!:yh_rotfl

We'll sit by a fire and sip that brandy.:-6

It's only 30C here!:wah:

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:04 pm

I'm no good after twenty five celcius. I could never live in Queensland or upper NSW's. The humidity would be the death of me.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:22 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1317563 wrote: I'm no good after twenty five celcius. I could never live in Queensland or upper NSW's. The humidity would be the death of me.

omg it is very hot there, there is nooooooooo way I could handle that.

I`m good at 23C!:wah:

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:25 pm

:yh_rotfl give me the coast of the southern oceans anytime:yh_rotfl

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:56 pm

Did you know that the vuvuzela plays one note only, and it's Bb !!! I think there is something in that for all of us!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:02 pm

:wah: Boy, don't give Nomad one of those!

Dixie · Post by **Dixie** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:04 pm

AussiePam;1317581 wrote: Did you know that the vuvuzela plays one note only, and it's Bb !!! I think there is something in that for all of us!

It is impossible to play the National Anthem on a vuvuzela as someone has normally shoved it up your ..... before the second verse.

(from someone's tweet).

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:48 pm

Dixie;1317595 wrote: It is impossible to play the National Anthem on a vuvuzela as someone has normally shoved it up your ..... before the second verse.

(from someone's tweet).

Of course the Australian National Anthem actually usually* has more than one note in it anyway, but the point you make is worth noting, Dixie, nonetheless. Single-noting.

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A muso friend, who plays the fiddle, complained - for a different reason - about my vuvuzela statement. He contended that I, as a flute player, naturally preferred Bb as the note 'an sich', but he was rooting for A#. Then we argued about whether the single note had been extracted from the scale of Bb (or A#) major, or Bb (A#) minor, or for that matter from any scale where the note of the first part or the note of the second part might have occurred. Such trivialities may seem like nit picking to the philistines in our midst, but they carry immense amounts of musical nuance for the enlightened.

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* 'Usually' because at the end of a party, when patriotism is high and so are the singers, anything goes.

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PS Oh heck.. I'm so used to posting now where my favourite smiley is not available that I'd almost forgotten about SNEAKY. This emoticon is the high (yeah !!! high) point of Forum Garden ...:sneaky::sneaky::sneaky:

(Strewth ... that felt good!!!!)

Dixie · Post by **Dixie** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:54 pm

AussiePam;1317598 wrote: Of course the Australian National Anthem actually usually* has more than one note in it anyway, but the point you make is worth noting, Dixie, nonetheless. Single-noting.

Oh more than one note? Could not tell from your Rugby's team singing though.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:24 am

[QUOTE=AussiePam;1317598]

A muso friend, who plays the fiddle, complained - for a different reason - about my vuvuzela statement. He contended that I, as a flute player, naturally preferred Bb as the note 'an sich', but he was rooting for A#. Then we argued about whether the single note had been extracted from the scale of Bb (or A#) major, or Bb (A#) minor, or for that matter from any scale where the note of the first part or the note of the second part might have occurred. Such trivialities may seem like nit picking to the philistines in our midst, but they carry immense amounts of musical nuance for the enlightened.

[QUOTE]

Ah, try it on a stringed instrument, there is a slight variance in pitch. That's why we use vibrato, to cover all contigencies. But a flute is a C instrument, so I will tell you what I think as I learn the clarinet this summer, my first Bb instrument. I will probably sound like the vuvu's at first anyway....:wah:

Dixie · Post by **Dixie** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:49 am

@AussiePam, In hind site, I hope I did not offend you? :-3 I certainly did not mean to.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:57 pm

Not at all, Dixie! I occasionally pretend to know what's going on in the football world - for one's street cred, you know?! - but really I haven't much of a clue. In soccer, I support France. Vive les Bleus!!! (Not that they're doing all that much better than Oz).

Good luck with the clarinet, Chonsi. My son used to play that and I really like the sound. The embouchure will mess a bit with your flute mouth. You do play the flute, don't you? As well as my normal flute, I have an open hole, wooden Irish flute and that's a very Bb type instrument. Grin. I once had a short fiddle with the fiddle. (All of this is kidding of course).

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:03 pm

I worried about embrochure-my son plays the clarinet too. I am being sneaky-he hasn't played in 3 years. I ordered my own clarinet, it should be here any day. I will practice in the mornings while he is gone at work, he will never know. :wah:

It was due to that band teacher wanting me to play the saxophone-I kept telling him no-so we switched instruments and he is learning flute this summer, and he plays the clarinet, so I said I would learn that instrument.

Silliness indeed with us teachers, but the kids like for us to sit with them and play. So it is a fun thing to do.

Oh, a wooden flute. I want one, and think I will ask the native peoples to make me one this fall, when I am out there. I would like to learn to play one of those.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:40 pm

AussiePam;1317581 wrote: Did you know that the vuvuzela plays one note only, and it's Bb !!! I think there is something in that for all of us!

I hope that they don't "catch on". I find the noise of these vulvasuelas *really* ghastly.

Royd Fissure · Post by **Royd Fissure** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:41 pm

Dixie;1317599 wrote: Oh more than one note? Could not tell from your Rugby's team singing though.

Drones do what they have to do - drone.

Royd Fissure · Post by **Royd Fissure** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:43 pm

Bill Sikes;1317734 wrote: I hope that they don't "catch on". I find the noise of these vulvasuelas *really* ghastly.

I need to look up my polari dictionary I think :wah:

Post by **spot** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:10 pm

Bill Sikes;1317734 wrote: I hope that they don't "catch on". I find the noise of these vulvasuelas *really* ghastly.

You sound like a socialite of the worst sort. "Oh you'll never guess, the vuvuselas who moved in last month, really darling they're too much, they both drink like fish..."

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:56 pm

chonsigirl;1317729 wrote: I worried about embrochure-my son plays the clarinet too. I am being sneaky-he hasn't played in 3 years. I ordered my own clarinet, it should be here any day. I will practice in the mornings while he is gone at work, he will never know. :wah:

It was due to that band teacher wanting me to play the saxophone-I kept telling him no-so we switched instruments and he is learning flute this summer, and he plays the clarinet, so I said I would learn that instrument.

Silliness indeed with us teachers, but the kids like for us to sit with them and play. So it is a fun thing to do.

Oh, a wooden flute. I want one, and think I will ask the native peoples to make me one this fall, when I am out there. I would like to learn to play one of those.

Chonsi, this is my pride and joy!!! It's very hard work to play, and sometimes I just lose a note altogether. But the tone... ahhhhh, it's like mellow honey flowing. A flute maker in the Blue Mountains made it for me - out of Queensland redwood.

Bill - I heard that the decibel level of the thing-that-shall-not-be-named is similar to that of an aircraft taking off.

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chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:06 pm

Oh, it is so beautiful Pam. :-4

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:11 pm

To me, the 'thing-that-shall-not-be-mentioned' sounds like a massive swarm of furious hornets ! I really, truly, hope that the rumours that have been bandied about, that these unmentionables are going to be introduced to the UK, are unfounded. That they are just malicious rumours, full stop! Otherwise the sale of paracetamol and the like will go out of the roof ! Gawd 'elpuz all !!! :-5:-5:-5

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:22 pm

Ain't that the truth, Chonsi. I've got a foot joint on order too.

Gilly, a team of reporters from an afternoon Sydney newspaper went out to see if they could buy any. It took them an hour to find a box of one dozen. They took them to Cirular Quay (the main ferry terminal) and got moved on. They were moved on from the Sydney Opera House steps and thrown out of a McDonalds restaurant. They then walked up to the State Parliament House, managed to get them through security (!!) and nobody noticed them at all..... well, I guess that's not that much of a surprise. Will the UK be spared.... GUFFAW. No !! I'm not quite sure what note ratchets play, but perhaps someone will compose a football symphony for vuvus and ratties.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:37 pm

Zapata wishes to know where she might purchase a lepatata so that she might accompany herself on the harmonica, perhaps simultaneously.

Read more: The dreaded vuvuzela claims its first victim: Woman bursts her windpipe 'by blowing too hard' | Mail Online

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:50 pm

Zapata;1317822 wrote: Zapata wishes to know where she might purchase a lepatata so that she might accompany herself on the harmonica, perhaps simultaneously.

Read more: The dreaded vuvuzela claims its first victim: Woman bursts her windpipe 'by blowing too hard' | Mail Online

I guess that's sort of karma, Zappy. Should I ask what a lepatata is? Does it sparkle?

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:09 pm

AussiePam;1317825 wrote: I guess that's sort of karma, Zappy. Should I ask what a lepatata is? Does it sparkle?

Yes my dear, you may ask and I will tell you. I had to look up vuvulation, vuvulata . . .oh, it's vuvuzela! (I thought it was a part of the female anatomy found only in certain aberrated individuals.) BUT, Wiki said that "lepatata" is another name for vuvuzela. So, if I can find one and learn to play it and become excellently proficient on it, I may start a one woman band (in my dotage) and call myself Zapata and Her Vuvulating Harmonicatz and Lepatata. And yes, it will surely sparkle! :-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:14 pm

Zapata;1317827 wrote: Yes my dear, you may ask and I will tell you. I had to look up vuvulation, vuvulata . . .oh, it's vuvuzela! (I thought it was a part of the female anatomy found only in certain aberrated individuals.) BUT, Wiki said that "lepatata" is another name for vuvuzela. So, if I can find one and learn to play it and become excellently proficient on it, I may start a one woman band (in my dotage) and call myself Zapata and Her Vuvulating Harmonicatz and Lepatata. And yes, it will surely sparkle! :-6

Sit yourself down quietly, and I'll get you a nice cup of tea (just don't tell Theia I did that, OK?!) ... and I'll go find someone qualified to chat to you about other options for a fulfilling life ... :sneaky: You'll be just fine !!!

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:27 pm

AussiePam;1317828 wrote: Sit yourself down quietly, and I'll get you a nice cup of tea (just don't tell Theia I did that, OK?!) ... and I'll go find someone qualified to chat to you about other options for a fulfilling life ... :sneaky: You'll be just fine !!!

Thanks, awfully! I've always relied on the kindness of strangers, really, I have. Is Theia the Keeper of the Tea? May I play the ukelele while I wait for my tea? I only know Red River Valley and Waltzing Matilda but I can whistle other tunes.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:10 pm

G#Gill;1317790 wrote: I really, truly, hope that the rumours that have been bandied about, that these unmentionables are going to be introduced to the UK, are unfounded. ! : -5: -5: -5

Did you post a coment in a newspaper urging that they be banned? Just wondering.

theia · Post by **theia** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:45 pm

Zapata;1317829 wrote: Thanks, awfully! I've always relied on the kindness of strangers, really, I have. Is Theia the Keeper of the Tea? May I play the ukelele while I wait for my tea? I only know Red River Valley and Waltzing Matilda but I can whistle other tunes.

Zap, Pammie called me in, she was a little worried about you.

Tell me more about it, my lovely. I've been in a similar place and I know that we can get through this together. Put the ukelele down for a short while...that's it, on the chair next to you...we need to be able to hear one another.

I'm not actually the Keeper of the Tea, Zap, my specialty is cardis but if you'd like a cup, I'll go make you one

(Don't ever accept tea from Pammie, it could be dangerous)

Now, what's the problem....

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:30 am

theia;1317840 wrote: Zap, Pammie called me in, she was a little worried about you.

Tell me more about it, my lovely. I've been in a similar place and I know that we can get through this together. Put the ukelele down for a short while...that's it, on the chair next to you...we need to be able to hear one another.

I'm not actually the Keeper of the Tea, Zap, my specialty is cardis but if you'd like a cup, I'll go make you one

(Don't ever accept tea from Pammie, it could be dangerous)

Now, what's the problem....

Bill - I think vuvus come under the general firearms and other noxious weapons and weeds provisions already enshrined in British law. Like you, we have no official constitooootional right to bare arms and so our basic freedoms as societies where peace rains vuvu-free, are ensured. Australia though was a convict settlement at first and you can't fully trust those descendents of nefarious crim Brits and Paddies. The vuvu is sort of shilelagh shaped too, and so we Aussies may be in for a few good stoushes bedad and begorrah.

But in the meantime, I see that Theia is caring for our Zappy sister, and has in fact finally wrested the ukelele from her pale and wan grasp. Would a small glass of purely medicinal port and lemon help?

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:44 am

"I'm not actually the Keeper of the Tea, Zap, my specialty is cardis but if you'd like a cup, I'll go make you one

(Don't ever accept tea from Pammie, it could be dangerous)"

Yes, yes, I know you! You're the nice Cardis lady. Have you had repercussions or concussions with tea? Or was that Queen Pamela? I get so confused nowadays, since they made me wear that white blouse with the funny tie-behind-you sleeves.

And now they've wrested my ukelele from me and threatened me with non-use of the vuvu, aka lepatata. I was so looking forward to learning to play Tiptoe Through The Tulips on it.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:02 am

Tombstone was in here yesterday. I had a bit of private chat with him but I don't want to talk about it.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:08 am

Tut, have you got to stand in the corner now Wisey?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:11 am

G#Gill;1317908 wrote: Tut, have you got to stand in the corner now Wisey?
There you go trying to pry out my Tombstone private chat secrets.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:11 am

YZGI;1317905 wrote: Tombstone was in here yesterday. I had a bit of private chat with him but I don't want to talk about it.

Huh?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:13 am

Zapata;1317911 wrote: Huh?

It's embarassing.:sneaky:

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:58 am

YZGI;1317905 wrote: Tombstone was in here yesterday. I had a bit of private chat with him but I don't want to talk about it.

who did you talk about?:sneaky::yh_rotfl

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:35 am

Odie;1317943 wrote: who did you talk about?:sneaky::yh_rotfl
Thats between me a tomby, we're close ya know.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:58 am

YZGI;1317951 wrote: Thats between me a tomby, we're close ya know.

dinner again at his place tonight?

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:16 am

YZGI;1317913 wrote: It's embarassing.:sneaky:

Well, let ME tell YOU about embarassing! But first, you must tell me yours, and then I'll tell you mine, unless of course mine is less embarassing than yours, in which case . . .uh . . .where was I? Tell me! Puleeeeze!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:47 pm

On any instrument in the Garden you shall make beautiful music and even monkey magic but on the vuvuzela you shall not play. You shall NOT play on it.

The serpent was cunning and said: the vuvuzela is good and if you play on it you might win football matches and anyway you'll p&$$ a lot of people off and that will be fun. And so they played upon it and tiptoed through the tulips, drinking tea and sparkling merrily.

And they heard the voice of Tombstone walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and they had played upon the vuvuzela when they didn't ought to have played upon it. And their eyes were open and they knew they were naked ... and she, picking up a brown cardigan, draped it over herself and picking a bunch of tulips she gave them to the man that he might make himself daycent ...

theia · Post by **theia** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:52 pm

AussiePam;1318009 wrote: On any instrument in the Garden you shall make beautiful music and even monkey magic but on the vuvuzela you shall not play. You shall NOT play on it.

The serpent was cunning and said: the vuvuzela is good and if you play on it you might win football matches and anyway you'll p&$$ a lot of people off and that will be fun. And so they played upon it and tiptoed through the tulips, drinking tea and sparkling merrily.

And they heard the voice of Tombstone walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and they had played upon the vuvuzela when they didn't ought to have played upon it. And their eyes were open and they knew they were naked ... and she, picking up a brown cardigan, draped it over herself and picking a bunch of tulips she gave them to the man that he might make himself daycent ...

How do you do it, Pammie? That is brilliant :-6

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:59 pm

AP this is for you ! ...........................

;) :-6

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:06 pm

theia;1318011 wrote: How do you do it, Pammie? That is brilliant :-6

hmmm . . .Yes, quite brilliant. And Sparkly!! :-6

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:10 pm

Yes! Sparkley! We all know Gabriel didn't blow one of those thingees!

But what would Sachmo have done with it?

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:21 pm

:-6 I would like to apologize, after reading this entire thread, for contributing to its derailment, if the intent of Bill Sikes was to simply wonder why FG wasn't "sparkling" and to lament said Sparkle's demise, (as has been indicated by some) and NOT a plea or encouragement for frolicking and merriment. I would never have mentioned attempting to learn to play Tiptoe Through The Tulips on the vuvu, zuluphone, zapatata, zither or any other instrument for that matter, if I'd known it would have offended his original thoughts on Sparkle.

psst, AP, "make him a 'daycent' " what?