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- GlytchMeister
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I just thought of a way to make it even worse.
I bet there's a way to hook up some bagpipes to an amp (like an electric guitar but infinitely more Scottish)... Turn that amp up to eleven, stand too close, and play the Barney theme song.
Over and over and over... As loud as you can go.
Electrically amplified bagpipes, a powerful sound system, that Feedback shriek, and Barney... If that doesn't make them want to pierce their eardrums with a rusty screwdriver, nothing will.
I bet there's a way to hook up some bagpipes to an amp (like an electric guitar but infinitely more Scottish)... Turn that amp up to eleven, stand too close, and play the Barney theme song.
Over and over and over... As loud as you can go.
Electrically amplified bagpipes, a powerful sound system, that Feedback shriek, and Barney... If that doesn't make them want to pierce their eardrums with a rusty screwdriver, nothing will.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
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He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
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- DinkyInky
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It's only Barney's if you have that annoying voice singing it, otherwise it's a pleasant child's tune.GlytchMeister wrote:I just thought of a way to make it even worse.
I bet there's a way to hook up some bagpipes to an amp (like an electric guitar but infinitely more Scottish)... Turn that amp up to eleven, stand too close, and play the Barney theme song.
Over and over and over... As loud as you can go.
Electrically amplified bagpipes, a powerful sound system, that Feedback shriek, and Barney... If that doesn't make them want to pierce their eardrums with a rusty screwdriver, nothing will.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
- AnotherFairportfan
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I once used Wellington's Victory in a stereo battle with a radioman in the next cube in the barracks at Cam Ranh Bay - everybody had Big Stereos, since you got terrific deals through Pacific Exchange - who was not the worst offender amongst his crew, but the one nearest to me, who would come off watch at midnight and put on Creedence, ignoring the fact that us day workers were trying to sleep.DinkyInky wrote:Bagpipes are so soothing at six am...take that, you beer soaked, porridge brained frat boys!
He surrendered.
In his short story "Johnny Cope" (in the McAuslan books), George Macdonald Fraser told of a battle between the junior officers and the battalion pipe band, who, once a week, would assemble outside the JO quarters at six AM, and, as he puts it (more or less - been a while) "...stealthily raise their sticks with not a click, and inflate their pipes without a squeak..." and blast into "Johnny Cope", the official pipe reveille of the Scottish Regiments.
At, of course, a volume appropriate for reveille.
Eventually, Dan McNeil (Fraser's stand-in - most of the "Dand McNeil" stories are at least partially autobiographical, Fraser's recollections of his time in Egypt as a subaltern on the Gordons) get their revenge.
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Wolfstone (who i saw live at Fairport's Cropredy Festival in 1992) occasionally amplified the battle pipes, at least, in those days.GlytchMeister wrote:I just thought of a way to make it even worse.
I bet there's a way to hook up some bagpipes to an amp (like an electric guitar but infinitely more Scottish)...
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
- DinkyInky
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Might have to add that one to my playlist.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
- AnotherFairportfan
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Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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Thank you! I had never heard that, and it explains what my wife and I saw in Jerash and have wondered about ever since.Catawampus wrote:The Arabs and the Palestinians are crazy about bagpipes. They have them all the time at weddings and parties and whenever else. There are probably more bagpipers per square meter in Jordan than there is anywhere outside of the British Isles.
- Hansontoons
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I've see them in a mixed 12-pack, as much as I like other NB creations I just dunno about those....AnotherFairportfan wrote:
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I've only ever really been in that sort of acoustic battle twice. The first time I just put a computer software CD in my stereo, turned the volume on high, then locked up the place and went off to work for most of the day. Many hours of horrendous screeches and buzzes and electronic warbling did the trick. The other time, I built a sort of giant temporary speaker up against the wall between my quarters and the offender's, then gifted him with irregular pulses of subsonics.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I once used Wellington's Victory in a stereo battle with a radioman in the next cube in the barracks at Cam Ranh Bay - everybody had Big Stereos, since you got terrific deals through Pacific Exchange - who was not the worst offender amongst his crew, but the one nearest to me, who would come off watch at midnight and put on Creedence, ignoring the fact that us day workers were trying to sleep.DinkyInky wrote:Bagpipes are so soothing at six am...take that, you beer soaked, porridge brained frat boys!
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The one time I got involved in a battle of that sort... we played dirty.
My sophomore year in college, I was in the top floor of a high-rise dorm building with paper-thin walls. The guy in the next room fancied himself a drummer. He'd put on a record, turn it up so loud that he could feel the room shake, then put on headphones to protect his ears (!), and drum along with the song. Needless to say, it was a trifle distracting next door. Complaints to him and the RA had no effect on the problem.
The two rooms shared a separating wall, of course... and the outlets on the walls were wired up to the same branch circuit. His stereo happened to be plugged into the outlet on the shared wall.
So, one day, when he got started, my roommate and I took a two-tube fluorescent lamp (the old kind with a red "on" and black "off" button), plugged it into the wall outlet, and started pressing and releasing the red button, turning the starter circuit on and off rapidly and creating voltage spikes. The stereo next door began making the most distressing popping and snapping and roaring sounds. The drummer turn it off. A few minutes passed while he checked his stereo for a fault... music goes back up, drumming starts again, POPSNAPSIZZLE.
One more round was enough.. he shut the stereo down, thinking it was broken and about to destroy itself.
I think I heard he took it to the shop for repair and they couldn't find anything wrong with it for some reason.
I don't recall whether we ever had to repeat the curative treatment. He moved out at the end of the next quarter and we never saw or heard of/from him again.
My sophomore year in college, I was in the top floor of a high-rise dorm building with paper-thin walls. The guy in the next room fancied himself a drummer. He'd put on a record, turn it up so loud that he could feel the room shake, then put on headphones to protect his ears (!), and drum along with the song. Needless to say, it was a trifle distracting next door. Complaints to him and the RA had no effect on the problem.
The two rooms shared a separating wall, of course... and the outlets on the walls were wired up to the same branch circuit. His stereo happened to be plugged into the outlet on the shared wall.
So, one day, when he got started, my roommate and I took a two-tube fluorescent lamp (the old kind with a red "on" and black "off" button), plugged it into the wall outlet, and started pressing and releasing the red button, turning the starter circuit on and off rapidly and creating voltage spikes. The stereo next door began making the most distressing popping and snapping and roaring sounds. The drummer turn it off. A few minutes passed while he checked his stereo for a fault... music goes back up, drumming starts again, POPSNAPSIZZLE.
One more round was enough.. he shut the stereo down, thinking it was broken and about to destroy itself.
I think I heard he took it to the shop for repair and they couldn't find anything wrong with it for some reason.
I don't recall whether we ever had to repeat the curative treatment. He moved out at the end of the next quarter and we never saw or heard of/from him again.
- DinkyInky
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Epic, just epic. A simple nerdy solution. Love it!
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
- AnotherFairportfan
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I know.Hansontoons wrote:I've see them in a mixed 12-pack, as much as I like other NB creations I just dunno about those....AnotherFairportfan wrote:
I know it's obviously a Creation Of The Devil.
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You guys can keep wondering. I, on the other hand, want them in my bellyHansontoons wrote:I've see them in a mixed 12-pack, as much as I like other NB creations I just dunno about those....AnotherFairportfan wrote:
"Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful."
And see that life is beautiful."
- scantrontb
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no it isn't... God* created it...AnotherFairportfan wrote:I know.Hansontoons wrote:I've see them in a mixed 12-pack, as much as I like other NB creations I just dunno about those....AnotherFairportfan wrote:
I know it's obviously a Creation Of The Devil.
*: IF you go by the definition of god creating EVERYTHING... and that the definition of everything INCLUDES "The Devil", who created this... then, BY DEFINITION: God Created it...
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- DinkyInky
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With a few pints of the ice cream to go along with?Julie wrote:You guys can keep wondering. I, on the other hand, want them in my bellyHansontoons wrote:I've see them in a mixed 12-pack, as much as I like other NB creations I just dunno about those....AnotherFairportfan wrote:
I'd much prefer a pint of Karamel Sutra with a Manhattan.
We'll have to have a 007 marathon of course, since it has already been discussed...
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
- shadowinthelight
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I need to go back to Walmart with a pocket full of quarters.
Julie, about Wapsi Square wrote:Oh goodness yes. So much paranormal!
My deviantART and YouTube.
I'm done thinking for today! It's caused me enough trouble!
- Jabberwonky
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I miss arcades...shadowinthelight wrote:I need to go back to Walmart with a pocket full of quarters.
Dave and Busters is alright, but it doesn't have the same feel.
But I need to check the ones here in town to see if they've got the new Rob Zombie pinball machine...
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- AnotherFairportfan
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I thought i'd posted this link to an absolutely hilarious Sainsbury's Christmas campaign (also promoting child literacy)
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That was super cute!!AnotherFairportfan wrote:I thought i'd posted this link to an absolutely hilarious Sainsbury's Christmas campaign (also promoting child literacy)
"Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful."
And see that life is beautiful."
- lake_wrangler
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Never mind "super cute", that was downright adorable!Julie wrote:That was super cute!!AnotherFairportfan wrote:I thought i'd posted this link to an absolutely hilarious Sainsbury's Christmas campaign (also promoting child literacy)