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Old 04-20-2006, 09:19 AM   #2161
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Gorgeous poem, and beautifully sung by Lorena McKennit. Have you heard her do it?

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Old 04-20-2006, 09:23 AM   #2162
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I'm afraid I only know it as the poem, by Yeats. Despite the fact that I am a singer myself, I tend to prefer pieces not written specifically as song to be spoken or chanted...but I shall have to look for this rendition. I don't think I've heard anything by Lorena McKennit...the name doesn't sound familiar.
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Old 04-20-2006, 12:41 PM   #2163
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Oh, come now, come now! I don't believe a single one of you really succeeded in humming anything with your nose plugged. It's physically impossible. You can not hum without your nose! A series if grunts in the back of your throat doesn't count.

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I got the "Row, row, row" part. That was about all I could manage to hum before it became grunts. It was not a fun experience.

But shifting from BDers grunting to signatures:

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Old 04-20-2006, 03:27 PM   #2164
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Old 04-21-2006, 06:21 AM   #2165
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Since you asked Folwren I just tried it and it is actually possible. Well, partially. I can get the first two to four notes as a hum and then it becomes grunting.
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Old 04-22-2006, 05:17 PM   #2166
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Given davem's new signature...I'm not sure how much longer he's going to be with us...
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Old 04-23-2006, 01:49 AM   #2167
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Given davem's new signature...I'm not sure how much longer he's going to be with us...
I've changed it for today to some lines from Chesterton in honour of our patron saint, but if anyone wants to know what Kuru is referring to my recent sig was 'If it was easy they'd have girls doing it' - though what the problem is with that I don't know....
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Old 04-23-2006, 01:52 AM   #2168
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Well, Jenny gets another score.



Gorgeous poem, and beautifully sung by Lorena McKennit. Have you heard her do it?

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Another LM fan! Why didn't they let her do the songs for the movies? Have you heard Dark Night of the Soul?
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Old 04-23-2006, 06:50 AM   #2169
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'If it was easy they'd have girls doing it' - though what the problem is with that I don't know....
Something about the implication that girls are only good for easy work...of course, I guess the other side of that coin is that men are only interested in doing things the hard way.
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Old 04-23-2006, 06:55 AM   #2170
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I guess the other side of that coin is that men are only interested in doing things the hard way.
P'raps I'm not quite an average girl according to yon brawny lads, but I call the hard way the scenic route and enjoy it a lot more.

You're former sig made me laugh, davem, though it may have been admittedly incredulous. Is there a story to it?
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Old 04-23-2006, 06:58 AM   #2171
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Ah, yes...the scenic route through the mountains, up the slope, through the gorge, round the bend...and over the cliff.
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Old 04-23-2006, 06:58 AM   #2172
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P'raps I'm not quite an average girl according to yon brawny lads, but I call the hard way the scenic route and enjoy it a lot more.

You're former sig made me laugh, davem, though it may have been admittedly incredulous. Is there a story to it?
No - I stole it from a post on another site, 'cos I thought: 'Funny, & so very true . I may revert to it....
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Old 04-23-2006, 07:05 AM   #2173
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Ah, yes...the scenic route through the mountains, up the slope, through the gorge, round the bend...and over the cliff.
Ooh, Kuruwolf's got good memory for an old fella.

And of course over a cliff, it gives me a chance to try out some spontaneous skydiving. You'd have to be crazy to pass up something so serendipitous.

Out of even more curiosity, davem, what was the context of the quote?
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Old 04-23-2006, 07:30 AM   #2174
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Out of even more curiosity, davem, what was the context of the quote?
Can't remember - it was on some BBC messageboard.

I think it might explain the lack of female characters in LotR....
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Old 04-23-2006, 07:32 AM   #2175
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And of course over a cliff, it gives me a chance to try out some spontaneous skydiving. You'd have to be crazy to pass up something so serendipitous.
I want to be your doctor...or more specifically, I want to be on the receiving end of the medical bills you're paying.
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I want to be your doctor...or more specifically, I want to be on the receiving end of the medical bills you're paying.
Doctors are to be avoided like the plague. Broken bones or not, it's always merely a sprain. A little ice'll fix it right up.

On topic, I noted your own sig a while ago and it made me grin. You recommend merely moderate moderation?
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Old 04-23-2006, 08:15 AM   #2177
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Old 04-23-2006, 08:22 AM   #2178
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Very nice sig, Kuru.

Personally, I think he's just saying we should be as moderate or immoderate as we like. After all... why live your life by somebody else's quotes or ideologies?

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Old 04-23-2006, 08:26 AM   #2179
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T'was not free... we just received his two cents. To pay to think... to what is the world coming?
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Old 04-23-2006, 12:05 PM   #2182
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Actually I think the English have been swizzled with their patron saint. St George never set foot in England, probably had never heard of the place. Plus the English have to share him with Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece. And he's been downgraded by the Catholic church to the lowest status of saint, so his feast day is now merely "optional."
Meanwhile, the Scots, Irish and Welsh all get proper born-and-bred national saints. Most unfair.
St Edward the Confessor, St Alban, St Guthlac - all better candidates.
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Actually I think the English have been swizzled with their patron saint. St George never set foot in England, probably had never heard of the place. Plus the English have to share him with Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece. And he's been downgraded by the Catholic church to the lowest status of saint, so his feast day is now merely "optional."
Meanwhile, the Scots, Irish and Welsh all get proper born-and-bred national saints. Most unfair.
St Edward the Confessor, St Alban, St Guthlac - all better candidates.
Oh but St George is merely a Christianisation of ancient English figures like Sigurd or Beowulf. Same way Mananan mac Lir became 'St Michael' in the Hebrides. After all the real George didn't actually kill a dragon, whereas our legends & folklore have them in plenty.

And I'm sure that George wished he was English. As that guy in 'A Knight's Tale' put it: 'The Pope may be French, but Jesus was English!'
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Plus St Andrew the Apostle is no more Scottish than St Patrick, a Romano-Briton, is Irish...

However, I think England's most appropriate saint would be King Henry VI, a pious man truly ahead of his time whom the Church has so far refused to even, I think, beatify.
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Oh, ok, my bad about Andrew.
But Patrick did convert Ireland, so making him saint of it seems fair dos.
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Plus St Andrew the Apostle is no more Scottish than St Patrick, a Romano-Briton, is Irish...

However, I think England's most appropriate saint would be King Henry VI, a pious man truly ahead of his time whom the Church has so far refused to even, I think, beatify.
Ah, but the Saint has to be credited with a miracle or two first... and in this day and age, who prays to a 500-years dead King of England?

Of course, Anguirel, if you DO end up hurting yourself terribly, you could be the first.

We digress somewhat from sigs, but being unable- completely- at the moment to remember any, I'm afraid I cannot help that matter.
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The very week Henry VI was foully murdered by minions of the usurper Edward the common folk began to declare stories of miracles and intercessions. The craven and indifferent Church refused to interfere in the murky politics of England, however.

Joan of Arc was canonised in 1930; I don't see why Henry VI shouldn't be now. He was the truest ruler in Europe to the actual teachings of Christ.
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The very week Henry VI was foully murdered by minions of the usurper Edward the common folk began to declare stories of miracles and intercessions. The craven and indifferent Church refused to interfere in the murky politics of England, however.

Joan of Arc was canonised in 1930; I don't see why Henry VI shouldn't be now. He was the truest ruler in Europe to the actual teachings of Christ.
Then cut off your head and pray to him to intercede to God on your behalf, Anguirel! It's rather too late now for the Church to start documenting miracles from the War of Roses... And if there haven't been any SINCE then...
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Then cut off your head and pray to him to intercede to God on your behalf, Anguirel! It's rather too late now for the Church to start documenting miracles from the War of Roses... And if there haven't been any SINCE then...
Wouldn't one need to pray before one removed one's head?

Of course, if one did behead oneself that would make one a suicide & therefore unworthy of grace.

I think you're trying to trick a fellow 'downer into beheading himself - which is, to say the least, in somewhat questionable taste. I hope its something you aren't going to make a habit of.

I think you'd feel pretty bad if Anguirel actually did go ahead & remove his head, so I want you to go to your room & think about what you've done.
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Another LM fan! Why didn't they let her do the songs for the movies? Have you heard Dark Night of the Soul?
I don't know why they didn't have her do the LotR movies! She would have been awesome! She should have had the last song for the RotK.

I don't recall having heard Dark Night of the Soul. She's done a lot and I haven't heard a terribly amount. (Okay, this is so adorable, I've got to say it, random or not - I've got a little bird sitting out the window, just looking at me as though I were the most interesting thing in the world...tilting his head and everything...) Anyway, I've heard a bit, but not a lot, if that makes sense. Have you heard 'The Old Ways'? That's my favorite.

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Aye, I could see that being insulting. You do know, don't you, that girl's have some of the hardest work in the world at times? I won't go into detail.

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I'll second that Eonwe, I saw Jenny's signature just now in the Mordor thread. It even rivals my mothers for cheesy jokes
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I didn't get that until, uh, several hours later. Haha, Jenny.
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Old 04-25-2006, 04:05 PM   #2195
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I don't know why they didn't have her do the LotR movies! She would have been awesome! She should have had the last song for the RotK.

I don't recall having heard Dark Night of the Soul. She's done a lot and I haven't heard a terribly amount. (Okay, this is so adorable, I've got to say it, random or not - I've got a little bird sitting out the window, just looking at me as though I were the most interesting thing in the world...tilting his head and everything...) Anyway, I've heard a bit, but not a lot, if that makes sense. Have you heard 'The Old Ways'? That's my favorite.
Dark Night of the Soul is a poem by St John of the Cross. McKennitt's setting always reduces me to tears. Its on 'The Mask & the Mirror'.http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/lm/lorecd53.html

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Old 04-26-2006, 01:52 PM   #2196
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I much enjoy Lhunardawen's siggy. It is simple in its message, and all too true as well. So very poignant.
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Old 04-27-2006, 08:08 AM   #2197
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Ooo, puts me in mind of the poem my Dad used to say to us:

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Two dead boys went out to play
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other
Two deaf policemen heard the noise
Came and shot the two dead boys
If you think my tale is tall,
Ask the blind man, for he saw it all
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Old 04-28-2006, 11:28 AM   #2198
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I really liked this one of Fea's.
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Old 04-28-2006, 01:57 PM   #2199
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Old 04-28-2006, 02:22 PM   #2200
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Oh good...I was afraid it was too subtle.
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