Do I know you? Is your name Rob? I am putting 2 and nothing together and seeing that you could easily be him. You said in another thread that you play the bagpipes and this guy I know named Rob went to college on a bagpipe scholarship in Arkansas. Also, you live in Austin like he does now. (Plus Rob is one of the most delicious cutie around. MMMM)
HUGS!
Sqrl
A bagpipe scholarship?
Hey Sqrl is it okay if I just sit in the corner here and wait for all of them to come in so I can check them out?
You just gotta love a man in a kilt!!!
I don’t have a kilt, but I have worn a plaid skirt. Does that count?
a bagpipe scholarship in Arkansas? I’ll have to revise (upward) my opinion of Arkansas, heretofore based solely on Billary.
[goes back to practising doublings and throws]
::wanders in hoping to see men in kilts::
::starts humming the tune to the Scotsman song::
The Arkansas Bagpipe Scholars would be a great band name.
I’m sorry I have to ask, do they give you the scholarship for your proficiency in the instrument, or do they make you promise never to play it again?
Keith
They gave him a scholarship for his proficiency. You see, he played very well. I know the bagpipes aren’t for everyone but he truly played them well.
So, where the Hell are you Kilt-wearin’ Man?
HUGS!
Sqrl
Sorry Sqrl - I didn’t get to play on the computer for a few days…outta town, ya know.
Also sorry because I’m not Rob. I’d like to think you’d consider me a “delicious cutie” too, but “loveable ox” is probably more likely…
…and I’m only starting to learn to play the Pipes.
And whaddaya MEAN “the Pipes aren’t for everyone”??? Of COURSE they are!
MMMM. Well, Rob was a nice delicious cutie. Some may think of him as an ox too though.
Do you know what the best thing about playing the bagpipes is? Stopping. hehehe.
Seriously though. I like the bagpipes. I always wanted to get the real set (as I only play the chanter) and go to a person’s house I only moderately like and completely ruin that relationship by playing it indoors. hehehehe Now that would be funny.
HUGS!
Sqrl
PS. Who knows. I may think you are a delicious cutie too. 
MMMM. Well, Rob was a nice delicious cutie. Some may think of him as an ox too though.
Do you know what the best thing about playing the bagpipes is? Stopping. hehehe.
Seriously though. I like the bagpipes. I always wanted to get the real set (as I only play the chanter) and go to a person’s house I only moderately like and completely ruin that relationship by playing it indoors. hehehehe Now that would be funny.
HUGS!
Sqrl
PS. Who knows. I may think you are a delicious cutie too.
hey, kilt-wearing man - how far along are you with the chanter? My instructor drills doublings, throws, grips, and truluaths, and only gives me a new “chune” (he has a very thick accent) when I’ve been good with the doublings. I hope to get tune no. 4 this weekend!
Not nearly as far along as you, jti - the sum total of my skills is playing the entire scale without peeking at the fingering chart - but I suppose that’s not bad for someone who’s trying to teach himself with a book…
Someday I’ll afford real lessons, but that’s at least a few months away…
What’s the Scotsman song? I’m Scottish and I’ve never heard of it.
A scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair
One could tell by the way he walked he’d drunk more than his share.
He stumbled 'round till he could no longer keep his feet
Then he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street
(chorus)
Ring-di-diddle-i-di-o
Ring-di-diddle-i-o
(Last line of verse)
About that time two young and lovely girls happened by
One says to the other with a twinkle in her eye
See yon sleeping scotsman so proud and handsome built
I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear beneath the kilt.
(chorus)
They crept up on that sleeping scotsman quiet as could be.
And lifted up his kilt just an inch so they could see
And there behold for them to view, beneath his scotish skirt.
Was nothing more than god had graced him with upon his birth.
(chorus)
They marveled for a moment, one said we must be gone
Lets leave a present for our friend, before we move along.
They left a blue silk ribbon, tied into a bow
Around the bonny star the scots kilt did lift and show
(chorus)
The scotsman woke to nature’s call, and stumbled towards a tree.
Behind the bush he lifts his kilt and gawks at what he sees.
In a startled voice he says to what’s before his eyes
Och, I dont know where you’ve been me boy, but I see you’ve won first prize!
(chorus)
And when his wife inquired to where he’d been and what he’d done,
he said there had been a contest at the pub and he had won,
She said, “How could you show that thing in front of all those men?”
“I dinna show it all, me lass, just enough to win!”
(chorus)
A marvellous race are the Jocks
Who run whooping through glens in check frocks
For they say: ‘Wearing breeks
Makes it harder for leaks
And the philibeg leaves us free cocks.’
LMAO!
Seriously, though, this is quite an ego builder for a (somewhat) new poster like me…a forum with my name on it…
You LIKE me! You REALLY LIKE ME!!!
Or, SqrlCub at some point suspected that she might…
Either way, though, it’s kinda flattering…
Psst! Kilty! Just so’s you know, SqrlCub’s all man.