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The parade's in town!
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Started conversation Jun 14, 2009
To 'The West End Festival', where I was on stall-minding duties for Unicef, for a stall selling books and (the real money spinner!) mhendis (henna hand painting).
Here's some Scottish culcha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDr1EPipR3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbTER4q1nc
I think I want to marry they lassies. Both of them.
I didn't see much of the parade itself - but I heard it go by. I'm constantly amazed that Glasgow manages to sustain so many fine samba schools. Here's some footage of the backs of some peoples' heads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DefCmUsCPs
The parade's in town!
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 14, 2009
That wasn't footage of the back of peoples' heads. 
That was Muhammed Ali beating Ernie Terrel to a pulp.
*This* is the back of peopels' heads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpRI7vQq3Hs
The parade's in town!
psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jun 14, 2009
I love parades. 
Not bagpipes or fat dancing men so much though.
The parade's in town!
Maria Posted Jun 15, 2009
How good, and ¡qué alegría! 
I want to dance!
Bagpipes. They are used in the north of Spain in oficial events, and in folk bands.
The parade's in town!
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 15, 2009
You've got to admit, though...as bagpipes go...those ones were quite funky.
Weren't the fat guys shuffling around hilarious? Especially those shorts.
The parade's in town!
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 15, 2009
The definition of a gentlemen:
'Someone who can play the bagpipes but doesn't.'
The parade's in town!
Maria Posted Jun 15, 2009
This is a traditional song played by Spaniards from Galicia and the Irish Chieftains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1ynTMUj0c
Asturias is another place where bagpipes are part of their culture.
David Attenborough will be received by a band of pipers when he comes next november to Asturias to take his Principe de Asturias prize.
The parade's in town!
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Jun 15, 2009
I thought a gentleman was a man who never insults anyone unintentionally.
TRiG.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 15, 2009
I thought they had something to do with elbows...
I'll get my coat 
The parade's in town!
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 16, 2009
I avoided that particular 
in the Edited Entry on Bagpipes A748208 by not explaining what the word Uilleann means.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 16, 2009
Grattan Flood probably had difficulty reading the words "union pipes" due to the dimness of the Celtic Twilight.
The parade's in town!
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 16, 2009
I always asumed thet were wailin' pipes.
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