| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 567.1 | The Piper's Lament | VAXUUM::WALTERS | | Thu May 11 1989 17:04 | 12 |
| The custom is to play a "lament" at a funeral during the interment.
Also after a hard battle to honour the dead.
I don't know when it dates from, but it's mentioned in several
contemporary books commenting on Glencoe and Cullodden.
Very haunting music.
Colin.
(Who has Clan Huntley blood, and is not as Welsh as he thought he was.)
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| 567.2 | Inequality even in death | COMICS::HWILLIAMS | | Fri May 12 1989 08:47 | 5 |
| I don't know about the piped music, but my colleague here says
that on the Western Isles of Scotland (where she's from) Only the
Men attend funerals.
Huw.
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| 567.3 | But seriously.... | MARCIE::KSULLIVAN | | Fri May 12 1989 10:59 | 11 |
| That's because we're big and strong and brave......we should have
never given them the vote......downhill ever since......
Q. Are they permitted to attend when they're dead??? Or what do
you do with them.......bung 'em in the bin........
Does the undertaker get sent alone with the casket, for surely MEN
don't attend womens' funerals, (down at the pub celebrating), a
bit of a conundrum eh? Inquiring minds require this vital information.
Murphy the sexist pig.
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| 567.4 | Him laying there, and all this work to do. | USWAV1::CHAPLAIN | | Sat May 13 1989 06:41 | 7 |
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...poor old Paddy. Looks better three days dead than he ever did
alive. And how he can lay there listenin' to all the keenin' and
wailin' without breaking out into gales of laughter is beyond me.
...sorry for yer troubles.
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| 567.5 | rites of passage | VAXUUM::WALTERS | | Sat May 13 1989 11:18 | 15 |
| Good lord,
With a reply like that, Murphy will be attending his own funeral
whe the women of Ireland catch him.
Not ten years ago in Wales when I attended my Grandmothers funeral,
gor' bless her, it was only the men that went to the burying. Not
a ladylike thing to do, according to Welsh custom.
This is macabre. New topic anyone?
Colin
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| 567.6 | Rites & Customs | RIGAZI::SPERANDIO | | Wed May 17 1989 15:04 | 5 |
| Yes, it does seem a bit chilly in here.
Thanks for the replies, folks.
Now, just tell me what's under that kilt when it's cold and raining...
- McElhiney
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| 567.7 | And a Blue Ribbon for First Prize .... | STEREO::BURNS | Celtic Thunder | Wed May 17 1989 15:12 | 11 |
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The anwer is "Blowin' in the wind" .... 8=)
keVin
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