Hello everyone–I’ve been lurking about here for around six months and finally decided to wade in. Thanks to all for the help they’ve given to me without knowing it.
A little information about me–I’m a young, married, graduate stundent in philosophy with interests in medieval, classical, and irish traditional music. This is my first foray into chat boards. I’ve had several years of classical voice training but I whistle more than sing. For the interested, my collection consists of two sweettones, two clarke originals, a dixon high d with brass tuning slide, a walton’s mello d, and something cheap and wooden in b “made in india”. I like the sweettones the best.
The second sweettone I bought just two days ago in a hardware store. It was sitting with a bunch of others in front of the cash register very randomly. Also the brandname is “THE WOODSTOCK by Clarke’s”, though it is obviously identical to my other sweettone in everything except color. This seemed funny to me.
Martin–
I am unconnected with the film in question. My family tree is filled with more preachers than gangsters. I’ve always been fond of my name, however. It suits me and my Irish proclivities well enough.
You are aware that Sullivan means one-eyed? Maybe the criminal gene is deeper-seated than you realise, and your ancestors were eye-patch-wearing pirates.
On 2002-10-09 10:20, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Hello everyone–I’ve been lurking about here for around six months and finally decided to wade in.
If you’ve been lurking for about 6 months you probably don’t know who I am. The name’s Walden. Pleasure to make your acquaintance.
On 2002-10-09 12:52, jim stone wrote:
Medieval metaphysics and epistemology.
Forsooth! It was about time.
St. Anselm had some interesting thoughts. “For, it is one thing for an object to be in the understanding, and another to understand that the object exists. When a painter first conceives of what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his understanding, but he does not yet understand it to be, because he has not yet performed it. But after he has made the painting, he both has it in his understanding, and he understands that it exists, because he has made it.”
Some door-knocker christians luckily managed to come when we were out and left a copy of the Book of John, which I read out of boredom and interest in understanding. EVERY line JC said started with:
“Verily, verily I say unto you…”
Try having something like that stuck in your head for days!
And WELCOME, Michael!
I am a medievalist myself, social history and a passion for medieval clothing.
Stella
Oh, Welcome Michael Sullivan
To Chiff and Fipple with a grin.
So whistling time and time again
for many preachers as close kin,
Jigs and Reels raising such a din
are tunes a blessing or a sin?
A blessing, I certainly hope! Though not all my family thinks so. My brother’s been fairly hooked on the whistle himself, and my wife tolerates it most admirably. However, we spent about a month with my parents and grandparents last summer, and they made it pretty clear that they weren’t impressed!
