Somehow, astronomy hasn’t been the same without you, Caroluna.
what has ![]()
Death and taxes.
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Thank you for the kind words!

I was just visiting the Who Has Stuff on YouTube thread
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/who-has-stuff-on-youtube/80681/1
and happened to see your band’s version of Dónal Agus Mórag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQFZ1ArPzo&feature=channel
Good stuff! I really enjoyed it!
And it’s so nice to see folks using the truly traditional instrumentation: whistle, bodhrán, …uh, opera singer ![]()
Thanks! It’s a little-known fact that Donal agus Morag was originally an aria
from a minor Wagnerian opera, “Albernheit der Kelten (kleiner Scherz)”.
Going off on a tangent here…I’m listening to a music history course called The Symphonies of Beethoven. Apparently Beethoven got into these really silly moods where he made ribald puns and gave his friends insulting nicknames. His own word for those moods was “aufgeknöpft” ![]()
Considering that the zipper hadn’t been invented yet, I guess a loose translation for “aufgeknöpft” might be “letting it all hang out” ![]()
Here here !
Nice to see some of your color in our world again !
Ah, that might well explain Bob Newhart’s “Button-Down Mind”.
