A certain giant purple squid was recently seen assaulting a sailing ship, apparently it bore a striking resemblance to a set of Irish Uilleann Pipes.
It’s not safe playing “Ships Are Sailing” around me, without me…but I might join in somehow.
Nanohedron…one of the Great Old Ones, an unnatural “alien pipes” being who ruled the Earth before humanity formed, as attributed by some misguided people. It is said that he will return, causing worldwide insanity and mindless violence before finally displacing humanity forever during the Alien Pipe Rennaisance.
"By my own observation, there’s two types of uilleann pipers, regardless of expertise level, with each piper falling somewhere in the spectrum: the piper who fiddles about with the instrument constantly, and the piper (usually with the luxury of a reedmaker nearby) who loves to play but hates fooling around with ‘The Octopus’" -Paddy Keenan
mutter can’t even lurk around here mutter
Lorenzo, your attributing the great and eldritch Cthulhu’s identity to me is both warming and appalling. When the raging insanity that howls and cackles gibbering out of the dark dimension that imprisons the the Great One subsides within me, I’ll get back to you on this.
In other words, let me do some practicing first.
Taking Lorenzo’s geographical location into account, and considering his tendency to pop up suddenly in any thread in any forum with some esoteric pronouncement and then disappear, I sort of thought he might be that Sasquatch fellow.
The creature in that famous video of the never-quite-in-focus Bigfoot striding away from the cameraman bears an uncanny resemblance to the hirsute Lorenzo, shown playing his chanter while using a foot-powered organ for drones; certainly one can expect a person to develop big feet after a couple months of this kind of behavior. Check out the pic on page 18 of the “Pictures of your Pipes” thread and draw your own conclusion:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=8172&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=255
Wouldn’t a squid have humidity issues with his reeds, anyway?
Hey, Lorenzo’s using sheet music! I don’t know if I’m more shocked at that or the beard…
Herbie, maybe you’re thinking of my wife…she’s certainly no belly dancer.
Two words, Lorenzo: wax job. 
I started getting a real good laugh out of this thread, when it suddenly struck me that you have pulled a fast one here. How did you embed a sound clip? Details please!
Thx,
djm
Untick the “Disable html in this post” box and type or paste
<embed src="<url of sound file>" Autostart="false">
or
<embed src="<url of sound file>" Autostart="true">
if you want it to play when the page is loaded.
I actually stopped doing this last year as some computer systems don’t handle it too well, although that may have changed as some may have gotten new browsers since then. Tony knows more about this I think…plugins and all.
Tony?
So we’ve some HP Lovecraft fans here? I prefer his steak sauce to his writing myself.
In Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X there’s a description of a huge bag inflated by a bellows. “I got the idea from a bagpipe one of the kids was learning to play,” a character informs us. Pretty obscure detail for the late 50s.
I prefer the term lapsed acolyte.
I’m a Kilgore Trout devotee myself.
Thx for the embed tip.
djm
The necessary plug-in should be resident Microsoft Internet Explorer.
I was runing an older version of Netscape last year and my computer would lock-up forcing me to reboot loosing any information (like work on another application) This year, I’m using the current version of Netscape but I haven’t tried installing the plug-in for it. So, I see a white box with blue icon and it reads ‘click here to get another stinkin’ plug-in for your already overburdened conputer’ At least it doesn’t crash now. Whenever that happens I just cut-n-paste to see it in Explorer.
Is Lorenzo the Doom That Came To Sarnath?
Judging from the pic of his loverly wife he’d have a lot of impertus to travel. But to do that to a whole vibrant, up-and-coming city-state…
Temper temper, Yog-Lorenzoth, remember what Cuthulu used to say; “Ulululluchurkh*lictch’k’litchthil!”
(Hey, Kevin, got any cool little ‘Elder Gods’ emoticons?)
Mark
Is Lorenzo the Doom That Came To Sarnath?
OR quite possibly the Guy who ignored the warning about looking out the window into another dimension. or something to that effect, its been a while since I read Lovecraft, or is it August Durleth?? (but it wasnt long ago I listened to music inspired by those stories..)
“The Thing That Should Not Be” an homage to HP Lovecraft, is still my favorite Metallica song. Don’t like their post-Cliff work as much, though 
but that’s not their fault.