Someone should get a smiting for this...

http://www.tradcentre.com/dialup/uilleannjokes.html

:angry:

:laughing: Very good!

PD.

…I’d laugh, but they’re all true… :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Well really! I have never been so offended in all my born days. :wink:
some good ones, especially the last.

I think that I have heard them all before, but instead of Uilleann Pipes, it was a Trombone. :smiley:

Brilliant- I like the air bags best

They’re still not as bad as orchestra conductor or choir jokes:

What’s the difference between an orchestra conductor and a sack of sh*t?

The sack.

What’s the difference between a lead soprano and a pit bull?

The jewelry.

What’s the definition of a male quartet?

3 men and a tenor.

How do you tell the difference between an alto and a tenor?

The tenor doesn’t have hair on his back.

What’s the difference between an orchestra and a bull?

With a bull, the horns are in front and the a$$hole is in the back…

I heard Joe Burke on television talking about a fiddler who had died penniless, without enough money even to bury him. The hat went round to a group or fellow musicians to chip in towards giving him a dignified send-off. One player (a box player) asked how much was expected of him, and was told that a fiver would be about right. His response to this was: “Well here’s ten - bury two whilst you’re at it”

Actually, the story was about a box player being buried, and the donator was a fiddler. The story was told in relating how much pipers and fiddlers despised boxes when they were first introduced.

Some of us still despise them today. :moreevil:

djm

Now, now, If we can’t be nice, we had better not be at all… :smiley:

You poor Pipers :roll: You should hear how the GHBs get beat on it doesn’t even compare.

Some of those were pretty good. But, being a GHB player I am used to a lot more of the trash talk jokes than that, and they tend to be more true regarding the GHB’s.

I have played GHBs for over 20 years, and I have heard a few really nasty pipe jokes over that time. Now that I am playing UPs, I expect no, and I mean NO, reason not to hear even nastier UP jokes…it’s only fair isn’t it? :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

…I don’t mind verbal jokes… but Joe, remember when some idiot poured sand down Jay’s bass drone???



I remember reading a comic strip where a kid was asking a man in a sherman tank why the tank was here…

“for protection”

“oh, for which part of the parade?”

“Part of the marching band”

“really? which part”

“The bagpipes”


or another comic which showed an apartment complex. In one window was a sign reading “bagpipes for sale” in the other windows were other signs “thank god!” “bless allah” “way to go Joe” etc…

…or..musical failure # 121 → “Boxpipes” …phphphpht!

Rather OT, but bear with me (it includes pipes, anyway):

The other nite during the session at Keegan’s, we had four pipers on hand, and the presence of four sets of drones filling the air was wonderful. Remarkably, it was also a bodhranless session; a rare thing. As I mused about the counters for things (murder of crows, pod of whales, etc.), I wondered what a plurality of pipers might be called. “Tionol”? Not quite. “Plethora” was offered. I was hoping for something more colorful, but it’ll do for now.

Then someone asked what would you call a plurality of bodhran players, and I said, “A feck.” Got a laugh for that.

Davey wrote: "…I don’t mind verbal jokes… but Joe, remember when some idiot poured sand down Jay’s bass drone??? "

What a messy situation that was!!! Jay had a bunch of stuff coming to him, but sand down the drones was absolutely the wrong way of going about it. The guy who poured the sand was Rusty Alexander, and years after the event he confessed it to me and I smiled and let him know exactly how he would’ve ‘looked liked’ if he had done it to me…he got the message and promised not to do it to me… :smiley:

A ‘feck’ of bodhrans…hmmmm… I… LIKE it!!!:smiley: :smiley:

A pig of pipers?
A cram of chanters?
A dreg of drones? :smiley:

djm

I’m laughing because they’re all true!

:laughing:

Oh… I never thought of that. I’m such a silly bunt… :smiley:

Hmmm…

A cranning of pipers?