Are the low Clarkes on the market yet?
What I want to know is are there any tweaks I ought to do on my Freeman? Thanks in advance.
What I want to know is, what is this thread about? 
Whistles. So far.
Let’s just move it to the Political and Toxic forum straight away, before it cuts up really rough 
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I’d like low D Clarke.
Would they make a giant Meg and sell if for 15 bucks?
(I know Im treading in a thread where I have no idea what is going on… that has never stopped me in the past any where else 
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But then it’ll no longer be the nineteen thousand and one-th.
Well, that could be fun too, but I’m also interested in knowing if there’s a low Clarke coming out. So maybe we should sit back and see what develops on that one.
I say, aanvil… it looks as though your cat is half full… beware, lest it runneth over! 
They warned me about British Shorthairs but I’ll be darned if I leave my Guinness for one second!
Don’t even start me on Scottish Folds… just keep your single malts locked down is all I’m sayin’ 
Just watching is not good enough for some moggies.
I, for one, had to look up ‘moggie’. Found this at www.worldwidewords.org:
MOGGIE
[Q] From Arthur Middleton: “In the British TV series Are You Being Served a cat is often referred to as a moggy (I’m not sure of the spelling). Can you explain the derivation of this?”
[A] Though I have to tell you that Are You Being Served has hardly been shown on British televisions for the better part of twenty years, that word is still common, often spelled moggie and sometimes shortened to mog. The latter often refers to a feline of undistinguished type and manners, the cat equivalent of a mongrel dog, but in general usage the former is just a pet name for any domesticated cat. It seems to be from Maggie, the affectionate short form of Margaret. In the eighteenth century, this was applied as a name for a cow or calf. In the nineteenth century it could refer to an untidily dressed woman or slattern. It was only in the twentieth century that it became a pet name for a cat. How or why the sense shifted in this way is not understood. Eric Partridge, in his Dictionary of Historical Slang implies that the cat sense may be Cockney rhyming slang, but I can find no evidence for that origin.
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Interestingly, my cat seems to dislike being called a “moggie”. I definitely get that impression. She goes all wiggly when I call her “Kitters”, “Mousters”, and “Goofy Bird”; those seem to be her favorites.
But back to whistles.
Or not.
Well, darned if I know what we’re talking about, but here’s a great old Scottish tune that sounds great on the whistle:
When You and I Were Young, Moggie
I wandered today to the hill, Moggie,
To watch the scene below -
The creek and the creaking old mill, Moggie,
As we used to, long ago.
The green grove is gone from the hill, Moggie,
Where first the daisies sprung;
The creaking old mill is still, Moggie,
Since you and I were young.
Chorus
And now we are aged and grey, Moggie,
And the trials of life nearly done,
Let us sing of the days that are gone, Moggie,
When you and I were young.
A city so silent and lone, Moggie,
Where the young, and the gay, and the best,
In polished white mansions of stone, Moggie,
Have each found a place of rest,
Is built where the birds used to play, Moggie,
And join in the songs that we sung;
For we sang as lovely as they, Moggie,
When you and I were young.
Chorus
They say that I’m feeble with age, Moggie,
My steps are less sprightly than then,
My face is a well-written page, Moggie,
And time alone was the pen.
They say we are aged and grey, Moggie,
As sprays by the white breakers flung,
But to me you’re as fair as you were, Moggie,
When you and I were young.
Chorus
Hmmm … in Shakespear’s day they were referred to as “malkins” as in “greymalkin”= black cat in the witches scene in that scottish play:
Act 1 Scene 1
The witches are consulting the Tarot. First witch draws the 3 of cups followed by the blasted tower. Second witch draws 5 of wands followed by 5 of swords. Third witch draws Sun reversed. Second witch draws the hermit.
Witch 1: “I come, *Graymalkin!” (*black cat)
Witch 2: “**Paddock calls” (**toad or frog)
(I assume they are refering to their familliars.)
Witch 3 doesn’t seem to have one - she just says “Anon”.
I’d venture that the word “moggie” is more likely an extraction of “Malkin” than “Maggie”.