The snake clearly wasn’t charmed. Who is by bagpipe music?
dvandom has it. Bagpipes and accordions are the mimes of music. Standard “everybody hates this” jokes.
Although bagpipes sound similar to what the snake-charmer usually plays.
In comics and in jokes, nobody likes bagpipes, bagpipe music, or
bagpipers. The same is true for a few other instruments.
The definition of “perfect pitch” is throwing a banjo/bodhran/accordion/set of bagpipes [pick one] out a window and hitting a [select second instrument from group above] (and, sadly, I have taken lessons on all of them)
I was surprised to learn that violists have a tradition of viola jokes, mostly about being underappreciated, or regarded as failed violinists. Rarely about the instrument not sounding good, but sometimes like that.
Hey, any sign of Heather, the musician and conductor from Canada? I think she contributed some viola jokes.
@Catlover: I was not aware there were jokes about bodhrans. Bodhran players, sure, pretty much like drummer jokes in general. I actually like all the instruments you listed. Most of them wind up taking heat because of the music associated with them. If accordions made people think of zydeco instead of polka, they’d be a lot more popular.
Catlover’s bodhran link has a couple of chuckles in it, but the very last line on the page was almost as amusing as the jokes: “Last updated Aug 3, 2001“.
@Kilby – so we need to write some new ones? What does a bodhran player have in common with an Ethereum Smart Contract? You may know that smart contracts are neither smart nor contracts! What does a bodhran have in common with Bitcoin? (Clever response goes here. Maybe something about a crashing sound.)
A Bizarro with allusion to accordion being disliked —
And one on the banjo!
So Piraro is finally admitting that the stupid pie slice and eyeball are irritating? Or is it Wayno slipping that in?
I haven’t looked carefully but a casual survey of the Wayno-drawn panels seem to stick to just one or two Easter eggs. (Though I did just see one with four.)
Nice point, larK. But I’m most worried by the cigar!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes : bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf.
So in the spirit of perpetuating stereotypes, is the snake-charmer caricature an Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi/subcontinent thing or is it also associate-able to the Middle East? In other words, how much of the bagpipe’s cultural/musical ecosystem overlaps with the range of the western concept of the snake-charmer caricature? Because if there’s enough overlap then there’s no reason why the snake-charmer caricature wouldn’t regularly use bagpipes to charm snakes.
More than the two Bizarro panels themselves, what I’m really interested in is how Mitch4 was able to get the images to appear in the comment, rather than just the URL.
More than the two Bizarro panels themselves, what I’m really interested in is how Mitch4 was able to get the images to appear in the comment, rather than just the URL
I have to dissent a bit from Arthur’s answer, although his insertion of the Off The Mark panel in the Shotgun thread was indeed a fortuitous and fortunate result, that tipped us off that this is possible. But it’s not (after some investigation) entirely mysterious.
Anyone interested can read the details as they developed there, but the main points are (let’s see if an HTML ordered list will work!):
You don’t use the whole mechanism of typing an IMG tag yourself and giving the URL as its SRC attribute.
Rather, you just paste the URL to the image file, and WP converts it into IMG or whatever pulls in the image to display. Similar to how if you paste a URL to a web page it will convert it into an A tag, that is, a clickable link.
BUT the URL has to transparently identify an image file, of a normal filetype extension like .gif or .jpg, and the URL needs to just directly go there, not via some search or lookup or encoding. (Also, not a .html link to a page containing the image, even if that is all that is on the page.)
(Comment in moderation, but FYI the HTML OL tag doesn’t seem to work.)
(Reply to Olivier on Viola.)
While the Pacifica Quartet were visiting here last year, their violist at the time, Masumi Per Rostad gave a (free) additional recital along with his wife, pianist Sonia Shiang Whun Rostad. A highlight for me was the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821, which apparently is nowadays played often on the modern viola.
(However, the YouTube clip that comes up most has it played by Yo Yo Ma on cello. https://youtu.be/6n7Jbe5f7EE )
This is good music but too modern for me (!). There is a tension in baroque music that works well for me. Pascal Quignard writes very well about that. Have you seen ‘All the mornings of the world’ (1991)?
I was trying to find ‘Les amusemens’ by Charles Dolle but there is only an extract available here (#10): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pi%C3%A8ces-de-caract%C3%A8re/1189198972
This is a very good album, by the way.
Meanwhile, now that Wayno has taken over Bizarro’s workweek duties, his own strip (“Waynovision“) has gone into reruns. Is this a merger, or a friendly takeover scheme?
(Reply to Kilby.) I can’t say I’ve been closely following the blogs at http://www.bizarro.com for news and explanations, but the glimpses I’ve taken have shown Piraro writing things like “When Wayno and I were discussing the idea for this gag, I urged him to …” .
So it’s hard to see what their quasi-collaborative arrangement might be, but it seems somewhere between hired-hand and apprentice-being-groomed-for-autonomous-takeover. We can hope not the latter, considering how the transition at “Brevity” worked out.
“Meanwhile, now that Wayno has taken over Bizarro’s workweek duties, his own strip (“Waynovision“) has gone into reruns. Is this a merger, or a friendly takeover scheme?”
As of the first of the year, Piraro is semi-retired. http://bizarro.com/2017/12/31/famous-liars/
Wayno has retired his old comic to concentrate on Bizarro. (That’s according to his own blog. There’s a link in Piraro’s blog post.)
My reenactment unit does the St Patrick’s parade for the community that our headquarters are in. (Sort of expected of us, but the unit does get paid a bit). It seems that every fire department on the Island has a bagpipe band. Many of them are in the parade (which is not on St Pat day so people can also go to the one in NYC). We line up ahead of time and every bagpipe band is “tuning up” at once.
Then again, I would rather follow a bag pipe band than the rather large motorcycle club which sounds – and smells – much worse.
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Okay. That’s why I posted this mid-day.
Bagpipes are not charming, apparently.
The snake clearly wasn’t charmed. Who is by bagpipe music?
dvandom has it. Bagpipes and accordions are the mimes of music. Standard “everybody hates this” jokes.
Although bagpipes sound similar to what the snake-charmer usually plays.
In comics and in jokes, nobody likes bagpipes, bagpipe music, or
bagpipers. The same is true for a few other instruments.
The definition of “perfect pitch” is throwing a banjo/bodhran/accordion/set of bagpipes [pick one] out a window and hitting a [select second instrument from group above] (and, sadly, I have taken lessons on all of them)
I was surprised to learn that violists have a tradition of viola jokes, mostly about being underappreciated, or regarded as failed violinists. Rarely about the instrument not sounding good, but sometimes like that.
Hey, any sign of Heather, the musician and conductor from Canada? I think she contributed some viola jokes.
@Catlover: I was not aware there were jokes about bodhrans. Bodhran players, sure, pretty much like drummer jokes in general. I actually like all the instruments you listed. Most of them wind up taking heat because of the music associated with them. If accordions made people think of zydeco instead of polka, they’d be a lot more popular.
@DemetriosX: see http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran/jokes.shtml et al. Agree with your other points.
Catlover’s bodhran link has a couple of chuckles in it, but the very last line on the page was almost as amusing as the jokes: “Last updated Aug 3, 2001“.
@Kilby – so we need to write some new ones? What does a bodhran player have in common with an Ethereum Smart Contract? You may know that smart contracts are neither smart nor contracts! What does a bodhran have in common with Bitcoin? (Clever response goes here. Maybe something about a crashing sound.)
A Bizarro with allusion to accordion being disliked —
And one on the banjo!
So Piraro is finally admitting that the stupid pie slice and eyeball are irritating? Or is it Wayno slipping that in?
I haven’t looked carefully but a casual survey of the Wayno-drawn panels seem to stick to just one or two Easter eggs. (Though I did just see one with four.)
Nice point, larK. But I’m most worried by the cigar!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes : bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf.
So in the spirit of perpetuating stereotypes, is the snake-charmer caricature an Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi/subcontinent thing or is it also associate-able to the Middle East? In other words, how much of the bagpipe’s cultural/musical ecosystem overlaps with the range of the western concept of the snake-charmer caricature? Because if there’s enough overlap then there’s no reason why the snake-charmer caricature wouldn’t regularly use bagpipes to charm snakes.
More than the two Bizarro panels themselves, what I’m really interested in is how Mitch4 was able to get the images to appear in the comment, rather than just the URL.
Kilby, it seems to be semirandomly automagical. See
https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/c/comment-page-1/#comment-410
I like viola ; here’s a good one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xVFAjdYdHk
Kilby asks:
And Arthur offers as answer:
I have to dissent a bit from Arthur’s answer, although his insertion of the Off The Mark panel in the Shotgun thread was indeed a fortuitous and fortunate result, that tipped us off that this is possible. But it’s not (after some investigation) entirely mysterious.
The investigation was in the “Sirichronicity” thread, … Infact, starting from your own comment, Kilby, at https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/sirichronicity/comment-page-1/#comment-415 , so it is perhaps surprising that the response thread remained unkn own to you! :-) [Yeah, this would be easier with comment numbers!]
Anyone interested can read the details as they developed there, but the main points are (let’s see if an HTML ordered list will work!):
You don’t use the whole mechanism of typing an IMG tag yourself and giving the URL as its SRC attribute.
Rather, you just paste the URL to the image file, and WP converts it into IMG or whatever pulls in the image to display. Similar to how if you paste a URL to a web page it will convert it into an A tag, that is, a clickable link.
BUT the URL has to transparently identify an image file, of a normal filetype extension like .gif or .jpg, and the URL needs to just directly go there, not via some search or lookup or encoding. (Also, not a .html link to a page containing the image, even if that is all that is on the page.)
(Comment in moderation, but FYI the HTML OL tag doesn’t seem to work.)
(Reply to Olivier on Viola.)
While the Pacifica Quartet were visiting here last year, their violist at the time, Masumi Per Rostad gave a (free) additional recital along with his wife, pianist Sonia Shiang Whun Rostad. A highlight for me was the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821, which apparently is nowadays played often on the modern viola.
(However, the YouTube clip that comes up most has it played by Yo Yo Ma on cello. https://youtu.be/6n7Jbe5f7EE )
This is good music but too modern for me (!). There is a tension in baroque music that works well for me. Pascal Quignard writes very well about that. Have you seen ‘All the mornings of the world’ (1991)?
I was trying to find ‘Les amusemens’ by Charles Dolle but there is only an extract available here (#10): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pi%C3%A8ces-de-caract%C3%A8re/1189198972
This is a very good album, by the way.
Meanwhile, now that Wayno has taken over Bizarro’s workweek duties, his own strip (“Waynovision“) has gone into reruns. Is this a merger, or a friendly takeover scheme?
(Reply to Kilby.) I can’t say I’ve been closely following the blogs at http://www.bizarro.com for news and explanations, but the glimpses I’ve taken have shown Piraro writing things like “When Wayno and I were discussing the idea for this gag, I urged him to …” .
So it’s hard to see what their quasi-collaborative arrangement might be, but it seems somewhere between hired-hand and apprentice-being-groomed-for-autonomous-takeover. We can hope not the latter, considering how the transition at “Brevity” worked out.
“Meanwhile, now that Wayno has taken over Bizarro’s workweek duties, his own strip (“Waynovision“) has gone into reruns. Is this a merger, or a friendly takeover scheme?”
As of the first of the year, Piraro is semi-retired. http://bizarro.com/2017/12/31/famous-liars/
Wayno has retired his old comic to concentrate on Bizarro. (That’s according to his own blog. There’s a link in Piraro’s blog post.)
My reenactment unit does the St Patrick’s parade for the community that our headquarters are in. (Sort of expected of us, but the unit does get paid a bit). It seems that every fire department on the Island has a bagpipe band. Many of them are in the parade (which is not on St Pat day so people can also go to the one in NYC). We line up ahead of time and every bagpipe band is “tuning up” at once.
Then again, I would rather follow a bag pipe band than the rather large motorcycle club which sounds – and smells – much worse.