A properly descriptive title would have been "An Eight-Piper Dinner - Who? and Why Them?", but I get so frustrated with cryptic theme titles that I decided to do one myself !! LOL
If you have done this recently on forum please strike it out. But in the UK it's not unusual for us to discuss an imaginary dinner party, who we would most like to invite, and why. So, in the quiet time, when most of you are asleep and no hackers seem to be lurking, I let my mind wander along these lines - but for a 'Pipers Only' dinner party!
I decided to set myself some 'rules'. The dinner party would be restricted to eight (the max our dining table will seat); four forum members and four other pipers. AND I had to say WHY they were my choices.
These are my own personal preferences, and I know there are many other worthy choices in-forum and off-forum. One of the latter is no longer alive - so dead pipers are permitted!
If anyone else wishes to join in this piece of frivolity, please try to go by my rules. I will respond to every post that amuses me and try to ignore any offensive ones !! LOL
1. cigrmaster - because he has wide-ranging piping interests, is nice to all newcomers and is a PASSIONATE man!
2. peckinpahhombre - because he is sooo koool! lol, and there may be a frank exchange of views with Harris !! LOL
3. misterlowercase - because he is clearly as 'bonkers' as me!! LOL And he can practise his Jock accent!! lol
4. the old cajun - I would love to hear more of his stories, and his accent!! LOL
There are many other forum members I would like to invite if our dining table was as big as the one peck has in the west wing of his Ontarian mansion!! LOL
As non-forum guests (again very difficult to restrict to four) I would include:
5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - not so much because he penned "Sherlock Holmes", or was a student at my medical school, but because in later life he became interested in the 'spirit world' and could conduct a SEANCE for us - a dinner party entertainment in Victorian times !! LOL
6. Stephen Fry - a funny, funny man with an IQ and general knowledge the size of a planet! In 2003 he was the last Pipe Smoker of The Year, just before the PC bastards banned the competition!!
7. Willie John McBride. Still alive - Rugby Union legend; hated training but loved his pipe; past pipe smoker of the year; captain of the victorious British Lions side in the infamous S Africa tour. He was/is a hard, hard man and would maintain discipline!! LOL
8. Sir Ranulph Fiennes - modern explorer extraordinaire; past pipe smoker of the year; once cut off the ends of his frost-bitten fingers himself, with a hack-saw!! I'd like to see him arm-wrestle (he is a sheep farmer) Willie John - it would be close, I reckon.
Anyway, I've enjoyed myself, even if nobody else does! lol
If there is any interest in this post I will write a rambling piece on how the imaginary dinner progressed, if only to annoy roth !! LOL
If you have done this recently on forum please strike it out. But in the UK it's not unusual for us to discuss an imaginary dinner party, who we would most like to invite, and why. So, in the quiet time, when most of you are asleep and no hackers seem to be lurking, I let my mind wander along these lines - but for a 'Pipers Only' dinner party!
I decided to set myself some 'rules'. The dinner party would be restricted to eight (the max our dining table will seat); four forum members and four other pipers. AND I had to say WHY they were my choices.
These are my own personal preferences, and I know there are many other worthy choices in-forum and off-forum. One of the latter is no longer alive - so dead pipers are permitted!
If anyone else wishes to join in this piece of frivolity, please try to go by my rules. I will respond to every post that amuses me and try to ignore any offensive ones !! LOL
1. cigrmaster - because he has wide-ranging piping interests, is nice to all newcomers and is a PASSIONATE man!
2. peckinpahhombre - because he is sooo koool! lol, and there may be a frank exchange of views with Harris !! LOL
3. misterlowercase - because he is clearly as 'bonkers' as me!! LOL And he can practise his Jock accent!! lol
4. the old cajun - I would love to hear more of his stories, and his accent!! LOL
There are many other forum members I would like to invite if our dining table was as big as the one peck has in the west wing of his Ontarian mansion!! LOL
As non-forum guests (again very difficult to restrict to four) I would include:
5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - not so much because he penned "Sherlock Holmes", or was a student at my medical school, but because in later life he became interested in the 'spirit world' and could conduct a SEANCE for us - a dinner party entertainment in Victorian times !! LOL
6. Stephen Fry - a funny, funny man with an IQ and general knowledge the size of a planet! In 2003 he was the last Pipe Smoker of The Year, just before the PC bastards banned the competition!!
7. Willie John McBride. Still alive - Rugby Union legend; hated training but loved his pipe; past pipe smoker of the year; captain of the victorious British Lions side in the infamous S Africa tour. He was/is a hard, hard man and would maintain discipline!! LOL
8. Sir Ranulph Fiennes - modern explorer extraordinaire; past pipe smoker of the year; once cut off the ends of his frost-bitten fingers himself, with a hack-saw!! I'd like to see him arm-wrestle (he is a sheep farmer) Willie John - it would be close, I reckon.
Anyway, I've enjoyed myself, even if nobody else does! lol
If there is any interest in this post I will write a rambling piece on how the imaginary dinner progressed, if only to annoy roth !! LOL