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"The Phone in the Bog"
« on: May 27, 2015, 05:52:27 PM »
Not a new tune but a real life event. Doh!

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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2015, 05:59:07 PM »
Makes a change from the Geese, Rees!, best wishes sf.
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2015, 12:03:07 AM »
 :||: Oh dear what can the matter be - etc  :||:

Burying in dry sawdust and sticking in a low oven (AGA bottom temp. equivalent) for a number of hours works well.

Depending on degree of 'contamination' a dunk in Eau de Anglesey, Dolgoch Drips, Snowdon Snowwater or similar expensive bottled H2O (others are available) may be advisable.

Blow out with airline, bycycle pump, over tuning table or souped up windjammer bellows.

HTH  Anne Drex  ;)
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2015, 08:07:06 AM »
Wot the hell are you lot on about?
It's down to Pikey and me to be surreal........or not as the case may be  8)  ;D
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2015, 08:42:12 AM »
Strange thread this....when I logged in last night, I read: "re: "The Phone in the Bog" by sticky fingers."  :-\
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2015, 09:32:33 AM »

Hope it wasn't one of those "long drop" bogs like they have in Third World countries...and at some Australian folk festivals!   >:E
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2015, 10:12:15 AM »
Quote from: Rees on May 27, 2015, 05:52:27 PM
Not a new tune but a real life event.

Great tune name though, perhaps you should write the tune to match?  :||:
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2015, 10:24:10 AM »
Didn't John Kirkpatrick write a song about just such an event?

I now have two choices....mow the lawn, or try to find out if he did or not.

I wonder which will win?  >:E
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2015, 10:41:13 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfrssF-gDEk

the lawn it is then.... :(

enjoy...
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2015, 10:55:43 AM »
Fantastic Baz, as usual
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2015, 01:30:38 PM »
Quote from: Nick Collis Bird on May 28, 2015, 10:55:43 AM
Fantastic Baz, as usual

You're too kind...I wish my memory for useful, day to day things was as good...
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2015, 02:04:58 PM »
Perhaps a modern take on the old music hall song "Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole" is appropriate....


A fellow used his i-phone in the toilet one night;
'Twas the latest of 6, such a delicate mite.
He was a bit pissed; the i-phone was thin,
Just some electronicals, covered in skin...

He reached for the toilet-roll off of the rack;
He was only a moment, but when he turned back
His i-phone had gone and in anguish he cried:
"Oh, where is my i-phone?" The angels replied:



You're i-phone has gone down the toilet;
Your i-phone has gone down the loo;
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin
And shouldn't be dropped where you poo... (where you poo)

Your i-phone is perfectly happy;
It won't need to be charged anymore.
Apple's have a big rap, but not for use where you c**p,
Not lost, just gone before.



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« Last Edit: May 28, 2015, 02:11:07 PM by Malcolm Clapp »
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2015, 02:56:11 PM »
Now that's really fantastic...
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2015, 04:58:09 PM »
I thought it had to be "bogs" if it wasn't the very wet stretch of ground upon which my ancestors trotted, but rather -- the loo!

My son (we are Americans of distant Irish descent) at age 11 saw one of my Boys of the Lough albums and called them the Boys of the Loo. Out of the mouths of babes??
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2015, 05:11:35 PM »
sorry folks, I should have expanded a bit, it was a play on words from Rees'es subject, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3SrtCONBfA a well known oirish jig!, sf.
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Re: "The Phone in the Bog"
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2015, 06:02:47 PM »
His tuner was on his phone. Even my Lilly came back wet tuned.
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