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Scots troops finds Afghans love sounds of bagpipes
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Posted on 12/02/2010 2:20:53 AM PST by MadMitch
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Scots-troops-find-Afghans-love.6647111.jp
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghan; afghanistan; bagpipes; scotland; scotlandyet; scots
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Scottish soldiers serving in Afghanistan have discovered a surprising taste among local people - a love of the bagpipes. Troops from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, received "enthusiastic acclaim" from Afghans when they played the pipes at a meeting to discuss security along a key road in Helmand Province
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posted on
12/02/2010 2:20:59 AM PST
by
MadMitch
To: MadMitch
thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Scots-troops-find-Afghans-love.6647111.jp
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posted on
12/02/2010 2:23:05 AM PST
by
MadMitch
To: MadMitch
yeah, ‘cause the sound of bagpipes tells the Afghans where the Scots are. ;-)
To: MadMitch
Perhaps because it sounds quite a bit like the snake-charmers flute.
To: David Isaac
I was thinking that they replicate the sound a goat makes when...
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posted on
12/02/2010 2:52:01 AM PST
by
BigCinBigD
(Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
To: MadMitch
Its in their legends. They've heard the 'pipes before.
Her Majesty's Troops, as well as Soldiers from Johns Company (The East India Company), were in the Afghan about 180 or so years ago.
With quite terrible results.
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posted on
12/02/2010 3:08:08 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus - Domari Nolo)
To: MadMitch
There once was a young Scotsman who moved off to Australia. His mother worrierd about him, so he wrote her every day to reassure her that he was doing well in his new apartment in Sydney.
But, after four weeks, he could take it no more, and he wrote her with the truth:
"Oh Mama! Sydney is a terrible place! My apartment building is horrible. The woman across the hall yells at me every day, the couple on the left fights all the time, and the man upstairs just threw himself out the window... But I am doing like you said and working hard, staying out of the bars, and practicing my pipes three hours each day..."
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posted on
12/02/2010 3:21:26 AM PST
by
Haiku Guy
(What we have here... is failure to communicate.)
To: Haiku Guy
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posted on
12/02/2010 3:24:04 AM PST
by
Calusa
(The pump won't prime 'cause the vandals took the handle. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
To: Haiku Guy
To: MadMitch
Just shows how screwed up things really are out there...
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posted on
12/02/2010 3:38:01 AM PST
by
Vanders9
To: sionnsar
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posted on
12/02/2010 4:01:35 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: MadMitch
Who doesn’t love the sound of bagpipes?
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posted on
12/02/2010 4:36:36 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
To: luvbach1
Who dat say dey don’t like those bagpipes, who dat?
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posted on
12/02/2010 4:48:43 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(TSA - The Silly Agency)
To: MadMitch
I'd like to see
this played more often for the Taliban.
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posted on
12/02/2010 4:56:36 AM PST
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SC DOC
To: MadMitch
I personally love the sound of bagpipes (maybe it’s in my Celtic blood or something). They have a haunting sound to me if played outside.
To: MadMitch
The bagpipe has come home at last...........................
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posted on
12/02/2010 5:43:35 AM PST
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Red Badger
(The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
To: MadMitch
They’d be changing their tune if they’d ever heard Mexican bagpipes.
To: MadMitch
Maybe it’s not bagpipes. Maybe it’s Fran Drescher.
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posted on
12/02/2010 6:04:25 AM PST
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Blogatron
(Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
To: momtothree
I personally love the sound of bagpipes Yep, me too but it wouldn't sadden me a bit if every accordion in the world suddenly came up missing.
To: Graybeard58
I love the sound of bagpipes. I also love the french accordion.
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