Have you seen bagpipes played in the presence of a cat? Suddenly there is no cat, nothing but hints of fur blown about by the air rushing into a small vaccum hole.
Cats don't react well to machanical profanity played in their own language. 
Posted on 07/04/2002 5:27:12 PM PDT by blam
Have you seen bagpipes played in the presence of a cat? Suddenly there is no cat, nothing but hints of fur blown about by the air rushing into a small vaccum hole.
Cats don't react well to machanical profanity played in their own language.
In all fairness to Thor, I think we should note that those who disagreed with Thor never proved anything conclusively either. They simply had the weight of "tradition", that anchor to progress which incorporates unsubstantiated speculation in the absence of other answers, and over time becomes known as "settled fact".
The true history of the Lost Tribes of Israel also has to challenge wholly unsubstantiated and agenda-driven "traditional" views of history. And that is now happening.
As it turns out no Celtic language has been incorporated into either.
Gallo, as a language derives primarily from Latin.
Important Note - it is likely none of the Angevenian royalty who lived in Brittany ever bothered to learn any part of English.
The current language used in Galicia IS NOT GAELIC!
The Spanish and Portuguese brutally suppressed the speaking of Galician in the 1500s, whereupon it died out. Currently there is a dispute raging in the area over whether they should use the Spanish or the Portuguese version of the Gallegos language - .
Eventually this will all be resolved in favor of English.
Do you deny Europe had a Dark Age? Do you deny the pipe to be the most sublime instrument ever developed for the making of music?
They’ll be opening casinos throughout the UK.
No. Most of us were taught that the Dark Ages were (more or less) exclusively an European thing. I was just stating that whatever (comet into the Celtic Sea?) caused the Dark Ages had a worldwide impact.
"Do you deny the pipe to be the most sublime instrument ever developed for the making of music?"
I have zero knowledge about pipes
The Chinese experience extended to several hundred years. Writing and Buddhism was taken to Japan shortly after their start in 538AD, so we must assume Japan was much better off than the Chinese Mainland or Korea!
Mohammad and his Disciples were off to a running start to roll back the Dark Ages in the 600s while Northern and Western Europe became virtually depopulated. Something besides bad food drove the Angels and Saxons off the continent and into the Isles.
American Indian civilizations suffered mightily in that period.
Still, the bagpipes received their most salubrious development in the 600 to 1700 period, and that was in the hands of the Gaelic speaking people in the Celtic Fringe!
(NOTE - everybody knows what is meant by pipe or pipes except, perhaps, hash smokers.)
And plumbers. Cats have a genetic understanding.
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Works for me. Without getting too picky, the only caveat is the German connection. The geography we today call Germany was named after the Celtic tribe named The Germani. But these Germani Celts were driven west and north by non-Celtic tribes called Huns who then occupied the territory. However it was not renamed "Hunsville" or the like after them.
Todays Germany is a mix of Slavic Huns ("roundheads") and Celts ("fish heads"). Some of northern Germany is Celtic (like Denmark), but so are many parts of the rest of the country. Most of East Germany is Slavic, as well as much of the south. But trying to determine it closer than that is beyond my ability or interest. That's a real can of worms.
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