This will be the last thread on the old site. I am honored.
So since this won't make it to the new site, I can spoil it for you:
Jens Voigt joins tour of Utah for stage 2. Race organizers will give him the time of the peloton for stage 2. He will be riding for both trek and I AM cycling and will automatically win the most aggressive rider.
Post in my cool thread before it's too late!!!!!!
italianblend
2016-08-01 18:54:52
This thread is doomed.
edronline
2016-08-02 06:53:41
not yet!?
helen-s
2016-08-02 06:54:46
DOOMED I SAY!
benzo
2016-08-02 08:09:58
YEAH!!!!!!!
emma
2016-08-02 08:22:44
What am I supposed to do, work?
edmonds59
2016-08-02 09:00:20
Everybody's trying to post last.
jonawebb
2016-08-02 09:02:31
hm, might this be the last post?
[and, yes, get back to work]
ahlir
2016-08-02 09:20:00
Sigh. What is this, YouTube? ;^P
ornoth
2016-08-02 09:59:06
TubeYou
mikhail
2016-08-02 11:17:38
Still here. Alberto Contador
italianblend
2016-08-02 12:21:03
Contador? Meh. Today is all about reigning world champion Lizzie Armitstead and her three missed doping tests
chrishent
2016-08-02 12:36:06
"Doomed thread", you say?
Time to cut/burn that bridge, Dr. Jones!
ninjaturtle0304
2016-08-02 12:52:36
looks like a day delay.
erok
2016-08-02 12:58:13
cool thread concept tho
erok
2016-08-02 12:58:25
YouTube? Someone say YouTube?
https://youtu.be/p14yH5LY3_M
ahlir
2016-08-02 13:00:19
You don't see someone playing a hurdy-gurdy (not sure on the spelling) very often.
helen-s
2016-08-02 14:26:07
Rui Costa for president.
italianblend
2016-08-02 14:50:44
marko82
2016-08-02 15:06:15
Fuckin' Eevee
jonawebb
2016-08-02 15:38:22
This whole thread really is supposed to go poof by the end of the week. Right?
Anyway.
That's indeed a 'gurdy. More ominously, the dude in the middle is playing a bombard (the high-pitched sound). The vid is from last week, at the Grand Bal de l'Europe. Gurdies are pretty common in the French trad scene. They're showing up in modern designs; I'm told there's a MIDI implementation.
ahlir
2016-08-02 16:36:58
Why is this still up? Maybe my stupid replies will be here after the conversion.
edronline
2016-08-02 17:18:05
Wouldn't it be funny if, when the new board comes up, the only thread preserved was this one?
(Answer: No, funny is what it would not be.)
I'm impressed that somewhere, the name hurdy-gurdy comes up so frequently that it requires the shorthand "gurdy".
steven
2016-08-02 18:16:42
paulheckbert
2016-08-02 19:45:19
Brits seem to call it a gurdy.
The locals call it a 'vielle', shortening 'vielle à roue'.
In the hope that this thread will indeed soon disappear, and perhaps to hasten that outcome, allow me to sneak in the following clips:
Patrick Buffard & Gilles Chabenat:
https://youtu.be/YNjDUeDCAic
Gilles Chabenat:
https://youtu.be/TkcUaw2unYY
Tobie Miller:
https://youtu.be/ndZvzs2AE_g
Buffard is in the dance scene, the others I think are more performance oriented.
https://youtu.be/RQB4g0I73dg
It's ok, I'm going to bed.
ahlir
2016-08-02 21:04:19
LAST!
jaysherman5000
2016-08-03 07:25:22
oh really?
ahlir
2016-08-03 07:54:39
The thing is is that no one will truly nknowthey are last.
edronline
2016-08-03 09:30:20
in before threadlock
lenticular-truss
2016-08-03 10:21:35
not yet?
helen-s
2016-08-03 11:00:31
That is a fantastic instrument. I want to move to France.
edmonds59
2016-08-03 11:34:46
2nd attempt.
LAST get!
jaysherman5000
2016-08-03 12:08:19
Take that leap of faith, Dr. Jones!
ninjaturtle0304
2016-08-03 13:48:29
!TSAL
mikhail
2016-08-03 15:15:00
paulheckbert
2016-08-03 15:35:05
Well, I know of only one gurdy player in Pittsburgh. But she plays the Balkan variant.
There's periodic bals and soirees in town, follow this group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/182324948478861/
ahlir
2016-08-03 16:07:38
Captain jean luc Picard
italianblend
2016-08-03 17:00:23
I had problems connecting to the forum a while ago, and I thought the forum transfer was in progress. Oh well...
Raider of the Lost (Conversation) Arc -
"Careful with that SWAP, Dr. Jones!"
ninjaturtle0304
2016-08-03 20:08:38
nah.
More like Jabba the Hutt. Don't you think?
[And no, I'm not going to post that video of Carrie Fisher's career low point.]
Something I need to know: This thread will not appear in the newer, better, guaranteed AI-regulated mb/... right, guys?
ahlir
2016-08-03 20:21:30
Whoops. Crappy legacy mb software did a double-post. Deleted.
But hey, now I have an extra slot. Read this instead:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/03/theres-only-one-way-to-save-the-american-dream/
ahlir
2016-08-03 20:29:25
Looks like the new board is live!
benzo
2016-08-08 09:03:16
Reading this thread again is like waking up with a hangover after a night of partying.
edronline
2016-08-13 20:54:31
sorry to disappoint anyone who'd hoped nobody'd ever see their contributions to this thread, but it is alive and well on the new board...
epanastrophe
2016-08-20 17:14:16
What happened in this tread. Stays in this thread.
italianblend
2016-08-21 19:04:29
ahlir
2016-08-21 20:09:42
OK, I just remembered the following incident and I'm pretty sure it doesn't merit its own thread.
Anyway, one day I needed to go down to the South Side in my car (I forget why just now). Driving along, I reflect that I'm on Boundary, intending to get on the * Hollow Trail. Question: Should I have sought an Intervention?
If you feel compelled to reply, please try to be supportive.
ahlir
2016-09-01 19:03:16
Nah, just an Intersection, so you could turn around and go back a different route...
[I periodically find myself attempting to drive using routing methods I use on the bike, but it's more often I realize I don't have any business on Gold Way than the Trail Way...]
epanastrophe
2016-09-01 20:03:04
b^2: thank you for that life-affirming reply.
And now, for your holiday weekend entertainment: a medley featuring a cool electric gurdy and a cornemuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-oor_iaqa4
The group, La Machine, is a big deal in the trad scene.
ahlir
2016-09-02 18:03:39