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[> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- The Ed, 22:59:28, Wed, May 12 2004 [1]

I can't moderate. Neither myself, nor this site. It's the nature of the beast.

Actually, when I read the original post I couldn't help noting what a superb name "Rage against the Poteen" was. The original "Rage against the machine" logo currently graces my wardrobe door underneath Korda's famous "Heroic Guerilla" picture of Che.

Great name for a band. Are they any good?

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[> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- Ken E, 9:10:40, Thu, May 13 2004 [1]

Yes, we are. As half of the band - it's just Eek and me playing an acoustic set - I am qualified to reply!

We have an hour's set, comprising a couple of funny songs -eg The Bricklayer's song - and several of those "popular traditional songs" - Wild Rover, Dirty Old Town, Black Velvet Band etc - and some odds and sods.

It is great fun, but we decided to expand and added three more players - drums, bass and keyboards - to become the Gagging Ferrets. The Ferrets are basically a rock group.

There is talk within the band of forming a squiffle group (ie playing skiffle when you are p----d)which woud be halfway between the Rage and the Ferrets.

Who knows what would happen next? Jimmy Shand or Victor Sylvester, anyone?

(And back to Cath's post - I have to confess I hadn't heard of Rage against the Machine when Eek suggested the name)

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- The Ed, 9:14:34, Thu, May 13 2004 [1]

Squiffle?!!

Superb...!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- Eek, 13:32:22, Thu, May 13 2004 [1]

Squiffle

Folking about

and

ROCK

we do all kinds of stuff

(and we're cheap)

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- SteveS, 23:51:50, Thu, May 13 2004 [1]

I have to agree with the Ed (no, I actually HAVE TO, unless I do so four times a week I get BANNED from here), Rage Against the Poteen is one of the COOLEST names for a band I've ever heard.

And they actually follow that by PLAYING MUSIC as well? Marvellous stuff Eek and Ken.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- PeterS, 13:41:06, Fri, May 14 2004 [1]

I dunno, Steve, Rage against the Poteen sounds like they've signed the Pledge. Pioneers forever! Not.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- The Ed, 23:10:35, Fri, May 14 2004 [1]

Er, hold it right there, Peter.

A drop of poteen from one of my Uncle Paul's "homemade" vintages brewed specially in Enniscrone, Co Sligo, burned a hole in my skirt once. The evil swine replaced the holy water in one of my mother's protective bottles with poteen to wind up another Uncle, Fr Tom (Tom being one of the white fathers, having spent time as a missionary in Ghana and Nigeria. He was rather an alarming kind of priest. Very fond of reciting death notices. In the middle of the night if neccessary. Still sends my mother lists of dead people to cheer her up). Anyway, rather unfortunately, in the middle of a particularly vicious thunderstorm, mammy grabbed her "holy water" bottle and sprinkled it liberally about the house. My skirt was the most serious casualty. Thank god no one lit a cigarette or I wouldn't be here to tell the tale.

To say I felt a certain amount of rage against the poteen under these circumstances would be an understatement, and I'm certainly not a candidate for the pioneers!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be poteen -- gabriel, 11:45:40, Sat, May 15 2004 [1]

In what was formerly the PPs house, and a long time ago an army barracks, in a lovely village in South Armagh some very good friends of mine keep the poteen in the former tabernacle. I don't think there is any confusion with holy water...or perhaps there is.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- PeterS, 21:06:25, Sat, May 15 2004 [1]

Cath, that is by far and away the most outrageous piece of flim-flam, mis-direction, non-sequitur,gibberish and unmitigated bollix that I've ever encountered on this or any other message board. I take my hat off to you.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- The Ed, 0:25:30, Sun, May 16 2004 [1]

It's feckin' true, you gobshite!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- PeterS, 15:30:07, Sun, May 16 2004 [1]

Personal abuse now is it? I think I'll complain to the Editor. And another thing. How come Eek, Hector, SamB and I keep coming up in bright blue on this ramshackle excuse for a message board. It makes me feel like a Daily Mail reader.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- Loobs, 6:08:13, Mon, May 17 2004 [1]

That's probably because you put an email address in the relevant box, Peter. Dangerous thing, you might get Steve sending you mail!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- PeterS, 19:47:00, Mon, May 17 2004 [1]

There was a time until fairly recently when I used to get mail from Steve. However, I think I must have upset him because now despite the fact that I sit and wait for most of the day and night, nothing comes through. I rather think I've been jilted.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Poteen can be two edged.... -- PGT, 14:57:56, Mon, May 17 2004 [1]

Cath,

I think my Uncle Charlie met your Uncle Paul one day on the road out of Enniscrone because he talks of meeting a man who, on learning he had a heavy cold, offered him a 'cure'.

A few hours later he was driving into Ballymote town when he met a funeral coming down the hill to the Church. Being the respectful soul that he is (and he's another who reads the death notices first thing each morning 'because you never know' - I suppose its as well to be sure you haven't passed away in the night!) he stopped to pay his respects.

It was then he noticed that (at least as far as he was concerned) there were 3 hearses side by side across the road (for those who don't know Enniscrone is a good 30 miles from Ballymote!) which made him realise he was 'a little worse for wear'.

Anyhow, he drove home and took to his bed for three days because each time he got up ('with a divil of a thirst') he fell over after drinking a few glasses of water.

To this day he says it was the worst cold he has ever had in 80+ years!

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[> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- Loobs, 7:35:38, Fri, May 14 2004 [1]

Moderation in all things, and plenty of it! That's my motto, Steve.

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[> [> [> Re: Publicity can be two edged.... -- SteveS, 15:19:58, Fri, May 14 2004 [1]

I understand Loobs - JamesC has the same idea with his "extreme moderate" pledge.

Alas, I'm cut from slightly different cloth - but thank heavens there aren't many of me about! Here's my motto, said by one of my all-time heroes:

Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek
Our programme to retouch,
And will insist, whene�er they speak
That we demand too much.
�Tis passing strange, yet I declare
Such statements give me mirth,
For our demands most moderate are,
We only want the earth!