"Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"

It is actually pretty funny.

What is a hurdy-gurdy?

"Offramp"  wrote in message 
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> "Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
> him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
> big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"
>
> It is actually pretty funny.
>
> What is a hurdy-gurdy?

 http://users.powernet.co.uk/carlton/gurdy/index.html

"Offramp"  wrote in message 
news:44bda239-09be-4489-b401-4e72656d356b@f20g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
> "Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
> him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
> big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"
>
> It is actually pretty funny.
>
> What is a hurdy-gurdy?

A nice video clearly showing a hurdy-gurdy being played can be found at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DX08nQows0

-=# Amos E Wolfe #=-

On 8 Feb, 19:41, Offramp  wrote:
> "Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
> him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
> big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"

I know some CAMRites who fit that description to a T.

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   Offramp  wrote:
> "Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
> him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
> big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"

Many of us do this, of course!

-- 
Chris de Cordova (West Cumbria & Western Lakes) www.westcumbriacamra.org.uk
Whitehaven Beer Festival: 21st & 22nd Nov 2008 (www.whitehavenbeerfestival.co.uk)
www.cumbrianbreweries.org.uk for good craic on our beers!

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

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   Uncle Dunkel  wrote:
> On 8 Feb, 19:41, Offramp  wrote:
> > "Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
> > him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
> > big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"

> I know some CAMRites who fit that description to a T.

I know some people who aren't members of Camra who fit that description to
a T...

-- 
Christine Pampling
www.pandorasboxhealing.com

On 9 Feb, 08:06, Chris de Cordova  wrote:
> In article
> ,
>    Offramp  wrote:
>
> > "Why, when I am going to meet a man so high up in CAMRA, do I expect
> > him to come Morris dancing into the room with hardly any teeth and a
> > big beard, playing the hurdy-gurdy?"
>
> Many of us do this, of course!

I used to go to a great weekly folk/blues session at a club in
Canterbury (c.1992-5) & most weeks a local hurdy-gurdy player would
get up & do a solo spot (he also regularly busked in town. He was/is
an amazing player.

Happily the club also sold cask beer, but I had to leave, as I'd
noticed that hair had begun to grow on my toes & I linked it to the
folk/ale combination - I've since learnt it's known as Hobbito
Syndrome. Now I listen to Smooth FM & drinker white wine spritzers &
everything's right with the world.