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Sandpoint Bagpiper Thrills Solons

Posted by DFO

March 17, 2009 1:24 p.m. • 25 comments

Legislators were treated to St. Patrick’s Day bagpiping by a Senate page from North Idaho, who admitted to pining for the pubs of Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene. Mallory Triplett’s heart will be with St. Joseph’s Pipe and Drum Corps tonight, though she’ll be in her temporary quarters in Boise. “It’s one of our best nights to make money, but I’ll be home tonight. I have nowhere else to go.” Triplett, 17, (a Sandpoint High senior) played five selections just before the House and Senate convened Tuesday morning, “Roses and Jacobites” “Athol Highlanders,” “Rowan Tree” “Scotland the Brave,” and finished with “Amazing Grace”/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here.

Question: Do you like bagpipe music?

25 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cindy_H on March 17 at 1:28 p.m.
From a distance, and after suitable quantities of green beer. What’s not to like about guys in skirts, anyway?
JeanC on March 17 at 1:37 p.m.
I love it.
Me on March 17 at 1:40 p.m.
I love it - and enjoyed it on Saturday night at the Beacon and O’Shays. Fun times. And Cindy - you gotta get away from the green beer and go for the Guinness! (also enjoyed that on Saturday night too!)
Cindy_H on March 17 at 1:49 p.m.
I am a beer weenie, Me.
I’ve tasted Guiness and found it too dark and strong for my taste. As someone once said, “It’s like drinking a steak.”
Bent’s brew is about as adventurous as I get, though I’d did quaff my first green beer at the Viking, of all places, last Friday night.
toadman on March 17 at 1:54 p.m.
Scotland the Brave always makes me homesick for the land of my ancestors. Skirts included. I’m getting a Utilikilt this summer, SO THERE!

http://www.utilikilts.com/

(secret note to CindyH: Lots of pictures of muscle bound men in kilts at that link…shhhh….)
Cindy_H on March 17 at 2:01 p.m.
Omigosh! ((Toad)) I’ve added the site to my favs list. I love the accent :-)
Nick_Adams on March 17 at 2:03 p.m.
I love it. There’s a piper who practices in the park near my home when the weather is decent. Last night was the first night I’ve heard him this year. Absolutely wonderful soundtrack for a walk with the dog through the foothills on a slightly damp, but temperate evening.
JeanC on March 17 at 2:22 p.m.
Drinking Guinness is like drinking liquid dirt. I’ll stick with ales :D
Me on March 17 at 2:25 p.m.
Cindy - I never liked dark beer before either. When we went to Ireland, I had to dive in. We went to the Guinness Storehouse where they give you a free pint up top with this beautiful view of Dublin. The company, the view - the Guinness tasted GREAT. I ended up drinking a lot of it that night and the nights after that. I have to say that it doesn’t taste here, like it did there. Over there you have to wait wait wait to get your beer because they pour it in two steps. They don’t seem to do that here and I think that’s why it doesn’t taste right.

Does anyone know of pub here or in Spokane that pours their Guinness properly?
toadman on March 17 at 2:39 p.m.
I think I’ve told this joke before.. but it warrants a re-tell, I think.

American beer is like making love in a canoe…it’s F#$!NG close to water.

;-)

I always go dark, or where ales are concerned, I go micro, or Euro, or Brit. Miller, and many other American ales taste like horse pee.

I had a Murphy’s Stout the other night…watching the head form out of the dark depths of the thick brew after I poured it, was downright magical. I also dig a Double Chocolate Stout from time to time.

The trick to serving dark beer is this: DON’T SERVE IT ICE COLD! Serve it just below room temperature (assuming the room is around 70 degrees, you understand). Any colder, or warmer, and it loses it’s flavor.

Also, Cindy, you know, I’m gonna get the Survival Utilikilt, maybe, this summer. It holds up to 12 pint cans or bottles of bitter in the pockets.

;-)
JBelle on March 17 at 3:11 p.m.
There may be something sexier than a man in a kilt, but I have no idea what. oh wait, a man with a pick up truck?
toadman on March 17 at 4:20 p.m.
I can’t help you there, Jbelle…I’ve had my share of trucks in the past, but I don’t own one now.. but I’ll be in need of one this spring, as I have some detritus around the house that is in want of a trip to the incinerator.
Stickman on March 17 at 8:12 p.m.
Of course. At Arlington, it is saved for our most honored heroes.

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