Just a stretch. I need a music-only, no vocal, not midi version of Istanbul (Not Constantinople). Right now.

No, don't ask why. Yes, I have been drinking.

Answers on a postcard, please. Or via email. Or IM me. Or something. Your reward will be before you get to heaven, depending on (a) your sex (B) my mood © mumblemumble.

Fly, my pretties, fly! This comes in at a lot less than 8k words, so count yourselves lucky, youse lucky devils youse.

(Alcohol tends to make me drop back into culchie chat, not that I am a culchie. Nope.)

dumb emoticons. I mean, trying to do a list (yes, I know there is another way, but hell, don't stop me now)

so that should be: (B) => open bracket b close bracket without spaces. Obviously
© => open bracket c close bracket. Slightly less obviously, but obvious all the same.

Sheesh. I give up. I shouldn'ta left the beer garden. Drinking in the sun. Only mad dogs and Englishmen, and the odd Irish bloke laughing at them.

Oh StrayToaster, if only you were single... :wub:

Yes, I've been drinking too. And no, I can't help you in your quest.

I had not been drinking, and can't help on the quest.

But I almost wish I had been drinking now.

In translation corner, what's a culchie?

I asked our IRC channel bot, and she replied:

19:05 <@StrayTaoist> culchie?
19:05 <+discordia> boysadear, hey, the heefers is calving

which probably doesn't clear it up any. Urban dictionary definition might. But then you would miss a lot of the inferences.

Oh, and Ms Herring, feel free to buy me a drink sometime.

Our bot, which has NO CODE FROM ME IN IT, NOT ANY, HONEST knows lots of things.

A few snippets:

19:10 <@StrayTaoist> be me
19:10 * discordia shakes walking stick at youngsters. Curse my metal body.

19:12 <@MartyMC> never
19:12 <+discordia> Quoth the Paisley

(see, now my mates are helping me out)

19:15 <@StrayTaoist> doom song
19:15 <+discordia> I'm gonna sing the doom song now! o/` Doom doom, d-doom doom, d-doom doom DOOM! Doom d-doom, doom! Doom d-doom doom,
d-doom doom doooooomm, d-d-DOOOM! Doom doom, d-doom doom d-doom doom doom! Doom!..

(note the time delay. some of the factoids she knows are a bit, well, um, delicate.)

19:16 <@StrayTaoist> sweet
19:16 <+discordia> cooooooooool
19:16 <@StrayTaoist> cool
19:16 <+discordia> sweeeeeeeet
19:16 <@StrayTaoist> bah
19:16 <+discordia> humbug
19:16 <@StrayTaoist> humbug
19:16 <+discordia> bah

laugh a minute. But please note, I am not a geek/nerd/waster, I have no idea even what I am talking about there. IRC? Is that like some Russian seekrit service?