So, it was you that removed that silly reference to the buddha playing the HG?
where the hell did that guy get that from? On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Arle Lommel <[email protected]> wrote: > Ulrich, > > While I sympathize with your position, I feel like fighting the tide of > ignorance may be a bit like trying to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon. > However, just because I don't want to do it doesn't mean others should not, > and I'd be very happy to be proved wrong. My point merely was to explain > that that article was deliberately created (by me) as an escape valve to > help drain the constant flow of crap being added to main article. Since its > creation I've looked at it maybe twice and I've tried to keep the link > unobtrusive so that more people don't see it. > > Technically, by Wikipedia standards the article should not exist at all, > but people insist in putting stuff like "Metallica used hurdy-gurdy in one > of their songs. Metallica rulez!" into the lead paragraph on a regular basis > (and persist in reinserting it when removed) unless you give them a place to > dump it. > > -Arle > > > On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:15 , Ulrich Joosten wrote: > > Dear all, > > the “playing a gurdie’s keys from underneath” seems to be a Hollywood > pattern. Spotting the hurdy-gurdy in Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood” (at least > to see in the longer director’s cut) being played from underneath made me > feel pissed. The German subtitels of the score writer (not sure if that was > this guy ore somebody else) mentioning the hurdy-gurdy made me even more > angry because hurdy-gurdy was translated as “Leierkasten” what mens – of > course - “barrel organ”. > > So I am not really d’accord to Arle if we should not react regarding the > wiki. Do we really want that music of industry ignorants can display a > (probably) hungarian gurdy played with trompette (dubbed by Nigel Eaton) in > a movie pretending to show it’s story located in the medievals “more > historically correct”? > > Regards, > Uli > > > > > Am 13.10.10 02:45 schrieb "Arle Lommel" unter <[email protected]>: > > That recordings page was created to give every idiot who felt compelled to > write that <insert semifamous person here> once <choose one:thought > about/played/looked at/dreamed about/heard about> a hurdy-gurdy a place to > put down their fevered scribblings. Before that was created, these people > kept defacing the main article with their insatiable appetite for insipid > trivia. > > So I din't think it's worth wasting time on cleaning up that article in any > way since its sole reason for existence is to keep that crap from being > dumped into the main HG article. > > Just my two cents, but thought you might care to know why that stupid > article exists in the first place. > > -Arle > > > On Oct 13, 2010, at 01:36 , [email protected] wrote: > > A bit embarrassing, I think. Especially the point where Sting is attributed > to having played one on the Oscars, and that one is played by the Tom Hanks > character in Polar Express (no mention of the hand playing it from > underneath). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recordings_featuring_the_hurdy_gurdy > > At least the article on the gurdy itself is good... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy_gurdy > > Mitch Gordon > Guerneville, CA, US > > > -- > Ulrich Joosten, Nettergasse 35, 41539 Dormagen, Tel. 02133-210900 > [email protected] > [email protected] > www.gambrinus-folk.de > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from > new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hurdygurdy%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from > new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
