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Only the most famous Newfoundland folk song ever... Deddy can explain better when he gets here. Pretty sad kitchen party without Deddy, since he's bringin the Screech.


I don't want your maggoty fish
That's no good for winter
I could buy as good as that
Down in Bonavista.

Thanks for explaining, Tamper Lad.

Folk music in general is one of those things I respect more than actually listen to. But that's just my opinion.

And hopefully, next time I won't be feeling so lazy and I'll actually post the picture of the bunny with the pancake on its head.

Sometimes it's OK to leave things to the imagination.

The only shanty I remember is the one about accountancy. I was sort of accountant-like there for a year or so, back when I was still a "permanent" employee.

"I'll scribble away, and balance the books..."

Years ago, when I lived in Boston, I frequented a piano bar, now long-since closed. There was a man who used to go there who was possibly the ugliest man I've ever seen and who had a voice that sounded vaguely like Jimmy Durante's. Somehow, he managed to get the pianists to let him sing solos regularly. One of his regular songs was "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town".

I'm forever getting the word "shanty" confused with the word " shandy ."

All this sea shanty talk makes me feel like a pirate!

Time to fire up Vuse!

Sounds like a good time to re-post my '08 Halloween pic:

the Dread Pirate Rocky!

That was that year's Halloween theme at work. Last year we were cowpersons. This year, we're talking about dressing as fairy tale characters, or, library parlance, the 398.2s.

You should dress up as librarians. The women would have their hair in buns with a pencil holding it in place and they all wear high collar white blouses with gray skirts. The guys wear a teed jacket with patches on the elbows, a bow tie, and half moon glasses.

wouldn't that defeat the purpose of dressing up for Halloween?

That and, even though none of us dresses like that ordinarily, I don't think the public would get it.

Well, you would just have to walk around with your finger over your mouth going "Shhhhhh! Shush!"

So they'd just think we were behaving normally but had adopted a frumpy style of dress. Actually, "Please walk!" is probably more commonly heard than shushing.

how about dressing up as fast-food employees?

When I was a librarian, I treated every day as Halloween. Ever since the mid-90s, when I developed my goth-glam-ghoul-girl look insipired by Shirley Manson, the lead singer of Garbage.

It didn't put patrons at ease, but I didn't think I was there to look the way they wanted me to look, I was there to either check out or check in library materials. A lot of people refused to let me wait on them, which upset me at the time. But I'm not bitter anymore. These days, I do all my work over the phone, so that eliminates any appearance-related awkwardness.

Somehow, I think we'll stick with the fairy tale theme.

I own a Beanie-Babies unicorn named Fairy Tale.

Couldn't I be an enchanted librarian?

Lord knows, it would take some kind of enchantment to make my hair stay up as depicted in the image Quis posted. Either that, or an entire gross of hairpins and two cartons of hairspray.

If you were an enchanted librarian, you could magically silence noisy patrons by making a strip of tape appear over their mouths.

Does this happen to you very quite often?

No. In real life, I'm very quiet. The internet brings out a whole other side of me. One that I'm not always proud of, I must admit.

I'm a lot shyer in real life, too. I often come across as being very outgoing, but I'm actually scared to death of starting conversations with people I don't know in unstructured social settings.

IRL, if you asked me, "Are you outgoing or introverted," my likely answer would be, "What day is it?"