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From: MSN NicknameTotenkopfFriml  (Original Message) Sent: 03/04/2002 15:23
Can any of you coves or blones help? Recently, world renowned ceilidh outfit the Oatcakes decided to set up a proper band - a three piece acoustic folk ensemble, playing sensitive and tasteful renditions of traditional and contemporary celtic music. However, their first choice for a name, Sula, had already been taken by some Scandinavian bleigeardean, so now they're stuck without a moniker. Keeping with the Gaelic/Norse vibe, let's hear some suggestions for a possible name for this quality new combo. There could be a packet of Woodbines in it.


 
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From: MSN Nicknamenelsonmacantshronaich Sent: 03/04/2002 17:48
How about "Pete Stack and The Smoorcats"?
 
Everybody knows that a cat's favourite toilet spot in the whole world is in the smoor around the bottom of the cruach. Didn't Angus Peter Campbell write...
 
    "...many was being the howling screaming precenting Winter's night
    that I was in my being going out to be filling of peats
    a
    bucket.
 
    many times was it being that my arm was reaching
    blind into the cruach
    in the dark of middle night without
    light
    at all. 
 
    many times was I then to be closing my hand
    around
    a marag-fresh, duff-steaming cnap
    the leavings
    of thon *&% piseag again instead 
    of the warming fad
    which I
    after
    was seek
 
    ing... ".
 
Ok, maybe he didn't. But I'm pretty sure that smoor (can't remember the right spelling) is a Norse loan word in Gaelic, which meets your criteria.
 
Can I have the prize? Throw in a bottle of 4 crown and you can have the poem for the sleeve notes.
 
And stop running non-Guirean competitions on the Guireans website, you chancer.

 
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From: MSN Nicknamememphis_louie Sent: 03/04/2002 21:04
haw
 
why not keep the culinary motif started by the Oatcakes and call the band ' Gunhilted '  after both the world renowned chef, Gun Eriksson, from Loch Broom's fine Altnaharrie Inn  ( via Scandinavia ) and those lovers of Norseabilia the Dun Ringles.
 
then again maybe Norselips would be better.
 
skol 

 
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From: MSN NicknameGothCove1 Sent: 04/04/2002 06:49
The Valhalla Balla Ding Dong Coves

 
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From: Peatboy Funk Sent: 04/04/2002 08:26
Hmmmm, Gaelic and Scandic?
 
How about 'Tha-ba'?
 
 

 
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From: MSN NicknameTotenkopfFriml Sent: 04/04/2002 13:21
Well, you know, until this moment I didn't intend to do any more "proper" recordings - you know, albums and stuff. But it may be worth it just to put that poem on the sleeve notes. Keep those suggestions coming in...

 
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From: Peatboy Funk Sent: 04/04/2002 18:08
Yup, the poem is bloody excellent. Can you do one for our next album cover too. Maybe Sorley maclean stylee? Or Habba Crichton Smith.