A Panache-Inspired Kilted You Tube Video!

[Alan H]

grins because I got to see this before it went into international distribution on youtube...

[Panache]

grins because I got to see this before it went into international distribution on youtube...

And in the original Black and White!

Cheers

Jamie

[David Dalglish]

Very good Jamie-Just goes to proove that even Gecko's don't like Scottish pipe music

[davedove]

Very good Jamie-Just goes to proove that even Gecko's don't like Scottish pipe music

Well, the pipes were considered a weapon of war.

"Call out the pipers!"

[Coemgen]

Well, the pipes were considered a weapon of war.

"Call out the pipers!"

The power of pipes as instruments of war is well documented. Many a piper has saved his unit from certain destruction. Stories though embellished over time, have portrayed pipers in combat capable of inspiring colleagues to untold feats of courage.

Thus this tale:

On the sun-beaten badlands in northwest India during the late 19th century, a ragged platoon of Highlanders seeks cover from sun small arms fire. Their young English officer, Webley revolver in one hand and a broadsword in the other, assesses the situation crouched behind a boulder. A few feet away lies his Sergeant Major. Both are keenly aware of the intended goal. A well-defended enemy fortification constructed of granite-hard, sun baked mud, a scant 400 yards distant must be taken.

The young officer rubs his eyes free of grit, and addresses his NCO: “Good God Sergeant Major! How can we seize that position with only 12 riflemen and a single piper?” The grizzled Sergeant Major, veteran of countless battles, unsheaths his bayonet and deftly locks it into place with a barely audible click.

In an assuring voice he answers, “Och! Dinna worry yoursel’ sir. Corporal MacDonnell's a verra good piper.”

[acstoon]

I want my 4 minutes back.

[macwilkin]

The power of pipes as instruments of war is well documented. Many a piper has saved his unit from certain destruction. Stories though embellished over time, have portrayed pipers in combat capable of inspiring colleagues to untold feats of courage.

Thus this tale:

On the sun-beaten badlands in northwest India during the late 19th century, a ragged platoon of Highlanders seeks cover from sun small arms fire. Their young English officer, Webley revolver in one hand and a broadsword in the other, assesses the situation crouched behind a boulder. A few feet away lies his Sergeant Major. Both are keenly aware of the intended goal. A well-defended enemy fortification constructed of granite-hard, sun baked mud, a scant 400 yards distant must be taken.

The young officer rubs his eyes free of grit, and addresses his NCO: “Good God Sergeant Major! How can we seize that position with only 12 riflemen and a single piper?” The grizzled Sergeant Major, veteran of countless battles, unsheaths his bayonet and deftly locks it into place with a barely audible click.

In an assuring voice he answers, “Och! Dinna worry yoursel’ sir. Corporal MacDonnell's a verra good piper.”

In a similar vein, reportedly during the Italian campaign of the Second World War, a young Canadian subaltern sent this request to his battalion CP:

"Need reinforcements for rescue. Send six tanks or one piper."



T.

[bunchdescendant]

Good grief, Panache-

I still laughed my *** off at that video!

I guess it's that much funnier because I saw the original and the set (?) for the shoot!

Just too wonderful!

Ray

[Sionnach]

"Stupid Lizard!" Ha Ha! I am glad it was brought out again. What a great diversion from my tedious work.

[Rigged]

That was more fun than the McDoodiehead-or-whatever-his-name-is video. It did remind me though of a bawdy old guy-walks-into-a-bar joke. In this one, the guy bets the bartender he can bite his own eye. It's not family humor, so you'll have to look it up yourself if you don't know it. Does make me wonder if there's a person out there who can lick their own eye.