Sunday, July 25, 2004

special interests

It occurs to me that if you're really into bagpipes and octopus, Santiago de Compostela is your kind of town.  The local specialty is squid in every incarnation imaginable.  And there is a very old Celtic tradition here that manifests itself in modern times as strolling gangs of students playing bagpipes.  They look sort of similar, octopi and bagpipes...

 

3 Comments:

Blogger fivetonsflax said...

There's a joke about that. It ends with the octopus saying, "I couldn't figure out how to get her pajamas off."

July 25, 2004 at 1:21 PM  
Blogger Suzanne said...

I know! I was definitely thinking of that, but didn´t feel like writing the whole joke... I have some pictures of octopi and bagpipes, but I can´t link to them because the wavy-line symbol doesn´t appear alone on spanish keyboards -- only as ñ, therefore panix2.panix.com/ñsuzanne doesn´t work.

July 25, 2004 at 4:42 PM  
Blogger fivetonsflax said...

Oh, how silly.

But I bet you can cut and paste.

Here you go: ~

(I feel like some sort of nerdy Prometheus.)

July 25, 2004 at 11:58 PM  

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