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i need a good recipe ( suzy i am looking at you)

― anthony, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A recipe? It is surely an act. Of singing, boozing and running around in the snow in a festive manner.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What does it mean to go a-wassailing? (Also, is it traditionally done in spring or summer, "among the leaves so green"? I assume they mean deciduous trees, not pine needles.)

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wassail, wassail, all over the town,
our bread it is white and our ale it is brown,
our ale it is made from the bright willow tree
So with a bowl in my hand, I'll drink to thee!

Why not fill a wassailing bowl with Warnicks and grenadine?

― Will, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, how do you know these things? I am confused and disturbed, but the latter is largely because I am stuck on the PS game Medieval 2.

I'd appreciate messages of support, and maybe even wassial?

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Menelaus! I think Wassail was some kind of Olde English word for going out on the booze. I used to sing a lot of madrigals at university, and they were full of 'hey nonny nonny' kind of stuff. Maybe some of it has stuck!

― Will, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Will had the most bizarre student life I've ever heard of.

― chris, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will you are my hero. i would have sung madrigals at university but I cant. I tend to lapse into chaka khan style remixes and tackiness when I try singalongs. I very nearly got myself into trouble at diggers tonight, I cant say more without being incriminating, the dunedin people might be reading.

dammit I want to introduce wassial here anyway.

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Awww. Madrigals are lovely. I don't know if you like plainchant as well? A form of early music before madrigals? There are some especially nice ones for Christmas:

The boar's head in hand bear I
Bedecked with bays and rosemary
I pray you, my masters, be merry
Quot estis in convivio

We had original instruments and everything. It might be worth you Googling composers like Byrd and Purcell...
Sorry, this has become a bit of a thread hijack !

― Will, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to sing in a church choir of all things. Plain chant was fun, especially squeezing in sentences on a single note :) I aquired a taste for dramatic music and pipe organs from that phase of my life

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Wassail, wassail, all over the town,
our bread it is white and our ale it is brown,
our ale it is made from the bright willow tree
with a wassailing bowl, I'll drink to thee!

This is our verson of wassail we are doing at our madrigal. Im 14 so this is new 2 me

― josh taylor, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds like just the sort of wassail we've been looking for.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"our ale it is made from the bright willow tree"

shouldn't this be "our bowl"?

(i know nothing abt ale)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's got a lot of wood on the nose, and a distinctly barky aftertaste.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason, I thought this thread referred to a denial of the Wassup phenomenon. Seriously. Carry on.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"And Coxon our master, etc. etc."

Arrrggghhh!!! Too many memories of Blur lists.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 23 October 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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