Middle Eastern music to game by

[lgkmas]

Don't know about the Indigo but the thought of Kylie, Danii and Elke in her heyday all bellydancing is enough to make me decide to Tibet for my pulping. There is only so much a man can stand, you know.
It's all a plot by the Green Shadow, you know!  He seeks to divert our attention while he takes over the world! Curse you, green Shadow, I shall not be tempted. Well, perhaps only so I can say I bested it. Which way to the Casbah again?

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LGKMAS

[Argonor]

Did anyone else but me have trouble downloading track 8 of album 3??

[warrenpeace]

Mood music is definately good.  If you look at some of the Red Shadow games on www.warflag.com you won't be able to see that under the minaret there is a little tape player that plays the calls to prayer.  That's a very fun touch of Ian's.

Another friend put on a western gunfight game that was all about the movies, with players as competing movie directors and western movie theme music in the background.

On the middle eastern theme I think some dancing girl figures from Reaper would help set the tone, along with some of those Hasselfree harem guards. :love:

On the topic of names, perhaps an American equivalent to Elke would be Ethel.  I haven't heard of anybody being named Ethel since the 50's or early 60's, but it was once a common name.  Unfortunately, Ethel has a much less alluring sound to American ears than does Elke.  Still, it would be fun to create a pulp scenario around a super-sexy femme named Ethel, just as a joke... :mrgreen:

[lgkmas]

Ethel seems so out of fashion that the Monty Python lads did a skit set in a bookstore where one of the lads kept asking for books with idiotic titles. One was Ethel the Aardvaark goes Quantity Surveying. I have never heard the name Ethel after that without immediately thinking of this book title.
I suppose Ethel merman was the other big name in Ethels? Any others?
Bob

[Westfalia Chris]

Ethelred, who fought the Danes, IIRC?

Hmmm... Red Ethel... now that would make an interesting Senior Superhero.

[dominic]

There's the Bank of Ethel in Dilbert.
Some old lady (my image of Ethel) sitting behind a bank counter always thinking up new ways to cheat poor ol Dilbert!! ::

[dominic]

Back to the subject of music - I like old British WW2 songs.  Very melancholic, all about euphoric weekends, sad partings and wishing for better days...

[Argonor]

Ethelred, who fought the Danes, IIRC?

Hmmm... Red Ethel... now that would make an interesting Senior Superhero.

I think, Ethel means 'land' or 'territory' in Old English... I'm not sure, I only have 'An Introduction to Old English' by G.L. Brook (Manchester University Press 1978) to lean on, and it only lists the words actually appearing in the texts in it....

'Red' might mean 'advice' (like in Mordred = bad advice)? It also just might mean red... dunno....

Ethel could also be derived from Æthele, meaning 'noble' (Ædel, in modern Danish).

Here I am ranting on about language again  ::

[Westfalia Chris]

There's the Bank of Ethel in Dilbert.
Some old lady (my image of Ethel) sitting behind a bank counter always thinking up new ways to cheat poor ol Dilbert!! ::

YES!

Dogbert, visibly shaken: "I lost all my fortune in risky financial manoeuvring!!!"
Dilbert, as usual: "Oh! Hedge fonds?"
Dogbert: "No, a deposit account with "Ethel´s Loans&Savings!"

[lgkmas]

Dominic, there were definitely two waves/periods of WW2 Britsh song. The first few months were all very chirpy, "Hang out our washing on the Seigfried Line", "Run, rabbit, Run", "Goodbyee". Even George Formby was there and he could never be called melancholic.
After Dunkirk, they got all melancholy, maudlin and wistful. No wonder American music took hold.
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LGKMAS