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December 27

Rock Song (Probably Canadian) (Hedley?)

There is a song with the lyrics "aiyoo aiyoo eiii" in the background while a the front sings. It sounds like a rock song. What is the artist and name of the song?174.3.102.6 (talk) 01:26, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

By chance, is it "Toora Loo Aye Eh" (I have no idea how to properly spell it). That is a common background chorus in Irish music. I haven't heard it many times while sober and I haven't had a drink in 20 years. So, don't trust my memory. It could be something like "Too Looroo Aye Eh". I'm just certain it ends with "Aye Eh". -- kainaw™ 03:23, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Do you know any of the main lyrics? If it's Hedley I imagine it would be On My Own, Never Too Late, or Cha-Ching. Adam Bishop (talk) 03:45, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

(@ Adam (refering: Hedley [refering to the Hedley songs])) Nope, none of those songs.174.3.102.6 (talk) 04:17, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Toora Loo Ay Eh is a line in Come On Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, which is probably the biggest pop song to use the line. But yeah, it does show up all over the place in Celtic music. --Jayron32 05:06, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Dang it! I was just going to say that Dexy's Midnight Runners song! I have it! It's pretty great. It's all "Too-ra-too-ra-too-ra-eh. Eileen I'll sing this song forever." Or something like that. haha. Anybody miss me? haha. Don't answer that. Moptopstyle1 ("I Feel Fine.") (talk) 06:10, 27 December 2009 (UTC) Oh, and Dexy's Midnight Runners are Irish, and I believe that the whole "too-ra-too-ra-eh" is in tune of an old Irish Folk Song, I don't know what it's called, could be "Endearing Young Chums" or something like that. Moptopstyle1 ("I Feel Fine.") (talk) 06:13, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Dexy's Midnight Runners are definitely not Irish. Kevin Rowland, the leader, is from Birmingham, England, and the members were originally all local to Birmingham. The tune played on the fiddle at the beginning is "Believe me if all (those endearing young charms)", which was originally sung many years before by Count John McCormack, who was indeed Irish. --TammyMoet (talk) 09:12, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" by Gloria Estefan (at least the "aiyoo aiyoo eiii" part).[1] Clarityfiend (talk) 07:48, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Of course, none of these sound like the Canadian band Hedley. Is the OP the same guy who keeps asking about random songs he's head in Edmonton? Adam Bishop (talk) 08:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Has anyone mentioned "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral"? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 18:34, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

It does sound kind of like that old Bing Crosby number, at least as far as the words are concerned. Side note: An obvious artist to cover that Irish song would have been Lou Rawls, but apparently not. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

This is probably equally off-track, but the Irish Rovers covered a song whose tag line was, "Too-ra-loo, too-ra-lay, with my too-ra-lie, oo-ra-lie, oo-ra-lie-ay." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:05, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

It could be the cover of that song by Van Morrison (who is Northern Irish) - his version is called "Tura-Lura-Lura (That's An Irish Lullaby)" and a version of it accompanied by The Band appears on the magnificent The Last Waltz live album and concert video. --Dweller (talk) 10:57, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

But the OP didn't say anything about Irish music. I don't suppose we're going to get any further information now, though. Adam Bishop (talk) 03:50, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Dr. N!Godatu

Hey, I have a question about "Dr. N!Godatu", the forgotten series of cartoon shorts from the Tracey Ullman Show. What's the significance of Dr. N!Godatu's surname? Is it supposed to be a specific parody of something? This site provides a lot of information on the shorts, but I see nothing that sheds much light onto the character's name, other than how it is pronounced. (And admittedly, I'm not 100% sure of that either; I've only seen a few brief clips of the series, and her name is not pronounced in any of them.)

Thanks! Zagalejo^^^ 06:31, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Some African languages have a sound very much like what the site you referenced says: "pronounced without a vowel sound preceeding the N and a clicked G". African names including this sounds were sometimes written with an apostrophe: "N'Goro" and "N'Komo". These days the same names tend to be written without the apostrophe (I don't know if the pronunciation has been Anglicized too). I suspect the name is a parody of this.

Anne McCafferey used names with apostrophes in her Dragonrider series, and when Terry Pratchett parodied the series in The Colour of Magic he used names with exclamation marks in. Maybe there is a link there. DJ Clayworth (talk) 16:15, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I was thinking the name might have something to do with African languages, although the character doesn't look like she's supposed to be African, so I don't know... Zagalejo^^^ 04:55, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

trying to record hd output from sky hd

I am trying to record hd output from my sky hd box. I have ofcourse the sky box, my laptop which has a dvd recorder and blueray player and I have a hauppauge hd pvr. The pvr is supposed to have sorted this for me but it has componnent connections for hd but the sky box uses hdmi, s-video and scart outputs. can anyone help with this quandry. Thanks Jas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaspalsinghjawanda (talk • contribs) 19:50, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Please do consider the information found in the article "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection" (HDCP) before even trying it. Apparently the hardware presupposes what you're trying to do is illegal, without consulting Fair Use or any other laws first. I note that nobody has developed any hardware or software yet that consults the law or a lawyer before deciding to allow or disallow recording. Consider this sentence from the article "Sky+ HD": "The box is High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) compliant." I would opine (speculate, guess) that S-Video will work, if both source and destination support that interface. Please note that my recommendation is technical not legal, and is not meant to be construed as advocacy of illegal copying, only for information about legal copying. —Aladdin Sane (talk) 21:35, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Even on S-Video, RCA connections (and anything else), the "copy protection bit" will be set. I don't know of any digital recorders you can purchase that ignore the copy protection bit. You can hack most of them (which is often illegal) or buy a box to suppress the copy protection bit (which is often illegal). -- kainaw™ 05:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Obviously, there are no bits in an analog connection, but the Sky HD box may still be implementing something like Macrovision, which has been around since the days when VHS was the most common in-home video technology. --LarryMac | Talk 18:34, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I just remembered what you were talking about. Now you've injured my brain: Why did I need to recall that? —Aladdin Sane (talk) 03:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, there is no easy and legal way to do what you want. I have successfully recorded from my Sky+ HD box to a regular DVD recorder using a SCART lead. When I asked Sky about the possibility of recording to a BluRay disk instead, they said the output was only available for recording in Standard Definition. I thought I might be able to take output from a HDMI cable instead, but I have yet to find a BluRay recorder which can take input from a HDMI cable.

However, Panasonic make a couple of BluRay recorders which claim to record onto a BluRay disk from a HD Freesat signal (via the internal hard disk). Other recording in high definition, for example from an external source, is severely restricted - effectively from your own HD camera only. Astronaut (talk) 02:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)