Not too long ago we had a discussion about where the name Mudcat came from. (It's a Mississippi River catfish). Max cooked up the name to represent the Mississippi Delta Blues that this site was specializing in, and then he offered the Digital Tradition a place to set up the database after (was it Xerox?) disowned them.

Then Max started the forum and the rest is history.

There's a thread out there with some links to pictures of catfish as well as the standard response "Oh, that's a catfish jumping out of the banjo. I couldn't tell what it was."
That thread is out there folks, and let me give you a little tip. DON'T put 'Mudcat' in the search engine. My computer locked up at about 2000K.
Blessings,
Barbara