BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 07:56 AM

John

My partner just asked me "doesn't it already squeeze in a couple?" In my case it would if I had a mudcat tshirt.

Are you returned from your North America trip yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 07:45 AM

Squeeze a couple in your tee shirt??
Sorry, just a thought.
J

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: jeddy
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 07:41 AM

virginia,
i have bought one, but have not been to festies this year. i have been wearing it round town and stuff but i guess it won't come into it's own until until next year now. unless we can squeeze in a couple before winter.

take care all

jade x x x

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 07:27 AM

Jeddy

That's what the mudcat tshirts are useful for. Wear it at festivals and look for others wearing them.

Or you could make hat out of a banjo with a catfish stuck to it. That should really get attention.

Some Cats will say that is a better use of a banjo than its intended purpose

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: jeddy
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:43 PM

i can't wait to find out who is who from our festie circit of festies, i wonder how many of you i have already met? but that doesn't mean i can't wait to meet those of you who have so far evaded me! i will get you yet.


mmmmm lies? like anyone decent is going to believe a word!

take care all, even very lonely people who should have more in their lives.

jade x x x x

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 09:05 AM

Well, quite the weirdest thing is that VT was possibly the first person I exchanged PM's with - (me thinking at the time she lived in Virginia USA as per her handle.) Then about half a dozen exchanges later, it dawned on me, that we actually live no more than 20 minutes away from each other!

It was almost like Mudcat magically spirited her across the pond in the blink of an eye...

As far as Mudcat goes, she's as good as my next door neighbour. And a good chum to boot.

I've been warmly accepted by the Knockholt folks and will keep going to the various Kent do's now.

Otherwise, I'm also definitely going to take a trip North sometime this Autumn, and catch up in person with some of the UK posters from up thataway.

So you never know who you WILL meet, hey?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 08:51 AM

One thing about Mudcat is it makes the neighborhood seem so BIG. We'll never meet everybody we want to meet, and some we do meet can only be in our lives for a short while.

It's a hard way to go and get lost somewhere in the thousands of miles it takes to get through all the open, welcoming doors, and those doors close too quickly.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,Russ Meyer
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 08:03 AM

It's a pity the rules don't apply on any of the BNP threads, this current one is the fourth in as many weeks, if you post on it, expect attacks, verbal,fake profiles,lies, and a lot more.

Have to say, Joe does come on and clean it up every so often, more needed done about threads like these.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: jeddy
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:52 AM

i have only just seen this thread. i too feel like i have missed an oppotunaty to get to know some wonderful people. however life is for the living abnd i intend to stay here for a while yet and in that time i hope to make some brilliant friends and find new artists to listen to.

in the short while i have been a kitten i have learned alot and hope to learn alot more.

however i have CRAFT. can't rememebr a fu**ing thing.
so things have to jog my memory, it is a good job there is so much repetition here as some of it might finally sink in.

take care all

jade x x x x

ps i will try to catch up on this thread but it is big so it will take some time. x x

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:48 AM

Cheer up lassie, surely the friends you have will see you through. No good missing folks you never met, or are unlikely ever to meet.
Live for today, and hope you meet somebody nice, who may turn out to be your most important friend ever.
Don't dwell in the past.

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there".
L P Hartley, The Go Between.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: maeve
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:30 AM

I feel similarly about many of the music and musicians I can never know. Fortunately, Sandy left a legacy of people who did know him and many wonderful recordings, VT, including those he made himself with his Caroline.

Buying some of them for yourself when you can do so is at once a way to experience some wonderful music, enrich your own life, gain a sense of the quality of person Sandy was, and lend a hand to Sandy's family and company, Folk Legacy .



maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 06:29 AM

The one thing about Mudcat that really makes me want to leave it, walk away and never look back is frustration.

Not the frustration of feeling so dull in the midst of vibrant intelligent articulate people, though this does make me feel insecure and ashamed of my lack. I have learned to accept that I am not the sharpest tool in the box. A rubber mallet has its uses too.

Not the frustration of repeatedly mean spirited posters and the silliness of letting them get a rise out me and others. Though this bugs me I am mature enough to realise people are who they are and everyone has off days. I can live with it.

The thing see.... the thing that really upsets me most about Mudcat is the virtual meeting of so many people and the horror of not ever having the opportunity to meet them person, to hear them perform, to discover and remember the intonations, facial expressions, turns of phrase. And it is the loss I feel when a Mudcatter passes away, that I did not know and only came to know through others and from archive threads.


It is the furstration that I am missing something that I will never be able to gain.

So that is the danger of Mudcat for me.

I won't go, though. At least not yet.


For now, the fascination is stronger than the frustration.

Think I will dedicate this specific post to Sandy Paton. I didn't know him, though I believe his recent passing just kicked over the bucket of culminating anxiousness about missing out on seeing and hearing Mudcat people.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 May 09 - 06:03 PM

Happy Birthday in honor of Andie. I want to know all about you. I hope we get a chance.....

!!!VT!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 May 09 - 04:45 PM

You could start a happy birthday/memoriam, Andie thread, VTam. I think that would be fine; if you felt strong enough, you could share more about her, with us. Don't worry about those other threads; it'll settle down, again.:-)

{{{{hugs}}}}}

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 May 09 - 04:38 PM

Hiding in here, licking my wounds for a bit. Getting scary out there again.

I love that people are passionate about preserving the music they love, but I am afraid that preservation may kill it off.

Think I am too simple minded for Mudcat.

Sigh!

Wish I could start a Happy Birthday Andie thread. She would be 28 years old tomorrow. She would have fit in very well here. Passionate and curious about music. Intelligent and informed and ready to defend her ideas and opnions.

Sigh again.

Ok. Pouting in corner over now. Get back into the fray.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 02:26 PM

think i'll just hide out in here for a while. it is scarey out there and i am feeling too delicate to cope with either the wit or the venom.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 01:27 PM

I learnded a new thing today.

If a long disused thread is ressurected by a guest, with a really dumb question, don't reply to it.

It is almost always a wind up. D'oh!

Whoever the mod elf was that fixed the silly request for lyrics to hymn number 78, and my glaringly naive reply, thank you.

You fixed it so good, I thought I was going crazy cuz I couldn't find the thread or my reply.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 03:59 AM

Jeri - sometimes the obvious is so obvious no-one bothers to pass it on any more. That way we lose so much information (like song books that never publish the B music or only put in choruses, not the verses), so it bears repeating. There is always someone new who hasn't read it before, even if they don't make themselves obvious.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: akenaton
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 08:03 PM

Hmmm!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 07:51 PM

Sorry. I don't have that much to say these days unless I can re-state the obvious.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,biff
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 07:24 PM

this has been understood.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 07:18 PM

If you were to use a consistent guest identity, your posts wouldn't be deleted. If you use no name or jump from persona to persona, you're gonna get zapped.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,biff
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 07:01 PM

actually I've had my share of problems too, though I hope I've acheived at least an existential status at this point, that is, the right of my posts to exist...sometimes I'm not sure of what constitutes appropriate mudcat humour and what doesn't and have reaped consequences..I've also felt a certain attitude towards guests, but there are very good reasons why I am a guest and not a member, details of which I shall not trouble you with. Not everyone is set up to have an instant cyber life. That being said, this is an excellent site with much intelligence and humour. And I always learn something.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 07:57 AM

And there you have the ultimate experience... that little warm glow that either means you've scored a '00' posting or you need a clean pair of pants.

But if you think that's good, wait till you hit 1000 posts!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:58 AM

300

Woot! I did it!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:57 AM

i just realised that if i add 2 more posts this thread will make it to

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:48 AM

Mudcat kindness

Another good thing for kittens to learn is about the kindness of catters. I have been loaned (and may soon be purchasing same) a lovely Sigma guitar by a Mudcatter.

Another pleading guitar thread

This place is amazing.

I should mention another catter Richard Bridge has loaned me a mandolin, but he offered it at a session in Rochester so we had the acquainted in real life element.

Still such nice folks here.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 05:08 PM

Now, tsk, tsk, the two of ya. I want ya both at the kirk o' Sunday to repent.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 05:03 PM

Aye Meg, an' whit are ye gaun tae dae fur a face, when the monkey wants his arse back?

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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 04:01 PM

And as fur youMcKenzie :p yer naethin but a tumshie hieded bauchle wie a face like a skelped erse

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 03:59 PM

Eye eye Meg

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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 12:17 PM

Whatch it the pair o ye ahm fair scunnered

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: bfdk
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 08:28 AM

You insulting Meg's pink outfit, Liz? :o)))

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 07:29 AM

She was a sweet little pink-loving thing until that trip to Scotland a couple of years ago....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Megan L
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:22 PM

Claire the problem was not whether it was strong enough to withstand her schoolbooks but if it could withstand Limpit. Such a sweet delicate little thing she is (Oh how i wish max had a rofl icon) :)

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:15 PM

(description of rule-breaking bag sent by PM)

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: MaineDog
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 08:17 AM

Welcome, Virginia,
Be not faint of heart.
You may not believe it, but Mudcat was far worse when I came in about 5 years ago.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:33 AM

I think the discussion regards Limpet's schoolbag is just a bit beyond the Pale.

Get it? exceeding the "Rules" of this thread... snerk

I thought that was quite clever.

Hey, now I am curious! What kind of school bag? Any pics?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jan 09 - 06:50 PM

Oh it's standing up to its duties with gusto! It also helps when picking it out from the pile in the playground that no-one else has one like it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 07:00 PM

Oh good. And I wasn't fishing for thanks, honest -- I was merely a little unsure about the bag's quality, only having seen it online.

Glad to know it's sturdy enough to withstand Limpet's schoolbooks!

Cheers,
Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 06:41 PM

She loves it and it has raised comments from classmates I think...

Thank you!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 05:54 PM

(And how's that school bag working out, by the way? Enquiring minds want to know...)

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 04:15 PM

LTS - that is spooky. Care to write a story from the words you found?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 05:48 PM

Funny you should say that... found a French wordsearch in Limpit's school bag the other day... and started looking for German words.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 04:17 PM

really nothing like Stanley Unwin, Matt.

Story was inspired by unwords instead.

After the 3 periods substitute teaching a French III class where the only resource left by teacher was word search puzzle full of French words. In the 1st period I found the French words. In the 2nd period I found some English words. In the 3rd period I started seeing potentially funny unwords. Jeeklurp was the first and I thought what a funny word. What can it mean? So I defined it. A cool refreshing treat made with goat yogurt and fruit of the Jeek tree. Jeek tree is descended or cultivated from the wild Yatzoming, which used to grow on the Anteswertian plain until the Rudinoceri (or so it was erroneously reported) ate them all. Actually human cultivation changed the Yatzoming and the Rudinoceri went away. The goats were afraid because Thwartin had suddenly grown a beard. A thing not seen on the people of Anteswert. But the beard growing only happened to the Flendroplian males and not the Yulmopians which eventually caused great battles between these once friendly people.   

I just couldn't help myself.. several stories were born out of this exercise.

All I can say is beware of word search puzzles. That way danger lies.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 02:56 PM

I thought it was Stanley Unwinese!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 12:15 PM

LOL!! VT, you are a gem.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 12:14 PM

Good gollygee... I only knicked some bits of a children's story I wrote and put it into secretagent speak.

You'd think I was crazy or sumfink.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 11:19 AM

Yup. That's what happens. The goats flee up trees and I agree with them, in theory anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 09:40 AM

See!