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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: ClaireBear Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:49 PM You be the big game hunter, and I'll be the, umm, bear. C |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:46 PM Oh, CLaire, I just don't know HOW to thank you, unless you're up for a little slap-and-tickle next Getaway... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: ClaireBear Date: 09 Jan 09 - 01:13 PM Amos will possibly be ecstatic to learn that I have now started a thread with the word "aardvark" appearing in the text and the word "aardvarks" appearing in the title. It's even a music thread! Search away... (I am demonstrating being fun-loving, lest anyone wonder about the latest thread drift. Any yes, I was in the Peace Cabin all-night jam, come to think of it.) Claire |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lonesome EJ Date: 09 Jan 09 - 12:05 PM I think you will find, VT, as you meet the denizens of this forum face to face (and I hope you will meet many), that most of these folks are very much as they appear to be in the threads. Because this is primarily an acoustic music site, most of these people are fun-loving, and not very shy. Some of us are fun-loving nearly to a fault (Peace Cabin all night jam, anyone?), and we have enjoyed the repartee for so long that some of the stuff may seem like in-jokes from the "Mudcat Inner-circle". I reckon we just can't help that. It's the same thing you'll see if you join in with any long-running jam session. There's often a familiarity among the usual participants that may seem intimidating at first. But when they start giving you a hard time with a smile, you know you're breaking the ice. I would not worry too much about rules. These people don't grade hard. Beginners are always welcome. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Bill D Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:19 AM If I typed up all the good stuff that just *I* have received from various good people here, I'd be at it all day. This is a big, weird extended FAMILY...we go through a lot, but mostly we care and show it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Jan 09 - 10:48 AM That's only the good things you hear about. I've had parcels of goodies, an unsolicited CD's from lovely Catters. I know others who've had similar tokens of friendship too It's some community folks I'll tell you. XG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Rapparee Date: 09 Jan 09 - 08:46 AM Like the folks who sent money to help Art Thieme get software? Or those who sent money from all over the world to help openmic when she was burned out of her home this past summer while fighting the wildfire that burned her out? Or...I could go on, but I won't. Sometime the virtual community becomes very real. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 09 Jan 09 - 08:35 AM how lovely to be a member of the mudcat family Just thought it would be good to inject a little of the really positive things that go on here in Mudcatatonia. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Jan 09 - 07:32 AM Aardvark never killed anybody! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 08 Jan 09 - 10:16 PM Strange. At least one member is in the Aardvark Ceildh Band. Fame. A fickle mistress. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 08 Jan 09 - 08:46 PM But it won't find "dealybob" or "aardvark". LEJ: ROFLMAO! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Ebbie Date: 08 Jan 09 - 08:26 PM Attenhut! I use the filter frequently and often I put in just one word of a title or subject and set it to ALL. It comes up reliably with all of the titles containing that word. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:57 PM Roger that. The raven croaks at sunrise. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:53 PM No problem, home boy. Spit on your hoohoo and shove it in a dealy-bob. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:48 PM Thanks, man. Oh, and by the way, bite my ass, numbnuts. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:43 PM That's not a "mauve stuffed rabbit", Amos. It's Marv the Stuffed Rabbit. And you'd best not piss him off if you don't want purple pellets in your sneakers at the next Getaway. As for the rest of your comments, thanks for the analysis of my online personna, but you left out handsome, dashing, sophisticated and debonair...but then you also left out the part about my real life fetish for the arm-fat of elderly slavic women, so I guess it's a wash. Thanks Little Hawk for your comments, and good luck on your parole hearing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 08 Jan 09 - 05:23 PM I believe it is only thread titles; often the thread title includes a song title, of course. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Liz the Squeak Date: 08 Jan 09 - 05:23 PM and sleeps with a mauve stuffed rabbit, It's not a rabbit, it's an elephant and I've been looking for him for years!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: PoppaGator Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:21 PM "The filter works by title only, though..." I didn't realize that. But, upon further consideration, I would think that it looks at thread titles ~ which may or may not include song titles. Am I right, or on the right track? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:13 PM But even those may fail. I, for example, find it very hard to believe that the word aardvark has never been used in the DT OR the Forum. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:06 PM The filter works by title only, though. If you are looking for something in a post, use the Search, or up in the drop-down menu you can find the DT Keyword Search, as well as the Forum Advanced Search which may work better. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: PoppaGator Date: 08 Jan 09 - 03:58 PM Leej ~ hilarious! ********************************* MY THREAD MY THREAD! No spats. Back to your corners gentleman or I put you in the alley. I know you've already taken it back, VT, but the above reminded me of one of my pet peeves ~ people claiming ownership of a discussion just because they posted the first message. I had never taken that attitude, never even imagined such a thing, and when I first encountered it, I simply thought it was just plain wrong. ~ I feel free to say anything on any thread ~ even something potentially quite stupid ~ with absolutely no regard for who posted the first message. ~ When I start a thread, it's because I have a question, or something to say, that no one else was expressing that day. Whatever happens after that...well, whatever! As far as posting, or asking about, lyrics that are already extant in the huge archive of Mudcat posts plus the DT ~ don't feel too guilty about it, and don't accept any blame. The "search" function doesn't always work as advertised, or at least it began malfunctioning a couple of years ago after The Big Crash. I've encountered this problem, been chastised, complained back, and finally was advised to use the "filter" rather than the "search." At first I didn't catch on ~ what's a filter? But then I figured out that the filter is the box near the center of the top of the main forum page where you enter what you're looking for and then set the period of time you want to search (the last 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, etc., up to "All"). It's different from the search box at the upper left where you can check "Forum," "DT," or both (which is the search that may not always work as well as it should.) The "filter" is for searching the forum only, not the DT, but when seeking a song title, there's usually some reference in some thread, somewhere, about any DT title you'd be interested in, and you'll almost always be referred to a message or two contining a link directly to the DT entry in question. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 08 Jan 09 - 01:21 PM Is this where I can get my Mudcat Personna analyzed, or am I in the wrong thread? Hilarious and yes.. come be analised here. helps us kittens get to know y'all better. Seriously, Virginia Plain or whatever you said your name was, Don't know what that's about but I won't take it as fightin words. Just give you the benefit of doubt as you did ask for personna analyst. don't get upset at the constant onslaught of invective and abuse that is our standard method of expressing affection at Mudcat. I'm not upset... WHO SAID I WAS UPSET? I am not upsetSnerk... am I fitting in yet? Many of us are actually prisoners in various institutions scattered throughout the country, and we while away the hours by reinventing ourselves as Trad Music afficianados on this site. That is throughout the world mate... not just the country Really I don't mind the thread drift. I am learning to read between the lines and discovering colourful personalities in the "banter" in this and other threads. Hugs to all |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 08 Jan 09 - 12:58 PM wooot... My thread made 200 posts.. ummm now 201 posts |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: bfdk Date: 08 Jan 09 - 12:33 PM Don't leave a warm chair for too long, LH, you'll find it occupied by a dachshund when you come to reclaim it. Terry..? TERRY!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:55 AM LOL!!! Omigod. Just about fell out of my chair here... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:53 AM Is this where I can get my Mudcat Personna analyzed, or am I in the wrong thread? For you, amigo, just 'cuz it's you, we'll do a deal. I'll analyze your persona for you, and you can bite my ass and swallow the cowboy hat which cost me seven years!! While Lonesome presents the exterior image in his posts of a sensitive, brilliant, articulate, poetic, colorful, insightful author who somehow manages to write the best fiction on the 'Cat, with deep characterization and fast-moving plots and clever turns of event and beautifully crafted phrases, the sad truth is, the man is a goddam liar who has never done any of those things. In real life he stammers and blushes if you say "Good morning" and couldn't write a complete sentence if his life depended on it. He gets turned on by watching his Cheerios, and sleeps with a mauve stuffed rabbit, wears rubber shoes and gets by asking strangers for spare change at the local Home Depot, in gasping, broken phrases he somehow manages to blurt out. You might well ask how he manages to create such a fraudulent persona, and indeed it is a good question, worthy of a sociological thesis. The short answer is, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:34 AM EJ, it was mentioned in passing the other day, that it is a bad thing to do on Mudcat. To insult your friends and call it a joke. Can you clarify the confusion this has caused? Well actually Giok, if I tell Spaw to bite my ass he wouldn't consider it an insult. If I wanted to insult him I would say something far more nasty and personal. I won't do that, because I like Catspaw. Now if you consider my comment an insult, that's your perception, and I reserve the right to not behave according to what your expectations might be. Now excuse me, it's my turn in the Exercise Yard. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jan 09 - 09:10 AM Har! Har! Great post, L.E.J. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 08 Jan 09 - 08:15 AM Actually, you should be glad the way the thread has diverted the way it has.. it could so easily have descended into the sniping, back stabbing, perpertual carping and ramming of opinions down the throat that so many other innocent threads have become. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 08 Jan 09 - 06:06 AM EJ, it was mentioned in passing the other day, that it is a bad thing to do on Mudcat. To insult your friends and call it a joke. Can you clarify the confusion this has caused? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 08 Jan 09 - 03:26 AM You know, all threads drift. It's the same if you put a group of people in one room for a natter. Relaxed conversation tends to go all over the place. It's back to memories of the way John Tams talks and tells stories, how he goes off at tangents all the time. Some people adore driving down the motorway, straight roads, no turn offs, nothing to distract from getting to the destination as fast as possible. John loves to take the country lanes. He takes you to look at the flowers, drops into the villages, he gets out and talks to the post mistress, has a drink in the pub and make the journey relaxed and enjoyable, with laughter and warmth along the way. John rambles and it's a bit magical the way he does it, but somehow, nothing gets lost, only added to. There have been many very funny and witty exchanges in this thread, from Tam as much as other people, and I love to read threads that are filled with wit and good humour. Yes, if you're trying to discuss something serious then it can be irritating I guess, but I think Tam started this thread with more than a little light-hearted humour, alongside the genuine questions. You can't have a whole pile of cats and kittens together without some very funny things happening. Some will scrap all the time, but most will play, chase each other round, behave in the zaniest of ways, run up the curtains, over the chairs, skidaddle into the garden, dash through the litter tray, then end up purring on your lap, looking at you with huge eyes, filled with love.....and you can't help but smile. I much prefer the BS threads because they're filled with chuckles, from amazingly clever minds which spark brightly off one another, as old friends always do. I'm totally addicted to the Below Stairs Cats and they've added to my wrinkles no end, luckily making them all go upwards with smiles. :0) Just a few of the naughty cats (Joe's in blue) :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Jan 09 - 02:42 AM Is this where I can get my Mudcat Personna analyzed, or am I in the wrong thread? Seriously, Virginia Plain or whatever you said your name was, don't get upset at the constant onslaught of invective and abuse that is our standard method of expressing affection at Mudcat. Many of us are actually prisoners in various institutions scattered throughout the country, and we while away the hours by reinventing ourselves as Trad Music afficianados on this site. Hell, I couldn't tell you the difference between Merle Travis and Travis Bickle. Just as in our various prisons, certain "code phrases" are often used on this forum. To outsiders, rookies, and the innocent, when I tell Catspaw to "bite me in the ass, numbnuts", it may seem as though I disapprove of him. This is in fact NOT the case. What I'm actually communicating to him is "you are a great guy and I highly approve of you." Catspaw, in a maximum security prison in Southern Ohio, knows exactly what I mean, and may reply "go spit on your pecker and shove it in a light socket", which translates to "I hear you and reaffirm our friendship". Such exchanges are often confused with actual verbal abuse, which does in fact happen from time to time. Just a month ago, I told Amos, in his cell at San Quentin, to "take your attitude, fold it in the shape of a cowboy hat, and shove it up your ass". While I meant it literally, he took it as the password to launch his long-planned for tunnel escape, was apprehended in the act, and received another 7 years of hard time. So mistakes do happen. The best advice I can give you, Virginia Slim, is keep your mouth shut, pay attention, and never indulge in ANY exchanges with Bobert, who is actually a serial molester being held in solitary in Wheeling State Prison. Virginia, I'd like to conclude with good luck, welcome, and bite my ass, numbnuts. I think you'll like it here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 08 Jan 09 - 02:08 AM I'll point out that on other forums there seem to be rankings, depending on what I am not sure, but I presume either time or number of postings. I've never noticed that here, and if there are, no-one ever pointed it out to me. I've been here a couple of years. Another specific-interest forum that I'm on rates me as a cadet, despite 40 years of experience in the field. Oddly enough, they don't seem to have ODs or sqaddies, just ossifers. So, Tam, several people on this site have, to my personal knowledge, more than 30 years of professional experience in the genre, and are treated pretty much the same as any newby. No rankings, you aren't a kitten in a cattery, but you are on a site well populated with mature, clever, experienced, talented, and often light-hearted adults. Don't take it too seriously. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 08 Jan 09 - 01:54 AM Michael - re posting duplicate lyrics (Merlin's Song)I am in current PM conversation with Joe Offer about this. For some reason searching the current forum and the Old Adv Forum Search (as Joe advised) in quick links is not yeilding any results for me. I searched, Merlin and Merlin's Song and came up with only about 3 threads none of which had the lyrics I posted. After I posted mine, suddenly search reveals more. Same thing happened with Gay Green Gown. Joe said is ok for me to post, he can always fix later. if someone can tell me why my Dell from Hell laptop or maybe it is BT Broadband is choking my searches, I would appreciate it. Azizi - thanks for the cross reference and good thoughts. Don;t know what to say on this. Need to have a think and come back to it when I have more time. Time to get ready for real job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Azizi Date: 07 Jan 09 - 09:58 PM I've just posted a comment on this thread RE: BS: Native Behaviors in Mudcat Society. That comment refers, in part, to this thread. I'm interested in any responses on that thread about that comment. Thanks, Azizi |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 07 Jan 09 - 07:05 PM I have gone on a whisky diet, and last week I lost 2 days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: michaelr Date: 07 Jan 09 - 07:01 PM AHEM -- back to the topic. Virginia, you just posted a lyric (Merlin's Song) apparently without first doing a search to see whether it was already here (which it is, as Malcolm Douglas pointed out). That's one of those things to be avoided. MD gets quite annoyed at redundancy. Cheers, Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Jan 09 - 06:41 PM Odd. I seem to have lost a couple of hours today... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Rapparee Date: 07 Jan 09 - 05:00 PM I dunno...I'm not thinking of whoever it was. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 07 Jan 09 - 04:01 PM Rapaire: I'm sorry--WHO did you say you were going to not think of???? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Rapparee Date: 07 Jan 09 - 03:14 PM LH, just for that I'm not going to think of you for a couple of hours. So there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 07 Jan 09 - 03:12 PM Actually this is a vivid demonstration of part of the Code: "thy thread shall wander; be not afeared or distraught thereby." There is a lot of energy and enthusiasm in 'Catters as a rule, and trying to rule them straight is a bit like herding wet cats. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Jan 09 - 02:25 PM Pay no attention to Rapaire. He's auditioning for the part of "God" in the next parallel Universe over from this one, and he can be expected to carry on in the same manner until he either gets the part or they turn him down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Richard Bridge Date: 07 Jan 09 - 02:15 PM Interestingly, from the posts here and elsewhere today, I think this must be about the time that Sleepy Rosie graduates from kitten to cat. As for Rapaire, the reason no-one understands a solipsist is because there is no-one else so to understand. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: gnu Date: 07 Jan 09 - 02:10 PM Spaw... "...battle of Colonoscopies...". For control of The Alimentary Canal? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Jan 09 - 02:10 PM We aren't fighting! We're goofing around in our usual ridiculous manner, just in order to demonstrate how that works so that you will be aware of it when you happen to run into it in future...and also, of course, because we're silly people with little or no self control and even less judgement and much time on our hands... ;-) Gurney, your original view of me was quite correct. In real life I would generally make some effort to avoid people like Shane, though I will sort of observe them from a safe distance...it supplies me with ideas for future stories. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Jan 09 - 02:01 PM oh dear... I don't feel I own the thread, and not too fussed if it gets dragged off topic. I just don't like the fighting. Maybe I misinterpretted the banter as heated sniping. Thank you Rosie for sticking up for me though. Very kind. I was half considered coming in as Guest:Physiotherapist Ivana Hurtu Start throwing threatening looks around, in a Frau Blucher fashion. Especially since guest Nurse E. Nuff was threating to tranquilise me. Geesh! I am the calm one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Sleepy Rosie Date: 07 Jan 09 - 01:45 PM There isn't an 'ownership' issue, just a courtesy one. And that's where I'll leave it. I had a PM myself from another poster (on an unrelated matter), who was rather dissapointed to see this thread descend into banter. That's possibly another reason I was inclined to post what I did myself. Apart from the courtesy issue, I love all the bullshit banter that goes on here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Megan L Date: 07 Jan 09 - 01:37 PM No one owns threads unless you count Max the rest of are merely guests. |
