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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: PoppaGator Date: 05 Jan 09 - 03:51 PM Perhaps I'm abnormally thick-skinned, but I've never gotten my feelings hurt by anyone's Mudcat post. Because of this personality trait of mine, I'm sometimes afraid that I might be offending someone else, without meaning to. I'll type things that wouldn't bother me, without stopping to think that they might offend some other, more sensitive, soul. Expressing an opinion contrary to another person's need not be read as personal; you should try to interpret it as being directed towards the issue at hand, not at the person who brought the issue up. If you can cultivate this attitude ~ even in cases where the contrary argument might include a few unfortunately personal phrases ~ you'll be OK. After all, it's not "Real Life," is it? Just a bunch of ones and zeroes... And, oh yeah, a "Mudcat" is indeed a fish, not a feline ~ a kind of oversized river-dwelling catfish. Too ugly and nasty-tasting to bother hunting down and killing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 05 Jan 09 - 02:27 PM Nar, they useter be, but they got conceited. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 05 Jan 09 - 02:05 PM Ain't the American and Canadian cats just purrrrrrfect! :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Rapparee Date: 05 Jan 09 - 01:54 PM Well, I don't know about "toilet humor." I can do blasphemy pretty well (having had a good Catholic education) as well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jan 09 - 12:20 PM Ha! Very good. ;-) Now combine that with the last couple exchanges between me and Spaw (Catspaw49), and you have fairly well got the sillier side of Mudcat nicely wrapped up and ready to place under the tree. Darned right nobody works here! At least...not openly. It's not allowed! Ask Spaw about that and he will confirm it by telling you all about Lane, Fielding, Patterson, and Swan, the most famous quartet of layabouts in history. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Jan 09 - 11:18 AM This sent to me today, by a former colleague. How timely. RULES OF ETIQUETTE FOR INEXPERIENCED CATS 1: If you have to throw up, get into a chair quickly. If you cannot manage this in time, get to an Oriental rug. or in the slipper or lap of a veteran Catter 2: Determine quickly which guest hates cats. Sit on that lap during the evening. He won't dare push you off and will even call you "nice kitty." If you can arrange to have cat food on your breath, so much the better. see also thread about sprouts for gorillas 3: For sitting on laps or rubbing against trouser legs, select colours which contrast with your own. try to ensure you have good static charge built up first 4: Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything. Just sit and stare. or check all threads that Spaw, Rapaire, and others have "deposited" toilet humour - ask questions 5: For guests who say, "I love kitties," be ready with aloof disdain, claws applied to stockings or a quick nip on the ankles. check other threads for sickeningly sweet comments and repeat them back to author - ask questions 6: Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get one open, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once the door is opened for you, it is not necessary to use it. You can change your mind. When you have ordered an outside door opened, stand half in and half out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather or mosquito season. especially important in threads dedicated to moaning about weather 7: If one person is busy and the other is idle, sit with the busy one. For book readers, get in close under the chin, unless you can lie across the book itself. useful trick in derailing heated arguments in threads - purr and be cute 8: For ladies knitting, curl quietly into lap and pretend to doze. Then reach out and slap knitting needles sharply. This is what she calls a dropped stitch. She will try to distract you. Ignore it. don't forget to visit the Mudcrafter's thread- unravel some stuff 9: For people doing work, sit on the paper being worked on. After being removed for the second time, push anything movable off the table-pens, pencils, stamps-one at a time. hah.... nobody on Mudcat actually works - you will have to find something else to do on this point or maybe you could annoy moderators 10: Get enough sleep during the daytime so that you are fresh for playing at night between 2 and 4 a.m. this is especially good if have a partner but are not a two MudCat household.... drive your partner crazy....tapping at keyboard all night |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Mr Red Date: 05 Jan 09 - 08:23 AM VirginiaTam - Welcome - lurk a-while till the nice people reveal themselves and don't feed the trolls (or the nasty people). Ignore them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 05 Jan 09 - 04:28 AM Small Fry Gurney ;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Jan 09 - 04:21 AM PolyFlatus... wasn't he a senator in 'Gladiator' with Russell Crowe? Roll up, roll up, git yer strait jackets here, one size restrains all! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Sleepy Rosie Date: 05 Jan 09 - 04:07 AM Some sage advice for newbys here. But by far the most valuable thing I learned from this thread (thanks to Amos below), and something which I will be able to take with me when a newby on other fora, was the term "Poly-Flatulent." Indispensable. Now why isn't that anywhere to be found in FAQ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: GUEST,jts Date: 05 Jan 09 - 01:50 AM Higgledy Piggledy Another fresh kitty cat Joining in the MudCat To talk about songs. Acclimatization to nonsensical-foolery assimilation Achieved before long. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: katlaughing Date: 05 Jan 09 - 01:20 AM Ohmygosh, I haven't had to clean up so much cat litter in ages! Spaw, out back and bring the rake with you!**bg** |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jan 09 - 01:08 AM Hey Man.....I BUILT the damn NYCFFTS and that was simply a scheduling problem with the Insanevac Chopper to get me there rather than a problem in getting my regular room. The Center has been extremely busy lately what with all the out of work Bush folks realizing they are now screwed. Additionally, the new wing, the James Taylor Catatonic Blandness Rehab Clinic, is doing very well itself although we could have taken in more bucks if you hadn't spent so much time there yourself in the Lonesome George Boredom Treatment baths. The orphan girl dropped the charges after she was overcome by my supreme wizardry and the power of Da' Hat and now realizes I am indeed ........GOD! BTW, she knows Winona Ryder and was all set to put in a good word for you until you sent that nude picture of yourself and Shatner picking fleas off Chongo. Shatner's genitals were covered by his massive belly but yours were in view and very disappointing. She said you looked like a half-eaten cocktail weenie flanked by two raisins. Are there botox treatments you could take for your nuts & willie? Or plastic surgery? Probably doesn't matter though since they get so rarely used.................. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 04 Jan 09 - 11:48 PM Don't hold back, there, LH. Tell it as you see it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 11:24 PM You make a good point there, Amos. ;-) Newcomers should bear in mind that Spaw is presently in his third childhood and is experiencing a state of shock and denial due to him being turned down for a room at the NYCFTTS!!!! (Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed) This has NEVER happened before in history! It's downright astounding, and it may be bigger news than the election of Barack Obama. My only thought on the matter is that Neil Young himself must have become aware of some of the injudicious remarks that Spaw has uttered in the past to the effect that he can't tell whether Neil is playing his electric guitar onstage or screwing it. Yeah...it's gotta be that. It couldn't just be that Spaw is a witless, know-nothing, rude jadrool of the lowest sort who wanders around the neighborhood dressed in an enormous wizard hat and thinks it will get him favors from naive pre-20s females. Naw...couldn't be that. They've taken worse than that at the NYCFTTS in the past, after all. Yeah, I'm bettin' Neil Young has put you on his personal blacklist, ol' pal. Too bad. Well, maybe I can still provide a fold-up cot at the WSSBA* if all else fails. *(William Shatner School of Baaaaad Acting - located in scenic Orillia, Ontario, Canada, just down the road from the Bigmouth Billy Bass Lake turnoff). Those metal cots squeak like hell, and they're not much good if you're under 5'6", but they do hold up great most of the time, if you don't toss and turn too much in the night, and you won't, cos the squeaking will drive you right out of your mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 04 Jan 09 - 11:15 PM By the way, Tam, A mudcat is a fish, so we are told. A baby fish is not a kitten, but a fingerling. Don't take that the wrong way..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 04 Jan 09 - 11:12 PM Couldn't put it better myself, Amos! Spell it better, yes, but not put it better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Amos Date: 04 Jan 09 - 10:05 PM ANd there you have it, new arrivals one and all--the Mudcat's most vainglorious, downtrodden, preternatural, trash-talking, inhibition-shatterin', poly-flatulent, extremes of mouth-music and brain-melt rolled up for your delectation in a few short posts from Rapaire, Spaw, Little Hawk and Miss Alia. (Inter Alia, if you must know. And no, you can't have her phone number.) Now, I ask you: if these battle-scarred veterans can roll and tumble in plain side of Gawd and everr'body just as crude and flap-hanging as you please without giving as much as a Mudkitten's piffle-fart as to whether anyone had a considered opinion about their merits, character, upbringing, verisimilitude or rectitude either--is there any goddamned reason under the sun why you should have the slightest scruple, the merest frisson of misgiving, the smallest shadow of self-doubt about saying what you want, writing what you think, and letting the Devil take the hiindmost? I rather thought not. A more object lesson in Mudcat Chivalry could not be presented. You have seen Masters at work upon the Mudcat Earth--go ye forth, and do likewise. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:51 PM Gawd Rap......It really is depressing sometimes. At least you got those other degrees.......My phlosophy degree used to get me a cup of coffee at McDonalds for only a buck and a half but since this last downturn it now costs me 2 bucks!!! You'd think a degree would be worth more than that............especially in something as necessary as philosophy. I've given up though..............My bi-annual passion attack for Eastern thought has really got me going this time and I have taken to eating mass quantities of Phad Thai and General Tso's Chicken and gleening bits of wisdom from the fortune cookies. But even this has left me depressed as last night I got one that said, "We are all what we do the most so excellence will always breed excellence." I thought about this and the thing I do the most anymore is take a crap which means I guess that I'm shit. I figure I either need to read instead from the Bhagavad Gita or buy a different brand of Fortune Cookie................. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Rapparee Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:32 PM Poor, poor Spaw -- nobody bidding on him in the auction and all he has left of his life is to sit in his rocking chair, gumming his pablum and collecting century marks on Mudcat threads. Oh, Vtam -- I had a bachelor's education in English, lit -- come to think of it I still do. I had TWO semesters of Shakespeare (one from the drama perspective); classic, medieval, Shakespeare-contemporary, 18th Century, modern and contemporary (at the time) drama; and all sorts of other things that were intended to Make Me A Well-Read Gentleman Of Leisure And/Or A PHD In English Literature. It didn't take. I ended up with said BA, and minors in Drama, Philosophy, and (of all things) Theology. Then I went off and got a Master's Degree -- in SCIENCE!! (Well, Library and Information Science, but still....) None of this means I can fence well with a case of rapiers, although I could hold my own with cloak and rapier or rapier and dagger. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:28 PM Yeah......I suppose the choice is yours but I figure its more because you're a miserable limpdick jadrool with nothing to say. See Hawk, I didn't want to foul up these nice folks talking about whatever ta' hell they're talking about but you on the other hand act as if you know what they have to say and then go about rephrasing it in long, boring, prose. And another thing while I got you're sorry ass here............Let's not go telling folks I'm a nice guy and trashin' my rep. If I was a nice guy would I call you a limpdick jadrool or a broke-dick mamalucca? An HONEST guy would call you that but a nice guy might just keep it at "flake." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:26 PM I'm just being obstinate. ;-) Like a cat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:23 PM LH- Too late! The cat's out of its bag. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:11 PM No. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:53 PM 100Okay......go on with your discussion............ Spaw(;<)) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:53 PM WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Just get the hell off this thread for a minute......okay? ...............geeziz................ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:52 PM Okay......Just go play out back for a minute huh? HEY.....DO IT!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:04 PM Oh Kat - I don't know which is funnier - the video or the fact that it was made for EDS! EDS used to run the computer systems for HM Revenue and Customs in the UK, along with a whole heap of other government contracts. They were known universally as 'Everything Done Slowly', as it would often take a week to get a response to a call out for a tech problem. In our experience, EDS couldn't round up a bag of zeros... let alone herd cats! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 04 Jan 09 - 07:01 PM Ok, Lizzie, OK. >:-] Perhaps I should have said I tend to treat females less robustly than I do males, as do most male posters. There isn't a lot of flaming, compared with some sites, and trolling is spotted quickly, and so far as I'm aware, only Joe and the clones can close anything. We do get some people (one person?) who thinks racial proclivities are a funny subject, and others who think that it is VERY unfunny, but most are of mature years (very, very, mature years, some of us) and slow to anger. But firmly of an opinion. Oh yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Megan L Date: 04 Jan 09 - 06:24 PM I would move your fingers out of the way quick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 06:22 PM Now now, down boy, purrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Jan 09 - 06:14 PM On another site maybe! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:43 PM "I have noticed that the known and openly female members get more politeness than the known males do!" Crikey, maybe I'm a Boy Cat! Maybe that explains it all... ( lol ) Oh WHERE is a Giggling Smiley when you need one! :0)))))))))) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:39 PM Great, great. I just hope you don't resemble Woody Allen. Well, not in the respect of his whiny monologues, I mean... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: gnu Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:22 PM I resemble that remark, LH. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:22 PM I have played forum before. A several different poetry and story writing forums yonks ago when the interwub was just a little Fluvanna Cabbage (aka brussel sprout). I remember the flaming and the trolling and some bastard closing poems as soon as they were opened. Well aware of the problems and opportunities that anonymity presents in the virtual meeting space. But all this information is good for current and newbies of the future. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:20 PM We could try taking people as we find them, that might help. If you expect to walk into a crowded room and get on with every other person there, you are living in cloud cuckoo land. If you don't like what they say to you, either ignore them, or ask them for an explanation, or even an apology. You may find that you took what they said wrongly. It's been done before on here, and in other places too. To some of the other points made by other posters on here, I would say this. Remember that UK and US have different cultures, and a very different sense of humour too, and that over here, we are also black/white/brown/yellow/pink/fawn etc etc. Also as far as that is concerned, we also have a very different history. I know we have a lot in common, but please try to respect the differences too, we march to different tunes you know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:08 PM Face to face talk is way different. You can hear the other person's tone of voice and you can see their facial expressions and body language. The fact that you can't do that here means that things people say are easily misinterpreted or taken out of context, and offence may be taken where none is intended...or a bit of harmless banter may be taken entirely seriously, leading to further misunderstandings. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Gurney Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:56 PM A point here, Tam. Men and women talk face-to-face differently. women are much more conciliatory with each other than men are, and men take the micky out of their friends much more than women do. Although this place usually feels like a meeting, it isn't really, because most of us will never actually meet each other. Often, it takes years (because as Azizi says, we write no bio's) to realise which gender the others are, particularly if they post seldom, and their handle is not gender-specific. Or is a little misleading internationally, like yours, Tam being the common Scots for Thomas. So, if someone treats you more robustly than you expect, it may be just that he (usually he) can't see you. I have noticed that the known and openly female members get more politeness than the known males do! The first lesson I learned was, proofread! Everyone will pick you up if you make a funny mistake, English being our medium of contact. It really isn't personal, we pick everyone up! See WYSIWYG's post up there for an example. Some people post in patois as a defence. So, welcome to Mudcat from me too. You sound like our kind of person. That is, you have opinions and you are prepared to air them, and to speak up for yourself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:50 PM If it is a comedy of manners, I should love it then. Someday, I will read it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Richard Bridge Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:44 PM Well that'll be why no Sheridan then. The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on May 18, 1777 . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:43 PM Kat- I joined this thread late and have been trying to catch up. Then I clicked on your cat herding link... What a catastrophic video! VirginiaTam- I've nothing to add to the current discussion but welcome. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:06 PM Yeah, it's a pretty neat tune, isn't it? Most of the songs Dylan did on that album were covers of other people's works. I've heard more recently that he deliberately recorded a lot of that stuff on "Self Portrait" to alienate his more fanatical fans and make them give up on him in disgust and leave him alone for a change. ;-) I don't know if that's true or not, but I still like the album anyway, even if it is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Ebbie Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:42 PM Dylan recorded that song, Little Hawk, but as you probably know, it is not his nor was his recording of it the biggest hit. A man named Null wrote it and the Davis Sisters (or maybe it was recorded AFTER Skeeter's sister died) had a huge hit. I remember it well- I used to sing it a lot in the early '60s, and still remember the harmonies. Awesome. A Louvin Brothers type, the type that sends shivers down your spine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:07 PM "The cat went out in the dark one night With that look in his eye as if to fight Another cat so big and strong But, he knew that all along He would never win the fight So around he turned, so scared and tense And walking silently, home he went." This is kinda what the Mudkittens do, until they grow big enough to miaow "FOOOOOOOOOK OFFFFFFFFFFF!" to the larger, bossy felines, who then back right off, retreating into a corner and cat-cursing under their breath... ;0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: VirginiaTam Date: 04 Jan 09 - 01:49 PM Well it seemed Cowardesque then... you have to think about it too hard to figure it out and then you still aren't sure. Why don't I remember studying Sheridan? British Drama. Let's see, my US bachelor education provided wisp of mystery and miracle plays, touch of Shakespeare and other Tudor plays and weency bit of Oscar (oh my god I love him) Wilde mingled in two semesters general study English Literature. Full semester of Tudor Stuart Drama, full semester of Shakespeare (part of which was sonnet study). The rest of my Brit Lit education was taken up mostly with metaphysical and romantic poets. I suppose if I had gone after the much coveted master's degree, I probably would have been introduced to Sheridan. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Richard Bridge Date: 04 Jan 09 - 12:53 PM No, not Coward, Sheridan. And I nearly got it right here |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: katlaughing Date: 04 Jan 09 - 12:50 PM That's a good point about newbies not knowing where to go for help, VTam. I hope the Help page will be back up, soon. In the meantime, you can always use the Quick Links drop down menu and choose Contact Us to send an email to Max, etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 09 - 12:37 PM As Bob Dylan once sang... "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know...about her-r-r-r" (you reminded me of that song on the album Self Portrait) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 04 Jan 09 - 12:24 PM Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! :0) |
