BS: You know you're a mudcatter if

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 06:36 PM

You've gotten a Jacqui shawl even if you've never posted because you need "Mudcat hugs" and your husband DOES post.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 02:41 PM

... you are yourself, or are married to, a ballad freak with a repertoire notable for its serious body count.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 09:50 AM

1. You know what MOAB is and you've read most of it and even posted on it.

2. You hug people you've never met before and invite them home for a BBQ.

3. You know about LH and Winona and Shatner and dachshunds.

4. You care deeply about the well being of a lot of people you've never met.

5. You have a collection of t shirts and CDs from Mudcatters around the world.

6. The name Martin Gibson means something.

7. YOU CAN DO FANCY LARGE RED SCROLLING TEXT!

8. You met your future husband through Mudcat!


That's for starters. I'm sure I'll think of more ;)

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 01:27 AM

Unless you're wrestling with your logic whilst in the fiery grips of the "Pon Farr". Happens every seven years...

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Slag
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 11:39 PM

That does kinda negate "Live long and prosper", doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:09 PM

From: Slag - PM
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:32 PM

PS J Boy, I have 1500 and ca get 10,000 round boxes for cal. 50 and even some 20mm Vulcan ammo, just pm me!

... You wonder whether Littlehawk is going to point out tha Vulcans don't use guns!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 07:23 PM

If you are interested in hearing about, and discussing, a fake lobster falling out of a tree, or discussing the benefits of pee foot baths.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Bert
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 03:51 PM

You remember Mudcat Radio.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:54 PM

Glad you liked that, Old Dude. I hope you are well and happy.
Seriously, you know you're a Mudcatter if people you will never meet wish you a Happy Birthday and share your sorrows.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 05:00 PM

... you remember the times when idiot trolls would attempt to "engage" and their threads would be trashed by Mudcatters drifting the tread so far out of whack that it became about banter and fun, so much so that the troll would leave.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 04:37 PM

LOL, fat B that was great !!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:56 PM

...if you think William Shatner is some kind of actor.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Severn
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 11:52 AM

What Charmion said.

...if you've housed Catters from across the golbe on their travels or been housed by other catters, even in other lands. A Code of the Road that hasn't failed me yet.

...if lots of Mudcatters know the name of your house cat.

...if you're flat on your back in a hospital room and mail and cards and letters and e-mailmessages full of goodwill, karma and aid keep flooding in.

...if you wear two ID badges at the Getaway and other festivals.

...if people look a whole lot different than you imagined them from the printed page, and it doesn't even matter.

...if your singing repetoire includes at least one song learned from a Secret Santa package.

...if you remember the goodwill and comraderie in realtime of Mudchat in its glory years.

...if folks seek you out on Facebook and seem to share quite a few Catter aquaintences with you but you have to double check with friends because you never knew the real name that they're contacting you with.

...If you've had to referee or mediate at least one squabble among Mudfriends.

...if you know whose posts are worth checking out, even when quickly scanning a thread that's of no real interest to you otherwise.

...if you've made SINSULL's gift shopping list.

...if you've ever shared a few drinks with a Giant Squid.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:58 AM

You eagerly wait the return of Spaw to hear him call you a "broke dick Numbnuts"

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:49 AM

You don't leave a bodhran - or a benjo - in your car with the window open.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:26 AM

You can tell the difference between a ukelele and a Martin Dreadnought, and can identify an accordion at one glance.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:01 AM

"You find yourself randomly opening your home to folks you have never met on the word of others you know in cyberspace..."

And you find yourself driving halfway across Pennsylvania (on the way to Maryland) to flop at the home of someone you couldn't pick out of a police line-up on the word of others you've met only in cyberspace -- and when you get there, you're friends already.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 08:13 AM

You're more known by your Mudcat name than your "other" name.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 08:03 AM

You realize that other Mudcatters are your friends, even if you've never met them physically.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:50 AM

You start sharing things that you would have only previously shared with family or friends.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 11:10 PM

Hey, I REE-tired last year.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:53 PM

if...
you have received medical daiagnosis, legal advice, recipes, joke suggestions, archetectural advice, lodging, flame war threats, spelling admonitions (even if you are dyslexic), movie and book reviews, love advice or partner, deepest sympathies, requests to cheer the: afflicted, burnt up, surgury patient, bi or tri polar challenges, those in need of funds and basics after a fire or natural disaster, and unsolicited commentary on advanced astro physics and cosmology...

but tain't nobodys gonna give you no job. Folks don't seem to take one when offered neither.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Slag
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:32 PM

PS J Boy, I have 1500 and ca get 10,000 round boxes for cal. 50 and even some 20mm Vulcan ammo, just pm me!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Slag
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:30 PM

Gulp! OMG! I'm a Mudcatter!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Tinker
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 11:27 AM

You find yourself randomly opening your home to folks you have never met on the word of others you know in cyberspace......

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:53 AM

You not only own the tee shirt, but also the sweatshirt. Literally.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:26 AM

You know that a mudcat is really a big ugly fish, and wonder occasionally why you want to be one.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:04 AM

I remember meeting to Rick and talking of John.

You gotta be a catter to argue with a made up Chimp.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 07:17 AM

You remember Rick Fielding, Malcolm Douglas, Little John Cameron, Big Tim and Annraoi among other late, great 'Catters.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Will Fly
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 06:05 AM

however careful you are, a post of yours will eventually bring a huge, steaming pile of shit down on your head, which you will then scratch...

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 04:39 AM

You wish others would get a life, yet have a sneaking suspicion that they would prefer you got one instead....

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ernest
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 02:22 AM

Ebbie, your post made me realize that:

You know you are NOT a mudcatter if you can`t tell if a banjo-player is good or not...;0)

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:11 AM

VirginiaTam made me realize that - because it is irrelevant and unrelated to anything here - I can post my original banjo joke here. (There is no appropriate thread, you know)

Anyway.

"The problem with a banjo is that you can't tell if it is being played well or not."


Funny? I think so. :)







(I like banjos, meself.)

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 11:50 AM

If you wake up with a nasty taste in your mouth

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:23 AM

That made it easier to throw it at the guy Rap ... didn't ever learn that .. geeze .. man I am disappointed in you.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:20 AM

Actually, in the Old West ALL guns were sawed in half lengthwise. It was an politically correct measure in the beginning, so that everyone could be a "Two-Gun" shootist and no one would suffer a loss of self-esteem. This, by the way, including the US Army's cannons and Gatling guns.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:19 AM

You add a completely pointless post just so that YOU get that 50, 100 or 200 . . .

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:06 AM

It was an early gun control measure, Yes Paladin you can carry that firearm but as long as it is just the barrel ... you know you are a mudcatter if you learn to compromise

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 09:47 AM

Half gun is mudcat's twist on the have gun ... you see in that TV show Paladin use to walk around with just the barrel .. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: scouse
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 08:27 AM

An you've been to so many Festivals that you've lost count....

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: theleveller
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:19 AM

...you actually know what a mudcatter is!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 06:42 AM

Yes Virginia every word you said only I say 'oh bugger'

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 03:37 AM

You furiously search the current threads for an opportunity to drop in the latest joke email you received. Say "fuck it" then drop it randomly where it doesn't belong or worse... start a new thread.

You go into real withdrawal if mudcat or you go off line. "What's happening? What the fuck's happening?"

You start understanding some really long and convoluted posts.

Your identity is stolen and fake IDs of you are made on social networking sites.

You don't rise to Gargoyle's posts any more.

Your thoughts fill up with caring about the troubles of people you have never met. "BG"

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 02:53 AM

You start thinking of Mudcats as a virtual village with all these different characters, it's like a daily visit to Ambridge.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:57 AM

It,I mean. Though the "I was just a joke fellas" does have a certain existential ring to it.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ernest
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:55 AM

...you already know all the banjo jokes that are posted. And all the accordion jokes. And the bodhran jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:47 AM

I was just a joke fellas. olddude gets it.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:29 AM

A .50 caliber bullet is only good for making key fobs.

If you mean a .50 caliber cartridge we'd want to know whether it's for self abuse of for another acceptable target, and determining the acceptability of another target would require a separate thread, with another thread to argue about what someone said in the first separate thread and then another thread to defend the person from the first thread who was accused by the person in the second thread, all of which of course would spawn at least two or three threads lamenting the excessive number of threads about bullets and a couple more about toooo many threads on the victimization of targets.

And then ...

But if you're a mudcatter I don't really need to explain.

John

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:24 AM

Maybe a .50 bottom E string.....wrong crowd to be asking, J-Boy!

Still, warmest regards!
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:15 AM

I'm in desperate need of a .50 caliber machinegun bullet. Can anybody help me?