BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:57 AM

I find it amusing that if you have a complaint about Mudcat, Joe asks us to PM him direct, but the reverse is not true.

JM



It's a joke BTW

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: olddude
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:22 AM

cause the women are hot and folks like Spaw who can fart God Bless American in harmony with the other fellow who burps

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Mooh
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:14 AM

Mudacts Of Kindness:

The Mudcat was a surprisingly good way for my wife to notify folks when I was very ill last year, just as it is a good method of generating good deeds, charity, prayer, and thoughtfullness.

If we keep our perspective, it's a wonderful way of studying each other's nature, a broad cross-section of humankind.

Thank you friends.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: topical tom
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 06:38 AM

On Mudcat Cafe I get to interact with friendly, informative folk about our common love of music and other issues of common interest.Most everyone is helpful, friendly and I have learned a lot about songs and music and other matters.Long life to Mudcat! Let's keep carrying it on!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Rowan
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 12:35 AM

Chocolatey?

I found sugar, cream, chili, garlic, salt; even some bread!

I must come back for another taste to see if I can get chocolate

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Skivee
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 03:53 PM

What I like about Mudcat Cafe?
It's the rich chocolatey flavor.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 03:30 PM

I love that the folks in charge have taken some steps to clean up the BS section. It makes it a better website for everyone. Dodge City it ain't. And I like it that way.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Leadbelly
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 03:19 PM

refresh-
Thanks to Peace this interesting tread was initiated more than 4 years ago.
In the meantime, are there any changes in attitudes, opinions aso about this great site? What do newcomers think about?

My personal judgement: depending upon my special needs, one of the best forums in the internet.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,Cat
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 02:44 AM

I like brucies..

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 01:32 PM

I had a dog named Ginger who would look for 'love' anywhere. Horniest animal I ever met. He was a stray that showed up one day, stayed for a year and disappeared. You would not believe what that mongrel tried to do to furniture, cars, anything that would stay still for longer than a few seconds. I watched him one day take a whiz on a tree, begin to saunter away, and then as an afterthought, he went back to the tree and--I will allow the reader to imagine the rest. Cats were afraid of him not because he barked--he didn't have a mean streak in him--but because he had a look in his eye when he chased after them. I don't know what eventually became of him, but odds are that he died happy.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 10:33 AM

maybe some prawns in the curtain rods for that certain something..

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 10:19 AM

Better yet, drive a Mercury, man! They're full of tuna these days, according to the press.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 06:49 AM

Ya see, brucie, me and the kitties KNEW we only had to wait you out for you to show your true colours...YOU'RE A DOG MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH..(must have instant gratification, looking for love in all the wrong places, and thinking we'll fall for the words rather than the deeds)...next time, scent your posts with tuna.....xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 20 Mar 04 - 11:47 PM

I like the quiet threads, these have been very sustaining.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,raindropsonroses
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 08:32 PM

forgot my fave....

jerry rasmussen.

jerry, .. you are such a kind, lovely man. the angels in heaven sing around and through you. thanks, man.

its a joy to sing along with you...


your cyber friend

raindrops

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,raindropsonroses
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 08:09 PM

Bobert - handsome, wry, cool, and SOOO left of any crap

katlaughing - free, wild & funny, smart and crazy

mcgrath - smart, smart, smart & self disciplined

Little Hawk - that mind goes out into the universe and back

sueb - blunt, concise, witty

leadinger - kind, smart, out there, practical

ellenpoly - open, warm, not stuck in a mental rut, moving and growing

micca - your way with words is magic, as are your eyebrows

cindy - don't see much of you, but you're a lovely soul

allan c - brave, talking about hard stuff, kind

jennyo - witty, wiccad, and warm

brucie - you're my man, you like cats

nurse ratched - like your style, woman!

...and thanks to all those wonderful elves of music, ghandarvas and goblins of gook, who lurk, leap, and lunge through the digitrad, piling on each day more knowledge of the delights of GHOSH!!!

and giok - put a bloody photo up man - you're so funny, i want to know who i'm laughing at!

...........whiskersonkittens.........

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 07:36 PM

I'm with Mmario about "the brilliant interface " - it seem so simple and works so well, it must be devilish cleverly constructed. And not flashy, which a mercy. (Alright we have the crashes, but that's down to something else, poverty).

I've never come across anything comparable - compared to the Mudcat everything seems clunky, and I've looked. I mean, they needn't necessarily be about folk music - in principle any strong shared interest can be the glue for an online community. There've been quite a few threads where people have suggested other forums that exist, but they never even begin to measure up when it comes to the type of stuff Mmario mentioned.

And that's leaving aside the content and the people you come across, and the stuff other people have talked about in the thread. Once more, thanks everyone. (And confusion to the people who buzz in from time to time with the intention of trying to screw things up - though, I dunno, maybe even they have a role in helping us learn to recognise the traps and the pitfalls that could wreck the place.)

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 03:18 PM

lmaorotf

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 03:02 PM

Oboyoboyoboy -- are you in trouble!! The Administratrix of the Nubile Beauties Association was JUST about to enter your name in the "Approved For Bone-Jumping, Guaranteed Sensitive" column as Pure-D in the ole database, and you go and blow it!!! These things take time.   In your case, what might have taken just a few more days now looks to be about a century. Hang in there, good buddy!

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:41 AM

...hmmmm...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:29 AM

Public Announcement

I hereby declare the following: Being of somewhat sound mind and body (OK, the mind's a little shaky and the body isn't anything to write home about so I'll start again): Being alive and breathing, and having received NO offers from ladies who are supposed to think that when a guy says he like cats that he's sensitive and all, I hereby declare that CATS CAN SCREW OFF!

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 12:18 PM

I'll repeat the comment above about design :What I like is the brilliant interface of the forum/discussion board, where threads are brought to the top of a discrete list according to the most recent post, even if the thread was otherwise dead as of long ago

Other forums I am on do something similar - but I think the 'cat does it best.

The search facilities are the best I have run across on any bulletin board/forum. For all the foibles and quirks (and we all know the searches have them) I get better more consistant results with the searches on the cat then I do on any other site I've frequented.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 07:03 PM

I like it because all my personalities can find something to discuss so no-one feels left out.    That's our story, anyway.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 06:37 PM

I LIKE CATS.

Jaysus, someone said that girls think guys who like cats are cool, suave, hot, sensitive, like that. So, how come I don't get any lacivious messages? Where are the girls who like guys-who-like-cats? I'm waiting for three more days. If I don't get any blatant signals, then screw the cats. I'll send them to the 'shoot the damn cat' game. You know, the sick humour thread, which by the way I think is really sick for only three more days.

I LIKE CATS.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 05:22 PM

Come on chaps, we need to get this positive reinforcement up to more posts than the negative thread!!

I like it because it's informative and a good way of spreading a little information a long way.

Next?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 01:51 PM

What I like is the brilliant interface of the forum/discussion board, where threads are brought to the top of a discrete list according to the most recent post, even if the thread was otherwise dead as of long ago. This design must exist elsewhere, but I have never seen it (I don't get around to forums much.) If anyone has seen a better design I'd be interested in taking a look at it.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 11:39 AM

you can sign in as a nom de plume and insult/annoy/generate discussion/say inane things/act daft/generaly be another person and noone knows who you are and have a good time doing it...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Flash Company
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 10:40 AM

I discovered Mudcat after my wife met an old singing friend of ours who mentioned it.
As someone else said i'ts addictive!
I look every day for the threads that interest me, and usually find something that I can comment on.
The great thing is, the originator of the thread can be on the other side of the world, or just in the next village, it doesn't matter, we all have the same interest in keeping the music flowing.
Great stuff!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 10:27 AM

I think we live on the same planet, dear, but I am pretty sure we do it in very different ways, which makes the mellerdrama far more interesting.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 10:25 AM

More than the vast amount of knowledge available here I particularly appreciate the helpfulness of people who are eager to share that knowledge. It even compensates for those OT threads that sometimes leave me wondering if we all live on the same planet.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 08:11 AM

people & words!

There are some great people here - some I knew before joining (Bob Bolton who got me here, JennyG, Bruce from Bathurst, Canberra Chris, Alison, Callie, Chicky), some I encouraged to join (JennyO, freda), some I'll probably never meet (Giac), some I've met & others I will be meeting (Charley Noble, Naemanson, Moses, Bill/stables, El Greko), some who inspire me (Art Thieme, Jerry Rassmussen) - the list goes on

and the wordsmiths! I have always had creative friends (dollmakers, embroiderers, lacemakers, woodwrkers - people who created with their hands) but never known people who created with words - songwriters & wordsmiths. One of my collagues enjoys words as much as I do & I often send threads to him to share the laughter & wit (asterism is the new euphemism!)

As has been said above, Mudcat is addictive, however it's much better than any other addiction (well, maybe the chocolate lovers would say otherwise, but I don't have a sweet tooth)

In one word Mudcat is a community.

sandra

oh, I forgot the Digital Tradition, and the Mudcat CDs.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: rock chick
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:43 PM

exactly, see all said in just two words, now why didnt i think of that Amos!!! no dont answer ;-0

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:34 PM

Multiple personalities, in any case, eh??? LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: rock chick
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:20 PM

See that's exactly what we mean, rant, rave, be serious, silly, Intelligent, Obnoxious, funny etc etc and all in one night and even from one person only. lol

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:20 PM

o, ye of little faith! Fie! Jealousy becomes you not.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:14 PM

Bob:

See above....


A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Deckman
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:11 PM

Who's William Shatner? Bob

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:08 PM

William Shatner!! He's pathetic -- a windbag, a puffy old has-been with bad habits on stage and off, half out of his mind with ineptitude and the discomfort tyhat comes from perpetrating it. He's a foolish crumbled icon, a hlaf-baked wannabe has-been who is over the hill when he should be under it.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:03 PM

Look at it this way:

Where else are you going to find the collection of people represented on the 'cat. We have folks with great humour (who will sidetrack to a discussion of humour vs humor), get into a debate or screaming match about mid-East politics, come to the emotional rescue of someone they were just fighting with over anything that requires their assistance, debate in depth and detail--with scholarship that would be accepted by any university in the world--then return to laugh at Spaw farting on the world wide web. The finest details of folklore are addressed, and people will get into research over whether the song could have taken place where it did because they didn't have that type of dress in the period talked about in the song. Folks will argue for their local beer because it is not only good, but essential to the existence of life as we know it, move to single malt as opposed to mixed, worry or not about spelling or punctuation, state their mind (or what's left of it) and move on. There is a gentility here that is often NOT found in the 'real' world. Someone above said that the music brings us closer, and I think that's right. However, I also think that special types of people get attracted to music in the first place, and so maybe that's got something to do with it.

We have people who have seen aspects of life no one should ever have to witness; we have people who care deeply for those around them, and who really do see the world as a global community. We have scholars who freely share their hard-won knowledge and skills. And I love the fact that there's no question that's too silly. I love the respect--some of it grudging--that's accorded William Shatner--and, it don't get much better than that.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Joybell
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 05:22 PM

I arrived with the intention of finding information about songs and stayed when I found kindred spirits who have now become good friends. I also like the "out of control" aspect and the strange mix of content. Mudcat is my first contact with humans for the day, not counting the kiss I give my True-love who is always still asleep when I get up. Joy Joy Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 12:45 PM

I guess I like it because it is quirky and utterly out of control. Then every once in a while some post makes sense. I suppose it kinda that human nature of liking things in contrast -- we like the summer most in the coldness of winter. Diamonds show off best against the blackest background.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 12:42 PM

What do you say when everything else has been said ?
THANKS
the best anti depressent around - pity it's so addictive!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,Shlio (a regular lurker, not-so-regular post
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 11:05 AM

For everyone with thoughts on folk or blues
For those who feel isolated in a world of pop
For them wanting to discuss recent news
Or simply wanting to blow their top
If they want the words to archaic tunes
Or to know where they can go to perform
If they're under the influence of dubious fumes
(This seems to happen often - most people blame Spaw)
For those who can debate with equal strength
Twelve-string guitars, Shatner and freds.

Come all but be warned, there's no turning back
From the creeping insidious joy of Mudcat.


I think I found Mudcat in one of the strangest ways. A simple search on Google (I can't remember what for) and I found myself on the Mother of all BS Threads. A bizarre introduction, but I decided to stick around to make sure that none of those people lived near me!
It was definitely worth it - I've discovered a whole community that I had no idea existed.

Shlio

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 11:04 AM

Well thank the deities for that - I was beginning to think it was just me!

It's like having valium and rohipnol in one shot....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 12:54 AM

I realized today that I 'know' more people on the Mudcat than I do in real life. I think it would be impossible to ask a question on the 'cat and not get an answer. One afternoon--acting on a childish impulse--I posted a ! with nothing else. Within 24 hours there were over 30 or 40 posts relating to everything from William Shatner to lingerie that I suspect someone in a certain largest Canadian province keeps in a special drawer for the blow-up dolls. This place is crazy, but good crazy.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Mar 04 - 06:24 PM

Just have a look at the Happy Birthday DougR thread, for example...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Bassic
Date: 13 Mar 04 - 05:22 PM

Yup......it was right here...........Hiya love! *BG* See ya soon:-)X

And for all the other great mates and friends......., who care a great deal considering we hardly if ever meet.

Why does it work?.....can only believe it is the music.......we all share a common love for it.....though we might differ is hundreds of other ways....we all have that love for the music and because of it we have a language to share and comunicate with.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: rock chick
Date: 13 Mar 04 - 04:27 PM

everything, everyone....well almost, and cos i met my S O here Ahhhhhhhhhh ;o)))

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 07:56 PM

BS: Photos and Profiles
BS: Anybody but Bush?

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: pdq
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 07:49 PM

BS: Sexual Dysfunction or Non-function
BS: Nader Goes After Bush on Texas Turf

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: InOBU
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 07:36 PM

Well, I like what is going to be as the internet becomes more of a wonder... Instead of jumping on an Airplane to stand in Victoria Station and play a tune for McGrath... I see a time when we will go into our wee internet room and there will be the whole crowd... shooting the BS around e-tables, over e-beer and listening to the Cat who is on the e-stage, and even smelling the gas from Spaw who is eating e-beans and singing raunchy songs... giving an e-handshake at the end of the big arguement with good friends on opposite sides of the concerns of the day... sort of like the Holodeck on Star Trek... speed the day. Larry

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 03:40 PM

Mudcat is simply one of the best 'sources' I know...of music, of banter, of knowlege of LOTS of stuff, of ideas, of escape, of togetherness, and of fascinating nonsense
...it's a window to parts of the world I'll never see, and a guide to things I never knew I need to know until I came here. I was one of the first 20-30 people to post here, over 7 years ago, and it was a great place until 'spaw let loose with his first gaseous emission!...and strangely, it remained great even after!

I have met folks I bever would have known otherwise, and some of them...(about 15-20 so far) have stayed at my house when in the area...

Kinda changes you to add that much good, new stuff to life at my age!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: jeffp
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 03:28 PM

Kendall, that's one of the funniest things I've read recently! Thank you for giving me a good laugh in a very stressful time.

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: open mike
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 03:14 PM

rodents?
most of the beasts here are bi-peds
and I love them for it!
and spaw, so nice to hear,
see (and smell) you again...
have you been hibernating?

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: kendall
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 02:56 PM

I was never a joiner. Mudcat ruined that. Now, I feel like making a bumper sticker that says HERMITS UNITE

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 01:55 PM

Its like real life only better. You can chat, moan, argue, inform, be informed, laugh, cry, fall in love, have a drink with your mates and at the flick of a switch avoid anyone you want to avoid - beats having to climb out the pub toilet window!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 01:46 PM

I think it's f***ing great.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 01:30 PM

What I like about Mudcat Cafe is exactly what I dislike about Mudcat Cafe---it's full of people.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freightdawg
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 01:23 PM

This place is as friendly as a six week old puppy with oversized paws and an over wet nose.

Its as cuddly as a kitten curled up on your lap and purring contentedly.

Just mind when you step...

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Blackcatter
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 12:10 PM

What can I say - I agree with most stuff above.

And while this place doesn't give me gas

BBBRRRAAAAWWWWMMMPPP

excuse me it certainly is a gas

BBBRRRAAAAWWWWMMMPPP

excuse me.

I like the pretty happy mix of professional musicians, non0pro musicians, music historians, and all the wonderful none of the aboves.

Pax y'all, and htanks again to Max, Joe and everyone else that makes this place what it is - the only discussion board I visit.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 11:54 AM

Is this the place to admit I've never been able to get into the BBC site Guest Mike Harding?

Lead - I'm not a complete lunatic either, I've had surgery.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: ced2
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 11:12 AM

And the occasional egg shaker that we thought we had safely incarcerated in the cellar.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 11:09 AM

Damage the cynicism gland...yeah, right.

I came here lookin' for some lyrics and sort of stuck around. Then I moved out here to Idaho and had my consciousness raised, so now I know exactly what this place is full of:

weirdo commie hippy fascist neoconservative warmongering socialistic song-singing lyric-writing gun-toting antihunting carnivore vegan republican liberal tory democratic tax-and-spend knee-jerk devil-worshiping fundamentalist Buddha-thumping stupid dope-using pagan christian anarchistic agnostic feminist pacifists!

And that's just for a start, too!

I happen to like folks like that.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Fossil
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 11:02 AM

It's that subtle air of weirdness that emanates from the computer every time the Mudcat is up... it's being able to post to a site where at least some of the readers might know what "emanates" means... it's getting information about everything you could ever need to know about the world of Nearly Acoustic... it's talking about guitars with people you will probably never meet (but would like to)... it's the enthralling adventures of rodents, chimps, penguins, manatees and campers at Drumcree... it's a bunch of asskickin' Nixonite rednecks mixed up with hairy-armpitted dykes, beardy-weirdy folkniks, sailors, cat-lovers, dog-lovers, Shatner-lovers, sex fiends, people who sing with fingers in the ear, bodhran owners and squatters under the porch. It's more real than real life, sometimes...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: ced2
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 10:50 AM

Hey chaps are you on something? All this happiness & good feeling might damage the cynicysm gland.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,Mike Harding
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 08:44 AM

I like it because everybody here loves me, and it is much better than my BBC site.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 08:31 AM

Ok 'spaw. So that's how you spell the sound. How do you spell the smell..?

:D

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 07:34 AM

I've been here over 5 years and 20,000 posts and the place still gives me gas..............

BBBRRRAAAAWWWWMMMPPP

..........and I like gas.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 07:09 AM

Keep it down the non-music section, Joe. BS stands for all kinds of things as well as bullshit, and it's just a historical accident that the label has got attached to this end of the forum. I think that people who just rigidly stick to the music end miss an awful lot of good stuff. (As well as a good lot of awful stuff...)

I think the Mudcat makes it worth having the Internet even on its own. Thanks to the people who make it that way, and keep it that way.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 06:50 AM

you're a good bloke, LF (highest aussie compliment).

yup - its a big hook in - and i have thought some thoughts and learnt some new things - its a fascinating process.

thanks, sandra & jennyo - for enticing me in here.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 06:39 AM

Snot Faced Know-it-Alls , Proper musicians , and Total Lunatics ??

That more or less covers it Liz - The only problem is I am NOT a proper Musician, and I dont think I am a TOTAL lunatic. Does that mean I am one of the Snot Faced Know-it-Alls ?

Better not ask for an answer to that on !!!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: SueB
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 06:36 AM

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee with the length and width of my keyboard.
I love thee with all the strings of my guitar...

Yea thou I walk in the valley of the shadow of 'pop'
I shall fear no Brittney,
for thou art with me
thy lyrics and thy rodents they comfort me...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 06:19 AM

The friendliest lunatics I have ever come accross and collectively the best ' folk ' resource in the world. You need to know something? ask at the Mudcat, nuff said.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: open mike
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 05:33 AM

i look forward to the chance to connect with my mud cat friends in threads on the forum and in the chat and on the pal talk room...
many of you are an important part of my day and my life! the thing i do not like is that it is only 2 dimensional.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 05:32 AM

It's an eclectic mix of snot faced knowitalls, proper musicians and total lunatics.

I like it here because it's cheaper than booking into a psychiatric hospital and someone will always talk with me, even if it is just to tell me how fat my arse is.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 02:24 AM

I found it by accident looking up some song info. Never ever joined a chat room before either. I was made to feel welcome so I came back.

I have found a great bunch of mostly open minded people from whose threads I have been learning a lot and whose collective knowledge is astounding.

Now I wake up and before I start work I visit the room and meet with some really great people. Sort of sets me up for the day.

Though I can go to the pub for a beer, a session and a chat; Mudcat keeps me connected as we foreigners are a distinct minority here in China.

I look forward to meeting some of the UK catters on a visit in June/July.

What don't I like; Its too bloody adictive!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 11:15 PM

Ain't no BS here? Well... There is now!

Ah don't much care for this Mudcat place muh-self. Sorta got here by mistake one day. Ya see, me an' muh brother Bill an' muh other brother Bill (muh Momma likes th' name "Bill") wuz out muddin' one day. Now, fer you city slickers 'at don't know 'bout it, muddin's when us country boys takes 'em big ole four-wheel-drive trucks with 'em big ole nobbly tires out where they's lotsa mud left after a rainstorm 'n we spin donuts 'n make a buncha noise 'n drink beer 'n jus' gen'ly raise hell until we either pass out or blow up a motor. Well, one day Ah blowed up th' motor in muh ole Chevy 'n we towed it back home 'n we'z thinkin' about where's we gonna get a 'nuther motor 'n muh other brother Bill says he knows where there's a Caterpiller bulldozer that we cud probly git th' motor out of. So that night we snuck over t' where th' highway boys wuz doin' some clearin' fer a new road 'n we snagged th' motor outta this big ole D-8 jus' as purty as yuh please. Tookit back home 'n took a cuttin' torch t' th' ole Chevy 'n somehow or 'nuther got thet big ole Cat diesel into it. Next day we fired thet mother up 'n run it on down t' the muddin' bog 'n, Ah'm gone tell yuh what, thet rig flat kicked ass. Muh brother Bill said that since it 'uz such a bad-ass truck we orta give it a name. So we thunk 'bout it fer a while 'n muh other brother Bill says that since it's fer muddin' 'n it's got a Cat motor in it we shud call it "Mudcat".

So, one day Ah's playin' roun' on this computer 'n Ah decided t' see if mebbe sumbody else had a truck like mine so I put "Mudcat" inta thet Google thang 'n next thang Ah know Ah'm here at this place. Now, Ah've got sum frens 'at pick 'em guitars 'n banjos 'n such so Ah thought Ah'd just check it out. Well, Ah'm gone tell yuh what, you's about a buncha wierd-ass damn people. Ah think a whole buncha yuh's Commnists 'r sumthin. Always bad-mouthin' th' Prezdent. 'N halfa yuh's ferners 'uh some kind. Allus talkin' 'bout some places called "Hull" 'n "Twillingsgate". What th' shit's 'at all about? 'N 'at Spaw character. Always fartin' 'n sayin "fuck" right out in public. 'N what in th' double-dee hell is a Shatner?

Ah tell ya, you people is sumthin' else. Ah jus' keep cummin' back t' see whut you weird-ass sumbitches is gonna do next.

By th' way. There's some feller hangin' 'round here purtendin' t' be me. Goes by th' name "Bruce". He ain't me. My Momma'd never give no son 'a hers a wimpy-ass name like "Bruce". Muh name's Bill, jus' like muh brothers. Ah told yuh Momma likes th' name "Bill".

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Deckman
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:52 PM

A gentle suggestion: Let's move this out of the "BS" section. There ain't no "BS" here. Bob

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Well, I think it's non-music information, Bob. It's one of those borderline cases, and I tend to leave the borderline threads where the originator put them.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: jimmyt
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:51 PM

WHat a collection of unique characters! I have met lots of superb human beings and enjoy my time here more than about anything in the day!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:19 PM

Max called me this afternoon, and I really enjoyed the call. We had a nice, long chat, and it sounds like life is going well for him. Then he reminded me how old he is - exactly the same age as my firstborn son.

So, now he's going to call me "dad."
Thanks, "son," for all the good stuff you do for us.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 10:00 PM

What do I like about Mudcat? For starters, the first two folks what posted to this thread (counting brucie.) I like the friendliness, and even the orneriness in here. I like the caring in here, most of everything... better then this joint as a source of lyrics, information and advice (called for and un-called for.)

It feels real in here.

Bro Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Deckman
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 09:46 PM

It's the PEOPLE! They are so darned wonderful. It's an amazing mix of young and old, all three sexes, music lovers of every venue, singers WORLDWIDE!

I've connected with singers from Finland, Germany, England, all over America, Canada, on and on. I've connected, and re-connected, with new singers, and folksingers I knew many years ago. I've been able to keep in touch with previous friends that have moved away to distant places, but have not really left the community of singers and song lovers. (Hi Maggie).

I've been educated, and re-educated about music issues that are happening right now, in living time.

And the resource of the music files is awesome. Even more importantly is the resource of song lovers that are always ready and willing to help with any problem or search or question I have.

Shall I go on? (anyone 'wanna buy a car?) I get so excited about MUDCAT that I have to contain myself. Excuse me now, I have to go take a cold shower. See you later! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 09:27 PM

This place rocks. The music threads are helpful, the posters are clever, and the people are friendy. The BS threads cover everything under the sun and a few things over the moon. I've been coming here for about a half year, and I still think it's the best site on the whole darn net. I've made some friends I'll probably never get to meet, but I know some of them really well. I've met some old friends and we have touched base again. I have come here looking for assiatance with various things (my ampersand, how to do this or that on the computer) and someone helped. Seen people on good and bad days, and things get straightened out. People have a sense of humour and a sense of fun.

So, what do you like about the 'cat?