BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application

Subject: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:49 PM

Mudcat Café Inner Clique (MCIC) Application

Please print out this application on your printer, fill it out completely, and mail to the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed, c/o Mudcat Café. Finding the mailing address online is part of the proof that you're qualified, so don't whine about that. Applications are processed every 5th Tuesday between midnight and 12:01am. A score of 95% or better on the quiz portion of the application is required for admission to the Inner Clique. Essay counts for 50% of your grade. Use a #2 pencil. No talking.

Successful applications will be voted upon by representatives of the Mudcat Café Inner Clique (MCIC) at the annual Mudcat Café Inner Clique (MCIC) Exclusionary Committee Meeting and Accordion-Bashing on February 30th.

IDENTIFICATION PORTION:

Full Legal Name:

Former names, and dates of name changes (please give brief explanation for each name change on back of form):

Names you might have wanted to have had instead:

Mudcat Name (GUESTs need not apply):

QUIZ PORTION - MULTIPLE CHOICE:

How do you pronounce "clique"?
___ rhymes with "chic"
___ rhymes with "chick"
___ rhymes with "thick way"
___ other: rhymes with "_____________________________"

Where is Sperlonga?
___ Ontario
___ Somewhere in the Balkans
___ Italy
___ Who cares?

Cletus is:
___ an otter
___ a possum
___ Spaw's male member
___ a rock group comprised of former members of Oasis

Flaming and character assault are:
___ wrong
___ wrong when done by GUESTs
___ fun
___ a great source of sexual pleasure

Rick Fielding is:
___ God
___ a god
___ godlike
___ a hell of a nice guy

Max is:
___ God

A sense of humo(u)r is:
___ a sign of a sick mind
___ more to be feared than respected
___ more or less a necessity in cyberspace
___ what Spaw needs for Christmas next year

BS means:
___ just what it looks like
___ please get infuriated by this thread
___ Bachelor of Science
___ Blow it to Smithereens

The number one rule to remember at Mudcat is:
___ never stand downwind of Spaw
___ relax and have fun
___ if it ain't in Child it ain't folk
___ never disagree with an Inner Clique member

QUIZ PORTION - ESSAY QUESTION

I want to be a member of the Mudcat Café Inner Clique because (continue on back if necessary):

OATH PORTION

I hereby solemnly swear, affirm, and/or agree that, if selected by the Mudcat Café Inner Clique (MCIC) as a perspective member, I will uphold the laws, bylaws, and sacred taboos of the Mudcat Café Inner Clique (MCIC), never revealing them to non-Mudcat Café Inner Clique (MCIC) members, not even my dog, and eventually have them tattooed on my inner left thigh in bright fuchsia ink. I will attack all anonymous GUESTs at every available opportunity, and make as many inside jokes as my keyboard can stand.

(signature)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:54 PM

You better watch it, Alex, or you'll have people actually trying to send this in.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:56 PM

I should have noted that the fee to join the Inner Clique is US$25, in cash only. That will help Max a little if somebody DOES send this honker in.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: little john cameron
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:58 PM

Jings Alex,they'll aw be wantin in noo an it'll no be a cleek oneymair. ljc

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: GUEST,LEJ
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:02 PM

I refuse to join any organization that would actually admit someone like me as a member

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:17 PM

I did ok until i found the "No Sailors Allowed" in the small print... Damned Clique; did'nt want to join anyway sniff. Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:21 PM

count me out, I'd rather be outside the tent pissing in, than inside pissing out.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat CafT Inner Clique Application
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:27 PM

I love it Alex! ROFLMAO!!! That'll show 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:31 PM

Damn, gotta do more homework.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: MMario
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:43 PM

gee, I was fine up until the tattoo part. *drat*

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:45 PM

MM, it makes it hard to sit down for a day or so, but after that it's quite a conversation starter.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:54 PM

Did anyone remember to post this at the Secret Mudcat Inner Clique Website ??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:58 PM

Didn't you surf over and see it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:04 PM

No - I'm trying to be too cool. Is it working??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: GUEST,The Man from M.C.I.C.
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:07 PM

Figure wearing trench-coat,sandals,greek fisherman's cap,capo lapel-pin enters phone booth,flicks coin-return lever,taped voice is emitted from phone:

"Good morning.Your mission,should you decide to accept it,is to infiltrate the Tracy Aguilera Fan Club Meeting and introduce to the members elements of Appalachian Celtic-derived Folk Music.Should you be apprehended,the Mudcat Cafe will disavow any knowledge of your activities. This tape will self-destruct right after these intricate Robert Johnson licks from Terraplane Blues that I've been working on...."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:11 PM

I tried to fill the form in but the crayon just smeared the screen (I'm not allowed sharp instruments in here...).
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: GUEST,Man from MCIC
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:12 PM

"...sorry,that's Christine Aguilera. Tracy Aguilera is a klesmer star from Miami Beach,and currently poses no significant threat to Traditional Music."

click.Bang

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:14 PM

Wes, just be glad you get extra "cool" bonus points for being the father of a newborn. Double if you change diapers.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Kim C
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:19 PM

Aw, MMario, tattooing ain't that bad......... :):):)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: MMario
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:26 PM

thread creep - sorry - I get the heebie-jeebies at the thought of temp tattoos, let alone the real thing, at least when thinking about them and *my* body.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:37 PM

Alex - Not only do I change diapers but I'm working on applying the Rorschach test to what I find there.

And as someone here told me - when you're changing diapers at 3 am the fuzzy ones you find are the teddy bears.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:40 PM

First of all, I don't want to join this "inner clique". I have a clique of my own. And no, you can't join.

Second, I'm probably disqualified anyway. They just promoted me to the position of "Inactivity Director" at the NYCFTTS. There's probably a conflict of interest in there somewhere.

Carol (who pronounces clique to rhyme with freak)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: radriano
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:44 PM

Pardon my negative opinion, Mousethief, but this is the kind of crap that takes away from the good music discussions on this website. Why don't you just start your own website and do all of your mental masturbation there?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:45 PM

Are you sure that's not Inactivity Detector?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:12 PM

Geez, everybody knows that Clique is pronounced "Clik-weh"! You guys'll never get in!!! By the way, is mental masturbation a pre-requisite? I didn't see that in the by-laws.... Besides, we talked music, didn't somebody mention Christine Aguilera? Nuff said.....

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:19 PM

This won't make me go blind, will it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Fin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:21 PM

Anyone know how to get White-Out off the screen? I've changed my mind about joining. What with Radriano thinking thje Clique should be a musical discussion and Mousethief mentioning TATTOO, I think I'll continue to lurk around the edges. Thanks anyway, Fin

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Ribbit
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:25 PM

Only for as long as you keep your eyes closed:)
thom

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:26 PM

Just lift it up and shake it....no wait, that's etch-a-sketch....sorry, can't help you.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:28 PM

Fortunately I can touch-type with my eyes closed -OR- open.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Fin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:56 PM

Pseudolus, tried that, in case it was an Etch-a-Sketch, all I got was a wee carpenter ant crawling dizzily out of the back of the monitor, killed the little B.. Mousethief, got your sight back yet? Touch typing is fine, touch reading is a little difficult! CarolC, Clique rhymes with squeak, or is it quickie? Fin

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:58 PM

I read "just lift it up and shake it" while still thinking about mental masturbation. Jolting.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Ribbit
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:59 PM

PLAY magic fingers!! Thom

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:01 PM

I prefered the braile anatomy course I took with Janet over the touch typing course...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat CafT Inner Clique Application
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:20 PM

"CarolC, Clique rhymes with squeak, or is it quickie?"

--Fin

Well, Fin, where I live, squeak rhymes with freak. How does it work where you live?

Quickie is another matter, and one I don't wish to go into here... (ahem)

Carol

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:37 PM

A yankee is like a quickie, but a guy can do it alone.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:52 PM

Y'all are just too funny! LOL

However, like some of those above, I too must regretfully decline. (Although I'm one of those really weird people who cannot pass any test by)

1) I'm sure there are meetings. I do not wish to attend any. 2) I'm sure there are rules. I do not wish to observe any. 3) It sounds like there is no way to control the number or quality of the membership. As a wannabe control freak (pronounced 'click'), this does not meet my criteria.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat CafT Inner Clique Application
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:10 PM

Aw crap, the secret clique I'm already in prohibits memberships in any other ones. I see some of my fellow members have already violated that rule but it is well known that I am holier than thou.

I think it was rude to steal the fushcia tattoo though, and I resemble that. My husband is going to wonder how you found out about it, Senor El 'Teef.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:45 PM

Clique here

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 07:09 PM

OK, who is going to write the code of conduct for the inner clique? I'd write it myself, only I'm not qualified.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 07:19 PM

If you're in the inner clique you don't need a code of conduct - whatever you do is right by definition.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Lox
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 07:36 PM

Wise man he say "inner clique is achieved only through meditation and kung-fu".

lox

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 08:27 PM

Snuffy: You mean nobody's ever been thrown out of the inner clique?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat CafT Inner Clique Application
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 09:40 PM

ooohhh..Snuff made the ultimate "Blue Cliquey Thing"

just keep clicking it, and you won't need the Neil Young Center

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: R!
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 10:23 PM

Will there be a secret handshake? There has to be some sort of signal that the average person (me, for instance) recognises. An inner clique's success depends on the level of envy it generates amongst outsiders. I'm suddenly having terrible flashbacks to my high school days!

Rowana

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Fin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 11:07 PM

CarolC, sorry it took so long to answer, had to go shopping. Yes squeak and freak sound alike in Hawaii too, couldn't remember which one you used (lack of oxygen) my mouse is acting up, having problems with a dirty ball and I couldn't get back up the page. Some friends here pronounce it clicky like in quickie, others cleek, oh, whattahell, I hate fuchsia anyway, it matches my eyes. As for the Braille thing, wouldn't want to touch that. Fin

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 11:22 PM

Hawaii?

If I pretend to be Morticia's Sister (it is Morticia who's auntie you are, right?), will you be my auntie, too? I'd love to come for a visit.

Carol

(we'll pronounce it any way you like)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Ferrara
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 12:40 AM

Oh. I have to stop letting the so-called real world interfere with my 'catting around. Mousethief, thanks for the laugh. Everybody else, thanks for the laughs.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Fin
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 02:11 AM

CarolC, Yes, my time zone is a little behind you guys, that's why I can never figure out where I am, I'm ten hours behind Morticia, which means for her it's tomorrow, for me it's yesterday, I get to read your comments the day before you wrote them, or something like that. As for being Morticia's sister, would you first explain to my ONLY sister how she had a second daughter (one with a FUCHSIA tattoo)so late in life. For the rest of it.. yeah, a trip to Hawaii in the middle of your winter seems like a good idea to me. The roses are blooming. Where are you? Now, Rowana, about that secret handshake, that would be quite an accomplishment. Mousethief, thank you for a most interesting afternoon. Fin

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Café Inner Clique Application
From: Haruo
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 03:23 AM

Isn't clique pronounced to rhyme with Reich?

Liland