Hello

Subject: Hello
From: smallpiper
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:34 AM

Hello My mate suggested I have a try out at Mudcat so here I am and a big hello to you all.

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Bagpuss
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:39 AM

Hello to you too!

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: Hello
From: IanC
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:43 AM

Waes Hael!
Ian

Subject: RE: Hello
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:43 AM

greetings! Okay - let's just get it over with all at once, shall we? Name? Rank? Instruments? singing range? Favorite tipple? Favorite song? favorite condom? Do you own any volumes of Child's Ballads? Bronson? Can you create midi's, scan sheet music or transcribe by ear and how much free time do you have to surf the net? Do you have any cats, and if not, would you like a kitten?

Drop into the Tavern and have a round!

Subject: RE: Hello
From: pavane
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:44 AM

Moyen

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Megan L
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:46 AM

Welcome, I hope your doctor has certified you insane enough to join us:)

Subject: RE: Hello
From: smallpiper
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:49 AM

John, fairly (depending on the weather), Scottish Small Pipes Highland Pipes Whistle Guitar, painful, Black Sheep ale, Crazy Man Michael, no child's Ballands or Bronson, can't create midi's or scan or transcribe - can bearly read music but I've got a good ear and occasionally lots. I like cats but they make me sneeze!

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:51 AM

HOLEE COW Smallpiper! Now don't let MMario scare the beejeezus out of you...you don't have to reveal that "condom info". That's strictly on a "need to know basis" and he DOESN'T!

...and personally I favour the Tipples built by Martin in the thirties and Bronson was at his best in "The Dirty Dozen".

Cats ARE a requirement however.

Welcome....we DO have our moments here!

Rick

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:51 AM

Greetings from Maryland, USA. Welcome to the Mudcat. If you're into "folk" or "traditional" music, or instruments and stuff there's a world of info in here. There's grand support for your questions and research. Glad you're here. cheers, Fortunato

Subject: RE: Hello
From: bill\sables
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:54 AM

Welcome John Your credentials sound OK to me. Are you in Scotland?
Bill

Subject: RE: Hello
From: smallpiper
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:55 AM

Dare I say it - I'm in Hull

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:02 PM

Can you send over a keg of that Black Sheep Ale? Sounds like the ale I was born to drink.

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:03 PM

Welcome.

Who was the friend, and are they still a friend?!

Black Sheep gives coordinates in the environs of Masham?

Skipjack

Subject: RE: Hello
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:13 PM

I thought that the Black Sheep part was the answer to MMario's question re. sexual preference, I must have the answers out of sinc. Welcome anyhow, just take your wellies off and leave them by the door. JohnB

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:16 PM

Ceck your reason with the Marshall while you're at it, and welcome to the 'Cat smallpiper. Sharpen your sense of humor. I think you're gonna need it!

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: Hello
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:22 PM

hey! I did *NOT* ask about sexual preference! That can wait until the second thread

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:25 PM

View Halloo!! Welcome from Seattle, land of soft breezes, gentle rains, Starbuck's coffee, and the rampaging gooeyduck.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:30 PM

Welcome aboard, smallpiper. We do not cause serious injury until later but by then you'll be so far 'round the bend that there will be no saving you!

Have a great time and check out all the Cat has to offer.

Brett

Subject: RE: Hello
From: smallpiper
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:31 PM

I chose not to answer the condom question. Black Sheep is from Masham and I would love to send a keg over.... but...... I'm too busy with the sharpener. Cheers John

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Kim C
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:32 PM

Hidy from the Fiddlebum.

Subject: RE: Hello
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:42 PM

Well smallpiper.........Ya' see, condoms are a kinda' icon around here, along with tiples, Cleigh O'Possum, and assorted other characters and things, the latest being the "Little Pissant" and his Golden Shower Award. Rest assured, you will find some sanity here, but it's not coming from me or most of the other dimbulbs on this thread. Things get strange like when the guy up there named Rick Fielding, a Canadian by way of explanation, sent his three half brothers, all named Reg, down here to live with me, Paw, Cletus, and Buford.

After awhile, the above paragraph will make sense to you and you'll be a real 'Catter and ready for an extended stay at the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed, and pretty well unfit to live in polite society.

Welcome to the 'Cat!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Noreen
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:58 PM

Sharpen away... Black Sheep and Crazy Man Michael? Sounds good to me... even if you are part of the megalomaniacal tendency from Kingston upon.

Hope to hear you in Paltalk sometime.

Noreen

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 01:10 PM

Sounds like a looney to me-should get on well with Cobble. condoms on black sheep thats weird. What on earth are you doing with the sharpener? it'll bust the condoms.

Welcome-see you at the Jug sometime

Cheers

Eric

Subject: RE: Hello
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 01:25 PM

Another Mudcatter from Hull? What IS going on around here? Do you realize if the Mudcat Forum were a true majority-rules society those from Hull could take over the entire site? Frightening!
Welcome from sunny southern California! Hey, my husband also played the Scottish small pipes when he owned a set. I'll have to ask him if he has any favorite CDs he could recommend to you. Please feel free to do the same for us!

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 01:30 PM

Hello, and hey Don Firth am I going to see you when I get to Seattle, check the Northwest threads? See, smallpiper, once you're here, you're everywhere...

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Cobble
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 01:40 PM

Welcome to this place smallpiper, just watch out for that Viking and his sheep *(BG)*

I hale from Hull but escaped

Hope to see you in the Jug some time

Mrs C

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 01:41 PM

Hello

john in hull (HU3)

Subject: RE: Hello
From: niknak
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 02:23 PM

Hi smallpiper, don't mean to Drone on, but welcome to the 'makes me purple and stop breathing' cat. See you soon, and you already know Skipjack but i won't bore all those out there with the Who What& when. Who said Michael was crazy?

Subject: RE: Hello
From:
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 05:31 PM

Welcome to the zoo...when Catspaw begins to make sense it will be time to sign yourself into your local home for the confused and disturbed.

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 05:51 PM

Ha Ha HA! the masterplan is at work -more Kingstonians!- I've seen a couple of small pipe players - have you been to Cottingham or Nellies by chance?

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Hawker
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 06:16 PM

Hello Smallpiper!

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Daystar
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 06:49 PM

Hello there from a new mudcat

Subject: RE: Hello
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 06:55 PM

MMario. Steady on there; you'll give the por fella the idea we're only intrested in using his resources/talents (brake it to him gently, for Pete's sake!)

Subject: RE: Hello
From: GUEST,Willa
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:05 PM

Smallpipes were you at Cottingham tonight?
Karen; 'what's going on around here?' Well that's the point, it's all going on around *here* in the City and County of Kingston upon Hull (and those surrounding areas which will soon be subsumed thereto.) You're right, Ickle; the plans are going well!

Subject: RE: Hello
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:19 PM

Welcome to the Mudcat, smallpiper!

Any friend of Skipjack's is a friend of mine.

Carol

Subject: RE: Hello
From: kendall
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:26 PM

Welcome aboard, grab a berth, and be ready to fall out at a moments notice.

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 08:19 PM

I am but a newcomer myself, but a fine and fair "Hello" to you too, Smallpiper! So far, I can only say good things about the place. I hope all first experiences here are as good as mine has been! :D

Subject: RE: Hello
From: bill\sables
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 08:35 PM

It seems that some silly bugger has introduced the computer into Hull. It looks like they are playing with it like a kid with a new toy. It won't last long though, with the rate of coastal erosion going on Hull will soon be under the North Sea and the Jug will be a seaside pub.
Bill

Subject: RE: Hello
From: khandu
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 08:56 PM

A Grand "Hello" to you, smallpiper! Glad you have joined in this strange, but weird, group of humanity(?).

More questions; Do you beleive in post-marital sex? What kind of smallpipe do you smoke? Are you prepared to hurl unsolicited insults at Spaw? Don't you just LOVE Mississippians?

What brand condom was that?

kahndu

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 09:10 PM

My question is why MMario is so curious about the poor fellow's condom usage and his sexual perference....

Subject: RE: Hello
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 09:24 PM

Before you answer the Mississippi question asked above, let me point out something. Brother khandu is from Mississippi and you'll note that he can't even spell his own name. However, he does hail from a state where he can get you bedsheets and pillow cases at a reduced price.......Sorry, white only and the pillowcases have two holes in them, but they are cheap. Ask about the used ones too as they are one helluva' bargain and you can barely smell the kerosene aroma.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Hello
From: khandu
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 10:34 PM

Thank you, brother Swap, for pointing out my typo. I just love Ohions(?) (Ohidies?) (Ohiers?)...y'all fellers from Ohio!

khandu

Subject: RE: Hello
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:28 PM

Love you too Bro.....And those of us who are Ohio natives generally say "Uh-hines." The state is AHIA.....We don't seem to do O's here. True story:

The Ohio Sate Marching Band is well known for their signature "Script Ohio" where the drum major acts as a pencil and leads the band through a writing of the word Ohio on the field. I gotta' admit, it is kinda' neat. One year, about 25-30 back or so, as a joke, they spelled "Ahia".......didn't go over real well and the director at the time, Paul Droste, had no idea it was going to happen. Best thing was, it was a nationally televised game!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:44 PM

I guess it could get kind of difficult to do that marching band thing in Mississippi.

Welcome Smallpiper!

Just don't stand downwind from Spaw the Flatulent!

Rich

Subject: RE: Hello
From: smallpiper
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:12 PM

The Jug - please enlighten me. Niknak I think I know but skipjack? I've played several times at Nellies buty usually in a pub called the Hase in Hessle (HU13)Tuesday fortnightly next one is on 31st July all welcome even ohionians! John

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:28 PM

Smallpiper, I'm the wannabe fiddle player from the Sloop, which I believe you came over to back along. I came over to the Hase 'bout a month back, but it was invaded by noisy Sloopers later on.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: Hello
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:47 PM

Just curious, Spaw -- what was the Ohio Sate Marching Band sated on at the time?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Hello
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 03:04 PM

Hello...

Just one thing...when you first come on here..you dont leave a very good first impression if you say ur in hull/from hull.....

But we do respect ur honesty and send you our deepest sympathy upon the matter of being from hull.

Jez (thewierdoatthejuginyorkshirewhodoesntreallyhaveanythingagainstpeoplefromhulljustlikestotakethemickoutofeveryoneandwriteannoyinglongthingsthattakehourstoreadandannoyeverybodycosshesanannoyingfreakofaperson)

Have fun, and welcome to the madhouse..there's no going back now!!

Subject: RE: Hello
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 03:37 PM

Welcome aboard!

Alex

Subject: RE: Hello
From: smallpiper
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 03:53 PM

Please note I said "I'm in Hull" I didn't say anything about being from Hull. Not that I have anything against the place I live here after all. But like a lot of people I took the wrong turn at Leeds and ended up here....to think I'd have been out on parole by now oh well the place does kind of grow on you or is it that we shrink to fit? John