BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 09:13 PM

Brings up something I've never understood. If "To thine own self be true" is such great advice, why did Shakespeare have Polonius, a totally inept idiot, deliver the line?

Was it a cliche even in Shakespeare's time? Was it the Elizabethan equivalent of "Don't take any wooden nickles"? Or did Shakespeare feel sorry for old Polonius and simply throw him a bone - one good memorable line to stand out from the dreck? Or did Shakespeare just not realize that it was good advice? Is it a failed joke that has come to be taken seriously?

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: GUEST,ilk
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 09:55 PM

This is my first visit to Mudcat? This is my first post also? I came here seeking knowledge of folk music? Yet, I somehow was sucked into this vast void at the bottom of the page?

What is this insanity. What has any of this to do with folk music.

I am dreadfully confused as well as terribly frightened? Have I somehow stepped into another universe where 6 is 9. Do I see someone pointing there plastic finger at me.

I have a gun? So don,t try anything untoward?

                                     Greetings,
                                           ilk

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 10:04 PM

GUEST, ilk: You gonna fit right in!

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 10:06 PM

To be serious for a sec, if the thread has the BS designation in the title, it's a non-music thread. Threads without BS at the beginning of the title are music threads, and only music threads. .

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:45 PM

That is correct. When creating a new thread there's a box that says "Common Prefix (optional)". Well, it ain't really optional if it's a non-music thread. Click on the box to open the drop-down menu and select "BS/non-music". If you don't do it your post will go upstairs in the dreaded music threads where the music snobs will harumph and hem and haw until one of the folks that is empowered to do so moves it down here to the wasteland.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:53 PM

Oh, and, conversely, one should apparently never put the BS tag on a music thread even if it is a totally off-the-wall music subject. There is a totally bogus and spurious (but also very funny) "guitar repair" thread that gets refreshed every few weeks. Though it's total BS, it's musical BS so it goes with the music threads.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 10:11 AM

Except for Folklore threads, which could actually be either.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: GUEST,ilk
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 11:10 PM

This is my 2nd visit to Mudcat? This is my 2nd post also? I came here seeking knowledge of folk music? Yet, I somehow was sucked into this vast void at the bottom of the page?

What is this insanity. What has any of this to do with folk music.

I am dreadfully confused as well as terribly frightened? Have I somehow stepped into another universe where 6 is 9. Do I see someone pointing there plastic finger at me.

I have a coping saw? So don,t try anything untoward?

                                     Greetings,
                                           ilk

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 11:51 PM

My dear Ilk,

I call to your attention this direct quote from the very first post to the Mother Of All BS Threads, spoken by King khandu himself:

Another brainstorm of mine, inspired by Tweed, Spaw, Carol the Sailor and their ilk.

As you can see from this quote, at least three Mudcatters are ilk "owners". (We put "owners" in quotation marks because it's never quite clear whether one owns the ilk or is owned by the ilk. Just a little ilk-related humor there.) Perhaps if you were to join our forum you could send private messages to these three members. I'm sure that, since they have ilk of their own, they would be sympathetic to your current state of mind. They may even arrange for you to communicate directly with their own ilk.

I'm sorry, but, personally, I have no ilk so I can't be of any direct assistance to you, but feel free to contact any or all of the three above-mentioned members. And be sure to mention my name in your communications with them. I love getting personal messages telling me what a fupped duck idiot I am.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Hrothgar
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 03:53 AM

Can we also get gorm for the gormless?

Or list for the listless?

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: khandu
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:38 AM

I got a gob of gorm in the Royal Basement! I might let it go for a goodly sum!

Kk

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:02 PM

I'll thank you to not be talking about my "ilk", Mr Bee-dubya-ell. I don't think that's a subject for polite company. Or for people like us, either.

GUEST 12 Dec 03 - 08:47 PM, thank you kindly.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:21 PM

Yeah, what she said. Now, I gotta go milk my ilk.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:42 PM

Brings up something I've never understood. If "To thine own self be true" is such great advice, why did Shakespeare have Polonius, a totally inept idiot, deliver the line?

Thinking back to my school days (mumblety years ago), when we studied Hamlet...

You're right, it was a joke. A bit like having a play where a character like Dubya dispenses loads of really good advice, like "Don't rush into military action; be careful not to alienate potential allies; learn how to speechify goodly," (or a character like Bill Clinton advises "Be faithful to your wife; if you screwmess up, admit it right away & take your medicine like a man,") -- which they clearly never bother with themselves.

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: khandu
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 10:40 PM

I hereby decree th...what? This isn't MOAB???...thread for the threadless??? Oh, hell!

Nevermind.

King khandu

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 01:39 PM

Does this mean King Kan not do?

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: khandu
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 11:37 PM

I am not an infallable king, just a regular one, trying to keep this wonderful thread on the board!

Kk

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 11:50 PM

And a wonderful regular king you are, khandu.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: khandu
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 12:26 AM

"Ever had something to say and no place to say it? ", brucie asked in the opening post to this thread; I do & I will say it!

This is a greatly needed thread, as is MOAB (to which brucie has posted twice out of his 615 Mudcat posts; howbeit, they were excellent posts!)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 12:59 AM

And a wonderful regular king you are, khandu

That's right, Brucie, a right regular king he is. And it's all because of the efficiency of His Majesty's Royal Enema Deliverer.

Errr... You are aware that you, Brucie, have been honored with the title of His Majesty's Royal Enema Deliverer over on the MOAB thread, aren't you?

Bruce

His Majesty's Knower of Things, Poet Lariat, and Fupped Duck Idiot

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 01:04 AM

khandu: What are you doin' to the dog that it dances when you get home?

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 01:10 AM

Didn't know that, Bruce, but at last I have a title. It IS a position of importance, isn't it? Be the shits, uh, really sad if it was just another job that could be done by any old prick, uh, fellow. Besides, it's your turn in the barrel tomorrow. Have a good evening, where ever you are.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 12:24 PM

This is definitely much better than that stoopid "?" thread. Much higher intellectual calibre of people altogether.

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 01:52 PM

Bien dit!

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Amos
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 02:06 PM

A serious error about Polonius -- old Will knew what he was doing. Consider the whole text: ..and it shall follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man.

Who better to present such a clause than an idiot who at least was himself? No-one said being true to yourself, if you are already an idiot, will make you smart. It makes you respected by your fellow-hoomans.

In my experience being true to yourself really does make you smarter but that is not the issue.

A

Subject: RE: BS: ! (The thread for the threadless.)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 02:42 PM

Polonius' death was a mistake. Recall that Hamlet said "I mistook thee for they better."I don't know what that's got to do with anything. It's the aluminium, I think.