Folklore: Tarred and feathered

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:28 PM

I think you should have run your scam, if you HAD to, in someplace like Minnesota or Oregon, where the locals don't have such a rich history and good 'ol boy attitude...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:36 PM

Not knowing what the scam is that you ran, I'd still have to say you paid for it in spades... and then some. There are people that have committed murder that got off a lot lighter.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:41 AM

thanks guys. next time I get the itch to run a scam I will do it in some other State. Us Tennessee red necks play rough. I scammed a local church out of $50,000.00 and got caught. Aside from the tarring and feathering I did 3 years in prison. I got scars from the tar and I am impotent from the raqil ride. Also I can not show my face in Pigeon Forge. I paid like you say buddy, "in spades"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:09 PM

Isn't that the home of Dolly Parton's Theme Park?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: David Ingerson
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:24 PM

In Vardis Fisher's historical novel, Mountain Man (on which the movie Jeremiah Johnson was based), one of the characters, a white mountain man, is named Skelp because he had been scalped in his younger days. He went through the rest of his life with no skin on the top of his head and his skull... well, his skull stuck out of the top of his head. Didn't seem to bother him much except that he always had to wear an extra thick hat in the winter.

David

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:52 PM

Sinsull: yeah. Dollywood.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 10:26 PM

Don't know much aboout scalping except that the "scalper" cut a piece of the scalp from the front of the victim's head and then showed it as a sign of victory. I'm not even sure that this is right. Can anyone tell me how to fix my name on this site? It's FEATHERHEAD.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: GUEST,.gargole
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 11:17 PM

Peculiar...thread topic "the exersenory spider-sence" is working over-time."

I was once on the (intended) recieving-end for such a petrolem/poultry ritual. (No-doubt....some MC citizens....believe I must have been worthy of the honor.)

It is tale worthy to be told....but not within the (current inhostpitableMC context)... espescially.....six months prior to a national election.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 11:27 PM

HANDS DOWN....

One of the most demonical celebrations of the the T&F practice can be found within the story, by Edgar Alen Poe....of Hop Toad

It is best read in the morning hours....and not before bedtime.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 03:16 AM

Hey Gargoyle: Howdy. Read Poe's short story. Great read. Also, "the system of dr. tarr and professor fether" ... great stuff. Never thought that I'd be on the receiving end of such an experience. You at least missed out on the "fun". Great. You must have some powerful luck. Wwish I did when my turn came for the tar brush. Hope you're well. Take care.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 09:58 PM

Hey folks: I wish that one or more of you could drop me a personal message. I feel like an "undesireable" because as soon as I got into your message room, the messages stopped. Hope I didn't bother anyone with my personal account and other messages. Am I too sensitive? Sincerely, Featherhead.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:08 PM

My Dearest - above registered poster (imposter?)

As a .gargoyle...."personae ingratae" I am not permitted the privilage of a private post-mark.

Nor, would I encourage any MC'er to "trust" the integrity of the MudCat's code of Integrity....clones, clones, clones>

However, if your wish to reach me.....for stories of MC hearasy....try....:

[e-mail]

several dozen more addresses are available....however, PLEASE do not use your "real address" (since spammers abound....searching the MC files around.)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:10 PM

Dearest fshamuseatherhead

Please post your e-mail address....we will hav fun together....as we undress.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 12:44 AM

Hey Gargoyle: thanks for the messages. It was nice hearing from you. I'm sorry that you think that I'm an imposter (is that what you meant?) because, unfortunately what I wrote is the truth. Take care and stay well. Sincerely, Featherhead

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 06:58 AM

No insult intended fshamuseatherhead. I would delight in writing you. You may contact me at [e-mail]. I'll tell you my tail.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 08:33 AM

Hey Gargoyle: thanks for the message and the e mail address. Ill contact you this morning. I sure would like to hear your tale. Sorry I thought that there was a insult involved. Peace, brother. Sincerely, Featherhead.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 10:29 AM

Hey guys: I thought that if anyone wanted to send me a message they could do it through mudcat.org. However, if anyone wants to write me and just say howdy or ask anything, then my address is: [e-mail]. Hell, I don't have any secrets and would like to chat with anyone. Thanks guys.   Sincerely, Don Collins (aka "featherhead."

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 08:01 PM

to Greg: thanks buddy for the message but unfortunately, I don't know how to retrieve it (is that the right word?). There isn't any instructions on how to get into a guy's personal message box. Nothing that I could understand. Sent you another note and hope to head from you on this board, telling me how to reach you for a reply. Hell, you can reach me on my e mail address (now, that's wild ... me with a e mail address). Thanks for taking time to contact me. After what happened, some folks recognize me from pictures in the papers, gossip, and then I got to move or go through more hell. Thanks buddy.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 03:17 AM

fshamuseatherhead: you must have got close, to realise I've sent you a message. The procedure is
1) Click on the box above the threads on the main forum page, where it will say "you have x messages".
2) You will then see a list of your messages. Scroll down and it will say
greg stephens   hi(or something like that)
3) Click on the "hi". You will then read my message
or 4)Click on "greg stephens" and you will be able to reply to me

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: GUEST,occasionalvisitor
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 08:52 AM

Returning almost to the original theme. Is the expression "tarred with the same brush" - as in "he and his brother are tarred with the same brush" - in any way connected to being tarred and feathered?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Tarred and feathered
From: fshamuseatherhead
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 10:45 AM

thanks for getting back on the subject under discussion. My understanding is that to be tarred is to be identified and marked as an undesireable, anti-social or just a plain criminal. The mob usually uses a brush to apply the tar (like a paint brush). A person who is "tarred with the same brush" is a person (I think) who is accused of being connected to an unpopular act committed by another person. At least, this is my understanding. I guess that it is somehow connected with tarring and feathering.