BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:11 PM

Oh, my! Now THERE's a riveting thread title. ;-) Shall we all rush forward in a rage like bulls provoked by the waving of a red cape, pounding the keys with an infuriated defence and rebuttal? Or shall we not?

Decisions, decisions.... (yawn)

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Megan L
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:12 PM

No dear boy you don't have the right name to indulge in that sort of behaviour :)

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:14 PM

Bumholes are definately the funniest. And at the risk of being boring (probably more of an inevitability than a risk) I proffer the scientific take on Science Bumhole

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:21 PM

My gracious, GtS, I've never seen so many commas.

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Somewhere - did I dream it?- it seems to me that I have read that 'arsehole' began with the monarchy in then-Great Britain and the 'commoners' co-opted it. Until then, if I recall rightly, both sides of the ocean pronounced and wrote it as 'ass'.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:27 PM

Have you been to Bethlehem
Like the shepherds and three wise men
And Mother Mary, way-back-when
Riding on a donkey

Way, hey, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 07:56 PM

I was contemplating informing Johnny Mac that the term was "bung-holes" but then I reconsidered in view of the cross-Atlantic cross-talk and, well, yes, "bum-hole" fits perfectly (wry grin spreading) oops, there I go again (no matter what I say now I'll just get in deeper and deeper). In the American mid-west "arse" was a semi-decent way to say "ass" and not draw too much heat. It was like announcing "I don't REALLY talk this way but I must in this case..."

I don't know at what point in history the lowly beast-of-burden's name got confused (or maybe just "fused") with the that which sat upon it, but it did. Eventually along came the "horse's ass )or arse if you prefer) and there was NO confusion here. The term was plainly understood.

If a horse mounts an ass its offspring is not a horse's ass but mule (sterile male). If I remember right if an ass mounts a horse then the offspring is a sterile female called a "jenny". I've never heard anyone proclaim "Well I'll be a horse's jenny!" but I have heard the term "mule" to describe various sorts of behavior and attitude. It runs from stubborness to smuggling illegal drugs, from strength to stupidity and so on. Oh! I seem to recall that it also describes or symbolizes an American political party. I don't know if that is because of the loud, obnoxious braying, the stubborness or perhaps all of the above.

Now before you get all partisan on me I also seem to recall a video of an elephant with its trunk up another elephant's "arse" for an unholy amount of time. When it finally pulled it out it immediately stuck whatever treasure it found there, in its own mouth and finished the job of digestion (or recycling).

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 08:30 PM

I gotta agree with GfS on the smokers... I had this regular gig up at a local lodge at a ski resort but seems that the folks who came to hear me (or not) we more interested in gettin' drunk, which is kinda okay, and smoke the joint up, which sucked... It also sucked that them ski lodge managers were mean and made ya' play exactly 2 hours and 50 minutes if your were gonna get paid... That's a lot of playin'... But the smoke is what drove me to quit 'um....

Now if it had been pot smoke, hey??? But it weren't... It was that nasty gigarette/cat-box variety of smoke... Nasty... Very nasty... Don't miss that gig joint at all though looks as if I got some gigs at a biker joint comin' up in the spring buit at least they are 2 hours and yer outta there... I can live with that... I think??? Might quit them, too, if the smoke is too bad... 'Er some biker chick decides that she'd like her biker dude to try to put a whup on me fir some reason, like she is drunk...

I donno...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 08:38 PM

Well its an unorthodox position, but after a couple of gin and tonics, and if its that sort of party.......

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 09:11 PM

This thread is a real blast from the past. I found it quite interesting to read for a number of reasons, though I got lost a number of times and I'm not sure if I have found my way back to the main point yet. Now what was the main point?

Oh yes...

Fwiw, I'm thankful that my early experiences with Mudcatters were that they {you} were welcoming and open to answering my questions about Blues music that {I found out later} had been asked numerous times in previous threads. If folks here had been rude and off-putting, I wouldn't have stuck around-and what a loss that would have been :o}

I hope that anyone who has been turned off by any initial or subsequent exchanges with Mudcatters mistook attempts at witticism for rudeness. Sometimes online examples of wit, humor, and snark don't translate very well. For instance, some folks might think my "what a loss comment" above meant that I thought too highly of myself, but that wouldn't be the case...

'cause how could I think too highly of myself?

LOL!

Happy New Year, y'all!

-Ms. Azizi

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 09:44 PM

Well, MiziAzizi, I hate to blow my own horn here but when I came here a couple years after Columbus crashed his boat into Plymouth Rock, or whatever Columbus did, I would start these threads about this or that and I'd get this, "Well, we've allready discussed this stuff" so after a couple months of that I said, "Who cares??? There are new folks here who might wanta discuss it again" and, hey, maybe it was the way the stars aligned, I donno... But after that they didn't say that no more and let the discusssions go on... That was a good thing... I probably didn't have nuthin' to do with it but it was a good thing, no matter...

Now ya' opened up one of my sore subjects and that is the "blues"... There really ain't many blues folkies here.... There's Roger in Baltimore... There's Max, when he blesses this joint with his presence... There's P-Gator, who is like a walking blues historian and then...

...there's me... That's about it... The rest are into other styles of folk music...

Oh yeah, Tweed, when his sorry butt shows up but he's been a real slacker...

Okay, Kandu, too but he bolted after that 10 million "Mother of BS" thread he started back a long time ago...

But other than us, that's it fir the blues and that ain't many...

But nevermind the blues and Mudville 'cause this is New Years Eve and I ain't out playin' but doin' what every good patriot is doin' tonight and that is, ahhhhh, drenking a chilly one and going to bed at 11... lol...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 10:35 PM

Slag, mules - real ones - are also demonstrably smarter/wiser/cannier than the typical horse, much as it pains me to say it. I've been a horse person all my life.

It could be that a horse bonds more closely with a person so is more trusting of that person's opinions while a mule takes for granted he or she is the smartest one present. I've seen dogs like that, too. *g*

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Zen
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 11:14 PM

There are other bluesers besides those you mentioned Bobert, you'll be pleased to hear, including me!

Zen

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 11:55 PM

Sorry about fatfingering the Enter Key.

Thanks Ebbie. I think you are right. I've also heard that sometimes a mule or a jenny may be fertile. I know mules are stronger and have more endurance, more sure-footed and you can throw "smarter" right in there on top.

I wasn't really trying for erudite. I was just being a smart-ass!

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 06:50 AM

One of the first threads I opened was met with instant aggression. I simply started a BS thread to notify Catters of a CND demonstration around Lakenheath.

It was attacked about the ungreen prospect of having a coach carrying demonstators. There was attack for supporting the CND which launched a war on terrorism political hoohaa. The experience very nearly put me off MC. Had it grown to the heated proportions of some threads do here, I may have crawled away never to return.

Other occassions I have been smacked for accidently mistimed responses. It happens every so often that you are pipped at the post. Also if you do not have a lot of time to play on the MC, you are forced to scan through and not read fully every post on long threads where you want to make a contribution, raise a question, offer an opinion. This can lead to repetitions, ill considered conclusions, erroneous assumptions, etc.

It does not help that in some cases the most admirably knowledgeable Catters can be the least helpful and friendly.

Mudcat has been and continues to be a social learning experience (positive and negative) for me. I think I will stay.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 08:35 AM

Welcome to the jam, Zen... Pull up a chair and let 'er rip...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 10:40 PM

My Gawd!!..Bobert has agreed with me on something...I'm so happy I'm going to write a symphonic piece(again), take a shit....and have a smoke!!

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Escapee
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:32 AM

An ass mounting a horse produces a hinney. A jenny is a female donkey, the opposite number to jack-ass. For muckey going, give me a calm sure-footed mule. They were good enough for Festus (Remember " Gunsmoke ?" Mules and hinneys are not always sterile, but often enough that it doesn't make much difference
Fair winds (up wind of the mules and hinnys)
SKP,Glad to help clarify another important question

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters are up their own a**holes
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:55 AM

My neighbour used to be a good guy. But, his wife died and he remarried. For some reason, he is nice no longer. Kind of a "born again asshole", I suspect