R.I.P. MUDCAT

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 02:33 PM

Mick, are you nuts? Like I'm supposed to know EVERYTHING...

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 02:35 PM

This is post 101 in the RIP eulogy for the Mudcat. F##kin' ol' horse still has some life in it, eh?

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 02:36 PM

Well, it woulda bin if Jeri hadn't taken post 101.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 02:43 PM

I have often been accused of being a knowitall. But I admit that I don't know everything. There are several things I don't know. But if I don't know it, I call my brother. He knows what I don't.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: The Shambles
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 03:43 PM

The point is a valid one. Folks that have never offered anything but criticism also never contribute to the upkeep of this site in any way.

Mick

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Contributions, as I have used it, was not meant to solely indicate financial support. I would hope it was evident in my post.........

Nope - it wasn't evident. Perhaps it was the use of the word 'upkeep'?

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 03:45 PM

Shambles, being told by you that my point wasn't clear, ...... well, given the nature of your posts I would say that I have been told by a pro.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 03:50 PM

Two words: Drumcree threads.

Extraordinary farce.   An inspired piece of lunacy. The work of genius(es).... Mudcat's finest hour.

If the Great Mudcat Crash scrambled those threads, it wouldn't even matter. The continuity is that good.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 04:04 PM

Agreed Guest, that was one of the finest hours. And there were others just as good. Suggesting the place is dead says more about the faculties of the poster than it does about the place.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: The Shambles
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 06:12 PM

Shambles, being told by you that my point wasn't clear, ......

On the contrary I think that both of the points you were trying to make were perfectly clear.

For you now clearly seem to think and tell us in one post that making a voluntary financial contribution to the upkeep of Mudcat does entitle certain members to judge, bully, call other poster's names, and spit on the floor of our forum. And at the same time you wish to try to pretend to us in a following post that you do not think this financial contribution entitles you and certain other members to do this.

All perfectly clear. Our forum may not be quite dead - but this example of double standards or hypocrisy continues to rather badly wound our forum.

A double standard or hypocrisy?

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 10:34 PM

Nice try, but you won't suck me into this one. Get your pitiful need for argument somewhere else.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 10:38 PM

Hi, Shambles. Still bein' censored?

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 03:53 AM

Peace

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 12:36 PM

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: GUEST,GM55
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 03:00 PM

well i have designed upto 30+ forums in the last two years, and this used to be ok, layout bad, but still popular enough, now....shit

I know who guest GM55 is, the clue is in the name, and it refers to a mudcatter member who has confirmed it in PM. Anyone feel free to make the link. You will be suprised

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:11 PM

I've been away for a while, and I may soon be absent again, since I hope to soon take up residence back home in New Orleans, where my neighborhood is likely to remain a no-internet zone for a few more months.

Nevertheless, I certainly recognize that Mudcat deserves to survive, whether or not I'm currently reading and writing.

I learned one interesting thing as I perused that first 20-30 posts above, before I got sick of the whole discussion and skipped to the end: Martin Gibson didn't leave forever after all!

Proof positive that Mudcat lives!

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:32 PM

I know who guest GM55 is

whooptee doo for you, no one else cares

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:36 PM

It's Yishka Badishka
G.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:36 PM

Anyway, do you know who Harry Lee Wigley is? No? Didn't think so. Too bad for you.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:42 PM

118 posts is a bloody long obituary for something which is still well alive!

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:48 PM

Rumors of the Mudcat's death have been greatly exaggerated.

119

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:55 PM

But not by Shatner.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:56 PM

Heaven forfend.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:57 PM

Oo...trolls these days ain't wot they used to be, with sorry attempts of "it used to be ok" and "I know who that was" messages. Nowadays, ye get all riled up at trolls like this 'un, and shift yer weight to the other arse cheek. Maybe yawn.

When I were a young lad, previous life or even previouser, we 'ad proper trolls. They'd make yer eyes bug out and steam come out yer ears, ye'd be so mad. They'd write insultin' things with a whole string of them hymen things wot link words together, and they'd get a thousand replies before their '!' key even cooled off. You'd want to thrash 'em good, I tell ya. Best trolls in the whole cyberworld, they wuz, but them days is gone forever...

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:59 PM

OH! Welcome home, PoppaGator! I hope things were much better than you expected.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 02:17 PM

When trolls was trolls and folks was nervus!

Have a safe trip, PG. Best wishes to you on the relocation and reconstruction.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 02:22 PM

Very nervus.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Amos
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 06:34 PM

Harry Lee Wigley was a Confederate Officer who joined the 5th Virginia after a brief career as a school-teacher at a boys' school. He got into a lot of trouble at said school because he kept grabbing the boys' fannies and making improper suggestions to them. He was about to be run out of town on a rail when the War Between the States strated and he instead marched off to join Massa Lee as a local hero, except to the boys themselves who were very glad to see his backside.

He rose to the rank of Lieutenant but could not overcome his pernicious appetites and was about to be court-martialed over a matter involving a young drummer boy from South Carolina; but Appomattox intervened and the 5th Virginia was disbanded. Leading the surrender procession to the Courthouse at Appomatox was General Gorgon followed by the Stonewall Brigade included the remnants of the 5th Va., including Harry Lee Wigley, who commented in his diaries he was fascinated by the back ends of Lee's horse that day for reasons he could not explain.

He disappeared into the West in search of some sort of fortune, and to escape his reputation as a buggerer. He was last heard of somewhere in the vicinity of Vancouver, where he offended various local tribes while pitching some sort of snake oil from the back of a buckboard.

A

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 06:43 PM

No doubt the snake oil was something he'd used in his past.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 02:08 AM

Amos !!! say it ain't so.

Many was night that I curled up with Uncle Wiggley and fell asleep.

Subject: RE: R.I.P. MUDCAT
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 09:14 AM

... fascinated by the back ends of Lee's horse that day for reasons he could not explain ...

Hoss musta been what I've heard called, "Stump-Broke."

~S~