Welcome to new member please

Subject: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:41 AM

Hello everybody I am joining you here because I am very interested in the folk music. I am from Portugal, the seaside town of Viana do Castelo.This is in north, just by the border with Galicia which is famous for its Celtic music. There is some old music here in Portugal too, the old fisherman sailed acroos the Atlantic into the sea by Canada and came back with a load of cod and then they would sing in the bars by the harbour. I do not like the old cod music so much, my parents did, but I think the Celtic is more fun for we younger ones. I go the pub called Dirty Gertie's, also it near the harbopur, where some German and Dutch people play the celtic music, and I like that, I am learning to play bodhran and bones and they let me join in. I have bought a whistle to play tunes but so far I am not playing well.
   If anybody has advice for me, or just has wish to say hello, that would be very good
Thank you
Balsto

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: s&r
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:44 AM

Hi Balsto and Welcome

Stu

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:45 AM

Now what's that an anagram of?

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From: s&r
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:50 AM

Oops!

Bugger!

Stu

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:53 AM

Hello, Balsto, and welcome. Being Greek myself, I have great interest in southern European music - though I have to say that I find fado sometimes too hard.

I see you are only 200km or so from Asturias across the border - my favourite group of the area have been Felpeyu, at least until the tragic death of Igor Medio and Carlos Redondo last summer. Do you know of them and their music? And do you perhaps know if the group intend to continue after their loss?

Anyway - good luck with learning whistle, bones and bodhran, and have fun with the music.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: folk1e
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:54 AM

Hi form sunny Manchester(UK)
We have our own port as well ... just no ships and the only cod is in the "chippy" but we DO have an ecleptic mix of folk!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:00 AM

Balsto,
are you into gardening at all?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:09 AM

Hi Balsto
I also like folking in my country. We sometimes do folk with just two people but I prefer a good session with a large group, then you don't know the person whose instrument you are playing with, it's much exciting.
Our pub session allows folk in the front but it has another room around the back so we sometimes we take it up the rear. It's a tight fit but we manage to fit in.
I would be interested to hear of other country's folking traditions.
I'm waiting for you to get in touch on my folking website and you can see pictures of my instrument and the fingering system I use to bring pleasure to many.
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:13 AM

Hi balsto welcome to the friendliest most helpful bunch of nutter you could wish for

before anyone gets into the Bodhran jokes let me start seriously.

Any percussion player from Timpani to shaky egg has to have a sense of timing and rythm. When you get into the feel of a tune you can somehow sense the change of tempo before it happens.
Don't try and jon in at the start of every tune. listen for a few bars and get the feel, click or tip at the first beat of a few bars then go for it!!
This has the advantages of letting you make sure the tune is not too fast to join in with cofortably and also shows the other musicians respect because you are listening and learning and not just showing off.

Oh and I hiope you have a set of good, real bone, bones they make all the difference.

Good luck,

Andy (Bones, Tea chest bass, Concertina, Voice, but mostly Fool)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:23 AM

Jenny, I am surprised; I never knew you had such regular folking sessions, I always thought of you as a lone folker, what with the glasses and all.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:30 AM

Well George it did say Balsto Da Loteya a close relation of Jenny Tayliah I believe.
I do like a girl with one strong wrist don't you?
Giok

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Oop Yu Tui
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:34 AM

I am a new visitor hear also, but I an mot extracting the urine like Bolloxto Da Lotaya.

And I want to be called Loretta.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:39 AM

Jenny Tayliah, I look for website and cannot find it. Perhaps you tell me what the address is, I would like to see pictures of you.Thank you other people for your good wishes.John "Giok" McKenzie I do not understand your letter. Have you perhaps made a humorous anagram of my name? Will you tell me what it is. I will try to make an anagram of your name, it is difficult one.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:41 AM

Thats not an anagram.

eric

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:53 AM

Hi George and Giok
I am not understanding the British humouring. Do you doubt my folking credentials? I have been playing the oboe (it's my own special pink one) for as long as I can memorise and have been told that my lip technique is unique.
I have held many positions for the National Folking Magazine and worked my way from the bottom to being on top of this great organ. I have my own large column which is used by anyone who feels the need.
I have always had it hard - when I have sometimes found myself on my knees I always rise to the occasion and work my way up any available passage.
These are my folking credentials what are yours?
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:54 AM

CROESO Welcome from Wales. We have lots of music song and dance in Wales. If ever you want to visit you are very welcome - Hotel International that`s me. Visit www.folkwales.org.uk for lots of info. (still can`t do blue clicky things) By the way I play fiddle, concertina and SPOONS.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Oop Yu Tui
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:00 AM

I went to Wales one Sunday, it was shut.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:02 AM

Jenny... you got a steady boyfriend?

Balsto.... glad you came.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:03 AM

Dirty Gertie's?

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From: Rockhen
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:08 AM

It's after 12 noon! da da!

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From: the one
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:21 AM

welcome' love & recards. pip & merry!!!

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From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:25 AM

Balsto da Loteya is really 'Easy Ballad' Otto!!

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From: Cats
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:29 AM

Welcome from Cornwall.. land of wonderful people and fabulous scenery and, of course, celtic music.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:37 AM

People who speak the various Romance languages do not have trouble with articles like 'a', 'an' or 'the'.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: skarpi
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:46 AM

Balsto , Welcome enjoy it here I am also in folk music .
Balsto the fisher went also to my Country witch is Iceland ,
they came by here on their way back , just like the fishermen
from France .

All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: bobad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:00 AM

And balls to you too.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:17 AM

Jenny if the pink oboe you play has several holes in it, somebody has a nasty problem!
Giok

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Hawker
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:25 AM

Stop, my ribs hurt!!!!!
Cheers, L

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:29 AM

Oboe, Jenny? What oboe? When you were playing "Dildo, Bendigo..." I thought it was a pink concertina, honest - it looked like one, anyway.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:47 AM

I second bobad's comment.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: kerryguy7
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:54 AM

Hello Balsto!
Nice to welcome another new member to this site!
Like you, I am a new member as well!
The folks here seem to be very welcoming as well as very willing to help new members like you and I to find their way around here!
Best wishes to you!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:02 AM

April 1 is starting all over the place, ain't it.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:34 AM

Yeah, Peace...and it's sometimes hard to tell fact from fantasy.

Anyway, Balsto, welcome to the Mudcat from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. If you are really real, be aware that April 1st is the day for practical jokes in the British/Irish/American tradition, so many of the posts above refer to that. If you aren't real...welcome anyway. Lots of Mudcat people are a bit unreal.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:39 AM

I sign up as new member today because here in Portugal we start new steps to the good life on this date, and I hope this will be my time in Mudcat. I see other people have spoken of the date being April 1, is this a similar custom in your country?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:40 AM

Some of us live off planet. But that aside, hows the weather there? You know, in Portugal.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:50 AM

Portugal= Polar Gut!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:56 AM

But I see you are from Viana do Castelo. Beautiful city, great beaches, AND somewhat of a surprise to me a center for Celtic Music.
Wow.

Dirty Gertie's. That would be located near Vila Praia de Ancora, wouldn't it? (I loved the ferry ride to get there.) You are a lucky dude.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:02 AM

Howdy! Welcome!

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:03 AM

My friend Peace, I thank you for your greeting. It is good to hear from someone who knows our fine town. Some of the letters here I think are perhaps the English sense of humour, or people are American, I don't know. But you seem to be a friendly person.
The weather is lovely today, it is very warm and not windy, and I walked down by the harbour this morning, had a box of smoked salty cod pieces from the woman with a little fire in her fishy box, and then went into Dirty Gertie's to hear the Celtic music. (I sit here now with my little laptop)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:23 AM

No doubt.

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:42 AM

So many men blessed with little laptops. Welcome Balsto da Loteya

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:43 AM

April 1st is always a good day to join anything.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:54 AM

So, I knew this one was a fake but I completely forgot, it was April fools day. That makes me pretty smart!
Almost.
Come on out Stu. We know you're in there.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:56 AM

Balsto-

Welcome!

I for one would love to hear one of your smoked salty cod piece songs, either in the original or in translation. It is my understanding that the tunes are traditionally rendered in the diabolic scale, depending on the size of the catch.

I'm less interested in the Celtics, given their abysmal record this year even in their home games in Boston.

Cheerily,
Your friend for life Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: s&r
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:56 AM

Ok Ok Ok... holds hands up and hangs head in shame...

Stu

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Avril Betts
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:01 AM

You had me going there for a minute...

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From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:14 AM

Ahah!

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:16 AM

Bacalhau Recipe to use up your salty codpiece(s)

Giok

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:22 AM

I'm raising a glass to the much-missed Avril Betts, and to Dave Bryant, who I think would have enjoyed this thread!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:26 AM

When I started doing Medieval Shows I was asked if I had a cod piece - I said "No , but I DO have a nice bit of Halibut!"

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:46 AM

Herga Kitty: Open a thread on past members & tell us about them. We all leave a mark, however great or small. It would be nice for some to see and good for those who knew them.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Stringsinger
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:02 PM

Jenny,

You give "oral transmission" a new meaning. It's revitalizing the folk process. :)

Frank Hamilton

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:10 PM

Here's the link to the Avril Betts thread. Priceless! I do miss Dave.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:18 PM

April 1st is the start of many things, but NOT no smoking in Wales, we where all setr to camplain when we where politely informed that it actually starts tomorrow 2nd April. I suppose our esteemed powers thought people would not believe it on April 1st.

Oh and please note that I did admit to playing the Fool in my earlier thread.

Andy

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:27 PM

Jacqui.c: I stand saluting! Sucked me right in.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:31 PM

Jim - that one caught a number of people when it first came out. It really is priceless!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:34 PM

There are two types of folkies, I guess. I'd be the champion of lost causes & jumped to her rescues. Others? Aahh ..... not so much!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:36 PM

Mind you, I think I already proved that with my "Why not start a thread" thing. One born every minute, you know.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:40 PM

Jim Lad - it's probably good that you remind people of why we're here...

Kitty

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 01:19 PM

Hi everybody
I am liking the way this mudcat welcomes intercourse between many people. In my country we often have a coming together at our massed debate evenings where we discuss whether folking traditions should be taken by hand or should be oral.
We also have percussion workshops and I try my best to beat the skin with expert hands but my folking partners say I'm just a slapper. Of course I get my own back on the accordion workshop because there is nobody faster on buttons than me.
I'm sure my offerings will have aroused your interest (I can almost imagine your fingers working furiously to join this massed debate) and I look forward to many entries this evening. And remember - size doesn't matter, I will gladly receive all your posts whether long or short.
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 01:22 PM

Damn Swedes!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 01:34 PM

Welcome to all newbies. Join in and don't mind the trolls. Also, please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions or problems with the site.

All the best,

kat in Colorado

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:36 PM

Dear katlaughing
I take very exception that you think that some of us are just teasers. I will assure that I am always welcoming new members. And your knowledge of my language is poor - the female of "troll" is "trollop".

And you know that we are not fooled by your silly and rude anagram name - katlaughing = I, lank hag, tug.

This is not place for sex innuendo - I am shocked and will not be pleasuring you again with my frequent inserts. I now leave mudcat with this thought: "Give heart, give mind, give head to the musicians who keep folk all alive".

I'll think of you when I next fiddle,
The short-lived pseodonym,
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:42 PM

There are times when I'd love a new member.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:12 PM

Jenny Tayliah: I don't think that may have came out the way you intended. A wee retraction may be in order.
Sincerely
Jim

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:17 PM

Jenny
Agradeca para seu interesse. Eu amaria encontra-se com o, talvez voce gostario de jogar con meu laptop. Esta voce interessado em partes salty do bacalhau? Eu gostaria de ser seu amigo.
Balsto x

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:18 PM

As the actress said...

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:20 PM

Applies to both the previous posts to mine

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:21 PM

Muito obrigada Balsto

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:28 PM

Pull the other one, me old cocker, Giok. Forgive me if the English is not so good, sometimes I am using the automatic translator which may not express my heartfelt sentiments in the full right manner of hands across the sea and under the table.
Balsto

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Friend of Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:41 PM

On behalf of Jenny:

Jenny is a very sensitive pseudonym (got it right this time) and is upset by all the suspicion. Nobody knows more than me that she has her knockers but I also know she doesn't take things lying down. She has told me that she will not post again this year.
But I've enjoyed her company on this special date.

A friend of Jenny (and mudcat).

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 04:15 PM

Balsto, for one (on sale), I hope you kept track of all the little slips you made whilst practicing to fill out the membership application. We collect those, you know. When things get hard for new people, we remind them of other's pre-app isms.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 04:27 PM

Jeri dear. I am so sorry, what means pre-appisms? This is not in my dictionary, I have an English one from Oxford, perhaps you are not from Oxford? I am interested you collect things, with me it is different recipes for salty cod pieces, which are very interesting to a fishmonger's son as I am. My father used to mong fish all his life.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:02 PM

The term uses the Lating prefix 'pre', meaning 'before'. The 'app.' is the abbreviated 'application', and an 'ism' is, among other things 'a usage'.

We all say some funny things, frequently accidentally. People never let you forget these. A pre-app-ism is something which stands long after you've forgotten the reason. You wanted to fill something out, and you probably did, but the pre-app-ism lingers.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:06 PM

Priapism is one indicator of severe spinal injury/trauma in falls or MVCs. Also

"Priapism is a prolonged and painful erection that can last from several hours up to a few days. The priapismic erection is NOT associated with sexual thoughts or sexual activity. What happens is that blood flows into the penis, but is unable to drain as it would in a normally flaccid penis. Considering that the penis provides little room for blood to circulate, the blood becomes stagnant after a while, acidifies, and loses oxygen. Without oxygen, the red blood cells become stiff, and even less able to squeeze their way out of the penis.

Very few cases of priapism are without an obvious cause. In most cases, priapism results from one of two things: certain medications or medical conditions. Under the category of medications, there are two primary culprits. For one, penile injections used to treat some forms of impotence can cause priapism; however, this usually only happens when a man decides, on his own, to increase the dosage. Second, psychiatric medications, such as anti-depressants, seem to cause some cases of priapism; however, how these drugs affect priapism is unclear. The second major cause of priapism is certain medical conditions and diseases -- generally, any that cause the blood to thicken, or cause red blood cells to lose their flexibility and mobility. Sickle-cell anemia and leukemia are probably the most common conditions that cause priapism."

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:10 PM

Thank you kind Jeri. I think I understand now. You know, I am young, so when I fill something out the pre-appism does not seem to linger for quite as long as my friends wish.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:10 PM

Come again?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:15 PM

I am a little bit confused. Mr(or are you perhaps a Mrs) Peace seems to be talking about the penis here. I joined this forum to talk about folk music and meet some friends abroad. Is there no person on this forum with responsibility to take such letters and throw them in the bin of rubbish.If we have nasty plant in the garden here in Portugal, we take in a strong right hand and pull it off.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:18 PM

Nasty plant if it involves so many of you. But don't worry. Be happy.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:26 PM

I think I woke up with a little spinal injury myself, this morning.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: sapper82
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:27 PM

It had to be something like this thread today!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:29 PM

No comment. (About a dozen come to mind and I have NO COMMENT!)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:29 PM

M'thinks we've been had.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:30 PM

I wondered about that Jim Lad. With you cleaning out your drawers and all . . . .

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:34 PM

Honourable Mrs Kat Laughing
As we say in Portugal, speak for yourself dear.
Respectfully
Balsto

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:35 PM

Had a few snow showers this morning. Even He is having a wee laugh!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:03 PM

I have had so many laughs during the course of this spoof thread....love it!!!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:11 PM

Georgian Silver I am sorry that you find me funny, is it the fact I cannot speak English so good? I just want to meet some good people to talk about folk music, but some of you seem to think this is funny joke.What is your favourite singer? I at the moment am liking the English boy Seth Lakeman a big lot, also Beyonce. Do both of these singers appear in the folk magazines in your country?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:37 PM

Balsto...you are perhaps the funniest thing that has happened around here for some time and on April the First...which is a good time for people in your country yes? You have made me laugh so much I have almost wet myself...(spilt my cup of coffee). Please stay around and help us all to lighten up a bit and enjoy being here. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:42 PM

sometimes you just have to spell spme things out for some people.

Balsto da Loteya = "Balls to the lot of you"

today is April 1st.

Geddit ?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:47 PM

What?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:48 PM

Mr GUEST

You know what we do with unwelcome GUESTS in the mountains of Portugal? I tell you what we do. We kill them, and feed them to the cod. You call me "Balls" huh? I feed those bits of you first. It is matter of honour. You try this on Mudcat, soon you have no trouble with the GUESTS. Simple.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:57 PM

I could not leave after seeing Balsto's last post. I think you are confusing English boys with the lady-boys of the middle east.
Sethla Keman is my uncle and famous for his/her white hair although we think it is not genuine. I have other lady-boys in my family and we often get together in southern regions were we have some relations.
Uncle Sethla will fiddle with family members and perform the broom dance until everybody tries to get their leg over.

Balsto - I don't laugh at you, I think we could make beautiful music together. I hope one day I play with your Portugese bagpipe and you can sing to my G-string.
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:02 PM

I thought the Portuguese mountain cod were extinct!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:09 PM

Guest:6:42 PM-

Thanks for the translation. Now I can meditate about smething else.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:12 PM

So many people actually feel for the thread...it has been a pleasure to follow. Thanks whoever you are for starting it. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:20 PM

Hmmm....I wonder if there is money to be made in exporting Rocky Mountain Oysters to Portugal. Now that I may have a local contact, I'll have to look into it. I'll bet they were good enough for Portugee Phillips! Thanks, Balls!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:26 PM

Rocky Mountain Oysters? I'm allergic to nuts.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:31 PM

Welcome to the madhouse. It's a mixed group here, and if you venture "below the line" into the non-music section say hello in The Mother of all BS Threads (click on the little 'd' by the number or it will take you forever to load it).

I play trumpet. What do you play, if anything?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:35 PM

I'd heard the mountain cod were all trapped for their fur. I just Googled them though, and found out a small school of these fuzzy fish were found about 4 years ago by Wysteria Finch-Zoltan a transplanted English pagan, while she was performing a ritual. Now, says the article, the cod lurks in Wysteria's maze.

It's nice to know that, while some things die out when they're made to be so obvious to people, these harmless creatures can flourish in a safe place, out of sight of people out of their minds.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:40 PM

Rapaire, I think our wonderful new member plays the foolsaborn, a LOT!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 12:32 PM

People are mistaken here it is not the mountain cod that the men in the mountains use for matters of honour. The mountain cod are very rare(I think maybe extinct), it is the orinary cod of the sea I am here describing. At the castles and monasteries they often have big ponds, and the peasants used to carry up live cod and sea water on the donkeys. This means there is always fresh fish for the monks and lords. If people wish to remove unwanted GUEST or similar nuisances, the mens take them, strip them and bind them, and throw them in the pool. A hungry 20 kilo cod can be a big eater of the bits of a man. When people first did this(I think back in the time of removing the Moors) the fish did not like the taste of people, so they are always smeared all over with a paste made from anchovies before they are thrown in the pond. This is still done, though the government in Lisboa try to stop it.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 12:47 PM

Nao falar Portuguese !

Coralho da Bacalhau minha amigo.

G

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: rock chick
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 01:24 PM

Amigo bem-vindo ao mundo louco do mudcat

rc

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 01:52 PM

As pessoas não lêem os fios, fazem eles. Este fio era um abril 1 "piada".

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:21 PM

Filho da puta !

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 05:27 PM

My good new friends, it is very kind of you to speak to me in Portugese, but I have big reason to come here, which is the learning English. Rock Chick, you have lovely name, and speak really good. Peace and John McKenzie, not quite so good. And let me tell you sir John, filho da puta is not a thing to say in the best houses. Men have been thrown to the cods for less.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 05:31 PM

I know someone with a fairly recent CD, who spoke about spending time in Portugal, I wonder if you have run into him, he might be a writer of comic opera?
Giok

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,J.
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 05:35 PM

Welcome, I envy you living in 'Viana do Castelo',
one of the most beautiful places in Portugal, as well as Europe.
I remember visiting there when I was 13; we staed
in a beuatiful castle / hotel on a mountain top that overlooked
the mountains on one side, and the Atlantic on another. What memories ! Someday I hope to return to Portugal, a truely
wonderful country.

J.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 03:50 AM

Ah, you lucky to have such memories. To taste the smoked salty cod pieces when young, that is heaven. You remember any music? Was this long time ago? There were very many fado singers then, the special Potugese music when the ladies howl and wail very miserably for long long time. That is the true beauty in Viana.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 03:55 AM

Amalia, Mariza, amazing.
Howl and wail, you are talking RUBBISH I say, it is beautiful, the English just don't understand saudade.
G.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 09:17 AM

obrigado amigo novo, pode nós ter muitos converstaions a vir no mudcat.

Not sure I managed the grammer quite right this time ;-)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Mr Happy
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 09:45 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_cod

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 09:48 AM

Murray Cod

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 10:53 AM

Perhaps howl and wail are not right English words? I do think fado is beautiful, my favourite. Mariza very good, like fine cod. But we say she howl like lady dog.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: greg stephens
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:42 AM

Balsto: a big welcome to Mudcat. Don't mind these people laughing at you, you are welcome here. Your views on fado are interesting, and we should hear more of your thoughts. How would you define "folk music", for example?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 05:37 PM

How is your cousin Balsto Yutu?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:07 PM

So, you think you a funny woman, Mrs Silver? What kind of name you think Yutu is? You saying I have the cousin from Africa? You pull the other one off, as my mother would say, God rest her soul.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,AWG
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:08 PM

Just wondering, how come Celtic (as in Celtic music) is pronounced 'Keltick', and The Celtics (Boston Basketball Team) is pronounced 'Selticks' ?? Any takers ??

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:11 PM

Jeeze! I don't know AWG. You think the new member does?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:12 PM

How you pronounce your name, Mr AWG?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:16 PM

Ogg!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:18 PM

AWG. If you look up, way up, there's a "Create a New Thread" link. Jump in there and ask. You'll be made more welcome than the new member, I'm sure.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,AWG
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:19 PM

Its easy to pronounce, just like its spelled. :) By the way, greetings to all, too many threads to read, but was someone making fun of someones name or something ? Who is the 'new member' ? Can anyone answer the Basketball Question, (assuming you heard of the Boston Celtics)? Boy, so many questions, so little time. By the way, Jim, you get around don't you? Did you buy the 'A New Journey' DVD yet ??

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:24 PM

Well ... "Yes" .... I do get around ..... Is that you, Mammy?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:27 PM

Seriously though. Follow my directions to ask the "Celtic" question and those who have the answers for you will see it and respond.
They won't know you're asking, otherwise.
A New Journey DVD? Refresh my memory please.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:36 PM

And don't mind Ballsto. He's really the dog's bollocks.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:37 PM

Hey Jim, refreshing your memory...A New Journey, the new Celtic Woman DVD. P.S. I followed your link to a thread about Celtic Woman on PBS. (on the thread about Send Me A Song). Boy, about 90% of those people posting have literally no taste in music. Honestly, I couldn't believe some of the comments, what %$#@#$ing crap. I hope not all threads contain such meat-head like posts. By the way, my goal in life is to convince everyone of the greatness of Celtic Woman. They Rock !!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:38 PM

Sorry Jim, the Send Me A Song thread link was by PoppaGator, I think, but you posted right before them.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:42 PM

My submission got lost in the shuffle there. Never mind. It's all been said.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:45 PM

Sorry Guys. Carry on with your thread. I'll take him out of here.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 07:04 AM

I think this Mr AWG maybe thinks about this Celtic Woman too much. My mother, God rest her soul, she always said, you think about a woman too much, some bits get hard buit the brain gets soft.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,AWG
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:44 PM

LOL, nicely put Mr Balsto, I think you could be right. But hey, beats thinking about anything else! (Except maybe the hockey playoffs coming up). Go Leafs !!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 08:37 PM

????????

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,AWG
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 08:46 PM

I meant thinking about CW, not thinking about women in general :) LOL

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 08:49 PM

Ah yes - did Portugal make the playoffs this year?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 08:50 PM

Go Leafs?

Sorry, I understand now:

Go = leave

Leaf [plural] = leaves

Therefore,

Leave = Go

&

Leaves = Goes


Therefore,

Go Leafs = Go- Go's!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,AWG
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 09:01 PM

Ill assume you are serious and not kidding with me. The Leafs are the NHL hockey team here in Toronto, and they need to win probably at least one of their next 2 games to make the playoffs. Actually, Im not really a Leaf Fan, just that everyone around here says 'go Leafs'. Go figure. LOL

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 04:19 AM

You OK, Mr AWG?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: AWG
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:47 AM

Hey, Balsto, Im a Celtic Woman fan, Im more than OK... Im GREAT !!!!! Come to the light...:)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: noodles_incident
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 08:07 PM

Hi all! I just joined and figured I'd introduce myself, though the only introduction thread I could find was last used in 2009, so for lack of a better place...

You can call me Allen or Noodles, I'm fairly new to the folk scene (been listening to and enjoying the music since I was a little grub, but just recently making forays into the wider community) -- I figured I spent enough time on here digging up lyrics and song origins and suchlike that it'd be worth making an account and talking to all you cool folks!

I'm most into union songs & work songs, and the intersections of labor/protest history and music history, as well as songs about historical events (even heavily fictionalized ones). I've also lived in Seattle my whole life and go ham for anything dealing with boats and the sea.

Really excited to be here!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 01:10 PM

Noodles, I moved your post from the Mother of All BS (Annex) to the music section and a different existing thread where other members will actually see your introductory post. Enjoy spending time lurking to see what threads are active now and what threads are on topics that interest you that can be revived (they'll be linked in the tops of existing music threads or found via the search bar at the top of the main Mudcat page.).

Welcome to Mudcat!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,The Sandman
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 01:18 PM

Welcome noodles, may your enjoy noodling and may your cup runneth over
,My advice would be do not go below the line,many of the dIscussions on political subjects ,particularly by british contributors, get nowHere and one EVEN ended up with people abusing others, calling them arseholes, etc.
The music section imo is a better place to spend time

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 06:28 PM

welcome, noodles

I've found the best way to search mudcat is to do a google site search - union songs site:mudcat.org, that way I can skim down & find the thread/s I want.

A great source of Australian union songs is occasional Mudcatter Mark Gregory's Union Songs He also includes songs from other countries,

world-wide links - Union Music and Cultural Sites - as Mark's site started in the 90s (like Mudcat) some of these could be dead.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: AnMal
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 07:28 PM

Welcome, Noodles!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 11:41 PM

Welcome Noodles!

Mudcat is an amazing resource, and I hope you will find yourself enriched, informed and broadened by it as I have been.

My two cents - I will echo The Sandman and say avoid the contentious stuff. As far as knowledge of music, lyrics, and the like, Mudcat folks can be very giving and generous.


Jay

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: noodles_incident
Date: 18 Jan 21 - 02:42 AM

Thanks for the warm welcome, everybody! Very excited to be here and learn things.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Jan 21 - 06:53 AM

welcome from Dunfermline, Noodles :-)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: skarpi
Date: 18 Jan 21 - 07:25 AM

Hallo new people, welcome.
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: pattyClink
Date: 18 Jan 21 - 08:56 PM

I am proud to report Allen/noodles incident bravely waded into the singaround today and did a fine job on Barges, which I actually had never heard before, so well done!

Meanwhile skarpi are you unable to zoom from where you are, we would love to see/hear you.