The Weekly Walkabout

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:32 AM

...re-arrived, Ruth, as I've said in verse (poem 71, e.g.), I was actually born in Manchester the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the World Cup; then repatriated almost exactly 11 years ago. But, yes, I've never seen that show - although his name rings a bell.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:45 AM

Very good of you to trust my veracity...I've been in England for 17 years, as it happens, so have lived almost half my life here.

Wavey Davey was a character from Vic Reeves' Big Night Out. You won't remember that, I suspect - it was around 1991 - some time before you arrived... :D

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:36 AM

Okay, I believe that, then...but you didn't answer my question regarding nomenclature.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:22 AM

Why is this so hard to believe, WAVey Davey? The EFDSS National Council - its governing board of trustees - numbers among its members 2 Americans, a Scot and A New Zealander. And don't even get me started on the library staff... :D

Are non-English people not allowed to be EFDSS members?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 08:01 AM

Frankly Ruth, I'm not sure what to believe from you - I've read on Mudcat threads (in among some rather choice language) that you're from America, and are a member of the EFDSS...is that true?
And why is it "WAVey Davey" today?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:46 AM

No, WAVey Davey - she couldn't fathom the awful noise coming from my computer speakers. When I turned it off, she calmed down.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:18 AM

Dear Ruth - maybe your dog just couldn't fathom your giggling!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:56 AM

Cheers, WAVey Davey - that was good for a giggle! Mind you, I had to turn it off because it made the dog whine and pace agitatedly. I honestly haven't made up that last bit.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:48 AM

...4 technical certificates in production/manufacturing, Joe; and I was accepted for Honours in anthropology, but chose not to take it.
ALSO, JUST UPLOADED (FOR A FEW DAYS) "LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY" TO myspace.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 04:42 AM

Degrees are commonplace. Was your degree graded? Not Hons?

What is a tech. certificate exactly?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 03:58 AM

In case you didn't notice, I'm no longer allowed to respond in verse here (only once per week); so, as to "happy moron", Eric, how does your CV compare with 4 tech. (note - abbreviations!, again, HS) certificates and a BA in humanities, etc.?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:51 AM

An ode for WAV

There goes a happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn,
I wish I was a moron,
Hmm, perhaps I am ?

Or maybe better Neil Innes ' Idiot Song '

How sweet to be an idiot,
As harmless as a cloud,
Too small to hide the sun,
................

eric

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 07:33 PM

CLICKY

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:55 PM

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:36 PM

I have a feeling there will be tears before bedtime over this. You know, I've visited a fair number of forums of various sorts in my time on the net, which is considerable, and never in my life have I come across a person like this walkaboutsverse. I have though come across his/her type elsewhere, but I will refrain because he/she will likely say my post is false and defamatory.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:29 PM

I do believe old WAV is getting a little worked up about this.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:12 PM

I intend to do JUST that ( I assume you mean Joe Offer when you refer to 'a moderator' Mods are something entirely different). Right at this moment you are in no position to suggest anything to me, Walkaboutsverse

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:08 PM

Or....Walkaboutsverse's walkaboutsverse went on walkabout..............................................................while walkingabout!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:56 PM

May I present the following cautionary parable that we shall entitle The Walkaboutsverse Post Went Walkabout.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:55 PM

Well, if you still don't believe it, HS, check with the moderators yourself. But, I repeat, I do have an email from a mod. about it, so I suggest you mind your tongue a bit more.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:54 PM

Picture a place where posts get mysteriously altered. But were they altered at all, or is it in the imagination? Ladies and gentlemen, you have entered The Mudcat Zone-dee dee dee dee......

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:44 PM

Nowhere did I say it couldn't be done. The gist of what I say is why would they do it. I don't see what makes you so special that you'd be singled out to have your posts messed with. I've been reading far more relevant and important posts on other threads regarding music musicians etc, and nowhere else have I seen anyone say that their posts have been tampered with.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:37 PM

No, (not so) Hon. Sec. - I do, as just stated, have an email from a moderator about this, so what you just said is false and defamatory. Why don't you email the Mod. yourself, and ask if it is possible to change posted text, and then retract your last comment?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:26 PM

I don't think it's the plot that's thickening, I think it's your paranoia. Mudcat or anyone else simply isn't going to edit one letter in your posts, you're definitely losing it.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:09 PM

G, that's quite glorious. What was the Minotaur song they did? "I can't drink well, because of my horns..."

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:07 PM

The Weekly Walkabout was copy/pasted from my site, HS. I just read the Mod's email again, and it tells me that they can edit messages if need be, and that someone else has found a way to do it and mess with my posts. (It first happened on the "Walkaboutsverse" thread.) The plot thickens...

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:03 PM

Little Cloud Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Incredible String Band


How sweet to be a cloud, floating in the blue.

Lying awake, late the other night
Heard above me a trembling,
I looked up, it was a little cloud,
From which a gold string was dangling;
You know, I gave the string a little pull,
Just to see what was on the other end.
Just then a voice came down to me, says,
"Hey, now, don't you want to be my friend,

And float with me to distant lands,
wondrous and fair;
Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair?
You see I'm just a happy little cloud,
I laugh and float and sing my song,
But the other clouds don't like me none.
They say I am behaving very wrong.
You see a cloud's supposed to be sad,
To cry and weep and tear its hair and all,
And don't matter how hard I try,
I can't get the first little tear to fall."

And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;

I said, "Hey, I like you little cloud,
You are a nice little fellow, yes."
"You making some, kind of a joke?", said the cloud,
"Now can't you see I'm wearing such a pretty dress?
You see I am the prettiest little chick cloud
That you'd find anywhere up above.
I just dropped in on you awhile
To see if you could give me some kind of love."

And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair;

Just then the chief cloud come into view
And says, "Hey, girl, now what you think you're doing there?
I told you so many times before
You just don't seem at all to care.
You know you should be floating up above, now
Don't let me catch you down here again."

And as my cloud pulled out of view,
There come failing down a gentle shower of rain.
Happy rain come failing down,
Red, green, blue and golden.
And every drop, as it fell, it smiled
And, throwing back its head, began singing,

"Oh float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair."


G

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Gene Burton
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:59 PM

Whoever it was must have something of a fixation with the privy member. Perhaps they're trying to tell us something about themselves??

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:57 PM

How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
Every little cloud
Always sings aloud.
How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
It makes him very proud
To be a little cloud.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:52 PM

let me see if I have this right, someone 'changed' a single letter in one word in your post? That is going to take a bit of thinking about, mind you I hear the theme from The X Files playing in the background.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:46 PM

Who's ahead?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:45 PM

I did put "surfeit", HS, and it's not the first time my words have been changed - see the first Weekly Walkabout, and find "Penile" boundary, and then my request to the Mod.: Date: 29 Jun 08 - 12:36 PM. (I also got an email from the Mod. about this, but still don't know who is doing it, nor how?)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:39 PM

The version of that joke I heard involved a koala in a Sydney restaurant at the all you can eat bar.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:36 PM

Eats shoots and leaves

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:33 PM

Just checking your knowledge of punctuation.

Are you familiar with the writings of Lynne Truss? It would be a bit embarrassing to be shot by a panda just because of a misplaced comma.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:16 PM

If you're going to quote William Shakespeare, will you please quote him correctly, and please put the quote into it's correct context.

LUCIO: Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?

CLAUDIO: From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:
As SURFEIT is the father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.


Measure for Measure, I, ii

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:10 PM

That's why I used a comma, Don.
And, fair enough, Mod. - "Liberty, as surteit, is the father of much fast" (NOT me but William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure).

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 02:42 PM

I tink that if people truly didn't give a damn about the postings of this person, Walkaboutsverse, they wouldn't contribute to this thread.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 02:32 PM

You don't give a damn, Don?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 02:29 PM

Okay, WAV, rather than belabor (belabour?) the point, I'll take your word for it.

By they way, my first name is Don, not "Frankly."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 02:28 PM

Your weekly allotment has been met. See your previous two posts above. Enjoy discussing either this or last weeks verse. I am sure we will all be waiting for your next one due on July 7

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 01:01 PM

Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!
Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!
I don't much mind if it rains or snows,
'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice new nose!
I don't care if it snows or thaws,
'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice clean paws!
Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!
Sing Ho! for the life of a Pooh!
And I'll have a little something in an hour or two!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 12:58 PM

Frankly, Firth, I did get that.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 12:57 PM

You've heard that one too, eh, Don? That has to be one of my favourite folk stories of all time, it still gives me a fit of the giggles, and the frightening thing is, I can see its relevance here on this thread.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 12:54 PM

WAV, you may be aware of "Child's ballads," but you still didn't get the joke, did you?. Do you even know who or what "Child" is? Some people who should know better don't.

Case in point:   on the occasion of one of idiosyncratic folk singer John Jacob Niles' concerts, billed as "a program of Child ballads," one music reviewer wrote, "Mr. Niles sang a program of some of the most unusual children's songs I've ever heard."   (!)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 12:30 PM

3 cheers for Pooh!
For who?
For Pooh.
Why what did he do?
he saved his friend from a wetting.
3 cheers for Pooh!
For who?
For Pooh.
I'm sorry I keep forgetting.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 12:22 PM

Isn't it funny
How a bear loves honey?
Buzz buzz buzz
I wonder why he does...

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 06:15 AM

I'm aware of Child's Ballads, Don...now, can we call "curtains" on that one? :-)>
Here's one of the fine day-trips I made whilst living in Manchester...
WEEK OF JUNE 30-JULY 6
Poem 127 of 230: TO SPACIOUS SOUTHPORT - AUTUMN 2000

Most of the leaves
    Of poplar trees
Had fallen free
    When to the sea,
By bus then train,
    In stop/start rain,
I headed-down
    From Radcliffe Town.

After Wigan,
    The train began
To pass across
    What to me was
A coastal plain
    To see again -
With varied crops,
    And grazing op's.

From the station,
    Reconstruction
Soon came to eye
    As I walked, by
The gallery,
    Toward the sea,
And thereby thought:
    "Spacious Southport."

(And, these days, there, you may even bump into a fellow goatee/folkie of mine - Sedayne.)

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:22 AM

He must have a sense of humour Don, that doggerel is a joke isn't it?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 12:23 AM

I wonder as I wander out under the sky
Why that daft bugger Spaw is not hung out to dry. ;-)