Subject: Excellent Mudcat parody From: greg stephens Date: 24 Mar 09 - 01:55 PM Don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but in case not, take a look at this fRoots Letters thread. Clicking on the first link mentuioned in the thread will take you to a very cleverly constructed fake Mudcat. Other links will lead to other bits not without a certain puerile humour. There is a very good anagram, which may be familiar to most English folkies, of Elmer P Bleaty for the late lamented singer who did indeed sing like a goat. But do explore all the links and stuff. Direct Link to Mud-E-Ceilidh |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Ernest Date: 24 Mar 09 - 02:22 PM very funny! :0) Ernest |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Dan Schatz Date: 24 Mar 09 - 02:29 PM Here's a direct link. Max should be honored. And amused. Dan |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bill D Date: 24 Mar 09 - 02:38 PM You've really arrived when you are both well-known enough and relevant enough to be parodied.... |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: SINSULL Date: 24 Mar 09 - 02:41 PM Open the parrot thread and go to the song - hysterical. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 24 Mar 09 - 02:46 PM Peter Bellamy did not sing like a goat,he was a fine interpreter of songs,. at least he wasnt a blues singer,who sounded like a polite Putney toff,and about as raunchy as Barry Manilow. when Bellamy did sing the blues he sang with some balls. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:07 PM Ah, the higherst form of flattery |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: MartinRyan Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:11 PM Snigger, snigger.... Regards |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Will Fly Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:15 PM Brilliant! Loved the "Click me" which puts a foot through the banjo... Will (tenor banjo player) |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Leadfingers Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:18 PM Fond Memories of the Back Cover of Southern Rag ! Borfolk Rules !! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bill D Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:19 PM I may have to LEARN the Kipper song! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Jim Dixon Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:32 PM I love it! I was disappointed, though, that most of the "links" are fake. (Be sure to try them, though; a few are real.) They could have carried this so much farther. Maybe they'll keep expanding it. I hope so. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: VirginiaTam Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:53 PM love that F. INGNOBODY cares about folk music |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: katlaughing Date: 24 Mar 09 - 03:59 PM Brilliant and hilarious! I was able to type in a posting to the parrot thread, but it wouldn't load...just like old days here!**bg** That kipper song was way more than I ever wanted to know about kippers! Ads by Boggle!?! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Spleen Cringe Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:16 PM Fantastic! I'm almost crying with laughter after reading the Kipper song... |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: greg stephens Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:18 PM Or, more properly: Make sure you go to the fRoots thread, and dont just explore the Mudcat stuff. There is plenty more. Few are spared! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Sleepy Rosie Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:19 PM Nearly p*ssed myself laughing with that incestuous pagan fertility rite kipper song.. Parsley green oh me lads! 'Start a new controversy' was pretty funny too, and loved 'click me' |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:31 PM no thanks, Greg,as far as I am concerned,any person who cant take a review being criticised,without resorting to personal insults,about drug taking,is not worth bothering with. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bill D Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:36 PM "...cant take a review being criticised,without resorting to personal insults,about drug taking..." who? what? huh? What has that to do with a funny parody? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:39 PM it explains why I dont wish to support a publicity stunt by Folk Roots,a clever attempt to get people to look at his boring letters board. I wouldnt go near his site. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: greg stephens Date: 24 Mar 09 - 04:50 PM This is nothing to do with fRoots you know,Cap'n B. It just provides a link to the guy who does these parodies.As to the drug-taking etc...well, you've lost me there I'm afraid. Earlier in the thread, Dan Schatz provides a direct link. It does not go to fRoots, so you need not be afraid of being contaminated or insulted! I hope Max sees this, the trouble the guy has gone to to set this up is amazing. I wonder if it's one of our regulars? If so, full marks. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: VirginiaTam Date: 24 Mar 09 - 05:01 PM The "click me" ought to say "kick me". Some people have way too much time on their hands and aren't they lucky? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Desert Dancer Date: 24 Mar 09 - 05:19 PM Here's the link for the other main parody being perpetrated, on folk clubs - click here to bypass fRoots. The challenge is - can you untangle all the anagrams in the "Old Guests" links?? (Are they all anagrams??) IGOR CELEB JOSH NERD & BENJI SPOON (I got that one, at least!) JOSI TEACAKE RHEA TUNECHANT & THE TWINKLERS ANN APHORISMS SHIRLEY CHARD & HANS BURBLER TIM SLOBS DULCETSTORE VIN KEYMEANT THE TOTEMIC BADMEN & DAN C. WINKLE (barn dance) BERT PERSIAN THE SEESAW SKIRTS THE SHAKENMETAL BAND ERNIE END FLASHING STUNT FAST RAZZLE SHEBAS THE KEY & ROG DONTSTOP (barn dance) JIMMY OAR SPECIES, BOOM & SNOOPY RITA PANELWORK THE AGE THEOREM (formerly JOLLY EARRING) BOLDE WHALE LIN CHILLYROSES & NIBS PAPER HARRY SENDWAVE EDDY WARMTH-YARNMAN NEAL CELTISH & ANDY IRISHMAN (don't think this one is an anagram...!) TEEMING POP & EVAN THUD (barn dance) NYE NOTORY & NYE I.B.LAB MARDEN BARBIE SPIKE DRIP ZITA CHARLEY MOOR;BRACING;GROANS THE KELLY THICKRANT BAND BOB & TARA BROWNRAM ELI TRISTCHRONICLES SAM LE JUICY DANNY DREAMY-WARMTH ENVIED HARVEST LILT DEAN LUVBARD REJ RANJAM & FANNY CAKES ALL ACSETICS SVEN STILETTO RON METPOET GARY EARS & ANNE IRKSOME BRIAN CUE THICKMENACES & PIP HUGHORN (barn dance) THE BAD BATON J.J.SPENS & ROBIN HOODEN (I think we're repeating ourselves...) and there's way too many more pages of this nonsense. Methinks the parodist made good use of online an anagram generator!! The 1979 listing includes our bleating friend (who I understand could see the humor in the name): REG FARTGOONE M.P. MARTY THINCAR (the other one that I get!) ELMER P. BLEATY ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bill D Date: 24 Mar 09 - 05:22 PM "I wouldnt go near his site." I see..... well, I will make a note, and reconsider what sites *I* will avoid. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,cardboard cutout Date: 24 Mar 09 - 05:28 PM Yes, "Josh Nerd and Benji Spoon" is easy, helped by the illustrative c.d. sleeve in that case. That's the other brilliant thing about this site, the drawing! I'm ashamed to say it has taken me 48 hours, until just now, to realise who Josi Teacake is.. though I got Jimmy Oar straight away The whole thing is a complete masterpiece. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: greg stephens Date: 24 Mar 09 - 06:07 PM I presume Josi Teacake is our very own Ruth Archer under another name! The drawing of Boden and Spiers (Nerd and Spoon) is indeed masterly. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 03:22 AM I know the perpetrator of this Fandango personally. I'll spare his blushes, but, he is a fine club organiser, who has worked tirelessly in his home town for donkeys years. Also a fine cartoonist and illustrator. Mr Ignobody went into semi retirement many years ago. Glad to see he's back! And I also know that Peter Bellamy was proud and delighted with his moniker! It's just a gentle piss take...(but some of the thread titles on Mud-E-Ceilidh, wouldn't look out of place here!!!!). In these straightened times, surely we can all laugh at ourselves, can't we? Will continue to see what our lampoonist comes up with next. Regards Ralphie. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,cardboard cutout Date: 25 Mar 09 - 04:22 AM "The drawing of Boden and Spiers is indeed masterly" As is the drawing of Lauren McCormick and Emily Portman (formerly of "The Devils Interval"). And the recasting of Mawkin Causley as "Male Saucy Wink" apposite in the extreme. "I presume Josi Teacake is our own Ruth Archer under another name" Err, no, the letters don't add up. Look a bit closer to your own home county, think younger, and sibling to "Jimmy Oar" |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 05:40 AM Well, at the risk of being pursued round other threads and belittled, I think Rapidity Absence is showing both lack of humour, and possibly some sort of personal grudge. It's a tour de force, and I am filled with admiration at the time and talent that has gone into it. JM |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Kev Boyd Date: 25 Mar 09 - 06:01 AM Her Gents Pegs wrote: "I presume Josi Teacake is our very own Ruth Archer under another name!" Nope, it's actually Jackie Oates. Try using this Anagram Solver to decipher a few more. Slick Dime wrote: "a publicity stunt by Folk Roots". I certainly wouldn't go that far but there is a bit of an fRoots connection. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST, topsie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 06:43 AM Frank Ingnobody was around a long time before fRoots (but yes, there is a connection, see Leadfingers's post). |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 07:26 AM Dick. Just to put the record straight. "Borfolk" has nothing to do with fRoots magazine, apart from a tangential connection with it's predecessor "Southern Rag" . The site owner is a well respected club, concert, and dance organiser in Southern England. To the extent of having recieved an award from the EFDSS last year for his lifelong contributions to the folk scene. Artists that have been subjected to his gentle wit, have taken his parodies with great good humour...(The bugger hasn't done me yet!). You seem to have a personal problem with fRoots. Do us all a favour, and kindly keep it to yourself. And, don't involve Mr Ignobody. As I said earlier, It's just a bit of harmless fun. Save your personal attacks for another place. Ralph |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: G-Force Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:05 AM Yes it may be a bit of gentle fun, but why was it leapt on with such glee by fRuits? They are (he is) notoriously anti-Cat. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: matt milton Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:08 AM Because it's very funny? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:11 AM Ralphie,re read my posts. I am the one who has been personally attacked,and accused of taking drugs[fact],not by the cartoonist,but by someone else,hence my aversion to anything that promotes the Froots board/site. I have not attacked the cartoonist,I know his work,and it is very good. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:13 AM no, it has been leapt on by froots to get people to visit his site. a publicity stunt. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: matt milton Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:26 AM "no, it has been leapt on by froots to get people to visit his site" 1. it hasn't been "leapt on". It's been linked to, just as it has been here 2. the parody doesn't "promote" anything, but if it could be said to be "promoting" anything, that thing would be mudcat 3. as there's no weblink from that parody to the fRoots website, it can't be said that linking to it it is a way to get anyone to visit the it, any more than posting a link to it here can be said to be a way of getting anyone to visit *this* website |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:32 AM So Dick. You have a grieviance with the Editor of fRoots? Take it up with him, and leave the rest of us to enjoy what is a little bit of harmless fun. In other words, take that bag of King Edward potatoes off your shoulder, and direct your vitriol where you will. The rest of us don't actually care about your personal squabbles. (Good grief. Can't we just have a bit of a laugh sometimes?) |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: nickp Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:51 AM Cheered up my Wednesday lunchtime at work! Nice one Lawrence. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:53 AM I have and I am still waiting for an apology. I am not sure it is harmless fun,as a matter of fact I have always thought the cartoons portrayed the uk folk club scene in a very negative way[probably not the cartoonists intention]. but something that would undoubtedly appeal to anyone who was anti folk clubs,and anti Mudcat, which might be a possible explanation for their promotion,would they be promoted by froots if it was froots who was being satirised,I dont think so,from my own personal experience,criticism is not something he[not the cartoonist] encourages. humour is a very personal thing, some people like one thing some something else. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: SINSULL Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:56 AM Too close to home - the music threads have 4 or 7 posts; the semi-music threads hundreds and the BS millions. When did Mudcat become sacrosanct? There is plenty here to criticize and parody. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Gedi Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:56 AM lol, thats the funniest thing I've seen for ages! Brilliant. Who said Folkies have no sense of humour? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: MartinRyan Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:57 AM humour is a very personal thing, some people like one thing some something else. Aye, aye, Cap'n! Now can we move on? Regards |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Noreen Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:57 AM humour is a very personal thing, some people like one thing some something else. Indeed, but everybody finds your constant bleating tedious in the extreme. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Surreysinger Date: 25 Mar 09 - 09:39 AM Like Ralphie I also know the individual who created the website under discussion, and can confirm that he cares deeply about folk and the traditional arts, and is a tireless worker in the area of promoting music, dance and song in the South East of England. And has been for many years. I would point out for those who seem to have taken this as a dig at Mudcat, that the name of the forum which has been chosen is MudE celidh ... please note that ECeilidh is another organisation that also exists on the web, should you not be aware of it. Additionally, the MudECeilidh item is one page only on a site which is quite clearly indicated as under construction. Mr Ingnobody has already told me that it is being slowly expanded. And no doubt it will _have_ to be slowly as he holds down a very responsible full time job, as well as running a club, concerts, and dances,providing assistance with a certain large annual folk festival in one way or another each year, and trying to lead a life as well. The site is unconnected with fRoots, except insofar as Mr Ingnobody was connected with its predecessor, Southern Rag... and if you care to look at the bylines on each page of the website, you will see that construction started in October last year. The editor of fRoots has only just picked it up ... if it was a publicity stunt for that magazine, I think he might have highlighted it well before now!! (Come to that the name of the perpetrator is extremely obvious on the website, if you care to look at it properly!!) As to Capn's comments about Peter Bellamy (Elmer P Bleaty), it is my understanding that he loved his new name, and even went so far as to request the original of the cartoon that went with it. And in response to his comment that "I have always thought the cartoons portrayed the uk folk club scene in a very negative way[probably not the cartoonists intention]." ... I've always thought that they were hilarious as they bring out the exact nature of oh so many clubs and individuals that can be seen around the English folk scene ... but with a great degree of fondness. I wonder if Mr Ingnobody knows what a storm in a teacup he has created {grin} - must tell him!!! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 10:13 AM Well Dick. Talk about opening mouth and inserting foot. Don't think that you are going to get many gigs in the South East now. For Gawds sake....even the people who run this place got the joke, parody is the sincerest form of flattery after all. And I'm sure that Mssrs Spiers and Boden would love framed copies of their cartoon hanging in their respective Lavs. Now Mr Ignobody....Where is the Housewives Choice cartoon Eh Eh??? I'll pay for it, honest guv.... |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Sandman Date: 25 Mar 09 - 10:17 AM folk clubs are portrayed as three men and a dog,with an incompetent organiser. in fact many folk clubs are successful and well attended,quite a few have been going 30 40 years,and are well organised. Topic Folk club,Swindon folk club,Bothy folk club,Leigh ON sea folk club ,both the Lewes clubs,Swinton Folk club,Faversham Folk club,Bodmin folk club,Stockton folk club ,Welly folk club, South Shields,Sharps folk club,Liverpool Everyman folk club,Faldingworth., Kiveton Park and many more. as they bring out the exact nature of oh so many clubs and individuals that can be seen around the English folk scene ... but with a great degree of fondness. no cant agree,his cartoons depict a tiny minority,that dont survive long.Apologies to any clubs I have left out |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 10:20 AM Dick Just noticed one line from you "I know his work, and it's very good" Well I wouldn't go and ask him for a booking anytime soon if I were you, you might be very disappointed! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Ralphie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 10:27 AM Dick. Irony is spelt I-R-O-N-Y. Parody is spelt P-A-R-O-D-Y Humour is spelt H-U-M-O-U-R Pedant is spelt P-E-D-A-N-T Sense of Humour failure is called.......Oh you work it out.... |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Kev Boyd Date: 25 Mar 09 - 11:19 AM Ted Rogers writes: Funnily enough an anagram of "sense of humour failure" would be "rueful farmhouse noise", which – on a good day and with a following wind – could be have used to describe the "bleating" singing style of a particular folk singer. You see, it all falls into place in the end... probably! |
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