Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Mar 09 - 02:06 PM Oh dear, the grapes are very sour today. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Mar 09 - 02:28 PM Tell ya' what Gioko.....Let's talk about the merits of farting "Duelling Banjos" while blowing dope. Whaddaya think? I find its very relevant to a fun thread about Mudcat and as we already have a couple of folks on drugs and stomping on their personal flaming shit bags it oughta' go like gangbusters........... Spaw |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Bewitched Date: 27 Mar 09 - 02:32 PM Are Captain Birdseye and Diane Easby real people or part of the whole Borfolk parody? Surely, nobody can be as pompous, humourless, self-important and bitter as these two? They are cartoon characters, yes? The Easby creation claims to be a writer but I've googled her and while there are hundreds of demented entries causing fights on message boards, there's not one proper piece of writing under her name. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Rifleman (inactive) Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:00 PM "Are Captain Birdseye and Diane Easby real people?" Captain Birdseye apparently he's dead...... No surely not....... but honestly, officer, she looked dead |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: SINSULL Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:13 PM This thread belongs on the parody website. Brilliant piece of work, guys. Spaw, as your keeper, I must insist that you behave or retire to Jacqui's cellar...NOW! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Rifleman (inactive) Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:16 PM "This thread belongs on the parody website. Brilliant piece of work, guys" I'm all for the parody being opened up to interactivity, for those WITH a sense of humour (humor), of course. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: jacqui.c Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:16 PM Not to our cellar he doesn't. You've paid for him - you keep him in your cellar. I'd be worried about the noxious gases combining with the pilot light on the boiler! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Borchester Echo Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:25 PM It does sometimes occur to me that I might, inadvertently, have strayed into an obscure dialect of a defunct Indo-European language of which even I have scarcely absorbed the rudiments of syntax or morphology. Particularly when I ask why the fuck are people talking about me? But no, I have checked this thread (at least) and confirmed to myself that I have addressed consistently the topic of what and who Lawrence / Frank was getting at in the fake thread and what results was he hoping to achieve. I could, of course, (as previously noted) be entirely wrong, but a wild guess would be that he wanted GEFFs in ill-fitting anoraks to consider, just for once, how their blinkered, entirely unreal, ill-considered (ahem) renditions (and scribblings) damaged the image of tradarts to the outside, "normal" world and to assess how they might do just a little to untarnish it. But no, they're still talking about me and not about what I said (because they haven't read it or else are unable to assimilate it), oh no, just variations on what they imagine I might have said, though wouldn't think so if they actually knew me. Earlier today I saw that an especially dim nurse had inscribed across my notes that I "communicated well in English". I said that yes, of course I do but would you like me to communicate with you in some other language and if so, which? I could ask the same here. Entirely off-topic alert: Although the bulk of my journalism has been of an industrial and political nature, I wrote my first music pieces for English Dance & Song and Club Folk over 40 years ago. I was a Morning Star music writer (among other things) for nearly a decade between Trevor Hyett before me and Karl Dallas after me. I have freelanced for more publications than I can be arsed to list and got a host of dancers and musicians onto children's telly programmes (whether they wanted to or not). All of which is almost entirely irrelevant except that it does indicate that I do know what goes on in the real world of music as opposed to the singaround at No- Farting-Under-The-Haystack. . |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:29 PM Phaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppppppppppppppp |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Les from Hull Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:33 PM Well, this thread surely proves why it is appropriate to parody Mudcat! Although I don't think anyone could quite do it as well as we have. At least it made me look at anagrams for my Mudcat name. Smell of Hurl |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:41 PM Hijack Zone Men |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Vic Smith Date: 27 Mar 09 - 04:18 PM It is very sad.... Look at the great feeling of fun and mirth that was generated in the early postings in this thread. Then look at the vituperative tirades that it has descended into in its latter parts. In the guidelines for posting on to this board, it says, "We believe that Mudcatters are blessed with common sense and admirable judgment, and should have little need of rules." I think that this thread shows that this is not the case. If Mudcat had firm and fair board administators, surely some contributors would have been banned by now. So, pausing only to point out that an anagram of VIC AND TINA SMITH is CHAINS DI IN MT VAT, I'm out of here. And in case the previous paragraph is misinterpreted, can I point out that I am trying to salvage some ironic humour from this turn of events? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: SINSULL Date: 27 Mar 09 - 04:24 PM So this really is a parody????? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Rifleman (inactive) Date: 27 Mar 09 - 04:39 PM "So this really is a parody?????" Damn it we've been sussed! *LOL* |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Borchester Echo Date: 27 Mar 09 - 04:40 PM Are Captain Birdseye and Diane Easby real people? Dick is and so am I. We both play English concertina, though not together. I'm not on Facebook. That pic's a fake. A Céline Dion fan? Pah. Where does this crap come from? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Rifleman (inactive) Date: 27 Mar 09 - 05:20 PM "Where does this crap come from?" Oh dear...*sigh* Humour (humor) once more was the driving force behind me hunting down some online references to The Captain and Diane Easby (wait a sec that sounds like..oh never mind! ;-) ) Captain Birdseye was easy (though I must admit I initially typed Captain Birdseed into Google) Diane Easby was going to be harder, first off having to avoid all her postings on various bulletin boards (there's lots of those, as our viewers may know)I settled on the Face Book thingie, simply because, well, I thought it was hilarious, particularly the reference to Celine Dion |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Mar 09 - 05:39 PM Ironic ☺ |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Borchester Echo Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:03 PM Lots of references? I suppose there might be. I haven't looked since I used to be somebody else. It comes of an ability to write to topic on a wide range of subjects. So, not much scope in a thread which puerile sniggering schoolpersons (no, let's be accurate, mainly schoolboys) want to keep pegged down to the lowest common denominator. I think, after all, I might be on Facebook but under what identity I can't remember. I might have been substance-influenced at the time. Should anyone find me, I'm really not interested in knowing about it. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,Frank Ingnobody Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:32 PM Always liked that Die Online, especially her hit song My Hog Will Eat On. We must get her down to Warring-on-Thames some day. Regards, Drink on, fang boy |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Folknacious Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:57 PM an anagram of VIC AND TINA SMITH is CHAINS DI IN MT VAT, I'm out of here Ant And His Victim, surely |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:02 PM Where else would I get to be ANAL HEN NOISE (If I put in the B it makes me a banal hen. Boring. Still don't know what to do with that stupid J.) I hereby dub our esteemed moderator Joe Offer OREO JEFF |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Surreysinger Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:50 PM Interesting that Frank should have posted like that ... considering that those anagrams don't work ... not his usual high standard.. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Surreysinger Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:52 PM ... and the fact that at the time of posting, I doubt if he would have made it home from the club. Do I smell an impostor here??? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Howard Jones Date: 27 Mar 09 - 08:51 PM Ms Easby, you appear to me to have addressed consistently the topic of what you wish Lawrence / Frank was getting at in the fake thread and what results was he hoping to achieve. The rest of us were simply assuming he might be trying to amuse us by poking gentle fun at the peculiar little world we inhabit. Terribly naive of us and not showing much political awareness, I'm afraid, but there's more than enough other threads addressing the topics you want to discuss. You're showing all the stereotypical failings of the Left: taking everything far too seriously, turning everything into an issue, and boring its opponents into submission. This is, or was, a light-hearted thread, so lighten up. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Mar 09 - 01:51 AM Gee, I was hoping for my own, personal anagram. "Oreo Jeff"? Well, I suppose it could be a lot worse.... -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: The Borchester Echo Date: 28 Mar 09 - 02:52 AM No, I won't be "lightening up" any time soon, so you can keep your patronising homilies for your semi-detatched, suburban-lite, Daily Mail coffee mornings. Yesterday I was actually thinking of calling Lawrence / Frank for confirmation that he was taking the piss out of the fatuous, middle-class equivalent of fiddling while the eternal city was on fire, but decided that surely nobody actually fritters away their time solving tedious, turgid, timewasting anagrams as an end in itself. While they could, after all, admit that they just can't be arsed to try and change things, they won't cos that's just not in their strategy and tactics. Like they'll trot along to Tory Bozza's free St George's fest because it's simpler to get to than the Tolpuddle commemoration and kid themselves with "Oooh, it's just like 1965" and remain blind to the economic and social cataclysms thundering around them. But hold on, you're telling me that there are those who try to turn their pointless, anodyne non-activity into a virtuous excuse for doing sod all at best and assuming the status quo will go on and on and on . . . Are these, I wonder, the very same plastic holograms who sit in serried ranks at Cambridge doing Sudoku? Sounds like a stereotypical failing of the brainwashed descendants of Thatcherism to me. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: caitlin rua Date: 28 Mar 09 - 03:52 AM Surreysinger (or is that Guildfordgargler?) I think you may be reading more into that ghost post than was put there. It just looks to me like an attempt to turn the subject away from all the fighting and nastiness and get the thread back into a better mood (that is, if it wants to be in a better mood). F. Ingnobody is not a person. He is a cartoon character. His creator has got a lot of mileage out of doing parodies, including one of Mudcat, so it's fair enough when the shoe is occasionally on the other foot. It's just a harmless bit of fun, for Heaven's sake. It's a tribute to F.I. that he's still so famous after all these years. In the words of Rumble O over on Mud-e-ceilidh: You've really arrived when you are well-known enough and relevant enough to be parodied. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,OK so I'm not F. Ingnobody Date: 28 Mar 09 - 04:23 AM Oh come on, the anagrams aren't THAT bad. Celine Dion is only missing her C, the song title its R, and I got my name right, didn't I? Anyway like Caitlin said, it was just a joke to try and lighten things up. (Too bad it didn't work for more than an hour.) Didn't mean to rattle yer cage. Move on now? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 28 Mar 09 - 05:26 AM Oreo - Yep, it could be a whole lot worse. The only other things I could think of were ROOF FEE, which left me with yet another J that I didn't know what to do with, or else O JEER OFF So count yourself lucky! Love, Anal Hen (no, you can't call me "Anal" for short...) |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Haruo Date: 28 Mar 09 - 05:37 AM Yeah, that's pretty cool, but it wouldn't let me actually start a controversy (maybe because I tried to post as "ᏓᏆᏙᎥ ᏥᏤᎳᎵᏥ (dzidzəlalič)" and it couldn't spell it. Haruo |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Mar 09 - 05:57 AM I love Diane's post ironic humour. With talent like that, she should go far. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Leadfingers Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:06 AM And starts the journey Today ! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Surreysinger Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:40 AM Hey Caitlin and Frank Clone... you are both actually reading far more into my post than was there, as well ;-) No cages rattled, as such ...read those posts again and you'll see that I was just pointing out that that post wasn't actually from Frank/Lawrence - physically impossible as he was actually in the process of MC'ing the club at the time. I was mildly amused, and had to check the timings of the posts to be sure ! And Frank Clone,sorry, surely it's not an anagram if you haven't used all the letters ? The one thing we defintely are agreed on is that it would be good for this thread to revert to the cheerful state it was originally in! And Joe ... I could only come up with Jef Orfeo ...shame, could have done with another F ... but I suppose these days the spelling of names is variable. Great surname, though! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Phil Edwards Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:46 AM I used to post as "Lewd" Pip Radish, which is an anagram of... urhh... -toc- -toc- -toc- -toc- -badup, badup, badalabup! bong! Philip Edwards Oh, yeah. Never mind. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Howard Jones Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:46 AM Ms Easby, the point is that you have made up your mind that this thread is about one thing, when everyone else has told you repeatedly that it's about something else. The points you are making may be perfectly valid, it's just that this thread isn't the place for them. There are plenty of other threads, past and present, to do that. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:48 AM Now it's our great illustrious leader's turn, who needs to either tell us what the D in his middle name stands for, or else risk going down in history for all time as LEX MAGPIES |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Cllr Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:49 AM hmmm lead fingers becomes deaf lingers |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Doug Chadwick Date: 28 Mar 09 - 06:58 AM I normally sign off my posts as "DC" - not too many anagrams for that! CD |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: GUEST,OK so I'm not F. Ingnobody Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:05 AM S'pose you're right about not using all the letters, Surrey - but CONNIE LIED just doesn't have quite the same ring about it. And we never know whether Connie has been untruthful or that she specialises in German classical song. Maybe she and Jef Orfeo could get together and sing a duet of MY ONE ILL WARTHOG |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Surreysinger Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:17 AM Now Connie Lied would work better for me... and I LOVE that title ... much better in each case than the original!!! As for Max - Mel "Six" Page ? of Mel A Pigsex ? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: evansakes Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:23 AM This thread is just too funny for words. Clearly a wicked conspiracy between Diane and F.Ingnobody and they must both be creasing themselves now with every successive irate plea to 'lighten up', 'naff off' and 'get a life'. This whole debate is a complete 'wind-up' and we've all been well and truly 'had'? It's astonishing that people would be able to take all those 'outraged' postings above seriously as it would be clinically impossible for any one individual to be so completely bereft of a sense of humour. Wouldn't it? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Will Fly Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:34 AM Hmmph! Not many anagrams available for my name. L.F. Willy |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: SteveMansfield Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:41 AM It's been a fantastic spectator sport, but I'm just a little disappointed that nobody from E-coli has joined in the scrap here. They (the e-ceilidh mailing list, dedicated to narrowing the definition of English ceilidh to as narrow a list of approved bands and callers as possible and looking contemptuously down on absolutely everybody else) are obviously targetted in the Mud-e-ceilidh name and logo as well. Presumably a three-line-whip has been issued, and all their horror and outrage has been limited to internal e-coli distribution only! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:43 AM You feeling seedy Doug? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Doug Chadwick Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:53 AM No, just wanted to record my words. CD |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Gedi Date: 28 Mar 09 - 08:22 AM "This whole debate is a complete 'wind-up' and we've all been well and truly 'had'? It's astonishing that people would be able to take all those 'outraged' postings above seriously as it would be clinically impossible for any one individual to be so completely bereft of a sense of humour. Wouldn't it?" Couldn't have put it better myself TF. I think DE is really another 'creation' of F.Ingnobody just to see how far he can push the envelope. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Dave Sutherland Date: 28 Mar 09 - 08:42 AM Since I have not commented on this thread does it mean that I am saved? |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Megan L Date: 28 Mar 09 - 08:44 AM Aw cum oan Gedi theres naebuddy kin push an envelope that far. |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Surreysinger Date: 28 Mar 09 - 09:43 AM DaveS ... LOL! |
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody From: Leadfingers Date: 28 Mar 09 - 10:02 AM Just as a matter of general interest and to confirm that they DO exist , I have personnaly met Captain Birdseye AND Ms Easby ! AND Lived to tell the tale ! |
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