Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 08:30 AM

Someone in Britain has heard of Erasmus Hall High School's own Eric Kaz? Wow.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 05:25 AM

i liked the muddy water clip

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 12:50 PM

Hangman hang man slack a rope
Slack it, can't you see?
That imposter making crime against folk
I swear it wasn't me.


Note very clever spelling play on "impostor"

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 10:03 AM

But I think he is from somewhere near Torquay.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Girl Friday
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 09:58 AM

I found a Richard Bridge playing a didgeridoo. There is a club for such people in Maidenhead.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 08:42 AM

Surely that must be one of the other "Richard Bridge" or "Hoff Bridge" characters.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 08:40 AM

Kev. You should publish and Richard be damned. Let's look at the evidence.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 07:54 AM

Appalling! Has the man no shame?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Kev The Clogs
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 07:17 AM

Never mind all of that - I have photographic evidence of Mr Bridge drinking Pepsi Max from a bottle whilst at a folk event!!!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: fisheye
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

You can always tell a BNP song...........Banjo's Not Playing.... it lacks that complete sound of the twiddle bits in the middle, mandolin's try to perform but they run out of steam.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:32 AM

I'm glad you brought up names...

Keep a wary eye out.

I gather that someone variously calling himself "Richard Bridge" or "Hoff Bridge" is posting messages of support for the BNP at digg and sending abusive messages to members of the "folk against fascism" facebook group.

"Hoff" is short for "Hoffmeister".

There are only a very few places where I have used or been referred to by both names - and the 'cat is one of them.

But "Hoff Bridge" isn't me (as is neither that other Richard Bridge).

You may want to keep a wary eye on Daily Mail Reader - I suspect that he or his cronies are the guilty parties.

Tells you quite a lot about the BNP, really, doesn't it?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,pigstrings
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:56 PM

PS - don't tell 'em your name Richard!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Pigstrings
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:54 PM

Still trying to figure out...

a) if a folk song is a song sung by a folkie and
b) a folkie is someone who sings folk songs
c) where does this leave female folksingers (with/without beard) who aren't Richard Bridge? Or people called Dave? Or male folksingers (with/without beards) who transform themselves into rock musicians when they reach a Dangerous Age (the old skyflynts)?

Well, I'm not grassing them up. I refuse to answer all questions from the Folk Police unless they can be answered "mine's a pint"

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:34 AM

Stynx.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:31 AM

Lynx supercharges your maraccas...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:58 AM

What doesn't help with the playing? Is it Aramis, women or lack of long hair and beard? Or all three?!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Girl Friday
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:55 AM

Are you sure that wasn't Hai Karate Richard?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: fisheye
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:41 AM

I left my beard and long hair in my american truck when i came home. I thought it was not British.   Bloody stupid in hind site, to compensate i acquired a bottle of Aramis and the women have been chasing me ever since. does not help with the guitar or banjo playing, so i am reverting back slowly.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 04:36 PM

Errr.

Actually at Broadstairs a year later I think, but I'm glad you remember as I do, Miskin. All together now. Aaaah, Miskin!

The point was about the other end of the strings !

Chas (wiping away a tear).

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:09 PM

Apart from winter, bears, caribou on the roads, Franglais, etc...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:56 AM

Gone to a better place. :-)

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 09:17 AM

If I correctly identify the occasion, Fidjit, that was at Miskin, so the 12 strings in question were on a Bjarton BJ-12E, which now lives in Canada.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

Errr.

Last time I saw Richard he was attached to twelve strings. Or was it that there were twelve strings attached to him?

He might be a puppet for someone and therefore someone else is pulling the strings.

Chas

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:07 AM

Is this aBridged version?

Does he have arch enemies?

Would he be annoyed or cross that bridge?

(to quoin a phrase)

If he was merely suspended would that be a suspension bri........

I already have my coat and walking...................

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Girl Friday
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:45 PM

Tam- if you have no hairs on your chinny-chin yet, it won't be long. I remember my mum pulling whiskers from mine- and she's been dead ten years. Mind you- I started early! It's always the eyes that go first. Not surprising when you consider that we use them constantly when awake.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:19 PM

And no, I dont sing,
I perform shanties, or murder ballads !
I often murder ballads.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:17 PM

Never mind the hairy bits - its the phenomenon that intrigues me.
I guess melodeonboy, or more to the point, his shirts, must fall into that category, given his definition = "It's a gaily painted piece of wood, approximately 5 feet high. And when you walk past it, you are taken aback by its appearance and you say "Blimey!".
So, a gaily painted shirt, of approximately 50 decibels loudness, that makes you go "Blimey" as it passes within vision - just before you go blind yourself as a result.
Gefinately not a "folk shirt" as there is no place for the mandatory slogan i.e. DYLAN ROCKS, LES BARKER FOR PRESIDENT, RICHARD IS INNOCENT, etc.
Besides, I got this dimple in my chin which is a bugger to shave without taking off the odd bit of skin, so I lets it grow.
It has now been trimmed somewhat, but as it continues to grow, will soon be back to its grewsome fulness.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

Yah Will. You know how it is with us Americans. If we can't be better we shore as shit can be bigger (and thicker - read dumber).

Not speaking from personal experience (yet). Just hit 51 in April, and waiting to see if the hormones will start confusing the hair growing locations. No chin fur yet, but my eyesight is pretty bad.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Girl Friday
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 06:21 AM

That really is quite terrifying. I couldn't face watching the video. I suppose, until this year, it was the best thing about Norway. Not that this year's Eurovision winner was good.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 06:19 AM

Ye gods - a plaited beard! I see from the web page that the US is now the world's beard superpower in these championships. There's certainly some stiff competition...

I prefer mine short these days - got a very expensive beard trimmer for Christmas - and I go once over all round the face on setting no. 7, once a fortnight. I could give Richard and Ken a run for their money if I tried, but mine would hold too much soup and biscuit crumbs. Still, keeping it short is better than shaving legs, I suppose. As for waxing - SHUDDER!

Beards look good on "wanted" posters, though...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 05:24 AM

snork! Gotta love the beard envy thing goin on here.

Harness your hirsute happiness

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 08:07 AM

Beards. Oral transmission. Not sure that I want to think about that.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:51 AM

PS, Mr Horse, of course (of course) disproves the Horse definition. After him you can say that you have heard a horse sing. Therefore not all songs are folk songs.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:49 AM

The difference is obvious. Will's beard can play the guitar. Mine can't. Don't even sound same. Simples.

My beard however is of a type adopted into the community and adapted by it (compare Brian Blessed) and I have been wearing it since 1965 - the height of the revival, so plainly it is a folk beard.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:09 AM

He's a lean, mean Cajun man living on jumbo gumbo and wild turkey down in Kent. And he owns a very fine Cajun accordion which I've been wrestling with, until last week, for some months.

However, getting back to beards in general, would you say Richard's is a Folk Beard according to the 1954 Definition?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:01 AM

I don't think I'm acquainted with Mr Horse (or his beard). Does he sing?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:51 AM

Mine's a licensed beard - and actually quite trim and modest at the moment - without the magnificence of Richard's growth. Anyway it was the Dead Horse beard that startled me the most - a most exotic and luxuriant variation. I can't compete with these two.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:44 AM

Come off it Will. When I saw the video of Richard I thought, for a moment, it was you.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:34 AM

And the definition of a folk song is...?

Bryan Creer

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:26 AM

I'm still worried about the beard proliferation. The Kent area is getting very hairy these days. Seeing Richard Bridge on YouTube was one thing, and then bugger me if Dead Horse hasn't grown a chin thatch since before Christmas. Gave me quite a shock last week. The Folk Police had better arm themselves with Gillette Mach 3s.

We have licences for such things in Sussex - beards, I mean, not Mach 3s.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:23 AM

It is, of course, a folk-art...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:17 AM

'"...the phenomenon post..."
I missed that one. What thread was it in?'

It's a gaily painted piece of wood, approximately 5 feet high. And when you walk past it, you are taken aback by its appearance and you say "Blimey!".

An alternative version, often used by those of exceptionally low intelligence, is the "phenomenon plank".

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:15 AM

Someone who sings (&/or otherwise enthuses about) folk songs...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:09 AM

This is boringly obvious but, the definition of a folkie is...?

Bryan Creer

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 08:51 PM

"...the phenomenon post..."
I missed that one. What thread was it in?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 10:39 AM

I think the definition of a "folk song" is that it is sung by a folkie.

Whilst it might not be the definition, it certainly counts for something with regard to a more pragmatic, or even folkloric, understanding of the phenomenon post-1954. As I said above somewhere, if Richard sings it, it must be folk...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 09:45 AM

No doubt what the tablets are for...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 09:42 AM

I do. Frequently.
But I keep taking the tablets......

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 01:18 PM

Dead Horse?

Errr...


Go!


Please.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 12:54 PM

I think the definition of a "folk song" is that it is sung by a folkie.
Richard is a Mudcat member - ergo he is a folkie, and is therefore entitled to sing whatever he likes.
Wether WE like it or not is our problem :-)