Experiences meeting 'catters ?

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: number 6
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 11:24 AM

"It may be that we blow off all our antisocial steam on the website"

I agree with JTS on that one .... the net seems to bring out some characteristics that most people would not exhibit in 3D. From what I can see, most people here on the Mudcat are decent folk.

I have never met any catters in person ... I would never hold back an opportunity to meet anyone here based on what they have posted ... it would be a pleasure to share a coffee, beer, song, story or hell even a debate with any catter if I had the opportunity.

Just because someone doesn't hold the same opinions, doesn't mean people cannot be friends or sociable in 3D.

biLL

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 11:35 AM

If you're a Mudcatter who'd like to be met by other Mudcatters, wear a Mudcat T-shirt. That's what they're for.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 02:09 PM

Or a Mudcat hat... if they are ever available. Gives you the option of seeing a 'Catter you don't wanna meet and doffing it. Not that that would ever happen, of course.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 02:13 PM

If it were not for a Mudcat post, letting folks know he was in the local area last summer, I never have met John Weldon. And, it would have been a real loss for me. Clearly a personable, interesting and talented "catter.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 02:22 PM

Mighty fine poem there, SOP--I have always enjoyed Kipling in fair weather. In winter it gets too cold to Kipple.


A

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Charmion
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 02:52 PM

Mudcat has given Edmund and me a whole new network of friends on two continents, people whose existence we would not otherwise been aware of. Everyone has quirks, and some Catters are, indeed, quirkier than others. Some who are particularly quirky in cyberspace are perfectly housebroken in person. All those we have met in person have been polite and generous with their time, and some have been stunningly hospitable. (You know who you are.)

With respect to anonymity and on-line aliases, I think Jack Campin is being a bit unkind to the poor Gnu-zer. The Internet is a wild and woolly place, and some of us have very good reasons for maintaining a bit of top cover while conducting our social lives out here in front of the millions and millions who use Google every day.

Just sayin' ...

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 03:04 PM

>> ... I would never hold back an opportunity to meet anyone here based on what they have posted ... it would be a pleasure to share a coffee, beer, song, story or hell even a debate with any catter if I had the opportunity. <<

I agree wholeheartedly with this. The only one I would not want to meet, for fear of what I might do after the way he has verbally abused my wife, has been banned.

In fact some of the people I argue most with here are ones that I like the best in person.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 05:59 PM

Source of message verified as Poppagator -Joe Offer-

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The very few opportunities I've had to meet fellow 'catters in real life have all been overwhelmingly positive. My only regrets have been not spending more time with someone, not getting to know 'em better, and (mostly) not getting to play together as much as I would've liked.

Guess I've just been lucky...

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 07:07 PM

Charmion... I was gonna just gonna ignore Jack Campin's inane post in which it (Yeah, why not? It called me "it".) said... "On this thread that means "gnu", who has said he or she will never reveal who they are. Given that, I can't imagine how it's ever managed to meet anybody else here in real life, but if it comes across me in a public place, just go away, please. You can assume that if you do introduce yourself, I will tell everybody I know how to identify you. I will not be complicit in that kind of secretiveness."

Are you fuckin brain dead, Jacko? Everybody in this here Café with two clues knows my full name, occupation, address, education, music and so on. Where in fuck did you come up with that bullshit?

Me introduce myself to a crazy fuck like you??? Not likely.

I apologize if your post was made while you were off yer meds or starting new ones and the dosage wasn't right. But, if yer not on meds or don't need any, get an appointment and get yerself checked out. On accounta, you need SOMMAT.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 09:20 PM

OK, Chill!!!

Thank you very much.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 11:42 PM

I've known Hollowfox since before there was an internet.

Five years ago, I Azizzi and I met to hear Seumas Kennedy at Mullaney's Harp and Fiddle here in Pittsburgh. Seumas tells the kind of jokes my mother's family told at the dinner table.

Having grown up with that kind of humor, I could smell the punchlines coming.

I'm afraid Azzizi was a bit shocked by some of them, especially the man who found the dead mouse in his stew. But she enjoyed the concert as much as I did.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: MikeL2
Date: 03 Aug 10 - 09:39 AM

hi

I have met a few catters but that was because I knew them many years ago before I recently became a catter myself.

There are some others that I knew way back when that I didn't want to contact and still haven't done so. I suppose that makes me pretty average in that I like many people but not everyone.

There are some catters here that I would like to meet sometime and some that I would never want to meet. But that doesn't make them bad....just not what I wish to see in the flesh so to speak.

AS I have been involved in music, and that includes folk, I guess I must have brushed across a fair number of catters but I didn't know that at the time.

As most of the people that I have met in folk have been sociable and friendly had I known that they were catters I probably would have not been too bothered by meeting them " out in the open" so to speak.

cheers

Mikel2

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: ragdall
Date: 03 Aug 10 - 07:01 PM

Any Mudcatter I've met has been more than wonderful to me.
I hope I'll be able to meet a few more before I move on.

rags

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Aug 10 - 08:02 PM

I guess the first Mudcatter I met - well before there was a Mudcat - was Ironmule - who doesn't post here very often. He's always been like a big brother to me.

Oh yeah - he IS my big brother.....

And he ain't heavy.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Aug 10 - 10:12 AM

Sometimes yes, sometimes no

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Aug 10 - 01:13 PM

>>Everybody in this here Café with two clues knows my full name, occupation, address, education, music and so on.

I don't know about the two clues part. But I will vouch for the fact that gnu is certainly not hiding his identity.

I perhaps could have avoided this blow up by speaking sooner, But I wondered what, given the treats he had made Jack Campin would do with the information.

For your information, small outbursts not withstanding, Gnu is as good and pure a soul as you will meet on this forum one of the best things you could possibly do on line is to be friends with him. In person is apparently another matter, but I see who he wants to meet in person as totally his call.

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 04 Aug 10 - 02:49 PM

Thanks, Joe, for identifying my post of yesterday. I didn't realize I wasn't logged in...

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: Pistachio
Date: 04 Aug 10 - 06:18 PM

Happily I know quite a few 'catters' and it's always a pleasure to get to sing with like minded people (Catters or not). Thats all I'm after. Can't be doing with sniping. We get on the computer to get information, help ,advice and a friendly ear.
It's been a joy to me, meeting 'friends I didn't know' and I hope to meet more anywhere and everywhere I go.
Any catters off to Bie Dapp festival in Holland on the last weekend in August? I'd better dig out my badge - but failing that I'm Hazel from 'Hissyfit' and Linda and I will do our best to meet YOU if You'll be there!
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Mudcatters ))))))))))))))))))))))))

Hazel

Subject: RE: Experiences meeting 'catters ?
From: IvanB
Date: 04 Aug 10 - 08:32 PM

I've probably met 40 or 50 and have never been disappointed. I'm sure there of some of them with whom I'd never become "bosom buddies," but that's no different from those I meet in the world at large. And a couple of those I met, whose online personas would have led me to believe I'd never want to know them, were very pleasant surprises for me.