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Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 06 Sep 03 - 04:31 AM freshie freshie! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Mr Red Date: 24 Feb 02 - 11:12 AM Eureka I HAV it - Hidden Agenda Vendor - its a HAV!!! No names - no pack drill. I would like to think I can rise above the slings and arrows of outrageuos ego. Well almost. Mutter mutter mutterer sobintobeerer. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: CarolC Date: 24 Feb 02 - 07:46 AM Cool. Here's a couple of new ones from the last year and a half that still come up from time to time...
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Mr Red Date: 24 Feb 02 - 06:58 AM What about people who speak to one person as if they are responding to a thread. AR maybe, scores to settle perhaps, using "us" for sure but generally waste our thinking efforts when we don't have the clues to their hidden agenda? Might I respectfully suggest the term Agenda Vendor these things being what they are I'm sure if there is a need for the title it will fall to the community that is "the 'cat" to evolve one anyway. Yes! It is an issue with me currently. (don't want any hidden agendas from Mr Open-red-handed-tactics do we?) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: GUEST Date: 23 Feb 02 - 08:58 PM Things that stink should remain buried.
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Feb 02 - 09:39 AM Refresh for greg stephens Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 17 Nov 01 - 12:48 AM I already did! Cheers anyway.john |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: rangeroger Date: 17 Nov 01 - 12:40 AM John in Hull, be sure to read those threads I mentioned in my post of 25 Feb, 00. rr |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 16 Nov 01 - 11:35 PM |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: rangeroger Date: 25 Feb 01 - 10:52 PM Anniversary refresh.This thread was the cause of my first "official" post to the Mudcat. rr |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Jul 00 - 07:25 PM Refresh for those on the Acronym thread Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: alison Date: 28 Feb 00 - 01:49 AM Guest go to the top of the page choose "quick links" and go to "Bbc's mudcat resources" you'll find photos, info etc on many of the people you see mentioned and posting here. slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: GUEST Date: 28 Feb 00 - 01:42 AM This is better than a user's guide! Who are all these people? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Amos Date: 28 Feb 00 - 12:54 AM Glad to have you around rangeroger... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: rangeroger Date: 28 Feb 00 - 12:03 AM Notes from a newbie. I found this forum a few months back while looking for the chords to "The Great Mandala". Bookmarked it immediately.The past few days I went through "duct tape","cat farts","my bhodran is too thight" and now this thread. I love it! If I need serious discussion about music I know I can find it.In the meantime I'll continue to follow wherever the thread leads. Thank you all. rangeroger |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: GUEST Date: 27 Feb 00 - 11:52 PM so helpful, thanks all of you... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: alison Date: 27 Feb 00 - 11:48 PM I am "the fair one" (I don't do it as multicoloured as Mick)......... it goes back a few years to a thread about "the Furies" slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Ali_UK Date: 27 Feb 00 - 12:04 PM This thread would be the best example of "thread creep"that I've ever seen. *sigh* Back to getting my ocarina in tune and dusting off my reels, jigs and hornpipes for small, furry animals from the southern states. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: GUEST,FP Date: 27 Feb 00 - 10:53 AM Interesting that there haven't been too many GUESTS contributing to this thread. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Feb 00 - 07:21 PM Join up and run a forum search under the name "Big Mick"....start at the beginning...you'll find it!!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: GUEST,potential newbie Date: 26 Feb 00 - 07:17 PM I have been cruising a bit, like what I see, and will simply choose to ignore what doesn't appeal to me. Seems fairly simple. It does appear to me that some of you folks need to go up a size or two in your underwear. Particularly this Gargoyle fella. Joe Offer a little as well, but from what I see he is a wonderful, contributing person. Seems like one of the best community's that I have found. Could someone tell me who "The Fair One" is and how she (I assume it is a "she") got her name? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Feb 00 - 12:39 PM Geez Praise....If this is considered "nourishment" there are gonna' be a lot of starving newbies.....this place is an empty skillet. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Feb 00 - 12:26 PM refresh for the newest of newbies' nourishment |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Feb 00 - 04:18 PM After a year and a few months here, my (probably useless) advice to anyone new, would be: enjoy the good, ignore the bad, and for goodness sake LAUGH at the controversial...99% of it is wholly fabricated. For what it's worth, I try to ignore, or attempt to diffuse with humour. ('course most of the time no one gets my jokes!) Rick |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Alice Date: 03 Feb 00 - 01:58 PM For those newly arrived at the Mudcat Cafe forum (welcome) this thread and its links can give you a slice of what is good, bad, and controversial at the Mudcat.... enjoy. Alice |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: katlaughing Date: 19 Oct 99 - 08:19 PM Refresh for the newbies. Sorry the acronyms aren't on here. I thought this was the one that had them. Still lots of good stuff. Thanks, Alice for all of the good work. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Sep 99 - 12:58 PM Yeah Barb, I had the same problem.....I was looking for that thread too but just gave up......If I find it later I'll post it...was kinda funny too as I recall. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Barbara Date: 21 Sep 99 - 12:46 PM Not too long ago we had a discussion about where the name Mudcat came from. (It's a Mississippi River catfish). Max cooked up the name to represent the Mississippi Delta Blues that this site was specializing in, and then he offered the Digital Tradition a place to set up the database after (was it Xerox?) disowned them.
Then Max started the forum and the rest is history.
There's a thread out there with some links to pictures of catfish as well as the standard response "Oh, that's a catfish jumping out of the banjo. I couldn't tell what it was." |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Susan-Marie Date: 21 Sep 99 - 12:37 PM A couple of people have mentioned the decrease in music threads, and I think I know one of the reasons: a lot of what I need to know is already covered by a past thread. More often than not over the past few months, instead of starting a new music thread, I've used the forum search to find the lyrics, translation, explanation, etc. I wanted. While very efficient, it leaves me feeling like I snuck into someone's house and stole their newspaper while they were watching TV. So, the Mudcat may be a victim of its past sucess in that it's harder and harder to come up with an original music thread. What the past threads miss, of course, is any input from new people. I resurrected an old "Coinleach Glas" thread last month and got some great additional info - maybe we need to do more of that. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: katlaughing Date: 21 Sep 99 - 12:25 PM Yup, Peter, advanced and clear.....as mud!*BG* Jeri, another important one is Xenophobia, IMHO. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Peter T. Date: 21 Sep 99 - 10:37 AM Re: Buttons (bangles, beads...). Unless there has been substantive additions to the HTML language in the new version, I am reasonably sure that standard buttons for hyperlinking to another site or another page are simply GIF images stored on the localserver, and A HREF'd like everything else, but acting as a hypertext link. This is different from what are called "radio buttons" which are for interactive stuff, like when you are asked to send info or click a choice -- these are created by the FORM environment, which is used by doing the usual beginning double brackets, and the final double bracket slash around FORM, you start off with the FORM METHOD (what kind of activity you want to have happen) and inside all that tuck instructions what you would like the FORM to do (called an INPUT tag) -- one of the things that it can do is create radio buttons, checklist, reset buttons, text entry spaces (like this one here) and so on. This is all slightly more advanced HTML. The specific instructions are a bit too complicated to set out here. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: katlaughing Date: 21 Sep 99 - 04:36 AM Yea, Jeri, it was. Also seed just mentioned another good one, "Is anyone else as scared as I am"; then there is always the infamous, newly refreshed, "Hokey-Pokey & the Druids?" Have fun, kat |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Jeri Date: 21 Sep 99 - 01:01 AM Dear friend 'Spaw, I promise I won't get offended or take it personally when you want to be nice. The serious things you've written have been among my favorites. Kat, that "Mudcat Closing its Doors" thread was Max's little April Fool's prank, n'est çe pas? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Sep 99 - 11:47 PM Thanks Clamfoot...I need "HTML for Complete Assholes" but I can't find a copy. Ya' know, it's kinda' funny, anymore around here folks seem to believe that whatever I post must be a joke or a sarcastic insult...which they feel is my way of saying I like them........I'm beginning to feel like Groucho did in his later years......If I don't make a snide crack, people are more offended than when I do!!! Oh well.........I'd say I made this bed, but I never make a bed....so I guess I'll go sleep on the shelf with Cleigh. Our bed is full anyway anymore....Karen, generally 3 cats, 1 or 2 kids and the stupid weimeraner. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Jeri Date: 20 Sep 99 - 11:30 PM What a doofus! 'Spaw, everybody knows buttons are the doomaflages you click on to perform miscellaneous multidoodies. Like the frammises down under the "Reply to Thread" window thingie (where you type in what you want to post) that say "Submit Message" and "Clear Entries." I have "HTML For Dummies," and I will figure this out. I will. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: WyoWoman Date: 20 Sep 99 - 11:29 PM Exactly. And Moonchild, it was Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma, to be exact, year of our Lordy, Lordy, Lordy 1967-69. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Sep 99 - 10:58 PM So a button is what?...the puter imbecile asked again. Is that the jizzwhickie that you clisk to get the quadraplotcher linerfracases with the things or what? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Jeri Date: 20 Sep 99 - 09:12 PM Kat, the "Bite Me" one went to the Hamsterdance. I figured out part of what I did wrong, but if I try to post something like this again, I'll do so in the HTML practice thread.
In case anyone's wondering: |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Jeri Date: 20 Sep 99 - 08:36 PM Aargh - back to the drawing board... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: katlaughing Date: 20 Sep 99 - 08:35 PM So how come your Bite Me didn't take me anywhere I could sink m'teeth into? Yer welcome, Jeri. I know there are other equally important threads. I've got a bunch of them saved in my WP program. I look them over in the next day or two and let you know what some of them are. One infamous one, which I am not sure you need to add, but which is a very intersting read if the one called Mudcat Is Closing Its Doors; came about just a few weeks before 'Spaw tried to check out instead. ttfn (i love that Moonchild!), kat |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Jeri Date: 20 Sep 99 - 08:28 PM How's this:
The thing with the ordinary buttons, like "Submit Message" - I think they activate commands, and the commands have to be on the server someplace. Course, I'm just guessing. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Sep 99 - 07:48 PM My guess about the connotation, if I may be so bold as to try to extrapolate Max's intention from his creation is that "Mudcat Cafe" is intended to suggest an old blues bistro from the Mississippi Delta (notice that this is a center of "blues and folk music"--blues are your first love, Max?) Another connotation: mud refers to down home country, a "cat" is of course "hep' (now "hip"), which means possessed of not merely musical (and music society) knowledge but also of musical "soul," without which musicians are mere academicians, capable perhaps of technical achievement but incapable of expressing passion through music. And Jeri, how about these categories of threads: politics, who/what/why/when/where is a Mudcatter?, help us write a story, instrument information, pubs/jams/open mikes/concerts, tributes ("Doc Watson--an appreciation" etc. and obituaries). --seed |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: unclenort Date: 20 Sep 99 - 07:10 PM mudcat=catfish, an ugly bottom dwelling fresh water fish with wiskers that'll eat just about anything it can suck up out of the mud.(check out the fish jumpin' out of the 'jo at the top of this page.) not sure what it has to do with folk music though. and EJ if i find you in my field just one more time................ *BG* unclenort |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Sep 99 - 06:39 PM Not good enough, Jeri. You just copied Max's handywork. even I can do that... But I think in all that mess of HTML is a simple way to make a customized button. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that button is HTML, not an image. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Jeri Date: 20 Sep 99 - 06:19 PM If it works, this is a button, if not, oops:
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Lonesome EJ Date: 20 Sep 99 - 05:04 PM Hey Wyo... if you've got a flashlight, a garbage bag, and enough nerve, I could point out this field just outside of town... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Marion Date: 20 Sep 99 - 05:03 PM What I want to know is: what's a mudcat? And what is this animal's (or whatever it is) connection to folk and blues music? Marion |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: katlaughing Date: 20 Sep 99 - 05:02 PM Neil, I've never read anything of yours that I would consider a bandwidth waster and besides that, MAX SAID HE LIKES THE BS! Jeri, veddy, veddy nice. I would include the Music Therapy, and Vietnam songs threads, too. Uh, i hate to bring it up, but I didn't see anything about our beloved Cleigh under Mudcat FolkLore. Another thing it might be handy to add is a guide to FUA, that is Frequently Used Acronyms. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: bbelle Date: 20 Sep 99 - 04:47 PM WyoWoman ... where were you that you paid $20 for a lid? On the east coast, we were paying $10. moonchild |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat jargon and 'inside' jokes From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Sep 99 - 02:45 PM Peter, I'm guessing that Max makes his buttons with a few clever HTML commands - I don't think images are involved. But that is one facet of his wizardry I haven't figure out yet. Actually, I think I did figure it out onnce, but then I forgot how to do it. I'll betcha Jeri knows. She never forgets any of those HTML tricks. She puts me to shame. -Joe Offer- |
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