BS: This is Mudcat!

Subject: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Bert
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:02 PM

A thread about feeding your dog gets twice as many posts a thread to help young callers.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:16 PM

Young square dance callers in the UK? LOL!

The best thing to do for them is to find them another hobby. :)

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:18 PM

100 more posts also for an imaginary monkey!

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:18 PM

Like, Mormon missionaries? They call here periodically.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Bert
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:29 PM

What is so funny about square dance callers Jack? There ar at least two organizations who do square dancing in England.

The British Association of American Square Dance Clubs and the EFDSS. Both are very active.

http://www.uksquaredancing.com/page5.htm

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,Musket sans cookie
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 04:29 PM

If imaginary friends were into square dancing...

I suppose here a caller has more variety than square dancing. Stripping the widow for instance.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 04:32 PM

Perhaps it is simply that many of us have pets? Statistically speaking, not many of us aspire to be callers. Or Mormon missionaries. There is no explanation for monkeys.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 04:35 PM

Nobody mention Charles Darwin FFS. Or we'll have an argument on our hands.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 04:50 PM

Missionaries, monkeys, pets, strippers and callers. And now John reminds us we could list them in Darwinian evolutionary order.
I'm leaving.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 06:59 PM

Young people seldom actually call. They usually text.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 07:49 PM

Square dancer texters

funny thought!

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Amos
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 08:12 PM

COme on. You know perfectly well that Darwin was a Nazi, and pets are Stalinitas.


A

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 08:31 PM

I would post to a thread about young callers. Why, I can call damn near anything and I don't use any fancy callin stuff... not even yer birch bark... too high tech fer me. I can call a moose in wit me bare hands fer miles on a frosty morn! and wit NO hands if he's close. And, buddy, I can call in yer cock AND hen Bonasa Umbellus fer two hundred yards with the heel a my boot on good ground... no shit, sir. I can call in yer snowshoe hare and whistle his ass still so's you can whoop his ass with a bull whip made outta a alder. I could teach any young caller how to snag any damn mule in the backwoods a tha fly infested bog country a yer Kent County, New Brunswick on accounta I am a Bog Man.

Soooo, what's yer point?

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 08:59 PM

Oh, yeah. Ye was talkin bout dogs. I can call in dogs with wounded calls but I don't hunt dogs. Only time I call em is ta let em know I am in country and ta stay outta my space. When they start up at dusk, I give em shit wit a man call an let em know tha Bog Man is in the howl. They clear offin my marks and they KNOW my marks... King Cole Orange Pekoe... they can sniff it a long ways off. But, ya gotta know how to piss just right on the pines and I am talkin low pines fer wind spreadin scent fer yer dogs n such and big pines too on accounta ya gotta let yer Ursus Americanus* know who's tha boss too.

* Not to be confused with yer Ursus Canuckus. That sumbitch will hipcheck yer ass on yer ass if ya don't keep yer head up comin out eh? Rink rules, right? His rink, his rules, eh? Know what ahm sayin, eh? Ya gonna skate on his ice, watch YER ass!

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 09:17 PM

Much as I cringe at some of the stuff that gets posted in the BS section, that BS section may well be part of the genius of Mudcat. People hang out for the BS chit-chat, and then they're around to see when interesting music threads come up. It gives a much broader base than we'd have otherwise.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Amos
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 10:34 PM

I concur with the upright stalwart and man of Honor, Offer.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 03:03 AM

People hang out for the BS chit-chat, and then they're around to see when interesting music threads come up. It gives a much broader base than we'd have otherwise.

The question is - are they coming in faster through that backdoor than others are leaving through the front! ;>)>

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 04:34 AM

Some people find it uncomfortable, to lie on a bed they shat in.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 05:05 AM

I think the more apt analogy for the BS section might be basement apartment in an outhouse.

Take the B from BS, what are you left with?

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Musket
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 05:12 AM

S for....








Sailor?

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 05:48 AM

John... not yer porkies. Part of their defence. They like lotsa shit on their quills. Even one quill can kill with infection. Not even yer just-finished-hibernatin Ursus Canuckus will fuck wit yer porky. Minds me, that there ol wives' tale bout a fox bein sly enough to burrow under the snow an come up an attack a porky on the belly to get by the quills? Now, that is some serious bullshit. I got sent home from Cub Scouts fer sayin so. When I tol my ol man what happened, he was pissed off! Now I'm growed up, I figger it was mostly on accounta when I was at Cub Scouts was when he n my ol lady had "quality time" with each other. Wasn't called quality time back then a course. Anyway, I had to apologize to the Den Mother of the pack fer swearin and promise never to use foul language again.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 06:17 AM

Growed up!! When did that happen g ?

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 06:19 AM

John... not for a long while yet, I hope.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 06:47 AM

Martin Ryan, damn good question

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 07:01 AM

Sin

a : an offense against religious or moral law.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 07:03 AM

Oops wrong thread.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Musket
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 07:11 AM

Oops wrong word.

Try offence....

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:04 AM

This English spelling kick you are on is getting very old.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:20 AM

My morning chuckles! Thanks y'all. I'm with Joe and Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: olddude
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 11:05 AM

Why did the biology teacher split up with the physics teacher?

Because there was no chemistry.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Musket
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 11:09 AM

Funnily enough, your American spelling kick isn't very old at all.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 01:09 PM

we no longer carry muskets here in the states it is more like a
.458 SOCOM or .338 Lupua

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Musket
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 01:11 PM

You rarely carry the letter U for that matter.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 01:20 PM

True, we do drop useless letters. Too bad we can't seem to do that to politicians. Why do Brits put a F in Lieutenant?

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 02:15 PM

F in Lieutenant? Shit - that's NOTHING!

Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw.

Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley.

As you say - go figure... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 08:20 AM

Ah, Martin, you and I have to learn to resist the temptation to even look at the BS section, if we find it frustrating. I find I'm happiest at Mudcat if I keep myself busy on music projects, and Mudcat is still a wonderful tool for doing music research - as long as we don't allow ourselves to get distracted and disturbed by the BS.
Sometimes I give in to temptation and stray into the BS area. If I stay too long, I get burned.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 08:32 AM

Wow. I have been away so long. Drop into a likely looking thread and immediately guffawing until my side hurts. Why do I not visit more often?

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 08:42 AM

Joe

It's really a question of what we (all) think the site/community is. At the moment it's effectively two slightly overlapping communities of which one (the mainly musical) is gradually fading, as far as I can see. The other (the mainly non-musical) is thriving - if that's the word I'm looking for. There has to come a point at which we acknowledge this and rebalance what we claim to be.

I also get the impression that a number of the mainly-musical members/guests are dividing their personae between the two?

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 10:00 AM

"The other (the mainly non-musical) is thriving"

Thriving? It is a shadow of what it was a few years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Will Fly
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 10:19 AM

How can you say the mainly music threads are fading? There are far more of them running currently than in the BS, and they're on fairly pertinent topics: tuners, song lyrics, learning systems, folklore, festivals, and the usual mix of lyrics required, etc.

The BS section of Mudcat seems to be stagnant, IMO - copycat threads generating never-ending arguments and insults between the same few folks.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 10:22 AM

And people making generalities that ignore fine threads like this one. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: GUEST,inconsistent guest name
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 12:43 PM

For the most part I've used the BS lately as a mental game, like word scrambles or sudoku. I try to tell by the thread titles which ones certain contributors will post to in the first ten entries. I've gotten too good at it, it's not even that much fun any more. But I do value the musical side, where I have a consistent if infrequent persona.

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 04:32 PM

Anyway, Bert. You were saying...

Subject: RE: BS: This is Mudcat!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 04:36 PM

THIS IS MUDCAT!!

A thread about what is wrong about Mudcat getting more posts than what to feed your dogs.