BS: Thanks Max

Subject: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 12:55 PM

...for making it happen :-) Good to see a firm hand at the wheel!

Subject: BS: Must be a member to post in non-music...
From: Ed.
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 12:55 PM

Fair enough.

But a pretty heavy handed way to announce it...

Subject: RE: BS: Must be a member to post in non-music...
From: Ed.
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 12:57 PM

Don't you hate it when you post something seconds too late?

Hi Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Raggytash
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:02 PM

Or at the tiller.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:07 PM

Yippee ki-yay !!!!

in my time various folk have called me a dick, a prick, a cock, a knob....

.. so go on.. why not... now call me a member.... 😜

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:14 PM

For making what happen??

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:16 PM

I'm always wary of saying a firm hand on the tiller. I remember the Tiller Girls at the London Palladium.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:16 PM

Yeah, what are you lot on upon?!

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:17 PM

BWM.. log out then try to post as a guest in BS..

all will be frighteningly revealed...

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:21 PM

Wowzers!

See Musket, Steve, Jim, Greg and all the other doubters - there IS a God! 👍😜😄

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:23 PM

GUEST,Guest from Sanity

Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, we're free of it at last.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:25 PM

Nice one! What precisely is the new rule?

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:26 PM

I also remember Pan's People. There was one in particular. Lovely Babs. Can't remember her name...

(Ronnie Barker as 'Fletch')

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:34 PM

DTG. Babs Lord. She married the actor Robert Powell.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:34 PM

Well, Max, and many, many, others, said "please" for years and got pissed on. I think I am gonna like the upgrade.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:37 PM

I have a message from Shane McBride about this, which he has asked me to pass on to the collective membership.

He says: "Youse can all just FLIP OFF, eh?"

Thank you for giving this your kind attention.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:37 PM

See Musket, Steve, Jim, Greg and all the other doubters - there IS a God!

About the best argument I've seen, Backwoodsman. I'm ALMOST convinced.

;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:40 PM

Little Hawk, you're going to be very busy channeling that stable of characters. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:41 PM

LOL Greg! 😄😄

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:43 PM

The guest thing is a bonus. My more immediate wish was fulfilled as well ;-) (You have to have been there!)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 01:55 PM

DtG - If that's the wish I think it is.....

I've given up all hope on that wish since the mrs and me have put on so much weight
our king size bed can barely accommodate just the two of us.... 😬

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:04 PM

Next wish - A like button :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:07 PM

I tried to get a comment from Chongo too, Acme...but he says he's too busy with other stuff today. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:10 PM

Just spoke to Penelope Rutledge too. She said: "Oh, good. Another minor annoyance I'll not have to deal with any longer."

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:20 PM

YESSSSSSSS

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: DMcG
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:33 PM

I agree. The only drawback is that all the guilty parties in rows from now on are us!

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:37 PM

However, I'm going to miss "pound sign." Posts from that guest were worth paying attention too. Bye Bye, Pound-Sign.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:38 PM

It has always been thus cousin McGnome. We now have the elimination of anonymous drive by shootings :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:46 PM

I'd like an "Edit Button"..
even if it's only available for say 5 mins after posting.
Just to catch those daft errors of typing, and copy and pasting....

Obviously not the kind of "Edit Button" that is always available
and allows the bad guys to rewrite contentious posts days after the event...

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 02:46 PM

Pound sign? Is that £ or # ?

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:11 PM

Steve, this was the title of Ed's post, second one in, " BS: Must be a member to post in non-music...", in case you haven't seen it yer.

I don't think we've seen the last of Guest #, aka pound sign.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:13 PM

It's the hash key - # (or the tic-tac-toe symbol when I'm feeling American, and the noughts-&-crosses symbol when I'm feeling European).

Agree about the edit capability, even on a limited timespan, tho I'd like 12 to 24 hours to let my priceless pearls of wisdom get cold, the better to re-read properly.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:14 PM

#

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:15 PM

Rats, cross-posted. And I cannot BELIEVE I thought of tic-tac-toe before the sharp symbol. Wonder what that tells me...

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:16 PM

It is NOT a hash-tag or a tic-tac-toe... it WAS, IS and always WILL be a pound sign. Take those others and go # sand. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:19 PM

££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

:-p

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:53 PM

It is now, has been, and ever shall be U+0023, or number sign. Should you doubt this complain to ASCII and/or Unicode.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:57 PM

I know what this is REALLY about...it's a transparent ploy by Max to get me to come back from Facebook (where I mostly am hanging out in the last few years) and post all the time again on Mudcat on behalf of my stable of fictional characters. It's not gonna work, Max. :D Yes, admittedly, it has gotten me back for a few posts today....but how long can that effect last? I hear Facebook calling! Oh, sure, I'll still drop in now and then to talk to my buddies on the MOABS thread (whom I also talk to on Facebook anyway), but that's just because I don't want them to feel totally bereft and abandoned, as they might, were I not to show up here now and then.

As for Shane, well, I think I'll help the boy get his own Facebook page going. He needs an outlet in life, and that could be a good one. He has yet to realize his ambition of becoming a world famous rock star and meeting people like Courtney Love, Ozzie Osbourne, and Kim Kardashian, and I think Facebook could serve as a springboard to that, while Mudcat is merely a long, slow slide downhill into the dusty retirement cubicles of the NYCFTTS...(the Neil Young Center For The Terminally Screwed)...as Spaw put it, back in those golden days long past.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 03:57 PM

Well, at least it isn't a Euro...

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:25 PM

In the US, "#" is most commonly used to mean "number". Its use meaning "avoirdupois pound" is much less common. Yet it's called the "pound sign" (not the "number sign") by all US automated answering systems. That's why it takes old farts like me a second or so to realize what some computer is talking about when it tells me to, "Press the pound sign." I have to mentally translate it to "number sign".

And don't even get me started on "*". It's an asterisk, not a "star".

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:28 PM

I don't see any mention of Shane here.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:40 PM

amazing... !!!

it can't just be coincidence...????

since logging back in for the first time in ages I have noticed a tiny white hair on my bald spot
and my penis seems at least 0.5mm longer....

it's a miracle...!!!!!!!!! 😮

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:44 PM

That's weird. I just noticed a tiny while hair on my penis and my bald spot seems 0.5mm longer:-D

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:50 PM

gnu - No, they don't mention Shane, do they? Gosh, I wonder why? Heh! Heh! It might be because of the 30 or so stolen snowmobiles he has put in the bottom of the lake. It might be due to his public drunkenness and his many mindless acts of property destruction. It might be because he has embarrassed the community in countless ways, and failed to make any positive contribution. It might be his personal hygiene problem. It might be many things like that.

But what a great website, eh? Doesn't it make you long to go to Blind River ASAP? And if you do...you might be lucky enough to meet Shane outside the Tim Horton's or the Iron Horse, and he'll try to bum a smoke off you.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:51 PM

More likely find him dumpster-diving out back.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 04:59 PM

Punkfolkrocker put his glasses on to log in and now the world's gone all weird...

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 05:07 PM

All I do is say bye bye pound sign and the thread goes bananas. Only on Mudcat Café.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: akenaton
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 05:24 PM

I've just got home, could someone please inform me of the new rules concerning guests and any other business.....Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 05:36 PM

Looks like guests can no longer post below stairs, but they're OK to post upstairs.
Dunno about anything else.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks Max
From: Max
Date: 26 Mar 16 - 05:41 PM

Don't for a second interpret this as a lone indictment of guest posting. Those members complaining turn my stomach as much, if not more, than the guests.

The sense of entitlement to a free Web site, the vitriol, blatant disrespect and levels of contempt in the criticism and complaint --without actually ever just leaving mind you, is classless.

Any time I am forced to go below the line and peak momentarily into this BS section, I am appalled at humanity at large. These conversations make you look like terrible people.

Little Hawk, I already too strained and tainted by all this feckery to bother to interpret your tone, but in short: Yes. Please go to Facebook. Facebook accepts and then owns all the content you post on it. And what seems as unstoppable as our household refuse, you can dump all this bullshit on Facebook.

Mudcat is a free traditional music archive and we keep all the data free and public, at my expense. Unlike Facebook, we stake no claim of ownership and make sure it shows up in Google searches so that it can be found again and again for free.

All I care about is the traditional music information and the flesh and blood friends that I have and continue to meet because of this site. I don't care what you all think your rights are or what you think is fair on my Web site. I don't care which side of what argument you are on. I don't care who called who what.

The moderators and I are not paid a wage for what we do here. In fact we spend our own money to host and deliver the songs, the lyrics, the stories, the jokes and all of your bullshit. And you all take that for granted and treat us like shit and use endless amounts of time on complete bullshit. We're tired of it.

In summary, get your shit together, read and contribute to a music thread once in a while, remind yourself this is a free web site that you can stop going to any time you want, treat your moderators better, or get the fuck out.