M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?

Subject: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:20 PM

Heard a phone-in on NPR the other day. People from all over were calling in with their suggestions for what to put in a time capsule of our times, from the 1950's on. Some were pretty good; others were just plain stupid. But it got me to thinking what a bunch of phoakies would want to put in one, esp. Mudders.

So, besides the usual, the entire database on CD-ROM and a CD or tape of any who have them, I would like to also include a replica of Cleigh O'Possum and Waylon Heron. How about you?

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:22 PM

I would like to put all George Bushs political officeholding children, especialy if the time capsule was to be opened in the next millenium. And so as not to be unkind to George Jr. some nose powder. Larry

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:32 PM

LMAO, Larry! Good one! BUT, I had meant it to be a Mudcat Time Capsule. Ah well, that's the way the thread drifts; makes me laugh!

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:34 PM

George Bushs kids, with harmonicas

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Áine
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:37 PM

I'm with you, Larry -- but where exactly would you put the harmonicas?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:47 PM

George would say, anywhere is fine, but, where did you say you put the nose powder, not that I ever used it, but, just want to make sure I know where it is... Enough to last a health middle age American for say, a millenium, not that I have any interst in the crack (as opposed to the crac) (and the door slowly closes to be opened, when?)

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:51 PM

But serriously folks, Rankin Family CDs - and every thing Ewan MacColl, some Liam Oflynn, and Paddy Keenan, The Gartin Mothers Lullaby and something nice to enjoy it all with, that I can no longer have, a bit of port wine maybe?

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Pixie
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:59 PM

Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris....leads to the question: If you were stranded on a desert island (please suspend reality for a mo') and could only have the collected works of 3 artists (of the musician persuasion), who would you choose?.....same quandry for me as what goes in the time capsule. By the time I decide, it's gone!

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: alison
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 08:19 PM

A spud, a condom, a small tupperware container of guinness jello,(+ a video of jello wrestling night at the tavern).......

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: gint
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 08:24 PM

Please explain Guinness jello and can you be arrested for it

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Willie-O
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 08:31 PM

more thread creep...several years ago the local CBC station switched from an AM to an FM frequency. Before they officially started broadcasting on the new 91.5 wavelength, they had to field-test and fine-tune the signal, for about a week. At least that's why I presume that one Nanci Griffith recording was on non-stop rotation at 91.5 FM, 24 hours a day, for about six days. (They could have done a lot worse.) I gotta admit i listened to it quite a lot...but enough was enough!

Or I don't know, maybe it was a short-lived all-music Adult Contemporary station with an unusually narrow format...

So anyway, there's now a band of radio waves surrounding our solar system, about eight light years out, which when decoded consist of Nanci G. singing about riding in a car with a guy named Seamus...over 'n'over

I'm not sure if this in an argument for including her music in a time capsule, or for leaving it out. The alien explorers may be expecting to hear more of her. Perhaps it would be best to include any recording except that one.

There are strange things done...

Bill

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: alison
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 08:40 PM

Gint,

you probably could get arrested for it... here's where it all started Mudcat Tavern #3

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 09:02 PM

alison...you DO have an...ummm..'interesting' notion of what you want future generations to find..*big grin*.....

I think I'd stuff in tapes & CD's of music...several versions of some of the same songs, in both 'trad' and 'modern' arrangements, so they could have some idea of what the debates about 'folk' were about!.....and maybe a small replica of a gargoyle...*wink*

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 09:06 PM

What about those hamsters and your old 'pewter", Bill??

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Vixen
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 09:18 PM

Ahem.

In that ancient future land
Where the dieties have sat
Let our descendants understand
This bright and shining cyberspace
That holds some tunes of the human race
And is known as Cafe Mudcat.

I suggest a CD of the Digitrad as of 31 December 1999 and a complete backup of all threads from inception to said date, AND a computer that will read them both.

If you want to guarantee they're understood, however, print a hardcopy of all of it, because text only requires a pair of eyes and a deciphering mind to understand. English will probably change as much as it has since Beowulf (1000 a.d.) but it will be translatable.

V

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 10:06 PM

kat...sorry, but both the hamsters and the old PC are working right now...*sigh*...WIN98..or some piece of the hardware decided to refuse to boot last week....I think now I'd better get those hamsters YsK compliant...they may need to play backup for awhile!

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Lotusland
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 10:13 PM

I would put in all the guitar strings I've broken trying to play like Martin Carthy, Nic Jones and those other incredible brit-thunkers.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 01:27 AM

That F@#$ing thong................and Koko.

Big Mick

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Vixen
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 08:35 AM

Dear Mick,

You shouldn't post after midnight...your spelling gets *terrible*...and you're too vague to be understood!

every schoolchild knows it's "f@*#ing"!

Also, WHICH "thong" do you want to put in? I think the DT has about a bajillion in the bawdy category that address in various ways the activity presently known as "f@*#ing"!

Finally, if it's the "potato thong" you're thinking of, you should probably get Cheryl Wheeler's permission to put it in the time capsule.

V (who never goes to the tavern, and doesn't really know anything about it at all!)

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 05:13 PM

I think probably something by Kate Rusby, Martin Carthy and those notebooks that they have just discovered again at Cecil Sharp house, the ones that are all about sword dancing.....

LTS

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 05:42 PM

BillD: Curses on Windows 98! Maybe you should have gotten the Texas version, instead:

Notice from Microsoft:

It has come to our attention that a few copies of the Texas Edition of Windows 98 may have accidentally been shipped outside of Texas.

If you have one of the Texas Editions you may need some help understanding the commands.

The Texas Edition may be recognized by looking at the opening screen.

It reads WINDERS98 with a background picture of the Alamo superimposed on the Texas flag. It is shipped with a Leann Rimes screen saver.

Also note the Recycle Bin is labeled Outhouse.
My Computer is called This Infernal Contraption.
Dialup Networking is called Good Ol Boys.
Control Panel is known as the Dashboard.
Hard Drive is referred to as Wheel Drive.
Floppies are Them Little Ol' Plastic Disc Thangs.

Other features:
Instead of an Error Message you get a Winder covered with a garbage bag and duct tape.

Terminology:
OK = ats aww-right.
Cancel = hail no.
Reset = aw shoot.
Yes = shore.
No = Naaaa.
Find = hunt-fer it.
Go to = over yonder.
Back = back yonder.
Help = hep me out here.
Stop = ternit off.
Start = crank it up.
Settings =sittins.
Programs = stuff that does stuff.
Documents = stuff I done done.

Also note that Winders 98 does not recognize capital letters or punctuation marks. We regret any inconvenience it may have caused if you received a copy of the Texas Edition. You may return it to Microsoft for a replacement version.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 05:43 PM

How about including a recording of everyone's first time playing and/or singing in front of more than three people? Also include a certificate of verification that at the time the recording was sealed in the capsule, all of the people on the recording were still alive. Then the generations to come will know beyond a doubt that stage fright is survivable.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: tina
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 06:25 PM

I'd put in something to pay tribute to Joe Offer for all his help on gathering information to answer so many people's questions...a founding father of this site and I miss his input.

tina

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 08:12 PM

Joe has been traveling, and seems to be back and doing more stuff...and what a fine idea, tina

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Bert
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:34 AM

I would put in The Harry Fox Agency and The National Music Publisher's Association. Keep them off our backs for 100 years, and when they open the capsule all of their copyrights will have expired.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: MMario
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:28 AM

actually, no, some of the copyrights probably wouldn't have expired....terms are now for 75 years AFTER the author's death......so figure a 24 year old writes a song, lives to be 89=65 years PLUS 75 = 140 years.....

and if medical attention continues to lengthen the average age span, we could see copyrights lasting almost two centuries w/o much difficulty....

*gag*

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:42 AM

How can I get Winders 98? I would put "RIOF" by Dougie MacLean in there, America's Greatest Hits, ELO's "Afterglow" and tape I put together called by my family "THE tape." I agree with Liz. Put some Kate Rusby in there, so future generations can love her too.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Vixen
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 11:01 AM

Did ELO do Afterglow? I thought it was Genesis...

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: MK
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 12:11 AM

I'd insist on 'Sam The Sham and The Pharoah's ' ''Wooly Bully''. When capsule opens, this is the first thing the recipient should hear. 8^)

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: thosp
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 12:19 AM

i'm sleepy --can i climb in it and go to sleep?

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 12:28 AM

My choice for the time capsule would have to be a tape of a live set at the Ferrago Coffee house in 1966 by Steve Brainard. This set has to be the best I've ever heard. Too bad it was never made into a record or cassette.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Mbo
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 08:26 AM

Vixen, "Afterglow" is The Electric Light Orchestra's greatest hits boxed set. 4 cds. I drool over that sort of thing. Although I have all their albums, save four, I'd still spen the forty bucks so I could get those rare b-sides! Future generations should have this great collection (though for discerning megafans like me, their is a good deal of editing down on some of the longer songs--travesty!)

--Mbo

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Bert
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 10:02 AM

This special blue clicky thing

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: thosp
Date: 11 Dec 99 - 12:26 AM

to give the future an accurate picture of our times ---it MUSTinclude lots of WWF/WCW videos

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: bbelle
Date: 11 Dec 99 - 09:11 PM

Memories ... moonchild

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 11:44 AM

chocolate.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 11:58 AM

The last 5 days Threads....

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:20 PM

The lyrics to No Mans Land-Eric Bogle.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:24 PM

Well said mate

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:37 PM

"To mans blind indifference to his fellow man"

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:59 PM

My home made recording circa 1947 of NaNa Sullivan singing "Only Me".

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 12:02 PM

Spaws donut theory with a running commentary by Little Hawk. Peace - Steve

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: DougR
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 03:41 PM

Kendall's picture. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 03:44 PM

Max's brain.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 04:30 PM

I think the threads coming after and about the attacks make fine reading but also show us the best and worst of ourselves and represent a microcosm of the world feelings in general..........So yeah, I'd give them a toss into the time capsule.

Spaw

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 07:02 PM

Wow, I'd forgotten about this thread. Now, I woudl definitely include a dulcimer with some kind of pictured instructions on how best to play it.

I agree on the historical document which we have creatd here this week.

kat

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 07:19 PM

There's been so many threads in the aftermath of Tuesday, it'd be helpful if someone gathered links to them in one place so they can be accessed. As spaw said, best and worst. But more best.

Subject: RE: M'cat Time Capsule-What Would U put in?
From: Amos
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 12:10 AM

A timecapsule from the Mudcat has GOT to include the Steamboat composition, the Enterprise tale, the Soda Shoppe fictyion thread, the incredible Buddhist/Hindu/mountain climbing Good Vs Evil thread, a few choice Taverns, Why We Sing, Vietname, and perhaps a dozen other definitive threads plus the entirelt of the Mudcat song book.