BS: To all the Mudcat Clan

Subject: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 01:44 PM

From our house to yours: tis, at least almost, the season.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: bobad
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 02:50 PM

Hey froggie, following your link I get a message saying "ADULT CONTENT - you must be signed in to see this content". You're not trying to gross us out, are you? :)

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: maeve
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 03:01 PM

That's always the message for the links to Dean's beautiful cards. Reckon we have to sign in.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 04:03 PM

I did have a website, so I could "deliver" cards thru there; Yahoo destroyed it for me. I was not happy about that.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 04:32 PM

I got it. Right back atchya, froggy.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Janie
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 04:35 PM

I'm sure it was a lovely card - I got the same Adult Content message.

Happy Holidays to you, Dean.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 05:21 PM

With only one frost on the pumpkin its almost the season due to 2 degree global temp rise.

tis, at least almost, the season

no more sign in.

Wasn't Yahoo an internet company last century?

happy holidays Dean

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 06:41 PM

I didn't sign in. The Adult Content screen came up. So I looked at the Flickr layout, saw "next photo" arrows, and clicked forward, and voila! The Adult content screen went away, and there were the crocuses.
So There.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 06:51 PM

I followed the Back to photostream link & saw the young crocuses a lot of great pics, including some pics of backyard bonfires, & other flowers.

Thanks for the link

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: michaelr
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 06:53 PM

Perhaps you could tell "all the Mudcat clan" what this post is about?

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 09:54 PM

Mudcat Clan. Perhaps we need our own plaid.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Dec 16 - 10:06 PM

It's a very nice (but hardly adults-only) greeting card. Clicking is completely safe...and it's not the crocuses.
Happy Christmas, Dean.
Is that a Rambler Metropolitan in the last picture?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 07:53 AM

The new link is 404...

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 10:12 AM

This just in, Keith Richards wants a Noble Prize of his own for Chemistry.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 12:34 PM

Joe Offer says it's not the crocuses...what did I miss?

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: bobad
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 01:40 PM

You need to sign in with a Yahoo account in order to see Dean's card.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 01:49 PM

Why not have our own plaid? I hear Caitriona Balfe has her own tartan.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: leeneia
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 02:43 PM

Thanks, frogprince.

Even though it's officially Advent, we sang "Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming" today. The excuse was that the song mentions Isaiah, and Isaiah was in the readings.

I hope the roses are blooming (at least figuratively) for you and yours.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 03:12 PM

So it's more like,
To all the Yahoo Mudcatters?
or,
To all the Mudcat Café Yahoos?

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 03:42 PM

Yep, Joe; I acquired the ('61) Metropolitan three weeks or so ago; have been running around town with it a little, expecting winter to close in any time now; no way am I taking it out in the sludge and salt.

The link business is goofy; if I bring up my own Flickr photo stream, the card is just there as the newest item, next to things that people are viewing with no problem; the card is posted as open to the public.

The sicko part is anyone getting something about "youngporn" from the link. I may be switching to another photo site.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 03:42 PM

'Our own clan' could be McMudcat. I vote for a multi-coloured tartan representing all the different nationalities on here. Joe, Max and the other moderators could be joint Clan Chiefs. Och aye the noo!

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 05:39 PM

I'll put it on my Website so you won't have to fool with the Flickr garbage. The Metropolitan is terrific. You gotta see it.

Click to display (joeweb)

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 05:57 PM

Much obliged, Joe!

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: EBarnacle
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 06:36 PM

A metropolitan was almost my first car but my uncle decided that a car whose tranny was so far gone that they had to mash bananas into it was not right for a new driver. Similar color scheme.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 01:19 AM

Used to be manufactured and sold as Austin Metropolitans in UK. Haven't seen any for a while but there are still a few about.

http://metropolitanownersclub.co.uk/about-us.php

Saw an immaculate Austin A40 today, similar vintage, predecessor to the Mini.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Austin_A40_MkII_front.jpg/280px-Austin_A40_MkII_front.jpg

Fleetwood's annual Tram Sunday event brings hundreds of vintage vehicles such as these into the town's Lord Street for a huge free transport festival.

https://www.visitfleetwood.info/recreation-and-entertainment/tram-sunday/index.php

Ross

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 03:31 AM

67 Metropolitans left in the UK, of which 17 are stored off the road.

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 06:40 AM

I did hear a story about Metropolitans being exported and to get round some regulation about complete cars and car parts being taxed differently they were fitted with wooden wheels and sold as "parts".

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 12:01 PM

so THAT's what all the fuss was about. Thank you Joe Offer.

I can confirm, to non-clicking lurkers, that when I went to frogprince's initial blue clicky link in the initial post, I was unable to get to this image in any way. Joe Offer's link is the first I've seen of it. Alles klar Michael r?

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 12:01 AM

For a long time, I assumed the Metropolitan was made in the United States, likely in the American Motors plant in Kenosha, not far from my home in Racine, Wisconsin. Somehow I found out that it was built in the U.S. There weren't too many cars with American labels that were built outside North America.
This one had the rounded-box look of an American Motors car, so I had assumed it was built in Kenosha.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: To all the Mudcat Clan
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 03:25 AM

It was made by Austin (later BMC then British Leyland) at Longbridge in the UK, with body made by Fisher and Ludlow, and marketed in the US as a Nash, then Hudson, and then just as a Metropolitan. Sales were less than overwhelming, though, whatever the name.