BS: Mudcat Horoscope

Subject: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 06:04 PM

I don't know the hour of the Mudcat's Conception (Max? You were there, I believe...?) but I think this horoscope, written by a local columnist named John Raidsnider, strikes several chords for the Mudcat.

Virgo

Stand ready to radically alter your routine.
The safe and tedious way makes life a boring scene. The needs of the body can be met by the nourishment of the soul. For what do you labor? Have you been a willing servant or dutiful slave? DIscern the frutifulness of the love and help you gave.
Now, determine the work that will let your greatest joy show. Let soem of your protective instincts go. You've been folded in but now is the time to fold out. Surpass the call to duty with a vibrant song of creativity.

Release from one relationship renews all others with a fresh start.
Healing friendships bestow a cleansing of the heart. Your need to be needed is changing into an urge to expand.

The wisest assistance is the kind that leaves others free.
Your thoughtful presence heals humanity.

The scanning is in need of repair, but the character is that of the 'Cat.

Onward and upward!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 06:25 PM

I used to believe astrology was utter nonsense until I read mine for yesterday:

"You are destined to feel like complete shit all day today and for several more days and be totally disgusted with anything and everything. You will hack up a lung rendered unusable since it is getting no air through your nose. You will be unable to talk in anything past a croak and unable to speak more than three words without coughing. Your sleep will be fitful at best and the one thing you have to look forward to is a stinking yacht race which will be cancelled due to lack of wind, proving to all that you are an incredible dumbass for loving the only sport that is ever cancelled due to good weather. Tomorrow ain't lookin' too good either pal."

I felt this one was reasonably accurate.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 06:30 PM

Hope you feel better real soon Catspaw.
And remember not to cough too much around the computer because one of your lung rendering unusables may do some major damage on the keyboard rendering it unusable.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 06:32 PM

Yes...but what did it say for Sagittarius?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 06:49 PM

'SPaw

I weep sympathetically in your general direction. If you would just get better we would both feel better and could go back to being sardonic, curmudgeonly, sarcastic and socratic. Now you would agree that sounds logical, wouldn't you, 'Catspaw.

This brings on an idea for a really great book -- the Dialogues of Mudcat -- in which a benevolent, bright eyed old philosophical teacher hauls yonkers through inquiries in logical discourse about such things as cat farts and possum holes.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 07:49 PM

Spaw,

Sounds like you are definitely in the feeling-better-well-enough-to-complain phase, take your drugs and rest well!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Troll
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:00 PM

Meebo,me boy, it doesn'y need to say anything about Sagittarius. It's all been said. Saggies are brilliant, handsome, destined to suceed, talented and lucky in love. At least thats what MY horoscope said and as near as I can tell, it's right on the money. I'd say more,but modesty forbids it.

troll (who, as hard as it is, grows more humble each day)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:09 PM

So I've been told about being brilliant and talented--but I don't know about the handsome and lucky in love part! But we do have a pretty cool constellation--lots of open & globular clusters!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Troll
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:33 PM

Beauty is in the mind of the beholder,me son, and for the rest, it's mind over matter. If ya don't mind, it don't matter. If ya do mind, it still don't matter.

Look around you. There is someone just waiting for you to notice them. You just have to open your eyes and look outward,. As long as you look inward, you will see only what has been.We've all been there and it's hard but you'll survive. Like it or not.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 02:26 AM

Mbo and Troll- spoken like true Saggies. (Takes another one to know others!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: TerriM
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:55 AM

Apparently Aquarians are intended to spend Sunday hooked helplessly into a database, digging through old collections of lyrics to look for some obscure parody, type into said database and drink unfeasibly large quantities of coffee......Hey, works for me! Terri

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 04:55 PM

Catspaw:

Wow....that horoscope is like, so, like spooooky man. I mean here it is, written by someone who doesn't like even know you and he's like saying everything about you and he's like, totally right! Y'know??!! That 8is like so weirrrd, man.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: GUEST,Ditzee Lee
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 05:46 PM

Well, ya know Amos, like, if ya look back in some of the Tavern threads, you'll see that Spaw and katlauging hang out with like these really cool faeries in the garden out back, like ya know? Where the cat boxes are (he's always kicking up litter) and so, ya know, like they send out all of these vibes, ya know, really! I've seeen them like coming outta their heads, ya know, real pretty colurs,too, ya know an'..and like they go out into the, umm, like the aethers, the vibes, I mean, ya know, man, and like they are just out there, like um...just floating around, like, ah..like ah, a lost radio wave, yeah, man and like this guy, ya know the one who wrote Spaw's horrorscope? Like well, he probably just like tuned in ya know, to that, um...that like um...oh, yeah, that akashic records type thingie, ya know and that's well, that's it! That's how, he like wrote it ya know?

Ditzee, like ya know? Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 06:51 PM

Yeah, man, that's what I mean, y'know? Spooky, man.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Troll
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 07:43 PM

On the other hand, he could be a alien with the ability to just look into your head and pull up whatever information he wanted. This horoscope bit is probably a command line to communicate with those minds that he has already taken over. He posts a daily horoscope and hidden in the horoscope it a message to his slaves. Thats right, slaves. Poor mind-controlled humans who have been abducted and re-programed.

Anyway, it's a thought.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 07:58 PM

Just read Sunday's and interestingly enough:

"You are barely alive and though your mind has flown, your body will continue to ache and the alignment of your Moon and Uranus suggests sleeping in the bathroom. Moments of lucidity will be rapidly overcome by an overwhelming desire to sleep and awaken every 30 minutes in a cold sweat."

Ya' know these things ARE really amazing, but I think I need to check on Liam Clancy's as they might have screwed up on his non-death.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 12:52 AM

I was born on the cusp of Libra and Scorpio, and I have acquired both the sense of equality and fair play common to the Sign of Libra, as well as the passion and vengefulness of the Scorpio.

This is why I am always going out of my way to be fair with each and every one of you sons of bitches.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Callie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 01:59 AM

Aquarians hooked to data bases? No way! This aquarian dithers about the house thinking about that data base!!

Horosope schmoroscope. I've always thought that a more accurate way of categorising people was by what instrument/s they play. After all, you can learn a lot about a person by knowing that they play either (or all of!) the banjo; the tenor horn; the spoons; the harp; or an ocarina in the shape of a possum.

This theory is as silly as horoscope the stuff, but by no means sillier!

-Callie (guitar, voice, saxophone, NO spoons)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 02:05 AM

LEJ, man, you make me laugh out loud! Keep 'em high...

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Escamillo
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 02:41 AM

Spaw, that horoscope is false, 'cause astrologists did never know about the existence of Uranus (and many other facts). My Brazilian BUZIOS (shells of sea snails) say that you'll be much better by Monday night. Let's keep on the way of Science.
Un abrazo - Andrés

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 08:44 AM

LeeJ...you and my daughter, both, although on the cusp, she's tipped a little more to the Libra, but, Rog makes up for it, totally Scorpio!! Aaarrrgghhh!

Ándres, if you keep up with those snail shells and I am going to get out my tea leaves!**BG**

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:39 AM

I was born under Taurus the Bull. Which may in part explain my sorry appearance!

mcmoo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:41 AM

What about reading sheep livers? X or Y?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Horoscope
From: Peg
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 10:27 AM

omigosh!!!! not one but two people mentioning the cusp of Libra and Scprpio!!! Lonesome EJ and kat's daughter...
That is my birthday too...29 degrees and 34 minutes of Libra to be exact; so close as to be almost negligible...my birthday occurs in Scorpio more often then in Libra but my sun sign will always be Libra, or close to it. I have known some wonderful people who share this birthday and it is weird but often when I get an uncannyurge to ask someone's birthday it turns out to be the same as mine...
This is a superbly magical birthdate!
Ya know why?
October 23, 4004 BC was calculated by a biblical scholar soem years ago to be The Day of the Creation!!! Now don't ask me how he figured that out...but some of us modern-day folk find all sorts of significance in that incredible number 23...
soem say it comes up in the lottery more often than any other...
Novelist Tom Robbins tells of bad days when he would stay in bed until he heard the number "23" spoken on the radio; it almost always came up...it also occurs frequently in news stories, often as an estimate before a true number is know (as with the Columbine shootings)...
Saw a German film recently called "23", based on true events in the life of a young computer hacker who was obsessed with the Illuminatus trilogy...
while viewing the press screening at the Goethe Institute in Boston, the first time I looked over at the VCR counter the film had been running for one hour and 23 minutes!!! Later that day, I went to a shop on Newbury Street and selected a random grouping of items to purchase...incense, cards, candles, etc. I chatted with the owner about the film I had just seen and the number 23 and after a couple minutes he smiled and showed me the bill he was writing up for my purchases...$33.23... anyway, I seem to have all the beauty-loving, Aphrodisian qualities of Libra, with the ability to look at all sides of a problem and also am rather indecisive...my Scorpio side is fascinated with the occult, curious about death, and passionate about my beliefs...

peg