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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Apr 00 - 06:53 PM Hey Biskit, baby, bettuh put you sum red-ah gravy on them chaffs! Didja see Biskit fly by our Geezermobile on the highway? If he wants them knickers, he'll hafta look in the rearview mirror next time! Ah waved 'em outta duh winder an' everything-- mah husband now he thought Ah was nuts! Ah think it was somewhere near Fancy Gap, VA. We'd uv tried to ketch 'im but we wuz stopping there for the BEST grub? An' guess what? Five recordings by local artists fell into mah hands--- AWESOME stuff!! I'm gonna go git 'em tuh jine up wid us heer at de Mudcat!! We need us some new newbies!! Mo' newbies, yee hah!! Wal Ah speck Ah better go unpack mah geezermobile an' git me sum sleep now, but we'se back fum ouah travels now an' Ah'll be lookin' summa y'all up taMAHRee? ~Susan~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:01 PM MMMMM....PIZZA! Must have some....! And MORE MUSIC! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Willie-O Date: 06 Apr 00 - 05:52 PM We sure did Ceit...and now we're havin more! Then on the weekend we're gonna get some...snow. Don't you love spring in east ontario? urp...just made pizza. Willie-O |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: ceitagh Date: 06 Apr 00 - 04:12 PM Good thought Caitrin....pass the cookies? Ceit (relaxing in the warm weather....we had snow this morning!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Caitrin Date: 06 Apr 00 - 04:07 PM Life is uncertain...eat dessert first. : ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 06 Apr 00 - 11:11 AM Biskit - Praise is traveling....
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Amos Date: 06 Apr 00 - 11:03 AM Biskit: Here is the thread you wanted. From March. Hidden under an obscure title. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Biskit Date: 05 Apr 00 - 08:55 PM Well I checked back 14 days and can't find that thread, anybody remember the date???? -Biskit- |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Biskit Date: 05 Apr 00 - 08:37 PM Ah, what lovely green grass so soft,Man! these caitrin cookies really are good anyone have any tea??? Truck an' Big Rig thread??? didn't know anything about it sorry I missed it,I'll have to do that refresh thingy and look fer it. Yeah Mbo I hauled a Harrier jet fusalage from MCAS,(Marine corps air station) Yuma,Arizona to MCAS Cherry Point,NC. then went up to Fort Lee,Va and loaded a 5 ton truck w/trailer for Fort Campbell,Ky. I loaded at the same Dock a duece and a half cargo truck w/a water trailer going to Fort Irwin,Ca. I guess the 101st airborne is gonna go play in the sand for awhile. I'll deliver out there on Saturday, and hopefully load something monday, for Phoenix or Tucson, so I can be back in Yuma on the 14th to load another Harrier going to Cherry Point,NC, so hopefully, this next time in NC. we'll be able to meet somewhere. I'd really like that. Boy! this grass is nice,MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmKSNNNNNnnnnnnore |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 05 Apr 00 - 07:28 PM Seven Nations are a Celtic (mostly Scottish) folk/rock group from New York. They do traditional songs & tunes as well as their own more contemporary folkrock tunes. THEY ROCK! Man, Biskit, you were in Cherry Point? You shoulda TOLD me! That's only about an hour from my house in Jacksonville! Too bad I missed ye! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 05 Apr 00 - 06:17 PM okay, my french isn't as rusty as I thought. I was close enough to know you probably didn't want to translate that exactly.....
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 05 Apr 00 - 06:05 PM Here Biskit mate, try these Caitrin cookies they are great. What yer been haulin and where have you been to buddy?? Was looking fer you on the Truck and big rig song thread. Grand weather we are having.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Biskit Date: 05 Apr 00 - 05:48 PM Well howdiedoodie ya'll!, Just thought I'd drop in an' see whazup with my m`catters, Had a time in the land of Barney an' Goober, looked roun' fer Mbo while I was down there but I guess he doesn't hang around Cherry Point,and there's Dave the old sailer guy, howdy Dave howzit goin' thanks fer the jokes I really needed`em, say could ya share a corner of that duffel my old bones are killin' me, AAAaaaaaah thanks mate. Whats up with the chronically frowny guys in the corner, no wait! don't tell me this is to pretty of a day surrounded as I am with smiley faces. say anybody seen Praise? I gotta talk to a lady about some shorts...... any body gotta cure for chaffing........ |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Amos Date: 05 Apr 00 - 03:51 PM The King said to Queen Victoria If you wanted to Tickle my story between your fingers I would..um...engorge? That's why I left it in the original French, darn it!! :>)The rest of the verses are worse, so don't ask... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Willie-O Date: 05 Apr 00 - 03:20 PM Mbo modestly remarked: Now, let me try out that Dick Gaughan riff, I'm sure I can handle it... Meeb, nobody can play what Gaughan plays. As usual, the best approach is to listen to it until you hear a melody line...then turn off the stereo and play it as you hear it in your head. Who the heck are Seven Nations? (The seven Celtic nations?) Obviously more Dick Gaughan fans! W-O
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Bert Date: 05 Apr 00 - 03:06 PM Come on Skiff now! you just LOVE being a pedantic old fart!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:35 AM nah - if it was the REAL MudCat there would probably be a least one flasher or mugger. This is probably just a fantasy... sorry, a little cynical this am. Amos - the King did WHAT to the Queen? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:32 AM This Mudcat Park is a great place to come to relax. Over there in the kiddies cornet the youngsters are playing nicely and making up songs. There's a group of old codgers on the bench exchanging stories about the good old days, and even older jokes (and passing round a flask). Another group under that big tree are exchanging recipes. There's a large group by the bandstand with instruments swopping tips and singing together. Over by the war memorial there's a prayer group. There's a friendly argument on politics by the pond near where the ecological group are looking for critters. Another group have brought songbooks and tapes to exchange. There's a blind bluesman busking by the icecream stand. I haven't seen a flasher or a mugger all day. Could this be the real Mudcat people told me about? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Amos Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:29 AM Minstrel carrying large ornate lute, and wearing a flowing forest green cape trimmed in sapphire, emblazoned with bewhiskered fish, rampant, in deep blue, his sturdy well-traveled legs wrapped in scarlet thigh-high boots of soft leather, and sporting a jerkin of many colors in crazyquilt design, strolls over the grassy knoll amongst the revelers and sings with wicked glint in eye: Le roi disait a la Reine Vittoire Si tu voulais Entre tes doigts chatouiller mon histoire Je banderais.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:22 AM roger - we wouldn't do that...It took so long to bake it, and we'll never find the recipe again... *I can't believe I just typed that....* Ebbie - if you go to JC's Tune finder and and search on butterfly, you will get many options to hear it. http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:06 AM I'm glad to see no-one's left their cake out in the rain in this park! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Ebbie Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:02 AM Alison, perfect! I'm going to ask around amongst the 'whistlers' I know and see if I can hear it. Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: alison Date: 05 Apr 00 - 10:51 AM Ebbie The Butterfly is a beautiful slip jig (9/8 time) slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 05 Apr 00 - 10:12 AM Sorry Roger...Robbins was what the lyrics in the Seven Nations album booklet said...and I saw it was written by an E.Pickford, I was wondering if anyone knew who he was...thanks for the info! Now, let me try out that Dick Gaughan riff, I'm sure I can handle it... --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 05 Apr 00 - 09:59 AM You know I don't like to be a pedantic old fart(!) but it was Lord Robens , not Robbins, who was Chairman of the Coal Board at the time (formerly Alf Robens). RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 05 Apr 00 - 09:36 AM " Gulp and guzzle while you're dining Chew and swallow with exquisite timing With grease and gravy may your face be shining! While we are together.... chorus: it's a takeoff from a parody. The original song is "Let Union Be", an old grange song, and the original parody is "Let Onion Be" both in DT, I believe. I went from there... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Willie-O Date: 05 Apr 00 - 09:16 AM G'day all! As we Meebo, how come you know my whole repertoire? Thus I am once again reduced to liner noting case anyone don't know...Pound a Week Rise is by Ed Pickford, who also wrote the imaginatively titled "Workers' Song"; both recorded by Dick Gaughan: ...We've been yoked to the plow, since time first began Dum-de-dah, de-dum-ta-dum-dum...anyone looking for a guitar challenge try coming close to the riff Gaughan uses in this song. (Workers Song). Do not try to hard though or you will wear out your knuckles prematurely and feel compelled to donate your guitar to some socialist charity. I love these songs cause they are political without being squishy! Older, no wiser, Willie-O |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COME ALL YOU COLLIERS From: Mbo Date: 04 Apr 00 - 10:43 PM Let's rock! Come all you colliers Who work down in the mine From Scotland to South Wales From Teesdale to Tyne I'll sing you a song about the pound-a-week rise And the men who were fooled by the government's lies And it's down you go down below, Jack Where you never see the skies And you're working in a dungeon For your pound-a-week rise In 19 and 60, a few years ago The mine workers' leaders to Lord Robbins did go Saying "We work very hard, every day we risk our lives And we ask you here and now for a pound-a-week rise" Well, up spoke Lord Robbins, and he made this decree He said "When the output rises, with you I will agree I'll raise up all your wages, I'll give to you fair pay For I was once a miner and I worked hard in my day" The miners they went home, they worked hard and well Their lungs filled with coaldust in the bosom of Hell The output rose by fifteen, eighteen percent and more And when two years had passed and gone it rose above a score The miners they went, to get their hard-earned prize They asked Lord Robbins for their pound-a-week rise Robbins wouldn't give a pound, he wouldn't give ten bob He gave them seven and six and said "Now get back to your jobs!" So come all you colliers, take heed what I say Don't believe Lord Robbins when he says he'll give fair pay He'll tell you to work hard and make the output rise But you'll get pie in the sky instead of a pound-a-week rise! And it's down you go down below, Jack Where you never see the skies And you're working in a dungeon For your pound-a-week rise Yeah! --Mbo
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Caitrin Date: 04 Apr 00 - 09:14 PM Finally found some 7N, Mbo? Good job! It's great stuff. MMario, very cool. I'm imagining a fun tune to it, since I don't know the real one. : ) And I'm glad to see this thread returning to positiveness. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 04 Apr 00 - 05:59 PM Well dang it Caitrin, why'd ye think I suggested that one? **BG** Next I'll do "A pound a weeeeeeeeeekk......RISE!" Strum strum strumma stru-strum! Strum strum strumma stru-strum! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 04 Apr 00 - 05:32 PM Mario thats a real cheery song, did you write it mate? ahhh this is a nice place to be.. Pass me another of those cookies Caitrin they are very nice... Thank you.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 04 Apr 00 - 04:14 PM *"Come my friends who would be flatter Life consists of getting fatter So raise your forks, and pass the platter While we are together! Let all our joy be in our food! Let all our food be served with wine! We'll show them how it is "to dine", And we'll end each meal with Chocolate!
right folly-roly tor-i-laddo, righ folly-roly tor-i-laddo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Caitrin Date: 04 Apr 00 - 04:07 PM In defense of the Tavern threads...I think they draw out a lot of the BS that might otherwise creep into "serious" threads. I would think that people who object to Thread Creep would be happy to have them here, in the interest of removing chit-chat from the musical topics. I would also argue that they are not "cliquey." The first time I set foot in this place a few months back, I was instantly made to feel welcome. On a more pleasant note...Canadee-i-o it is! I do love that one! One of my favorite bands that no one's ever heard of, Seven Nations, does a very nice version of it. And everyone, eat away! There's plenty to go around. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: ceitagh Date: 04 Apr 00 - 04:01 PM "The Butterfly" is fairly new to me too...it was one of the songs suggested to me when I asked for new whistle tunes a couple of weeks ago on the 'cat. If you search this page you should find it, as well as a lot of other great tunes! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Ebbie Date: 04 Apr 00 - 03:41 PM Ceitagh, I know a lot of fiddle tunes but I haven't heard The Butterfly. Sounds lovely. What beat is it? In any case, it sounds like it's a wonderful tune for a whistle or recorder or flute. None of which I play but I do like to listen. Nothing like music in the open air! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 04 Apr 00 - 02:00 PM Ahhh a breath of fresh air, some good food and drink, and some lovely music to listen too... Heaven for a day mates.. Keep playing young un's.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 04 Apr 00 - 01:30 PM OOOPS! Sorry! Well, I mean I'm so wark you can fry an egg on my forehead! Hey, time for Shenandoah songs! "Barbeque chicken and the TV Guide...there ain't no place that I'd rather be--sittin' next to you sittin' next to me!" Strum...strum... --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: ceitagh Date: 04 Apr 00 - 01:19 PM (groan!) Meebs, if you ever meet my family, you're gonna have to stop handing out straight lines like that....I can think of 3 vaguely insulting cracks to make about that "source of heat" comment off the top o' my head. ;-) ceit |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 04 Apr 00 - 01:06 PM I'll warm 'em up for ya, Ceit! My mom says I'm a "warm" person, a natural source or heat! My sister and Dad are the same way...must run in the family! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: ceitagh Date: 04 Apr 00 - 01:02 PM Mario, you would not believe the things that can be done with chicken..... But yes, I have whistles in my whistle bag....6 different keys at that! Not that I play well enough to justify all of them, but hey! Whistles are comparatively cheap! Yes, please sing for us Caitrin! Ceit (whose feet are cold...wet and clammy is the weather 'round hereabouts) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: annamill Date: 04 Apr 00 - 01:01 PM Ed, and everyone else, this is not just a forum to discuss folk / blues music. It's a full blown community. This attitude has made it possible to really get to know each other, and to help each other when needed, and to learn..oh, so many things. Yes, sometimes we have problems, but we deal with them as a community. If you don't want to move in, but want to come over to shop, that's ok too. Just don't go into the conversational threads. That's all. It's simple. So enjoy shopping and if any of us who live here can help you now and then, we'll be more than happy to. Love, annap
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: MMario Date: 04 Apr 00 - 12:57 PM You gonna play "The Butterfly" on Fried Chicken? This I have to see and hear! *snicker* after all, you didn't say you had no whistle in that whistle-bag, now, did you.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU Date: 04 Apr 00 - 12:51 PM Sing "Canadee-i-o" for Ceit too! Hey! Whistle's sounding GOOD today! --Mbo (too bad the REAL weather here is lousy!)
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: ceitagh Date: 04 Apr 00 - 12:39 PM Mmmmmm...what a lovely day! Lessee here.....got my whistle bag, my music, and some fried chicken.....mmmmm....yum! Want to see what I've been learning? I'll play "The Butterfly" for y'all..... What's all the kerfuffle over there? Sit down and relax a spell! Ceit |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU Date: 04 Apr 00 - 12:26 PM Sing "Canadee-i-o" for Dave, Caitrin? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 04 Apr 00 - 11:54 AM Sitting quietly on his duffle bag, the ancient mariner munches away on some of Caitrins fine cookies. Slightly puzzled by the argumentative group in the corner of the park.. Wonder what all the fuss is about Caitrin m'dear? How about a beautifull song to make an old sailor smile? Hopefully those people will come over and enjoy the music too.. maybe bring a little peace to the park on such a gorgeous day... What you gonna sing Luv? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Apr 00 - 11:33 PM Well I came to the park looking for my husband, we had a hot date to meet here but I am late.... he must have gone home to pack for our trip... see you all next week. where, BTW? Mudcat Mall? I know! Mudcat Music Store where we try out all our FAVE stuff we wish we had and play like... oh, I was going to say angels... ANGELS! ~Susan~ PS-- Friends, remember what I told you! (look in your heart to find it) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Mbo Date: 03 Apr 00 - 10:16 PM No Jon, I was not calling you a spoil sport. And I DON'T do clique-ish in jokes either. I don't know any. I juts post my little song lyrics and go with the theme, anyone can really pick up on it if they like. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Jon Freeman Date: 03 Apr 00 - 09:53 PM I am not sure whether Mbo was calling me a spoil sport or not but I will offer my personal feelings on this whole issue. I choose not to join in with or read the Mudcat Tavern type threads (it was a link Caitrin put up in the HTML thread that brought me here) but their existance does not bother me as I simply choose to ignore them. They do seem to be a cause of some of the tension round here and I was offering what I felt might have been a solution although I do wonder whether what appears to me to be chatter for the sake of chatter is really appropriate in this forum. Like most people, I do have my pet hates and one of mine is over use of religion. I have strong religious beliefs myself but dislike it when the forum appears to be used (or is in danger of being used) as a platform to preach religion regardless of the religion. I think Joe Offer expressed my feelings on this better than I can in another recent thread. My other one is when jokes for the sake of it are made in the middle of the more serious topics, especially the music threads as once one it starts, others appear to join in and the topic of a thread can dissapear. In what to me have been the worse cases, admittedly rare, I have seen jokes made before any attempt has been made to answer the original question. Anyway, overall I enjoy Mudcat and like a lot of the people who join in the threads I avoid and do some of the other things I have mentioned and when all said and done I am just another person who visits here because there is a lot of good things here but as others have commented, I thought I'd make my own feelings known. Jon
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Park From: Jeri Date: 03 Apr 00 - 09:10 PM In case anyone's interested, the ICQ Folk Chat room has a message board. Just click on "Read News." |