BS: To whom it may concern

Subject: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:02 PM

I've been GUEST (blank) for some time now, but some people are forgetting to put their handle in the box, and there's been far to much sensible stuff attributed to me. From now on I'll be GUEST #1 (zero is to much like blank).

Remember, #1 is

Mine

Mine

MINE!

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: John Routledge
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:05 PM

Hi Guest#1

Does this make you less anonymous or more anonymous? I think we should be told. Cheers GB

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: annamill
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:06 PM

Why the heck don't you just become a member, Silly?? Then the name will definitly be YOURS! YOURS! YOURS!

..or are you ashamed of your postings?

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:07 PM

You now know which anonymous!

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Greyeyes
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:09 PM

I think Guest#1 is pointing out that he/she has joined, and "Guest#1" is his/her witty ROFL Mudcat moniker.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Amos
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:09 PM

Personally, I think you're being terribly silly.

You can have all the real-world anonymity you crave while using a consistent Mudcat handle as a member.

There is such a thing as being too paranoid, you know -- it gives your enemies something to take advantage of!

A

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: John Routledge
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:11 PM

Pleased to welcome someone who responds so quickly. Welcome #1. Cheers GB

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:14 PM

Note, however, that I'm not gargoyle. He/she got blamed for some Guest (blank) postings I made.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:16 PM

Does that mean we finally know who #1 is? After all these years? Are you really Patrick McWhat's his name? Who's #2 now?

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:19 PM

I think I just had a deja vu. We've had this discussion before, haven't we?

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:19 PM

Greyeys, I thought so too, but no such member is listed. Does it take time to get into the database? I don't think so. Lots of times I have spotted new members on their first post on the same day they posted.

I think this one is just heading up an Away Team.

*G*

Be funny if someone else DID join with that moniker. All sorts of things can happen when people screw around with memberships.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Greyeyes
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:40 PM

I suspected that was the case just after I'd posted Susan, reading between the lines of #1's subsequent comments.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Greyeyes
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:42 PM

I wonder if Max would allow someone to join using "GUEST" as a handle, I hope not.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:46 PM

There is a member whose screen name is 'guest', all lower case.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST, WYSIWYG
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:59 PM

No, thank God, Greyeyes. GUEST shows up as already taken. Whew!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Micca
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 04:23 PM

Guest said I am #1, fine man,fine
Guest said I am #1, whose the fool now?
Guest said I am #1, I am not the gargoyle man
thou hast all been taken in, whose #2 now?

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:03 PM

That's me, Martin's man.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:10 PM

I'd ask but it would just make my head hurt. Neil

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Bluebelle
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 10:36 PM

Take heed, old-time mudcatters. If Guest #1 doesn't know if gargoyle is a he or she, he/she hasn't been around very long. Just your run-of-the-mill-asshole-flaming-idiot. Or, perhaps, just flaming asshole would be more appropriate.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: flattop
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:37 PM

Is that your skirt that's on fire Jenny?

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:42 PM

"Oh, wad the gift the Guestie gie us,
To show himself, as well as be us"

I suspect it is sort of like Halloween...when you have a mask & costume on, you allow yourself behavior you'd never dream of otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Bert
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:44 PM

"To whom it may concern" - Not me. Go get a name and then we can communicate, until then you're just another nonentity.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:48 PM

I could be wrong, but I think the purpose of this thread is to tell us that this person's name is #1.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:50 PM

Amos above implied I'm paranoid. Look at what a little humour did to Bluebelle, but, then, she may not know what hunour is.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 11:59 PM

pay no attention to that person behind the curtain

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:05 AM

Bill D, you're needed on the 'Talking 2 americns' thread

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Pete M
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:32 AM

well as someone who was a guest before guests were invented I would have guessed that one guest was the same as guest 1. One I would never have guessed was that a guest would be gratuitously insulted by someone who considers themselves a member.

Pete guest M

My god Bill they're every where, that red car was outside again this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:40 AM

Ah Pete ol' buddy......You missed all the bizarro times of name thefts and the ensuing fallout. Now we have unnamed guests and numbered guests and intruder guests to compliment the anonymous guests and the latest fad, the member posing as an anonymous guest....and all of this without a dinner guest, Beau Geste, or Edgar Guest. If you think the crap is getting sillier by the second, you're right.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:44 AM

Me thinks it the 'DEVIL(master) IN DISGUISE'
LL

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,Crazy eddie
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:44 AM

I am not a number, I am a free man!

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:02 AM

Bluebelle has been around all of 5 weeks, and has yet to mention a real folk song or folk tune. There are more songs I contributed that are in DT, than there are Bluebelle postings in this Forum.

Subject: ADD: NOW THE DAY IS OVER
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:03 AM

Oh, I get it--another Bizarre Moment. Ah well. Always good to post another song. Any thread will do ya know. Lessee...

Oh yes. A lullabye.

~Susan

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NOW THE DAY IS OVER
Words: Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 (Last verse mod. Susan Hinton)
Music: "Merrial," Joseph Barnby, 1868

Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh,
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.

Now the darkness gathers,
Stars begin to peep,
Birds, and beasts and flowers
Soon will be asleep.

Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose;
With Thy tenderest blessing
May mine eyelids close.

Grant to little children
Visions bright of Thee;
Guard the sailors tossing
On the deep, blue sea.

Comfort those who suffer,
Watching late in pain;
Those who plan some evil
From their sin restrain.

Through the long night watches
May Thine angels spread
Their white wings above me,
Watching round my bed.

When the morning wakens,
Then may I arise
Pure, and fresh, and sinless
In Thy holy eyes.

Glory to the Father,
Glory to the Son,
Glory to the Spirit,
While the ages run.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:12 AM

A year after his "Onward Christian Soldiers". Search on Google for 'baring-gould'.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Firecat
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:15 AM

Oh, so you're #1,are you??!!

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:17 AM

I am not a number, I am a free man. But not Jon Freeman.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: harpgirl
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:45 AM

You are mistaken as to your remark about Bluebelle, Mr. Guest #1. She has been contributing to the forum since 97. Thanks for your songs, though. Which ones did you post? hg

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:29 PM

So 'Bluebelle' is another fake moniker. Feb 24th this year is the first posting under that one. Why should he/she object to mine? Who's the real flammer?

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:50 PM

You're lucky there Gervase!

BTW, all members are numbers here. I am #4429 and would remain so even if I changed my nickname here.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 11:35 PM

oohh! how do I find out MY number?

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,The GUEST who absolutely refuses to reveal t
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 11:51 PM

Oh, damn. I've been cut off!

TGWARTRTHINEDETSHFAH

Subject: ADD: EVENING SHADE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:33 AM

Oh, yes, time for another.

~S~

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EVENING SHADE

The day is past and gone,
The evening shades appear;
O may we all remember well
The night of death is near.

We lay our garments by,
Upon our beds to rest;
So death will soon disrobe us all
Of what we've here possessed.

Lord, keep us safe this night,
Secure from all our fears;
May angels guard us while we sleep,
Till morning light appears.

And when we early rise,
And view the unwearied sun,
May we set out to win the prize,
And after glory run.

And when our days are past,
And we from time remove,
O may we in thy bosom rest,
The bosom of thy love.


SOURCE
Southern Harmony no. 46
Cited Source: Baptist Harmony, p. 373
Meter: S.M.

SH

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Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:34 AM

Bill D. Infinity has too many dig its, so you can't have that.

Subject: RE: BS: To whom it may concern
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 02:30 AM

This reminds me of the "Dangermouse" episode where Dangermouse and Penfold get lost and end up in the "potty part of the universe".

Great show, Dangermouse...