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Subject: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 11 Apr 02 - 11:22 AM Welcome, DonD. What are your interests and influences? What brought you to the mudcat? I hope you find it as rewarding here as I have, and make as many friends (and that's a lot). Regards, Fortunato |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: greg stephens Date: 11 Apr 02 - 11:29 AM Welcome indeed DonD, and thrice welcome if you promise not use all those obscure abbreviations that we can't understand in foreign parts! LOLTISM. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Apr 02 - 11:33 AM Welcome DonD......Like Fort says, you can make a lot of friends here. In his case, he has two. I'm sure you'll do better. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Watson Date: 11 Apr 02 - 11:36 AM Greg, We're not in foreign parts - they are. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: greg stephens Date: 11 Apr 02 - 11:50 AM Yeah,Watson, I know that, and you know that. I just think it's worth being polite to our cousins in the late colonies. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Paul from Hull Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:00 PM Hehehehe Welcome, Don! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: SharonA Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:09 PM Welcome, DonD... or is that Dondi? Not this Dondi, surely: CLICK HERE to see Dondi, Belly Dancer of the Universe Just funnin' with ya! Welcome!! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Watson Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:11 PM Certainly Greg, I'm all for being polite, which is why I'm feeling very guilty that I'm ignoring DonD at his own party. Hello DonD, I'm pleased you could join us. Incidentally, if anyone wants to welcome me it would make me very happy - I think I must have come in by the back door, and nobody's noticed I'm here. I am very quiet though. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Lonesome EJ Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:17 PM Thanks Sharon. I now know more about Dondi, Belly Dancer of the Universe, than I ever wanted to. What makes her Belly Dancer of the Universe anyhow? Has she had gigs in Moroccan Restaurants on Uranus or something? Anyway, welcome DonD. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Troll Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:18 PM Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain and watch out for 'Spaw. troll |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:25 PM Watson, meet DonD. DonD meet Watson. Now, Watson and DonD meet everybody else. Now then, "Domini, Domini, Domino, you're all Mudcatters!" Now have at it. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: MMario Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:25 PM Heck, watson - you've been here a month - but it looks like you fit in so well we never noticed you were new! Welcome, and happy one month anniversary! Don - welcome as well. If you think the Acronymns and abbreviations are confusing - wait until the tiples start flying at the NYCFTTS! or Cletus and the Reg boys show up. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Alice Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:31 PM Welcome DonD AND Watson. If you sing, check this out, Threads on the singing voice To hear some Mudcat members, check this out The Wild Bird's Nest |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:32 PM Hi, Don: I said hello on another thread, but I don't want to be left off the welcoming committee. Welcome too, Watson. Dr. Watson, I presume... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Watson Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:33 PM Thanks Mmario, Fortunato, I've never felt so accepted in all my life. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 11 Apr 02 - 12:33 PM Hey, 'spaw get the Sacred Bedpan, we're gonna do two at a time! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: KathWestra Date: 11 Apr 02 - 01:48 PM Welcome to the 'Cat, DonD -- and Watson. It's okay to be quiet; we have more than enough noise around here sometimes. So, like Fortunato said, where are you two from? and how did you find us? and what are your musical interests? We're a friendly if more than a little zany bunch, and I hope you recognize all the smartassery for the warm welcome it is. Make yourselves at home. Kathy (in Silver Spring, Maryland) |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Lepus Rex Date: 11 Apr 02 - 01:52 PM Oh, great. ANOTHER short-first-name-followed-by-a-capital-letter person for me to keep track of. :P Oh, and welcome. :) |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: SharonA Date: 11 Apr 02 - 02:55 PM LepusR: It's better than HeyU. ;^) Lonesome EJ asks: "What makes [Dondi] Belly Dancer of the Universe anyhow? Has she had gigs in Moroccan Restaurants on Uranus or something?" No, certainly not in any Moroccan restaurants on my.... um, never mind. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Catherine Jayne Date: 11 Apr 02 - 03:19 PM Welcome to the cat DonD and Watson, we all hope you make lots of new and interesting friends..........like we all have!!! Go on tell us all about you both!!!......... cat |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Mr Red Date: 11 Apr 02 - 05:51 PM Welcome, wherever you are DonD |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Herga Kitty Date: 11 Apr 02 - 06:47 PM Hi DonD and welcome! Also, Watson in Shropshire (some of us noticed you were there, we were just too new ourselves to notice that you were new too). |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Gareth Date: 11 Apr 02 - 07:07 PM Welcom to the madhouse !!!! Gareth - from South Wales, where men are men, and sheep are glad of it. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Celtic Soul Date: 11 Apr 02 - 07:18 PM As per usual, all the great one liners are already taken! ;D In any case, welcome aboard, DonD and Watson! Glad to have you aboard. :D Where are you both from, BTW???
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Apr 02 - 07:48 PM Showing my age here of course but when I think DonD, it ain't bellydancin' but this WWI orphan instead. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Apr 02 - 07:50 PM That should be WWII orphan....The strip was rather stupid and as a kid I never really cared much for it, but I read it regularly Sunday anyway. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: SharonA Date: 11 Apr 02 - 08:43 PM Catspaw: You're not showing any age at all - the newspaper comic strip ran until 1986 - but I remember reading the strip as a kid. In fact, I remember Patti Page singing "Little Dondi" to the kid (in a TV rerun of the 1961 movie inspired by the strip)! Dondi the orphan had come to mind first for me, too, but when I looked up "Dondi" on google I came across the belly-dancer and figured I'd link to her site while I had it! Oh, and a belated welcome to you, Watson! (Will you come quickly if we need you? *G*) Sharon |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Apr 02 - 09:09 PM That POS ran til '86????? geez......I didn't read all the write up....Did he ever grow up? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: 53 Date: 11 Apr 02 - 10:22 PM Good to have you on board. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Watson Date: 12 Apr 02 - 05:25 AM Thank you all, As Herga Kitty noticed, I'm in Shropshire in the UK, near the River Severn in Ironbridge - in fact some days very near the river! I found Mudcat a while ago, but probably on a day when the internet was trying hard to keep it a secret so I didn't work out what a fine place it was to be. But I soon found that when I was searching on Google for anything folky, amongst the links there would be some to Mudcat, so here I am, finding out what it's all about. My main musical interest is in traditional song from the British Isles, but I listen to any sort of music. I sing in sessions in and around Shropshire. Now and again people even listen! I don't play an instrument, but one day I'll work out what to do with the collection of tin whistles about the house. I won't mention the morris dancing - I'm easily embarrassed. I'll go now before you all realise what a deeply boring person I am! So, now all we need is to find out about DonD... |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 12 Apr 02 - 09:59 AM Watson, do you know a song called "The Crockeryware"? I've heard it sung and like it quite a bit. Not my genre, we do old time country (American) music, but if no one else sings the damn song soon I'm liable to do it (that's a threat, my UK accents are abominable). I assume it's UK Traditional. DonD. where are you, let us know what you're up to as well. I'll start. My wife and I do old time comedy and music. We're based in Maryland USA. Having said that I've wandered through lots of genres, all with American Roots Music at the core. I've been learning to play the guitar since 1959, but I'm closing in on it. I may beat old age and slide into competency yet. And cheers, to all the new members I've not known to welcome. Fortunato |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: SharonA Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:08 AM Watson: Why in the world are you embarrassed to mention morris dancing here?? Tell ya what... if you go to the "Quick Links" pop-up box at the top of this page and scroll down to "Forum Search", you can do a Search for all the posts to this Forum that have the word "morris" in the Subject line. You'll see that morris dancing is a popular topic of discussion!! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Watson Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:10 AM No, crockeryware doesn't ring any bells with me. I know someone who sings a song about a crockerydile though, but I suspect that's a different beast altogether. I don't lay claim to any great depth of knowledge about folk (or anything else, come to that). I never cease to be amazed at the erudition displayed on Mudcat, so maybe someone else will leap in and help with that. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: greg stephens Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:11 AM Fortunato:Is the Crockeryware what I think of as the Crabfish? Unpleasantness involving a pisspot, a wife and a live crab? I'll send you my version if you like. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: DMcG Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:23 AM There certainly is a 'Crockeryware' song... at the moment all I can remember is the couplet:
Young Man, I do declare
It'll come back to me over the next week or so |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: DMcG Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:24 AM ... And by the way, Hi DonD. Don't know how you managed to win the gold card introduction, though. Maybe some of the rest of us ought to climb out the window and try the front door again! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:25 AM My understanding is that Crockeryware is earthenware dishes. Maybe pitchers and bowels? I think the story is that a young man has slipped into the house of a young woman at night and has stumbled into a shelf or something and the crockeryware has fallen and broken waking the parents? No, Greg, no crab, no chamber pot, just two lovers and lots of broken dishes and maybe a subsequent nuptial? |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: GUEST,Russ Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:25 AM Mudcat is a great forum with something for everybody. Literally. Russ (a dreaded GUESTF) |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Watson Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:27 AM SharonA, you're absolutely right of course. I should remember I'm in enlightened company here. |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:40 AM Welcome, DMcD. I appreciate your recognition of the song and I'll look forward to more. PM me will you when you find it? This thread may die over the weekend and I'll be too busy this weekend to check in much. What brings you to the 'cat, and what are your interests? Where are you located? Glad to have you. If you're interested in American Roots music I'll be glad to help, although Stewie and others here are more knowledgeable than I. Cheers, Fortuanto |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: DMcG Date: 12 Apr 02 - 10:46 AM Listen, folks, I wasn't serious about the introduction! Don't send the Reg's round to greet me! (I doubt if Cletus is allowed on Transatlantic flights, so I'm not too afraid there)
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Subject: Lyr Add: CROCKERY WARE (from Hammond-Gardiner From: DMcG Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:00 PM The Crockery Ware - from Marrowbones (Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts) Gardiner H.240/H.605. Isaac Hobbes, Micheldever Hants, May 1906
In Mansfield town there lived a spark
To my right-fol-lol-lol-lol-liddle-lol-thr-day
Now this young girl she did contrive
This young man rrose in the middle of the night
The old woman arose in a terrible fright
Miss Betsy lay in the very next room
The bobby was sent for without delay
Come all you wild and rambling sparks
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:09 PM That's it. Thanks, DMcG. Thanks, Thanks a lot. Regards, Fortunato |
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Subject: Tune Add: CROCKERY WARE (from Hammond-Gardiner) From: DMcG Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:22 PM Here's the ABC. I don't know if I've put breaks in all the required places, so could some expert clean it up if necessary?
X:1 |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: DonD Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:39 PM WOW!!! Little did I think when I stuck my two cents in that I'd get a million dollar welcome back. I got interested in folk music when I was a college freshman in 1944 (!?!) and found the house library had lots of 78 rpm records including the Library of Congress collections. The high point I remeber was attending a young Pete Seeger concert and singing so enthusiastically on the choruses that I was invited to "take the next verse' of a song I didn't know; I extemporized a passable verse about my ignorance to applause, but my face was as crimson as the school colors. Over the years I've accumulated a guitar and a banjo and a couple of tin whistles and someones home made dulcimer that I picked up in a junk shop for $10 - none of which I've mastered enough to appear in public. I'm located in Bronxville in Westchester County about 16 miles from Times Square. I found Mudcat by asking my local librarian to help me find the lyrics to a song I remembered from an LP I'd borrowed years before. She promptly handed me a printout from the DT of 'The Rumseller's Wife'. Before I noticed the dot org, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about small earthy-moving equipment. After learning lots of lyrics, and learning that some folks transcriptions from records varied a lot from what I had been hearing, I started exploring the Forum, got hooked, and here I am. Pleased to make your acquaintance, all. ALthough - like earth-moving equipment - there is the danger of learning more than I want to know about some terrible senses of humor. BTW I have worn a beard for decades, and it's now fairly long and white, enough so for me to play Santa Claus professionally au naturel, and I resented a reference in another thread to someone having 'lost his faith in the guy with the white beard'. Personally, and in my Santa persona, I strive to reaffirm that faith. WOW!!! Little did you think that you'd open these flood gates, did you? |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: DMcG Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:42 PM So is the DonD an emoticon like :-), with one that last D the beard? I like the pirate hat as well! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: CarolC Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:50 PM Welcome to the Mudcat DonD, Watson, and DMcG! |
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Subject: RE: Welcome new member: DonD From: Fortunato Date: 12 Apr 02 - 12:53 PM Well, it's about time, DonD. Where you been boy? We thought you went to sleep and the hogs ate you. Don't let the attempts at humor, taste aside, get under your skin. I imagine you've lived long enough to know there's no such thing as an ummixed blessing. Take what you need or like and ignore the rest. Anger at these folks is useless, counterproductive, and a vain attempt to change reality. Now, DonD., Santa look alike, do you know who the Belsnickle is? |
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