BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please

Subject: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: alison
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 11:52 PM

Ok... its that time of the year again..... and I'm asking you to start taking pics.....

we've done "nearly nude" for the last 2 years.... this year I thought we'd try something different...

I was thinking.... "dress as you favourite character from a folk song"......

what does anyone else think?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amos
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 11:59 PM

Gee, alison, I dunno -- Barbry Ellen? The Strawberry Roan? The Mary Ellen Carter? The Golden Vanity? Old Shep????!!

This makes nudity seem easy by comparison!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: CarolC
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:17 AM

How about your favorite nude character from a folk song?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:31 AM

How about a piccie of our favourite instrument, of our own?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:33 AM

That opens the door to some pretty bawdy characters -- the village idiot, the local sheriff, several varieties of tinkers of remarkable endowment. And the ones that are really my favorites, like the Captain's daughter Charlotte, I could never pass the physical on!! :>)

\A

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: alison
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:54 AM

the instrument one is a possibility too... but I like the idea of seeing "people"..............

yeah amos.. it leaves plenty of scope doesn't it....lol... people can show as much or as little as they want.... *grin*

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: alison
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 01:00 AM

I think the "golden vanity" has possibilities... we can be anything.... doesn't have to be human, or alive..... just use your imaginations!!!!!!

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 01:25 AM

What about us sending pictures of our hamsters?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: alison
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 01:28 AM

dress them as characters from folk songs and I'll consider it........*grin*

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:43 AM

Jeez Alison does this mean you don't want to see me with my clothes off again? sob.....sniff....
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: hesperis
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:53 AM

Jon - Awesome! Hammies rule.

Calendar theme - "Pets who play"?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: bill\sables
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 03:36 AM

Just an idea, how about pictures of catters acting a scene from a song then everyone has to guess the name of the song. Or puting the song words on the calendar along with the photo. Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: alison
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 04:33 AM

I'm all for that bill...... get togethers at various festivals.... group shotes and "guess the song"

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 04:42 AM

So, do we get Kath Westra with the rope around her neck and Kendall holding the other end ala the Getaway???? i thought " mudcatters, nearly nude WITHOUT their instruments???" crude but tasteful??? and who, of the guys, has the nerve to do " see the Mary Ellen Carter rise again...?"

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 05:12 AM

Whatever, clothed. Don't get upset, I'm certainly not a prude. However, nudie calendars don't go with my office decor.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Peg
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 10:11 AM

maybe people with their pets? (this leaves out people without pets as possible subjects, obviously)

Or how about photos of various Mudcats gathered together at festivals, concerts, song circles, Mudcat parties, etc. from 2002?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:01 AM

If you go with the 'Catters together, I think I can get you one in June that might fit the bill.....along with an appropriate song. Betcha' end up using it too.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:08 AM

OOOOOH "The Bird In A Gilded Cage"! Now where the hell am I going to get a cage?

How about fantasy pictures with Mudcatters of the NYCFTTS and The House Of The Setting Sun? Or dress up as your favorite Mudcat character - Cleigh O'Possum, Cletus, Spaw, the Reg boys, a potato peeler, a condom, a moustache tuner, etc.

Or an all Neil Young Calendar with each 'Catter dressed as the asylum's namesake? Our own version of Elvis Impersonators. Or a calendar by country featuring 'Catters from all over the world? Or an "All Max" calendar with pictures of 'Catters with the Great One? Superimpositions allowed, encouraged even.

Sorry, I am babbling. Anything to avoid housework.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:20 AM

Now let's see on that Max one -- Photoshop and some of those porni clips about nudie film stars -- cut here, paste there -- blend the edges and Voila!! Max in the arms of a Hollywood beauty -- say, Clint Eastwood?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:38 AM

Or Kendall Morse?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Llanfair
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:47 AM

What about baby photos?? Match the cutie with reality.

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: JenEllen
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:13 PM

Good gawd SINS, just what kind of housework are you avoiding? *g* The Neil Young Impersonator thing had me on the floor....

If we decide on group-shots, I can get a few this summer too.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 09:51 AM

When I spotted the thread tiltle I thought that I was going to have to start a movement to pay Micca to keep his clothes on....... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:02 AM

There is much potential in the shots from Mudcat gatherings. Put four or so on a page and lay it out to look like a family photo album.

Stephen

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:17 AM

I don't know if I am more relieved than anxious about that...I mean, the idea of trying to hide behind one of my bodhrans was a bit unnerving, so a not nearly nude for my first entry was a relief...but now, I gotta somehow figure out *what* folk song is my favorite, and then dress the part. ACK!!! It's a toss up between dressing like the island of Mingulay, or Maui. :D

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:49 AM

LOL!! I wanna be Stewball!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 12:26 PM

LOL!!! I'd pay money to see Amos dressed as a racehorse. *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 01:52 PM

Pets are good. Babies....eeeeyyyy. Maybe just 'Cats in their natural environment. Say now, what about ALL the cats send in a new photo for each year and we can just put whatever photo we like to each month - as long as we send our ten bucks to Max, everyone's happy.

Nah, stick with the nudes.... I mean, I'm gonna send my donations anyway and I'm gonna get a calendar anyway, so, if semi-nudity sells calendars and generates money, what the hey. Although, I like the pet idea and I think it would sell more calendars. I'd buy the pets one long before the near-nude, if I had to choose.

So, we've got the almost nude, the pets (forgive my boldness, but I think it will sell - everyone likes pets), so what's next ?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 01:53 PM

Can I be "The Scotsman"?

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:12 PM

Nearly Nude Mudcat Pets? I can hear my cat now: "Hey baby, I don't take my collar off for just anybody...I don't care if it is 'artistic'...well, maybe just a little catnip..."

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:14 PM

not sure about that, JE....some of my dogs will show there underside for anybody....

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:15 PM

Yeah, I've been accused of the same thing myself a time or two...*bg*

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: bill\sables
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:23 PM

You could always do "Catters at work", Remember Mudguard dressed in a suit and tie, he looked so strange.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:43 PM

i don't think a picture of me in front of a computer with a headset on is very interesting....

LOL, JE! well the looks they give though is a bit on the inviting side...tongue lolling out....tail thumping....eyes on you very expecantly....and then they sometimes hop from one bed to another....they have no shame.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: MudGuard
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 06:05 PM

Bill wrote: Remember Mudguard dressed in a suit and tie, he looked so strange.
Hey, I have to seriously protest against this.
Because it is MudGuard with a capital G ;-)

Amergin wrote: i don't think a picture of me in front of a computer with a headset on is very interesting....
That depends on the computer! ;-)

Bron wrote: What about baby photos?? Match the cutie with reality.
Good idea. I'd even send a photo from the time when I was 55 inches shorter than I am now.

Stephen wrote: I'd pay money to see Amos dressed as a racehorse.
The other way round would be interesting as well. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: hesperis
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 06:36 PM

Yeah! Mudcatters mudcatting! A picture of a mudcatter next to a screen showing some mudcat thread! I've even got one for that, I think... showing the backs of Little Hawk, flattop, and CarolC! (If I remember correctly. It might have just been two out of those three...)

...I'd like the "pets" one best, especially if it's pets AND musical instruments.

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 07:08 PM

ROTFLMA...geeze wodda crowd this place draws. I swan!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 07:46 PM

Where the hell did that expression come from?

"I Swan."

My family used that sucker and I figured it must be I swear in some strange mutation.........as the thread drifts slightly off center.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:10 PM

it's archaic as hell, all right, but when i was growing up in New England it could still be heard dribbling from the lips of a few old-timers. And yes, as far as I know it is a colloquial variant of "I swear". Maybe the PC crowd in the nineteenth century thought saying the word swear was as bad as swearing (in the sacreligious sense) and made people use it as a euphemism. The things folk will do!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Robin2
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:32 PM

"I Swan" in New England?

Geesh, that one I thought for sure was southern dialect. My gramma said it all the time, and I thought it was quaint. Always heard it meant "I swear"

I LOVE the idea of mudcatters with their pets, could we do that, please, please, please? Pets I have, lots of em!Frankly, some people shouldn't be seen nearly nude, and I'm one of em!

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:31 PM

Oh man. This could be difficult. And dangerous. First I'm going to have to find my little spider pet. (S/he's shy and likes to hide.) Then I'm going to have to catch it and then hope the camera will take a picture of something that small. And I hope S/he doesn't bite me. I got bit by a spider a couple of weeks ago. Hurt like hell (although it did wake me up pretty good).

But I have my limits! I am not posing nude or even semi-nude with a spider!

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:37 PM

The pix are fine and can be done many ways, but I would love to see each one featured give a list of their favorite songs so that the calendar can be a "A Song A Day" thing... you know, it would remind us to dig up some old favorites or learn some new ones.

Pix: Mudcatters, instruments, open cases on the ground, surrounded by singing people.... in odd locations or bizarre situations. "Ultimate Busking." With a short description of what they had to do to pull it off. Just imagine.... but the result would be an acculmulated image suggesting that "you can sing anywhere and in all circumstances." (Show how music belongs everywhere, see?) Ideally each pic would have be taken in the season in which the month featured occurs. January busking.... hmmm.... where?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:40 PM

PS, Hardi doesn't take his collar off for just anyone, either.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 08:19 AM

How about combining the nearly nude with the baby idea? Hands up all those whose parents had them taken on the sheepskin rug wearing nothing more than a toothless grin!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 11:33 AM

ARRRRRGH!!!! Don't remind me Mrs. Duck!! I had the "on the beach wearing nothing but a mop cap" look aswell!! Eugh.....why do parents do such things?

I like the idea of catter's with their pets AND their instruments......although I wouldn't let my kitten anywhere near my bodhran.....it'd be worse than the stanley knife effect!!

I can just see it........me n catsPHiddle with our three little kittie cats.....and our 30+ instruments lol!! Could be an interesting combination!!

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: alison
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 09:18 PM

I think it has to be something different...... we can see pics of most of us if we check out the "resources" page... it has to be more than that....... although I do like the idea of group reinactments of songs at festivals...........

I'm still keen on the folk song one... and for all of you pet lovers out there... you could pic songs with animals in them...... think of ways to do " the cat came back"!!! sort of thing........ Carol you can do "incy wincy spider"!!!!!!!! *grin*

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Calendar 2003 Ideas please
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 09:35 PM

Spaw said: "...as the thread drifts slightly off center." Isn't that sort of like calling the Titanic a "big boat"? :)