BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 02:47 PM

Toadfrog, you gotta be kidding! Well, about Shatner, anyway... I'll explain.

First of all, a wiccan is someone who follows Wicca which is an Earth-based religion having some connections to Druidism...white witchcraft...and so on. Do a google search, and you will no doubt find endless material about it. Wiccans can be interesting people, usually rather unconventional and imaginative. Sometimes they get too much into rituals for my taste, but that's up to them.

Shatner is...William Shatner. The actor who portrayed Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek series.

Some people consider him to be a not terribly good actor. Some consider him to be a very bad actor. Others admire him for various reasons and are fans. I started a long series of threads about William Shatner just for fun and for the hell of it...actually I was competing with Spaw's humorous threads about Paw and Cletus, etc...that kind of thing.

It was strictly for laughs. After a while a running joke can become a sort of tradition in a given venue. That happened with Shatner. Some enjoyed it, others did not. The rest is history.

I also created a supposed educational facility in the Orillia, Ontario, Canada area called the William Shatner School of BAAAAAAD Acting. If you see a reference to the WSSBA, that's it. Note that the initials of Bill Shatner are...BS!!! Very cool. The WSSBA was really inspired by the NYCFTTS. Call it a spinoff series.

I recently read his book "Get A Life", and by gosh...it's a genuinely great book. How about that? I seem to have mutated into a real Shatner fan of sorts, as a result of all this tomfoolery which I started.

Okay?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: YOR
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 02:57 PM

Britney Spears has talent! Two of them.

I didn't thunk there were any words that could not be said on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 03:07 PM

Well, there are some Czech words which I find almost impossible to say even OFF Mudcat...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 04:28 PM

Probably a few Welsh words, too, LH. (At least they'd be impossible to SPELL here or anywhere other than Wales.)

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Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 05:26 PM

YOR says "Britney Spears has talent! Two of them." Well, there's her belly button...what's the other one?

"Seven words you can't say on Mudcat?" Heck, there are probably seven MILLION words I can't pronounce, much less type!

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 09:17 PM

little jawk,

for the benefit of the uninitiated,can you also explain NYCFTTS?

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 09:29 PM

Mr Happy, it's the Neil Young Center For The Terminally Screwed. Right, LH?

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 12:45 AM

GUEST - if you have your own site - why don't you invite me - I may say something that you find offensive and then you'll have an orgasm while you delete my post. I always look forward to giving orgasms and my bet is that I'd MUCH rather give you a virtual one than come within 10 klicks of touching you...

PS While you're obviosuly too stupid to understand: I didn't say that "Freedom of speech = freedom of the press". I said "Freedom of the press is an absolute right to only those that own a press. What that means is that the only way to guarantee that you can speak freely is to actually own you're own press (or website, TV station, etc.) Anywhere else, you are subject to the real owner's right to censor you. If you have your own website - you can blither on as long as you want. Here at Mudcat, you are subject to the owner ALLOWING you to do so.

Complaining that that is unfair is like complaining that the sun is hot - You don't like it, but theirs nowt you can do except shut up and cry "wee, wee, wee, all the way home."

Have a nice day (and I mean that in a negative sense)

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:06 AM

GUEST...It is a pleasure having you here, and this thanks is sincere. You have the insight and wit to cut the BS and wound to the quik.

Sorry you can't stick around awhile longer....the mudcat demagods occasionally, need a good pounding.

A Sincere THANX,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:18 AM

Little Hawk - I was "banished" for inflamatory remarks made during a heated discussion regarding a thread's reference to the song "My Little Armalite" a weapon used in Northern Ireland and manufactored in Southern California. (Only one side of the Irish Question was deemed proper for discussion - by the faint hearted females/eunochs in Max's harem.) You close friend, The Pussilanimous-Pussy, can, no doubt, fill you in on the other details.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Gurney
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 07:39 AM

If William Shatner is a swearword, will I get edited if I use a euphemism, like Mark Hamill? Gurney

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 09:01 AM

gargoyle, check your PM's...part of your current membership you choose not to use

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 05:11 PM

Gargoyle - Thanks for the info. I have never been inclined to get much involved in wrangles about Ireland, but I know it's a subject which is like a minefield around some people...as is the Arab-Israeli conflict and/or anything involving Jews and/or Nazis around others.

I don't imagine I like kneejerk thinking any more than you do. I also don't like it when any group of people becomes so sacrosanct (due to past sufferings at the hands of others or whatever) that they are considered beyond criticism no matter what they do...or say. There are quite a few examples of that around these days.

Nor do I like it when any group becomes demonized to the point that any statement acknowledging a shred of goodness or humanity in a single one of them is pounced upon and derided.

Those are the two extremes of prejudicial thinking and they both lead nowhere useful.

Mudcat isn't perfect, obviously, and it suffers from its own proponents of such prejudicial thinking now and then, but for me it's an enjoyable place on the whole. Some GUESTs are quite enjoyable too. It all depends on their attitude.

Mr Happy - I think the NYCFTTS was started by Spaw. It's another fictional organization...a sort of nursing home/rehab center for "terminally screwed" people...that is, people who kind of resemble Neil Young on the morning after a really HEAVY weekend, staggering around on the stage, bleary-eyed, wrenching maximum distortion out of his electric guitar while appearing (according to Spaw) to be having sex with it. Spaw also started up another organization, the James Taylor Center For Catatonic Blandness. It's a pretty laid-back place, and not a lot happens there, so it isn't mentioned all that often, but it's a great place to be if you really want to mellow out for awhile. Thank Spaw for these creations. I don't know what's up with Spaw lately, he seems to be keeping a somewhat lower profile. I think he may have been Shatnerized into submission...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Arne Langsetmo
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 12:15 PM

"Shino"

(courtesy of John Roberts and Tony Barrand).

Cheers,

-- Anre Langsetmo

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 08:22 PM

This is almost like writing haiku!

• William Shatner is a truly amazing actor.
• What is your definition of Folk Music?
• George W. Bush is a fine president.
• [Insert 2 word Mudcat member handle here, i.e. Wincing Devil, Celtic Soul, Little Hawk ] needs to get a life.
• Help needed learning to play the accordian (applies to accordian only)

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 11:08 PM

Hawkster......It's mainly because I'm bored stiff with the level of drivel. We used to have a lot of fun with meaningless bullshit that flowed through the folk music but it's dropped off to a level that cannot even be considered mildly amusing. Pissing around with these simple ass guest trolls is boring as hell and completely lame (as they are) so I'm thinking of attending some Shatner classes to start a new program in conjunction with the NYCFTTS.

BTW, have you seen Bagger Vance yet?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Genie
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 02:41 AM

LH, Spaw, the "James Taylor Center For Catatonic Blandness?" Haven't seen that one before, but it's a keeper!

Spaw, re your last post, I know what you mean.

(No, haven't seen Bagger Vance.)

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Seven Words you can't say on Mudcat?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 01:46 PM

1. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that seems to be a flame.
2. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that might be controversial.
3. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that gives rise to strong debate.
4. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that is open to discussion.
5. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that seems reasonable.
6. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that is patently true.
7. Anything posted by an anonymous GUEST that a member disagrees with.

Doug C