BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?

Subject: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 05:54 PM

It would come as a welcome relief for me at least, if John of Hull and others could lay off their remorseless plugging of the one band around which their whole world seems to revolve.

No doubt that small world is important to them, but I think a sense of proportion and a little less selfishness would be in order. There must be hundreds of performers and bands in and around the Mudcat community, many doing dozens of gigs a year. If every booking provoked a thread, the cafe wouldn't be worth visiting.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:25 PM

Fionn - Well, yes, but... If I look at my own Mudcatting habits, I find that I frequently look into no more than 5 or 6 given threads on Mudcat on a given day. That's out of how many on the whole board? 60 or 70?

Given that fact, how can one or two threads about "Punch the Horse" be a problem for someone? Just don't read them!

Besides, if we discontinue "Punch the Horse", we may never find out what happens with the great Twillingsgate love triangle, and various other fascinating subjects like that.

Now it's easy...just resist the temptation to open a "Punch the Horse" thread when you see it. Pretend it isn't there. If all else fails, try cold showers, scourging, flagellation, hair shirts, that sort of thing...until you have well and truly broken the habit.

- LH

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:31 PM

Gee Fionn....Were you reading my mind or this post I made the other day on a different thread?

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Subject: RE: political threads
From: catspaw49 - PM
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 09:12 AM


Political discussion has been a part of the place for the past four years at least and there are times when I think it goes way past the limit of reasonable, but at other times is about right. Many here, myself included, enjoy these discussions. I just personally think we go overboard at times to the point where it seems every other thread is polishit and many of them on the same subject. Every policy change doesn't need a new thread when we're talking about the Bush administration or whatever. I wish we'd all think more before starting ANY thread ANY time. If I never see another Punch the fuckin' Horse thread started it will be too soon!
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Italics added.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:33 PM

Maybe we could just all go to Hull and punch them???

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:39 PM

Your mind's an open book to me, Spaw.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:52 PM

Well, guys, I promise not to start one. :-) BTW, have you noticed how few S***ner threads have been around lately? What self-control, eh?

- LH

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:16 PM

Spaw-as you were testing the new mudcat for a few months, you will obviously be aware of the "Filter Out" facility, so simple, just type Punch the Horse in the box, then click filter out, then you will never see another "Punch the fuckin Horse thread"!
Anyone else that dosent like them, just filter them out.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:21 PM

Yeah jOhn you tell them. I don't read the politic shit so why should they read our shit! And just so you know Fionn: the Punch the Horse threads are not about promoting the band but rather are all about a bumch of people who know each other either in 3d or through the cat taking the piss out of eachother without mercy and loving every second of it!

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:23 PM

Well sed Smallpliers.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:24 PM

PS, you missed a good jig at the Sun tonight, they were in fine form.john

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:25 PM

Yep.........if you don't like 'em, don't read 'em. I haven't read one of them yet, but based on the comments by folks above, I may.

Mick

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,Angry from Manchester
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:35 PM

What I would like to complain about, is all the repeats on TV, there are far too many and it's a bloody disgrace, it was never like that in my day, etc, etc, etc.

Angry

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:36 PM

I've just got in from the cows to find out that the PTH threads may be infected with irony. Awwwwwwww... Anyway, I'm off to Twillingsgate on the 13th October. By the small hours of the 14th, I'll have bloodied my first hyphenated nose and will be illegally parked in a stolen car. With my one true love. So there.      

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:39 PM

Will the seats be slashed......... oooooh please say the seats will be slashed!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:44 PM

From the thread Spaw refers to... "Mudcat a site where the English discuss folk sessions, the Americans discuss politics, & the Canadians chat amongst themselves"

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:45 PM

Lip Sampler, The seats will be moistened.....and slashed - yes ripped and cut and riven. There will be festoons of flailing ribbons of joyous vinyl and clouds of wadding, flying like a snowstorm of....er.....wadding. Sorry, I got a bit carried away there.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:47 PM

what you too on about?

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:49 PM

Oaklet, how did yoo , get home so quik anyway? yoou must have been speding, or have you got one od them porta bul compters?

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:50 PM

I ment quick.john

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:54 PM

A blue Toyota Hiace van and a fair wind jOhn and urges, sped me homewards. I must sleep now and dream.   

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:00 PM

Punch the horse and knock 'im doon
And then we'll howel at the moon!
Look out wold, the fur'll fly,
Up in Caledonieye!

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:17 PM

Het uhhh smallpiper? Are those scottish smallpipes under your arm there or are you just cleaning a pig... No realy... what key do you play in mostly? I'm actually interested...ttr

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:19 PM

This thread has an anecdote about something else that musicians might do to a horse.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:26 PM

I tried to filter out ol' Punch but now y'all are pinchin' the damn thing and it can't be done. Just goes to show that you can't keep a good asshole down......or a bad one for that matter......or a mentally ill ne......or an icredibly stupid one.......or any combination of the foregoing.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:29 PM

In that case spaw, just filter out "the horse".john

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:38 PM

Two guys sitting at the bar, and one looks at the other, lifts his glass for a toast and says "here's to missing the big picture!"

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:41 PM

Doesn't work that way John......We'd need to install a "Horse's Ass Filter" to do that in which case about 99% of the place would disappear.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 09:00 PM

i just tried filtering out "the horse" works fine here, it caught all the threads containing the phrase, including this one.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,ossonflags
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:03 AM

It is quite intresting (and very flattering ) that one of the persons comlaining about a little light hearted and harmless banter among chums of the like persusion, find it fitting to start there own "punch the horse" thread.

As well as been very informative, mudcat is a chat line wich means just that.

Come on you lot,life is hard enough,lighten up a little!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: mooman
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:21 AM

Dear 'Spaw and Fionn,

I think it important at this point to mention that 99.99% of the Mudcat members are from 9Hull. In fact, all 9Hullites are Mudcat members.

Probably, on balance, it's probably better to let them have their "horse" threads here to occupy them rather than them having time to run amok amongst the general UK or (shudder!) even European or wider populations! (;>)

Best wishes

Moo

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:27 AM

Well said, Mooman

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: RichM
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:57 AM

Write what you want to.
Read what you want to.
Bitch about what you want to.
Ignore the rest.
It works for me....

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 05:00 AM

IN answer to Thomas the R's question...I have a combination set of smallpipes made by Hamish Moore. I have two interchangable chanters one in the key of A which allows me to play tunes in A or D and the other is in the key of D which allows me to play in D or G. So I can play in sessions with all types of instruments including melodeons. The four drones allow me to give a nice background cord in any of the above keys.

Now where we we oh yes jOhn the slashed seats refers to Ms P's predeliction for stealing cars and vandalising them apparently she gets into such a lather that it takes the Acorn ages to recover, he goes all glassy eyed and unnecessary

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 06:59 AM

Thank you Moo for such a lucid explanation. I myself have recently seen the latest video, "Punch the Horse Has Botflies" and it moved me to tears.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:19 AM

Where's 9Hull ?

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:25 AM

9Hull was made famous by the fabulous first video done by Punch the Horse in which Punch is suckered out of his money by an Albanian Hat Blocker and finds help only after worshipping at the Temple of the Stars where he finds he was born under the sign of Lumides the Pants Salesman. Great stuff!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:42 AM

Thats it bouys youve got it in two!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 10:50 AM

Mooman, I am afraid your worst fears have been realised. At least one Hull 'Catter is off to Lille in France on the 14th October to prospect for a suitable base from which to spearhead9 an assault on the taste, decency and spelling in incontinental Europe.

Can't be long before "Punch le Cheval neuf" threads really start to piss Fionn right off.

I have rub lime juice into my wrists in anticipation.   

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 11:26 AM

Oh me gotsh...yes, please! Ms. P sounds delightful... Is she friendly to Americans? If only I an extra three hours...

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 03:09 PM

Oo, is this another one of them 'Punch the Horse' threads. Who would be daft enough to start one of those?

But listen to Mooman, folks. There are ever so many Mudcatters in this area and it's saving us a fortune in phone calls.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 03:26 PM

I have no intention of using the new filter system to weed out threads that I have some objection to...or no interest in. If I did, then I would have nothing to get upset about any longer or to feel superior to either, and this would be VERY disturbing! It might force me to abandon the keyboard and "get a life" by hanging around downtown and making disparaging remarks about people's hats and shoes as they pass by.

Tension builds...as the countdown to October 13 begins!!!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 05:11 PM

hey check out the Lars Pimple at Cherry Burton UK thread its a total break from pinch the snout - I'm getting tired of promoting alternative threads OAKLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

All day at the job... dreaming of Ms. P... does she love jaguars? i do... 160 kilometers an hour, and nowhere near er... Does she take the ferry? Or would she rather jest Miss the boat, and tear it up! positively Hull8lluH ttr

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:13 PM

I like Jaguars, I used to have one, it was an XJ6 Soverign, Harpmaker used to have one as well. Did any other Hull catters used to own a Jag?

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:19 PM

I knew a girl from Cherry Burton once, she was called Jenny, and was a farming student, she was good at drinking bear 9she could drink loads).john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,John Prescott
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:17 AM

I have two at the last count,jags that is.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:27 AM

I Think you are an honest and deeply caring person john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,Oakley
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:28 AM

You also have man-boobs, fatso.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:28 AM

i got micksed up, she was from Bishop Burton, she was really good at drinking though, she could drink loads of Guinness and not fall over, i think farming students, and medical students drink the most bear.john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:16 PM

Please don't tell me that "Miss the Boat" is not another Brit Folk Group.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:34 PM

Oh NOW I get it Punch the Horse is a BAND! I thought it was an obscure British drollery of some sort. What sort of music do they play? Are they any good?

Is John from Hull a participant? Manager? Fan???

CB

PS

what is happening on October 13? I mean for youse guys. I'm doing a "wild edibles" dinner wherein we introduce the citified gentry to ash cakes, elderberry pie, Indian corn pudding, fish baked in mud (and one of them a catfish, by the way), 'coon, elk roast, and baked yams (wrapped in Prairie Dock and laid in the ashes along with the ash cakes). I can hardly wait since most of the poor dears will just pick at their food and there will be lots left over.

I wanted to make hoe cakes but was told it wasn't Indian!

cb

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 02:04 PM

That's hoecakes for you to say!
Alternatively
Oh hoe cake hoe cake hoe cake
In out in out RA RA RA
Oh this is such pun.!!!!!!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 02:33 PM

Did I ever ask if they palyed in the Key of GG? Might as well get it in before John reads to the flack and does the right thing.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Willa
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 02:41 PM

If that post 7.25am Oct 7 is really yours, Spaw, then I'm afraid you've obviously caught the 9JnohPinchtheoss virus in its severest form and are fit for nothing but to end your days in'ull

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:19 PM

A Guest said

" the Canadians chat amongst themselves"

No friggin' way Jose!

The day I come to Mudcat just to chat with the other Canucks is the day I'll go back to watchin' TV!

Cheers

Rick

P.S. I don't know anything about PINCH the WHORES but I'm sure they're fine people.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:45 PM

I second your 9notion Mr. Fielding, but first!... lets Lunch the Porsche! Or, better yet, maybe the world is going to Hull after all... ttr

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:49 PM

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Guessed
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 08:59 AM

Let them eat their own words - "Lunch the Horse"
Rick Fielding LOL - maybe they are prostituting their art? or soliciting for opinions?

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 09:45 AM

Poncho the Moose are a band of much talent and reputation -the fact that they are all mad as a box of frogs is irrelevant.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 09:56 AM

A Box of Frogs - that's a band wot has nowt to do with pinch the whores, nibble the goose or even the equine pugalists. But I believe are a good british band in their own right.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 10:01 AM

Course they all derive from Muffin the Mule, anyway

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 10:19 AM

the less about your deviant sexual habots the better Snuffy!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 11:04 AM

Whoat th' bloomin bejesus are ye sawyin misses? It's noat none o yer feckin bizness noo is et... Ah loov em!

Punch the Horse? I want to hear you. gotta CD?

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 11:32 AM

Punch the Horse have a CD out called "Andy's for Seven" and its good talk to Ossenflags he'll sell you one.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 02:01 PM

see the thread called Review:Punch the Horse CD
P.S. It is ossonflags as in oss on flags!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 02:16 PM

I would have contributed earlier to this, but alas I have spent the past 18 hours with my head stuck between the railings, being ignored by passers by, at the secluded end of the park.

I managed to mess myself as well.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 02:27 PM

are you sure you dont want a rabbbit?

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 07:12 PM

No, jOhn, I managed to wipe my arse on an owl.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 07:34 PM

Oh the shame yet more spelling lessons from jOhn - how will I ever live this down!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 01:28 AM

Or maybe , thinks I, just maybe, the horse's name is Punch.

Part of a team of huge dray horses, Percherons, perhaps. The other horse being Judy, of course. Actually Judy wasn't a mare BOTH horses were geldings. Their ambitions or at least Punch's ambition , Judy was just along for the ride, so-to-speak, was to join the Circus and pull one of them fancy wagons with the pretty gold leaf decorations.

Well it all came to naught, Punch had a weakness for stout and became terribly drunk on Saint Patrick's Day. When he recovered, he found that Judy had left and taken the harness with "her". For years he could be seen, staggering through the worst part of town, cageing drinks.

He was found frozen to death in an alley in Buffalo. There was only his old, worn horse collar and tucked into it was a faded and stained color graveur, a handbill for Barnum and Bailey's Circus.

Such are the evils of drink!

CB

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 11:44 PM

smallpliers, you won't!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: ossonflags
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 09:57 AM

i realy feel for that owl.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 02:09 AM

I heard that they are playing a jig at Durty Nellies, High Street, Hull on friday at 9PM9.john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,Ernest C.
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 02:41 AM

If people want to complain, it is too late. Mudcat has already gone to Hull in a handbasket, so don't bother. Sorry about the way I spell.   I have trouble writing with the Hull accent thing.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,ossonflags
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 06:32 AM

No its not john, its saterday

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:02 AM

It is sort of addictive, one you have had a little, you want ot have a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 06:44 PM

Just for the badness of it all

REFRESH!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,ivor biggin
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 01:16 AM

i heard this lot are plying at durty nellies in hull on satday,i for one will be tjhere 9i haVE HEARD THERE LEAD SINGER IS MAGNIFICENT9!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 01:39 AM

No, the lead singer for Punch the Horse is not Magnificent. It is Ossonflags. Magnificent is the lead singer for either Impale the Hedgehog or Eviscerate the Wombat, but I can't remember which.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 08:59 AM

A break would be a good idea - don't they usually put horses down when they break their legs ? Let's break all 4 (and the middle one as well) just to be certain.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Declan
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 11:40 AM

Guest,Ivor Biggin,

Magnificent9? - Its hard enough to remember who played 7 of them.

The other one was Brad Dexter.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:59 PM

Yep durty nellies in hull aturday ve there or be square.