Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?

Subject: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 07:50 PM

Well?

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: harpgirl
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 07:51 PM

This is a delicate question because as my nanny used to say, " A lady never tells her age!"

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: tarheel
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 07:53 PM

skip...do you mean in membership here, or age of members?

tarheel is 68 years young!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bernard
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 07:57 PM

Risky!

It's also tempting fate...

It ain't me... yet!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:02 PM

we got old members, and we got long-time members...there have been threads on both.

(if NON-surviving members start posting, I'm gonna have to reconsider some of my comments...*grin*)

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:05 PM

Les from Hull is really old, he remembers when there was horse and carts in Hull, [before they invented cars etc].

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:05 PM

I'm 57 but I look 94. Does that count?

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:09 PM

I'll tell you in 30 years or so!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:10 PM

Roger the Skiffler. Oh sorry that's just his jokes ;-)

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Joybell
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:36 PM

Sir jOhn, There were horses and carts, and horse drinking water troughs, in Melbourne when I was a kid. Must make me oldish at least. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:41 PM

There were horse-drawn milk and bread delivery wagons when I was a kid in Montreal.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 08:53 PM

Let's see===I recall B/W TV as a wonderful new thing---and before that going ome at 5 PM to make sure I did not miss the latest installment of the 5-6 PM hour of Radiop Serials---Hop Harrigan, Captain Midnight, and never forget===JACK ARMSTRONG The AAAAAaaaal Ameriocan Boy---brought to you by Wheaties=--=The Breakfast of Champions. Though now I doubt it.


So am in the league or not.

Who knows---what evil lurks in the hearts of men----you bet your ass who knows---da shado do.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 09:07 PM

Well, Kendall is seventy but reckons that there are others older than him.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Teresa
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 09:31 PM

Well, by the word "surviving", I'd guess age, but then you never know. :):) I'm just 40 and have been lurking around here since 1998, and I've survived it so far! ;);) Nothing like our 'cat.

Teresa

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 09:33 PM

Kendall's a kid.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 10:04 PM

I remember the horse drawn baker's cart, radio serials and cars with running boards. I've been around mudcat for a while, I feel 100 years old today, and I'm barely surviving. Do I qualify?

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 10:16 PM

Get it said, Mister Greenhaus, Sir!! I yam sure that will make his day!


A

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 10:23 PM

if the question is taken to mean "those of us who have hung out here longest" then it has to be, as stated above, Dick Greenhaus and "Susan of DT", Susan Friedman. And Max. I've been posting here (and had my cookie eaten many times) since 1998 or before. . . would have to check.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 10:25 PM

Yep. I have been here as a member since 1998, and for a while before that without being a member. There are a number of folks that were here before that.

Mick

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 11:17 PM

I first posted in late October of 1996

Bert was here before that, I think...

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 11:33 PM

There are also very distinguished members who have been on the 'Cat for a while and who have been performing for a lot longer. I'm thinking of our esteemed KyTrad, for example.

SRS

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 11:48 PM

(gotta amend that, I guess...the oldest post I can find by me was Nov. 7, of '96...Bert was indeed here before that, and my friend LaMarca, who used to post a lot, and sometimes still pops in here, posted 2 days before that.

So Bert and I and Dick Greenhaus are about the most steady denizens of this here swamp...Dale Rose and "Old Timer Gene", who show up now & then, have been around about as long....but they mostly lurk.

...but as to age..*grin*...Dick G. is right...Kendall is a kid...and Dick oughta know...

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,Knew Tymer
Date: 18 Jan 05 - 11:57 PM

Gee, Bill D, 8 years plus and you still don't get it! JK,JK *grin*

Looking forward to many more of your and other old timer's posts.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 12:02 AM

well...I am known for being dense at times...and slow....and ....and I forget what else. *grin*

JK, JK?.... I KNOW it will hit me at 3 AM

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Teresa
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 12:07 AM

just kidding

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 05:17 AM

I first posted in 1967. I started my first thread about democrats in 1968, it is still running incidentally.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 05:29 AM

Not me!!!!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: MudGuard
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 06:08 AM

Everyone born after January 22, 1929 does not qualify for "oldest surviving Mudcatter" unless this list is wrong ...

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:22 AM

j0hn, Les is old enough to remember horses & CHARIOTS....

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:43 AM

I should like to point out that that list says I was born in 1956. While I appreciate the 5 years, I was actually born in 1951.

Mick

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:44 AM

I'm 58 going on fourteen.

eric

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:13 AM

I'm only 48 and I remember tradesmen using horsedrawn vehicles and cobbled streets with curbs at the right height for people to step out of carriages rather than cars. I can remember our neighbours turning out to watch our bath being delivered as most people still used a tin bath which was hung on the back of the door when not in use. I can remember a milking parlour just a few streets away (this was in Bethnal Green just 15 minutes walk from the heart of the City) and the cows being led in down Bethnal Green Road from where they were grazed on Wanstead Flats. The past is not as far away as people think.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,It should be me
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:07 AM

Very few of the rest of ye can remember the time the Titanic went down. OR when De Valera made a dog's dinner of the Peace Process. I can barely see the keyboard. Now - where did i leave my teeth ?

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:23 AM

I'm only 61 and, despite what Bert says, some> of my jokes are younger!

RtS
(better a good old 'un than a bad young 'un!)

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Helen
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:31 AM

I first posted 27 May 1997, but I'm a bit sad that I missed out on 30 years of Mudcat and flamenco ted's 1967 and 1968 posts. :-)

Helen

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bert
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 12:09 PM

Hey Manitas, Way back in 1949 I used to live just 'round the corner from Wanstead Flats in Forest Gate.

We weren't allowed to play in the pond there 'cos we might get Infantile Paralysis.

I can remember hiding under the desk at school during air raids.
and collecting shrapnel and making Christmas decorations from the silvered chaff that we'd collect in the fields.

And we used to chat over the fence with the German Prisoners of war, and go down the village and buy them cigarettes. And we'd listn to "Much Binding in the Marsh" on the radio.

Of course that was after Vera Lynn.

I can remember the train journey to Wales when we were evacuated. Somehow news of an evacuation train had gotten around and going through North London, people were waving to us from the windows in all the row houses.

I can remember DT BEFORE Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 12:17 PM

My dog, Valdy, is getting pretty ancient.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:26 PM

I was here as Little Dorritt, ickle dorritt eons ago, but I would prefer to think of myself as more than just survival-I am of course very young in every other respect.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,Uncle DaveO
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:28 PM

From what's been said already, I guess I'm not the oldest, but I'm 74, for whatever that's worth.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:31 PM

Dave-
It's worth, at least, a hell of a lot of candles.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Megan L
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:36 PM

ach wheesht "it should be me" surely ye kin remember the Boer war at the very least. Di ye mind oan the night the graff zeplin flew ower glasgow or watchin the first plane flyin ower the Tak me doon road.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:52 PM

Ah that's nothing! I remember them poor boys charging down on them Russian guns while they was blazing and thundering away at them. You'd be nowt but a young un if ye can remember the night that zeplin bombed our granny's outhouse.

Eric feeling about 160 today!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:59 PM

I see I didn't even make the top 20 on the list...but I DO remember the DT not only before Mudcat, but before Xerox....when it was just on a couple floppies that Dick G. would hand out.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,Com Seangan
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:03 PM

Fair dues to you Uncle Dave. Your 74 - the same age as my twins.

And you know old timers - what we have is the good memories which nobody can take from us. Especially the musical memories

God be good to the times when Maggie Burke used to sing in the Parish Hall in Bohola (Co, Mayo). That is before she became more famous and took to Opera singing as Margaret Burke Sheridan. But she was always good for a blast of a song when she came on the holidays. And it is she who could raise the rafters. She told us how she missed the ou' turf fire out there in Milan.

Now, Maggie had an older brother, Peter ( a fellow with a rovin' eye in them days). He hiked off to America early on.Would anyone know what became of him ?

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:09 PM

I've tried to post some of my folk scene memories in various threads over the last few years--mostly about Chicago---when those threads were looking for info on stuff I was a part of. It was fun dredging up the old doings---especially when it was about old friends who are no longer here.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:24 PM

That list is FRIGHTENING - First time I have ever been in the top forty !!!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: tarheel
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:30 PM

i firsdt came here in the year 2000,but don't remember when i joined,quit,and rejoined,quit again and rejoined again....duh!!!!!
anyway,it's been fun and still is!!!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:33 PM

Aw kids. They get to ya. But let then have their say.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST,goodbar
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:39 PM

jesus you people are old. i'm 16.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:45 PM

Make the most of it. Before you can blink, you'll be 61.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bert
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:47 PM

Don't worry goodbar, if you're anything like the rest of us you'll never FEEL any older than you are now.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:55 PM

I am pretty sure I am one of the earliest Mudcatters, purely by a fluke, I stumbled across it right after it began, and it was a joy from the start, we used to celebrate a day in October as the Mudcat birthday. I am a right lurker.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Boab
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 11:24 PM

Ah, weel----like Dave, I can talk about "young Kendall". Put it another way---I learned "the Faerie Lullaby" at my Granny's knee near a place called Tynron, Dumfries-shire, BEFORE the jubilee celebrations during the reign of GEORGE THE FIFTH------
Och---I'm tired --bed time......

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 12:29 AM

Our Jewish brothers tend to avoid this subject. The Angel of Death is always listening and you don't want to remind him of a missed appointment.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Louie Roy
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 01:28 PM

I'm only 80 but I feel like I'm 25 still going strong Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: thespionage
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 01:41 PM

I don't know about the oldest, but being that I was born near the end of 1985, I believe that I am one of the youngest.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Dreaded Thumbpick
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 02:00 PM

I'm old enough to remember when the Beatles had a hit out of

Will you still miss me, Will you still kiss me?
When I'm six feet four.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 04:40 PM

Well I'm not even on the list!! Boo hooo hoooo!!!

And even worse, I'm 2 years older than MudGuard!

LTS

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 04:55 PM

If you had been put on the list, Liz, you would be upset at the impropriety of someone revealing how little your age really is.


A

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: thespionage
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 05:04 PM

How do you put your birthday into Mudcat? I see that other people have profiles, but I don't see where to create one myself. It also astounds me that there are five- and six-year-olds on Mucat. I thought I was one of the youngest at 19.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: MudGuard
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 05:05 PM

Liz, you are only 2 years riper than I am ;-)

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:51 AM

Will you still miss me, Will you still kiss me?
When I'm six feet four.

Mondegreen alert!!!!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:55 AM

Why Mondegreen alert? I am six feet four (or 194cm) ... ;-)

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Dreaded Thumbpick
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 09:13 AM

Whose Mondegreen and why?

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:53 PM

I'm not 60 yet! I'm not 60 yet! No! No! I don't want to be 60! Stop the time! Joy who's not 60 yet!

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Kaleea
Date: 22 Jan 05 - 02:37 AM

5 & 6 year olds?!?   Can they spell "traditional music?" Jeepers Creepers! It's good to know that there are others more geezerly than my own geezerly self.

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jan 05 - 02:52 PM

I think the "list" needs to be revised to show Louie Roy.....he may be the current oldest....(we had one other fellow who was in that range...I forget now..) gotta do a search

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:58 AM

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:03 AM

What is that? Liz is speechless? I can't believe it ... ;-)

Subject: RE: Who are the oldest surviving Mudcatters?
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:47 AM

The last time I had a birthday they putt the batter in a pan, inserted and lit the candles, and the cake baked itself.