BS: Name your favorite threads

Subject: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Azizi
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:28 PM

Which Mudcat threads are your favorites & why?

I'll start the ball rolling in the next post.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:36 PM

Coats and Clark have pretty good thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:38 PM

Spancil Hill.........The Infamous Tiple Thread.........Hokey Pokey and the Druids.......Mudcat Juke Joint.............The Brazilian Rosewood Thread

Nobody will bother reading any of these so I won't bother linking them. I think all of that group is in a section of the FAQ anyway. Pardon my cynicism but the joint ain't what it used to be and most people around here now could care less about older threads. It was a funnier and lighter time as well as a more scholarly one, unlike today when it is incredibly political and contentious in BS and silly as hell (read: moronic) up above the line as well.

Spaw....in a fairly dark mood

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: bobad
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:40 PM

Mercy, mercy me
Things ain't what they used to be

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:48 PM

I happen to agree with Spaw -- too much politics, too much opinion, too little thought. Seems like everyone with an opinion is signing up and posting these days -- and you know what they say about opinions and assholes.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:49 PM

Things are more like they are now than they ever have been before.

(Dwight Eisenhower?)

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Azizi
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:50 PM

Though it seems like it's been longer, September 5th 2006 will mark my second year anniversary as a Mudcat member. I posted on this thread as a guest one month before then, so August 2006 actually marks my 2nd anniversary as a Mudcat poster.

Since I started posting on Mudcat, I've found a number of threads to be interesting, informative, thought provoking, meaningful, and/or enjoyable.

Here's some of some of those threads & why I consider them my favorites:
Feelin The Blues because of the wealth of information in that thread and the fact that the posters' consideration & helpfulness made me feel welcome.

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I'm Rubber. You're Glue: Children's Rhymes ; and all the other theads on children's rhymes because I'm delighted by the creativity of children's rhymes and I'm interested in the continuity & change in these rhymes, and the origins and source materials of these rhymes.

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BS: Obit?: Blinkin' and other play on word threads because as a result of my involvement on Mudcat, I've learned that I enjoy play on words, and sometimes I like kickin back and having fun just for the heck of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 10:02 PM

some OLD ones:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=65141

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=56708

and, one of mine...http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77907

some even older ones: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7819

and one of my favorites http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2624 (How to create a folksong)

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 10:05 PM

Today Is A Good Day Because... The thread has been refreshing when I've really needed it. It's a good reminder to me that even the worst of days have something good in them.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 10:06 PM

Then there was the INFAMOUS cut'n pasters creepin' back in in which I composed my stream-of-conciousness reply to Shambles and got it translated...*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Azizi
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 10:07 PM

I found it!! Though, I had difficulty searching through my archived threads, I didn't give up. And my efforts were not in vain.

Here's my all time favorite fun Mudcat thread:

Sponge Bob dead on Xmas eve

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Janie
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM

If I do say so myself, History of England Part I is one of my favorites. I eagerly await the advent of Part II.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: number 6
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 11:19 PM

Cluin's thread "Bad Album Cover Art" .... it was one hell of a good laff.

Bad Album Cover Art


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Severn
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 11:23 PM

The one a while back on Merlin Banjos and The Chicago folk scene featured some marvellous pieces of oral history of a certain place and time and lured a number of people we don't usually hear from.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Azizi
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 11:30 PM

Thanks to all who have posted to this thread.

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Btw, before starting this thread, I used the internal search engine to see if there had been previous threads listing favorite Mudcat threads. But I didn't find any.

Surely, this is not the first thread "Mudcatters favorite threads" in-what 10 years?-of Mudcat's existence.

If there have been other threads on this subject, would someone please post links to them.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 12:00 AM

What Spaw said, esp. I think all of that group is in a section of the FAQ...Mudcat Classic Threads and Alice's Memorable Mudcat Threads.

Anyone who was not here when PeterT. and Rick Fielding, as well as a few others posted, has no clue of how excellent this site used to be. I haven't seen many original, creative thoughts around here in 2-3 years, with a few exceptions such as Brett's Guam threads and Janie's Woman in the Holler story thread.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 12:11 AM

There have been numerous threads on the subject. Kat listed the main compilation and HERE is one for 2001 linked in printer friendly format to preserve the order of posts.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: GUEST, Katia
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 04:47 AM

The 85 billion thread is best. Thank you

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 05:09 AM

Anything to do with Lincolnshire Folk Music

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:16 AM

Nothing really stands out as exceptional here for me in a long while... The Brazilian Rosewood thread was one of my favourites.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 07:07 AM

When I came on this great Site I spent time exploring through the Threads, and I spent time on a very funny Thread, The hiil of Drumcree, a laugh all the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 08:52 AM

Gordon is a good name for one's favourite thread.

I am sure if you ask - some anonymous fellow poster will change the thread's existing title to Gordon for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 11:48 AM

The thread that makes the most sense of all of them is the Mother of All BS thread.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 12:41 PM

Why we sing

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 12:48 PM

Nothing much occurs to me except: "Bad Album Cover Art"

That one is simply great.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Bert
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 02:47 PM

All of the song challenge threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Name your favorite threads
From: Bardford
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 03:37 PM

The Drumcree thread. Brilliant.