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24 May 02 - 11:13 PM (#717123) Subject: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: rich-joy There seem to be a few statistical / analytical type threads around at present, so I thought I'd add my two bob's worth and ask this :
What proportion of Mudcatters are from OUTSIDE of the United States or the United Kingdom, do you all reckon???
I'm from Australia - are there even many of us here???
I KNOW there's a place in the above links, where you can get a rough idea of where 'Catters are from, but I don't know that it's conclusive, coz many of us just look at, or post to, the Threads alone ... Any takers?! Cheers! R-J |
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25 May 02 - 12:36 AM (#717137) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: MudGuard What proportion of Mudcatters are from OUTSIDE of the United States or the United Kingdom, do you all reckon??? 100% as everyone is either from outside the USA or from outside the UK ;-) MudGuard (from Germany) |
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25 May 02 - 01:24 AM (#717148) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison Hi Rich-Joy... there a re quite a few of us in Oz....... I'm guessing around 20...... about at least 6 regular posters in Sydney slainte alison |
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25 May 02 - 01:29 AM (#717149) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: rich-joy Thanks for that clarification, MudGuard!!! (duh! R-J!!) Cheers! |
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25 May 02 - 01:30 AM (#717150) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: JennieG Rich-Joy, whereabouts in Oz are you - it's a big place!! Cheers JennieG in Sydney |
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25 May 02 - 01:44 AM (#717155) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: rich-joy JennieG - I'm in Maleny, SE Qld - NW of Brisbane (near the home of the Woodford Folk festival) - though originally from Perth WA, via 10 fantastic years in Darwin, NT Cheers! |
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25 May 02 - 01:46 AM (#717158) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: JennieG I haven't been to Maleny but I've seen pictures, it looks very pretty - I don't like living in Sydney and one day will move out - I was born and brought up in Tamworth NSW but I left before it all went yee-har.....*grin*.....I have never been to the C&W festival! JennieG |
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25 May 02 - 01:49 AM (#717159) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison awwwwwwww Jenny... I can just see you boot scootin'!!! *grin*.... can't be as dangerous as the "Manchester Gallop"!!!! slainte alison |
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25 May 02 - 02:14 AM (#717165) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: JennieG Alison, when I was young and gullible the highlight of living in Tamworth was called "doin' a Peelie" - the main street is Peel Street - it consisted of the local males cruising up and down Peel Street in their hotted-up old bangers pretending not to look at the girls who were walking along the Peel Street footpath looking in the shop windows, pretending not to look at the blokes who were cruising etc...... And it is still done! I suppose country towns don't change much. Of course Tamworth changes in January though. I have managed to avoid it - the thought of all those thousands of people doing the bootscootin' Peelie is too frightening to cope with - Cheers JennieG freezing in Sydney |
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25 May 02 - 02:38 AM (#717170) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison hahahaha...... one of our local towns used to do that too....... must be a worldwide thing..... in Portstewart it was called "the crawl"... sunday morning the boys would go and park their cars along the prom... and go home.... then they came back on sunday nights to sit in their cars.... if you hadn't managed to park you just drove down the street to the harbour... did a U-turn, and drove back very slowly in a traffic jam... up to the roundabout at the other end of the street... and this went on all night!!.... but you could phone in to the local radio station and play requests..... "play me something for the cute one in the yellow lada outside Morelli's ice cream parlour"....... when I lived there I was too old and too married to indulge in all this..... but it was a hoot to watch (especially while eating a big ice cream sundae)..... probably still is.... slainte alison |
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25 May 02 - 03:34 AM (#717174) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Escamillo Count me, alone in the far South America, contributing a little and learning a lot from Mudcat. Un abrazo - Andrés (in the troubled Buenos Aires) |
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25 May 02 - 04:32 AM (#717180) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Hrothgar Another Aussie - there aren't many of us, but we are QUALITY. |
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25 May 02 - 12:22 PM (#717221) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: McGrath of Harlow Nobody so far has mentioned the existence of the Mudcat Locator, normally reached via the Quick Links button up the top of the forum page, under "Members Photos and Info".
It's only a sample, since most people never get round to putting their info in - it's not done as part of registration, I suspect lots of people may assume it is, but that would be an infringement of privacy. Not that it's very location specific - Counties for Mudcatters in England, States for those in the USA, and so forth.
No-one knows if it's a representative sample or not, but there's no reason it shouldn't be. It shows the USA as the biggest concentration (if you can call it "a concentration" when it's spread out around a country the size of a continent), and England next. |
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25 May 02 - 12:38 PM (#717229) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: allanwill Another Aussie - currently in Canberra, but originally a Victorian, born and bred in a little country town (pop. 200) on the Mornington Peninsula. We therefore didn't have a main street for us 3 or 4 local hoons to go perving on the 2 or 3 local sheilas. I guess Bob Hudson's Newcastle (that new-CAS-tle, not new-CAR-stle)Song is pretty close to the mark? Allan |
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25 May 02 - 06:27 PM (#717346) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Mooh Canada (Southwestern Ontario, Huron County). We've discussed this before but maybe not with exactly these parameters. The locator is very short on member locations I think, so maybe it's not the best indicator. Mooh. |
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25 May 02 - 06:35 PM (#717352) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: McGrath of Harlow Very short indeed so far as actual numbers go - but I'd imagine on a fairly random basis. I can't see why people in some places would be either more or less likely to put their broad locality on the Locator. |
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25 May 02 - 06:56 PM (#717359) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: DonD Dare a Yank intrude on this cobber kaffee klatch -with apologies to Ontario and Harlow. speaking of Harlw -- does anyone remember a movie actress from before your time (and probably even mine) named Jean Harlow? She was a very sexy blonde who belived if you had it, flaunt it. She was introduce to Claudette Colbert (Same period, much more refined, pronounced her name as if she was French: Cole-Bear). says Jean: "How do you do, Miss Kohl-bert." Claudeyye replies, "It's Colbair, dear, the T is silent as in Harlot." Anyhow, chalk up one for the States. And by the way, if we'e giong to be literal and pedantic (one of my favorite things in the world to do) 'outside of the US or the UK doesn't mean outside of the Us or outside of the UK. The uS or the UK in this instance is a geographical unit, outside of which there clearly are everybody who has responded so far exwcept McGrath and me, against which two I count eight 'furriners'. |
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26 May 02 - 12:02 AM (#717465) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Helen Well there's me, the off-ISH-ial representative of the Newcastle Song - being an ex-"Librarian lady with red hair", but not glasses except reading glasses. We had the same phenomenon in Maitland, where I grew up - the hoons doing the main street. Hrothgar, where are you from? We also have some people from Northern Territory and Queensland, Oz. Iceboy is an honorary Southern Hemispherian because he spends a lot of time in Antarctica although he originates from the U.S. and he came to visit the beautiful New-CAR-stle (that's new-CAR-stle not new-CASS-tle, thank you very much Mr Mexican, South-of-the-Border, alinact) ;-> We used to have a Western Oz-stralian or two. And Bugsy and Billy-the-Bus from New Zealand as well, but we don't talk much about those hillbilly relations from across the Tasman Sea. Helen Helen |
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26 May 02 - 12:04 AM (#717466) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Helen Hello, is that Helen, Helen & Helen Pty Ltd? No, this is Helen, Pty Ltd. Oh, sorry you've been trebled! (boom boom!) |
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26 May 02 - 01:38 AM (#717484) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Hrothgar Helen damnation!!!! |
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26 May 02 - 02:42 AM (#717490) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: katlaughing Bob Bolton is in OZ and Alison, wasn't Spider Tom, or was he in NZ? |
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26 May 02 - 03:58 AM (#717499) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: masato sakurai I'm from Japan. Besides, a poor speaker of English. ~Masato |
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26 May 02 - 04:10 AM (#717501) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: rich-joy Ah memories!! When I was growing up in Perth, Western Australia, I just LOVED being taken for a "burn" into town at night, in my big brother's hotted-up Ford Zephyr - we used to win quite a few Drags before the cops came along!!! These were the long-ago days before there was a Mall in Hay Street (damned shopping malls ruined a lot of good hooning and blocking, eh?!) On another note, I'd like to suggest that the Aussies could add some data to the thread I started on April 21st called "Folk in Eastern Australia" (sorry, need a link-pixie to do that thang) - if you've got a Club or Folk Night e.g. - or whatever you like ... Re other Oz 'Catters : Stewie is of course from Darwin, likewise occasional poster, Tony in Darwin - and John in Brisbane is fairly self-evident too ... Cheers! R-J |
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26 May 02 - 07:46 AM (#717518) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca There are a number of us from Canada. Seems like I recall people from many places over the entire earth. |
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26 May 02 - 08:31 AM (#717523) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: McGrath of Harlow Jean Harlow? Not forgotten here. We used to have a pub in the town centre called "The Painted Lady" (that's a butterfly - all the new pubs in Harlow when the New Town was built were given the names of butterlies or moths). Then a few years ago they had a re-design, and they changed the name to "The Jean Harlow" (with that story in mind I believe), so there's a big picture of Jean Harlow as the pub sign.
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26 May 02 - 09:35 AM (#717534) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Sandra in Sydney rich-joy - "and John in Brisbane is fairly self-evident too ..." so's Sandra in Sydney (about half a mile east of the CBD) - Bob Bolton is a bit further west of the CBD, Callie isn't too far away, & Chicky popped up on Mudcat recently - however she lives a few suburbs further along. Sandra |
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26 May 02 - 11:10 AM (#717549) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison Spider Tom was Sydney... and Bugsy was Perth..... slainte alison |
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26 May 02 - 11:18 AM (#717554) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison and heres a link to Folk in Eastern Australia slainte alison |
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26 May 02 - 03:27 PM (#717624) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Haruo There are a few Germans and Poles here, too, whom I haven't seen mentioned. And surely there must be an Erinperoffspring or twain. (Éire still not part of UK last I looked; they don't even use pounds anymore.) BTW, Masato is being overly humble about his English, which is far above the Japanese average, and light years ahead of what most of the rest of us could muster in Japanese, I'd be willing to bet. Liland One of your more japonoglot Mudcatters |
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26 May 02 - 05:35 PM (#717675) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Clinton Hammond Ummm... another Canadian over here... But I'm SO far south, I gotta go NORTH to get to America... Looking forward to one day moving back across the line that the 402 makes between London and Sarnia, and living once again in CANADA... Everything down here is more like "America-lite" |
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26 May 02 - 06:57 PM (#717702) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,roo add me... I'm Australian and in the beautiful Blue Mountains of New South Wales, getting greener by the day ... (the landscape that is, not me). .. and thanks for the mention of FOLK AUSTRALIA, in another thread, Alison. cheers, Valda thefolk@mountaintracks.com.au |
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26 May 02 - 09:25 PM (#717761) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison no problem Valda... great site... well worth plugging it when I get the chance........ slainte alison |
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26 May 02 - 10:35 PM (#717791) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,ozmacca Hey, rich-joy. If you're from Maleny, do you get around to the Celtic Tearooms on Mountain View Road. That's where our Sunday arvo sessions are. I live in Kallangur, about 30k north of the centre of Brisbane and we get up to the Tearoom every Sunday. Great to see you there some time.. |
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26 May 02 - 10:41 PM (#717793) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: katlaughing Thanks, Alison. Fedele used to post from Italy once in awhile. And, don't forget Skarpi in Iceland! |
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26 May 02 - 11:10 PM (#717809) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Mooh Hey Clinton, if ya move, let me know if ya wanna jam! Mooh. |
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27 May 02 - 05:21 AM (#717902) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Mr Happy masato sakurai, hadjime mashita, mr happy desu omedetto igigris! happy san |
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27 May 02 - 06:50 AM (#717930) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: masato sakurai Mr Happy, hajime mashite. Doozo yoroshiku. ~Masato |
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27 May 02 - 09:38 AM (#718023) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,HansD Please add me. I am from Germany and I love songs written by Tom Paxton and by Kate Wolf. HansD |
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27 May 02 - 12:09 PM (#718116) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar Born in Dublin, Ireland. Living in Brussels, Belgium for the last twelve years.
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28 May 02 - 12:34 AM (#718555) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison have you met Mooman? he's from Sligo (I think) and living in Brussels too..... slainte alison |
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28 May 02 - 12:57 AM (#718561) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: CarolC There's Adolfo in Spain with whom I've had a lovely conversation on another thread. |
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28 May 02 - 02:30 AM (#718583) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Bugsy Bugsy still IS in Perth Ali. Cheers Bugsy |
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28 May 02 - 02:57 AM (#718589) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison hey stranger.. long time no see...... slainte alison |
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28 May 02 - 03:20 AM (#718593) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: rich-joy Ozmacca : Can you send your email address to me (at the one at the start of the Folk in Eastern Australia thread) and I'll put you on the mailing list for ABOFOTS!! Will try to get to the CT one Sunday soon - haven't been in yonks! Cheers! R-J |
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28 May 02 - 03:30 AM (#718596) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: allie kiwi Just signing in from the wet, windy and altogether too chilly at the moment, New Zealand... Allie |
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28 May 02 - 05:38 AM (#718625) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar Alison, Yes indeed. It was only when he and Lady McMoo organised the recent Mudcat Eurogathering and put their photos on a website for the event that I made the connection between their Mudcat identities and the couple that I knew from trad. Irish sessions in Brussels going back ten years or more. It was also Mooman who alerted me to the epic "Campsite at Drumcree" thread: I saw some of its more toxic predecessors, but the campsite thread is a beauty, a masterpiece of collective creativity. I cried so much with with laughter that I had difficulty reading parts of it. I've been thinking that we should launch a "free the Drumcree IV" campaign because, for some strange reason, when I use the search engine, it's the toxic threads that come up, whereas the Campsite one remains incommunicado. Maybe it's held in "separate accommodation" in Castlreagh? Even if its appeal is limited, it's such a classic that it deserves to be taken up in one of the classic lists on the FAQ page. Any takers? |
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28 May 02 - 11:41 AM (#718793) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,Tony in Darwin I'm in darwin, Northern australia. Yes, I still pop in now and then, usually at Rich-joy's prompting. Things are jumping in Darwin, we're getting set for our 32nd (or is it 33rd) Festival and music sessions are popular. Not much singing around though. Tony |
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28 May 02 - 08:21 PM (#719118) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Helen Oops Bugsy - and amultitude of apologies for trying to make you into a kiwi. I listed you with Billy-the-Bus, further up in this thread. Helen |
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28 May 02 - 10:01 PM (#719169) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: John in Brisbane Greetings from Brisbane. Great to catch up with Tiny and richjoy at Woodford. Hope that the 60'th anniversary of the WWII bombing of Darwin went well - was there a re-enactment? Very diappointed not to get to the National Festival in Canberra at Easter. I'm not a frequent visitor these days, but I'm still working in background mode on DT type things. Regards, John |
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28 May 02 - 10:08 PM (#719172) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,ozmacca Rich-joy - You got it. Look forward.... (it beats looking back, because you're less likely to bump into things.) |
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29 May 02 - 05:00 AM (#719318) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,Mikey joe I'm from Cork in Ireland but now living in voluntary exile in Dundee Scotland. |
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29 May 02 - 05:40 AM (#719333) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: bernil As some of you know I'm from Sweden (am I really the only Swedish person here?). I don't write very much but I read a lot. I love folk and blues (listen, sing and play a little on my guitar and also to read about it) and also the stories from peoples lives. It's also a great way to learn more English! Berit, from Östersund in the middle of Sweden. By the way we have a monster in our Great Lake! |
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29 May 02 - 07:35 AM (#719366) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: VoxFox Another Canuck here from the "Merry"times. I'm not much of a poster but I am an avid reader. Love this place. VoxFox |
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29 May 02 - 08:24 AM (#719390) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: boobook Greetings from Rockdale, Sydney, close to arial transport. I grew up in Broken Hill, a mining town in the outback of NSW. Saturday nights the guys did perve laps of Argent Street (the main street)roaring around pretending not to look at the girls, and we pretended not to look at them. God those were desperate days! |
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29 May 02 - 08:20 PM (#719872) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Helen Hi boobook, I love visiting Broken Hill, and I often wonder what it would be like to live there, but I think that the heat would get to me too much. I'm trying to remember what the Maitland, NSW terminology was for "perve-laps". Just can't reach into the right part of my brain to get it to the surface. Helen |
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30 May 02 - 12:58 AM (#719959) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,boobook Dealing with the heat in Broken Hill is heaps easier than the humidity in Sydney. I went to school in Broken Hill during the days (many moons ago) when girls had to wear the same type of uniform summer or winter. Imagine the discomfort of wearing a navy blue woollen serge box-pleat tunic during a 100 C+ heatwave! And the poor teachers must have been knocked out by the stench of 40 sweaty girls and boys in their classroom. And Broken Hill used to have the most amazing duststorms. The sky would change to a strange red colour, the wind would turn into a hurricane, and the dust would blanket the city, with visibility only as far as your hand in front of you. All you could do was close all the doors and windows and wait. Then scoop out bucketsful of red dust out of your house at the end of the storm. Magnificent, but I'm glad I'm not living there now. It was a wonderful city with a proud past - they were the first to achieve the 35 hour week for the workers, they were self-sufficient for much of their history, and they really did look after each other. Unless of course you refused to join the union, in which case they "rattled the tin" on you. This meant that shops could not serve you or your family, neighbours and friends had to shun you, and you could not get a job because no-one was allowed to work with you. This continued until you either caved in and joined, left town, or died. I still have a love hate relationship with the town, and if you are visiting Australia, please visit it. |
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30 May 02 - 01:21 AM (#719969) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Metchosin Another Canuck from the wet coast of Canada. Berit, we have a couple of monsters in the waters around here too; at least one Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan and a few sightings of Cadborsaursus in the coastal waters. But nothing quite as scary as some of the beasts that Garmarna sings about. |
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30 May 02 - 04:43 AM (#720030) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: Bugsy A KIWI! BY GOD! Whatever next!
CHeers Bugsy |
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30 May 02 - 05:10 AM (#720041) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison your accents funny Bugsy but not THAt funny.....lol slainte alison |
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30 May 02 - 05:23 AM (#720049) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: allie kiwi Allie The Kiwi continues munching her feesh and cheeps discretely...
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30 May 02 - 07:10 AM (#720082) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: GUEST,Helen, on hubby's computer No, allie, you're supposed to join in this age-old tradition of pseudo-feuding between skippies and kiwis. It's no fun at all if you just try to remain a pacifist! And my excuse, well, reason then, Bugsy was that I knew you lived a long way away from civilisation in an either easterly or westerly direction and I just chose the wrong direction. (Now I *am* ducking for cover because I am expecting mortar fire from the feuding cousins in the west as well as the hillbillies in the east. (grin, stir, grin, stir!) Helen |
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30 May 02 - 05:50 PM (#720468) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: skarpi Halló all, thanks Kat for remember me , I am the only mutcatter In Iceland now. I ´m an Icelandic cowboy and I am far from you all, playing a song about the west. but I´m an Icelandic cowboy and I´m waiting for a call from some freinds, witch are best. This just came out of my mouth while I was typing. From a great summer wheather In Iceland All the best Skarpi Iceland. |
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30 May 02 - 09:22 PM (#720535) Subject: RE: Non-USA or UK Mudcatters - how many??? From: alison Helen, he doesn't have a Kiwi accent because he's a Pom!!! (and he sings a mean "St James infirmary blues!!) lol slainte alison |