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Subject: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM

A. People who've seen what they think are alien space vehicles and want to talk about it and be treated with a modicum of respect!

Trust me on this. ;-)

B. People who believe in God (however they may define "God") and who dare to say that they do....

C. People who aren't "liberal"...

D. Republicans

E. People who love Rap music...

F. Fans of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

G. People who think the Iraq War was a great idea and must be fought until it is decisively won...

H. Communists

I. Chimpanzees (who are constantly ridiculed by references to "poop-throwing" and other demeaning stuff like that)

J. People who think 911 was an inside job.

K. Guest posters.

L. Christians.

M. Muslims.

N. Believers in E.S.P., telepathy, chiropractic, alternative healing of any sort, tealeaf reading, ghosts, psychic healing, etc....etc...etc...

Yes, all of the above people (and chimps) find themselves often treated as pariahs on this forum. They are scorned and ridiculed by those "in the know". Their special qualities are not appreciated. Condemnatory assumptions are made about them. They are shut out of the "inner clique", spat upon, sneered at, denigrated, and castigated. They are accused of lacking logic and of not providing any "evidence". They are despised and loathed. If this were a small rural town, they could expect to soon find a mob of people bearing flaming torches gathered on their doorstep.

Fortunately, though, it's just the damned Internet. ;-)

So the best remedy for those hurt feelings is to take it all with a grain of salt, remind yourself that it really doesn't matter, put a smile on your face, and get on with your day!

*(By the way: I belong to only a few of the above listed categories. But I know how the game works around here...much as it does anywhere else where a large number of people gather and yak about stuff.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Mooh
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:07 PM

So, as a Christian who goes to a chiropractor, I'm not welcome here? Thanks for telling me, it's hard to know who your friends are sometimes.

Peace, Mooh.

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From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:08 PM

Agreed.

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From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:08 PM

O. Anyone who isn't Canadian. (Nobody cares enough about Canadians to ridicule them)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:08 PM

(comment on the original post)

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From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:09 PM

You forgot Jews on your list, LH. Also rock and rollers, cross-dressers and people who vote for independents.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Megan L
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:11 PM

Ye forgot Scots! you try threatenin tae gie some wee scunner a skelp an see whit ridicule is.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:12 PM

LOLOL!!!!! Good one, Art! YES, anyone who isn't a Canadian, by God!

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From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:12 PM

Wake a Scot at 3:00 AM and they talk just like Canadians I been told.

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From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:14 PM

And as we know, no one cares about those damned Canucks, 'cept Chongo. And he'd sell us all for two tonnes of bananas.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:18 PM

I seriously considered putting Jews on the list, Peace. I hemmed and hawed over it for about 5 minutes and couldn't decide whether it would be more imflammatory to put Jews on the list or leave them off... (sigh)

Well, okay. Add Jews to the list, then. And those other categories you mentioned too. And Scots.

Just think, if all of us people who get sooooo offended here just got up and LEFT one day...what would happen to this place? Hmmm?

Maybe that's it. We should all threaten a mass walkout. Whaddya think?

We could time it for some specific future date just to stretch out the tension to the maximum. Make 'em sweat.

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From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:23 PM

I think that









                               and then it would be solved. However, it's open for discussion, IMO.

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From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:33 PM

You're writing in blank verse again,, man!!!


Add to your list all those smarter than others and all those stupider than others. It's a great forum, though, if you don't weaken!! :D


A

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:36 PM

Morris dancers

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From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:37 PM

LOLOL

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From: Melissa
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:37 PM

It's a rough place for meat eaters...and as soon as I can think of a slogan that almost makes sense, I'm going to write it on a post-it note and stick it on my computer.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: bfdk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:39 PM

You also forgot Danes and Dachshunds!

Now, I'll forgive you for forgetting about Danes (it's a tiny country, after all, and we never sound like Canucks, whatever the time of day), but that you of all people would forget dachshunds...!!

Sheesh, I'm plain disappointed, and my dog's gone to bed sulking.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:40 PM

Yeah. BUT, you had Hamlet.

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From: Amergin
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:44 PM

you forgot Orangemen....

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From: bfdk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:45 PM

No, I had omelette - with ham.

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From: peregrina
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:48 PM

mudcat is difficult for...do I say guests (I mean real ones), or

hospitality?

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:48 PM

Lemme tell you...

Mudcat is REALLY difficult for the really handsome and really beautiful. So far, NONE of them has ever dared post here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Ernest
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:49 PM

Did you all notice that he didn`t mention fans of William Shatner on his list?

Maybe we have been to liberal in that aspect lately.
What a mistake!

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:54 PM

"Mudcat is REALLY difficult for the really handsome and really beautiful. So far, NONE of them has ever dared post here."

Well, 'cept for you and me, John.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:56 PM

Oh! More good contributions. I can see a groundswell of protest rising here that is going to shake this place to its core!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:00 PM

It's gonna start with John. I don't mind that he's wittier than me, conservative in his politics and a better writer. I DO mind that his last post. Sheesh . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:00 PM

Ran out of words.

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From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:06 PM

Yeah, this place is a bit difficult for chumps. No doubt about it. But so is downtown Chicago. What the hell, I can dish it out as well as I can take it.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:06 PM

Peace,

No compliments please. My persecution complex is my raison d'être.

Mudcat is also tough these days on buddhists with proper spelling complexes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:08 PM

Ommmm . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:12 PM

"Ommmm . . . . "



Have I got a guitar for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:14 PM

I'm gonna by two, they're small. Only $13,500 each. Heck, maybe three or four . . . .

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From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:17 PM

..... or even more.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:21 PM

Lovers of Wee Jimmy Krankie (The one in the pink hat)

Giok

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:22 PM

Two is just stupid. You can only play one at a time. Wait...

...maybe I'm wrong .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:22 PM

I'm saving up for Martin D-100. So far I have $6.29. Could take a while. Jus' a little way to go . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:23 PM

The D-100 retails at about $88,000.00.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:23 PM

The mudcat is also difficult for the dead. Even if they have a broadband connection.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:27 PM

Mudcat is also difficult for....anyone with a name that sounds like an antique tea set or flatware. Of course even more difficult because he happens to be Chjristian.....His ethnicity is unknown to most so that aint a problem!

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From: topical tom
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:30 PM

Terse people.

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From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:36 PM

Banjo and accordian players...and philosophers who tout logic too vociferously.

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:43 PM

I hate people who use the word "tout" even more than I hate banjos.

"Hate the banjo, love the banjo player" ~J. Christ

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 02:56 PM

Terse people?
Does that mean Bearded Bruce is OK, as he doesn't write terse verse?

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:00 PM

Sensitive, confidence-lacking teenage prodigies?
Graduates of the Newcastle folk course?
Smokers (have you tried smoking on Mudcat? people open windows and start fanning their noses as if someone farted).
Count** & W***ern fans
Opinionated people - believe me, I know what I am talking about.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:01 PM

Can something that can be touted also be doubted? If so, what about the touter?

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From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:02 PM

Art.... "(Nobody cares enough about Canadians to ridicule them)"

Hehehehehe. Good one.

BTW Art... it is now +8 and sunny and I shall BBBQ.

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From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:05 PM

Llama lovers

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:06 PM

There is no other nationality on Earth that enjoys poking fun at themselves as much as Canadians do... ;-) It's one of the national pastimes.

Comes in just behind snow removal.

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:07 PM

Oh no! I love llamas..my life on mudcat just got worse!

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:09 PM

National pastimes?

Ha ha ha. I love the subtle humor of overstatement.

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From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:14 PM

John, I thought it was

Hate the tout,love the touter. J.C.??:-)

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:22 PM

Just name one GOOD thing that rhymes with "tout". It's all negative. And in a world where rhyming determines destiny -- a world of my own seriously warped imagining -- I think that the following make my case against "tout" self-evident. Well, except that I am pointing them out...

Pout
Out (after three strikes or a caught fly ball)
Gout
Lout
Rout
Flout

Face it -- tout is a very bad word.

But I don't hate all banjos. Just the ones that don't stay in their case.

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:23 PM

"POGLRF"

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:27 PM

John!!!! What's all that ABOUT????

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From: Jeri
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:34 PM

'Stout' - how could you forget the Guinness!?

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:34 PM

Mudcat is extremely difficult for people named Farquahr, but nowhere near as difficult as middle-school.

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:36 PM

......Backwoodsmen. And Fenswomen. At least when Diane's about. :-) :-)

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From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:44 PM

While hugging my Martin's lower bout
I thought of words that rhymed with "tout"
And while I figured such things out,
A joyous cry, haloo and shout
Came in and struck me on the snout!
I leaped from inside to without
To see what this was all about!
A giant bale of sauerkraut?
Some rabble rousing soapbox lout?
But then I learned, and have no doubt
'T was just Barack, acquiring clout.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:45 PM

"'Stout' - how could you forget the Guinness!? "

If I hadn't I mightn't have.

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From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:46 PM

John.... trout. I love brook trout for breakfast. It's a good thing.

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From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM

If George Farquahr Graham were alive today, he'd be welcome here!

...while *I*, who is proud of his vocabulary, am un-loved because I flaunt 'tout' and spout doubt.

Fie on you, Mr. Hardly, sir!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:49 PM

I just LOVE having my rabble roused.
I don't even much care the route.
But I think that you meant to say "Gravitas"
When instead you gave Barak "clout".

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:50 PM

I used to wear troutsers but I just couldn't stand the fish in my pants.

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From: maeve
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 03:51 PM

Flout them trout, gnu!

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From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:12 PM

Mudcat is also difficult for us father-rapers. There's not even a Group W bench for us to roost on.

Charley Noble

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:22 PM

If you ask me, it's getting more difficult by the minute around here.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:29 PM

Transpond pronunciation ALERT !!!

Americans pronounce route like we do rout.
Now go back and read John Hardly's doggerel again.

Giok ¦¬]

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:37 PM

If one were to wear troutsers, wouldn't that strike a new image of fly fishing?

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From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:40 PM

???? Route = root, en Yankeé la.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:45 PM

Yes g, and while you're at it, can you tell them that buoy is pronounced BOY, not BOOEE.

Hee hee

G


I'll get my coat

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:51 PM

I was adrift in the harbor. I floated past a depth marker and noticed it was covered with what seemed to be writing -- but I couldn't decipher a single word of it. Then a small boat came to my rescue. Above the small boat on a large banner was a sign that said:

Read Here: Bouy

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From: Megan L
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:55 PM

MacKenzie as a Glaswegian thons the pot miscryin the kettle when it comes tae pronounciation

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:00 PM

Hee hee

Read Here: Bouy

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:02 PM

Shhh Megan, nobody knows you're a Glaswegian, now you've let the cat out the bag.

G.

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From: Megan L
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:03 PM

Scunner

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:11 PM

So now we must know, is Mudcat difficult for Glaswegians?

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From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:14 PM

Ha! That cat came out wid clawz a lang tie agoo (or something like that! Wish Alba were here!)**bg**

We Westerners say "rowt" unlike the Yankee who do say root as in fruit!

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:18 PM

Aye, there's a thocht an aw, ony news aboot that wee Jude, ah miss her oan here so ah dae. Wi her bit Glesca craic, an aw yon gallus patter.

G.

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:27 PM

I say "Route 66" as "root", but "Route 1" as "rout". Don't ask why. It just sounds right.

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:33 PM

I got in a long discussion with my dog about how to pronounce "roof".

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:48 PM

It's pronounced 'woof' you fool!

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 05:56 PM

So, I guess you're taking the dog's side?

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From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 06:47 PM

Route=rOWt. Everybody knows that.

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From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 06:53 PM

Hey...I have to ask, 'cause I really don't know - in Glasgow, or anywhere in Scotland, do the books and newspapers ever spell stuff like this?:

"... thons the pot miscryin the kettle when it comes tae ..."
and
"...thocht an aw, ony news aboot that wee Jude, ah miss her oan here so ah dae. Wi her bit Glesca craic, an aw yon gallus patter."

If so, is there a standard...and if not, why here? Little John Cameron used to do it...and Cuillinon (?sp?)...and I had to squint.

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From: Morticia
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:03 PM

dogs named Jack. Has anyone seen the little scumbag recently?

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:04 PM

It's phonetic spelling Bill. No it's not used in the daily papers except for cartoon strips.
Like Oor Wullie and Lobby Dosser.{No longer published}

G

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:10 PM

Skarpi has him in Iceland.

G

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From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:20 PM

*Bill sits wondering if he should use phonetic spelling to indicate his combination Southern drawl & Kansas twang*

naaawwww....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:51 PM

Its difficult for anyone who is lacking in social graces which results in being not well liked, off putting and when one tries to overcome this handicap with wit which is sadly deficient in being sincere and spontaneous, ones words merely come out as a bunch of mixed metaphors.

Is that whats troubling you bunky?


well maybe not, but that has been my experience anyway.

However if I wear a suit or an expensive ensemble there is no social handicap what so ever. People seem to then enjoy my remarks as if they are the wit of a well to do, wry cad.
People do tend to believe the cover of a book or a dinner's presentation over real content and flavor. Its all marketing baby, its all marketing. ;<]

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From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 08:22 PM

I am not one, sir, who will brook trout gladly.


A

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From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 08:55 PM

And I will not brook babbling, dam it.

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From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 09:08 PM

I will Brooke Shields....

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:20 PM

...and I will Brooke Burke.

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From: Slag
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:51 PM

Save the Anchovy!

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:54 PM

I like the way this thread rambles along with no clear end in sight. It's a perfect Mudcat thread, and it's nae political.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:58 PM

Anyone seen the Brooks Brothers? Nice threads....

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:04 PM

On the other hand, I resolutely refuse to Kilgore Trout.



By the way, exactly which hand is the other hand?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Slag
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:09 PM

...as for mudcats, I ketches 'em, skins 'em, fries 'em up and eats 'em. A good Muscotto de Canelli goes great with them!

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From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:22 PM

The other hand is always the one you don't see quite as clearly -- that's how to tell them apart. It is usually the one that does not know what the right hand is doing. And it gets put down for not being as handy as the first hand, and less valuable with things in it than first-hand things are. But if you are down on your luck, you quickly learn there are bargains to be had at an Other Hand store. On the other hand, no-one knows what's in store...


A

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:06 AM

Amos and Handy?

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:12 AM

My brain hurts.

It's not so good here for left handed peeps either... none of your bloody yankee 'southpaw' crap, I'm at least 3rd generation left handed and proud of it!

But it does mean I can't used the majority of tin openers or half the knives we have.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: GUEST,davetnova
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:46 AM

http://www.scotslanguage.com/tags/view/34/Politics

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From: Megan L
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:56 AM

What an excuse Liz "Oh Manitas darling you will have to do the hoovering I am left handed and cat operate the hoover>"

Meg heading for safety

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:05 AM

Hoovering?

You realize that sound cannot escape a vacuum? So what happens if you plug a Hoover into a Marshall amp?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:20 AM

It sucks.

Big time.


LTS

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From: autolycus
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:32 AM

is also difficult who arrive late at a thread wanting to post something serious long after seriousness has gone the way of all other seriousnessseseessses.

   SPOUT


   It's also difficult who allow themselves to get riled, hurt or annoyed easily.

   The answer? To be objective about it, see if the poster has a point there, if not, think that it's the poster's problem manifested.


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:23 AM

Why don't you sulk and POUT Autolycus?

G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:31 PM

But please don't SHOUT.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:57 PM

Shout it?
I doubt it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:58 PM

Well I am already out of the closet.


I'm a Staffordshire Man


But I haven't lived there for years, and years, and years. Am I off the list?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: pdq
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 02:10 PM

Honky Tonk Blues

Well I left my home down on the rural route
I told my paw I'm going steppin out and get the
Honky tonk blues,
Yeah the honky tonk blues
Well lord I got 'em,
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.

Well I went to a dance and I wore out my shoes
woke up this mornin wishin I could lose
them jumpin honky tonk blues,
Yeah the honky tonk blues
Well lord I got 'em,
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.

Well I stopped into every place in town
this city life has really got me down
I got the honky tonk blues,
Yeah the honky tonk blues
Well lord I got em,
got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.

I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
And scat right back to my pappy's farm
And leave these honky tonk blues,
Yeah the honky tonk blues
Well lord I got 'em,
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.

When I get home to my Ma and Pa,
I know they're gonna lay down the law.
About the honky tonk blues,
Them jumpin' honkty tonk blues.
Lord I'm suffrin' with the honky tonk blues.


                               ~    Hank

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:08 PM

Elephants...as they have trouble hittin' the keys on the keyboard on account of the size of their digits.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:25 PM

Mooh--

No, you're fine, unless your chiropractor is a Communist Muslim who watches only the original Star Trek.

CC

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:31 PM

Are there such people???

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John Hardly
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:10 PM

Mudcat is also difficult for.......

...people who write with the opposite hand.

There's an interesting (well, interesting to me, but again, I amuse easily) thing to try...

With a full 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper on the table in front of you, take a pencil in each hand and simultaneously write your name with each hand -- but write it forward with your "dominant" hand and backwards with your weak hand.

Most people can make a near mirror image of their signature this way -- even if they've never even tried to pick up a writing tool with their weak hand.

Just another bit of useless trivia that you can spring on dinner guests when the conversation screeches to a halt.

Some people say that they can write upside down. I don't think I could. At least not very fast.

I take that back.

If I was hanging upside down I could still write. Pretty fast too. I'd have to. With all the blood rushing to my head I wouldn't want to take too long to write. I'd probably write something like, "Can I stop hanging here like this? It's terribly uncomfortable."

I seem to be able to wave hello with either hand. Some people say I look more sincere when I wave with my right hand. I've tried to see if there's anything to what they say, but the only way I can check is with a mirror -- and when I do that, I look like I'm waving left-handed. I must say though, I do look sincere.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:40 AM

Then there are the folkies who sing MOUT' music.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:43 AM

Having established that the Mudcat is difficult for all of us, especially John, who is likely hanging around like a bat, writing his memoirs: What are we all still doing here?








Asking stupid questions, yes, but anything else?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:58 AM

The universe never throws at you more than you can handle.

We can handle the difficulties, or learn here how to

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:13 PM

The conclusion is clear: We are either all addicted...or we're masochists...or we are engaging in an important research project here, the results of which will one day propell a chimpanzee into the Oval Office and transform society irrevocably.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:24 PM

As the kinda famous compilation shows, it's been done.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:28 PM

"the results of which will one day propell a chimpanzee into the Oval Office and transform society irrevocably."

Too late.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:31 PM

LOL! I love it. Any excuse to provoke yet another viewing...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Goose Gander
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:35 PM

. . . people who think bluegrass is 'celtic'.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Peace
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:36 PM

I KNEW I should have opened Bill's link before I posted.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 04:16 PM

Brilliant,LOL, Peace. I can't open Bill's - no permission, or summat.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:01 PM

here is another source ...http://www.bushorchimp.com/pics.html

http://www.bushorchimp.com/pics2.html

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 10:59 PM

At the risk of being blown off the thread seeing as the tone is light - I think it is difficult for 'newbies' --- you guys all go back 100 years and know each others' spouses, kids, tastes etc......hard to join in later......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:38 PM

No question about that. It's like that in any long-established club or group of people.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:51 PM

So -- hang in for 20 years and go to every folk festival in the US and it'll pass, right? Just joking -- for a newbie, I feel quite welcome.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:52 PM

Actually Trubrit, the only thing of which we are all certain is that Hawk is a broke-dick mamalucca and Dachshunds make a suitable replacement for toilet paper..........You already knew that so the rest is easy!

Tell ya' what though......Mudcat has become seriously humor challenged by several members who have become active in the past year...............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:56 PM

eek - I hope I am not one of them..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:07 AM

Nah......Anyone who hangs out with Sins can't be humor impaired!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:11 AM

Or -- could it be that anyone who hangs out with me can't be humour impaired????? pleased to meet you, Spaw....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:24 PM

I've only be around a couple of years or so, and felt welcomed and welcome pretty fast. certainly better than a well-known UK newspaper forum, where the first responses were an extraordinary mixture of hostility, suspicion, thinking I was. inter alia, a "sock-puppet", whatever that is. Horrible. Improved loads since, but still not the friendliness here.

NB. This is not an insinuating Cancerian attempt at eliciting nice words (which I've already had aplenty) (whatever 'eliciting' means).

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:40 PM

Ah...you may be pleased to meet Spaw now, TRUBRIT....but just wait! Eventually the grim realization will set in that you have been lulled into a false sense of security by a master of inane depravity, yes, a man who will stoop to any form of low and unconscionable behaviour in order to slander fine creatures such as Dachshunds...animals which he is not fit to even walk in the shadow of! And not only that, he even says rude things about Winona Ryder!!! Trust me, this is a very, very sick puppy we have here. An idiot of the first water. He should be confined to the East Wing of the NYCFTTS where he cannot do further harm to decent society.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:45 PM

Thought that's why he was banished to Ohio in the first place LH?

G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:04 PM

TRUEBRIT, I think you've done a fine job of jumping in with both feet. It's not necessary to go to any folk festivals...unless they're all just being nice to me and laughing behind my back.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:33 PM

Great advice all round-- thanks. Littlehawk -- do dachsunds have shadows? Are they big enough to cast one. Remember what Mark Twain said about them -- would have been a much more practical dog with another set of legs in the middle?????? (Just teasing -- I am an ex dachshund owner and I love them but we have a bull mastiff -- now she casts a shadow!!!)

Don't make many festivals but do love the music.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: bfdk
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:43 PM

Walk in the shadow of a dachshund?? I don't think even Spaw could stoop that low ;o))

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 04:51 PM

One has to crawl to walk in the shadow of a dachshund.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat is also difficult for.......
From: bankley
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 04:52 PM

....British Royals