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Thread #108366 Message #2253706
Posted By: catspaw49
04-Feb-08 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: MudLore of the Week 2/4/2008
Subject: Folklore: MudLore of the Week 2/4/2008
For lack of anything better to do and because we have grown so much over the years, I thought I'd start a weekly series reviewing the "Lore of the 'Cat." Here's a chance to look back and laugh at ourselves or maybe cry or maybe just shake our heads......maybe all of that at the same time.
Each week I'll resurrect an old thread for your perusal with a little background. Some will be just a few years old while others will date back to the beginning with all points in between as fair game. Some of you will find out where certain Mudcat jokes have come from and others will bury their heads when they read what silly things they may have posted in the past. As I've read through some I know I've had a few thoughts.............Sometimes we find out that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Anyway, here's...................
WEEK #1 February 4, 2008
Ever notice the occasional condom references around here? Back in '99 we were just beginning to get to know each other. Most of us were new to the net and our first years had been pretty tentative about sharing any personal info, even our ages or the most general geographic location. But we started running a lot of those stupid boiler plate threads like, How Old is a Mudcatter, Where does a Mudcatter Live, Is a Mudcatter Married, and on and on. It was really silly and Art Thieme, bless him, just couldn't take it anymore. So only to point out how ludicrous the threads were, he started the one thread he'll never live down. It became the longest thread on the 'Cat at the time but it did also show us how nuts we were acting and loosened the place up a lot!
Poor Art......He'll always feel chagrined over the thread but it added an element of good natured joviality that had been a bit lacking before and as a "community" we took a giant leap forward. Here it is for your perusal.....LOL....We were a pretty stiff (pardon the Art Thieme style pun) back then. BTW, it links to a second part as loading in the old days used to be a big problem and a lot of early threads are in segments.