The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119647   Message #2597013
Posted By: Surreysinger
25-Mar-09 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: Excellent Mudcat parody
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody
For our American friends, could I point out that in your case Humour is spelled HUMOR ??

Sorry Dick, I disagree - the Borfolk cartoons have withstood the test of time, simply because so many of those stereotypes displayed in the cartoon exist... and there certainly are clubs which still display individuals with some of the character traits and deficiencies displayed - otherwise it wouldn't be funny! Nobody has suggested that these are the norm, or indeed that any folk club with just three men and a dog actually exists. I think that that is where the word "humour" comes into it!

I didn't start going to clubs until the 1990's (after a long gap following university in the 70's) ... and even I can certainly recognise some of the behaviour and character traits under the spotlight. Mr Ingnobody actually runs a very successful club, by the way ... I haven't spotted any dog there yet, nor does there appear to be the equivalent of Old Vermin on the premises. However, somebody used to bring a canine chum to the Ram Club in Claygate on a regular weekly basis when I first started going there - so stereotypes DO actually exist!!