The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119647   Message #2597128
Posted By: Folknacious
25-Mar-09 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: Excellent Mudcat parody
Subject: RE: Excellent Mudcat parody
Methinks the parodist made good use of online an anagram generator!!

I don't think there was such a thing as on-line, let alone anagram generators, when Borfolk first started. I seem to remember that quite a lot were contributed by readers via a competition in the early days. I know that other artists such as The Rotters Of Coppingdean and The Rubbishy Song And Tune Cell were, like Elmer P Bleaty, fond enough of their anagrams to occasionally self-refer to them, and some Borfolk names like Wardeaths were so appropriate that they entered common useage. Ditto DEAFASS (The Dance Earnestly And Forget About Singing Society) which was very appropriate 25-30 years ago. Borfolk was/is brilliant in the tradition of loving parodies like Spinal Tap and that new Morris film. I wonder if Lawrence/ Frank/ sTroof could be persuaded to put together an anthology for all those of us who no longer have their early Southern Rags, Folk Roots and old Sidmouth Festival daily newspapers?