Subject: RE: Ethics: Skinning housecat for banjo head
From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge - PM
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:11 PM

Well! I am not going to remain silent when people joke about murdering cats in order to fashion primitive, bucolic instruments! This thread is deeply offensive. I have devoted many hours to rescuing homeless kitties in the Twillingsgate area, and I am appalled at the vulgar humour displayed in this discussion. While I understand that some of you are speaking tongue in cheek, I believe that there is a certain line which one should not cross, and it has definitely been crossed here.

Banjos are crude, noisy instruments...better suited to a dance hall with straw on the floor, I should think. Cats, on the other hand, are subtle and gorgeous creatures, full of natural grace and wisdom.

Kindly end this odious discussion. Hrothgar, I had better not find you roaming about Twillingsgate!

Ms Penelope Rutledge, Twillingsgate, U.K.


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Subject: RE: Ethics: Skinning housecat for banjo head
From: Oakley - PM
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:34 PM

Can I say, my dear Ms Rutledge, that of course, I am in complete agreement with you, and that my new friends in my string quartet (how we love Haydn's later, more turbulent opusesses) include a small businessman, and oral hygienist and an actress.

I am off now to the library to read Keats, and after that will continue is my tireless campaign to rid the world of animal cruelty - particularly cats, which I love.

May I ask, at this juncture whether you would consider doing me the honour of being my guest at The Brocklesby Hunt Ball this year. It is in three weeks. A truly wonderful opportunity to celebrate all the fun that the hunt has had this year in ripping literally thousands of foxes into tiny shreads.

It would make a good-looking, virile and not impoverished farmer, very happy indeed.   

Yours affectionately


Lionel Oakley


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Subject: RE: Ethics: Skinning housecat for banjo head
From: Fingerbuster - PM
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:41 PM

I'm with you Hrothgar, when are we goin ahuntin?


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Subject: RE: Ethics: Skinning housecat for banjo head
From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge - PM
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 05:05 PM
In The Mudcat Shop: Retrospect

Honestly, this forum is the very limit! I should have realized that traversing the wilds of the Internet would be an experience not for the faint of heart, but I had no idea what was out there until I did.

Oakley, you are a persistent and unusual fellow, to be sure. While your efforts to better yourself are encouraging, I'm not sure that I can promise a meeting in the near future. By the way, I believe that the Nemesis of the North was a male, but I am not sure who. I suspect it was one of Winston's friends, most of whom are pretentious wastrels in search of idle tomfoolery. It didn't sound like Winston himself to me, though. They are just trying to stir the pot. I was thunderstruck at your suggestion regarding the wrestling match in the pit of mashed potatoes. You really do have a vivid imagination, don't you? Actually, it was rather funny in retrospect! You surely couldn't have been serious? If I were inclined to compete with another female in the arena of love, I would choose more subtle means than that, I assure you. :>) (Note that I have learned about emoticons.)

Now I see that another subhuman cat hater is attempting to wave the red flag at me, as if I were some monstrous bovine standing in a field...

Well too bad, Fingerbuster. I wasn't born last week, and I have said my piece. You can't put me off my tea and cookies that easily, sir!

Ms Penelope Rutledge


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Subject: RE: Ethics: Skinning housecat for banjo head
From: Oakley - PM
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 05:28 PM

I love you with all my heart, Ms Penelope Rutledge.