Secret Mudcat Handshake

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 12:33 PM

Strum, again?

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 12:27 PM

Ok, I've got a suggestion Peter. Every Mudcatter buys a fingerpick (whether they play a stringed instrument or not) and everytime you shake hands with someone, make sure the pick is on your index finger. You may not meet too many "catters" but oh boy, everyone you meet will know you belong to a secret society. Men will be impressed..women will swoon. If your a female mudcatter, women will be impressed and men will swoon! On the other hand they just might think your the village idiot!..but musicians are used to that.

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 12:26 PM

Musicians only: it doesn't matter how you shake, as long as you're wearing picks.
Maybe banjo players could adopt a frailing motion?

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: Bert
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 11:58 AM

I used to know a guy who had a handshake like a dead fish but he wasn't a Mudcateer.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: Margo
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 11:21 AM

"Muddy buddy!"

or

"Mud in your eye!"

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 11:00 AM

Is that a spooky coincidence, or will it be gavels at twenty paces?

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: Chief Pooh-Bah
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 10:58 AM

I cannot reveal but hint: think fins not ears!

Subject: RE: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 10:56 AM

Yes, come on brothers, I'm sure we can square this up, and level
Yours craftily,
The Grand Poo-Bah of Solomon's Outside Lavatory

Subject: Secret Mudcat Handshake
From: Peter T.
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 10:25 AM

Actually I want a Mudcat decoder ring, but upon recently meeting Rick Fielding we were stymied to figure out what the secret Mudcat greeting was. The "Mudcatters vs. Mudcatteers" thread is gainfully employed elsewhere. What should the secret Mudcat grip, sign, or whatever be? How, in the absence of the telltale T-shirt, or other telltale signs (lack of shoes, bleary eyes, tendinitis, inadequate pension plan) can two Mudcatters greet each other upon first acquaintance?

Or is there already one known only to a select few (come on, get a grip)?

Yours in secret greeting, Peter T.