Poems/Songs about Mudcat?

Subject: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:16 AM

I have been doing some Kipling stuff recently and something struck me the last night. The first half of the last verse of 'If' seems particulary suitable for Mudcat. I will not post all the words here as they may already be in the DT - if not they are in tons of other places. I have given the relevant bit below -

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with kings nor loose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none too much

How can we talk with a bigger crowd than Mudcat?
How many kings (and queens!) of folk do we have here?
Always remember, even in the more heated discussions, they are only words!
and most importantly, at the end of the day we are all equal.

My thoughts anyway:-)

Can anyone else think of any suitable, poignant, pithy or downright disgraceful stuff???

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: mooman
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:58 AM

Dear Dave,

Here (hopefully) is a

Blue clickable thingy

to Eric the Viking's saga about the recent German Mudgathering!

All the best

mooman (he who used to be but, alas, is no longer mcmoo)

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: mooman
Date: 10 May 01 - 05:01 AM

Ye gods and little fishes! It worked! This is an HTML first for me and deserves a pint at lunchtime!

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 May 01 - 05:15 AM

Well done mooman! Have the scars from the op healed yet?;-)

Good stuff from Eric as well but I was thinking more along the lines of existing stuff that is apt rather than penned specificaly for the 'cat.

Perhaps we can have a 'worst tenuous link' contest at the Jug???

See ya there

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: mooman
Date: 10 May 01 - 05:20 AM

Not sure Dave...I'll take a look...

No can't see anything...(!)

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 May 01 - 03:33 PM

I can't believe no-one else can think of any! Or even comment on what a bad idea it is;-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: MMario
Date: 10 May 01 - 03:43 PM

music, music everywhere;
but not a note to sound
music, music everywhere
reels and rhythmns abound

okay - feeble - but bet with a little effort we could come up with the Rime of the Ancient MudCatter

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 10 May 01 - 03:46 PM

Do instrumentals qualify?

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: mousethief
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:43 PM

Can you Brits still drink pints? I heard that someone got arrested for selling food by the pound (instead of kilogram). I'd hate for you to get in trouble just drinking.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 May 01 - 05:58 PM

Can you brits still drink pints???

I resemble that remark! Of course we can. Trouble is our overstretched police would rather arrest someone for selling bananananananananas (Ok - I never know when to finish) in pounds than find a mugger who has just beat up an 80 year old lady...

Oh, stop it. This ain't serious (is it?)

Alex - just try thieving cheese by the ounce and see what happens;-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 May 01 - 08:07 PM

The pints over here are bigger than the ones they have in America I understand. Most confusing for everyone.

The Moving Finger writes, and having writ
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it

From the Rubaiyat

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Alice
Date: 10 May 01 - 09:53 PM

There is an old thread where we were making up Mudcat songs when the first Mudcat radio programs started - for radio intro songs. I did one to the tune of Rocks of Bawn. Don't have time to make a link right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 May 01 - 10:05 PM

Justa, I don't see why not........instrumentals are certainly part of Trad! Why not Mudcat tunes too?

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 10 May 01 - 11:15 PM

Yah think?

Subject: RE: BS: Poems/Songs about Mudcat?
From: alison
Date: 10 May 01 - 11:46 PM

here is one of the Mudcat Radio Song thread

that alice was referring too....

slainte

alison