A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)

Subject: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 08:31 PM

I would like to take this opportunity to thank and wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to all my new friends in-

El Cerrito, San Diego, and Sacramento in California.
Portland, and NW Oregon.
Westminster and Laurel in Maryland.
Pearland in Texas.
Newcastle in NSW, Sydney and Western Australia.
Muscatine, Mapleton and Boone in Iowa
Cape Cod.
Kingston and Lanark in Ontario.
Princetown in New Jersey
Branford, North Haven, Pomfret, New Haven and everyone else in Connecticut.
Fargo in North Dakota.
Sprighill and all in Nova Scotia.
Huckswagen, Munich and Munster in Germany.
Colorado Springs and 9,600 ft up Mt Evans in Colorado.
Keene, Cummaquid and Rockingham county in New Hampshire.
Ellen Vannin on the Isle of Man.
Denmark.
Tallahassee, Lakeland and 'Frank in the Swamps' in Florida.
Grand Rapids and North Michigan.
Southwest Virginia.
New Westminster and Maple Ridge in British Columbia.
The Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire.
Lowe Hutt in New Zealand.
Florence in Alabama.
Newcastle in England.
North Falmouth and Essex in Massachusetts.
New York, Finger Lakes and Albany in New York.
Wichita in Kansas.
Bozeman in Montana.
Minnesota.
St Albert in Alberta.
Utah.
Norway
Sheffield, Huddersfield and Doncaster in various bits of Yorkshire.
Oklahoma.
Glasgow.
The middle of the wild North Sea.
Genoa and Southeast Ohio.
Athalone and Blarney in Ireland.
Portland in Maine.
Espanola and near Albuquerque In New Mexico.
Torino in Italy.
Tucson and Phoenix in Arizona.
Kona in Hawaii.
Peru andMeatskin CountyIllinois.
Chapel Hill and all in North Carolina.
Sitka in Alaska.
Ottawa.
Kenosha WI.
St Louis in Missouri.
Kiel on the Baltic Sea.
Gravesend in Kent
Wisconsin

And to anyone I may have overlooked. Thank you all.

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: BSeed
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 11:09 PM

Shambles, thanks. it's just how I feel about this place (the world, the mudcat) and its inhabitants. and to think you put el cerrito first! --seed

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: BSeed
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 11:16 PM

oh, and add nagoya, japan. --seed

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From:
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 03:13 AM

Shambles - sincere thanks and the same to you and all Mudcatters! The Mudcat Café was definitely my greatest discovery in '98! - Susanne

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 04:16 AM

And probably OZ as well.

cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 05:35 AM

Well Seed,

I was going to start with Meatskin County, but there was one big drawback with that idea.

But I know how you feel about rejection and as we all know El Cerrito is pretty much the centre of the universe, so I thought I would start there. (Halfway through I was beginning to wish I hadn't started at all). Yours was the first introduction and it was done pretty much in the order that the introductions came in, so there is no need for Wisconsin to feel that any value judgements were being made. I take your point about our friend Takeo, but he must have introduced himself (as others must have done) in other threads, (including the Mudcat UK one that started it) my greetings are extended to all.

To those who don't know what all this rubbish is about, this was a thank you to all who responded to the 'Mudcat (The World) where are you?' threads.

Part 11 HERE, has still plenty of room for anyone who would like to let us know where, who you are and to tell us what weather conditions are prevailing. I for one would like to see it as an ongoing thing, for new people are joining us all the time, seasons change and I'm just plain nosy.

Again may I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 06:45 AM

Thank you, and the same to you Shambles and all the other Mudcatters out there, both those who post and those who just browse.

Roger in Baltimore (well, Westminster, really).

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 07:32 AM

Shambles:

Much obliged for the thoughtful note; it's a gracious present on this first day of December; mighty thoughty of you.

Bill in Alabama (but originally from Soddy-Daisy, in East Tennessee)

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 08:47 AM

Shambles,

You know my feelings about you and all the friends & neighbors here at the Mudcat. I really appreciate the holiday greeting. And it is the first one. Take care my friend.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Bill "Lanarkist" Cameron
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 09:25 AM

Shambles et al:

Same to you! Even though Thanksgiving was six weeks ago.

But that took some patience to list out--I was glad you did, cause actually I'd forgotten if I posted on part 1 of the thread and didn't want to be redundant or repeat myslef.

Speaking of MeaTSKIN cOUNTY--Did a major drawback on my (left fore)finger yesterday with a utility knife--its wrapped in large comical looking tube of gauze and I'm glad for the many years of guitar/typing practicethat strnehened the other three digits--anyone with info on Django Reinhardt guitar technique please send it. (I'm kidding, sort of--it was the side, not the tip that I sliced fortunately and a full recivery is predicted eventually)

Bill

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Bert
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 11:34 AM

Hi Shambles,

You also have a friend in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

A Merry X and a Happy Noo to you too.

Bert.

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 11:59 AM

Thanks to you, Shambles! It's really nice to find Branford, Connecticut in this world community, and I love the place and the people.

Haven't had time lately to post much, but I really want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyeux Noel, Buon Natale, Feliz Navidad, Felice Anno Nuovo, Heureuse Nouvelle Annee, Frohliche Wiehnachten, Prospero Ano Nuevo, Happy Hanukkah, and Skoal!!

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Pete M
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 02:25 PM

Thanks once again Shambles for your good wishes, and the patience to cull and list all the locations (I keep having this nagging thought at the back of my head that with your nom de Mudcat you should hail from York!)

Seasons greetings to you and everyone else.

Pete M

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 05:05 PM

Hail from York, now that is interesting.

I take it that you mean the street in York with the over-hanging houses and shop fronts called The Shambles. In a way that is probably correct, but in a round about way.

The Shambles is the name of our band. Where we rehearsed on the Isle of Portland, we could hear the audible warning from what used to be called The Shambles Lightship and is now unmanned. There are now (last week saw the last one automated) no manned lighthouses in the UK.

This buoy is guarding a dangerous sandbank called The Shambles, that has claimed many lives.

I think I am right in saying that the street in York is called The Shambles due to the fact that there were at one time a lot of butchers shops there. The meat was displayed on a sloping shelf, known as a 'shamel'.

It is not too difficult to see that a sloping sandbank might also be called a 'shamel' and later become The Shambles?

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 05:35 PM

From here in Meatskin County, where ya might say we've been busted for a long time now, I'll save space and time by just saying DITTO to all of the above.

But, what's time to a pig????

Art

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 06:06 PM

Shambles, I believe here in the US we just recently lost our last manned lighthouse to a fully automated system. In some places permission has been given for individules or groups to maintain & man lights for navagational aids but they are not officially part of the Lighthouse system. Would make a nice thread topic. Barry

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Pete M
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 06:29 PM

Hi Shambles, I'd completely forgotten about the Sambles bank and light vessel, just shows how fickle memory is. I would think your derivation is probably correct, but don't know. I heard the news about the automation of the last light house, North Foreland is close to my home town of course. Light houses in New Zealand have been automated for some years now.

Pete M

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Zorro
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 07:10 PM

Hey Shambles,

What a great idea. Thank you and back at you and the rest of my mudcat and kitten friends. For anyone who is interested, Pearland, Texas is 10 miles from downtown Houston. For anyone not interested it's in the same place. This year you guys have helped me find songs I thought were lost forever. I got an e mail 2-3 weeks ago from Brian in Wales (UK) about a song from the late 40's early 50's titled "Bald Head" I've been searching for. Another was "It ain't easy bein' white" Gene in El Paso, Tx. found that one for me, and on and on. What a grand gesture to honor your friends with a merry Christmas. We'll all get together next year.... Blessed be. Z.

from Brian

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From:
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 09:49 PM

ditto to your ditto art..."what's dynamite dope to the pope or religion to a brown ground hog?"

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 10:21 PM

Right back atcha, Shambles!

(Incidentally, "shambles" means "slaughterhouse" as well as "butcher shop". Another possible derivation of the name of a dangerous sandbank.)

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Dec 98 - 11:26 PM

That's an old tale/joke of a farmer holding his pig up to the tree branches so it could eat the appes hanging there. Somebody told him he waqs wasting his time. He ought to pick 'em and put 'em on the ground. The farmer's answer? "What's time to a pig????"

I've used the same line when some deride me for spending days, weeks even months & years here at Mudcat.

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Dec 98 - 05:57 PM

that a very 'delicate' joke, Art..it needs 'finesse'...after 10 minutes of drawing out the lead-in...with various sound effects, the punch line needs to be the way I heard it 22 years ago..." Mister, time don't mean SHIT to a pig!"

.....now isn't that more elegant? I have heard it without the careful use of the expletive for years...and it just don't have the same ring...

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: McMusic
Date: 02 Dec 98 - 09:18 PM

Thanks, Shambles. A merry Christmas to you, too--and all that is good and prosperous in the coming year. And that goes fer th' rest o' ye on this here site, ye Mudcatters, ye! Sorry about the piratespeak; I couldn't help myself.

Joyeaux Noel from SW Virginia

Subject: RE: A Thank you to Mudcat (The World)
From: Mo
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 05:40 PM

Let my thanks and good wishes be added to the rest my fellow Transatlantic Sessioner! Merry Christmas - and a Guid New Year to Ane an' A'.

All the best for '99

Love Mo