BS:Hiya,with apologies

Subject: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: autolycus
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 07:07 PM

With my apologies, I've seen that I should have said hello to you all. Instead, in good old Cancerian fashion, I rather seeped in.

Is it too late to say hello from Norwich, Norfolk? It was that magic thread about the 3-minute egg that did it. And the site is beautifully easy to use and follow, and so many interesting people here.

If threads turn up to do with Art, prejudice, psychology, Tottenham Hotspur, jokes, popular fallacies, books, green matters, or obscure questions, I'll be in.

Anyway, thank you for having me.

Best wishes
Autolycos

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 07:09 PM

Greetings Autolycos - From Darkest West London - Its a Madhouse in here !

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Dead Horse
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 07:18 PM

Even Mr Joe Clone has his moments.
He has put this up in the Moosik sektion when it am clearly labelled BS!

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 07:21 PM

Greetings, Autolycos from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania!

I hope you start threads on the subjects you listed. If I don't post to them, I'll probably be lurking and learning.

Ms. Azizi

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 07:23 PM

autolycus,

You are one strange dude or dudette. Either way, welcome.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 08:41 PM

Hi, Autocyclus -
Anonny Mouse needs to learn this, too.
When you start threads, please use the dropdown menu on the thread creation page to select a thread tag that best identifies your thread. The blank one at the top is for when no tag applies, but you should generally check the other tags to see if you can find one that fits. You typed in the "BS:" and so it didn't automatically put this in the non-music section. It's no big deal - we eventually move things that are in the wrong place.
Welcome to Mudcat!
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:46 PM

Topham Hatt? You are a friend of Topham Hatt?

I'm rather prejudiced about the psychology of jokes and their influence on obscure green books of questions dealing with popular Art fallacies.

I just thought that you'd like to know. Especially if you're a friend of Topham Hatt.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Bert
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 01:30 AM

Tottenham Hotspur! Tottenham Bleedin' Hotspur!
Give me The Irons any day.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 03:43 AM

Cheers from sunny Hull.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 04:25 AM

I foresee a glut of remarks relating to the misnamed "Beautiful game" arriving any minute now. Please can we get back to politics?
Only joking Autolycus, welcome indeed to the the Big Mean Cat Machine.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: alanabit
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 04:49 AM

Looking outside at the weather (it is bloody freezing here) it is an appropriate time of year to welcome someone by the name of Autolycus. Hope you enjoy the madhouse!

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 04:53 AM

Nothing wrong with saying Hiya! If it is a tradition from Norfolk I would say it was Norfolk and good...

Ey up from t'frozen north.

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 06:20 AM

"And the site is beautifully easy to use and follow, and so many interesting people here."

With praise like that, we autolycu too (assuming I am pronouncing that properly).

Welcome from New Brunswick, Canada.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya-watha, Apollo....Jeeze!
From: Severn
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM

Welcome from momentarily sunny Laurel, MD USA!

Looking forward to bouncing off of some of your ideas in some direction or other!......

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Troll
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 10:01 PM

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

troll

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Feb 06 - 02:43 PM

Hello from murky Newton Aycliffe.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 06 - 05:07 PM

Well, I'm in Idaho and I say "Hello."

Could you introduce me to Topham Hatt?

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: aussiebloke
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 01:01 AM

Hello from the north of Australia - welcome to Mudcat...

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 01:32 AM

Welcome to the sandbox.

I'm really not a guest. Just too lazy to go find my cookie.

Greetings from Vancouver, B.C.

Warning - This place is addictive.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 03:39 AM

Best wishes from Gainsborough, Lincs.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 05:42 AM

Oh Bert.... how could you? Just when I was beginning to like you again... the Irons.... you know we live 5 minutes walk from Upton Park...? We used to live even closer - so close that we could read in our dining room by the light of their floodlights.

Welcome Autothingy, good to see technology is at last finding its way into Norfolk! (I'm allowed to say things like that, my bestest mate lives in Norwich too).

LTS

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: harmony
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 06:46 AM

Greetings. They are a friendly bunch here, you will feel at home.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 02:05 PM

Greetings friend, from rainy Maine.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: leftydee
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 04:21 PM

Welcome from Detroit

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Kaleea
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 12:09 AM

Howdy, autolycus! The more arty & obscure 3 minute green eggs hang out here alot reading joke books about global worming & freudian slips.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: autolycus
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 06:02 PM

Thank you for your greetings, people.

Leadfingers - having been here a while, I've not noticed madness. Does that make me mad, too?

Ms.Azizi - thanks, I run stuff past you and take my chances.

Peace - just to clear this up, dude, tho' my therapy trainer , she said I had a well-developed feminine side, you know, listening, empathising, a willingness to express my feelings. Which combines interestingly with a philosophy degree. "One strange...." As the 40s film had it,"That's an interesting comment, but it leaves me rather in the dark."

Rapaire - thanks. There are these new thingys that I sometimes wear, specitaterles or summat. Topham Hatt indeed. I haven't even got a top hat. ahem, have you not come across a soccer team called T-o-t-e-n-h-a-m H-o-t-s-p-u-r?

Bert - hi. I'm the sort of Spurs supporter who is not anti any other team, even A-s-n-l. So may I wish the irons well.
I went to work last week in an unironed shirt. I described it as an "individually sculpted shirt". Went down quite well.

Flamenco ted - greetings to sunny Hull, and good luck to all who sail in her.(They'll get better)

Also hi to Dead Horse and Joe. I'm fighting my technophobia. Slightly.

Greetings to "giok" (I'll look it up) and alanabit.

Dave the gnome - Hi. Hiya is a bit like hello, but not as silly as I'd like, but meant to be friendly, if not actually cuddly.

gnu - neat pun. I'll work that into my act, when I have my own rather than Jackie Mason's.

Severn - I look forward to that, too. I used to be opinionless till I discovered some of myself.

Troll - very droll
          Troll
          Looking forward to trying to keep up, tapping my unconscious, and having fun.

fat B****rd - oh, that Newton Aycliffe.

aussie bloke - Northern Australia. Blimey. All of it? Hi, anyway.

dianavan - no blame. Yes,I call it thoroughly enjoying it rather than addiction and thanks for the warning. Does Mudcat come with a booklet about how to make good use of it without losing the plot?

Georgiansilver - thanks. Your moniker and habitat suggest a collector of "kwalatay". Am I on or off the scent?

Liz the Squeak - greetings. Love the name. It's fascinating conjuring images of peole out of their passwords. Oh yes, here in Norfolk, we've got loads - roads, pencils, internet, motor cars and everything. Even a Jazz Society. And kiwi fruit. How they grow them here beats me.

harmony - yes, very friendly (even the questionable ones. Perhaps we can love them to death. Is your name from your sun-sign, love of music, or should I mind my own?

jacqui.c. - rather nice to be greeted from Maine. It sounds like it could do with be knowing better. Certainly friendly.

leftydee - hi. Well, Detroit, as well as paper and stuff, cars have reached here, too. And the course on Marx and Hegel at the University of East Anglia here in Norwich was terrific. (I may be , like the parachutist, whose parachute failed, jumping to a conclusion.

Kaleea - watcha (obscure 1930s English slang.) IleftoutmusicquotationsLPs'n'bookscurrentaffairsmeedyaandparalleluniverses.

Autolycos

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: GUEST,Tokyo Rose
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 01:58 AM

Wot is Totenham and y is it bleeding, please?

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 05:21 PM

You...you don't know Sir Topham Hatt and his wife, Lady Hatt?

Why, there's even a song about him!

You'd throw all this aside for a bunch of football (i.e., soccer) hooligans! The very idea!

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 06:45 AM

GUEST Tokyo Rose - Tottenham (not Totenham), issa a plice in norf-east London (you remember London), and "bleedin'" is Lunnon for "bloody". It's apparently what the supporters of one football team use as an adjective about some other team.

Sorry,Rapaire, Thomas the Tank Engine was rather after my childhood and belongs,as you see, to a rather large swathe of knowledge of which I'm higgorant. The swathe possibly amounts to most of it. Reminds of a 70s TV prog called Tom Stoppard doesn't know, in which the playwright raised any number of dilemmas and problems, and then say that he didn't know the answer.

So,(he continued defensively), Sir Thomas never got thrown over at any point. Certainly not of any hooligans. I got taken to football first at seven by my Dad and that lasted aroung 12 years (to be replaced by music, cinema, plays, books and people). In those 12 years, on match days, I had no contact with other supporters, in the sense of, belonging to groups, going to pubs, going to away games.

And for many years after I started, matches were pretty peaceful affairs. Spurs have the record for the longest period in which they never had a player sent off (1928-1963), so rarely even saw much of a roughhouse when I were a lad.

Auto.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Ron Davies
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:01 AM

Like the others, I'd also like to (belatedly) welcome you to Mudcat. Burning with curiosity as to your handle. You're a self-motivated wolf? Or what? There must be a story.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From:
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:13 AM

Welcome to the cat box from East London!

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Ron Davies
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:18 AM

I thought "lycos" was wolf, not "lycus".

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 06:14 PM

Hiya catsPhiddle etc and Ron.

Glad to oblige. I used to run a secondhand bookstall, for which Id go trawling anywhere for fresh stock. My girlfriend picked up on my particularly having a liking for that which others had rejected. So she cut out a quotation about Autolycus, a pedlar in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale,"littered under Mercury...likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

She also new that in my horoscope, I have Mercury Rising, and made the connection to the Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about astrology.

I've lover the Guardian's Notes and Queries column since it began too, so I've developed my own little reference library. Part of the
same complaint.

Auto.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:54 PM

Hey, Auto...

FYI, I have Neptune rising instead of Mercury, but I do have a Virgo ascendant, and Virgo is ruled by Mercury...

Welcome to Mudcat, from one student of astrology to another.

Azizi

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 02:50 AM

mmm...
Didn't John Cleese some time ago call himself John Otto Cleese?
Another celeb trying to infiltrate

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 07:18 AM

Hi Azizi,

Brilliant.
   Actually, i should have said I have Gemini Rising, that is, on the Ascendant, Gemini being ruled by Mercury, nearly the same thing.

I'm also interested in political astrology, not political sense but meaning more like social astrology. Must do a thread about the Near East as an example.

Azizi, where are your sun,Moon and Mercury? Oh alright, and Venus and Mars?

Bill the Collie - sorry, you've lost me. If you meant me.

Auto.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 07:33 AM

Auto.

My Sun is Sag. PM me for the rest.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS:Hiya,with apologies
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 09:04 AM

I have the temperature rising and a bad moon on the rise.