Who is wordiest catter?

Subject: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:39 AM

I have noticed that some of my fellow catters never use a dozen words when 600 will do.
What is the longest single contribution to a music thread in one posting?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:41 AM

mine?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:42 AM

Keep it brief.
(you know who you are)
LOL

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:42 AM

Ok so where is yer evidence for this claim?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:43 AM

Gonna look back in after recording and mastering these three new songs..

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Hamish
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:45 AM

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

(Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb.)

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Blah.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:50 AM

'Tis wordy indeed Hamish,but I fear that 'twill be neither wordy nor tedious enough to gain a prize.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Young Buchan
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:51 AM

Smiles

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Young Buchan
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:53 AM

You will have oserved that there was a mile between the beginning and end of my last contribution.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:02 AM

Hmmm - Thought I posted this. Apolgies to anyone seeing twice.

Does anyone else see the blahs sloping down while the rhubards slope up?

DeG

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:08 AM

Why, yes, DeG - I thought my eyes needed tested again, or perhaps it is an overindulgence in self-abuse, which, it is said, causes blindness.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Banjiman
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:12 AM

You're right. I always knew Hamish was wonky........

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: stallion
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:40 AM

why is it? I see the slopes and hills?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:48 AM

It's an optical illusion, accentuated by the additional 'blah' at the end of the first paragraph (pushing it to an exta 'short' line), and also by the bracket & upper case 'R' at the start of the second.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:49 AM

Are we simply asking who uses most words, or who has the highest tendency to chronically pertinacious employment of quasi-redundant sesquipedalian verbiage? ~~ in which case, and with all requisite and appropriate self-effacing modesty ....

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: glueman
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:52 AM

Who is the cattiest worder might be the one to ask.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:00 AM

him

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:06 AM

I would like to Know who posted the longest single post..That is before this thread
which I fear may encourage silliness.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: glueman
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:13 AM

"I would like to Know who posted the longest single post"

The folk dementors have pages of stuff on their PC to cut n'paste at any likely thread. They all start by citing a favourite source, blather on endlessly about the austere beauty of their own judgement and finish by saying the previous poster is an idiot.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:31 AM

Some people are addicted to cut and paste, when a simple link to the source will suffice.
Which is a tad better than cutting and pasting without mentioning the fact that it's somebody else's pearls of wisdom you are uttering.
This is called plagiarism.
You know who you are!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bugsy
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:41 AM

Having been a "Catter" since 1999, a number of my fellow members have quit the website, Reading this thread, I understand why.


Cheers
'
Bugsy

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:20 AM

quality or quantity?

Dani

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:35 AM

I once thought of posting, pasted, a large and well-known dictionary of music. But then my head cooled down and, while cooler, prevailed. I do still have the text with HTML formatting inserted, around here on one of these hard disks, somewhere-- may still do it one day.

What it was about-- A question had been asked (thread created) about the difference between a musical "apple" and a musical "orange." The only way to answer it accurately would have been to cite experts' music HISTORY for the 9-100 other fruits (and vegetables) in the garden, growing between the apple and the orange...

The requestor, it turned out, didn't really want to "know" it "accurately" but only needed to resolve a practical way of approaching a logistics problem-- so I soon concluded that while the material was of great interest to many who had tried to answer the same question and found it hard to nail-- I had basically wasted my time trying to translate an available (expensive) print resource into Mud-HTMLese.

===

The long answer--

There's no satisfying some people, you know-- I get into a lot of trouble for long passages (from folks who are eager to label the hot air ballons carrying cargo, as "windy," so they can puncture the pretty balloons, let the wind escape, and crash the cargo). I get into MORE trouble when I post briefly (from other folks who look for the narrowest opportunity to get a mad on, or play "victim").
    OTOH I get equal numbers of PMs thanking me for the long and short ones, who say that something has been useful to them in some way.

===

The short answer: I guess that altho one can't win, one can't really lose, either.

YMMV. Most do. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,tim leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:33 AM

Quantity!
I think that may be the safest.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Nick
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:49 AM

I might be in the running. here's a couple of examples...

Example 1

Example 2

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:51 AM

Lizzie Borden, sorry Cornish, known as the Cornish binge poster, never uses two words when couple of thousand will do.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:42 AM

The wordiest catter is undoubtedly my friend and verbal sparring partner, Amos, from San Diego. He can talk the paint OR the plaster off a brick wall, bore the balls off a Buffalo, and reduce most P.H.D.'s and English majors to complete stupefaction with his arcane and verbose exercises in bloviatory masturbation. He delights in composing tortuous paragraphs of complex analytical prose sprinkled throughout with quasi-scientific terminology and archaic expressions from the 19th century to baffle the uniniatated. He utilizes sesquipedalian language of an arcane and pretentious sort that utterly defies normal logical analysis and leads nowhere but down a rabbit hole of ever-increasing obscurity. What is his purpose? Who can say? Is it to impress others or is it merely to impress himself? Will we ever know? Do we really care? ;-)

Anyway, I nominate Amos! (big grin)

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:44 AM

Pardon me for using the word "arcane" twice in the above post! Amos would never have done that.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:49 AM

You might cure it with arcane gel.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:50 AM

Little Hawk:

Compared to your own metaphysical diatribes, I am the very model of concision.

The original post here was about garrulousness, not vocabulary, a criterion by which you stand head and shoulders above all others.


A

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:54 AM

Aha! The viper ventures forth from his hole into the light of day. ;-) I knew I could entice you with the right bait.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:54 AM

Another pissing contest, aaarghhh!

OP asked about MUSIC thread posts, not Bloviation Section threads!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:02 AM

Well, it's good to see that Amos and I are both up relatively early, ready to regale the world with our combined brilliance...

It so happens that there is a lovely conservation site with forest trails a mere 2 minutes drive from my place, and I've gotten into the habit lately of driving over there once a day and going for a half hour walk to get myself in shape and seek inspiration amidst the stands of old growth forest. It's minus sixteen celcius out there today, so the air is going to be very crisp. Good for clearing one's head.

Amos will probably be kayaking in balmy seas, enjoying summer-like temperatures. (sigh) He doesn't deserve such good luck!

Anyway, as I said, I'll shortly be seeking inspiration amongst the pines and maples. Wish me luck, Amos.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:07 AM

correction, "mine" was the deepest.

** BG ***

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,tim leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:21 AM

Sasquashseptapaedalism? hairy feet in mouth?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,chris
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:21 AM

I glanced at the post title and thought it said 'who is the weirdest catter' - then I thought.......perhaps the 'real' question would be the easiest to answer
chris

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:25 AM

Another allied prize might be for the most gratuitous display of philological exhibitionism.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:30 AM

No-one has yet answered my above query as to whether we are disputing length of posts or sesquepedalianism of verbosity therewithin. Until terms of the discussion have been thus defined, I forbid its continuation. Forbid it, do you hear! Stop it stop it stop it stop it WAAAHHHH!!!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:30 AM

Do a forum search on 'Shambles'

If you read enough, you will find the wordiest, most repetitive, and at least SOME of the longest posts ever.

In response to those many posts, *I* claim the prize for the longest single sentence....although someone translated it into French, which no doubt is even longer.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:36 AM

oh...and later in that thread, into GERMAN...which MUST be longer!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:39 AM

It so happens that there is a lovely conservation site with forest trails a mere 2 minutes drive from my place, and I've gotten into the habit lately of driving over there once a day and going for a half hour walk to get myself in shape and seek inspiration amidst the stands of old growth forest. It's minus sixteen celcius out there today, so the air is going to be very crisp. Good for clearing one's head.

lol Little Hawk, you would make a very good Murrican. It is a "two minute drive" and then you "walk a half hour"?

Have you thought of walking seven minutes, a half hour and then seven minutes back?

Even I, overweight and old, walk 45 or more minutes a day. Without using a car.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:45 AM

Surely some long posts in the Global Warming thread?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:18 PM

Oh, for heaven's sake! Now look here, Ebbie, there is a very good reason why I don't walk to the conservation site. Actually several good reasons.

1. It's too damned far away! Do you realize have far a car can go in 2 minutes (or thereabouts)? It may be more like 3 minutes. Or 4. I haven't exactly timed it.

2. I would be so tired by the time I finally got there that I'd have no energy left to walk the beautiful forest trails, which is where I WANT to do my walking.

3. The route from my house to the conservation site is along some quite busy 2-lane highways with traffic whipping by at about 60 miles an hour, 3 feet away from me as they go by, hurling slush, toxic exhaust, and buffeting wind in my general direction, plus the possibility that some drunk will drift onto the shoulder and hit me. Is it pleasant to walk in such conditions? NO!

Now, the forest trails where I do choose to walk are silent (except for bird calls and the breeze rustling in the trees), peaceful, beautiful, and unpolluted, and I have solitude there away from the mad rush of humanity. The main loop trail which I walk around is about a mile long, and that's about the distance I like to walk at this point.

Enough said.

********

Bill!!!!!!!!!   That sentence you wrote to Shambles wins the prize. It's incredible. I've printed out a copy of it to laminate and hang on my office wall. It may be the greatest example of excessive wordiness combined with gentle satire in the history of mankind. You have rendered Amos completely moribund and obsolete. You have left me (almost) mute with admiration. I shall henceforth doff my hat in humble salute whenever we cross paths, aware that I am in the presence of a true Master.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM

Bill D - you, and even Lizzie, are eclipsed by this thing from 1854 I put on my website:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Oddities/lennox.html

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:27 PM

Good God. That is horrifying, Jack. I may print out copies of it and put them up on local bulletin boards around here to confuse and confound the Orillians. ;-D Most people nowadays have the attention span of a gnat, of course, and will only give it the briefest glance, but I'm sure there are a few who will stand perplexed before it and read at least halfway through before they give up and move on....

Okay, so BillD is not the greatest of all time. Granted. But I still think he's the greatest in the present era...at least on this forum anyway.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:31 PM

FOrtunately, Mister Lennox was not a Catter, although he might be an earlier incarnation of DOnuel's.   As for Bill D's, if we allow interminable redundancies and loquacious self-referential sub-clauses ad infinitum, of course, anyone can ramble on forever. To go on at great length with concision is a genuine art.


A

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:39 PM

No one else but you would even think to use the word "concision", Amos. That is what makes you so unique and notable a luminary in the arena of extreme and artful bloviation...

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:41 PM

Little Hawk:

Irony, to be effective must be subtle rather than ham-handed.

A

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:48 PM

Thank you, my good man. With your astute and fatherly guidance I hope to one day be able to converse competitively with people at places like the San Diego Starbucks and the San Francisco Sheraton. ;-)

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:49 PM

"To go on at great length with concision is a genuine art."

Yeah!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:51 PM

spaw LOL got ya buddie

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 01:21 PM

Being "King of the Mountain" sure is a fleeting thing....

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 02:23 PM

Are mudcatters just "osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary", behind all the words....well most of us....outside the alien types.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 02:51 PM

Walkabouts MacGonagall?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:07 PM

BillD, that was effing BRILL! You're still King at Mudcat!

(Remember the old days when Spaw and I were the Mudcatters with the most postings?:-)

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:13 PM

This thread is thoroughly antidisestablehmentarianist, and deserves the most resolute floccinaucinihilipilification.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:15 PM

... sorry ~ left the [approx] central *s* out of 'antidisestablishmentarianist'! I am about to write it out 100 times...

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:17 PM

Sure...and I remember when Dick G & Susan of DT told me they tried to read every thread.. *grin*

Most postings is one thing...sheer volume is quite another. For awhile, Shambles was a clear leader, although he began to use C&P a lot. I wonder if Little Hawk isn't in contention for the most purely original, all personally typed postings.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:17 PM

I have read this thread without finding any substance and only one culprit identified (Nick, who gave himself up; but his chord post was one I had copied).

In an early post, glueman commented on folk dementors.
Please, sir, what is a 'dementor?
My dictionaries have failed in my quest for a meaning.
Is it one who makes people demented? Or is it someone who brain-washes folk (de-mentor = removal of knowledge)?

I cannot rest until I know the answer!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:25 PM

What is a dementor?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:52 PM

MgM:

Just you keep your Floccinaucinihilipilification to yourself, young man. And mind you shave your palms after.



A

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:08 PM

We antihypersyllabicsesquipedalianists object to that kind of language!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:35 PM

The trouble with becoming numero uno in this particular category of behavioral addict is that it sends you straight down the road to carpal tunnel syndrome, dementia, eyesight problems, a sore neck and shoulders, and a loss of whatever real life you may have once had, as you join the ranks of those who seriously need to "get a life", as the saying goes...

Thus it is a crown that no one can hold for very long, in my opinion. Or if they do, they are being extremely foolish.

And that may be why former Mudcat verbosity champions sometimes have subsided into doing a great deal of "cut and paste", while others simply fade gradually from the scene...or disappear entirely.

It might just be that they smartened up and "got a life" while there was still time left to do so! ;-D

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:44 PM

Dave MacKenzie- I guess I should see what children are reading and seeing nowadays.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:48 PM

Hi Q.

I've missed the last couple because my daughter is grown up with a boyfriend, and none of the grandkids are big enough or near enough.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:53 PM

"The trouble with becoming numero uno in this particular category of behavioral addict is that it sends you straight down the road to carpal tunnel syndrome, dementia, eyesight problems, a sore neck and shoulders, and a loss of whatever real life you may have once had"

Yes, but it doesn't of and by itself give you crabs.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:52 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:54 PM

Is there an implication here that some Mudcatters tend to wax verbose?


I was afraid this thread was going to turn into a personal attack, but the Mudcat Wags brought a good dose of silliness to it. I like silly.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:07 PM

Can't be me, Joe. I don't even wax m'car.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:14 PM

Wax their bows?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:40 PM

I wax mine. Bose of them.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:46 PM

I hear that Bose are over rated.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: flattop
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:52 PM

Careful on those cold walks, Little Hawk. You live in a land where a fellow can bleed to death from chapped lips. Even if they find you in time, you'll be looking for your Florence Nightingale on hard liquor.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: flattop
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:56 PM

To get a Mariposa Bikini wax, you'd have to take off your snowshoes.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:06 PM

Without doubt Peter T. Back in the Golden Age of Mudcat Fiction, I would often open a thread to find 25-30 paragraphs of inspired prose, often imagined conversations between various imaginary characters, and which Peter had posted at 4:15 AM, likely after typing since midnight.
Now it's hard to get the boy to say two sentences. Does age breed terseness?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:16 PM

A band named Ear Wacks?

Other weird band names:

http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/quotes/funnyband.html

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:20 PM

Someone once told me about a band called "Peter and the Pubic Pluckers"....but, I never could find them on the web?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:29 PM

Well, now that we have settled that question to everyone's satisfaction...what topic has elicited the greatest number of threads without ever answering the basic question?

I nominate "what is folk?"

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:34 PM

As I walk through the winter wood, all glittery with frost on a brisk morning, I find myself pleasantly lost imagining what the spring will bring. Small oblongs of soft grey fur on pussy willow, tightly curled leaves waiting for the sun to coax them to open, and new green growth on old trees. Of course, the older growth becomes tough and woody with age, much like the old fart denizens of web forums who don't care so much about posting anymore. Or perhaps they just grow up and are too busy to bring dragons strings and sealing wax, or string jewels of their words on a line for old friends.

And no, I don't really think I'm a very good writer, but there have been those who've inspired me here. I'd much rather read volumes of their words than one venomous line from a bitter, spite-driven poster, and we've got enough of them about. It's not how much a person says but what they say and how they say it.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:37 PM

Monsieur
O..O    \
=o= ,, ,,)~~~

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:40 PM

Actually, Jeri...you're a bloody good writer. Always have been...and yes, I know you weren't looking for compliments, but you just got one, so stick it on yer jumper and let it glow for a while...

One of the reasons I LOVE Mudcat is because of the minds on here, and the great writers, and there are many wonderful wordsmiths on here who are absolute magic. They make me laugh out loud with their wit and at times, make me cry with their tenderness..and as for the craziness of this place, well, that's what makes Mudcat special..

:0)

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:49 PM

irony ?   i had to irony me pants this morning does that count

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Genie
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:55 PM

Ebbie, you say "Even I, overweight and old, walk 45 or more minutes a day. Without using a car."

Actually, I find that is generally the easiest and most natural way of walking.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: freda underhill
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 07:56 AM

it's very satisfying to confabulate awhile, while meandering, perambulating even, along a winding way. Last night i and some friends waddled, wandered and wondered around Sydney harbour, and chatted, surmised and chinwagged as we pursued our mobile explorations of the sunset and light on the beautiful water. we later gathered at a small restaurant and continued our discussions, stretching meaning, pursuing innuendo, and mercilessly defying pontification.

nothing like a good chinwag :-)

I also vote for Amos, tho I reckon Bill's parasentence comes pretty close.

and Ebbie, I wax mine too.

freda

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: freda underhill
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:05 AM

there are some who wax their eyebrows
their chinhairs and their lyricals
there are some who wax and wane
while writing passages satirical
there are those who scrub and polish
waxing sentences empiical.
I wax my day and wane my night,
and polish a few miracles.


gnite all :-)

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Acorn4
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:39 AM

Minimalism? No!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:49 AM

Amos -

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Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Rasener
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:17 AM

Who is the wordiest catter?

Why Top Cat of course. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4piPBxTGdF0&feature=related

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:30 AM

Surely there is a paradigmatic contradistinction between 'quality' and 'quantity '?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:55 AM

As far as walking while using a car goes, I think the only way that can be done is the way Fred Flintstone did it. It would require considerably modifying the vehicle, but it would save on gas.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 07:49 PM

LH, remember the Bennett Buggy!

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: pdq
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:07 PM

Do you mean this...

                                  Bennet Buggy?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:15 PM

LOL. Yep--that's the one.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:16 PM

Yeah...quite something, wasn't it? Good to see horses getting some employment opportunities.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:23 PM

Posted without comment.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:28 PM

Worth a thousand words, wasn't it?

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:41 PM

I figure that three pictures cubed--well, ya know?

Good eye, LH.

Subject: RE: Who is wordiest catter?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:44 PM

Hmmm,

Some of my individual posts here may qualify

Technique: Piano Accordion for The Recycled Muso

but ....