Art Thieme Offline,again - 2008

Subject: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 02:36 PM

Art asked me to let y'all know that he'll be offline for a while. He's fine; his computer isn't.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 03:03 PM

LOL......Dick, I'm not really sure that Art has ever been "fine" in his entire life........But I'm happy to know he's not having additional health problems and sorry that his computer is.

Get well soon to Art's computer.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 03:03 PM

We'll send Barry Finn out to fix it.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 03:11 PM

Thanks Dick

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 05:21 PM

Put yourselves in the place of Art's computer, having to put up with his puns 24/7 - you might want some time offline, too.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Big Mick
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 05:22 PM

Get back soon, buddy.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 05:52 PM

The puns wouldn't hurt his computer -- a byte's a byte for a' that -- but it drive his spelchkr kwazy, and that would make it inclined to byte the hand that feeds it.


A

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 12:42 AM

Oh Amos - not a pretty pun. I have chatted on line with Art but not met him -- will miss his commentary......

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 02:04 AM

get well soon, computer, we need Art back asap

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 09:11 AM

I'd rather Art came back as Art, not as a sap.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 09:56 AM

Good point Rap. Of course he wouldn't be away at all if he'd used a better computer instead of that cheap Chinese brand, Fu Bar.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 10:23 AM

I wonder if we need to initiate round two of "boost Art's computer" (last time was to get the materials there to let him transfer his vast collection of cassettes and LPs to CD).

Any more information on what ails the 'puter?

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 11:12 AM

I spoke with him, yesterday. His son is going to look at it on Saturday. It just goes dark on him after it taking about ten minutes to get it to do anything. He thinks it is a hardware problem. His son is going to bring him some part, he wasn't sure what, but they hope it will get things going, again.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surprise!
From: Slag
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 08:43 PM

I feel his pain, having recently gone thru the same crisis.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 12:24 AM

Boy, I sure hope Art can get back on this weekend! I miss him!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 10:32 AM

Okay. Art, baby, I miss ya, big guy. When you're not here my day is without sunshine. Sort of like being on the Mississippi fishing for cat without stinkbait.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surprise!
From: MMario
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 10:50 AM

Good to hear that when someone is "missing" it *isn't* due to health, disaster, etc. well, being unable to get online is a disaster - as is not Having Art around -- but you know what I mean.

Hoping he's back online soon.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:55 AM

Hurry back Art - you will be missed in the meantime.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 12:06 PM

Heya, FineArt, can't wait to see you back online. It's not the same without you!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: Deckman
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 12:14 PM

I'm out the door in half an hour heading for Arizona. CHEERS to Art, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surprise!
From: Stringsinger
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:33 PM

Art, we miss you already.

Frank

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:51 PM

Rapaire said

I'd rather Art came back as Art, not as a sap.

...........................

trust you to pick up my typo, what I REALLY said was -

get well soon, computer, we need Art back AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

well, that's my excuse & I'm sticking to it! Wot a shame I can't do HTML to make it more obvious!

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surprise!
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 09:36 PM

Get well soon, Art's computer. We miss Art, his stories and his pictures.
- Phil

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surprise!
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 04:37 AM

Hope you get back on-line again soon Art. I know just how frustrating it can be without a PC, especially when there's such a Fab place like this with such a wonderful family around the world to share music with!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surprise!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 11:29 AM

The "aarrrrgghh!" quotient is way down when Art isn't lobbing puns into the Mudcat pond.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while-Read our surpri
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 12:34 PM

Boy, that's the truth! I had to listen to the Turtle Herd story this AM just to get my Art Fix!

kat

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 09:57 AM

Come back Art, all is forgiven!**BG**

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 01:40 PM

Sure hope that kid of Art's gets him rewired, today!**bg**

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 02:03 PM

Do you think rewiring Art will help?

Maybe it's a simple matter of a penny in his fuse box. . .

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 02:16 PM

Maybe he just needs refusing?
G

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 07:10 PM

Well, if throwing his circuit breaker will help I know some guys in Chicago that will do that for only about ten bucks. Heck, for fifty bucks they'll give him a special Chicago Boat Ride.

Art has to come back. What is music without Art?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 11:52 PM

Or, Art without music?**bg** He's gonna chuckle when he finally gets back here and reads these puns!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 11:32 AM

It's past Thieme for great Art to make a resurgence.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 11:37 AM

If I only had a Art......

~Nick Chopper

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 11:55 AM

It's just possible that "Art" may have heard some of these dreadful puns before in his long and wondrous life. Might I respecfully suggest that we refrain from inflicting further "pun-ishment" on our cherished friend, lest he be further provoked.

Sincerely,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:06 PM

I wouldn't want to do anything to frighten Art off.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:18 PM

Yeah, right. Art Thieme chased off by a pun. That'll be the day!

I dread the idea that he has read this already and is working on a several mega-pun rebuttal. . .

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: maeve
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:26 PM

That is thoughtful, Charley, and certainly none of would want to offend such a lovely person. I have a feeling that what Art will see in the reading of these comments and dreadful puns is the affection and respect being expressed. He's reputed to be an astute fellow, after all.

We'll be very happy to see you back here, Mr. Thieme. I'm looking forward to reading many more of your posts and puns!

maeve

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: MartinRyan
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:53 PM

...re butt-al?

Re(gards)

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 02:37 PM

Well, I for one AM worried. Art carries a pun and knows how to use it.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 05:46 PM

Folks, thanks for all your good words---puns included. I'm now on an interim computer that Chris, our son, left while he took mine to work on. That is why I'm a guest. Maggie, Kat, Frank, 'Spaw----all o' youse (as dey say in Chicago)---are too much! I was able to read three books I'd been wantin' to get to, so the time has flown by easily. Tonight, in about an hour, I'll take in the Superbowl. On we go. And thanks again!

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 05:47 PM

Nice to see you back with us Art mate.
Giok

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while -
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 05:56 PM

'Bout time!

I'd watch the Superbowel but I got to refill all the Kleenex boxes or something.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:34 PM

Whoo-Hoo! He's b-a-c-k-!!! Go, Chris, go!


I wouldn't want to do anything to frighten Art off.

Shouldn't that be ...to frighten Art arf?!

luvyaArt!!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Joybell
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:38 PM

Hooray! Hello again, Art.
Love Joy and Hildebrand

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 08:44 PM

Superbowl? They're playing Sense and Sensibility on Turner Classic Movies! Why would you waste your time with football when you can enjoy Jane Austen? (That's where Rapaire's Kleenex boxes come in handy . . . a few tears might be shed during the film.)

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 10:34 PM

Oh, no, SRS, they'd need the hankies during the last 35 seconds of the game...puir old New England!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 11:11 PM

he's back!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 12:20 PM

So ordered! **BG**

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 03:10 PM

Probably he's front and sides and top and bottom, too.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:45 PM

It was a good game. Fine defense for both really put heat on both quarterbacks all game long.---- I can't watch bad football being perpetrated, but the good stuff is great art---as was watching Michael Jordan all those years in Chicago----and also the Chicago White Sox entire season plus the superb playoffs and World Series a couple years back. Those examples personified team perfection to the extent it can be achieved.

All that said, the Miami Dolphins team that went undefeated---Larry Czonka and cohorts---that was the most amazing football machine I've ever watched. Football is important to me probably because of the day in 1956 I blew out my ACL practicing with the Lakeview High team when I was fifteen years old. That lucky day kept me out o' Viet Nam. Such Is
Life...

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:47 PM

ACL. . . ACL. . . Art's Cathartic Laughter?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:54 PM

Or, Art's Cunning Lingus? *groan* Sorry, was just reading the old condom thread!It's Spaw's fault!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:59 PM

Wait, go back.... he said: ...the good stuff is great art....

And of course, he is.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 10:11 PM

Kat, I can't believe I forgot that one! I've been guilty of using the "cunning linguist" line about folks in the English department here. It either gets roars of laughter or a puzzled look. No in-between. :-/

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 10:16 PM

My brother had a tee shirt when he was in the USAF that said "I Am A Cunning Linguist." And he was -- Airborne Voice Intercept Specialist in Vietnamese.

But the AF wouldn't let him bring it home with him, the party poopers.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 11:11 PM

Oops, and I got it wrong, using the Latin!

Cunning Linguist! Or, in Art's case, even though it doesn't fit the acronym....Punning Linguist!

We love you, Art!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 11:20 PM

Glad you saw that thread kat!   I thought I'd honor Art as he just got back online with my first New Mudlore of the Week thread. I'm not sure he'll find it the honor I do but to be truthful, that condom thread made some needed changes around here not to mention explaining a dental dam to many of us stupid shitkickers.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 11:28 PM

Sounds like Spaw got an eyeful . . . (without going to Paris!)

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 01:37 AM

Howdy folks,

ACL = the Anterior Cruciate Ligament -- of my right knee. My surgeon was Sidney Sideman and he improvised the repair with a transplanted ligament. I was told it was the first time that repair had ever been done, although it's common now. He was also the father of my buddy, Mike Sideman, who I was with in 1962 in Cheyenne, Wyoming when we met elderly cowboy DEL BRAY in our hotel's bar. That was the night Del sang the song I eventually called "The Cowboy's Barbara Allen" on my first LP in 1976 or so. (Dr. Sid Sideman was also the doc for the Chicago Cardinals football team before they moved on to St. Louis.) ----- Good memories.
In 1997 I had my right knee replaced---41 years later.

I'm still trying to live down that condom thread. Someone told me a while ago that it was closed by Joe...

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 10:45 PM

I read some of that. I can only presume that something goaded you into starting it. A theme of the day, or of the week, perhaps?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 01:56 AM

Someone told me a while ago that it was closed by Joe...

Let's not anybody tell Art that his condom thread was back in the days when a thread that got to long got closed and a continuation thread got started.

The first one was a mere 169 posts or so, but the "part 2" went on and on ...

John

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 08:30 AM

I've been cogitatin' over the title to this thread. Art Thieme "offline" -- a bubble off plumb, draggin' his anchor, slightly off kilter...Art, I think the title is tellin' us something.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 05:34 PM

Does that make him a Wobblie?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 10:18 AM

He may be offline, but he is also off-color! Take a gander of that punishing thread he started yesterday. Noble Art (as in, he should have made it a BS thread, but he didn't, and it's still up there in the music section).

SRS
I don't have to spell that one out, do I?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 12:40 AM

LOL...sorted and sent...er, deep-sixed to the BS? Not our Art!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 10:23 PM

Art? BS? Surely not! Art wouldn't indulge in such things. Just listen to his music and you'll know immediately that he's into transposition and all that technical music stuff.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:43 AM

Glad to see that you're well & back in pieces Art, as long as the total makes you whole we'll take you "as is". I better stop there, other wise you'll be cutting me up, HaHa.

Barry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM

I have a CD playing of a radio interview that Art did in 1980. He pulls out the old saws (literally!) in lieu of puns.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 08:22 PM

Art plays the saw?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: BK Lick
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:18 PM

Oh my, yes indeedy -- see this thread and listen to this audio.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 12:16 AM

Art plays an amazing array of things very well. He could have no voice at all and still had a great musical career. Instead, he has that marvelous voice and the great musical instrumental talent--what a combination! Sorry for gushing--I was listening to this CD of the 1980 interview again on my drive back from the concert in Arlington (Jed Marum--also very good!). Almost crying at the "Death of Robin Hood."

I have been rearranging the musical section of my office since a few weeks ago when my sister mailed me a bunch of my father's books she had taken from his house after he died. I thought I'd never see them again, so have happily been moving stuff and putting the Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads and several of his other large books in a place of honor. Along the way I've been revisiting a lot of the home-made and commercial CDs I have of various folks, many Mudcatters. And I have to do what Art is doing--move his music from cassettes to CD.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 01:09 AM

SRS kindly made us a copy of the interview CD (thanks again). We listened to it today while driving back from Arlington. Great stuff - espcially Red River Valley on the musical saw.
- Phil

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 03:26 PM

Oh. I thought he played the chain saw.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 06:22 PM

Don't give him any ideas.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Feb 08 - 07:47 PM

Just talked with Art for awhile. He sounds good. All of his files etc. are on the old computer which his son is working on for him, so he's been reading a lot of books.:-) It's still cold near Chi-town!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 08 - 09:24 PM

I'd like some time to read a lot of books.

"My name is Maggie and I'm a computer-holic."

I think I'd expire if I had to go so long without a good connection. But the books are a great consolation.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 06:43 AM

a few nights ago I couldn't log on - I had a dead mousie, freakout, what am I going to do, apart from buying a new mousie the next day.

Turned out that my habit of putting/tossing stuff on my computer desk (keyboard) meant I had a loose connection or something like that, & I was soon back on line after pushing & pulling at all connections.

but it was scary for a while - imagine not knowing what is happening around the world!

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 02:45 PM

It's awful, it's terrible. I only took this job as a Library Director so I could have a free high-speed Internet connection.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Maggie,
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:00 PM

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:09 PM

That's a different "Maggie" who is speechless. She may or may not be a computer-holic.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:43 PM

SRS,
That "Guest" was my post. I meant to put my name there and yours in the "To" part of the message. Then it inadvertantly got posted. Here's how the e-mail should've been worded.

Maggie,
Watch your snailmail for a small package!
Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Andrez
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:51 PM

Hah caught you out! Art is online again! Is this the end of the thread?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 07:54 PM

You watch out for the UPS guy, Art, and your snailmail!**bg**

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 08:18 PM

What, is the post office finally slithering around up there? I thought they were encased in ice these days. Yesterday I spoke with a friend in that same general latitude but a couple of hundred miles east, in Indiana. He described how his golden retreiver doesn't like to walk on the icy crust on the snow.

Did I mention that I have my first daffodil in the yard today, and my Japanese flowering quince has been blooming for a week?

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 08:25 PM

Oh, and to answer your question Andrez, I'm tempted to put it in Star Trek terms: he is phasing in and out, kind of blinking at the Internet. I get the idea that he's using a loaner computer, so is logging on as a "guest" and doesn't pass by this way often. He'll be back up to full strength (and probably transporting all over the galaxy) when you see him log on as regular Art Thieme, not GUEST, Art Thieme.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:07 AM

Maggie,
The problem with getting to the post office is that my wheel chair won't do ice. I can take a cab there but then the walkway leading to the ramp isn't shoveled. Nobody shovels their sidewalk these days. And even if they do, the next guy doesn't. You go as far as you can-----and then you can't. Carol did manage to get there with some packages today but won't be going until I have another pile of 'em to send because of arthritis. But yours went out today.

Yes, like Kat said, I'm on line with a loaner computer while mine is being gone over.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:07 AM

Art, I meant to clarify: the UPS guy because I ordered a bottle of that tincture & asked the company to ship it directly to you and the snail mail for the CD for your granddaughter! I know I was going to send them together, but I decided it would be better for the tincture to be separate and it was easier just to have the company send you a bottle. I hope you enjoy both!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 02:10 AM

Too bad you can't winterize with studded snow tires on wheel chairs--but then you'd end up feeling like all of the timber beasts in logging country. All around town are businesses with nice wooden floors and signs at the door that say "caulks not allowed." When you tried to go back into your house you'd roll around and tear up the floors and carpets.

I wonder if the UPS guys are under-dressed up there in the snow and ice? They seem to dress casually down here year-round. At the first hint of weather being above 50 they turn up in brown shorts.

I'll look forward to your package, Art! Any hints as to the contents?

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:35 AM

Chains. Perhaps we need chain-up areas for wheelies. Or better yet, a wheelie with treads. And an enclosed, heated cab with music player. Something like this, only hard topped and for one person.

Art could make some money by attaching at 'dozer blade and clearing driveways and sidewalks, too.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:22 PM

I think that cold air of Art's leaked down here again. There are my bright daffodils standing in the cold air in out front on this gloomy day. Anyway, we haven't seen much from Art--I guess he's still busy reading?

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:25 PM

Reading...ya know, I'm always surprised by the depth of Art's abilities.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:42 PM

Shoot, I have met Art. I've seen him pick and grin...at the same time! And dodge 'almost' all the tomatoes after a bad pun!

"You hear about the drink made with tomato juice, vodka and Jello? They call it a bloodclot."
1978, Red Fox Inn, Bethesda, MD...and probably 27 other places.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:44 PM

*groan* very punny as usual!

He was busy posting about some dye-ah-jen-knees guy who found his hard-on or sumthin'...down in the cellar...not sure if he had the condoms available to the guy...sounds like he mighta needed them!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:46 PM

Yeah, Rapaire. There's no question Art's depths are beyond the depths most people would think of going to.

Re-reading some of this, I find:

Dr. Sid Sideman was also the doc for the Chicago Cardinals football team before they moved on to St. Louis.

Do we need an "intervention" over OUR ART patronizing a doctor who's patients all leave town after he's treated them?

Actually, maybe we need to find a "curator" for him rather than a doctor. Does anyone know who's tending that kid named "Tut?"

John

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 12:34 PM

I wish I could get a pun to spin off of sarcophagus.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:13 AM

e-sophoagus...the online deep throat!*Big groan*!!

I had a call from Art, yesterday. He said his son is bringing back his old computer, today, all fixed up and ready to go. He was even able to save about 90% of his old files, etc. so all was not lost, thank goodness!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:41 AM

Thanks kat. I can't wait to hear how his old computer works now that his son has worked his magic on it, and maybe see him back with a cookie.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:48 AM

Me too Jeri........To keep Art online I know Chris must be one whale of a magician...with a supply of hamsters as well!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 11:42 AM

e-sophoagus. . .

ugg!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 11:55 AM

I wonder if Art's son found a new squirrel for the wheel which boots up his hard drive. If not, it might be a job for a timely hamster (reference: Corridus).

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 12:21 PM

Hamsters are highly overrated...they take too many cookie breaks.

I wonder if Art will keep his cookies for Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 12:21 PM

Squirrels don't run in wheels. Hamsters do. Squirrels climb your tree and grab your nuts. Gerbils are worse. Buy a gerbil, and computer really gets buggered.

Welcome home, Art's computer, welcome home!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM

Well its gonna' be a damn poor welcome if a Squirrel shows up and attacks Art's nuts!

Besides, even a great hamster can't spin a warped wheel! Ask Bill D. As I recall he had one that took over 7 hamsters just to boot up! And have you ever seen a hamster in boots?   Or a hamster boot for that matter? The damn things are so tiny there is no room to write very much on the heel......and no room for much piss either. Course a hamster has a real tiny bladder so, uh...............what was this about? I seem to have gone off on a tangent here although I'd prefer to go off on a cruise..........but not with a hamster ...................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:20 PM

You have to be aware of just which squirrel you're asking to step up to the computer!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:27 PM

With regard to "squirrel wheels":

'Among the many models of the good society no one has urged the squirrel wheel'.

"So Galbraith remarks, yet living in affluent societies closely resembles a life on the squirrel wheel. This is the first aspect of the problem confronting those who live in a comparatively rich society. It arises because our aspirations get focussed on increasing income just as we have more of it than our parents or grandparents could ever have dreamt of. No sooner do we have more, than we want more….and so the wheel turns one more time, we re-adjust our beady eyes and begin to ascend the ladder again….with predictable effect."

There are also links to such apparatus, and no doubt with a little more research we could find a medieval wood block print.

Need I press this case? Or does the fur still fly?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:39 PM

Are you nuts? You don't press a case ferchrissakes........It smashes the bottles and the brew is wasted,,,,,much lie your mind! You press pants and shirts. I probably need to explain that its not done while you're wearing them..............***pressing cases***..............geeziz............

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:29 PM

twiddles thumbs and watches Spaw and Charley twiddle their thumbs. . .

Go outside and play for a while, guys. I've been digging up bits of my garden. The squirrels and nuts and 'puters will keep. It's a sunny afternoon. In fact, it is an extremely beautiful day.

Wouldn't you agree?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:31 PM

Yes and no!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:53 PM

Witch's tits and brass bras come to mind around here. Feel free to send some warmth!

...................***fidgets***.....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Amos
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 03:59 PM

Take your hand out of there, Spaw. This is a family site.


A

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 04:00 PM

It is? When did that start? How'd I miss it?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 05:45 PM

It's t-h-e-r-e! Just had a great call from Art! I'll let him come in when and if he's ready. I'm to send him a list of you all..so I am off to do that. One of the best phone calls I've ever had, folks. The best of the Mudcat comes out this way and we are all blessed for it.:-)

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:19 PM

"I've got a little list."
[snip]
There's the banjo serenader, and the others of his race,
    And the piano-organist--I've got him on the list!
And the people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face,
    They never would be missed--they never would be missed! . . .

CHORUS.   You may put 'em on the list--you may put 'em on the list;
               And they'll none of 'em be missed--they'll none of
                   'em be missed!

                -- W. S. Gilbert

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:55 PM

Enquiring minds want to know:

Does he, or doesn't he?

(Have a cookie, that is!)

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:29 PM

It's cold as a teachers wit out there!!!---
But here at Mudcat it sure is wonderfully warm!!

PEOPLE, you all have made a grown man weep with joy this day. Simply unbelievable---all of you. It is a beautiful shiny metallic gray, looking for all the world like a stylish dinghy for an Air Stream trailer with a glowing blue light up front like the long spear searchlight headlamp on the 8-wheel-driver steam express running from Chicago to Portland, Oregon.   It's four times faster than anything I've ever used before even with my prehistoric dial-up connection. I had no idea this was going down; Cat could've let the Kat out of the bag when I talked to her yesterday, but, no, not her! ----------It's a Dell, by the way, just so you all will know.

Really, a huge thank you to all who are involved in doing this. I will strive to learn to use it wisely. But tonight I am speechless and having a ton of fun putting it through it's paces.

Love to you all,

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:37 PM

☺

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:55 PM

Art, Spider Solitaire is addictive.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:59 PM

We just watched Annie. I AM fully-dressed because I have had a smile plastered across my face ALL day!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:02 PM

So are a bunch of other folks, Art.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:08 PM

Art, I kept telling people, it's just a box of air with a few things plugged in on the internal periphery. It's nice that it is a pretty box!

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:23 PM

Shucks, Stilly, that ain't no pretty box. That's just a computer. Now, THIS is a pretty box and they don't make pretty boxes like that anymore!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Joybell
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:29 PM

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!Such a wonderful place.
Joy

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:35 PM

I have to one-up you on that, Rapaire. THIS is a pretty box of that type. And as it happens, my mother's first cousin, Norman Ronning, was the last captain of the Preston before the Corps of Engineers retired her. (This is the same cousin Norman who used to take mom poaching salmon when they were kids during the depression. And I don't mean how they cooked it).

At work, some of the staff have "pimped up" their computers with neon lights and crystal clear acrylic cases, all sorts of nonsense. It would give me a headache to be long in a room with all of that stuff.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:36 PM

Art, I'll bet you will have a lot of fun with the new machine, but I'll bet you won't have half as much fun as Kat and Maggie have had organizing this whole deal. They were the ones who made this happen along with their unindicted co-conspirator, Chris.
- Phil

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:38 PM

My mother at age 90 got real grumpy when we pulled something like this over Christmas. The screen is twice as big and it's got a real keyboard unlike her old laptop. But she's more reconciled now that she knows she can still beat the chess game.

Pleased we could be of help.

But you're the engineer, Art. Be sure to slow down on the curves, and watch your "average" whatever that is! Is it really a steam-powered Dell?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:54 PM

It's got a big old key in the back, Charley. You gotta wind it up every so often, but it's a six-day mechanism.

Stilly (and Art), this one's for you. (Don't try to tell an old Mississippi River rat about steamboats and riverboats!)

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:59 PM

I bet Art likes the looks of THIS BOX even more than the others................

Goes like this Art.........Ya' see, its not that we like having you around here with bad puns all the time, although we do. And its not even that we would be lessened had you not started that brilliant and important Condom Thread, although we may have been. Actually what we do know is that you have so much great stuff to get filed and saved for future reference that we can't afford to trust the job to a worn out hamster ferchrissakes...........

Think of it this way......Most of us support NPR and PBS in the hopes that our $$$ go to something WE want, like maybe traditional music, instead of another informative special on Ubangi tribesman which, although interesting, I could really give less than two craps about. So some of us decided that if we gave our support to ART instead of PBS we'd be a lot better off.

Besides, I don't think any of us have ever had this much fun with NPR and PBS combined........(;<))


Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:22 PM

If it ain't Upper River, it ain't worth sinkin' -- an real Old River Rat told me that fifty years ago.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:48 PM

I think I'll get some sleep, tonight. Last night was the second night we had Morgan over, but he was fine. Out like a light by 8p, slept all night, until I heard a teeny, quiet voice at about 630a say, "Mama can we get up now?"

Anyway...I realised sometime in the middle of the night that I was dreaming about Art getting his computer! Dang thing, it was in technicolour and you all were there and we was all cryin' and laughin' and slappin' each other on the back and the dream just kept weavin' in and out of my sleep. I'd get up for awhile, brush the cobwebs from my brain, lie back, then wake again to realise I'd been dreamin' it again! It was Groundhog's Day all over, but lots more fun! I don't think I've been this excited since the Christmas we girls knew we were getting our first transistor radios, AM monos with one earplug!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:52 PM

Well, Art kinda deserves it. Now he has to git to work on all that crap he's got stashed away.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:56 PM

You are welcome, buddy.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM

it's been a loooong time

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:54 AM

Wonderful, and faith in human nature, reaffirming news.
Art enjoy your new toy, as much as we all enjoyed plotting it's acquisition.

One more thing.


Well done Mudcatters!

Giok

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Art Thieme
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 06:22 PM

People, I awoke this morning and it was still here!! Again, you all are too much. I spent the morning downloading updates of all the areas of the computer that needed that done. Mostly Symantec, but some HP too. This machine really is FAST. I slept great last night. Had a strange dream where two politicians were in a debate! (Where could that've come from?) One of 'em yelled, "That's ludicrous!" And the other responded, "No, it's you that's luttefisk!!" ----- And it went on from there...

I told that to Kat on the phone today and I don't think she believed me. But that is accurate---just as it was dreamed. How the hell do you eat luttefisk anyhow? --- My spellcheck imploded on itself after that word confusticated it just now.

I'll be getting word to as many of you conspirators as I can learn about having had something to do with this grand gift!

To all of you, and to those who I miss finding out about, once again, THANK YOU!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 08:43 PM

Your spellcheck no doubt went nuts because there is only one "t" in lutefisk. :)

Here are some recipes from the Sons of Norway.

SRS (a daughter of Norway in spirit, if not actually in paid membership dues)

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:03 PM

Place the lutefisk in water and boil, with uncrushed peppercorns and a little salt, for about fifteen minutes or until you can no longer stand the smell. Throw away the lutefisk and go out for dinner.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:14 PM

Lutefisk must be served hot on piping hot plates. Accompaniments vary from bacon or pork drippings, white sauce, mustard sauce, or melted butter which seems to remain a favorite. Boiled and steamed potatoes, stewed whole, dry green peas are a must as a vegetable accompaniment. The only other necessary additions are freshly ground pepper, lefse, or flatbread. In some parts of Northern Norway, lutefisk is served with melted goat cheese.


How can you resist it--hot fish and goat cheese?!

I have two copies of the cookbook mentioned at the bottom of that page, if you need one. . .

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Art Thieme
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:49 PM

No, no lutttefisk, please. The computer is wonderful, but do NOT send luttttefisk. SRS, keep both copies for yourself. Or put one of 'em in the outhouse.

(art)

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:02 AM

Yes, it would be ludicrous to send one to Art!**BG**

Maggie, I was telling Art my parents used to talk about the lutefisk and lefse up in North Dakota where I was born. I don't remember it as we left when I was a baby, but that didn't keep them from calling me their "little Norwegian!" I don't think I'd like lutefisk! I can't believe they cure it in lye, just like you said, Art! Oh, well, if they let it go too long, it turns into a handy soap!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:37 AM

Actually, you'd like this book. I was mistaken. The book mentioned on the lutefisk site is Ekte Norsk Mat; my book is the same authors, but is Ekte Nork Jul, traditional christmas cooking. Cookies, pastries, cakes, breads. . . not a fisk in sight!

I suspect that getting lutefisk too close to the Dell might void the warranty.

Say--we could send Chris some lutefisk! We need to offer him a huge thank-you--without his help this would have been quite difficult to pull off.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:55 AM

Great......that'd be a surefire way to NEVER get any help from Chris again...........Lutefisk my ass....................geeziz...................tryin' to kill the guy....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:45 AM

Luttefisk is obviously a first cousin to Bacalhau which I took a liking to a few years back, when I had a Portuguese wife.

Giok

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: MartinRyan
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:11 AM

So that's what they were trying to feed me on the magnificent Staadsrad Lehmkuhl Norwegian tall ship, years ago - lutefisk! Nearly put me off sailing....

Regards

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: bassen
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:22 AM

Lutefisk is made by soaking stokkfisk (dried cod) in lye, then steaming, simmering or baking to prepare. Bacalhau or bacalao or klippfisk is salted, dried cod. You can make lutefisk out of that too if you want, like they do in the part of Norway where I live. It's the softening in lye that makes it lutefisk (literally "lye fish"). Lutefisk is good - once a year, at Christmas , with lots of Christmas beer and akevitt to wash it down.

Skål!
Bassen

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Big Mick
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:29 AM

Takk skal du ha , meg venn!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: bassen
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:41 AM

Ingen årsak!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:11 AM

Sending lutefisk might void Art's warranty.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:18 AM

The Google ads at the bottom are offering Lefse and Lefse supplies! A first at Mudcat, no doubt!

My book discusses Akevitt and Juleøl. Sounds quite marvelous.

I wonder what Art dreamed about last night? We've strayed seriously into another foodie thread after one night of his tossing and turning! :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:11 AM

Well, this might get us back on track, SRS....I've got pictures!

Just in this morning. Click HERE for a picture of Art, the Happy Camper, and several of the new setup! Great job, again, Chris. Thank you!!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:27 AM

Don't know much about Art but I know that I like.

G

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:36 AM

Chris was right--good looking shirt! :-D

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM

Now if he ever needs guitar strings again he can just strip the insulation off any of those cables, untwist a few wires, and off ya go!

It might be safest to unplug the cable first, however.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while
From: GUEST,Mary Katherine
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM

Wow, Kat, the new computer is so....shiny!! Good job! Art, make sure you wear your dark specs when you're near the box.