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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 11:42 AM e-sophoagus. . . ugg! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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** |
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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? |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: GUEST,Maggie, Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:00 PM |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 09 Feb 08 - 08:22 PM Art plays the saw? |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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? |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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!) |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. :-/ |
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