BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why

Subject: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: skipy
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 05:25 PM

Here is a chance to list 3 members of the cat that you would like to meet or have been able to meet & why.
For me they are (& in the best tradition of TV shows , not in a particular order)
Scrump, rest his soul, because I loved his wit & his humour.
Megan L because she SOO misunderstands me.
Dave polshaw because I truly believe that we have so much in common!
& we could disagree on other things without a problem!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,Last one picked for the team
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 05:28 PM

Any chance this could turn into a popularity contest and some of us will feel left out?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 05:31 PM

Met a lot of UK catters...would like to meet(In US) 'Peace' and 'Jerry Rasmussen' and in the UK...John GIOK McKenzie

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 05:36 PM

Variations on this have run several times before.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 05:42 PM

riginslinger

he posts my opinion before I do

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 05:57 PM

I want very much to meet Ms Penelope Rutledge, but I fear it will never happen. We live in different worlds.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: skipy
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 06:57 PM

Sorry if I have accidentally created a repeat thread.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:01 PM

Could the thread title be followed by "Dark Alley" or "Dark night" ?

(joke)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:03 PM

Peace don't live in the US. He lives in what we quaintly call "the Far North."

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:06 PM

I have a list of 15 or 20...even after meeting 150 or so thru the Getaway and a couple of special trips. And I KNOW that there's many more I'd enjoy meeting.

This is a lot like "Your favorite song...or food..." lists. Except you can't insult a food by leaving it out.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:08 PM

Oh, good. I normally leave anchovies out of my list of toppings, and I would not want them to feel insulted, goodness knows!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Amos
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:17 PM

I think you deserve to meet lots more anchovies, LH!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:18 PM

I have already met my surfeit of them, Amos. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:18 PM

oh...except for anchovies! I do not care HOW anchovies feel!,,,or rutabagas for that matter.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Slag
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 07:54 PM

I'd like to meet the first three who'd like to meet me(without malevolent intent)!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: John Hardly
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 08:22 PM

Assuming not "re-meeting", it's pretty easy and not based on who'd necessarily want to meet me.

1. JohnInKansas. because, as I understand it he attends the Winfield festival every year and I want to go there some day.

2. Mooh and MTed. because I figure I'd be most interested in what they had to play.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 08:28 PM

There are TOO Many who are TOO far away ! One I DID get to meet last year was Capri Uni - A two hour visit and we seemed to be laughing about something the whole time !

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 09:19 PM

I've met three Mudcatters and that's enough. They're all exactly as you think they are.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 09:25 PM

Don't tease me...

Foam bats at dawn, it's a matter of honor...
bob

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mooh
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 09:28 PM

Thanks John, likewise.

I'd rather pick three people who I wish were Mudcatters, or has that been a thread too? Neil Young, Bob Dylan, William Shatner.

I've had the pleasure of meeting several 'Catters and one has even bought a place nearby!

Life before this place was so much more dull.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 09:55 PM

Hey, Mooh, that is a great idea!!!! Wow.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 11:53 PM

I'd like to meet Don Firth and Bob Nelson and Stewart Henderson . . .


oh, wait, I've already met them.




Never mind!







SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:23 AM

The crazy Irish guy that did the Campground at Drumcree threads would have to be one.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: ragdall
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:16 AM

Pick me! Pick me!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Genie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 03:20 AM

What Stilly River said.   ; )

Genie

PS,
Add Amos and JenEllen and Mousethief and Reggie Miles and ...
well, you get the picture.

As for those I actually haven't met yet but would hope to, have ya got an hour or two?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 03:33 AM

Hey, skipy - I am honoured:-) Funny thing is yours was one of the first names to mind. I'd also like to meet Diane Easby for similar reasons. For a third? Any of them! I just like meeting new people.

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 04:31 AM

They already know.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 05:15 AM

Which ones wouldn't you like to meet?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,Oneyouwouldn'twanttomeet
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 05:49 AM

I wonder if there is anyone famous who posts here under an assumed name? For all we know, Bob Dylan, Neil YOung and Williams Shatner may well be Mudcatters.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 07:37 AM

There is one person that I would absolutely love to meet but I don't think that person would thank me for putting their name here - it just isn't their style.

(S)He is very unusual, talented, you know exactly where you stand with them .......... I could go on but won't.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:20 AM

I should like to meet Peace and Katlaughing - res ipsa loquitur.

I should also like to catch up with Jim Carroll, 41 years on.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:49 AM

Peace, Little Hawk & Donuel. I can learn much from them.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:52 AM

GUEST, guest/s...

(((lol)))

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Cool Beans
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:16 AM

I can't think of three Mudcatters I WOULDN'T like to meet.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 10:08 AM

Great answer, Cool Beans!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:27 AM

Well there's a few on here who shouldn't hesitate to PM me if ever they're in London. I reckon you know who you are (don't be modest now)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:39 AM

I've already met a few of the Beverley crowd whilst in a state of inebriation (me, not them .....I think)and Ray Padgett.

I'd like to meet Emma B 'cos she sounds like a really nice person and Richard Bridge because we could shout at each other without getting offended and Banjiman when I finally get round to visiting his club, which I promise to in the not too distant future.

Lots more, but I'm only allowed 3.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:12 PM

I'd say that I would like to meet Shane...but the truth is I have already met far too many people similar to Shane in this lifetime. They're everywhere. If you want to attract them, just put up some signs around the area with arrows and underneath the arrow: "Free Beer!" They will come straight to you. And in a remarkably short time too. They will be, like, majerly pissed when they find out that you don't, like, have any free beer for them, eh? That's when the real fun will begin.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:13 PM

I would like to meet Ebbie, Sandra in Sidney, and Giok. Not because I'm particularly fond of any of them, but because they live in Alaska, Australia, and Scotland and I've never been to any of those places.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:55 PM

Yeah? So why wouldn't you want to me Shane? He's from Blind River, Ontario!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Amos
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:23 PM

No, he's not. He's from the limbic strata or ORelia.


A

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Les from Hull
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:24 PM

Seldom does a week go by that I don't meet at least 3 mudcatters. That's what you get for living 'round here!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:31 PM

Now that I think about it I've met more than three Mudcatters. I've actually met four. Maybe I'll meet some more. Maybe some have seen me and decided not to introduce themselves. Whenever I go somewhere, even to the bathroom, I wear a hat that says

"I AM RAPAIRE!! ARE YOU ON MUDCAT TOO?"

that sticks way up above my head and the letters flash on and off. And to help others find me I always dress as a banjo with a catfish coming out of it.

And yet, nobody introduces themself....

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:34 PM

I bet they do talk about you a lot among themselves, though. When you're not looking.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Amos
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:34 PM

Themself?

Maybe they're worried about catching a grammatical error of some sort?


A

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:38 PM

Don Firth...For all that music theory discussion.

Rick...Just to say thanks (I know it's too late).

Alice...For her art and insight.

Skarpi...For his Icelandicness.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:43 PM

Coincidentally, three is the number of Mudcatters I've met in real life ~ no more, no less. (There are several others with whom I've communicated about planned trips to my hometown, New Orleans, but for various reasons we never connected.)

It certainly shouldn't hurt anyone's feelings to list the three individuals I happen to have encountered in the 3D world. So, here goes, in chronological order:

Jed Marum, a fine performer and a great guy. I attended his gig at the now-defunct O'Flaherty's Pub in the French Quarter, struck up a conversation, and came to see him on another occasion or two. (That first meeting was during a week-long stay at O'F's, allowing multiple visits, and I think I also caught his act in the same venue on a later trip.)

Ernest (not his real first name) from Berlin, during his vacation trip to N.O. Among other things that occurred during his visit, he took a photo of my wife and I that is Peggy's favorite picture ever of herself.

Tinker, who lent me her guitar for about a month during those dark days right after Katrina. I had left my own instrument on my bed when we evacuated from New Orleans (expecting to return in 2-3-days), and wound up living "in exile" with my mom in New Jersey. When I posted a plea here for a guitar to play, Tinker responded and, since she lives only 15-20 minutes from where I was staying, I gladly took her up on her offer. Picking up and returning her nice little Washburn gave me two opportunities to visit her wonderful big old house and meet most of her wonderful big family, and I learned that she has served for years as a one-women welcoming committee for Mudcatters flying into Newark/New York from across the pond.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:45 PM

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:45 PM

Aine..Because I miss her.

Rapaire...Quite a guy.

Kat...Who needs a reason?

Beer...For the name.

WYSYWIG/Susan...She's cool.

Art Thieme...For stories.

Catspaw...'Cause he's Spaw.

Oh, is that more than three? Oops.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Genie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:48 PM

Anyone famous who posts here under an assumed name? (Other than Little Hawk and Spaw?)

Well, I'd love to meet KyTrad. But her identity isn't exactly a secret here at the 'Cat. *g*

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Genie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 01:52 PM

'Course, one Mudcatter I'd be in awe if I met would be Masato!   He's either a walking encyclopedia or just the fastest googler in the world!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: gnu
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 02:35 PM

I would like to meet LH and Shane and Don so's we could go up Kent County and meet up with Dale and Johnny and go fer a "run" up The Washout. But, it'a'd haffta be soon on accounta their trial dates could come any time now.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 02:36 PM

Yeah, 'dark night' and 'dark alley' aren't the same people, are they ?!

I've met manymany by now, but don't get to see them often enough. I can't say Janie and I get SICK of each other, but....

What I want is for those of you I haven't met to somehow make it to Getaway!

Let's have a scavenger hunt; make maps of mudcatters and tick 'em off: ones I've seen and hugged, ones I've sung with, ones I think I was separated at birth from, ones I've learned songs from.... if we started lists like this, we'd all start writing fat checks to Max again : )

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 02:40 PM

Yeah, gnu! Man, I am dyin' to meet Dale and Johnny. Just dyin'! I bet I could learn like, at least maybe one or two new things from them, eh? At least one or two.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 02:50 PM

Well, I'm a famous person but I hide under layers and layers of identities to throw you all off track. But now the truth can come out:

I'm really George W. Bush. The guy in the White House is really some bum I met who was panhandling on the street in Dallas a long time ago.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: gnu
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 02:55 PM

Oh, LH... you could learn a lot from them thar lads, but, I dunno if ya REALLY wanna. When they get onner good, they sometimes scare me.

Finally... Rap... now we know... the rest of the story.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 06:30 PM

Rapaire,,,that was Blairingly obvious

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 06:46 PM

Upon reconsideration, I no longer what to meet GUEST, guest/s...

I'd rather meet the infamous Martin Gibson... Yes, I sho nuff would...

And I'd like to meet DougR... Really... I like Doug a bunch...

And lastly, I'd like to meet Guest, Old Guy/Dickey/whatever... I have a little somethin' special for this one...

And, seein' as others is cheatin': Peace (Brucie), Rap, gnu, kat, LH, SRS, Genie, Becca (go caps...), bewer, of course Spawzer, G-Silver, my bud Donuel, the Slag, J.H., Bob-R and the resident photographer, ragz...

Them ios just fir starters seein' as I have met alot of folks allready...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: DougR
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 07:43 PM

Aw shucks, Bobert,I'd like to meet you too! Maybe I could talk some sense into your hard old head. :>)
DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:13 PM

Maybe therew's a lot of sense in that head already!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:15 PM

..then again, maybe not???

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:15 PM

Well I'll go first with Cool Beans' answer as the best yet.

Then there's Mooh who wants to meet Rick. I know I've already met him, but I need to meet him again 'cos the bugger owes me a guitar lesson. (and nobody needs it more than me.)

But I also want to meet Peace and Azizi and Amos ('cos I keep singing his song), and skipy 'cos he started all this and Shambles, and Gargoyle and DougR 'cos he's the only Democrat who pretends that he is a republican.... Aw Gawd I can just go on and on.

Cool Beans said it all.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:43 PM

Yes, definately Azizi...

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:46 PM

Yeah, you'd like Azizi. She's cool. She's one of the folks I've met.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Beer
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:57 PM

I've met 15 catters so far and would love to meet the rest of you at our festival come July. Apple Hollow

Just have to get plugs in when ever I can.
Beer.
Adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: pdq
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 10:03 PM

I would like to meet and talk to Martin Gibson, Clinton Hammond, Gargoyle, Claymore, Shambles, DougR, Rick Fielding, Bruce Olson, John Hardly, Slag, John on the Sunset Coast, Cruiser and Susu's Hubby. Fat chance now, right?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 10:37 PM

Mooh, tks! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Skivee
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:17 PM

Bobert, you jerk! After all the crap I put up with durin' yur campaign, I'da thunk we woulda been meetin' at least once a week or so, so we can keep tellin' each other how smart we are; and then you don't even put me on yer damned list!
Even LH and Peace, those bast-...bastions of the community got on yer secret cheatin' list. And they did not even sleep in a Yugo splattered with monkey crap for you!...Or work with a smelly, farty hairball that has only 96% of my chronosomes. Bitter? More like rightious indignation if you ask me!
So, I woulda put you at the top of my list, but now I'm gonna say Azizi so she could tell tales of Pittsburgh; Wolfgang for his European perspective; and Charley Noble, so I can steal arcane shanties from him.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:20 PM

I exchanged emails with Claymore around Christmas time, pdq. You could probably still meet him if you really wanted to.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:50 PM

I'd like to be at a hockey game with Mudcatter hockey fanatics. I'd even share the big ole (obnoxiously loud) cowbell Hardi got me.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Slag
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 12:35 AM

EEEEE HAAAWWWWWWWWwwwwww Mudcat Rendevous in '09!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mooh
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:12 AM

WYSYWYG...Good idea about the hockey game. We should ice a team...if there is a league good enough for us that is! We could be The Fallen Leafs, The Dead Senators, The Extinguished Flames, The Roadkill Bruins, The Capital Crimes, The Clipped Wings, The Mudcat Blues...or something.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mooh
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:18 AM

Max, I'd like to meet Max, but he's kinda like (pay no atention to) the man behind the curtain.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:19 AM

There are always the fantasy hockey leagues. If anyone could help me understand what the heck they are, LOL.

But this is just the place to stash some of the team names we joke about never seeing. I'll ask Hardi to remind me what some of them were.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mooh
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:22 AM

I get to be Gordie Howe...Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:24 AM

I get to drive the Zamboni during the game and run over the players!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:47 AM

[shaking head] I do NOT want to be the referee. Not even a lineswoman.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:55 AM

It would be invidious to list just 3, so I'd like to meet all the ones I've PMd and not met "live", yet... Like others I was sad never to have met Rick F. in person ,only on the 'phone and PM. Before he was diagnosed we had hoped to meet on his planned UK tour, sadly not to be.
Carpe Diem, folks.

RtS
("Ask not for whom the washboard rattles...")

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: skipy
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:11 PM

Well, I've been PMing with one of my 3 due to this thread & it has cleared the air! Which is great, a little understanding from both parties goes a VERY long way!
Regards to you all,
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:38 PM

In spite of the obvious verbal battle I had with Martin Gibson in these BS threads...I was also in PM with him chatting about antiques in a civil and friendly manner. People are not always what they seem eh?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: skipy
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:42 PM

True, oh! so very true!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:06 PM

Yo, Skivz,

Sorry, man, but I'z still in morning, denial and absolute confusin about my failed candidacy... IO think I have subconciously blocked all of that out... Heck I didn't say nuthin' about Chongo, who I aslo din't actually meet since the two of you was in Raliegh at the our national head1/4's and I was stuck here trying to fugure out how Obama was getting million on this here computer an' we weren't gettin' jack... No, make that, "We were getting jack" but jack ain't what jack used to be... With the current excheange rate jack ain't even jack... You don't belive me??? Well, take a sack opf jack down to yer bank an' see what you get for it... You won't even get jack back!!! Sho nuff won't...

But jack or no jack, Skivz, after me and my shrink get me thru my little situation about the campaign you will go to the top of my must meet'ers... I swear you will... Right now I'm still really messed up over my failure... I thought we could pull it off...I'd blame the chimp but it ain't his fault at all...

Maybe '12???

I loves ya like a brother, Skivz...

Former United States of America Presidential Candidate Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:09 PM

"People are not always what they seem eh?"

Yeah. For instance, I've traded PMS with Don Meixner for years here on subjects from thumbpicks to guitars for people with lousy hands. He always seemed like a really nice guy. Then I met him last fall and he was exactly as nice and engaging in person.

Oh, that's not the same, is it?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:11 PM

That's supposed to read "PMs". Even I'll admit that "PMS" is funnier. So Don and I shared stories of our respective bouts with PMS. We did it via PM.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Genie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:58 PM

Bobert, aw shucks, thanks for mentioning me in your "cheating" (i.e., more than 3 person) list.
Come to the Getaway this year and we can meet up. That'd be wunnerful!

G

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:10 PM

2.
I'd like to meet Donuel since an unexamined life is not worth living.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:11 PM

3
Sorcha. She is to blame for inviting me.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Emma B
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:48 PM

I don't really like these reoccuring mudcat 'beauty contests' they remind me too much of one of my favourite songs, At Seventeen and the spectacle of mutual ego massaging is not a pretty sight :)

However, three of the favourite people I have already met are all mentioned here and one of the people I hope to meet for the first time soon too - you know who you are folks!

There are still good friends yet to meet and many to meet again I hope as well as some regrets.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Skivee
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:43 PM

Well, Mister Ex=President-to-be Bobbert, I guess I can't stay mad at you after you tried so hard to serve your nation. What's a little monkey crap between friends.
So I guess the only thing now is for you to choose which of Azizi, Wolfgang, or Mr. Noble gets bumped off my list by your return.
You have to make the choice because otherwise I could be accused of vote rigging.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Genie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:49 PM

Emma, I kind of agree about the 'beauty contest' threads, but I hope we're pretty much in consensus that mentioning a few Mudcatters by name in no way implies that they are the only ones we'd like to meet, or even necessarily our first choices. They may just be the ones someone happens to think of at the moment or the ones we've been PM'ing most recently, or whatever.


G

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 11:01 PM

Feel free to bribe me. I haven't mentioned anyone yet that I'm dying to meet. But a realistic offer of drugs, sexual favours or money could secure you a place on my top three.

Mind you - I make no promises. The top three places are bound to hotly contested. And to be frank its a bit like those gigs on Jools Holland's programmes - even if you're complete crap - we might just let you rub shoulders withthe stars, if the fix is in.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 11:26 AM

Bob Nelson - we email and talk but still haven't met.
Katlaughing - see above
Spaw and even more his long suffering wife and the boys.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 11:45 AM

Well, I crossed Spaw and family off MY list last Summer...only 2 hours, but total delight!

here's an incomplete list of those I HAVE met: (incomplete because I don't write stuff down and have fuzzy memory)I think there are 20-30 more, if I could just sort 'em out...

1Ferrara (well, since she lives with me!)
2Bert
3WYSIWYG
4Hardiman
5Amos
6Jeri
7Uncle Dave O
8artbrooks
9SINSULL
10Tinker
11Kendall
12Jacqui C.
13Max
14Dick Greenhaus
15Susan of DT
16Jeff(pene azul)
17Joe Offer
18MMario
19Big Mick
20Barry Finn
21Skarpi
22Morticia
23Geoff the Duck
24Mrs. Duck
25Susan A-R
26Charlie Baum
27Lonesome EJ
28CET
29Charmion
30Willie-O
31Homeless
32Noreen
33Barb'ry
34Crane Driver
35Sussex Carole
36Micca
37Donuel
38M.Ted
39Songster Bob
40Knitpick
41Pauline L
42Linda Goodman
43Carol C
44Jack the Sailor
45John 'Giok' MacKenzie
46George Papavgeris
47Carly
48Allan C.
49Bobert
50Ebbie
51KT
52Alaska Mike
53Lorraine
54lamarca
55Art Thieme
56Jerry Rasmussen
57Rick Fielding
58Jon Bartlett
59Nerd
60Curmudgeon
61Bat Goddess
62kytrad
63Bob Coltman
64Leadfingers
65Skivee
66Burl
67Jed Marum
68Marion
69Seamus Kennedy
70beardedbruce
71Ranger 1
72Charley Noble
73Tone Def Dave
74Norton1
75georgeward
76KathWestra
77Judy Cook
78Padre
79Bob Hitchcock
80Nancy King
81Abby Sale
82Anglo
83Sandy Paton
84bbc
85Vixen
86MiriamKilmer
87momnopp
88Col K
89DeanC
90Roger in Baltimore
91Ron Davies
92Janie
93Dani
94Fortunato
95Gorgeous Gary
96GutBucketeer
97bbelle
98Liam's Brother
99Naemanson
100catsPHiddle
101Tannywheeler
102karen k
103alanww
104Big Lappy
105Claymore
106Dan Schatz
107Snuffy
108Sheila Thorpe
109jimmyt
110InOBU
111Celtaddict
112Maryrff
113Edelweiss
114rumanci
115annamill
116folk1234
117Bruce O
118Uilleand
119jbailes
120IvanB
121voyager
122tradman
123Sorcha
124Catspaw
125Nerd
126Dharmabum

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Morticia
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 05:43 PM

No one has mentioned Mudcat Jack.....though he has touched so many lives ( and liquor cabinets). I imagine he will be deeply wounded if Skarpi ever lets him read Mudcat anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 05:55 PM

No-one has mentioned me either and I'm much less damaging to liquor cabinets... :(

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 06:05 PM

You would have been top of my list Liz - but I didn't think to put people I had already met;-) Tell you what, how about if we start a list of people we would like to meet AGAIN...

Have you beat Bill Sables record then Bill D? Can't remember how many he had but I think you must have passed it!

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: skarpi
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 06:10 PM

Mudcat was reading that list and hmmmm he´s wounded alright
deaply sad at the moment , uhh damm he´s looking at bottle
on the shelf , hee he dont know its empty .

I have met alot of people and we had this thread before
I hope that I can meet you all sometime , some of you again
and some new , the next Getaway witch I am coming too .

Soo to all my friends all the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 06:15 PM

Dave - where did we meet?

CRAFT syndrome is a blessing.. I meet the same new people every day!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: kendall
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 09:36 PM

Spaw
Katlaughing
Freda Underhill
Clinton Hammond
Raparie

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 09:41 PM

Remember, Kendall, I have a .357....

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Micca
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 06:05 AM

Liz, you met Dave Polshaw at Swinton Folk Club the weekend we collected the cats from Leeds I think

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 06:14 AM

And you met him when we went oop north with the giants!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:33 AM

Sorry Dave... your face has failed to register with me... or else the experience was so traumatic I have blanked it from my mind and will need extensive therapy should the memory ever return!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST, Mr Grumpy
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:36 AM

I shall always regret not having met Rick Fielding. So generous and charming in sharing his knowledge.

Curiously (so long as she had no idea who I was) I would like to meet Diane Easby - not to apply percussive persuasion, but because although she comes across as the worst b1tch in the whole of the Mudcat there is an undeniable huge store of knowledge and information there. If only it was not inside a porcupine guarded by a viper and a portuguese man of war jellyfish with a wolverine in the background.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Mr Happy
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 09:16 AM

The great thing about being part of the Mudcat family/tribe is that one can have experiences of strangers announcing 'You're Mr Happy, I'm ..........'

A sort of fame/ infamy?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 12:00 PM

Shall I do it, just to get it out of the way??

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in fer me!

There... better now? I am!

*Singing*

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky,
You mustn't sigh, and you mustn't cry,
Spread a little happiness as you go by!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Micca
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 12:16 PM

Liz, Dave Polshaw is the guy that looks like Captain Pugwash!! and if we could get him together with that bloke in Mad jacks at Hastings we would have Black Jake as well, it would make a nice pic.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 04:44 PM

Hehehe - Now there's something I'd be up for:-) I was hoping to get down to Jack in the Green but we are away in Yorkshire for our 35th wedding anniversary.

You know, if I had murdered her I would be out now..:-P

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 02:15 PM

skarpi, wolfgang, emma b, catspaw and max.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:04 PM

John, how long have you been on Facebook? You have to relearn who everyone is because most Facebook monikers aren't the same as Mudcat monikers.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Little Robyn
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:11 PM

I always wanted to meet Malcolm Douglas but now it's too late.
I'd like to meet Kytrad and Azizi - and if I won the LOTTO, I'd take them both to Padstow for Mayday next year! Then we'd meet up with all the British catters. What fun!
Robyn half a world away.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 07:52 PM

(I do believe Bill Sables and Max and Big Mick and Dick Greenhaus and Susan of DT have met more than I)

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Janie
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 08:22 PM

Any three that I haven't already met will do nicely, thank you.

And in the vast majority of cases, any that I have already met I would be most pleased to meet again.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 09:22 PM

I've lost count , just want to carry on meeting new Catters as long as I can !

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 10:03 PM

Hi Robyn half the world away. I'd love to meet you too and I love to experience festivals in places that are almost half the world away from me.

There are lots of other people who post to this site who I'd love to meet. But I'm not going to name names because I'm bound to forget to mention some names.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 06:41 AM

Have met or am aware of many onthis side of the pond, so will go for some of our colonial cousins, who I am unlikely to meet. Would like to sing street rhymes with Azizi, and shantis with Charlie Noble, and perhaps bump into Joe Offer and wish him well for all his efforts on our behalf.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 10:09 AM

If I simply MUST choose only three, then (in no order whatever) Art Thieme, Joe Offer, and Kendall.

Oh, self-control be damned! And Sinsull, and Charlie Noble, and Catspaw, and Max, and Katlaughing, and Amos, and . . . and . . . and . . .

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:12 PM

In answer to SRS's question of 4:04 pm yesterday:

JOhn joined Facebook very recently ~ within the last couple of days. When I got his friend-request yesterday and OKd it, his "status" was a request for information: "How do it put my picture here?" Someone told him pretty quickly, since he had a profile picture in place within an hour or less.

At first, I didn't know who this "JOhn Evans" requesting my "friendship" might be, but then I took a closer look at how he spells his name, with that capital-J/capital-O. Aha!

His Facebook identity lists his location as "Leeds." Is Hull in the area of Leeds, and too small a city to be a "network area" on its own? I hope that's the case ~ it would be tragic if JOhn from Hull had relocated!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 06:35 PM

I'd like to meet Les in Chorlton, Gedi, John J, Pip Radish, Shimrod, 8 Pints, Suibhne O'Piobaireachd, Rapunzel, Myrtle, Kate in Chorlton, Alan G, John Routledge, Matthew Edwards, Dave Bishop, Helen Jocys, Vin2 and possibly even Dave El Gnomo if we can get him over the border.

I'd like to meet them tomorrow night at 8pm at the Beech in Chorlton for a night of mainly but not exclusively traditional songs.

The rest of you are most welcome, too...

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: curmudgeon
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 07:34 PM

Right now, I can only think of two Mudcatters that I don't want to meet - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 03:31 PM

OK Curmudgeon, who's the other one?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: curmudgeon
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 08:17 PM

You'll have to PM me for that, Slag - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: 3 mudcatters I would like to meet & why
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 08:25 PM

Hahahahhaaa! Good one Tom! That is ******* priceless! Thanks for the laugh.