The Weekly Walkabout

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:37 PM

No, (not so) Hon. Sec. - I do, as just stated, have an email from a moderator about this, so what you just said is false and defamatory. Why don't you email the Mod. yourself, and ask if it is possible to change posted text, and then retract your last comment?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:44 PM

Nowhere did I say it couldn't be done. The gist of what I say is why would they do it. I don't see what makes you so special that you'd be singled out to have your posts messed with. I've been reading far more relevant and important posts on other threads regarding music musicians etc, and nowhere else have I seen anyone say that their posts have been tampered with.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:54 PM

Picture a place where posts get mysteriously altered. But were they altered at all, or is it in the imagination? Ladies and gentlemen, you have entered The Mudcat Zone-dee dee dee dee......

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:55 PM

Well, if you still don't believe it, HS, check with the moderators yourself. But, I repeat, I do have an email from a mod. about it, so I suggest you mind your tongue a bit more.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:56 PM

May I present the following cautionary parable that we shall entitle The Walkaboutsverse Post Went Walkabout.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:08 PM

Or....Walkaboutsverse's walkaboutsverse went on walkabout..............................................................while walkingabout!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:12 PM

I intend to do JUST that ( I assume you mean Joe Offer when you refer to 'a moderator' Mods are something entirely different). Right at this moment you are in no position to suggest anything to me, Walkaboutsverse

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:29 PM

I do believe old WAV is getting a little worked up about this.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Muswell Hillbilly
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:36 PM

I have a feeling there will be tears before bedtime over this. You know, I've visited a fair number of forums of various sorts in my time on the net, which is considerable, and never in my life have I come across a person like this walkaboutsverse. I have though come across his/her type elsewhere, but I will refrain because he/she will likely say my post is false and defamatory.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:55 PM

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 07:33 PM

CLICKY

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:51 AM

An ode for WAV

There goes a happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn,
I wish I was a moron,
Hmm, perhaps I am ?

Or maybe better Neil Innes ' Idiot Song '

How sweet to be an idiot,
As harmless as a cloud,
Too small to hide the sun,
................

eric

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 03:58 AM

In case you didn't notice, I'm no longer allowed to respond in verse here (only once per week); so, as to "happy moron", Eric, how does your CV compare with 4 tech. (note - abbreviations!, again, HS) certificates and a BA in humanities, etc.?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 04:42 AM

Degrees are commonplace. Was your degree graded? Not Hons?

What is a tech. certificate exactly?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:48 AM

...4 technical certificates in production/manufacturing, Joe; and I was accepted for Honours in anthropology, but chose not to take it.
ALSO, JUST UPLOADED (FOR A FEW DAYS) "LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY" TO myspace.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:56 AM

Cheers, WAVey Davey - that was good for a giggle! Mind you, I had to turn it off because it made the dog whine and pace agitatedly. I honestly haven't made up that last bit.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:18 AM

Dear Ruth - maybe your dog just couldn't fathom your giggling!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:46 AM

No, WAVey Davey - she couldn't fathom the awful noise coming from my computer speakers. When I turned it off, she calmed down.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 08:01 AM

Frankly Ruth, I'm not sure what to believe from you - I've read on Mudcat threads (in among some rather choice language) that you're from America, and are a member of the EFDSS...is that true?
And why is it "WAVey Davey" today?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:22 AM

Why is this so hard to believe, WAVey Davey? The EFDSS National Council - its governing board of trustees - numbers among its members 2 Americans, a Scot and A New Zealander. And don't even get me started on the library staff... :D

Are non-English people not allowed to be EFDSS members?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:36 AM

Okay, I believe that, then...but you didn't answer my question regarding nomenclature.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:45 AM

Very good of you to trust my veracity...I've been in England for 17 years, as it happens, so have lived almost half my life here.

Wavey Davey was a character from Vic Reeves' Big Night Out. You won't remember that, I suspect - it was around 1991 - some time before you arrived... :D

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:32 AM

...re-arrived, Ruth, as I've said in verse (poem 71, e.g.), I was actually born in Manchester the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the World Cup; then repatriated almost exactly 11 years ago. But, yes, I've never seen that show - although his name rings a bell.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: s&r
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:37 PM

I have just listened to Lancashire Sung Simply. I thought it unlikely that the poem (which I read earlier) could be equalled by a suitable tune and delivery, but it was. Oh it was

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:46 PM

Ruth's dog is ecstatic about it, too, apparently, Stu!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 02:29 PM

poor thing - she's had to go to a quiet place for a few days to recover. I can't believe you'd commit such violation on a good English dog with a good English working heritage. Or some such nonsense.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Gene Burton
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 02:35 PM

"Oh you've got to be like a monkey
if you climb up the tree!
You've no more use for the solid earth
and the lad you used to be.
You sit in the boughs and gibber
with superiority.
They all gibber and gibber and chatter,
and never a word they say
comes really out of their guts, lad,
they make it up half-way. ...
I tell you something's been done to 'em,
to the pullets up above;
there's not a cock bird among 'em", etc., etc.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 03:58 PM

Mmm... it's odd. I clicked on the MySpace link and all I got was a version of O Waley waley. Might have been a problem on the site though...

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 04:06 PM

To Lady P. - it's 3rd on the list of 6, so you can either layback through the dulcet tones! of the top 2, or click straight on "Lancashire Sung Simply".

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 04:21 PM

Ah must be a problem on site. I didn't get any list.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 04:23 PM

Put a heavy weight in your right hand pocket, that'll give you a list, to starboard Lady P

G

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 04:26 PM

Ah, got it.

Dulcet. Mmm. Ok. Er. Pass.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:05 PM

...soporific, then, LP?!...anyway, I just about off to bed.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Ruth Archer
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:21 PM

gene: you forgot to add a link to your Myspace site. Surely an oversight.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:27 PM

Masochist

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:39 PM

I always thought Lancashire was pronounced "LANK-uh-sheer," not "LANK-uh-shyre." At least I've always heard it that way by people such as Lawrence Olivier, Derek Jacoby, Glenda Jackson, Alec Guinness, Alan Bates—hell, even John Cleese!

Quavery voice, very iffy sense of pitch, no breath support, raspy quality in the voice. Apart from that, Covent Garden, here we come!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 12:56 AM

Just checking in to see what was new and I made the mistake of actually listening to WalksaboutwithBadVocalCords sing(?) that piece of crap. I can't believe they haven't banned you from MySpace...........

Listen Man......I'm a lousy singer, always have been.   So on the basis of "it takes one to know one," let me tell you that as a singer, you make a good buttfuck. Geeziz, it really is bad........Don't sing in the woods 'cause that voice would sterilize squirrels and all the birds would shit themselves to death. If the quality of your breath matches your singing then your breath smells like a 30 day dead, decayed, & rotting skunk, covered with monkey shit and bathed in pig piss. Its that bad Man.....really.......If I'm lyin' I'm flyin' and my ass is glued to this chair.

Has anyone ever told you you have a good voice? If so, they were just making you feel good or trying to stifle a laugh or perhaps they're just fuckin' brain dead jadrools much like your sorryass self.

Consider learning ASL perhaps.........please.


Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 04:55 AM

When people say "Lancashire", Don, it sounds, to me, like "Lancashar", although a lot say just "Lancs". In a review, I have been accused of shoehorning, frankly; but, Spaw, some have, at least, said they do, indeed, like some of my singing, equally frankly. Also, I did call my CD "CHANTS from Walkabouts".

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 05:02 AM

egotism noun, derog 1 the habit of speaking too much about oneself. 2 the fact of having a very high opinion of oneself. egotist noun a self-centred person. egotistic or egotistical adj. egotistically adverb.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 05:08 AM

Frankly, John, I do want a lot of people to know my, free, life's work, as I think it's a good way forward for humanity.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: lady penelope
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 06:48 AM

And so humble too....

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 06:58 AM

WAVey Davey, a self made man who worships his creator, what an unbelievable dork.

eric

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:03 AM

If you believe you have all the answers, can you combine your work to form a clear, coherent manifesto / bible / guide? Because at the moment your work is a series of vaguely related 'conclusions'.

In Mudcat discussions you constantly refer people to your website, in order to clarify your views, but again this leads to all the small conclusions, which leads to confusion. Your humanities degree will have provided you with the skills of essay writing. Why not use these skills, a series of mini-essays on various subjects, 'A critique of multicultural integration of musical influences' for example?

Perhaps the end result will aid in the clarification of your views, and will aid in the survival of humanity?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:35 AM

I could have accepted an offer of post-grad. study, Joe, and produced a thesis, on some micro-matter, than may have been read by 10s of people; instead, I produced "Walkabouts: travels and conclusions in verse", which looks at most of the big issues, and, at least some of which, has, so far, been read by 1000s.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Stu
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 09:53 AM

Easy on the commas WAV, people are hyperventilating here.

P.S. I too listened to 'Lancashire Sung Simply' and although I have the greatest respect for anyone who ploughs their own furrow and puts their work up for public critique have to say it's awful. Have you ever listened to Harry Cox? Please buy the CD now and hear what unaccompanied English singing really is before you go any further. I beg thee BUY THE CD NOW!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:20 AM

To Stigweard: not long after finding folk, I listened to this tape till worn-out - Voices: English traditional songs

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:42 AM

WAV: I have just heard your song, and I can safely say that I have never heard anything like it on my life. And you can quote me on that.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: irishenglish
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:47 AM

Voices is great WAV, but it is more of a revival collection-Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy, John K, etc. It is not the same as listening to Harry Cox, Walter Pardon, Fred Jordan, etc. Just as I said in the Glastonbury thread. And unless someone beat me to it, 100 up!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:52 AM

Next trip to London, a visit to the EFDSS will be a priority.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:05 AM

Why? Do they need a good laugh?

Spaw