BS: Funny Mudcat Threads

Subject: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 09:34 AM

Sometimes "girls just wanna have fun". And sometimes guys do too. I'm talking about "ha ha" fun, the laughing or at least the smiling kind.

I know that there have been some really great Mudcat threads that have been funny, cheerful, humorous and/or witty {in a play on words way or otherwise}. But when I went looking for a listing of those threads through Mudcat's search engine, I couldn't find any such list.

So...

This thread is an opportunity for folks to have some fun listing the names and hopefully the hyperlinks to memorable funny, cheerful, witty, humorous Mudcat threads-not just from last year, but from whenever.

It occurs to me that clicking on a Mudcatter's name in any thread brings up a list of threads that she or he posted to. Perhaps one way of finding humorous threads is to click on a Mudcatter's name who is known for his or her wit and sense of humor {humour}. Which Mudcatters would you place in that category?

Sometimes the humorous or witty comment is an inside joke, understandable only to those persons who have some history here. That's fine, but I'm talking about humorous or witty posts that are understandable to anyone reading the comment or the thread whether he or she is new to Mudcat or not. Of course, you have to take into consideration that some folks are more humor challenged than others. There are times that I don't get the punch line of jokes, and I'm sure I'm not the only humor challenged person on this forum. But still, I think it's worth a try to create a listing of threads that individuals here consider to be funny and/or witty.

Please join me in posting the titles, hyperlinks {or at least the subject matter} of such Mudcat threads. Maybe part of the fun will be for other folks to identify the thread you're referring to if you can't remember its title or web address {URL}. And if you're not yet a member of Mudcat's "blue clicky/hyperlink club", but can post the web address {URL} to a funny Mudcat thread, please do so. I or other folks will add the hyperlink.

If there is already one or more threads listing funny/witty {or mostly funny/witty} Mudcat discussions, I hope that someone will post the name of those threads and their URLs in this thread. Hopefully, Joe Offer, Big Mick, or another Mudcat moderators will add a listing of related threads to this one.

I'm gonna start the ball rolling in my next post to this thread.

Thanks in advance for your participation in this thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 09:38 AM

Here's a comment that I wrote on a recent Mudcat thread:

thread.cfm?threadid=117133


Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Memory Book
From: Azizi - PM
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 08:16 PM

I'm serious.

:o)

I didn't know that I had a sense of humor until I found it on Mudcat. Now even if other people don't think I'm witty, I think I am. And-in this context anyway-how I think of myself is more important than how others think of me.

Though I'll admit that most of my Mudcat posts are serious, as evidence that I really do have a sense of humor {or humour if you prefer that spelling}, here's the hyperlink to my still all time favorite lighthearted Mudcat thread:

thread.cfm?threadid=87517
Sponge Bob dead on Xmas eve

-snip-

I really wish that Donuel would ask Joe Offer to close that thread. as Its last post seems to me to be just right.

....

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:06 AM

Please keep in mind that this thread isn't meant to be a contest or a chance to vote-the-best-funny thread. It's just a listing of threads that an individual thinks is funny/witty.

That said, in no particular order, here are three threads that I'd add to the list of funny/witty Mudcat threads {at least I think that most of the comments on these threads are funny/witty}:

thread.cfm?threadid=110869
BS: Thinking about starting a new thread

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thread.cfm?threadid=112902
Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?

[In particular, check out Severn's posts to this thread]

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thread.cfm?threadid=114980
BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:16 AM

Cheers for this thread Azizi.

Now I'm merrily encased in the concrete re-inforced play-pen cum shady underworld that upstairs call 'the basement', I'm just beginning to discover a shiny world of amusement by care of some of the American boys and girls down here.

The only thing I am mildly concerned about, is whether or not we are all going to turn into braying donkeys, and then get sold off to work in the salt mines...?

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:19 AM

I humbly submit for your consideration:

Art's
"What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer"

It starts a bit slow, but once it starts to expand, it gets fantastically funny. A Mudcat classic.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:32 AM

My god I am wasting my life away in Mudcat.

Fritterin. I tell you I am fritterin.

I thought Big Mick's link would take me to the Tech: Trojan Infection thread

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:47 AM

Here are some more time wasting funny/witty Mudcat threads:

Statements you seldom hear at folk clubs

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Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!

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Do the Care Bears really care?

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BS: Nothing

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:54 AM

Hokey Pokey and the Druids?

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:59 AM

A challenge:a flea,an orange,a bicycle seat

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:13 AM

BS: You know you've been rejected when....

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BS: The thread that asks a question.

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BS: A new(d) way Mud-post...

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BS: Plant Rights

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:14 AM

Puke:thoughts needed, good or bad

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:21 AM

True Detective Stories

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:35 AM

BS: Obit?: Blinkin'

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How Many Spatulas Do YOU Own???


Enjoy!!

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 12:10 PM

There's none as much fun as the Muscat Juke Joint, IMHO.

But for sheer towering persistence in madness,all are overshadowed by The Mother of all BS.

And none so brilliant as Blake Madison.


And few have been as much fun as The Mudcat Enterprise in five parts. Except perhaps Steamboating: The Albert Hansell which ended up crossing galaxies.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:47 PM

just a note, Blake Madison started with LEJ's "True Detective Stories", I linked above, which was inspired by a post by Dave Swan in the "A challenge:a flea,an orange,a bicycle seat" thread.

For newer Catters, back in the early days, when those threads were started, there was not the breakdown of multiple pages of a thread. Max developed that later. We used to have just one looooooonnnng page to each thread, which sometimes got very hard to load in the earlier, slower days of the internet. So, when a thread got very long, people would often start part 2 and then part 3, etc., continuing the idea in a completely new thread.

We had several different versions of the group-written stories, including Last Voyage of the S.S.Possum
and A Town Like Possum and An Irish Tale and seems like there was another one about a nurse, but I can't find it.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:49 PM

In addition to the Mudcat Tavern, we've also had the Mudcat Castle, the Mudcat Cantina, and the Campfire.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:08 PM

Mindful that folks may not agree on what constitutes humor and wit, here are some more threads that include a number of comments that I consider to be humorous or witty:

BS: This thread will fall off the board fast

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BS: G rated swear words

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BS: '08 Question for Mudwowenz???

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:14 PM

Here are some more Mudcat humor/wit threads:

BS: grumpy old men

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RE: BS: Gas, Wind, Flatulence

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THE DAY THEY CAME FOR MUDCAT

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:35 PM

As far as I know, we got all of the story thread catalogued, with links, in THIS THREAD, though you have to scroll down some to find the right post.

This one was a lot of fun and helped with the divided by a common language thing, imo: Colloquialisms - Post'em and define 'em

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:06 PM

pencils

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Deda
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 08:32 PM

I've been away from the cat a long time, partly because my very favorite threads, the Mudcat Challenges, faded away after Aine stepped down as the doyenne of ditties. They were the most fun I've ever had on line.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:42 PM

Deda, nice to see you! We've had a few since Aine stepped down, but they don't seem to catch on as much. We all miss her and the special awards she passed out, etc. Thankfully her Mudcat Songbook is still available: HERE. Oh! There were some funny songs that came out of those! Thanks for the reminder.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:55 PM

At some point in 2002, an odd phenomenon began on Mudcat. This was a chain of threads surrounding a mythical Irish song called "The Campsite at Drumcree". Some of the participants were known, but other anonymous postings came from everybody from Phil Lynnott to Michael Flatley to Liam Clancy to Reverend Paisley. Much of it was obscurely Irish, but most of it was absolutely hilarious satire. One doesn't so much read the Drumcree threads as become absorbed into their surreal world and emerge somehow...different. Then in 2003, they suddenly ceased, and I don't believe the mysterious mind that was behind Drumcree was ever revealed. I know that I, nor Amos, Peter T, Kat, Jen, Spaw nor any of the usual suspects were involved.

My suggestion is to pour a pint o Guinness and settle down with the madness that was
The Campsite at Drumcree
and remember "For the cause of dear oul' Ulster, we wipe with a clipe of grass"

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 05:02 AM

Things you nver wanted to know about Spleen Cringe and other bearded folkies BS: Beard Abuse : A Cautionary Tale

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 05:08 AM

You just never know when old institutions will break down due to things like this. BS: Warning: Bibliophiles in Public Library

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:31 PM

Here are some more links to what I consider to be funny Mudcat threads:

BS: Why does the dog bark?

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BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS

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BS: Trolls Only Thread

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BS: A true folk singer is....

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:38 PM

Well, that last thread included some commentors who truly attempted to answer the question.

But sometimes truth is expressed in humorous comments.

And sometimes it's not.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Den
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:56 PM

I agree with EJ, the funniest thread/s ever on Mudcat were the various Drumcree Campsite threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:01 PM

This is an excellent thread, Azizi. Well done for cheering everyone up! :0)

Going back to Mick's choice. Ohhhhh, the *stories* I could tell you about condoms, having worked in two chemist shops in days of yore!

None of you are old enough, though.

;0)

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 07:47 PM

Well go on tell it!

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:57 PM

0.7967 - Thread - Message - MEDICAL ALERT

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 04:45 AM

So no-one thought my tits were funny? I remember when my ass was more highly thought of....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 06:11 PM

This Mudcat thread that was started by Liz the Squeak is a real hoot. And it just goes to show that every thread title doesn't mean what you think it might mean.

thread.cfm?threadid=88296

{I suppose you noticed that I didn't post the thread's title.
I'm too fuddy duddy to type those risque words even if they refer to something entirely different than what some folks {like me?} with their mind in the gutter initially thought they meant.}

That doesn't stop me from believing that it deserves a place in a listing of funny and witty Mudcat threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 06:38 PM

For those of us not so constrained, that was Liz's "BS: Pussy, tits and fat balls" thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 06:46 PM

Thanks Stilly River Sage.

Maybe in my next life I'll be less constrained.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 07:24 PM

I thought "constrain" was the strain one goes through while attempting to relieve constipation.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 09:50 PM

Speaking of words that some people are reluctant to say or write, I'm glad to see that posting a link to the thread "G rated swear words" called that thread to folks's attention, and some new posts have been added to that thread.

As to the word "constrain", I believe that Bible says to "train up a child in the way she will go, and when she is old/er, it will be hard for hard for her to depart from it-or it to depart from her".

Not that this has anything what so ever to do with the pros and cons of how you train a child. And not that this has anything to do with doing any kind of do. And it really has absolutely nothing to do with choo choos-trains that is, or with constipation or with g rated swear words though some might think so in certain circumstances.

Butt I've heard tell that depend-ing on where you're sitting or standing, everything is related to everything else some kind of way. Eventually, it all comes out in the wash-or somewhere else, at least it's supposed to come out effortlessly {or not}.

Or so I'm told.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 12:06 AM

Out here it's "warsh":-)

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 05:49 AM

Believe me Azizi, it's taken years of contradictory training and subliminal learning to make me into the erudite (and potty mouthed) person I am now... I didn't realise my mother even knew the F word until I was 22. She was so constrained that she couldn't even tell her daughters that our grandmother died of breast cancer - because she'd have to explain what a breast was. She told us it was lung cancer. Gee, thanks for not mentioning the hereditary aspect, mother. And I won't even start with the 'facts of life' talk.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Azizi
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 07:29 AM

Maybe if I continue to hang around Mudcat, I'll be less constrained in "potty mouth talking".

Excellent role models for that and for other subjects are easy to find here.

:o)

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 06:33 PM

I got the Facts of Life when I was about 9-12, LTS. My old man just thought I should know. He didn't use the scientific nomenclature either.

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 10:09 PM

Somebody help me -- what's the name of the spoof U.K. folk fest that had a thread started in summer 2007 (I think) then re-upped this past year (for the next year's events, of course)?

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 11:06 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:46 AM

Sgt. Kat and Her Howling Mudcat Commandos

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 02:19 PM

The Blitherscrum Folk Festival threads

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 02:24 PM

[Having trouble getting this post to process properly...]

It's the Blitherscrum Folk Festival threads I meant, of course, of which the latest incarnation is
Blitherscrum Folk & Boat Festival 2009.

Set the Filter to "Blitherscrum" and the time to "all" and you'll find a further five threads.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Rowan
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 05:04 PM

Liz had more than one thread on such interesting things. As well as threadid=88296

there was threadid=102000 on multiplication

and threadid=104113 on invisibility

and threadid=96412 on unexpected numbers.

But daughter #1 found me in paroxysms while I was reading Rocket science which relies more on events rather than wordplay.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 03:40 PM

England's National Musical-Instrument?

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 04:07 PM

Blitherscrum is purely ficticious and any resemblance to any Folk Festival, living or dead is pure coincidence. It seems to have emerged as one of the UKs leading Folk Festivals (albeit underwater etc) and has some incredible artists whose names seem to resemble those of real life Folkies.... mmmmmmmmm enjoy!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Funny Mudcat Threads
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 04:09 PM

What really beats me is how it has managed to stay in the "Music" section for so long... each of the Blitherscrum threads is a load of BS........ amazing!!!!