Falling in Love with Mudcatters

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: DougR
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 03:58 PM

Mick: I'm much relieved!

DougR

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:59 PM

You might have (and probably did) - my brain isn't any better than the bod in the song!

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: kendall
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:33 PM

Jeri, I believe I posted that song a while back?? does anyone remember?

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Áine
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:26 PM

Mbo -- For a fella that purports not to imbibe in the vile black stuff or any other sort of kickapoo joy juice, I definitely think you have totally lost it, my dear.

But, that's OK -- if we can't sincerely slobber over other 'Catters, who then can we slobber over?

Jaysus, ain't I profound at times?

With a hearty wink, wink, nudge, nudge to y'all, Áine

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:31 PM

I LOVE YOU ALLLLLL!!!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:28 PM

DougR........you are on my list, you old eejit!!!!.........what f@#@ing list are you talking about????......And don't be trying the layabout routine, that is the exclusive property of Lane, Fielding, Swan and Patterson, Layabouts at Large.............Jeffp, welcome to the village, we are glad you are here. Contribute all you can...........HEY, CUT THAT SILLYNESS OUT OVER THERE................

Big Mick

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: DougR
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 07:33 PM

SOB! GROAN! SHUCKS SHOOT!

I didn't make Big Mick's list! And after I taught him everything he knows about women. Oh well. Think I'll just slink no over to the Mudcat Tavern, drown my hurt and sulk.

DougR

Subject: Lyr Add: BRIDGES (Bill Staines)
From: Musicman
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:57 PM

sillyness?/?? who's allowing sillyness here????? I thought this was for serious stuff?????!!!!!!

All this reminds me of Bill Staines song "Bridges":

"There are bridges, bridges in the sky, They are shining in the sun.
They are stone and steel and wood and wire, They can change two things to one.
They are languages and letters, They are poetry and all.
They are love and understanding, And they're better than a wall.

There are canyons, there are canyons, They are yawning in the night.
They are rank and bitter anger, They are all devoid of light.
They are fear and blind suspicion, They are apathy and pride,
They are dark and so foreboding And they're oh, so very wide.

Let us build a bridge of music, Let us cross it with a song.
Let us span another canyon, Let us right another wrong.
And if someone should ask us where we're off and bound today
We will tell them "building bridges" and be off and on our way."

Hurrah for music.......and the bridges it builds.....

Musicman

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: jeffp
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:37 PM

I've been coming here just a short time, but I have already begun to feel close to this group. The Mudcat reminds me of a neighborhood pub where you can drop in, participate in all of the conversations at once, and leave and come back, picking up where you left off. (Were there enough commas in that sentence?) I think it's a great mix of serious music scholarship and outrageous silliness with a large dash of mutual support thrown in for good measure. I hope to meet some of you in person someday.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:08 PM

Kendall, just post the whole song!!!!

Jeri-whomustbuyfilmformycamerajustincase

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: kendall
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 01:56 PM

You are all out of control. The very idea of Rick Fielding mucking about in the buff...oh me.
Well, I went to that nude beach to have a little sea side fun
Stretched out in by birthday suit soaking up some sun
Someone said "There's an old white whale washed up on the shore"
I just dont look good naked anymore..

I dont fall in love easily, but I have become quite fond of all you folks. (Just dont spread it around, after all I live in New England.) :-)

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: emily rain
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 01:17 PM

no kiddin' cara. : )

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Cara
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 12:48 AM

I was just listening to the arhive of tonight's Mudcat Radio and reflecting on how much I love this place too. I'm glad you brought this thread back up "Spaw. This place rocks (in a folkie kind of way).

And emily rain is right about Max (radio thread reference)

love and peaceful easiness,

Cara

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From:
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 11:34 PM

If MUD IS THICKER THAN WATER, do we sometimes have a MUDSLIDE rather than THREAD CREEP?

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Áine
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:26 PM

Now aren't ya warmin' the cockles of this woman's heart ya old devil ya!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:15 PM

Ah Sweet Aine....Ol' Spaw LOVES choppped liver!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Áine
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 09:53 PM

So, Spaw, what am I -- chopped liver???

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 09:45 PM

I saw this thread in emily rain's post and was having such fun reading it, so ................

Vintage Mudcat and the origin of the phrase, "Mud is Thicker than Water." The amount of thread creep and conversations going on here just proves it.

Damn but I do love this place.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Matthew B.
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 04:37 PM

...and of course that gives me an luscious image of Fair Youngmaid that I'd better not describe in print.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Matthew B.
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 09:01 AM

If I were a blushing man, I'd be blushing from what Fair Youngmaid wrote about me.

I won't even mention Matthew B. (this forum is G rated isn't it?)

What a thrill. And yet one more fine example of how easy it is for me to keep falling in love with Mudcatters.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: WyoWoman
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 01:06 AM

I think the schnauser did whatever it was Catspaw was doing to the possum...Wolverines love that stuff.

KC

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 03:50 PM

good point, allan

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:59 PM

Well, Alice, if a human can fall in love with a catfish...

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:52 PM

KC, how the heck did a schnauser allow a wolverine to get that close? ;->

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: WyoWoman
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 10:15 AM

I'm brave -- my roommates are a doberman and a schnauser/wolverine mix...

KC

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 09:37 AM

And the rash happens later.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 09:21 AM

I have noticed the same kind of thing, Phillipa. Only it seems to happen more often in bars and taverns.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Philippa
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 09:06 AM

I too would love to hear you all sing and play. Thanks everyone who has ever helped me with lyrics or information and also to those who give me the satisfaction of assisting their queries. There have been a few comments on this thread about exercising caution; I occasionally notice rash offers of a bed for the night to someone who p[resumably they only know as a name on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:46 AM

Young Fronk-en-steen....Great movie!...

If you're blue and you don't know
Where to go to, why don't you go
Where good friends meet.
Mudcat is a treat!

Mary

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: WyoWoman
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 12:32 AM

We could all meet at Mudstock and fall in love in a Montana kind of way...

(Did anybody ever get any details on that thing, by the way?)

KC

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: bbc
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 12:20 AM

Just agreeing w/ what Allison & Jeri said. Everyone we met in person at Old Songs was great & it was very satisfying to put flesh around the words we already knew them by. Duane & I are wondering if we can make it to the DC Getaway in Oct. to meet more of you. It's certainly tempting. We've had the unexpected benefit of Bill Sables as a houseguest. He is delightful! Duane & Bill are swapping songs & stories in the kitchen right now. Wish you were all here w/ us!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:54 PM

Hmmm... "If all the world were on Mudcat ...." This sounds like substance abuse. Maybe this should be a posting on the "Addiction?" thread? KC

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: annamill
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:10 AM

That's right! He was my boyfriend!!

What a wonderful thread this has been and I'm jealous of those who managed to get to Old Songs. I couldn't go, because my honey Glenn's daughter graduated from eighth grade Friday and we had a party Saturday. I can't wait until July 17th, but even more, October in Washington where it seems almost everyone is going.

HAWD, Love, annap

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 09:54 AM

Having returned from Old Songs, I have to say that Mudcatters are great on-line, much better in person. There's the hug factor, for one thing. And the singing together for another.

Bill Sables rescued me from a drunk on Sat night. When I thanked him, he said it was his duty as a Mudcatter. If all the world were on Mudcat, it would be a peaceful, happy place. And Max would have to get a really big server.

Animaterra/Allison - "Mud is Thicker than Water" - I want the bumper sticker!

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 09:19 AM

...What hump??
I am also truly, madly, deeply in love with y'all, and I just want to confirm a suspicion some of us have had- after 3 days at the Old Songs Festival I can attest that 'Catters are even more wonderful in person than in the ether- at least the ones I've met. They're funny, cheerful, helpers in adversity, generous, intelligent, and know a lot of songs I'd never heard before. I hope to get my film developed this week and will send some e-pix to Bill in hopes to add to the family album, but in this case a picture doesn't convey the joy I had in meeting Dick, Susan, bbc and her husband Duane, Jeri, Barbara Shaw, Bill Sables, and seeing Sandy and Caroline Paton and Charlie Baum again.
I had to leave early so missed the last fond farewells but the memory lingers on and I know I've made some lasting friendships!
Mud is thicker than water- yeah!!
Love you all- Allison

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 07:37 AM

Are we about to make "Young Frankenstein" an Official Mudcat Movie? Hmmm...Well, stay close to the candles, the stairs can be treacherous.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 02:43 AM

Geez Fair maid, don't look at the photo album!

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Rita64
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 01:11 AM

Quite often I visit Mudcat just to marvel at the witty UFBS (Unadulterated Facetious Bull Shit). I love your brains.

It is so wonderful NOT to have faces to match your names. If only you could see the "lovable" images formed in my headspace when I read messages posted by annap, Art, Big Mick, seed, katlaughing, Alice, Fadac etc. You are bodiless creatures with caricature faces. I wonder how many of my imaginings are similar to the flesh and blood? Scary thought - in my mind Art resembles that smartypants heckling old guy with the moustache from The Muppet Show. Tee hee hee - and Fadac has dark hair and always wears khaki green and I imagine Big Mick in denim overalls. I won't even mention Matthew B. (this forum is G rated isn't it?)

I don't often contribute - usually because someone else has stolen the "original" thought I want to express.

-FYM-

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Dave Swan
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 10:35 PM

sed-a-give? SED-A-GIVE?

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 10:34 PM

"Pardon me, boy. Is this the Transylvania station?" And a phrase that I have used in many bad situations."Could be worse- could be raining."

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 09:33 PM

"Nayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" Shit, I mean "Neighhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 07:59 PM

and "Eye-gor"

catspaw

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 07:27 PM

That's FRONK-en-steen!!!

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: WyoWoman
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 06:11 PM

I blush to admit I've never seen YOung Frankenstein. I'm going down to the video store right this very minute to rent it.

KC

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 02:42 AM

Hey Seed,

Last question first. I have every intention of going to Mudcat 11. I only need the date for the event in the year 2000, and I will mark it off. And this year, It looks like I am going to be able to make FSGW's getaway weekend in October. I hope to meet a number of you there.

The Alaska pic fits under your fingernail and around your finger. Works like an extension for your fingernail I have to take them and spend about 15 minutes each shaping just so. They work great. You can usually find them in a good acoustic shop, or you can get them at www.elderly.com.

Mick

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 11:39 PM

I may just have to watch it again tonight: "Poot the kendle beck!" is the key line in my family story.

Constable: "Need a hand?" Dr. Frankenstein: "No, thanks. Got one."

And of course every time that Donald Marrs (?) opened his mouth or did anything, for that matter..., and the couples on the train, first in the US and then, approaching Transylvania, in German, discussing their adolescent, masturbating son...Oh, and Gene Hackman as the blind hermit: "Fire is our friend," and the little girl: "The petals are all gone--what else can we drop in the well?"

--seed

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 10:00 PM

Werewolf! Werewolf? Therewolf.

catspaw (Bluecher)

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 07:55 PM

Seed. Walk this way!

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: harpgirl
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 06:56 PM

...Seed, Barara e-mailed me to remind me that we had a discussion about your favorite movie a while back. I do dimly remember it but I am not known for my short term memory either...I think I'll rent the movie and have a laugh while I imagine you naked!!!harpgirl (just kidding, I think)

Subject: RE: Falling in Love with Mudcatters
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 03:10 PM

A couple of messages here to loved ones: Harpgirl, in one of the funniest scenes in Young Frankenstein, Igor (Marty Feldman) goes to the brain depository (!) to get a brain for the being he is helping the good doctor to create (it's supposed to be Hans Delbrook, something and humanitarian--but he drops it) and ends up with one clearly identified as "Abnormal--do not use this one." Later, when the the creature is brought to life and proves to be violent, Dr. F asks Igor if the brain was that of Hans Delbrook. Igor shakes his head in shame and admits it was Abby somebody's. "Abby" who's?" the doctor insists. "Uh, Abby Normal's," Igor says. "You mean I put an abnormal brain in a nine foot four hundred pound...[I can't come up with the noun]?" Remember it?

Annap, I, too, have a tape of it. Watching it together has become a ritual at family reunions--there's one very funny family story related to it...made rather poignant because of the November death of my brother who played a key role in the tale.

And Mick, what are Alaska picks? I have been trying to create finger and thumb picks that allow me to feel the strings of my banjo. I can't stand regular picks, so I play without picks even in three-finger style, vastly limiting my speed and volume control.

And after a year in the community I finally started meeting a few of the people here in the flesh--Fadac, Dave Swan and PJ (Dave's wife), Winter's Wages, RiGGy, and next month the beautiful Blessings Barbara. I'd love to be able to make Mudstock this summer, but can't--I'm looking forward to Mudstock II (Mick, ya still keeping that time open?)

--seed