BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?

Subject: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:23 AM

Well???

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:29 AM

Uhmmmmm. Well..........Lessee......................

Does this have to be an essay question? I'd prefer multiple choice.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:40 AM

Define 'weird'.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: M.Ted
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:30 AM

You've got to be a little bit off the mark to find your way here in the first place. Beyond that, the simple and sad fact is, once you're here, the weirder you are, the better you fit in--

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 03:41 AM

So many candidates, so little time ;)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 03:52 AM

Out of interest ~ which of us would like to be nominated in this category, or who would prefer not? Me ~ can't quite decide...

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 04:50 AM

"the weirder you are, the better you fit in-- "

What if you're so weird .......

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:01 AM

MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

and my tits.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:10 AM

What's odd about your tits?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:39 AM

I've got three sorts and they live in a bush.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:47 AM

Ah, great, blue, and coal, I assume.

Cracking tits Grommet

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 06:08 AM

There was a fine pair of tits in my garden this morning.

Long-tailed tits.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 06:23 AM

To quote my late aunt, "You only ever seem to see tits in pairs"

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: freda underhill
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 07:47 AM

.... sigh .....

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 07:47 AM

I know, but decorum precludes.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 07:47 AM

Thniking...Thinking...

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 07:58 AM

Long Tailed Tits?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 08:14 AM

They know exactly who they are... And we do, too..

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: 3refs
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:04 AM

To Liz the Squeek!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbihpBjckvk

R.W.R.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:10 AM

Geez! This is a really tough one. I mean...REALLY tough. Gosh.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Tinker
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:27 AM

This seems to be a multi-catagoried event .....

The award for weirdest mudcatter in posting non-reality based prose is.....

The award for weirdest mudcatter in strange taste in music actually performed is......


The award for weirdest mudcatter in the songwriters catagory is.........


the possibilities are unless...........

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:35 AM

Sounds like the Grammys..."and now for the the Best Album of Folk/Rap/Polka Music Non-Vocal in Spanish, the nominees are..."

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 10:35 AM

Well, I think that there's an Art to this.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 10:58 AM

Sheeooot. A couple of years ago I tried to start an "ugliest" Catter
contest, and submitted this as first entry, but Mighty Joe O closed the thread (with apology to me) because he was afraid it would deteriorate too fast.
                     Dean

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 11:02 AM

Yes well you know we can post anything we want on Mudcat, except what Joe doesn't like
I mean it would never do if it got nasty would it, Clinton Martin?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 11:11 AM

Well, I fear that it is I. But perhaps it is just that I'm looking at the interior of my mind?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 11:18 AM

In honor of his 65th Birthday, I nominate Rapaire!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:18 PM

The question is: weirder qua Mudcat or weirder as relates to general population?

If we are looking for weird within the group, it must be some quiet, genteel soul who never cusses, gets into arguments, starts irrelevant threads and who posts mostly music related stuff.

Maybe Jim Dixon? Gene?....there are so few...

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM

I nominate Max - after all, he started this place and KEEPS IT GOING REGARDLESS!!!! Man, you HAVE to be weird to do that!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:25 PM

Who's weirdest? Am I allowed to name names...maybe that Walkabout guy?

I was weird before it became cool to be weird. Then I got more normal, but normal isn't cool. Either way I'm not cool, and I preferred weird to normal.

How does one find oneself back to weird?

What is weird?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:49 PM

Mooh, that's weird.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:07 PM

It might actually be Rapaire, come to think of it...

Go now, open the Mother of All BS Threads and simply read any 50 of his posts there at random, and you'll see what I mean. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:11 PM

A sliding scale won't work on this question either. One would get sea sick trying to apply it.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:27 PM

Well, one index of weirdness is the number of delusory realities the individual seeks to impose on others. From that point of view one would have to admit Martin Gibson, Little Hawk, Sawzall, Rapaire, and a few other notables to the lists.


A

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: open mike
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:47 PM

i am surprised no one has nominted SPAW yet...
so i will...

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:54 PM

AMOS! Even to read "it's" name makes my bloodpressure rise. Please refrain from even acknowledging "it's" vile, hateful existence.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:55 PM

"seeks to impose on others"?????

What a shocking and unfair mischaracterization of my creative literary inventions (which are only of the highest)! I seek to impose nothing! I merely share with others who are of like mind, as a way of spreading joy and inspiration here and there, wherever it might be needed or appreciated.

Certain cretins here (I shall name no names) are incapable of appreciating my kindly and illuminating efforts. Well, that is the way of the world. One encounters a certain number of swine along the path. The pity of it is that these very same ruffians and ill-intentioned Philistines, rather like the person who posted at 11 Feb 10 - 01:27 PM above, feel it incumbent upon them to attack my worthy contributions! I am sure that in time the negative karma that inevitably accrues to their hostile actions will catch up with them, and in full measure.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 01:56 PM

Nuthin weird about Spaw, to paraphrase someone French (I think), whose name I forget.

I stink, therefore I am!

Farting is NORMAL.   OK?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 02:01 PM

Little Hawk, rest aisy, lad. I merely said that your contributions qualified you for the competition. I didn't say you WON!!!



A

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 02:18 PM

Well, the weirder I get, the better I was.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 02:24 PM

Gargoyle.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 02:33 PM

well, that is hard to argue with. He was sure 1st in line.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 04:09 PM

Well, anyone that likes William Shatner AND dachshunds ...

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:23 PM

I certainly don't mind being considered as a candidate----I'd love to be up there with LTS !!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:44 PM

A lot of considered being up there with her, Bubbles, but she's kinda far away...



A

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 06:08 PM

Amos weird, naw, just a frustrated poet with a lot of seafaring verse in his head.

Rapaire? His post likeness seems to be more noble-like than notable.

Sawzall may be a bit more wired on topics than being weird.

Little Hawk does not seem to thread or post like a weird fellow....He introduces a lot of interesting threads....though it's hard not to recall the image of soaking his feet in a basin of his own urine (or some borrowed from a neighbour) while strumm'in out a Dylan song.....maybe this thought is a bit on the weird side.....but, it could just be me, and not LH.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 06:11 PM

In every subset of the human race I belong to, I am in a fringe of that subset, and I am marginal in that fringe.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 08:13 PM

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu - PM
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 05:29 PM

Shall I comment further, Oh Wilder Beeste?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 08:57 PM

Good thing puns don't make one weird, isn't it?

;-D

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 11:37 PM

Yeah, or I'd be a pun nut.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:42 AM

They are used in making pesto.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:25 AM

But I'm the only Catter with a HUGE collection on non-edible squid...

(and we used to have bats in the, uh, "belfry"...)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:13 AM

Dave Weir, who i was at school, with really was WeirD. but he isn't a mudcatter so that doesn't count i guess...

Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Mr Red of Rouge Towers.
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:29 AM

On Planet Red I am almost normal, so I can't qualify.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:51 AM

Harvey says that seeing I don't exist it can't be me. He should talk.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 11:25 AM

The people in my head, who know everything, keep saying that it's Art Thieme and/or Kendall Morse and/or Deckman and/or Don Firth, if it's not actually somebody like Amos, who they say is actually Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 11:35 AM

"...somebody like Amos, who they say is actually Little Hawk. "

hahhahah

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Genie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:26 PM

Well, if weirdness is measured by strange and horrendous PUNishing distortions of the English language, I nominate Severn.

But I think anyone who is fixated on William Shatner, weiner dogs, and stuffed simians would be on the short list of nominees too.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:01 PM

Short? Of what? Just short?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:07 PM

Well, Amos (whose real name is Norbert) is only 28 inches tall. You see, his mother was a leprechaun and his father a Presbyterian tommyknocker from Wales.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:34 PM

And Rapaire, whose real name is Bill Wrigley, cannot write a true sentence of his own, to save his life.



A

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: olddude
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:41 PM

Weirdness is to be celebrated and enjoyed. May we never give up the weird in this island of misfit toys called Mudcat

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:13 PM

Nah, my real name isn't Bill Wrigley. I just told Norbert that to keep him from knowing my real name and using it in his SoCal satanic rituals. My real name isn't Rupelstiltskin, either. If you wish, however, you might address me as "My Lord" -- but I don't insist upon it.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:32 PM

Now I am actually me. Isn't THAT weird?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Genie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:46 AM

MtheGM, how can you be me, when I am me?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:20 AM

This is not a thread, and I have just not posted to it.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:53 AM

""By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,'" (here the Director made the sign of the T), "he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself. For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this Centre...""

Soma is Amos backwards, I hereby declare Amos weird.

"O brave new world! That has such people in't!"

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:58 AM

http://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:37 AM

No, Genie, I didn't say I was you, I said I was me. You are not me, you are you ~~ Weirdo. [As Pepermint Patty constantly said to her acolyte: "You're weird, Marcie!")

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:49 AM

Who gets to decide? Who do you trust? who is the weirdest? Where is the vote?

We are all wierd, We are all wrong. We can never be certain.


In a free society you get to decide with your vote. You get to decide in your E Pluribus Unum sort of way even when you don't have any understanding about what you are deciding. This goes to show how we end up in such a catch 22 nonsensical society but that is the nature of democracy and freedom. It is messy sausage making. Our American founding fathers knew the importance of freedom in a society which has academic and scientific freedom to speak, speculate and research new ideas which lead to discoveries that help a nation grow stronger.

Some societies which deny freedom, do not allow a forum of its citizens to decide important issues and instead have a tyrant, king, religion or political bureau decide issues for the nation. These kinds of systems or governments decide just like an individual in that they too can be totally ignorant about what they are deciding. A free society or a closed oligarchy are much alike in this way. In America today we even have people marching under the banner of freedom who in fact work in concert to eliminate freedom in scientific research, speech and education. The irony is that the these religious organizations are often sponsored by corporations that want no laws to be passed that would limit their ability to do anything they can dream up.

I contend that no matter who you decide to trust or support in decision making, they are most certainly wrong, corrupt or ignorant of the outcome of any particular decision. Yes it's all guess work based on egotistical greedy notions with a weak grasp on outcomes and correct answers. Such is the nature of politics, human intelligence and grand mistakes.

In the twentieth century when the theory of Relativity was proven after WW 1 when light was shown to bend from the gravity of the sun, there were plenty of people and organizations who were completely ignorant of what that scientific discovery meant to our understanding and growth as an intelligent species. Some people mistakenly transmuted the meaning of Relativity for their own purposes to a political philosophy that justified the most cruel and demented concept of moral relativism. Hitler, Stalin and a host of other authoritarians based many of their actions on this perverse idea of moral relativism instead of the well grounded concepts of clear cut right and wrong.

While everyone can be ignorant of what they are deciding the decisions get made anyway. We decide if we trust a scientist who probably has certain self interests, or we may decide to trust a Corporation or political party that is certainly self interested, or to trust God who has any number of self interested people speaking for him and/or her.
We do not even get a right to vote on the most important things. We did not get to vote if we wanted nuclear weapons in the first place. We do not get a vote in the release of nuclear weapons. Now that we have religious state governments who command the use of nuclear weapons we have reason to worry about their religious beliefs in inevitable Armageddon, just as other nations worry about America using nuclear weapons in anger again.

There is probably no issue that demonstrates decision making in the dark that bio ethics. Like splitting the atom, the most important things tend to be very small things. For example DNA is rather small. The political battles over stem cells have all the usual voices speaking at once with little or no understanding of what their opinion, if made into law, will create. Some religious voices seem to say that human knowledge is wrong and worship alone is right. Scientists with good intentions may not know the outcome of some projects which could affect the DNA of every living thing. Corporations may not care about anything except a big short term profit and legal larceny of life itself.

Deciding or voting to allow or deny the next generation of science that may lead to relative immortality or genetic manipulation that could lead to the execution of bio diversity, will be done with all the same limitations and ignorance that has given us past catastrophes. We will make our best guess and throw our dart. Some of us will not even see a target and others will end up hitting the cat by accident.

As in atomic relationships, there is no certainly, there are only likelihoods. So whenever you say, "you are wrong" or "you are an idiot", they are both true; for you and me, them or us. I contend that the more history you know or the more knowledge you have in general, the more likely the likelihoods you believe, will to be true.

You are all as wierd as the wierd uncertain stuff of which you are made.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:51 AM

If by 'weird' it's an award for most distinctive and unusual individual poster rather than a wannabe 'I'm mad me, where's my girrafe?' stylee ordinary person, then it's obviously gotta go to either WaV or Lizzie Cornish. True nutty individualists both!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:54 AM

Sir j0hn of Hull

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:16 PM

proof read version:


Who gets to decide? Who do you trust?
We are all weird, We are all wrong. We can never be certain.

In a free society you get to decide with your vote. You get to decide in your E Pluribus Unum sort of way even when you don't have any understanding about what you are deciding. This goes to show how we end up in such a catch 22 nonsensical society but that is the nature of democracy and freedom. It is messy sausage making. Our American founding fathers knew the importance of freedom in a society which has academic and scientific freedom to speak, speculate and research new ideas which lead to discoveries that help a nation grow stronger.
Some societies which deny freedom, do not allow a forum of its citizens to decide important issues and instead have a tyrant, king, religion or political bureau decide issues for the nation. These kinds of systems or governments decide just like an individual in that they too can be totally ignorant about what they are deciding. A free society or a closed oligarchy are much alike in this way. In America today we even have people marching under the banner of freedom who in fact work in concert to eliminate freedom in scientific research, speech and education. The irony is that the these religious organizations are often sponsored by corporations that want no laws to be passed that would limit their ability to do anything they can dream up for money.
I contend that no matter who you decide to trust or support in decision making, they are most certainly wrong, corrupt or ignorant of the outcome of any particular decision. Yes it's all guess work based on egotistical greedy notions with a weak grasp on outcomes and correct answers. Such is the nature of politics, human intelligence and grand mistakes.
In the twentieth century when the theory of Relativity was proven after WW 1 when light was shown to bend from the gravity of the sun, there were plenty of people and organizations who were completely ignorant of what that scientific discovery meant to our understanding and growth as an intelligent species. Some people mistakenly transmuted the meaning of Relativity for their own purposes to a political philosophy that justified the most cruel and demented concept of moral relativism. Hitler, Stalin and a host of other authoritarians based many of their actions on this perverse idea of moral relativism instead of the well grounded concepts of clear cut right and wrong.
While everyone can be ignorant of what they are deciding the decisions get made anyway. We decide if we trust a scientist who probably has certain self interests, or we may decide to trust a Corporation or political party that is certainly self interested, or to trust God who has any number of self interested people speaking for him and/or her.
We do not even get a right to vote on the most important things. We did not get to vote if we wanted nuclear weapons in the first place. We do not get a vote in the release of nuclear weapons. Now that we have religious state governments who command the use of nuclear weapons we have reason to worry about their religious beliefs in inevitable Armageddon, just as other nations worry about America using nuclear weapons in anger again.
There is probably no issue that demonstrates decision making in the dark than bio ethics. Like splitting the atom, the most important things tend to be very small things. For example DNA is rather small. The political battles over stem cells have all the usual voices speaking at once with little or no understanding of what their opinion, if made into law, will create. Some religious voices seem to say that human knowledge is wrong and worship alone is right. Scientists with good intentions may not know the outcome of some projects which could affect the DNA of every living thing. Corporations may not care about anything except a big short term profit and legal larceny of life itself.
Deciding or voting to allow or deny the next generation of science that may lead to relative immortality or genetic manipulation that could lead to the execution of bio diversity, will be done with all the same limitations and ignorance that has given us past catastrophes. We will make our best guess and throw our dart. Some of us will not even see a target and others will end up hitting the cat by accident.
As in atomic relationships, there is no certainly, there are only likelihoods. So whenever you say, "you are wrong" or "you are an idiot", they are both true; for you and me, them or us. I contend that the more history you know or the more knowledge you have in general, the more likely the likelihoods you believe, will turn out to be true. It's all basically weird. We are all as weird as the weird uncertain stuff of which we are made.

Sincerely,
Sir Blipsnort of Donuel
Allegheny Home for the Weird.
Elmira NY

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:31 PM

Crow Sister - I'm about as nutty as my pottages.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:44 PM

Good god!! Do you have to sneak your crap into EVERY thread WAV?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:44 PM

I s'pose I shouldn't boast, but a local reporter, after seeing some stuff like this and this, referred to me in the newspaper as "one artist with a taste for the bizzare".
             Dean

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: dwditty
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:53 PM

When people tell me I am weird, my reply is always the same: "Oh, you have NO idea."

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:59 PM

Dear John - if you can't see that being "nutty" (Crow Sister) is an accusation one must refute, then you are a fruitcake.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:18 PM

OR you are, and are in denial thereof.

Me, I am not weird at all. I have a steady job, pay my bills, own my house and dress better than my sister. I have hobbies and make a little more than I spend. I pursue occasional recreational things like diving and kayaking and go for long walks on occasion. I build stuff. I write stuff. I play and sing in a somewhat musical manner--at least I can carry a tune and play in more than one key.

Now Jock, he's weird. He deliberately exposes himself to ice and blizzards every year, lives out in the North Hebrides, and speaks a bizarre variant of ancient oatmeal. Talk aboot weird!


A

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:27 PM

...speaks a bizarre variant of ancient oatmeal... Not only that, but he does it despite having proved, in any number of songs, that he can speak English or even American if he wants to!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:38 PM

You're all weird!

Somebody get me outta here................

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: akenaton
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 02:49 PM

Dinnae listen tae thon Amos chiel!
Ah micht expose masell tae ice n' snaw....he jist exposes himsell!!

Ah speak naethin' bit the pure Argyllshire Gaelic; he, the puir wee wretch, is reduced tae makin' up thae big words he's ayeways usin'

Weird is no' the word......glaikit mair like....Jock.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:31 PM

Ah wis thinkin', when he said he dressed better nor his sister. Dis that mean he wears a shorter skirt, or better pantyhose?
He's no glaikit, he's a nyaff, BTW.
Mind he's no hauf the wumman his faither wis.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:55 PM

If you are weird and rich, here's a weird cemetary plot?
http://www.hecklerspray.com/marilyn-monroe-adjacent-grave-still-available-for-worlds-richest-weirdo/200938974.php

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:26 PM

To be weird is to be alive.

To be weird is to not conform.

To be weird is to be an Individual.

To be weird is to stand alone.

To be weird is to believe in yourself, no matter what others say.

To be mad is to be honest.

To be mad is to have a voice that reaches beyond your mouth.

To be mad is to speak your mind freely, without fear.

To be mad is to endure and persevere.


Once, there was a man called 'Crazy'

And he knew more about this world and the people in it, than Weird, Mad and Nutty put together..

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:38 PM

Aye weel, ye maun dree yer weird lassie

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: akenaton
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:41 PM

A "glaikit wee nyaff"?......Aye yer right enough!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:53 PM

Aye.. ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:03 PM

Aye, aye, Sir!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Smokey.
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:03 PM

"I wish I could be different, like everybody else." (Stanshall)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:20 PM

A few weird quotes

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be
- "Hell's Angels", Hunter S. Thompson

And the people would eat up all the food, gobble, gobble, yum, yum, and it would become excrement and memories. What then for little Ecuador?
- Kurt Vonnegut, "Galapagos"

I didn't expect her to counter my plan with nakedness.
- Riff (Of Pete Abrams' Sluggy Freelance

I don't advise a hair cut man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bold-headed men are uptight.
- Bruce Robinson, "Withnail And I"

The leading thief glared at the solid stone that had swallowed Mort, and then threw down his knife. 'Well, ----me,' he said. 'A ----ing wizard. I HATE ----ing wizards!' 'You shouldn't ---- them, then,' muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.
- Terry Pratchett, "Mort: A Discworld Novel"

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:42 PM

John the Baptist, after torturing a thief, looked up at his hero, the commander-in-chief
And said, "Tell me great hero, but please make it brief.
Is there a hole I can be sick in?"
The commander answered him, chasing a fly, saying death to all those, who would whimper and cry.
Then dropping a bar-bell, he pointed to the sky.
Saying, "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken"

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:56 PM

Quack, quack.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 06:57 PM

That's fuckin weird, man.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:06 PM

Beyond weird, John...into a whole new Realm! :0)

The fact we're all so weird makes Mudcat what it is..

Cool, huh? ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:03 PM

The big problem is that some people think weird is always good. It is not. Sometimes weird is sad and pityfull. There are those on here like that but I do not expect them to recognise themselves. Most people know who they are...

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:58 PM

Not just "who" but where, when, why and how as well. Or at least I do.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:21 AM

I don't drink.

So I am dry.

Or, as a Scot would say, dree.

And a Scot would say that I must dree my weird.

QED

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 01:31 AM

... or should that be

Queue Ee Dree ?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:50 AM

... & I don't usually play this game, but it would be weird to miss the opportunity on this thread ~~~

so -----

100

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:25 AM

Ah-ha! The Centurion!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Tom - Swords & Songs
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:46 AM

Seems to me that the wierdest person must be the most fascinating. I could read about WAVism all day long.
If any catters here can direct me to someone else I can follow about and be amazed at, then please do.

I nominate that most disillusioned of repeat spammers, WAV.

(and now the trap is set, let's see how long will it take him to spam this thread again with some 'poetry')

T.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: theleveller
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:53 AM

To quote a Yorkshire expression, "All the world's weird except thee and me....and even thou's a bit queer."

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 12:27 PM

Rapper Tom,try the Good Soldier Schweik,he is working on being weird,especially on the subject of english concertinas he is desperately trying to outweird Guran.
Guran ,must be another contender,with his determination to convert concertinists to his concertina appendages and to ergonomics,and ergonomically altered concertinas.
thumb straps for anglo players as well as wrist straps and wrist straps for english players here he is in his full ergonomic glory[that will be five pounds for the mention Guran]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEPTosZ44g

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 12:46 PM

RapperTom - I've been more-or-less excommunicated from daily ditties on the "WalkaboutsVerse Anew" thread (use my myspace blog, if you like), but here's one anon for you, and all...

Little birdie flying high
Dropped a message out of the sky;
"Ooh!" said the farmer, wiping his eye,
"It's a jolly good thing my cows don't fly."

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Smedley
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 01:38 PM

The 'weird quotes' offered on Saturday (see above) reminded me of something Captain Beefheart once said:

"There are only forty people in the world, and five of them are hamburgers."

That kind of tells it like it is, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 02:11 PM

...was the first frisbee a flying hamburger..?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM

No. But the hamburger was part of it. A BBQd burger was actually eaten off the paper plate that was first thrown in "Frisbee style", giving Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison the idea. The fact is that the burger was so thick that it slipped out of his hands and landed on the lawn. He swore terribly and he was taken to task by the hostess of the BBQ. Still angry, he grabbed the plate and flung it at her and VOILA... the Frisbee was born.

Oh... I know the "offical" story is about cake pans. But, back then, they had to prissy up the story in order to market it. I mean, they would not have been able to sell it under Walter's original name choice, the "FUCKMEE".

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 04:53 PM

Thanks, Gnu - one learns something everyday on Mudcat...do you know what tune the hostess was playing on the VOILA?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 04:56 PM

Noooo... what was it?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 05:00 PM

...not sure...maybe that Piaf piece - "No Regrets"..?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 05:32 PM

I Edith that.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 05:17 PM

"who is the weirdest Catter--and why?"

Herbie Ballabuster the III because he's only been mentioned on Mudcat one time.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 12:23 PM

When was that? >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: olddude
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:26 PM

LOL this whole frigin place is like a Picasso painting on steroids

that like asking which blind guy is the best driver !!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: olddude
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:56 PM

I mean come on, where else can one write "hey anybody got any machine gun bullets" and other catters Me yea how many do you need.

Or the thread, if you pee on your feet you can get rid of fungus ..

AND we all think it is NORMAL ... we are all F'd up

100 years ago we would all be living on an Island someplace away from the normal people

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:10 PM

I am writing the following in code:

Yer wright.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:13 PM

Talk about yer weird guys. You see this guy's girlfriend? She's ugly.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: olddude
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:49 PM

Now that is powerful ugly ... whooooooo

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:39 AM

Them mermaids always been over-rated.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 01:11 PM

Jeez, some guys, only get crabs.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 11 - 12:00 PM

I always thought Art was one of the most inventive, curious, informed people here who know themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:54 PM

I don't think anyone is weird on Mudcat.

I used to think Keith was well weird - you know, the way he argues with people who fundamentally disagree with him - when anyone normal would say, allright mate if that's what you think......fair enough.

But then he said in one of his threads that he enjoyed arguing - a bit like the man in the monty Python sketch who had paid for the ten minute argument. The it sort of made sense. Not weird at all - he's just prolonging the pleasure til orgasm, or something similar.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 20 May 11 - 11:27 PM

All of us on Mudcat are a collection of wingnuts. Therefore it must follow that the parameters for "weird" on this site must be much different from the outside world. Surely here the benchmark for "weird" here must be the exact opposite to the dictionary meaning. I have always found Joe Offer to be calm, cool, and collected so I bring forth his name in nomination.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: J-boy
Date: 21 May 11 - 12:24 AM

Is this question some kind of Zen Koan?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Gurney
Date: 21 May 11 - 02:46 AM

Not much patience, and so many Canucks.

Although I suspect one of them is schizophrenic.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 21 May 11 - 05:39 AM

I was at a blues session last week that wasn't full. The promoter thanked us for coming and said we were doing better than other venues sponsored by the brewery but next time "bring your friends". I felt like saying:"If we had friends we wouldn't be here." Thanks to the Mudcat, in the words of Tony Hancock in The Radio Ham I've got (slightly odd) "friends all over the world: none in this country but all over the world"

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 21 May 11 - 06:41 AM

Gurney... I am NOT!

Nor am *I*!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 May 11 - 03:11 PM

Supposedly the most intelligent of primates, I nominate Chongo Chimp as the weirdest Catter.

After all he voluntarily puts up with all of us.

Man, that's WEIRD!

Not to mention BRAVE.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 May 11 - 03:19 PM

Caesar et sum iam forte,
Britus et erat,
Caesar sic in omnibus,
Brutus sic in at.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 May 11 - 04:02 PM

Don, that's SO funny LOL!! I'm going to send it to my sister up in Scotland! (I did Latin at school, and started to try and translate it until I twigged!)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 May 11 - 01:53 AM

Chongo Chimp, with no question. Why he continues to put up with this place is more than I can understand. Such tolerance and broad-mindedness should be rewarded, and I expect it will be when he is elected president in 2012.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 May 11 - 03:37 PM

Weird is in the eye of the beholder. Yes, weird can be beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 22 May 11 - 03:50 PM

I think LH said it all. He's got my vote.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 May 11 - 07:00 AM

That's three of us LH.

Nearly enough to form a Chongo Chimp Pressure Group to promote the compulsory supply of bananas at all public meetings.

Or would that be too weird?

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 May 11 - 07:06 AM

Weird? I thought this was normal!

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 May 11 - 01:48 PM

That's a great idea, Don. I mentioned it to Chongo, and he intends to make it part of his 2012 platform.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 23 May 11 - 03:25 PM

I am thankful that Mudcat is weird. It's an alternative to the craziness you find on TV or in most newspapers these days which is not weird but destructive.

Weird is good. Most great artists have emerged as being weird. Great controversial ideas have been branded weird like Civil Rights, Woman's Suffrage, Abolition, Union bargaining,
stopping child labor..............

Let's all celebrate the "weird" and be thankful that people on Mudcat are not normal otherwise they wouldn't be here.

I think if someone calls you "weird" it should be accepted as a compliment.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Gurney
Date: 23 May 11 - 05:15 PM

Now then, Streetsinger, let us not spoil a good thread by being sensible.....

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 23 May 11 - 05:41 PM

But who is weird and wired?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 08:09 AM

Today Chongo The Chimp is a multi Billionaire with dozens of corporations in the communications sphere such as ELECTION monkey polls and CHIMP MESSENGER ETC.

First they laughed, Now they are clamoring for access.

If only he remembered his humble beginnings and connected with those who gave him a start. But he has become reclusive, weird and paranoid of his handlers.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 11:38 AM

One example of weirdness is resurrecting 5 year old threads with creatively oblique referential nuances, displaying ostentatious obsessions with imaginary sub-human anthropoidal entities.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 12:49 PM

Nothing is normal or sane [D] anymore
Its all insane weirdness from ceiling to [A] floor
People seem crazy or dumb to the [Em7] core
Nothing is normal or sane [E7} anymore.
It makes me scream stop it don't do it no [A] more


dozens of kids were shot at school [A] today
For our freedom its a small price to [E] pay
Or so say the bosses of the N R*A. *[Em7]
but dozens are more than the norm 8 a [E7]day
kids splatter the floor but soon mopped [A]away


(fracking verse0
C
(nuclear verse)

(global hotness)
C
(Religiousðnic purity verse)
C

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: olddude
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 11:15 AM

Huh, what,
Women want me, fish fear me

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 11:44 AM

Dan - are you sure it isn't the other way round...?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: olddude
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 12:25 PM

Lol Could be

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 01:34 PM

......hook ,line, and sinker....

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 03:29 PM

This thread has been a great thread given the banter posted. It is a fun thread.

But, on a more serious note, I believe past posts are of merit regarding subdivisions of "weird". To wit, I submit:

Nastiest ignorant abusive piece of human garbage troll catergory (is easy... Gold, Silver and Bronze are matter-of-fact if you are long-time member).

Plain fuckin stunnedasmearses' that post inane shit about their pet causes is another obvious category.

So, perhaps we need to define weirdo categories, pick he top weirdo in the categories and THEN pick the winner? I mean, if that's not too weird. ?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 05:18 PM

The Weird Sisters in Macbeth were those predicting the characters' fates or destinies -- their 'weirds'.

So to assert my claims

Triple, triple
Bare your nipple
Pour your gin
And have a tipple

Lo - I'm coming in to bat
Weirdest poster on the Cat

big>☠≈·M·≈☠

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 16 - 08:46 PM

I know who... of past or present. But, I would never share the name. That would be weird. No?

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Charmion
Date: 08 Jan 16 - 09:45 AM

All the world is weird except me and thee, gnu, and I'm not so sure about thee.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jan 16 - 02:44 PM

Me neither! >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 16 - 09:29 AM

My inane personal pet cause is to persuade people to stop hating hurting and killing each other by remedy of satire and image.

Satire can easily backfire but the image has staying power. Also people look kind of silly protesting a picture like some kind of third century iconoclast.

Subject: RE: BS: who is the weirdest Catter--and why?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 16 - 09:36 AM

Today's hero: Rep. Steve Isreal.

He is resigning from Congress to pursue satire full time and condemns the legal bribe system of CONGRESS in his exit comments.
He has one satire book out already.