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

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 -----

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