BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie

Subject: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 10:36 AM

Out of all the people I've told about the Mudcat, there is one who may actually stop by, today. He used to be my boss when I worked at a non-profit arts center in RI.

Anyway....his name is Ed and I thought it'd would be encouraging, welcoming, etc. if we all came through with a surpise thread to him, so that he sees it first thing when he gets a chance to come in here. Of course, since he does have a life, there is a chance he may not make it, but it'll still give us a chance to bask in the glow of mutual admiration for each other and Max's creation, right?

Anyway....thanks to you all, in advance, and, hey! Eddie, surf those threads and welcome!

luvya,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Dave Swan
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 10:42 AM

Eddie,

Welcome to the Mud! You have been brought here by someone we know as clever, generous, kind, passionate and quick witted. You'll find those qualities to be common around here. Many of the others are better at the welcoming address than I, and will point you to the appropriate threads and practices. I'll just invite you to the tavern for a dram or two and hope you feel at home in one of the best places I've ever been. Cheers, Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Allan C.
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 10:44 AM

Eddie, I am glad you have found your way here. I am sure you will enjoy any time you spend among the Mudcats. The only problem is that the amount of time you originally alot for this adventure will expand exponentially with each return visit. So be prepared. Welcome!!

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 10:46 AM

Hi, Eddie, we refer to this site as the Mudcat Witch Project!! (Joke, joke, joke!!!!!!!)
Come by anytime, we are friendly!!!!
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 10:55 AM

Hey Eddie....Drop by again, 'cause I'm heading out of town in about 15 minutes.....Any friend of Kat's ....well, I'll just be happy to insult you any time......my specialty. Seriously....Welcome to the 'Cat.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Bert
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 11:07 AM

Welcome aboard Eddie, What kind of music do you like? We are supposed to be FOLK here but we accept anything.

Tell us about yourself.

Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 12:10 PM

I don't know about you guys, but if Eddie doesn't show I'll really be pissed off.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 12:28 PM

Easy there, LeeJ, he lives on the West Coast, ya know, they don't rise and shine as early as the rest of us on this continent:-)

I can tell you, he is mostly Irish and while working at the Center, we had all kinds of music, including Masters of the Steel String Guitar, Roy Book Binder, Altan, Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band, oh, and he has a GREAT library. Like a lot of us, I'll think he'll fit right in, even if it is on an infrequent basis; his work keeps him traveling a LOT. It's pretty exciting, he even had to host a bunch of older, wealthy patronesses of good causes on a whitewater raft trip. Ed, my friends, has an adventurous spirit!

Thanks to you all. Keep 'em coming, we'll get him in here, no doubt!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 12:31 PM

Hi Eddie. I feel it's my duty to let you know that a couple of the supposed "cats" here are actually the monstrous alter-egos of Las Vegas animal trainers Sigfried and Roy! We just don't know which two they are.
Catspaw and his trained possum are a small time local act that play supermarket openings in rural Ohio, and Peter T. is actually B. Traven.
Alan C. has written several books claiming to be the "real" Crocodile Dundee, Dave Swan gets his kicks from sliding down a polished pole (as opposed to an unpolished Latvian), and Bert, is of course the reincarnated spirit of Betrand Russell.
Lonesome EJ is lonesome because he opened his Radio Shack store 457 miles from the nearest customer.
Katlaughing is a figment of our imaginations.
Welcome to our little community.

Rick (formerly Roberta) Fielding

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: DougR
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 12:47 PM

Eddie:

Welcome! If you like folk music and chatting with folks who like the same, you've come to the right place.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Llanfair
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 01:32 PM

Greetings, Eddie, from t'other side of the Atlantic, and welcome to this strange and wonderful place. Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: MMario
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 01:48 PM

Hey there Eddie! Swing by the Tavern and say "Hi!" to those there. But Iffen yer the 'narvous type' I'd stay 'way from that there Loveless Mine - 'specially iffen ya come by heah aftah dark!

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 01:49 PM

Eddie, how can I put this? Rick has been sniffing the bottom of Duckboots' duckboots again. Pay him no mind. He means well, but the bucket rattles in the well occasionally. In an earlier incarnation he was Roberta Delmore, the unsung mainstay (until her mainstays came loose) of the Delmore Sisters (the one with the low voice).
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 Aug 99 - 09:12 PM

Hmmmm, I rest my case.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 01:15 PM

Thanks, everyone. I think Eddie must've gotten lost. I juts checked my email from yesterday and he sent me two messages that he was going to go "get mud-catted"...so something must've come up. I've no doubt he will get here in the next day or two.

BTW: we are at bet's in Colorado and it is a beautiful day. Just getting ready to refill her hottub, which is outside, off her deck. High Rocky Mountain air, sunshine, and tonight, if the water is warm enough, we'll be out there looking up at a zillion, brilliant stars!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: CarlZen
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 02:11 PM

Tonight's supposed to be a good night to view the Persius Meteor Showers! Good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 02:41 PM

KOOL! I'll watch for them! Thanks!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 04:05 PM

Kat, are you sure this Eddie isn't just another elaborate hoax, like Hiroshi Ogura? You wanted to see how many of us would like up to welcome this guy who only exists in your imagination? Fess up!

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 05:19 PM

Well, Eddie is real! Katlaughing would not lead us astray. Eddie, this is a wonderful site for any lover of "folk music", whatever that is. If you have an opinion about what "folk music" is, then you're even more likely to fit in.

If you have any questions about the genre, they can usually be answered by just creating a new thread. If you are requesting lyrics, type LYR REQ: followed by a title or any words you may remember or the name of the performer, etc. That little bit of information entices people to look.

The 'Cat has failed sometimes. Like recently no one could locate the lyrics to "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" as performed by Ruth Brown. Ms. Brown was a 1950's precursor to rock and roll, but we tried anyway.

If you want to be a Mudcat hero, you can post those lyrics for us.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 11:22 PM

Serious question. Was it absolutely PROVEN that Hiroshi Ogura was not a real person? Enquiring minds want to know.
Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 14 Aug 99 - 11:33 PM

No, Rick, but then again it has never been conclusively proven that YOU are a real person. --seed

Eddie, when you get here watch out for everybody who has posted to this thread so far. I guess you already know what to expect from Katgigglinginthecorner (we usually believe her, but for all we know you are just part of an elaborate scheme of hers to nudge us all further down the road to Insanity [Not that we have far to go; hell, half the people above are on the welcoming committee.].) --seed

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Aug 99 - 11:34 AM

Now hold on a minute, seed. I've seen pictures of you - but they could be anybody. Why they could have been cut out of Gentleman's quarterly and had a banjo superimposed on them.

"Twilight Zone" music plays in background, enter Rod Serling.
"Tonight, we present for your edification, one man and his imaginary cyber-playmates. A lonely Possum farmer in Ohio creates character after character for his own amusement.

Ahh, what the hell, he probably DID make up Oshuri (or whatever his name was)

Rick (now starting to be confused about whether he exists)

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Llanfair
Date: 15 Aug 99 - 04:09 PM

No sign of Eddie yet, then? Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: bet
Date: 15 Aug 99 - 05:48 PM

Hi, Eddie! I just kicked kat and Rog out of my house and sent them home but kat told me you would be looking things up here. Glad to have you here. bet

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 15 Aug 99 - 06:46 PM

Rick, you found me out. If you looked like me you'd clip one out of GQ as well. In the real picture, the guy--whoever he is--was rubbing his belly while patting himself on the head. Ah, the wonders of Photoshop. --seed

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Aug 99 - 08:15 PM

Look you guys! No tequila, really WW!!! Would I lie to you!? And, Big RiB, thank you, he IS real. I will email him tonight and ask him where in the haitch he is, 'cause I had two, count 'em, two emails that he would check us out on Friday! No go easy 'cause he might've gotten a hot date or something, ya never know. Oh, and no 'shrooms, either!!!

Now, just sose ya know, some of youse mighta met him once upon a time, sorry Eddie, I have to "out you"; they've forced my hand: Eddie and I used to work together at teh Center for the Arts in Westerly, RI. FOR REAL!!!!!

I AM gigglinginthecorner, though!

lOVE YA ALL AND AM SURE HE WILL CHECK IN HERE IF HE KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR HIM!!!

KATwhoseesclearlynowtherosecolouredglassesaregone!

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Eddie Baltimore
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 12:34 AM

Roberta, I mean Rick, just told me about this place, and until I realized I'd never even been to Rhode Island ,or Rhodes, or driven on any COLOSSAL RHOADS, i THOUGHT THE WELCOME TO eDDIE WAS FOR ME! oH WELL , at least we know two Ed's are better than one.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 01:21 AM

Welcome Eddie Baltimore! Since the welcome mat has been out for the other Eddie for at least 3 days now and he hasn't shown up, you might as well get the benefit. When he does get here, you guys can duke it out, and we'll take the one who's still standing.
By the way Eddie, let me explain a bit about Katlaughing who posted this thread. Ummmmmmmmm, nope, our Kat's too hard to explain. She'll have to explain herself!

Rick (what's this "Roberta" stuff? Did I reveal something that I shouldn't have?)

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 01:36 AM

AT LAST- an Eddie to welcome!!!

Several years ago, a man had a vision. This man was a computer afficionado who enjoyed playing "God" games- he spent hours playing Sim City and Civilization, but at last he grew bored with those. One night, he awoke from a dream that was more like an incredible vision. He would incorporate his great passions for God Games and Traditional Music into a web site. Over time, he would construct "personalities" to populate this web-site, utilizing them as sources of information for the innocent "lyrics needed" people who accidently stumbled on his site. As time went by, the man was amazed to see his creation take on a life of it's own, with the occasional cyber-voyager not only stumbling onto his site, but staying to participate, actually interfacing with these "personalities". He found himself farther and farther involved in this elaborate game, posting photographs, hiring actors to impersonate these fabricated personalities at face-to-face events. Ultimately, he decided to push the illusion to the limit, creating absurd images no sane person could accept: leafing at random through a dictionary he scribbled words on a sheet of paper- possum, tiple, hoky-poky.

Still, the innocent participants continued, completely unaware that they had arrived at a web-site that, like an elaborate aquarium of exotic tropical fish, kept them captive while furnishing it's creator with an endless source of interest and amusement. Without knowing, they had surfed a network known as the imagination, to a place whose snail mail address is The Twilight Zone .

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 01:45 AM

Eddie (the Baltimore Eddie) is far too modest to tell you much about himself this quickly...so I will. He's truly one of the "good guys" that I know. He has the kind of sense of humour that will serve him well if he meets Catspaw, can pick stringed instruments with the best of 'em, writes like he's been there (cause he's been there) and will never see 40 again. (or maybe 45, or 46, etc.)

I still want to meet the other Eddie though. 'Cause you can never have too many of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 02:37 AM

Leej, that's exactly what I have felt all the time. We are all figments of Max's imagination. Clever programmer, he--creating characters so...well, not exactly lifelike, but possessing enough verisimilitude that if the visitor is willing to suspend disbelief...and these characters have now taken on a very real, if electronic, existence: they can communicate with each other while maintaining their own distinct personalities; hell, they can even create new characters, just as Kat created Eddie. If Max were to shut down the site without turning off the mainframe, he could come back a year later and find that his electronic children had been busy propagating enough others to populate Boston. Why, I'll bet that without outside distractions, the electronic creature known as Katlaughing would actually get the Mudcat book written (but, of course, the cyber world would be just as full of distractions as it is now, making it impossible for any of the characters to act as if they have a day job).

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 06:20 AM

It's a good thing I've met some Mudcatters in the flesh or I just might start to think that I am a figment of Max's imagination.

Perhaps it is Max who is not real. Perhaps he's just a program that runs other programs.

Roger in Baltimore (no relation to Eddie Baltimore)

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 09:17 AM

I'll call your 2 Ed's and raise 3 Reg's and a gargoyle.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 10:31 AM

Aren't ya gonna throw in a tiple, too, C'spaw???

LEeJ: that was brilliant, as usual! I love it!!

Bseed: uh, so I'm only electronic, eh? Teehee. I'll have to ask Rog how he likes going ta bed with such an illusory figure. Nice of you to remember the book:-)

Baltimore Eddie: Welcome, even though I don't know you, yet, whatever Rick says about you, well.....for some reason I often suspend reason and believe him! When I saw your listing, I though maybe it was my Eddie in Baltimore becasue he travels A LOT! Oh well, I'll get after him today. He has no idea what length thread he has spawned!

Okay, now, everybody, close your eyes, empty your minds, and envision a big beautiful field of flowers, a mountain meadow filled with sunshine, birds on the wing, trilling their songs of creation, yourself lying in the center of this little Universe, the partner of your dreams carsessing your arm, lightly, softly singing your favourite tune, now......remember, like this dream, we are all only really illusions!! Such is the substance of life!

Love ya, real or not!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 11:52 AM

I don't know Roger, perhaps the two of you ARE related.

I watched an interesting program last night about a whole community in Newfoundland hunting down their relatives from around the world. They had so much fun, and after a couple of years, had a reunion. (it was a big one)
Wonder if any Catters are related and don't know about it?
Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 12:40 PM

All the relationships around here are a result of too much in-breeding.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: black walnut
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 01:07 PM

ed, i'm new too. good luck. you'll need it.

roberta....geesh.

~black walnut

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 01:37 PM

It just occurred to me that Eddie has probably been here, read this thread, got some inkling of what goes on around here, and skedaddled for the hills!

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 02:46 PM

The virtual hills, that is. --seedwhoashetravelsthroughthehillssensesthattheyarebeingcreatedbyMax'sCADprogramjustbeforehegetsthere

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 03:53 PM

One more message, with a place name changed, direct from Eddie, to my email: Ok, I'm flying to S**** M***** tomorrow and I promise to pick up my "threads" tomorrow night from my hotel - will get back to you soon, honest! Cyberhugs, Eddie.

SEE!!! I told you he exists!:-)

katlaughing...virtually

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 04:16 PM

Oh Kat dear....How pathetic. You're in serious need of a visit to the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed, James Taylor Rehab Wing for the Catatonically Bland. To lead us on...... and then this latest feeble missive.........You poor dear........Rick, Boots, alison, Mick, bbc, Duane, Barbara, Art, Seed, El Swanno, PJ, Sandy, Caroline, Banj, Leej...we'll put up the money for your stay...........It'll be Okay..........I mean really, to conjure up some character out of the ether and foist him off upon us in such a way shows how far your condition has deteriorated........I suppose next he'll show up at your place with tales of his exploits...........you're almost in the final stages here dearheart...........What's after that? A friend or two of his..........before long, you'll impart human properties to inanimate objects......... This is truly the product of a mind now flown, far gone in the depths of psychoti........................ uh,................hold on here a minute.........................Uh, just skip it, forget I said anything.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 04:21 PM

LMAOLMAOLMAOWROTF!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 17 Aug 99 - 01:44 AM

All Right, I'll bring this God Damned thing back up ONE MORE TIME. But that's it Kat! If you can't produce a friend named Eddie, then I'm going to make you one out of leather! It'll be cute, and you can carry it (sorry, him) around with you when you go out into the garden to talk with the fairies.

Dr. Richard Feldman

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Aug 99 - 01:49 AM

Hey, Rick! I want one anyway! It'll be like the possum, a one of a kind, put me in touch with those elusive creatures, 'cause even if I talk to them, they don't always answer back, ya know?

T'anks fer bringing it back up. If he doesn't make it in here tomorrow noght, he's a goner. I'm off to put a direct link to this thread in his email....another nudge!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Aug 99 - 01:53 AM

Hey, at this point, if the elusive Fast Eddie shows up, he can plant one twixt my coat flaps....actually that slit in the rear of a sports/suit coat is called a "vent".........Obviously tailors have a sense of humor.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Aug 99 - 02:35 PM

Just a refresh----------------Where are you Eddie boy? Had barbequed ribs, salad, and corn on the cob last night....I'm lookin' for you...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Aug 99 - 09:51 AM

(Blast of tinny Trumpets)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! We now have over 60 posts on 2 threads covering 5 days dedicated to a non-member no-show!!!

Rick, crank out the leatherworking tools so we can present Kat with a suitable Award to be placed amongst her Garden Fairies and I'll ring up the Young Center.

Fast Eddie my ass........Geez, we're ALL such gullible idiots!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Aug 99 - 10:15 AM

Eddie!!Have you met Amelia here, and Elvis, and my good friend Wendigo? Step over to the Mary Deare here, docked beside the Andrea Doria, and let's chat....
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Aug 99 - 10:30 AM

Katlaughing, I think the trick is to lure people in here. You know, tell us a little about them. Does Eddie have a collection of er...rubber squid or something? Of course, if someone told me there were two whole threads about me in here, I'd be in here in a flash, just to make sure someone hadn't unearthed those photos from the 70s! Perhaps threatening his life would work.

Subject: RE: BS: Please welcome my friend, Eddie
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 18 Aug 99 - 10:39 AM

Jeri, you don't mean these photos on the Tavern noticeboard do you?
Sings (?) to the approximate tune of "Living next door to Alice":
"Eddie, Eddie, where the f*** is Eddie?"