BS: You know you're a mudcatter if

Subject: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:53 PM

You had to replace several keyboards from spitting coffee on them after reading a Spaw post

You try to fart "Oh Susanna" after eating a bean burrito

You post how peeing on your feet in the shower will cure foot fungus and everyone agrees

You think lady ga ga is the name of your neighbor's new baby girl

you post recipes on how to make cheese jelly

your favorite folk club is the hospital ER room

You ask if anyone has any spare 50 cal machine gun bullets to which several other members ask how many you need

Your late night posts involve anything after 5PM

You still call the US the "colonies"

and ... ??

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: Midchuck
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:57 PM

You start reading a long thread and come to a post that makes you say "My Gawd, why do they let people post such utter drivel on here!" And then you realize that it's your own post from ten years ago.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:00 PM

LOL, been there Peter ... doing it right now

Or you tell the same story 12 times and think it is the first time you typed it ... and people think it is the first time they read it LOL

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:05 PM

You cannot resist asking "but what is folk music really?" once in a while.

You know how to make text underlined, bold and italicized.

You can make a blue clicky.

You are a REAL Mudcatter if you can make a blue clicky without using the blue clicky link.

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: Maryrrf
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:06 PM

LOL! Good one, Peter! I've actually done that!

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: DMcG
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:09 PM

Or you ask a question about a tune and someone (Malcolm Douglas in my case) points out you answered the same question for someone else a year or two ago.

RIP Malcolm - still missed

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:28 PM

800 posts on the meaning of life and none of us remember the answer
we call any guys under 60 boys

Subject: RE: BS: You know your a mudcatter if
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:36 PM

... you cannot be herded, when wet, and you are wet all the time.

Oy! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ed T
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 06:22 PM

You know you're a mudcatter if, you can post something like this and people will discuss it...possibly for up to 40,000 posts?

Discuss this?

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 06:27 PM

..or this!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 07:14 PM

... your inevitable debates about religion seem to evoke tunes in your head to illustrate your main points in the debate, but you'd still rather sing with Catters than discuss religion with them, or anyone else.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

Oooh, W y s i w y G !, good point!!
I think it would depend on how serious the 'Catter was on either subject...but I don't do 'religious tunes'!...but where music comes from is 'spiritual'.

Good point, nonetheless!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 07:54 PM

You know the difference between "folk."

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:15 PM

Which is that one string is both the same...

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:24 PM

When we all own guitars that are more valuable then the cars we drive

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:34 PM

You know how to



read the invisible type when some smart-ass tries to be clever.

(and you remember when even Max put a secret message at the bottom of each thread - and have a copy of the picture to prove it?)

but you can't remember where you put the picture.



John

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:48 PM

Ya know that an auto harp is not part of the cars breaking system

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:52 PM

and you know who played Uncle Joe on the TV show Petticoat Junction

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:12 PM

... if you actually give a shit what the tabs for "Puff the Magic Dragon" are???

... if you have daily conversations with yerself that you are wasting way too much of yer life in the mud pit...

... if you wake up with nightmares about GUESTs...

... if you set MUDCAT as your homepage on your PC...

... if you've had at least one run-in with a moderator...

... if you have sent $$$ to Max during the fund-raising drive which ain't really fund-raising drives at all but "If I don't get sdome bucks soon then this joint goin' in the landfill"...

... if you have ever received a dozen PM's from Mudwonenz in one night threatening to come and beat the hell out of you...

... if MG means anything to you...

... if you find threads like this one entertaining...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:21 PM

If You can sing the entire theme song of "half gun will travel"

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ed T
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:27 PM

If You can sing the entire theme song of "half gun will travel, in latin when stoned.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ed T
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:30 PM

""If You can sing the entire theme song of "half gun will travel, in latin when stoned.""


Well, OK, if you ask, someone on mudcat will likely know the words in latin.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:59 PM

If you know that the song is really "HAVE gun...."

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:40 PM

You not only knew MG, but why MG was MG.
You can sing the blues in Scots Gaelic.
You can name the members of the Layabouts At Large.
You own the complete Blue Plate Special AND the Blue Bottle Special.
You know what is meant by "perfect pitch."
You can discuss, at length, uillean, piobrach, small, Northumberian and other pipes but refrain from doing so out of consideration for others.
You realize, deep down in your very soul, that the trumpet is superior to all other instruments in existence.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ed T
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:52 PM

"HAVE gun" is only "half" of the story,Paladin.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Skivee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 11:10 PM

Art, are you sure it wasn't a derringer? that's like a half gun.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 12:51 AM

Rapparee: "You realize, deep down in your very soul, that the trumpet is superior to all other instruments in existence."

...and when reading that you know the poster is just overly 'horny'!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:15 AM

I'm in desperate need of a .50 caliber machinegun bullet. Can anybody help me?

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:24 AM

Maybe a .50 bottom E string.....wrong crowd to be asking, J-Boy!

Still, warmest regards!
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:29 AM

A .50 caliber bullet is only good for making key fobs.

If you mean a .50 caliber cartridge we'd want to know whether it's for self abuse of for another acceptable target, and determining the acceptability of another target would require a separate thread, with another thread to argue about what someone said in the first separate thread and then another thread to defend the person from the first thread who was accused by the person in the second thread, all of which of course would spawn at least two or three threads lamenting the excessive number of threads about bullets and a couple more about toooo many threads on the victimization of targets.

And then ...

But if you're a mudcatter I don't really need to explain.

John

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:47 AM

I was just a joke fellas. olddude gets it.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ernest
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:55 AM

...you already know all the banjo jokes that are posted. And all the accordion jokes. And the bodhran jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:57 AM

It,I mean. Though the "I was just a joke fellas" does have a certain existential ring to it.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 02:53 AM

You start thinking of Mudcats as a virtual village with all these different characters, it's like a daily visit to Ambridge.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 03:37 AM

You furiously search the current threads for an opportunity to drop in the latest joke email you received. Say "fuck it" then drop it randomly where it doesn't belong or worse... start a new thread.

You go into real withdrawal if mudcat or you go off line. "What's happening? What the fuck's happening?"

You start understanding some really long and convoluted posts.

Your identity is stolen and fake IDs of you are made on social networking sites.

You don't rise to Gargoyle's posts any more.

Your thoughts fill up with caring about the troubles of people you have never met. "BG"

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 06:42 AM

Yes Virginia every word you said only I say 'oh bugger'

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: theleveller
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:19 AM

...you actually know what a mudcatter is!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: scouse
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 08:27 AM

An you've been to so many Festivals that you've lost count....

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 09:47 AM

Half gun is mudcat's twist on the have gun ... you see in that TV show Paladin use to walk around with just the barrel .. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:06 AM

It was an early gun control measure, Yes Paladin you can carry that firearm but as long as it is just the barrel ... you know you are a mudcatter if you learn to compromise

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:19 AM

You add a completely pointless post just so that YOU get that 50, 100 or 200 . . .

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:20 AM

Actually, in the Old West ALL guns were sawed in half lengthwise. It was an politically correct measure in the beginning, so that everyone could be a "Two-Gun" shootist and no one would suffer a loss of self-esteem. This, by the way, including the US Army's cannons and Gatling guns.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:23 AM

That made it easier to throw it at the guy Rap ... didn't ever learn that .. geeze .. man I am disappointed in you.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 11:50 AM

If you wake up with a nasty taste in your mouth

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:11 AM

VirginiaTam made me realize that - because it is irrelevant and unrelated to anything here - I can post my original banjo joke here. (There is no appropriate thread, you know)

Anyway.

"The problem with a banjo is that you can't tell if it is being played well or not."


Funny? I think so. :)







(I like banjos, meself.)

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ernest
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 02:22 AM

Ebbie, your post made me realize that:

You know you are NOT a mudcatter if you can`t tell if a banjo-player is good or not...;0)

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 04:39 AM

You wish others would get a life, yet have a sneaking suspicion that they would prefer you got one instead....

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Will Fly
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 06:05 AM

however careful you are, a post of yours will eventually bring a huge, steaming pile of shit down on your head, which you will then scratch...

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 07:17 AM

You remember Rick Fielding, Malcolm Douglas, Little John Cameron, Big Tim and Annraoi among other late, great 'Catters.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:04 AM

I remember meeting to Rick and talking of John.

You gotta be a catter to argue with a made up Chimp.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:26 AM

You know that a mudcat is really a big ugly fish, and wonder occasionally why you want to be one.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:53 AM

You not only own the tee shirt, but also the sweatshirt. Literally.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Tinker
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 11:27 AM

You find yourself randomly opening your home to folks you have never met on the word of others you know in cyberspace......

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Slag
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:30 PM

Gulp! OMG! I'm a Mudcatter!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Slag
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:32 PM

PS J Boy, I have 1500 and ca get 10,000 round boxes for cal. 50 and even some 20mm Vulcan ammo, just pm me!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:53 PM

if...
you have received medical daiagnosis, legal advice, recipes, joke suggestions, archetectural advice, lodging, flame war threats, spelling admonitions (even if you are dyslexic), movie and book reviews, love advice or partner, deepest sympathies, requests to cheer the: afflicted, burnt up, surgury patient, bi or tri polar challenges, those in need of funds and basics after a fire or natural disaster, and unsolicited commentary on advanced astro physics and cosmology...

but tain't nobodys gonna give you no job. Folks don't seem to take one when offered neither.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 11:10 PM

Hey, I REE-tired last year.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:50 AM

You start sharing things that you would have only previously shared with family or friends.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 08:03 AM

You realize that other Mudcatters are your friends, even if you've never met them physically.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 08:13 AM

You're more known by your Mudcat name than your "other" name.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:01 AM

"You find yourself randomly opening your home to folks you have never met on the word of others you know in cyberspace..."

And you find yourself driving halfway across Pennsylvania (on the way to Maryland) to flop at the home of someone you couldn't pick out of a police line-up on the word of others you've met only in cyberspace -- and when you get there, you're friends already.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:26 AM

You can tell the difference between a ukelele and a Martin Dreadnought, and can identify an accordion at one glance.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:49 AM

You don't leave a bodhran - or a benjo - in your car with the window open.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:58 AM

You eagerly wait the return of Spaw to hear him call you a "broke dick Numbnuts"

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Severn
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 11:52 AM

What Charmion said.

...if you've housed Catters from across the golbe on their travels or been housed by other catters, even in other lands. A Code of the Road that hasn't failed me yet.

...if lots of Mudcatters know the name of your house cat.

...if you're flat on your back in a hospital room and mail and cards and letters and e-mailmessages full of goodwill, karma and aid keep flooding in.

...if you wear two ID badges at the Getaway and other festivals.

...if people look a whole lot different than you imagined them from the printed page, and it doesn't even matter.

...if your singing repetoire includes at least one song learned from a Secret Santa package.

...if you remember the goodwill and comraderie in realtime of Mudchat in its glory years.

...if folks seek you out on Facebook and seem to share quite a few Catter aquaintences with you but you have to double check with friends because you never knew the real name that they're contacting you with.

...If you've had to referee or mediate at least one squabble among Mudfriends.

...if you know whose posts are worth checking out, even when quickly scanning a thread that's of no real interest to you otherwise.

...if you've made SINSULL's gift shopping list.

...if you've ever shared a few drinks with a Giant Squid.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:56 PM

...if you think William Shatner is some kind of actor.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: olddude
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 04:37 PM

LOL, fat B that was great !!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 05:00 PM

... you remember the times when idiot trolls would attempt to "engage" and their threads would be trashed by Mudcatters drifting the tread so far out of whack that it became about banter and fun, so much so that the troll would leave.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:54 PM

Glad you liked that, Old Dude. I hope you are well and happy.
Seriously, you know you're a Mudcatter if people you will never meet wish you a Happy Birthday and share your sorrows.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Bert
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 03:51 PM

You remember Mudcat Radio.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 07:23 PM

If you are interested in hearing about, and discussing, a fake lobster falling out of a tree, or discussing the benefits of pee foot baths.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:09 PM

From: Slag - PM
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:32 PM

PS J Boy, I have 1500 and ca get 10,000 round boxes for cal. 50 and even some 20mm Vulcan ammo, just pm me!

... You wonder whether Littlehawk is going to point out tha Vulcans don't use guns!

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Slag
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 11:39 PM

That does kinda negate "Live long and prosper", doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: J-boy
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 01:27 AM

Unless you're wrestling with your logic whilst in the fiery grips of the "Pon Farr". Happens every seven years...

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 09:50 AM

1. You know what MOAB is and you've read most of it and even posted on it.

2. You hug people you've never met before and invite them home for a BBQ.

3. You know about LH and Winona and Shatner and dachshunds.

4. You care deeply about the well being of a lot of people you've never met.

5. You have a collection of t shirts and CDs from Mudcatters around the world.

6. The name Martin Gibson means something.

7. YOU CAN DO FANCY LARGE RED SCROLLING TEXT!

8. You met your future husband through Mudcat!


That's for starters. I'm sure I'll think of more ;)

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 02:41 PM

... you are yourself, or are married to, a ballad freak with a repertoire notable for its serious body count.

Subject: RE: BS: You know you're a mudcatter if
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 06:36 PM

You've gotten a Jacqui shawl even if you've never posted because you need "Mudcat hugs" and your husband DOES post.