BS: You know you're a mudcatter if

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.