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Subject: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Mert Date: 12 Sep 99 - 03:33 PM D'Cats-- This is Vixen, posting on the weekend from my Dad's PC. Guess who's signed up as a new Mudcat??? He's already looking for lyrics on the DT...Anybody got the "original" words to Darling Nellie Gray? V |
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Subject: Lyr Add: DARLING NELLY GRAY^^^ From: Tiger Date: 12 Sep 99 - 03:58 PM Vixen.......I'm surprised you didn't try the local source first. Welcome aboard, Mert......Tiger Darlin' Nellie Gray
There's a low green valley by the old Kentucky shore,
They have taken her away, And I'll never see my darlin' anymore; They have taken her to Georgia, For to wear her life away, For to toil in the cotton and the cane.
When the moon had climb'd the mountain, and the stars were shinin' too,
One night, I went to see her, but "She's gone." the neighbors say,
They have taken her away, And I'll never see my darlin' any more; I am sittin' by the river And I'm weepin' all the day, For she's gone from the old Kentucky shore.
My canoe is under water and my banjo is unstrung,
Oh, my eyes are gettin' blinded and I cannot see my way.
Up in heaven, there they say That they'll never take you from me any more; I'm a-coming, coming, coming, As the angels clear the way - Farewell to the old Kentucky shore. |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Bill D Date: 12 Sep 99 - 04:27 PM Howdy, Mert...lots of songs here , huh? Welcome aboard...talk if you've a mind to, there's lots of floks who love to chat...and some who get downright silly..but they are good folk...have fun! |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Mudjack Date: 12 Sep 99 - 04:44 PM Hello Mert, a hearty welcome to Mudcat where we seem a little crazy from time to time.But that's what makes us all so special. Mudjack |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: catspaw49 Date: 12 Sep 99 - 08:52 PM Well here's a big whoop-de-doo, but Hanby was from Rushville, Ohio.....another microspec on the map about 4 miles from my microspec. Already learning some great stuff, huh Mert? So you're Vix's Dad huh? Where did you ever pick up a kid like that anyway? And are you aware of what she's been picking up? Welcome to the 'Cat.....There's lots of good music, discussions on a variety if topics, and some good natured BS. I'm sure you've been shown the ropes by da kid. This place is populated by some knowledgeable, intelligent, humorous, compassionate, loving, and erudite folks. Sorry I'm not one of them, but you'll get to know them as you go along and join in on the threads that interest you. Welcome!!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: DonMeixner Date: 12 Sep 99 - 11:09 PM Hello Mert, Welcome to the Forum. You'll met a diverse group of loons with so many syndromes that we can only be described as having Intricate Personality Disorder, IPD. We don't have a posterchild but if we did it would be Catspaw. We haven't had a telethon either, we tried an auction once like PBS but as you know folkies are always broke. When we have a concert no body can afford the tickets, even on the sliding scale. And we can afford them we're too cheap to buy them. But we Catters will stay up with allnight be fore we let you go to bed hungry Don |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Art Thieme Date: 13 Sep 99 - 01:08 AM A new member!!! Sounds like John Wayne Bobbit to me. Well, welcome Mert and don't let me put you off from staying around and enjoying yourself thoroughly. I do hope that my few humorous postings might override my polemic treatices on what is and what isn't -------Whoops, I won't get into that again. Art |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Rick Fielding Date: 13 Sep 99 - 01:31 AM Howdy Mert, well after my post the worst will be over. Although you'll still have to meet our certified (and occasionally certifiable) poster-Woman, Katlaughing. She lives in a tiny cabin on a hill top near Mulesrump Wyoming, and casts spells on selected Mudcatters. Why just last week she had Catspaw dressing like a chicken and barking like a dog. Oops sorry, I forgot. He does that anyway. On the other hand when you meet our literate lefty Peter T. you'll know there's hope for all of us. Welcome. Rick (who's Happy to have Art and Paw say publicly what I think privately) |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Vixen Date: 13 Sep 99 - 08:10 AM |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Vixen Date: 13 Sep 99 - 08:13 AM OOPS!!! I hate it when I hit enter instead of tab! Is there anyway to delete those bloopers? Anyway, D'cats, thanks for the welcome, the lyrics, and just bein' yerselfs! I think Dad's gonna like it here! V |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Sep 99 - 11:09 AM Brother Rick would have you believe that our literate lefty, Peter T. the environmentalist, would somehow calm your fears that you have entered (and your daughter has been hanging out at) some sort of asylum. Rick and Peter are both Canadians which should explain a lot, but Peter also has a heron at his local marsh which he dresses up to look like Waylon Jennings. This is "symbolic" of something; what, I have no idea. Perhaps you can see it, but I can't. Rick has problems of his own. He has three half brothers all named Reg who are an embarassment to him and he has sent them down here to work in the condom factory with some local dimbulbs named Cletus, Paw, and Buford. I don't think it's fair that all six of them are now MY problem and are hanging around my house all the time either whizzing in their boots or igniting flatulence. This is driving my wife Karen crazy and has had a bad influence on Cleigh O'Possum, a nice little guy and a Mudcat icon. Fortunately at the moment, Cletus and Paw are under the weather after drinking some of their own 'shine which they distilled through a Peterbilt radiator...I told them to clean it out first, but they don't listen to me unless I'm mad. Buford and the Reg boys are finishing up 30 days in the county lock-up for Indecent Exposure and Rampant Stupidity after I told them to go piss up a slack rope and they were found out in my front yard trying to do just that. This place has a few other oddballs.......like Art Thieme, a folksinger of some note...well, 3 really..actually 3 chords.........Art has a punny sense of humor (yes that's punny, not funny) and recently reached the finals of a National pun-off where he submitted 10 of his best hoping one would win; sadly, no pun in ten did. Then there's Big Mick, a big Mick who showed up at the Mudcat Tavern one night wearing a thong which he'd stuffed with a potato to entice the "Fair alison." But he had put the spud in BACK and looked more like Lassie dropping a load. Then there's Big RiB, that's Roger in Baltimore. Since he doesn't live in Baltimore, you should already see he has a problem. Then there is Joe Offer, Father Joebro, the moral conscience of our village who can also find 397 references to the meaning of the third word in the seventh line of the fifty-third verse of "Diddle My Fiddle." Or the Great El Swanno (Dave Swan)who once ruined a performance of his wife PJ by upstaging her with HIS act. This consisted of wearing half a gorilla suit and fishnet tights, playing bagpipes, and diving from a 90 foot tower, lighting a fart, and rocketing into a fireman's helmet below, filled with lime jello. And you'll meet Bert, a transplanted bloke who can't remember what it was that he can't remember. And Don Meixner....Don plays a large variety of instruments from guitar to Hammered Dulcimer, including the tiple, despite having both hands, his feet, his head, and his left nut, cut off in a table saw accident. Or Lonesome EJ.....dresses up and acts like a cheap detective while running a Radio Shack that's 497 miles from the nearest customer. Then there are the women of the 'Cat....Katlaughing for instance. She meditates and communes with the faeries while prancing nekkid through her garden, wearing a real cat on her head. Or Jeri who gets her kicks by laying in a swamp with clams in her toes and dragonflies tickling her hooters. And bbc, Beebs, from whom you're probably safe since Vixen is too old for her son David. You don't have any younger daughters do you? If so, don't mention it to her even if she asks. Fair alison can be nice to chat with, but no one really knows since she's often in some chat room that you can't find. Helen is enamored of the harp and is getting married this month; her husband-to-be is in for some interesting tunes I'm sure as she recently paid for a sharping lever to be installed on his Willie. And Duckboots, Rick's wife, the only woman known to have been sexually attacked by a possum. I won't mention Vix, since it should be obvious that I have abundant good taste and a high sense of decorum and good manners. But the Mucat is NOT an asylum. We DO have one we support and which has treated many members. The Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed, located in Montana, has been quite helpful. They also train crazed tiple bands for the CIA's efforts to overthrow the government, so funding them is never a problem. And we DO have some wonderful folks here...like Sandy and Caroline Paton who own Folk-Legacy records. Sandy is a true gentleman, stays up late, sleeps til noon, but has thousands and thousands of fascinating folk music facts...none of which he can locate...and comprehensive reference books which are sadly crumbling since the latest edition of any of them was printed in 1872. And Caroline is a sweet, talented, intelligent person who has spent much of her life apologizing for the eccentricities of her husband. Nothing odd in that at all. My wife Karen does the same thing. Actually Mert, I truly love all these folks and don't really know what I'd do now without them. I hope your Mudcat experience is the same. Spaw
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Rick Fielding Date: 13 Sep 99 - 11:53 AM Catspaw, did you make up the line about a "singer of note"? If you did, my admiration for you has risen by at least 1 percent. Like Eddie, I think we've scared Mert off! Mert. I've met Catspaw, and he's a great deal more sane than he'd have you believe. For more than 20 years he was the person inside the "Elmer the Safety Elephant" costume. Even though it was a plush job, he quit in order to become a professional insomniac. Rick |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Jeri Date: 13 Sep 99 - 12:20 PM Welcome, Mert. There are some normal people here. (Must be, law of averages and all that.) Sometimes we even talk about music. Catspaw, the dragonflies were tickling my toes, not hooters. Perhaps you could ask Karen to explain the difference, although I don't doubt she's probably tried in the past without success. And there are no clams in a swamp. At least not that time of year. They swim upstream to spawn in the swamps in early spring and catch a few "Swamp Aid" concerts by the Waylon Herons before returning to the ocean some time around late May. |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Date: 13 Sep 99 - 04:04 PM Art, John Wayne Bobbitt got his old member back. The Mudcat equivalent would be the return of Gargoyle. Anyway, welcome, Mert. The folks here are all terminally screwed, particularly Catspaw, who was dumb enough not to guess that if he told the Reg trio to piss up a rope they would take him at his word. And who's the dim bulb who got the three run over by a train by telling them to piss in their boots without telling them to take them off first? At least Rick was smart enough to send them south and to point the way so they wouldn't end up at the Arctic Circle. --seed |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Sam Pirt Date: 13 Sep 99 - 04:29 PM Hi Mert I look forward to reading some of your posts on mudcat. Cheers, Sam |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Bert Date: 13 Sep 99 - 04:37 PM Welcome aboard Mert. |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Rick Fielding Date: 13 Sep 99 - 05:55 PM Thank God for Sam and Bert Rick |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Mert Date: 14 Sep 99 - 12:42 PM Wow! Thanks for the welcome, gents & ladies. I was taught to play the harmonica by a genial Irishman named Henry, who could pick up any instrument & play it. For myself, I wanted to learn the harp so as not to be tempted to sing, being the only one who flunked miss Chases's music sclass in school for 12 straight years. One tone stone, the singing cowboy, that's me. I sing anyway, but not in public. I'll try to check this board out now & again, but I'm on a couple of gunsmith boards too, and can't spend all day on the tube, much as I enjoy it. Thanks again, folks! Mert |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: DonMeixner Date: 14 Sep 99 - 06:32 PM Hey Mert How about a new firing pin for my Model 1884 Springfield 45-70 Alyn Conversion complete with Buffington sights and ramrod bayonet. Steel is fine but Aluminum Bronze would be what it has now that is broken. Don
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: katlaughing Date: 14 Sep 99 - 10:24 PM Holy Cow! Welcome aboard, Mert, sorry I am a little tardier than some of my compatriots! By the way, 'Spaw, it's getting WAY too cold to dance nekkid anywhere in ole Why-Oh-Min, these days! But the faeries are still here, at least I don't think they migrate. No, silly sods, they're just as dumb as the rest of us who stay here through the gawdawful winters! Say, Mert, if I remember right, Vixen said somehting about you starting an arts colony/school or something, right? And, her growing up in NE CT? We used to live in Mystic. My twin grandsons are in Groton with their parents. While we may cut up, we are a harmless lot of music lovers who support one another with respect, love, and affection, sometimes in curmudgeonly ways, but still and all fast friends. There is hardly a day that goes by that I don't see some posting on here that takes my breath away either because of its history-telling, knowledge, eloquence, or bare-naked emotion. These people are the best and I hope you can join us often. All the best, katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 15 Sep 99 - 02:06 AM Kat, am I right if I assume thatone of the parents of your twin grandchildren is somehow related to you? Or did you disown himerher? --seed |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: katlaughing Date: 15 Sep 99 - 10:59 AM Naw, seed, yer right, of course. My daughter and her husband, the best son-in-law in the world, live in Groton, too, with their twin sons, who are now, since you asked,:-) 16 months old and absolutely adorable and identical. Since Kyrstie and Wayne cut the boys' hair for the first time, even they are having a hard time telling them apart! katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Mert Date: 16 Sep 99 - 09:28 AM Don, I can make you a new pin, out of bronze or drill rod, (cheaper). Or you can probably get an original one from GunParts Corp., or one of several trapdoor people on the net. The reason the original one was bronze was that fouling from the black powder & corrosive priming used in those days would rut a steel pin in there solid. The bronze ones would stick, too, as the block would rust even if the pin didn't; I have a breechblock in that condition. Email me at MertBaker@prodigy.com if you want, & we'll see what can be done. Mert |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Feb 00 - 10:30 AM Of all the threads I skimmed after searching 180 days on [new member] in the forum, this one was the best. Spaw's paean to 'Catwomen and general comments about what Mudcat is/ain't should suffice as enough "rules" for newcomers. Fellow Newbies, Untie! We creep under cover of darkness We attack at dawn |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: Amos Date: 12 Feb 00 - 10:45 AM Anthropomorphisists of the World, Stand together! We have nothing to lose but Mister Dignity!! |
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Subject: RE: New member: Vixen's Dad From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Feb 00 - 10:50 AM Real Bumper Sticker: National Dylsexics Association which led to Untie Dylsexics and Fly Untied
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