 sj |
||
|
||
BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How?
|
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 02 Oct 13 - 08:16 AM ROFLMAO Al. Don T. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle Date: 02 Oct 13 - 01:48 AM When I am gone, think only this of me There is some corner of an English folk club Where they are saying 'Well he never did play REAL folk music Not what I'd call folk music.....' |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Amergin Date: 01 Oct 13 - 06:37 PM I view the "I'm taking my ball and going home" threads to be attention seeking devices. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Herga Kitty Date: 01 Oct 13 - 06:32 PM I just counted 10 posters on this thread whom I've actually met and heard sing (in England). Just hope to read you again on Mudcat - and hear you sing somewhere! Kitty |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,c.g. Date: 01 Oct 13 - 08:59 AM For some reason a line from a Sacred Harp song keeps coming into my head - "When I am gone, I am gone." |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 01 Oct 13 - 07:36 AM Uncle_DaveO (27 Sep 13 - 09:24 AM), we recently had a thread of the "I'm leaving" type in whose course the OP (i.e. the person who announced her leaving!) was accused herself of being a militant GROLIES, and thankworthily gave us some illustrative examples of her own extremely aggressive discussing style. Sorry for assuming all readers to have read that other thread - we should never. Also, I am a strict opponent of name-calling and would never call anybody a GROLIES or a troll etc. The chances that people actually improve their style (let alone their level of reasoning) are small, but not zero. I know of several Mudcatters who have more than one style at their disposal, so they may well be encouraged to use the better one (- better for their cause |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Mr Happy Date: 01 Oct 13 - 05:13 AM Elvis has returned to the building? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: MartinRyan Date: 30 Sep 13 - 04:03 PM "Lady Margaret is not at home." followed, at the appropriate time, by "Lady Margaret has returned to town." - is, I think, the correct etiquette. It can be assumed that, at times, she's simply lurking in her boudoir. ;>)> Regards |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: gnu Date: 30 Sep 13 - 02:23 PM Colin James (rocker) just came back to say goodbye live. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 30 Sep 13 - 11:48 AM Just sidle quietly in while nobody's looking, and pretend you've been there all along. If somebody asks where you've been, just say you were here, but couldn't get a word in edgeways. Don T. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle Date: 30 Sep 13 - 02:21 AM In the immortal words of Brian Poole and The Tremeloes:- You broke my heart 'Cause I couldn't dance You didn't even want me around And now I'm back To let you know I can really shake 'em down |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 29 Sep 13 - 06:26 PM Damn you Ms Murray. Back to the BBC boards where it all started :-) DtG |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Chris Murray Date: 29 Sep 13 - 04:11 PM I know! I did it on purpose so that thread would go to the top as i thought she'd want to know about the funeral. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 29 Sep 13 - 02:05 PM You can call me, Al :-) I just saw the queen of quitting Mudcat forever return after 15 days. I am most annoyed, if she had waited another 2 days I would have won a fiver! I blame you, Chris :-) Cheers DtG |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Ed T Date: 28 Sep 13 - 08:09 PM Go back Big Al- you forgot to flush. You don't want to be a bad ass example to the yung uns :) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Chris Murray Date: 28 Sep 13 - 07:41 PM I'd just start posting again. No need for an announcement. Mind you, it depends how you left. If you flounced off dramatically denouncing everyone who disagreed with you or was nasty to you in any way, you're going to get some flak when you start posting again. If, like me, you tend to lose interest for a few months but then a subject arises that you're interested in, just start posting again. Chances are no-one will notice, although you might be accused of running scared!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 28 Sep 13 - 07:06 AM back again...! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 28 Sep 13 - 04:53 AM Are you people blocks of stone? Its me! Al ....back from my battle with constipation! With tales of hand to hand struggles with The Giant Dorset Turd! Say don't you remember when you called me Al.....it was Al all the time.... I have returned! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 27 Sep 13 - 10:01 PM I'm returning to Mudcat - Ijust went out for a shit.... Well did you miss me? Where are the garlands of welcome, the hearty congratulations...... All right I'll go back and do the toilet paper bit. I will return anon! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: VirginiaTam Date: 27 Sep 13 - 12:33 PM take me to your larder |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 27 Sep 13 - 11:08 AM Re GROLIES From the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3159813.stm |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Rapparee Date: 27 Sep 13 - 09:37 AM The best way to announce your return is by stating loudly and frequently, "Drinks for everybody! I'm buying!" |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 27 Sep 13 - 09:24 AM "I once was a troll, an abuser, a taunter, a racist, a militant sectarian, a GROLIES, a GROLIES-hater, a GROLIES-hater-hater etc. - Okay, I'll bite: What, who, how, which, or why is "a GROLIES"? Dave Oesterreich |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,kendall Date: 27 Sep 13 - 05:56 AM The way to do it is like Jerry Rassmussen did. Just leave. You may have noticed that olddude is no longer here. The list of people who have left is long and only one of them is not missed; by me anyway. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Richard Bridge Date: 27 Sep 13 - 05:24 AM I could never be a Grolie with legs like mine. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Mr Happy Date: 27 Sep 13 - 03:38 AM ............or......'I go, I come back!!' |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,vatam on phone Date: 26 Sep 13 - 12:28 PM Howzabout Ta da or I'm back or Here's Johnny or Where's the bar or Who's in charge around here or Take me to your leader |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 Sep 13 - 05:03 AM really its the old Ian Paisley/Gerry Adams conundrum, isn't it. They're both Irishmen. They both have much more in common than they have with Englishmen. That's how it is with folk music. i went into folk music. Was dismayed by the ways the leaders of the sect took the music. But really I had for more in common with the folksingers i disagreed with than people who had never been inside a folk club. Mudcat is a place where people with divergent opimions about folk music can meet and discuss. But the divergence is still there. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Rapparee Date: 25 Sep 13 - 09:31 PM You might get the response, "Oh, you've been gone?" said with a yawn. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Joe Offer Date: 25 Sep 13 - 07:30 PM
Public announcements are tedious and melodramatic. Exception: if you've been away because of illness or tragedy or travel. -Joe- |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Bill D Date: 25 Sep 13 - 07:26 PM How to return? Why... throw a big party for everyone...with free beer! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: gnu Date: 25 Sep 13 - 07:13 PM That's rather condescending to those of us that do not drink, ~S~,. No? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Sep 13 - 05:36 PM Perhaps I am focusing too narrowly on a situation involving one member who I thought I knew well under one name.... and with whom I later became re-acquainted under another name he'd chosen without telling anyone, who I failed to spot in his new colors. This (for various reasons not to post here) was quite embarrassing when he got around to saying, "Hey, dummy, it's ME." Oh, all his reasons made sense after the fact, but a heads-up would have been nice somedamnwhere. Trust and credibility are not always so easily mended once something starts off on the wrong foot. In "mere text" it's awful easy to misunderstand! I like the "former-Grolie" approach too. To extend the idea, I wish some of our drink-saturated members could somehow let us know when they're posting what they will later be able to remember posting, and when they are posting an item they'd never have typed sober. ~S~ |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: gnu Date: 25 Sep 13 - 05:15 PM ■Smokey: I'm here! I'm here! Let the bells ring out and the banners fly! Feast your eyes on me! It's too good to be true, but I'm here! I'm here! ■Smokey: Why, I'm a genie. I live in that lamp. They call me 'Genie with the light brown hair'. Oh, that was a witty one! Yah-Hal! Yah-Hal! Yah-Hal! Yah-Hal! Yah-Hal! ■Bugs: Hey, look fellas, I'm a hare-plane! ■Bugs: Eh, what's up, uh, Beaverpuss? ■Sultan: WHY YOU...!, Aladdin's Lamp! ■Bugs: Eh, correction, doc. Bugs Bunny's lamp! ■Bugs: Just a minute, doc. Let's not start splitting hares! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 25 Sep 13 - 02:20 PM As we all realize, "I'm leaving" is not a reasonable thing to write by any standards. "I threaten to leave unless you all apologize and promise to be nice in the future" is not any more reasonable, but at least makes some formal sense. The actual message is "I am thoroughly dissatisfied", normally stating a reason which is what attracts other posters. A title "Obit: BS" or "Respectful posting" serves exactly the same purpose; the elves may well merge all those threads under the title "The Stepmother of All BS Threads". For a change, what about a thread for "Born Again Nice Gals/Guys"? "I once was a troll, an abuser, a taunter, a racist, a militant sectarian, a GROLIES, a GROLIES-hater, a GROLIES-hater-hater etc. - but when XX threatened to leave, that opened my eyes! Praise the Mud, I saw the light!" How many responses may that attract? Anyway, as with leaving, proving it is doing it. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: jacqui.c Date: 25 Sep 13 - 01:54 PM I agree with SINSULL. I count myself lucky to have a number of friends here who I have never met in person. Kat was definitely one of them, Old Dude another and Gnu is definitely a friend. I have been lucky enough to have met some of my online friends in person, after they have becomes friends, and that is a real treat. Again, as SINSULL says, stay, go whatever. It does seem to me to be a bit attention seeking, but that's just my opinion. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Sep 13 - 01:41 PM You can always post some verbiage about being gone/back when you come back, and then if people really want the info they can find it (or be directed to it). Like, as a prefatory paragraph to an on-topic post in whatever thread catches you to reply when you're lurking. We ALL lurk when we "leave." :~) ~Susan |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Donuel Date: 25 Sep 13 - 01:00 PM hmm like General McArthur " I shall return " |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 25 Sep 13 - 12:56 PM Now keep in mind that saying something silly and cliche (like "I am leaving.") is the second best way to get at least 50 posts on your thread while saying "I have returned." will probably be mostly ignored. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: SINSULL Date: 25 Sep 13 - 12:47 PM "Al, if you happen to be socially shy like myself you should know that folks here won't call you a friend unless you've sung together, broken bread, emptied bottles or got to a getaway. " Like katlaughing? Who never met or shared anything but a virtual meal with most of us, never attended a Getaway, didn't sing to my knowledge. Leave...don't leave...come back...don't come back. Who cares? If you want to take a break, do it sans dramatic announcement. Then you can come back all refreshed and not feel awkward. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Mr Happy Date: 25 Sep 13 - 11:27 AM 'do you remember when they called him Al ? it was Al all the time' |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Donuel Date: 25 Sep 13 - 11:15 AM My dog welcomed me back nicely but don't expect such a joyous welcome here no matter how deserved or fortuitous it may actually be for the usual bunch of coconuts here. Being nice is seemingly not on the priority list for the 20,000 posts club however there is more talent and civility here than you will ever find on the mega social network sites. On Facebook your announcement would inspire posts such as, "Go back to hell and die you fuckwad!". Here you get a kindly and sincere "why bother?". I figure who couldn't use a Mr. Happy in their lives. The water is fine in a relative sense. As Pete Seger might say "the water isn't perfect but there are fewer PCBs in it now. Al, if you happen to be socially shy like myself you should know that folks here won't call you a friend unless you've sung together, broken bread, emptied bottles or got to a getaway. Its like the union. Ya gotta go down and join the union you gotta go down all by yourself Ya gotta go down and join the union you gotta go down and join the union by yourself. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 25 Sep 13 - 10:16 AM I agree with me: Oh man, just do it. Jump in. The water's fine (which it always is, sooner or later). I'm always so glad to see the return of old friends (Big Al, I'm looking at ya). |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Stu Date: 25 Sep 13 - 09:51 AM I agree with agreeing. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Mr Happy Date: 25 Sep 13 - 08:59 AM I agree with Jack Campin |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: artbrooks Date: 25 Sep 13 - 08:50 AM I agree with Rapper. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Jack Campin Date: 25 Sep 13 - 08:47 AM I don't know who BAW is. The usual protocol seems to be that I first hear somebody's arrived when they announce they're leaving, which means you can guarantee they'll be back for a binge of self-righteous postings a week later. Whoever BAW is, that's what they seem to have done. So in practice "you can all fuck yourselves, I'm off" means "hello" around here. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Rapparee Date: 25 Sep 13 - 07:54 AM No. Why bother? Do you explain every time you leave the house or return home? |
|
Subject: BS: Announcing one's return to Mudcat-How? From: Mr Happy Date: 25 Sep 13 - 07:52 AM Like BAW et al, some folk have left here following an elaborate explanation of their moving on, then returning often without a similar narrative. Does the team think there should be a proper procedure for going/coming or not? |
