Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)

Subject: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 11:21 AM

Yes.... 20 years old today,

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=4 (There's a short technical explanation as to why the first thread was #4)

So much water under the bridge and so many names, ideas, songs, ... and just plain memories.
My first post wasn't until early November, but I soon added my share.

   My head if full of so many Mudcat stories that I'd have to get one of those speech-to-text programs to even make a start.

It was great to see "Young Max" at the Getaway, happily running sound and singing.... and promising once again the keep this crazy place around as long as anyone cares.

Let's keep caring..... ☺

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 11:26 AM

Happy birthday.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: gnu
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 11:52 AM

Happies atchya!!!

Lovely little lilt, Rap.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 12:01 PM

If you use our Messages by Date utility, you'll see our first posters:

Vivian Price         Battle of Decata        01 Oct 96 - 09:47 AM
Larry         Lyric Requests        01 Oct 96 - 12:02 AM
Max         The Mudcat Café        01 Oct 96 - 12:00 AM

Who were our earliest posters that are still there? Bill D and gargoyle were two, for sure. I'm a latecomer - not until January, 1997. In the first month, the most recognizable names are Max, Dick Greenhaus, Bert, and Susan of DT.

Happy birthday, everyone!

And thanks, Max.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 12:06 PM

Wellllll... they didn't quite have the tune, and they sang it at about double speed.... but they added a few verses.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 12:14 PM

Happy Birthday. I have been here for quite awhile. Was reading long before I first posted.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Uncle Tone
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 12:25 PM

HBTYHBTYHBDM-CHBTY

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: bubblyrat
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 04:34 PM

It is my Birthday too, don't forget !! ( born 1st October 1947 ).

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 08:20 PM

You say it's your birthday?
It's my birthday too!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 08:28 PM

And happy Mudcat to anyone born - or not - on that auspicious day!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 08:40 PM

20 years... That's some birthday..

if internet years are anything like dog years, that's getting on a bit by human standards....

20 years ago I didn't even own a computer and was very resistant to the internet and it's encroachment on face to face contact and communication..

I still lived in East london, scrabbling a living as a photographic industry assistant/technician, artists model,
and guitarist & publicist in a short lived almost nearly famous for 15 seconds electro synth rock band.....

I'd just about completely forgotten folk music even existed...

Then I got sick of that lifestyle, moved back home to unsophisticated provincial Scrumpyshire,
and rediscovered my muddy cowshite & cider apple roots....

..and a few years later, whilst remembering my teenage enthusiasm for folk rock & Trad folk music, chanced upon mudcat.... 😜

Now I'm just a boring fat aging married bloke with dodgy feet and knees.....

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 09:29 PM

Mudcat's 20? Wow!
I wish I'd discovered it way back then!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Amos
Date: 01 Oct 16 - 11:28 PM

Here's to Saint Max, and his beautiful family.
And here's to Joe Offer, and all that he does.
And here's to the Mods, and the Elves, and their daughters,
Who make it the best forum ever there was.

And here's to twenty more years of indispensable folkie wisdom and lore.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: GUEST,In good company
Date: 02 Oct 16 - 02:41 AM

I was a relative newcomer as Dave the Gnome in June 2000. Still, 16 years out of 20 ain't bad.

Happy birthday Mudcat and many more of 'em :-)

Just goes to show that wisdom does not always come with age...

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: bbc
Date: 02 Oct 16 - 01:59 PM

Last night, at the Sounding Board in W. Hartford, CT, USA, we celebrated Folk Legacy's 55th anniversary with a benefit concert featuring several of the Folk Legacy recording artists. I, first, met Sandy & Caroline, personally, when someone posted a thread on mudcat about a new BMT recording. I was working fairly close to Sharon, CT at the time & called to see if I could pick up the recording in person, rather than having to pay shipping & handling! I didn't realize, at the time, that I was inviting myself into a private home! It was the beginning of a warm friendship for these past many years--just one of the benefits mudcat has given me! Thanks, Max! It's been a blessing, being part of this community!

Best,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 05:11 AM

In 2002 I got my first computer, joined Mudcat & made it my homepage. I look in every day & only miss out when I'm away, or it was down!

long live Mudcat & Max.

Another long-lived folks site (tho not participatory ) is OzCatter Mark Gregory's Australian Folk Songs ... on the web since 1994 tho I don't look at it every day, just when Mark adds another song.

sandra

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 03:23 PM

Congrats, Mud Max!

My first post was in January 1999, only 17,5 years ago, so I am more or less a newcomer here ;-)

Andreas a/k/a MudGuard

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 04:46 PM

Hippo Birdie, Deer, Deer Mudcat!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 04:53 PM

Well done to all the administrators, moderators and techno elves especially to Max. I'm just pouring you all a very large Irish in celebration.

Frank

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 04:58 PM

Well, knock me down with a feather! My very first post was on this very date, 3rd October 2000, and it was a lyric request for "Sam the Skull" which was rapidly supplied!
And I first heard about Mudcat from the guy who was then recording my 16-year old son's indie band! Firtunately he knew a bit about folk music too!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: Severn
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 07:33 PM

Thank you, Max, and wishing a happy birthday with many more years more to come to what has been a source of fellowship, fun, education, support in difficult times and many,many lasting friends, both seen and unseen. Thanks to the 'Cat and all who dwell or dwelt or even lurked within. I'm much the better off for the knowing of you all.....

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 09:46 PM

What Amos said.

[Well said, Amos!]

keep on pickin'
Dennis [hangin around this Café since '97]

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat!
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 17 - 01:31 PM

Happy Birthday Bubblyrat

Happy Birthday Mudcat


hey that rhymes, kinda

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Severn
Date: 02 Oct 17 - 03:05 PM

Happy birthday to you Mudcat, with a wondrous interruption-free year to follow!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Oct 17 - 04:35 PM

Hippo Birdie, Deer Ewe!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Oct 17 - 10:55 PM

Somebody asked, so I did a study of the number of messages posted from September 2 to October 2 in 1997, 2007, and 2017. Here are the number of messages posted per month:

• 1997:   2,167
• 2007: 23,142
• 2017:   5,014

We've slowed down a bit, but we're still here.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Oct 17 - 06:34 PM

& I've been around 15 of those years ...

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 02:29 PM

Gosh, I've been here 20 years!! I see that my first message was dated January '97, but I think I'd been a member for a few months before I actually posted, which would put me in the birth year. (Feel old, now...)

I first heard of it from one of the guys I played with every week, at a session in a lovely old pub facing over Cork Harbour from its south side (still there but no longer open, alas). (The pub, I mean, not the harbour...)

Happiest of birthdays to the 'Cat <3

Bonnie xxx

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Max
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 03:58 PM

I've been here the longest. :)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 04:27 PM

Hey hó jibbý jei oh jibbý ý jei , Happy birthday to all of us .
all the best Skarpi .

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 07:10 PM

Max is the winner!

& so are we because of what he has done over the past 20 years.

Thank you, Max.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 05 Oct 17 - 10:18 PM

Hear, hear! Many thanks to Max!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 06 Oct 17 - 05:10 AM

Nice to know that Mudcat can now drink legally anywhere in USA

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 02:27 PM

Today, the Mudcat Cafe is twenty-two years old.

Bubblyrat and myself,
born on the 1st of October,
are a bit older than that.
Happies to us.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 03:11 PM

Happy 2 & 4/5 anniversary,keberoxu

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Helen
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 03:38 PM

I was a lurker for a bit, not sure how long, but my first posting was in May 1997, so I missed the birth by *that* much.

What Severn said:

"Thank you, Max, and wishing a happy birthday with many more years more to come to what has been a source of fellowship, fun, education, support in difficult times and many,many lasting friends, both seen and unseen. Thanks to the 'Cat and all who dwell or dwelt or even lurked within. I'm much the better off for the knowing of you all..... "

I couldn't have said it better.

Helen

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 03:39 PM

Happy 2 little ducks Mudcat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 08:55 PM

another year! thanks, Max

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 11:55 PM

What EVERYONE said! Thanks to Max, Susan, Dick & Joe for all the invisible iceberg stuff.

I think I sent in 90+ songs before my first post, which was Oct 1998, I think, about "workhouse songs", including the famous

'Twas Christmas Eve in the workhouse
And the frost was on the walls
When asked what they wanted for Christmas
The inmates shouted, "Balls!"

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Cappuccino
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 06:50 AM

Congrats and thanks, Max and Joe and others.   There must be so many stories from over the years... surely there's a book in this?

- Cap

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 09:25 AM

Bit of a shock to realise I've been popping in and out of here since early 1999.
This place seemed well established when I arrived with online friendships and "in-jokes" as though it had been around for many years.
It was, nonetheless, a very welcoming and inclusive place to visit and has largely remained so.
There's been a huge amount of knowledge exchanged, songs shared and kindness given. I've benefitted from all of these at sometime or other.
Full credit to Max for creating and maintaining this place, even when it veered slightly off track from his original intention.
He's certainly stayed the course!
Happy birthday! Here's to many more!
C-flat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: StephenH
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 10:50 AM

Yes, all best wishes, and thanks to those who keep Mudcat on course.
I've been popping in and out since very early on, joined once and forgot I had, now joined again and making daily visits.
Always something worthwhile looking at.
Thanks to all the erudite and interesting folks who post.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: topical tom
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 11:50 AM

Happy Birthday, Mudcat! You have provided me with tons of information and pleasure. Max and Joe, you have made it a delightful venue.May Mudcat last many more years!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Helen
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 03:34 PM

Don't forget the birthday present

I'll be donating this arvo (after I get my pay) as a huge thank you to Max and Mudcat and all the Mudelves and Mudcateers, for all the fun, friendship, laughter, information, research, tunes, lyrics, and everything I have benefited from, over the last almost 20 but not quite years, here at Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: bbc
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 04:59 PM

Thanks, Max! Much information & many precious friendships!

best,

bbc

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 12:18 PM

Happy Birthday,
mighty, muddy Mudcat.
And many happy returns.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 12:29 PM

Many happy returns, indeed!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: David C. Carter
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 12:37 PM

Many happy returns to Mudcat.

I first posted in Dec 05.

Time flies when you're having fun!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 02:30 PM

When I was a lad my Mother would tell me that time went by quicker as she got older. Being as I knew everything I,naturally, scoffed at this idea.
Have I really been posting,albeit occasionally, since November 2000 !!!
Eeee!, the older I get the faster the time goes.
Happy Birthday Mudcat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 02:43 PM

Time flies when you're having fun!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 02:55 PM

Who's having fun ?? :-}

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Oct 19 - 03:51 PM

Me! Still here, despite various quieter times when I didn't come in much. 19 years now!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 02:37 AM

me, too!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Severn
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 09:14 PM

Happy zBirthda!

Muscat has definitively enriched my life in the years I have lsricipated, brining me new friends, New songs, places to stay while traveling, travellers who have stayed with me, group conversations held in the old chat room, historical information, company and shelter at festivals, Secret Szxta presents, time spent in the Tavern and in the Recovery Ward, animals from Chimps to Squids and a whole lot more.

Thanks to all for things past and good times yet to come.I hope that you have enjoyed your time with me as much, if not more,, than I've enjoyed your company.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 08:12 AM

Happy Birthday!

What a website!

Nuff said.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 11:43 AM

We just keep on keeping on... not bad for a site that just lives in some corner of wherever Max lives.... and needs a kick in the butt now & then.
Big changes with technology... now Max can usually reboot things from a distance using his phone.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 01:40 PM

Oh dear, I seem to be a newbie. Assuming my personal page to have a complete record, my first post here wasn't until 2007.

For the all BS, some of it up here above the line, I still find Mudcat a great place for enlightening discussions and propagation of valuable information. Long may it continue.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 12:49 AM

"Time flies when you're having fun" When I'm having fun, timing flies is the last thing I intend to do. Actually, having fun or not, I can't think of any reason why I would want to time flies. But fruit flies like a banana.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: leeneia
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 12:23 PM

Thanks, Max, Joe, Jeri and all the other people who keep the Mudcat going. I've learned many songs and learned about many songs while here.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 12:29 PM

What leeneia said.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 03:09 PM

Happy Birthday to bubblyrat
and to the irreplaceable Mudcat,

And happy Mudcat, one and all.
(it's my birthday as well)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 03:34 PM

All the best keberoxu and a big Happy Birthday to the 'Cat.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 10:24 PM

another year! yah

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 01:46 AM

Happy birthday to Mudcat! And hearty felicitations to all those who share the same birthday, too.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 10:50 AM

Duck, everybody, here comes another year!

It should be no secret that I love the Cat. Long may it wave!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 11:29 AM

Here's hoping for another Year of the Cat with as few 503 errors as possible.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 12:08 PM

Happy birthday Mudcat. What would we do without it?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: MudGuard
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 01:40 PM

Happy birthday! More than 20 years since my first post ...

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Rex
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 01:53 PM

Mudcat has expanded to provide many more resources from its first days. It is a great source of the folk world. Long may you run.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 07:19 PM

Still enjoy dropping in, and great to meet other Mudcatters on the weekly Zoom sessions on Monday evenings! Thanks everyone!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GUEST,BethkeBob
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 10:04 PM

You done good, here for a USA-based follower, and being immensely helpful especially on folksong IDs and comments on origins, sources, and commentaries about performances and interpretive responses.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 08:14 PM

... and yes,
there was a 503 Error just the other day ...

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 09:29 PM

It's that time of year again!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: voyager
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 09:53 PM

In Spanish, we sing Happy Birthday Mudcat like this -
Las Mananitas (Vincente Fernandez)

further
voyager

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 09:56 PM

Gee, has it really been 25 years? It's been a good ride! Thanks for keep it going, Max.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 10:16 PM

I second and third everything that has been said - thank you, Max!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 03:44 AM

Right with you, Jennie G :-]
Thanks to all concerned.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 04:16 AM

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Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 04:45 AM

who can top that?

very plain birthday greetings from me

sandra

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: David C. Carter
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 05:35 AM

It seems like only yesterday that I first posted er....

Happy Birthday to our beloved Mudcat.

And Hello to all who still hang in here.

David

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 10:20 AM

Hippo birdie deer, deer ewe, and love to all who sail in [them].

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 10:23 AM

...and they said it wouldn't last. I think I first posted in 1998 and have posted less and less in recent years, especially in the 20 since I retired, I don't know where the time goes! I still check in once a day, but don't often contribute. Here's to the next 25 years!
RtS

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 12:02 PM

Wow! So many names have come and gone. Happy Birthday.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 02:04 PM

I think it took me two years to land here — drawn in by Jeri. Don't recollect whether Tom (Curmudgeon) or I first joined.

Congratulations on 25 years!

And thank you, Max, for keeping on keeping on. (And Joe and the Joe clones and everyone else.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 07:55 PM

A quarter of a century. Just consider all that's happened during that time: flying machines, horseless carriages, a canal from the Hudson to the Great Lakes, the death of da Vinci, electricity in our homes, no more gas lamps...why, I can't begin to list it all!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 04:38 AM

21 today, 21 today,
I’ve got the key of the door, etc….
That’s how long I’ve been lurking around these parts! Happy Birthday,

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 07:00 AM

A wonderful place. Thanks to Max and the Mud Elves!

Happy Birthday

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Cappuccino
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 07:02 AM

Very well done, and many thanks. I first posted in the late 90s, too... and have received a lot of help from members. Only flamed once, but that was my own fault.   Best wishes from the wilds of Norfolk (UK, not USA!)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 08:49 AM

Happy Birthday year 2023!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 04:48 AM

I'll second that!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 04:48 AM

I'll second that!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 08:49 AM

Happy Birthday year 2023!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 24 - 01:23 PM

And happy 2024 birthday!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: StephenH
Date: 01 Oct 24 - 05:51 PM

Happy Birthday Mudcat.
Many thanks to Max, Joe and all the others who work so hard to keep this site going.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Oct 24 - 06:27 PM

as always, I'll second that - where would we be without the Mudcat Cafe?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 24 - 09:21 PM

Happy Birthday!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Helen
Date: 02 Oct 24 - 06:51 AM

Yes, hippo birdie Mudcat and many, many thanks to Max and everyone who keeps the engine running.

I hadn't discovered Mudcat for the first few months, but wandered in a few months later in early 1997.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Oct 24 - 09:18 AM

My first post was in early November, 1996...
Except for Max himself, I 'think' I am the last remaining member who posted that far back.
   LaMarca (Mary), who I knew in RT, told me Mudcat was online, so I found it and here I am till... *shrug*

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Oct 24 - 09:32 AM

"...the oldest post I can find by me was Nov. 7, of '96"

I found that by scanning all those historical threads at the top.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: Helen
Date: 02 Oct 24 - 02:26 PM

I first posted on 27 May 1997 but I was reading and not posting for a while before that, and I'm still here.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Mudcat! (born October 1, 1996)
From: G-Force
Date: 02 Oct 24 - 04:47 PM

So Mudcat was born on our 19th wedding anniversary. (Now it's 47 years!)