Welcome New Member

Subject: Welcome New Member
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 01:05 PM

May God have mercy on us all, my husband is now a member.

Please welcome Hardiman the Fiddler, a sometime visitor to the Mudcat, a musician of limited but specific renown, an enigma wrapped in a ... oh whatever, I like him.

Some of you may have seen him peeking out of our pop-up on Mudcat Island.

He keeps me honest, I don't know what effect he'll have on you!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Crowhugger
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 01:33 PM

Well, well, well, Hardi-Fid, have a grand old time here at the Mudcat Cafe. We do!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 02:52 PM

Oh, and here I though "pastorpest" was him the other day on a thread...posted right after you, Praise.

Welcome, welcome, Hardiman the Fiddler, to the Mudcat Cafe! Hope we see you in here often, even if you two have to share a computer!

All the best,

katlaughingwhowilldrawherownconclusions**BG**

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 05:52 PM

Howdy, Hardiman the Fiddl;er. Thanks for keeping Praise so honest -- she (having been paddling in these waters a while now) has met many temptations to go absolutely mad instead, and seems to have resisted them all. SO you're obviously doing a good job! Look forward to hearing from you. :>))

Amos

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 08:59 PM

Welcome aboard mate, glad you signed on. Yours,Aye.Dave

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:12 PM

Fiddler on the bridge! All hands at attention! Nice to meet ya Hardiman! Your wife's a real nice lady--so you can't be all that bad! :{>

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: MMario
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:23 PM

Fiddler on the bridge? not a fiddler on the roof? Wouldn't that be more traditional?

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Troll
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:24 PM

Praise has been at a while so you should know what to expect. Welcome to Uncle Max's Home For Wayward Musicians. Set a spell. Yer among yer own kind now.

troll

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 09:59 PM

Hardiman, our only hope is that you display some level of common decency and rational behavior that your fair wife has thus far failed to manifest! Her constant ranting about "this is a Folk site, Dammit! Cut the friggin' BS!" has left a smoking crater where many a fine thread used to be. And her belly-dancing routine on the Mudcat Island was unexpectedly tasteless, yet somehow fascinating. Perhaps with you keeping a watchful eye on her, we will be spared any more unfortunate incidents such as the notable one involving the ukelele and the bowl of haggis.

LEJ (doing his best to pinch-hit for Catspaw, who is not feeling well enough to hurl his traditional load of sarcasm at a new member)

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: GUEST,_gargoyle
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 10:31 PM

Let the poor soul post for himself.

In this sort of setting he comes across as some sort of "poor-suffering-pussy-whipped-bastard"

Let loose of the man's scrotum..... woman.....if he wanted to "welcomed" he would have thrown out the mat himself!!!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: GUEST,_gargoyle
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 10:35 PM

If ever..... there were "grounds for divorce"....... "welcoming" your husband (in this style) to this degenerate throng...... would be it.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: GUEST,_gargoyle
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 10:37 PM

Before the divorce is drawn-up.

Make sure, that it is clearly stipulated, "all residuals are yours....including those generated from this thread."

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: JenEllen
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 10:40 PM

Welcome to both of you. Elle

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 10:46 PM

And a fine HOW-DEEE! to you both. Don't know as I ever even welcomed you Praise, dear. Wanna fiddle around?

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 10:52 PM

Well Hardi,
You've come a long long way, baby Through the hard time and the bad
I've got to celebrate you, baby
I've got to Praise you like I should!


--Mbo

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 12:25 AM

LEJ,

Silly you, the version I told him of my exploits was much more explicit than yours! You left out most of the really fun parts, and here I thought you liked me. What about the six sick sex songs I snuck into the Mudcat songbook attributed to our junior warden at church (did I mention he's a pastor?)? What about the recipe I posted with instrux for each of us to make our very own Cat Fart sim-u-blast powder? What about the murder ballad you and I worked out together based on our own past-life experiences? Huh? What about the plot cleverly woven through all my thread postings to... no I didn't tell him that, don't anyone else either!

Oh and Gargle,

No fear my dear, he speaks for himself quite well, but sometimes I do him the kindnesses he requests, and he did request that I introduce him, as others have been introduced before. Some people are just a little bit shyer than yourself. (And next time you have advice to offer, how about getting to know the person a bit first. I don't believe we have met?)

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 12:54 AM

Gosh, Praise. Your husband must be one of them new Enlightened Free-love Christians I read about in Reader's Digest. I'm sure in no time at all he'll have his ukelele buried in the haggis up to the fifth fret.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 12:56 AM

LEJ,

You've done it again.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 01:02 AM

You're gonna RUIN good Haggis? (Oxymoron???)*BG*

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 01:10 AM

I can tell he will enjoy responding to these himself. Sunday is a work day so keep posting, he'll probably be here after his nap!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 09:02 AM

So, does one of you operate the mouse while the other is on the keyboard? Hello from Eric in the UK.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 06:42 PM

He's sitting here LOL and ROTF, and he'll respond if he can get me to log the hell out!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 07:09 PM

Hey,y'all!

After that delicious lunch of Haggis, and a nap to recover from that occupational hazard known as work----which thankfully, you all know I only do once a week---I was up on the roof playing the fiddle. Praise usually runs the mouse, cause' I'm up on the roof---it is the only place they let me shriek the strings.

Hardiman

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Brendy
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:06 PM

Welcome to this collection of holy, and unholy, artisans my man, and I hope you get as much from this community as I have. Just pitch your tent anywhere you find a reasonably free space - there'll always be some sort of a session within earshot, or discussion worth joining.

Incidentally, are you any relation to that fine Norwegian musician Hardanger the fiddler?

Breandán

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: jeffp
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 01:52 PM

Always a pleasure to welcome another fiddler. Your good wife has already make quite a fine impact on the 'cat and prepared your way nicely. Join the fun and don't be shy!

jeffp

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 03:06 PM

Hardiman-the-fiddler-on-the-roof... I always wondered why Zero Mostel was up on that roof! Thanks for the enlightenment.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 03:13 PM

And all this time I thought it was Topol!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: GUEST,Kurt
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 04:05 PM

Hellooooo to all! Am new here & need some help. Used to strum my gitaar & sing some folk type songs w/ my little ones back in the early/mid seventies. They're grown now & want to do the same. My collection of sheet music/lyrics has long been consigned to my x wife's specially designed sink hole.

I'm hoping someone can help me locate sites where I can print out same. Peter/Paul & Mary, stuff like that.

Pls let me know here or Email [e-mail]

Thanks in advance - Kurt

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Magpie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 04:43 PM

Welcome Hardiman! Always nice to "see" a new face! Hope you'll like it here, we sure do.

Magpie

And, Kurt, welcome to you as well! If you want songs, try the digitrad, of make a new thread, headed lyr.req., and the song's title. You'll find it. Nice to "see" you too!

Magpie

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Magpie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 04:45 PM

And by the way, Kurt. If you're not a great proofreader, neither am I. That was supposed to read ....OR make a new thread...

Magpie

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: petal
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 09:46 PM

Well, I thought since I've been away from home, from my kids. You guys may be able to help me find some good east coast festival dates. I'm outa touch. I've been with Phish but the last tour wasn't all that. I've been sitting @ home too long. if you have any info let me know.

thanx, Petal

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 09:46 PM

Hi Brendy,

They only spoke of Hardanger in hushed tones at night when Mom and Pop thought the children were asleep, so I really can't tell you much, but I think it may have been a sordid affair which caused my great uncle to migrate to a different, strange and foreign land.

Hardiman

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 12:29 AM

Hi, Kurt, welcome to you, too.

Here is a link to a free sheet music site with lots of links.

For really old stuff, click on the Links at the top of the page, and scroll down to the Lester Levy link at Johns Hopkins; they offer older sheet music which you can print direct form images of the original, as long as it is before a certain date, which I cannot remember.

Also, be sure to check some of the other links which are available on the Mudcat. Otherwise, like Magpie said, start a new thread with a title about what you are looking for. Chances are very good that someone on here will have it.

Praise, does he come down off of the roof on Sundays?**BG**

all the best,

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: GUEST,Praiseatwork
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 08:46 AM

K/k

No, if anything he goes even higher.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 09:04 AM

Well Praise, ya' know they say a good man is hard to find but a Hardiman is better....uh, so to speak.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: GUEST,GUEST,Praiseatwork
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 12:26 PM

We had the best time last night looking at this and other current & old threads. I had been LOL and LMAOWROTF with you all for weeks, but last night we LOL so hard that we have to eat extra today just to have an A to LOWROTF. Two sick twisted heads in the same room and both at the 'Cat are nearly too much. I recommend it to all you who have a SO in your home-- bring a friend to the 'Cat for a F'Rompin' good time.

You never know what it may lead to.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 01:00 PM

Hardiman living up to his name huh?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 01:14 PM

Praise, I've had my run-ins with both Catspaw and gargoyle, but for you to call them "two sick twisted heads" is going a bit too far !

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Amos
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 01:21 PM

I kin guarantee if those two sick heads ever twisted, only one of them would come up off the barroom floor and it ain't the one from San Diego.

So they took to virtual fightin'
An' when the fight was done
Gargoyle looked like a token-ring Lan
With a couple 'a tokens gone!

A

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Molly Malone
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 02:36 PM

Well,normally I tell bad fiddler jokes, but my sister broke her bow over me last time. So I'll just say, "'allo."

Molly

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 07:01 PM

Hey, y'all

Is there such a thing as a good fiddler joke?

Hardiman

Subject: RE: Welcome New Member
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 08:01 PM

Molly,

Wouldn't there have to be such a thing as a good fiddler, which would be a dead one?

I like 'em bad, so I'm keeping him alive alive-o. You see when one sick twisted head tells the other one what to do, he is a good man to find. For those who wondered.

Why were they wondering again?