Don't you miss

Subject: Don't you miss
From: browny
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 03:29 PM

Cream on top of your milk bottles?

Fresh warm bread being delivered ?

Driving the Baker's horse ?

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 03:46 PM

More trivia.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 04:21 PM

Shocking your parents, instead of embarrassing your kids

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Bert
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 04:27 PM

Cream that didn't have Carageen in it.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: bflat
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 04:31 PM

Being a kid; having summers off and putting together those backyard amateur shows with my cousins and the rest of the neighborhood kids.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 04:40 PM

Being a Miss.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Peg
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 04:55 PM

when a single hour could seem like weeks, instead of every week passing like an hour...

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Jed at Work
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 05:02 PM

hot summer sun, and freedom, freedom, freedom - to catch frogs, climb trees, swim in the river and roam the woods for hours

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: GUEST,Woody Guthrie's Ghost
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 05:15 PM

I'll tell you what I (and many others here miss.)

We miss the integrity of what this forum was originally founded on, that being a forum dedicated to blues and folk music, which was the heart and soul of this place, and where the bullshit, and idle chit chat, compulsive thread posting.......were incidental.

Sadly, these days the converse is true, and this thread is yet but another log in the fire.

It is also most unfortunate but painfully obvious, that the proprietor of this forum has become so totally self absorbed by his own perceived (faux) "celebrity", that he has allowed his vision to deteriorate into the free fall it has now become, careening completely out of control, and with the continuing departure of so many solid members.

All this with nary a care, as long as he can occasionaly get laid at the odd house gathering, by those desperate and needy female Mudcatters who deceive themselves into thinking they are somehow in the presence of "royalty", when in actuality all he is, is a caretaker of a computer with a bunch of files on it, that gullible contributors have funded for recent upgrades.

I'm sure he laughs at all of you both on and off the air, and through all his orifices when time permits.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 05:37 PM

C'mon WG's Ghost - don't hold back. Tell us how you REALLY feel.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Kaleb
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 05:47 PM

The important thing, WG, is that you're not bitter.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 06:01 PM

"She's a miss, but she ain't a miss! Eh, Sir, Eh?" --Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers)

Actually I miss nothing. Everything for me is in the future, the past isn't something I harp on. "Don't look back in anger, I hear her say..."

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 06:09 PM

Dont sugar coat it man.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 06:16 PM

Hey WG Ghost!?!?!

Got a problem with the cat but you ain't got the stones to whine about it in yer own name?!?!

Coward!

What do I miss?!?! Not aching all the time!!

LOL!!!!

{~`

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Callie
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 06:35 PM

nothing. glad it's all behind me. onward and upward!

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: SeanM
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 06:45 PM

Clinton, don't even bother.

I'm absolutely convinced at this point that our resident nasty troll is at least one, maybe two or three registered 'catters who are exercising their personal bitterness on the rest of the group, helping to destroy what they claim they are saving.

I just hope that their poison works its way out soon. Can't be healthy.

And sad though it is, it makes me miss ol' garg at times.

M

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 06:47 PM

Penalties.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 07:17 PM

Or Brian Lara's middle stump.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: GUEST,AliUK
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 08:03 PM

toffos, cherryade, the horror double bill on BBC2 summer saturday nights, the Rockford Files, 99 ice creams from Tonibell, summer hols that lasted for ever, hide and seek and voyages to Rat´s Island.

Go suck an egg WG´s Ghost...the forum is for people with like minded tastes to get together and shoot the breeze, it just so happens that we like folk and blues too.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 08:04 PM

I miss jumping in puddles, and I miss Gargoyle too - at least he had the sincerity and honesty to use his own name. I'm sad that he got the blame for these no-names and their troublemaking.

Helen

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: MK
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 09:26 PM

Well I for one am speechless.

I suggest we all order and wear the following t-shirts.*BG*

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 09:41 PM

I miss slaughtering Saracens, ripping the masts out of a French ship of the line with a well-placed cannon shot, fleet raids on Spanish fat galleons, digging for gold in the hills north of Placerville in the springtime, courting pretty women in the morning so early, and marching forever across foreign hills with my fellow centurions; dancing under the tall firs when two horses, a sword and a cow were real wealth; stalking redcoats in the autumn twilight; long nights in rustic taverns drinking brown ale; fighting for freedom in the moonlight. I miss the spinny magic of physical love made real for the 'first' time, and the triumph of surviving gales and mountains of dark water and wind-spume, making a headland and finding a sudden respite of shelter to drop the hook behind. I miss roasting my own fresh-shot buck over a campfire in the Rockies, and being struck dumb by the safe arrival of a new child, moist and loud by candlelight, and being swept away by the incredible power of the life-river inside us. I miss the ability to eat icecream for hours without side effects. I miss being able to sing falsetto and cruising for burgers at midnight.

However, I really have as much of all these things as I would ever need, and I am pretty happy to generate new and wonderful moments in the future.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 09:49 PM

Helen, I'm not quite sure that his own name was gargoyle!

Jon

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: keltcgrasshoppper
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 10:02 PM

I miss having little children around to roll down hills with, and catch tadploes and fireflies...I miss sticky ice cream kisses from 5 year old boys.. I miss walks before dawn to the hill where we watched the sun come up..I think I'll get up early tomorrow and do just that..Have a great weekend all...KGH

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: bflat
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 10:04 PM

While I know we have the latitude to express ourselves widely here, I thought this was a nostalgia thread for things. Is it possible to return to an old tenent as: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I miss good the laughter and wit of a good freind.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Helen
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 01:44 AM

What I meant, Jon, was that I think gg stuck with his chosen name for all of his postings rather than changing his name constantly - he usually signed "gargoyle" to everything. I believe that postings which are not signed by him do not originate from him. I am swimming against the stream here, I think.

Helen

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 01:52 AM

Sorry Helen, I had understood you but I should have put a ;-) at the end of my poor attempt at a joke. I am inclined to agree with your thoughts re gg and I also feel that others used his name - anyway, past history now - shame in some way's - I do believe that gg has a genuine love of music and has a fair amount of knowledge.

Jon

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 02:12 AM

I don't see anything wrong with this. In fact, lots of good SONG IDEAS here. Johnny in Oklahoma City

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: black walnut
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 07:55 AM

Quote from AliUK: "the forum is for people with like minded tastes to get together and shoot the breeze, it just so happens that we like folk and blues too".

Don't you see, friends, that this is where the struggle lies? There is a very big difference between "...dedicated to folk and blues" and "just so happens that we like folk and blues too".

B.S. threads can be fun, and can be a way of getting to know each other as whole people.

But, just THINK about it. If "shooting the breeze" is your PRIMARY goal here, then you might be hurting the forum as much as a flamer. If you're bored, try reading and posting to a non-B.S. threads. There's a whole lot of worthwhile stuff going on in there.

~black walnut (ducking right now for cover)

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 08:15 AM

Gargoyle did switch names occasionally, and I'm quite sure he's still around, probably switching names quite frequently these days. The above comment wasn't nasty, IMO. "More trivia" - yep.

Browny - I miss the smell of baking bread. My mom used to make it to sell, and everyone who came to the house thought it was wonderful. I just took it for granted.

I miss being young PERIOD! I miss the way everything was fresh and exciting, and how I never wondered what so-and-so really meant by what they said. I miss being able to stay up all night talking or playing music without feeling like a sack of doorknobs in the morning. I miss the way night felt like a secret. I miss rolling down hills and climbing trees.

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: bbelle
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 09:42 AM

Headline in the newspaper ... "VOICES OF REASON AND WISDOM FINALLY FIND THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE MUDCAT FORUM."

black walnut ... please don't duck ... stand up and be counted ... it will count for something!

Jeri ... glad to see you emerge on this one ... your calm voice of reason is appreciated by me (and I can only speak for me).

moonchild (who doesn't shrink from taking "shots" but grows to new heights ... and will probably reach the 5'2" mark by the end of 2000)

Subject: RE: Don't you miss
From: JedMarum
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 10:11 AM

wonderful, joyous composition, Amos - you are a gifted imaginitve man, and we appreciate your vision!