Hello, pleased to meet you.

Subject: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Lox
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 05:43 AM

Hello.

I'm a new member, and I'm announcing my arrival. I've read loads of threads and contributed to a couple. (You'll notice that I'm a highly opinionated individual).

I'm amazed at the diversity of topics. I have been genuinely moved by stories of vietnam, and I nearly wet myself reading the "white" and "heterosexual" debates. (Don't stop writing the joky stuff), its healthy!

Cheers for challenging my mind.

(p.s. yes I am a singer songwriter etc)

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Bagpuss
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 05:47 AM

Hello Lox - pleased to meet you too.

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:18 AM

Welcome, Lox. Where are you from?

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: dwditty
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:43 AM

Welcome aboard, Lox. You will find this place to be quite..ah..unique. Yeah, that's the word. Quite often one of us is hauled off to the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed for a little "adjustment" but other than that, you'll find a friendly group here. We even manage to get together in the physical world occasionally, so look for gatherings in your area, where ever that is.

Singer songwriter, eh? Well, I'm sure you've seen the threads about HearMe. Download the software and join us. You will find an eager audience.

So fasten your seat belt, Lox. Relax, and enjoy the ride that is Mudcat.

dw

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:09 AM

Welcome Lox are you related to Bagel and Cream cheese?
Personally I like my Lox with sliced tomato and capers on dark pumpernickle.
Or are you related to Goldie Lox and the 3 bagels?
Actually I was thinking of calling my first band that name.

Well Lox if you need any help with anything there are many kind folks just waiting to help and there is a great deal of music knowledge circulating around here too.

All the best,
Buttered Bonnie Baguette

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: jeffp
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:24 AM

Welcome to our madness! If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at the teal-colored thread at the top, which will answer a lot of questions about the mechanics of the site. I look forward to your contributions, musical and otherwise.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:36 AM

We sure are pleased that you have joined us Lox. I would make a joke about the name, but my friend Banjo Bonnie used them all up........LOL. Please take some time and read the Newcomers thread at the top of the page. It will help you through some of the difficult spots and give you some insight. Post a lot, start threads, and enjoy. You are now part of the best online community anywhere.

All the best,

Big Mick

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:38 AM

Hi Lox, nice to have the ratio of friendly people bumped up again to more normal levels (we got hit with a mean spirited virus a few days ago, which seems to be clearing up)
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:40 AM

Enchantée! And welcome!

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: SDShad
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:41 AM

Welcome, Lox! Glad you're here, as it really is difficult to find good Lox in South Dakota....

Chris

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:52 AM

Welcome to the zoo. As far a I know, we don't have a lox pool yet.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:53 AM

Welcome aboard fellow singer/songwriter.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:59 AM

Well....there's lox and there's LOx my fellow 'Catters, and I too wish to welcome Lox to the joint. But since Bonnie and all has dealt with lox, check out LOx and some interesting possibilities.....a hot time in the old town tonight!!!

Frickin' Unbelievable Ain't It???

Spaw

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Lena
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:01 AM

Welcome. You're much more polite than me. I got the mudcat bug two days ago(4 hours playing threads tonight!!I was meant to spent it playing!!!You people are loosing me forever!!!But thanks for it,YES) and still have to introduce myself!! See you on these screens Lena

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:02 AM

no lox pool yet, but no lox on the cages and no lox on our minds....or do we...?

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: L R Mole
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:11 AM

I only notice Lox in the morning. This is the single cheeriest thing I have found to do with all this technology. One long song, really.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Mbo
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:26 AM

4 hours, Lena? ONLY 4 hours? :) I once was at HearMe for 9 hours. Anyway, welcome Lena & Lox, glad to have you, make yerselves at home!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Catrin
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:51 AM

Hi Lox

I've been addicted for about two weeks. A great bunch of people!

Catrin

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:53 AM

Catspaw, do you mean to tell me those explosions were really caused by soaking the charcoal in smoked salmon? Who would have thought of that? And boy they sure had to use a lot of lox! 3 gallons of smoke salmon? That would have cost a fortune!
How do you find all this information?
Did you know that halavah (an Israeli dessert made of ground sesame seeds & honey) with a swig of Coke explodes in your mouth? Try it sometime.

Bagel Bonnie

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:55 AM

Welcome Lox. We have met the Mudcat and it is us. We will be what you make us. Fortunato.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Lena
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:55 AM

Is there any antidocte?!Thank God I still have to find out how to log in the HearMe thing and thank God my flatmate will be back using this computer tomorrow... i'm too young to fall in love with a couple of hundred of people in front of a keabord(I don't believe in cybersex,so I'll be heartbroken)

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:56 AM

Been there ... Done that Bonnie!! The summer after high school, I worked for a Kosher catering service. It was an education in many ways..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Pene Azul
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 11:08 AM

Lox and Lena,

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mudcat Café!
If I can be of any assistance to you, send me a personal message.

Enjoy,

PA

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 12:30 PM

Alas, Lox is nothing but Jewish sushi. (called BAIT in the Midwest - as Joe Mabus has said in his song.)-----Either that or liquid oxygen-----very cold stuff that, when mixed with paradox, has the potential for violent explosion that can launch one into space (if indeed that is your wont).

But know that we here salute you and draw you in to our grasp/midst like the Enterprise caught in the tractor beam of some heinous enemy bent on -- horror of horrors -- assimilation. It could be worse. Various missionaries might knock on your door.

Good to have you here for us to pick on---not unlike our instruments.

With affection and affectation,

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: GUEST,T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 12:42 PM

Lox and Lena, Hi!

Perhaps Lox's nom-de-web is a reference to "The Merry Tales of Lox", which is the name an ethnographer (I forget his name) gave to a some tales about an Eastern Woodland Indian transformer or trickster figure.

T.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Willie-O
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 02:03 PM

Hi and welcome Lox & Lena. Lena, just cause your roommate is returning is no excuse to be leaving so soon...all routers lead to the Cat, (except when down, causing worldwide panic.)

Bonnie that's a hell of a thing to do to halvah. From Spaw, I'd expect it but I don't want details. (G)

gurrrrrrrp

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Morticia
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:13 PM

a warm welcome to both of you....Bonnie darlin', I need the recipe for halvah....this I gotta try!!

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Alice
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:39 PM

How do you do, Lox and other new members. I invite you to read this classic - Alice's favorite Mudcat thread.
enjoy

Alice

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:13 PM

Lox and Lena; Welcome to Mudcat. Take all the aboive advice, avoid the flamers and have fun with it and us. It seems you are off to a fine start. Your humble & obedient servant, Neil AKA Irish Sergeant

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:34 PM

Lox, welcome and thanks for being responsible for giving me a drastic case of the Kosher munchies. I want a toasted bagel with lox, fresh tomato,red onion and a New York Seltzer, some corned beef with spicy mustard on pumpernickel (with a big slice of pickle), in the worst way.

Lonesome Matzoh Ball Schlurping EJ

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: GUEST,skarpi at work
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 04:00 AM

Hallo all, Welcome to mudcat Lox. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From:
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:34 AM

Along with the others, I'd like to pass on my greetings to our new member, as well as to all other new members.

I hope to hear from all of you in one or another message thread.

Enjoy the site. I know that you will find it as much fun and educational as I have.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: canoer
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 02:07 PM

Welcome L & L, and Catrin too, my, yes,

It's always nice when someone lox onto us; and then others move in from where they were Lena'n 'round the corner ...

Welcome! Canoer (refugee from puns unlimited)

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 05:28 PM

Glad to have you here Lox....and even gladder that you saw the humour in those threads. Not GOOD humour, but better than getting upset.

Rick

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: CamiSu
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 06:39 PM

What a smart and kind thing to do Lox! It also means we all know who you are. I kind of snuck in a week--10 days ago after daughter Wavestar kept at me for a few months... shy I guess. Welcome and welcome to all the kindness and good humor!

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 06:43 PM

Oh, a big ol' welcome to yerself, CamiSu! I didn't know you were Wavestar's mom! Cool! Families who Mudcat together stay together!

--Matt

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Biskit
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 08:19 PM

Welcome Lox&Lena,er..um..colectivly or individually welcome!KEWL link Spaw.-Biskit-

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 25 Jul 00 - 03:55 AM

Hi L & L, from someone who was never formally welcomed to the Mudcat and is insanely jealous of the welcome you two are getting from the long timers, but harbors NO RESENTMENT WHATEVER!! and bears you no ill-will at all, but knows in his heart that you both will be fine, knowledgeable, and witty contributors to this forum, despite the fact that he is shattered by the warm, welcoming reception you two are receiving that should rightfully have been his a year ago... oh never mind, I'm over it now. Welcome, and all the best. Seamus P.S. All you old 'Catters......don't even think of it now.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 00 - 08:54 AM

Seamus - don't worry, we won't. However, you are in good company, as until recently the "welcomes" were subdued and barely noticable.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Dulci46
Date: 25 Jul 00 - 10:10 AM

Seamus,

Welcome, Maybe you, like me forgot to post "Hi I'm new to Mudcats". So since I'm newer than you I will give you an offical welcome. Wait a minute, that is backwards, you should welcome me since I'm newer.

And welcome L & L from someone who's only been here a few months and got to busy reading to say "Hey! Hi I'm new"

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: GUEST,Giac, not at home
Date: 25 Jul 00 - 10:24 AM

Oops! Don't know how I missed this thread earlier, but hi there, Lox, Lena, CamiSu, Dulci46 AND Seamus.

BTW, Alice, thanks for calling attention to the Spancil Hill thread, I'd missed that, too. Must change my priorities and read threads 12 hours a day instead of just 10.

Welcome all, Giac

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From:
Date: 25 Jul 00 - 10:55 AM

Well, again, welcome to all of you new ones.

Giac, I find it helpful to come here every three to four hours, and spend 10 or 15 minutes, and once a week (when I have a half hour to an hour), set it for 10 days, just so I can see what threads have happened.

Seamus and Dulci, without something like this, we wouldn't realize you weren't a long time Mud-catter.

I'm sure there are lots who just skim and read. Glad to have them along too.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 25 Jul 00 - 10:42 PM

Aaaawwww, thanks you guys. There! I'm better now. Seamus

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Clifton53
Date: 26 Jul 00 - 12:06 AM

Seamus, perhaps you missed a thread from March 13, 2000 named "Good Luck to the Barley Malt" (sic). I thought I gave you a mighty fine welcome! Mayhaps ye missed it?

Clifton53

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 26 Jul 00 - 02:50 PM

Clifton, I'm sorry. I was probably off sulking that I didn't get a welcome, and so I missed your welcome. But really, I'm over it now. Seamus

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: CamiSu
Date: 26 Jul 00 - 04:21 PM

Maybe we should just set up something that would list our new members...but it would probably get clogged, but Seamus is right. It feels soooo good to get that welcome! And I too would have thought some of us had been around AGES longer than we have (Poor syntax, but i'm being inclusive) And Mbo, you may be right, families who 'cat together etc though I daresay it's a result, not a cause. Jessica was raised on folk music and finds it a great part of her life now. Makes me feel wonderful!

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 06:19 AM

I think the whole "welcome" thing is of fairly recent origin, so no-one need feel they have been singled out by being ignored. (I'm best ignored, any way!)
RtS

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 06:44 AM

Take up Pene on that offer guys! The Cat's worth it for him alone.

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Karolina
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 01:09 AM

You're pretty right about Pene, Fionn.

Lox, Lena, welcome!!! It's a great place.

Karolina

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 03:40 PM

Lox,
You mean you haven't wet yourself yet? You'll never get into the clique that way. Welcome anyway. I am fairly new here myself and didn't get a formal welcome. On the other hand, I just sort of walked in and asked "Is this seat taken?" and never left. Have fun.
Mary

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: velvet
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 08:58 AM

Hi Love the site.Im fairly new but love to log on.I come from cornwall G.B.and sing mainly cornish traditinal songs,unaccompanied, in close harmony along with my friend which we adore. Have to fly now, things to do but I'll be back. bye for now

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 10:07 AM

Wow, sylv, I'd love to hear some of that! Look out for a HearMe thread and come and sing for us sometime!

Noreen
Bury, Lancs

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Lox
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 09:50 PM

Wow!

I posted this thread the day before I went away on a two week holiday.

I've been a member here now for about six months and I'd assumed that it had slipped away into oblivion.

I didn't expect to be referrd to it six months later by an innocent comment about lox and bagels.

I didn't even know that lox and bagels had anything in common.

Spaw, ROTFLMAO!

cheers folks!

bagel

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 09:55 PM

Sorry, lox, probably my fault! I was the one who told you to go find bagels.......LOL! (and I can't stand lox, but bagels are OK, if I don't have to make them!)

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 10:33 PM

Looks like I'm a little late with this one, but what the hell...

Welcome to the Mudcat, Lox!

Carol

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 12:46 AM

Welcome, Lox! I've seen some of your posts, and look forward to many more. Welcome to a welcoming family.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 10:51 AM

I've heard about a delayed reaction but 6 months is a bit much, even for me! Welcome anyway, Lox, but my Victorian Household Management book tells me it is impolite to use "Pleased to meet you" and to use "How do you do" instead!

You will have noticed by now, of course, that we are all very polite, good mannered and completely sensible here...;-)

Belated welcomes anyway

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: little john cameron
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 12:07 PM

Haw there lox an lena an awbody else whit is newbies.Squeeze yersels in an bide a wee.Ah'm oot here in Newfoundland up tae mah erse in snaw.Whaur are ye?
It's gettin awfy civilised in here lately,is it no?Nae fechts or bad moothin.Even mah dug is no growlin at strangers ony mair.Kind o spooky if ye ask me.
Onyway,welcome. ljc

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 01:15 PM

Wilkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome.

Alex

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: R!
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 02:18 PM

Greetings and welcome, Lox, from another new-ish member. What a fun place this is!

Reen

Subject: RE: Hello, pleased to meet you.
From: GUEST,kytrad
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 05:23 PM

Well Hello, Lox- I'm the latest (been 'On the road')doncha know. No, don't ever stop the Welcomes- they DO make one feel great...I downloaded mine, framed it and hung it alongside my computer.

Welcome. Here's to you! Jean