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Subject: Folk Quiz From: GUEST,The ??? Man Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:05 AM 1) HOW MANY roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? (Please, no lazy responses like "the answer is blowin' in the wind.") 2) Are YOU going to Scarborough Fair? 3) WHO knows where the time goes? 4) Are YOU going away with no word of farewell? 5) WHAT have they done to the rain? 6) WHERE have all the flowers gone? (Again, no lazy responses like "the young girls picked them.") 7) Can YOU spare a dime? 8) Wasn't THAT a mighty storm? 9) Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet? 10) With all the wild horses in the sun, HOW am I supposed to get any riding done? Bonus points for the best answers. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Jock Morris Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:18 AM Well I DID go to Scarborough Fayre this year, and met the lass I'm now proud to call my fiancee there! Scott |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:32 AM 1) Get a gawddam car. 2) No, the county fair asshole. I don't even know where the hell Scarborough is. 3) Obviuously not either one of us, Dumbshit. 4) Personally no, but you can fockin' bugger off anytime. 5) Beats me, but be sure to park your car outside so the rain can eat the finish off Asshole. 6) How about we shove 'em all up your ass? 7) Yeah...No problem. Here ya' go. Now stick your head up your ass and start rolling. 8) No, but if YOU were struck by lightning, it would have been! 9) Stay away from my feet you weird little motherfucker. 10) So you're into bestiality too huh? Figures....
Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Jock Morris Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:36 AM Ouch! You havin' a bad day Spaw, or is there something I don't know about this guest? Scott |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: WyoWoman Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:39 AM It's hard to tell who's more in need of more fiber in his diet, isn't it? But I'm thinking "the ??? Man" (a.k.a. "I'm SO Clever") has my vote ... ww |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:47 AM Sorry Jocko....We have a few fools who find a need to compensate for their own inadequacies by taking shots at others anonymously. Rick has done a few fun quizzes and this poor fool is trying to take a shot/be cutesy...whatever. M.Ted just started a quiz...very tough too...and that's great. Frankly, if this jackass had simply been truthful about his ID, this would have been quite funny too.....not hilarious, but cute. AS it is, its kinda sad the pissant can't just join in and have a good time. This is simply another version of the flame/troll thing. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:50 AM At last, a folk quiz I can answer 1)47 (the answer to the ultimate question) 2)No 3)Beats me 4)Yep 5)Dumped it on Britain last night 6)Bloody slugs 7)Nope 8)Yes 9)Clarks 10)Buy a bike RtS |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: GUEST,The ??? Man Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:57 AM Spaw: I don't know why you are so angry and vicious. This little quiz was just a bit of fun. Nowhere in it is there an attack on anyone, nor is one implied. Get a grip. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 00 - 12:20 PM I agree it is kinda' cute as I said.........So why not start it under the name you normally use? Is that so tough? What's the point in anonymity if you're just having fun? What would be wrong with just saying, "Hey gang, those other questions are killing me...How about some for us normal people???"...Sign your name to that and I'd have been gung ho for it. Yeah, I DO have a problem with anonymous stuff. If you can't sign your name to something like this, then you need to get a grip! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Bert Date: 11 Oct 00 - 12:27 PM Yer right Spaw, it would have been OK if the 'sorry sod' had signed it. As it is, it's the same poor soul who is jealous of Rick and keeps getting these little digs in. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: paddymac Date: 11 Oct 00 - 12:50 PM The initiating post neglected to say what the poster was looking for: 1.e.; writer, performer, answer, etc. No question 'Spaw came down on him hard, but that's easy enough tuition. I'm not so bothered by the poster's poor choice of an alias as others might be, but, what the hell, an alias is an alias. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Rick Fielding Date: 11 Oct 00 - 01:35 PM Dog gone it, if I didn't have to get my ass outta here in a few hours, I'd LOVE this quiz! Metaphisical answers are a darn sight easier to come by than those maddening dates and places in MTed's quiz. Just when I figure I got #9 nailed, I start worrying about "who's gonna glove my darn hand"? It's better than worrying about Global Warming though. Cheers. Rick |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Jim Dixon Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:12 PM Yeah, I have a problem with anonymous postings, too. Which reminds me, Spaw: Which name is on your birth certificate? is it "Spaw" or "Catspaw49"? |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Gary T Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:22 PM Am I (perhaps along with Rick) the only one who sees this as a lighthearted, nonsensical, and totally innocent thread? The suggestion that it's a dig or a shot or a mean-spirited parody of the other recent quizzes makes no sense to me. While I don't doubt the existence of other quizzes may have inspired this one, look at the questions for crying out loud! They're all from songs (which is rather clever) and inherently unanswerable in the context of a real quiz. We could have a ball coming up with responses to these, and I believe that's what The ??? Man had in mind. Now, IF there were some sinister message here, our first poster's anonymity might bother me. IF. But come on, it's just a lark. I might have posted with a cutesy name (and the corresponding Guest tag) if I had come up with this, as just one more little humorous feature of the package. Anonymity while being offensive increases the severity of the crime, sure, but is it now a crime in and of itself just to be anonymous? From my viewpoint, there's been some significant overreacting in this thread. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Bill D Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:49 PM the Mudcat has some pretty sore & tender places from various anonymous postings over the last 3 years or so...if "the**man" has been here awhile, he oughta know that they are looked on askance by many.....over-reacting?...maybe...but... |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:32 PM Well Jim, if that's a humor kind of thing as in "you too are anonymous Spaw".......Then let me answer that. I'm willing to bet that my name has appeared at least a hundred times here including my address and phone number. Additionally pardner, you weren't around to witness the display of my catscans and upper and lower GI photos. A brief and cursory inspection of past threads will net you all of the above and a ton more. It has nothing to do with anonymity as I am preobably one of the most visible folks here. Now if you missed any of that, feel free to go back and look....its all here. My problem is stated by Bert and Bill and it has to do strictly with the reason our anonymous friend has for being anonymous. I grant that using a name, whether its catspaw49 or Jim Dixon, isn't needed to post. But experience tells me that this jerk is simply wanting to pull Rick's chain as has happened so often before. Make no mistake, I am NOT defending Rick....he doesn't need it. I am simply saying that there is and has always been an atmosphere of trust around here and the only reason to post like our Guest did is to flame or troll. Period. Again, read my previous post.......Its a cute idea and if it had been posted by Jim Dixon, paddymac, Skiffler, Bert, Bill D. or anyone known by either name or pseudonym, there would not have been anything that would have set me off. THIS was not meant as humor, but a dig at Rick and more, at the 'Cat in general. Spaw......aka, Patrick F. Patterson, 411 Purvis Avenue, Bremen, Ohio, 43107.....b.6/8/49, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.etc,etc,etc..... |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Groucho Marxist (inactive) Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:13 PM Spaw: I am "The ??? Man" who created this little quiz. My real name is Lou Melamed and my Mudcat name is Groucho Marxist. I withdrew from Mudcat a few weeks ago because of some of the things that were said in the "Folk Nazi" thread. I've been back lurking for the past week or so and decided to create my little quiz in the spirit that Rick, Gary T and Roger The Skiffler seemed to recognize. When I went to post, I just filled in the "From" box with what I thought was a cute name. I now realize that I had to reset my cookie to post under my Mudcat name. I have now done that. I was quite flabbergasted to see your reaction. It seemed so hateful. I gather you think that I have some kind of bone to pick with Rick and that my quiz was some kind of attack on him. I have no quarrel with Rick. Never have. Did I get the idea for my quiz from Rick's quiz? I guess that maybe I did. Was my quiz aimed at Rick, or anyone else, in any way, shape or form? Absolutely not. I still fail to see how you could read such motives into it. There was no flame of any kind in the quiz. Your reaction was way out of line. Sincerely Lou Melamed |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:37 PM Well Lou....THANK YOU!!! I mean it!!! Let me explain again briefly. We have had a number of problems in the past with someone playing games with Rick's postings and yours sounded right down that alley. Rick made a couple of innocuous references to something silly and an anonymous poster turned them into threads. Although we turned them around, the intent was obvious and certainly not friendly. I also remember the Nazi thread and your posts so I am understanding of your situation. Its always my contention that though we might all disagree on all kinds of things, in the end we can still agree to disagree. I've been flamed and I've been angered, but it has never made me want to post anonymously because of the way that so many view, as I just did (and Bert and Bill), those kind of postings. If I was out of line in your case...and I was...you have my sincerest apology. Perhaps sadly though, I will probably rreact that way agin to something similar.....But I'm glad to see you're around again. Hope I haven't run you back off!!! So do I get another chance to answer the questions or not? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Groucho Marxist (inactive) Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:45 PM Spaw: Be my guest. Groucho |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: bflat Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:05 PM Glad you gentlemen are now gentlemanly. That seemed like a flash fire on my eyelashes. The quiz itself is neat. The only one unfamiliar is number 10. So, are we going to let this rest or get back to the spirit of the quiz? I would like to print and work from a hard copy but my printer won't take threads. And, I'm too uncoordinated to move up and down the screen and writing it out is arcane. But, I'd love to read your responses. You are funnier than I and a lot more cleaver. More fun to me anyway! Smile :) 'in at you. bflat |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Groucho Marxist (inactive) Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:15 PM bflat: Question 10 refers to a Bob Dylan song that begins his "Self Portrait" album. Groucho |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:18 PM Cute Grouch...... 1) I figure it to be 3852. Check with all those folks on the math thread who are figuring probabilities on nuts. I could be wrong. 2) No, I quit going when the upped the admission fee and started charging for parking. Besides, the last time I was there the whole place stunk to high heavens of herbs and other smelly stuff. Made me want to hurl....... 3) Einstein at least had a clue as to how fast it went, but I always regret not marrying that girl with the face that could stop a clock. The older I get, the more I regret it. 4) Yes. I can never find a pen in this place so a note is out of the question too. 5) Its an obvious conspiracy. The "they" clues you in right away doesn't it? 6) I don't know about anyone elses, but since we're so damn short of money all the time, I've been smoking anything that blooms in the entire neighborhood! Nothing much has happened tripwise, but I caught a buzz off the flaming bee that I lit up and proceeded to sting my nose. 7) No, I can't......and don't ask again. 8) I really didn't notice as I was in the can with a case of the blazing shits. Is that why my basement is full of water? 9) I have friend who sells mail order and gives me his samples. I've developed a limp over the years since they're ALL right foot shoes and 2 sizes too small....but the price is right. 10) I dunno' why you want to ride anyway, but if you try with THOSE horses, wear a good sunblock and cup to protect your balls. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: bflat Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:26 PM Spaw you are so damn funny! Lucky Karen!!!! bflat |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Bill D Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:47 PM 1)...the road less travelled 2),,,don't have my passport in order, & overseas air rates are pretty high 3) Scott Baker at http://pawprint.net/ does....he's a folkie, and has the best freeware clock on the net! 4)I can't leave, I haven't seen the ending yet! 5)The rain?...Strontium 90 and Nitric acid...not good stuff for folk songs 6)Funerals for Mafia bosses..(but my wife made be bury some bulbs...maybe there'll be more in Spring 7)sure....now about my interest rate and security deposit 8)naaawwwww...ya shoulda seen the blow in '08...our hen laid the same egg 3 times! 9)you GOTTA be kidding!...the shoemaker just laughs>br> 10)...I don't DO any Dylan |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Haruo Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:18 PM 1) HOW MANY roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? (Please, no lazy responses like "the answer is blowin' in the wind.") 2) Are YOU going to Scarborough Fair? 3) WHO knows where the time goes? 4) Are YOU going away with no word of farewell? 5) WHAT have they done to the rain? 6) WHERE have all the flowers gone? (Again, no lazy responses like "the young girls picked them.") 7) Can YOU spare a dime? 8) Wasn't THAT a mighty storm? 9) Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet? 10) With all the wild horses in the sun, HOW am I supposed to get any riding done? Bonus points for the best answers. Liland |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: Gary T Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:39 PM 1) HOW MANY roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? (Please, no lazy responses like "the answer is blowin' in the wind.") The average is 86, although it becomes 7 if he actually stops and asks for directions (this last number is theoretical, such direction-asking behavior never having been observed in men). 2) Are YOU going to Scarborough Fair? What's it to YOU? 3) WHO knows where the time goes? The folks who run the magazine recycling center. 4) Are YOU going away with no word of farewell? We say "goodbye", "see ya", "so long", "catch you later", "ta-ta", "take care"--but have ANY of us ever actually said "farewell"? I didn't think so. 5) WHAT have they done to the rain? For most of the past summer, locked it up where it couldn't get out. 6) WHERE have all the flowers gone? (Again, no lazy responses like "the young girls picked them.") Nowhere that I know of--I thought she was still in Arkansas. 7) Can YOU spare a dime? Not today, friend. 8) Wasn't THAT a mighty storm? (I'm not falling for this one again--hah!) Define storm. 9) Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet? No one whose sense of smell is operational. 10) With all the wild horses in the sun, HOW am I supposed to get any riding done? Try a tamed horse. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Quiz From: hesperis Date: 12 Oct 00 - 04:11 AM 1) HOW MANY roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? (Please, no lazy responses like "the answer is blowin' in the wind.") Does he have to walk? If he does he'll never get there... And if he drives, he'll probably speed by it so fast it doesn't register... It's gotta be somewhen between going too slowly, and going so fast you crash because you didn't see the tree. That's adulthood. (The answer is blowin' out Spaw's ass.)
2) Are YOU going to Scarborough Fair?
3) WHO knows where the time goes?
4) Are YOU going away with no word of farewell?
5) WHAT have they done to the rain?
6) WHERE have all the flowers gone? (Again, no lazy responses like "the young girls picked them.")
7) Can YOU spare a dime?
8) Wasn't THAT a mighty storm?
9) Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet?
10) With all the wild horses in the sun, HOW am I supposed to get any riding done?
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