BS: Introductions not withstanding

Subject: Introductions not withstanding
From: Luke
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 04:41 PM

I never knew such a place existed as this. I think I mighta just gone to songlovers heaven. Thanks for the mighty fine work here.

Luke

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From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 04:45 PM

Welcome, Luke! Yes, this is a pretty fine place, a lot like a family, where there are tiffs and spats and serious disagreements but pervading all there's a real strong caring that shines through. And we're all here for the music!

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From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 04:47 PM

Hold on there Luke - tell us about yourself. What do you sing , what do you play , where are you?? Clue us in.

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From: Naemanson
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 04:57 PM

WHADYA MEAN TIFFS AND SERIOUS DISAGREEMENTS??!! ANIMATERRA, THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS!

Or maybe not *BG*

Welcome to the madhouse, Luke. Tell us a little about yourself and how you justify your existance.

Trivia question: What book does that last sentence come from?

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From: Catrin
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 04:59 PM

Hi Luke!

Welcome welcome to the mudcatter's tea party! (grin)

Catrin

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From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:00 PM

Like I said, Naemanson, they're all crazy except thee and me and I'm not so sure about thee (or is it me?)!

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From: Morticia
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:05 PM

Don't trust Animaterra, Luke, she's as mad as an actress...I on the other hand am sober, industrious and a pillar of my community ( not this one, obviously).Anyway, welcome......

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From: Catrin
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:06 PM

And then there's paltalk - now that's totally addictive too......

(real live singing!)

Subject: RE: BS: Introductions not withstanding
From: Luke
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:09 PM

Well,

There is no real justification for such an old pile such as myself. Only thing I can say is I made it this far, and lord knows how.

I've managed to play music all my life professionally, and for profit. (pardon the attempt at humor) Ilive in Ohio and play stringed instruments.(guitar banjo fiddle and if you need one bad enough.)

Grew up singing and that was all she write. My dad's only words of advice were, "Stand up straight, keep you're hair comed and don't sing flat and you'll be ok.

Thats pretty much what I been doin since then.

How about you all?

Whats up witch?

Luke

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From: Luke
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:12 PM

Dear Folks,

I can't type or spell too well. At this time I would like to file a disclaimer that will forever release me from guilt for being a bad typist.

Luke

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From: annamill
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:20 PM

I just love meeting new people in Mudcat! I hope your nice Luke. Welcome very much and don't worry about your typing. Jest rammber to sppelchekk (That's a joke Luke) If you see this ;-) or this **BG** or this LOL, it means we're joking.

Welcome!

Love, annamill

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From: Jim Krause
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:32 PM

Ah, Luke my man, so you play guitar, banjo, and fiddle, eh? If it's clawhammer, so much the better. If it isn't, that's alright, too. But something tells me we might have a thing or three in common. I play the three same instruments, too. Welcome,
Jim Krause

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From: Wavestar
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 06:56 PM

Welcome Luke! Don't mind the madmen. Some of us are sane, but I'm not one of them.

-J

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From: Margaret V
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 07:09 PM

Welcome Luke -- it is a pretty amazing place, isn't it? I'm so grateful for the DT database and for the incredible, voluminous knowledge lodged in the minds of mudcatters, and of course for the kindness of strangers (who become less and less like strangers every day). Incidentally, I had lots of fun playing my guitar with a banjo player and fiddler when I lived in Ohio, so I guess that means you are equal to (or greater than) the sum of our parts... Margaret

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From: Troll
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 07:10 PM

Ignore the man behind the curtain.
And watch out for 'Spaw.

troll

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From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 07:34 PM

Welcome to the zoo, Luke. I'm a little partial to that name, it's my son's name also. I's also a fiddler and we're always glad to welcome another one. Most of these nutsos play guitar.

Oh, and Do watch out for Spaw--he lives in Ohio too!

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From: MMario
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 07:49 PM

who's calling whom sane? yeesh - talk about mudcat-slinging! welcome Luke - If no one has pointed it out, the teal perma-thread stuck up at the top will explain a lot of things. Most other things can only be explained through reading a LOT of old threads. And some things, well, they just can't be explained, 'cuz like topsy, they jest growed. anywho- welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mudcat Cafe (to qoute the illustrious leader, Max)

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From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 08:08 PM

Welcome, Luke. It really doesn't take long to catch on- I think Max may have meant to call us the Madhatters

Ebbie

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From: death by whisky
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 08:28 PM

hello

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From: CamiSu
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 08:51 PM

Yes welcome Luke! Music for money?! Cool! Might any of us have heard you anywhere?

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From: Robo
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 09:27 PM

Lucas! Lucas boy!

Good to have you with us!

Rob-o

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From: Mooh
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 09:36 PM

Hi Luke, nice to have you around. Can you help me with my straight jacket? Really, you can trust me, honest. Mooh.

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From: Clifton53
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 10:49 PM

Welcome Luke, hope you enjoy the place.

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From: Tinker
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 10:57 PM

Welcome Luke, Take your shoes off, Set a spell and Enjoy. Ramble over to Pal Talk and play for us soon okay?

Tinker

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From: rangeroger
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 11:02 PM

Welcome Luke, and don't you dare let Mooh out of that straitjacket. He'll have you in it in no time , and then Spaw will drag you off to the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed.

rr

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From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 11:28 PM

Another Ahian???!!! Any relation to Spaw aka Catspaw49?? Oooo boy, we may be in for it, Ahia seems to be wracking up the numbers in bona fide members!**BG**

Anyhow, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mudcat Cafe, good to know you recognise heaven when you've found it; have a cup of ambrosia; it's on the house.

katlaughing

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From: p.j.
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 11:50 PM

"What is your name?

What is your quest?

What is your favorite color?"

(name that movie...)

Welcome Luke, glad you think it's songlover's heaven, you're not far from the truth.

"Is this heaven? Naa, it's Iowa."

(movie name...)

See you on the radio, Luke...

pj

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From: ddw
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 12:10 AM

Welcome Luke — where are you in Ohio? I escaped from Cleveland about 30 years ago, but still travel thru regularly on my way to North Carolina — usually down I-75, but occasionally over to I-77 and down that way. Living in Canada now. Well, sorta. Windsor, Ont., actually. Which is a little principality all to itself — not really Canada and not really U.S.

And don't let Troll's warning scare you — 'Spaw IS he man behind the curtain. He's fairly harmless, but keep an eye on Cletus....

cheers,

david

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From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 02:39 AM

Got your own little Lichtenstein going there, huh, ddw?**BG**

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From: CarolC
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 02:40 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat, Luke!

Best wishes,

Carol

Subject: RE: BS: Thanks for the howdy
From: Luke
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 07:41 AM

Folks,

Thanks for the warm howdy, I have ben in folk-trad music for years and I also write songs. I was a member of the folk trio the Young-uns when I was 12 years old and have played with many groups since then. I am 51 now and have been working in storytelling theater for the last 15 years or so. I work as songwriter in res. as well as acting at acting. It has given me the way to be a writer performer but not deal with the music biz types that can make a feller want to clean toilets cuz it's moe sanitary.

I live in the northwest part of Ohio (Logan co.). In a little town called Rushsylvania.

I humbly except your welcome and look forward to a what appears to be a great group of yammer ons and brainiacs.

I'll see ya round,

Luke (Bob Lucas)

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 07:42 AM

So how about telling us a bit more.... any pictures... do you look like Sean Connery??

Good to see new blood (get back in your cage 'Spaw), perhaps you could bring the tone up a little??

I can dream can't I??

LTS don't ask why, you'll regret it.

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From: okthen
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 08:01 AM

Hiandhowdydoodyluke

cheers

bill

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From: Kim C
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 09:55 AM

pj - that would be Monty Python's Holy Grail! Know it well, know it well, have my own copy, have the script bookmarked on the Web. (what makes you think she's a witch?)

Greetings Luke, my name is Kim, I also play the fiddle. Sometimes I refer to myself as the Princess Svetlana of Antioch (the Antioch thing being not only another Monty Python ref, but actually is the name of the 'burb where I live!) just for kicks and giggles. :)

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From: Gervase
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 09:59 AM

Liz, m'dear, I thought you saw new blood every time you encountered someone (a) carrying chocolate, (b) wearing shorts, (c) possessed of a Y chromosome and standing within 10 yards of you!
Or is it just me? And when will the scars heal??

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From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 10:23 AM

Luke - a very warm welcome. My experience of the mudcat is that it simply the best place to be
love Patrish xxx

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From: Hollowfox
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 10:35 AM

Greetings from Mahoning County.

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From: mousethief
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 11:01 AM

Welcome to the funny farm, Luke! Your career path sounds like a dream. Want to trade it for computer programming?

Didn't think so.

Alex

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From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 12:48 PM

Greetings from the Pariah's Club Welcoming Committee. Got any money you can lend us? Oh wait...stupid question to ask a folk or blues musician....

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From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 12:58 PM

Being normal is just a figment of everyone else's imagination. -- Carissa L.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -- Mark twain

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From: Noreen
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:12 PM

Welcome, Luke- from your very first posting, you sound like you'll fit in really well here!!

Noreen

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:13 PM

Welcome, Luke, and No, I don't know what that sentence is from...Naemanson? But I caught the Monty Python and the other references...

MY favorite Luke is Lucky Luke, the French cartoonist's answer to the American cowboy. Hope to hear you soon on Hearme!

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From: annamill
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:26 PM

MT, I'm a programmer too. I'm in NY, where are you?

Mrrzy, the only time I ever saw Lucky Luke was in Portugal. Can we get him here in NJ somehow? I loved watching the show and I don't even speak French ;-)

Love, annamill

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From: mousethief
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 02:00 PM

Hi, Anna! I'm in Seattle. Well, just south of Seattle, actually, near the airport. I work for a large company that makes winged metal tubes that fly through the air carrying people and cargo.

I wonder if programmers are under- or over-represented in the ranks of musicians? I would guess over. Sounds like a topic of a new thread.

Alex

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From: annamill
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 02:07 PM

Oh MT, too far away to hang out. Oh well, if you're ever in the vacinity come and visit me and Honey. I'm not a musician yet, but I hope to be soon..one of these days...when my store opens...when I can retire and practice...soon I hope....mmm. I love music...

Love, annamill

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From: Naemanson
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 03:09 PM

Mrrzy, Isaac Asimov wrote a series of stories about a men's club called the Black Widowers. They would sit at dinner and solve mysteries over brandy and cigars. Well, actually the butler would solve the mysteries for them.

Anyway, their mysteries came in the form of invited guests and the sentence I used in my first post ("Tell us a little about yourself and how you justify your existance.") is how they would open the discussion with the guest.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:15 PM

Gervase, I think you are mixing me with Morticia - I never leave a mark......

LTS *BG*

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From: Catrin
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 03:34 PM

Yup! That sounds like Morticia allright!

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From: Morticia
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 03:50 PM

Slandered ( or is it libelled, I never can remember the difference) again!!!!.Pay them no attention Luke, I only leave marks when I'm rushed...well, that's what I told the judge that time and he bought it *BG*.