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Subject: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,harmoniclive Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:07 AM GIVE ME A BREAK PLEASE,EVERYTIME I SEE SOMETHING TO DO WITH AUSTRALIA,SURE ENOUGH UP POPS BORING BOB BOLTON WHO KNOWS EVERTHING ABOUT ANYTHING , JUST ASK HIM . AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED BUDDY YOURE NOT A MUSICIANS ASSHOLE , AND YOU WOUDNT KNOW SHIT FROM CLAY. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: InOBU Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:23 AM One of those posts that inspire one to go Hmmmmmmmmm, Hope you have a good day Larry |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:24 AM I wish I could get compliments like "You're not a musicians asshole". The only similar response I get is I am an arsehole of a musician.... Still, can't expect someone who shouts all the time to get the phraseology (sp?) right I guess. and no-one needs to give you a break harmoniclive (nice handle btw - realy!) - just take one! Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: flattop Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:40 AM Who is Boring Bob Bolton? I need more time to read more threads. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Wesley S Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:01 AM Actually the PROPER term is "knowitalls". I hope this qualifys me as one. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Liam's Brother Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:03 AM Right on, harmoniclive! I don't think Bob "Boring" Bolton is worth a dump of dingo dung. So what if he actually knows something about folk music? What's the Mudcat about anyway - folk music or musician's assholes? You're right! Musician's assholes! That's how I see it too... the bottom up view! If it were up to that crocodile's crotch, we would hardly be able to turn around in this flipping flat! We'd have to move the wrestling ring out of the living room! You know what that kangaroo's k__t did to me? He searched through stale smelly shelves of stinking Sydney bookstores looking for blinking boring books, wrapped them up ever so neatly with stamps stuck in the predictably proper places and popped them in the post to me. You know why? So that I could become just as bloody boring as him. Not bloody likely, mate. You know what we did. No sooner had they arrived here than we built a big bonfire in the back and, no faster than you can say "Bob's your bleeding boring uncle," those rancid writings reached the flames. Hey, Bob "Boring" Bolton, get a life. How about taking up sky diving without a parachute? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Rick Fielding Date: 30 Jan 01 - 10:48 AM I find Bob a fascinating "knowall". Damn glad he's here. Rick |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bill D Date: 30 Jan 01 - 10:58 AM ...yeah, Boring Bob keeps popping into threads where topics related to Australia are being bandied about, and spoiling our fun by posting relevant, clear and useful information! We could spend WEEKS speculating randomly about some of this stuff if ol' Boring Bob didn't gum it up with timely facts and answers!..... (and I know for a fact that he has clotted the mails with books to one other friend here in the states, who can barely restrain her indignity at having her music collection enhanced without the fun of spending $2000 on a ticket to OZ to do it herself!) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Looniewatch Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:00 AM Way to go mate. Getting flamed means you really DO contribute to Mudcat, but to be flamed by an illiterate should make you proud. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: MMario Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:05 AM Would that I could acquire a tenth of the information Bob seems to have! If he keeps sharing, who knows, I might. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: SINSULL Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:05 AM Checked his postings. Bob must think this is a music site or something. All those lyrics posted and advice on instruments. You are absolutely right, harmoniclive "He is not a musician's asshole"! You, on the other hand... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:05 AM Ya know he's gotta be the world's worst asshole if SUSAN likes him, and I do, so now it's official, cuz I'm an even bigger Knowall than Bob-- Bob Bolton is lost forever to any kind of community respect, because, you know, it takes one to know one, and I like him, and we know I'm a boring Knowall, and certainly an asshole, I've even BRAGGED about it, but crap! Why didn't they give ME a thread like this, dang! WhaddoIgottado, be a Bob Bolton for Christ's sake???? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:07 AM How do we know he/she is illiterate eh??? Their parents may well have been married in time... DtG |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Wesley S Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:14 AM Dave - It takes a while for cousins to get permission to marry. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Peter T. Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:15 AM Yes, perhaps we should start giving out Mudcat medals (flamed with oak leaf clusters). "Gee, dad, where do you get medals like that?" "Oh, my son, you have to have been on Mudcat a long time to get a set of tin like that".... "I got this from being flamed over 10 times by GUEST", "There I was, giving out facts and information about banjos, and all of a sudden, whhooosssh, a flamer hit me with WHAT HAS THIS TO DO WITH FOLK MUSIC?", "Oh, that one, that's the Bob Bolton long time service medal...." D.M.O. Distinguished Mudcat Order C.M.E. Companion of the Mudcat Empire, etc. Worth working on.... yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:16 AM Is it Bob who produces the clay ocarinas? In that case I can understand Spaw's attraction for the little buggers. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:20 AM And I bet Bob knows where the Capslock key is, as well. RtS(boring know-nothing) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:20 AM "Boring Knowalls"? Sounds like fun. Can I apply? I haven't got clue who Bob Bolton is in the first place, but he's obviously achieved something useful or harmoniclive wouldn't care enough to bother. Yay, Bob! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Rick Fielding Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:21 AM Well, it was through Bob's invaluable posts and help, that I learned six months of button accordion in one month. I don't think Heather will ever forgive him!! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: InOBU Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:22 AM Didn't Bob Bolton introduce the three stooges back when I was a kid? - Larry |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Lady McMoo Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:37 AM Can someone tell me where I can obtain one of these Bob Bolt-ons, how much it costs and will it fit my Japanese Lowden? mcmoo |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Big Mick Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:38 AM I am glad someone fecking exposed that damn Bolton for what he is!!!!!!!!!!!! All that horses patoot ever does is sit around and give people the info they ask for, wander around on his own time and try and find things for folks that they couldn't find in the states...............what a waste of DNA. I am with Liam's Brother on this one..........anyone willing to help completely unknown folks out just because they ask.......well that eejit must have an agenda. Must be part of the vast right wing conspiracy.......AWWRIGHT Bolton, have you ever met a woman named Lewinsky? Do you have a friend with a tape recorder who likes to tape friends private conversations and sell them?.........Come clean, you gobshite. You know that you were a member of the Communist party in the 30's and 40's..........Many t'anks to harmoniclive for saving us from this dread menace |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: LR Mole Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:58 AM Damned thing I already know everytning I need or I'd have to join this thread...um... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Sarah2 Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:58 AM Well, I don't know Bob Bolton's work here, as I haven't been around long, but he sounds just dreadful, according to all this. I suggest we all give up helping anyone with anything, to avoid the terrifying flaming of some unknown twit...er, insightful stranger. I mean, it's soooooo scary to think someone might take exception to the sharing of information...I tremble. Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 12:01 PM Doesn't Know-It-Alls have hyphens? I wouldn't think getting flamed by an illiterate would be much of a distinction; anybody can do that. I just want to say I'm very happy there are people here who can actually answer questions knowledgeably (sp?) and even quickly. Thank you, Bob, and the myriad know-it-alls like you. Don't ever stop. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: UB Ed Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:24 PM Wow. Being new to the Cat, this is the first flame I've seen. Really makes you wonder about the sad and pathetic folks out there. Is civility a dying "art"? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Amergin Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:34 PM No its not a dying art....it's just that some poor bastard's ewe has been turning him down, so he has to take his sexual frustrations out on others...only behind the thin veil of a Guest attachment... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:34 PM There have always been uncivil people. It's just that, in an electronic age, it's easier (and safer) for them to make themselves heard. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wildlone Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:47 PM I have found that the best cure for this is to take yourself of to a quiet room place your head into the pan AND FLUSH |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:47 PM And every graphic design student knows that all caps is a typographical no-no! Poor design! Ick! --Matt (a boring knowall...or wonderwall as the case may be) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:49 PM And the fella spells arsehole like a Yank. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: MMario Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:50 PM mispelling arsehole should be a capital crime. Matt - I thought you were a sawsall? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Troll Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:53 PM Well GUEST Harmoniclive, I guess you know by now that most of hold Bob in high esteem. You, however, are entitled to your opinion, which you have stated rather forcefully. If you have other opinions on any of the people or postings on Mudcat, don't hesitate to make them known. You have my assurances that all the regulars here on the forum will give them the attention they deserve and will make appropriate comments. Don't be shy. troll |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Jan 01 - 02:07 PM HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I love this place! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 02:14 PM Hey, what's wrong with yanks? I'll bet you've yanked a few times in your life. We can't help the way we spell. It's Webster's fault. Besides, I know what an asshole is: the terminus of a donkey's UI tract. What's an arse? Alex |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: kendall Date: 30 Jan 01 - 02:25 PM Hey, harmoniclive..dont sugar coat it..we can take it. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 03:52 PM UB Ed, you aren't new, you've been here almost 2 months!! Why you're practically a grizzled veteran by now!! Don't you know that all time spent at the Mudcat is worth double 3D time? (Welcome to the Mudcat.) ~No, YOU be Ed! I'm busy being Susan! |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: UB Ed Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:12 PM Susan, I've gone back to some of the old threads looking for guitar stuff. You folks been around alot longer than me! Anyway, pleased to be here, thanks for the welcome. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: MMario Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:23 PM ONly double? I thought we underwent dog years year at the 'cat! |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:23 PM I'm not complaining that he spelklks arsehole like a Yank; the point is, he doesn't spell it like an Australian. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:30 PM Oh, McG. That's better, I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:41 PM Go to any message Bob Bolton has posted and click on his name (or click here). You'll find he's made a terrific contribution here. He furnishes interesting, reliable information, and he's a darn nice guy. When it comes to Australian music, he knows his stuff. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:45 PM Sure, Joe, it's just that some people HATE others when the others know more than they do, and are friendly and interesting to boot. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:49 PM McGrath-- LOL!!!! Good catch! Joe! Answering a flamer???? You??? Hey UB Ed, I only been WYSIWYG a lil while, so you gotta recalculate my tenure! (I was Praise.) (~UB Praise?) MMario, of course it all depends. In Spaw's case for example, it's calcualted in Possum Years. Imagine. For mice-- well with the fast metabolism, I dunno, what do you think is right? (I picked double because I was a twin.) *G* ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:51 PM (Clones, if yer gonna take out my first overly-bold post, couldja fix my typo in the second one too? I still larnin'!) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Kim C Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:06 PM What's a gobshite? I'm sure some of you boring knowalls can tell me. ;) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Ickle Dorritt Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:08 PM Bob Bolton for President, I say. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:11 PM Not sure exactly what a gobshite is, but I do know that "gob" is British slang for "mouth" and "shite" is a euphemistic spelling of "shit." Hope that helps. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Kim C Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:16 PM then shouldn't it be shitegob instead.....? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:31 PM Don't ask me! I'm not British! |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:35 PM It's one of those typical bastardizations of the language that occurs when people are eager to offend, and desirous of doing it in a crude fashion...think nothing of it. "Gobsmacked" is a great expression, BTW. It means "utterly astonished". - LH |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,harmoniclive Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:44 PM just a tip for all you sycophants.if you think that holding workshops on how to rattle a stick with bottle tops on it is important musical stuff,i suggest you take up something else quick! the point being that bob bolton is a self appointed expert on the music scene here ,about which he knows absolutely knothing. |
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Subject: Knowing Bore-alls! From: Bernard Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:45 PM The worst thing about a bore? It's not that they don't stop talking, but they don't let you stop listening!! |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:56 PM Who's listening? I'm enjoying things posted by real people, and responding to same. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 30 Jan 01 - 06:03 PM ooo this thread has made me laugh.. Susan - I love possums, what a silly name for an animal... possum years lmao! Alex... your description of gobshite, is pretty much bang on... a friend of mine from Scotland has been known to utter... ahhh go away and shite ye gobshite will ye.... it's derogatory - and pretty much self explanatory... Is a sycophant smaller than the elephant... and if so, does it have smaller ears or bigger ones? I think I would like the sychophant if it were smaller than an elephant but bigger than a possum ok... tired now |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Dave Wynn Date: 30 Jan 01 - 06:19 PM Gobshite is a lancashire expression used a lot by Lancashire people and it defies exact definition. It is derogatory , in general , but can be used amongst friends in a self deprecating way "oh..I have spilled my beer ...I say , what a gobshite I am" would be a common expression in a Lancashire pub. Or if required it can be a good description of some one who talks a load of crap like " my goodness Guest Harmoniclive talks like a gobshite" . A very useful word. Spot. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 06:31 PM I'll tellya what, though, that Bob Bolton-- MAN! Can that guy SPELL! Yeah, Ella, Possum Years, kinda funny to think about huh? If we all had to pick what animal we live at the speed of... That Bob Bolton! Wow! He's got it all over me on grammar, too! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Sarah2 Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:24 PM harmoniclive, Suggest YOU take up something else quick: You know naught of music if you don't know its most basic form is clapping hands -- it's usually referred to as rhythm, my boring little know-it-all. If people graduate to sticks and bottle-tops, who are you to tell them they're not making music? Do people really trace other people's thread entries? Geez, what an empty life... Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: kendall Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:24 PM Is Bob the kind of guy who would flame himself just to see the reaction? If this clive person is real, I suggest you share some of your knowledge with us instead of trashing another. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Jeri Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:45 PM My first and last comment: It takes someone extremely lacking in confidence and very easily threatened to go to this much effort to anonymously attack someone we respect simpy because he helps people. Somehow, I can't bring myself to take this guy seriously. (Not as in the opposite of humorously. More like he/she's all bent out of shape because Bob helps people?!?! Give ME a break!) And as for Liam's Brother - isn't there a fine around here for alliterating? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:49 PM "shite" is a euphemistic spelling of "shit.
Nothing euphemistic about it, it's just an alternative version of the word. With the advantage that the long vowel gives it more expressive power.
In note that the fella concerned says "here" in that last post, with the implication that he is in Australia. Strange. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Cobble Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:02 PM Gobshite is a Yorkshire expression, when you are lost for words, it was stolen by the Lancastrians during the wars of the Roses. They were jealous of all things White Rose. Yeeeeeeeeees Cobble. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Snuffy Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:16 PM I always thought gobshite was an Irish expression. I was drug up just south of Manchester and can't remember ever hearing it there. Perhaps the thread title is a spoonerism - our anonymous poster is a WARRING NO-BALLS |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: ddw Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:30 PM So far we've ascertained that harmoniclive is bored by descriptions of the bottle-cap-covered sticks used as rhythm instruments and he resents Bob's knowledge (and willingness to share same) of music in general and Aussie music in particular. I think what we need to do next is start threads about washboards, spoons, jugs, gut-bucket basses and any other "folk" instruments and zero in a little closer on what it is that harmoniclive fines offensive. Then we should encourage harmoniclive to go out and acquire one of each of these instruments, turn thems sideways and STUFF 'EM UP HIS MUSICAL ARSEHOLE. Then we can serve the beer and get back to enjoying the music and friends. cheers, david |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:48 PM YES! lol AND beer! giggling.... I have TWO washboards I play with metal fingerpicks!! (Take that!) And I made a whole BOX full of rhythm snappers for a concert-- wooden ice cream spoons fastened together with elastic cord to go SNAP! And bells! And... Pringles Potato-snacks cans full of rice and oatmeal and beans! And I have a shaker orange and a shaker lime and a shaker peach! And an apple too! I think I'll send a few snappers to Bob! VERY LOUD noise they make! SMACK! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: ddw Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:22 PM Let's not get carried away, Susan. If you donate all your things for harmoniclive's enjoyment you won't have anything to make music with. *G* david |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:24 PM I looked at some of Bob Bolton's messages using Joe Offer's CLICK. Lots of info there. How about a Bob Bolton Day at Mudcat? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,John Gray/Australia Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:32 PM "shite" is not a word in common use in Oz. We only hear it from Brit. immigrants. Anyway, those of you who think you know everything annoy those of us who do. F.M.E. JG. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bob Bolton Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:44 PM G'day All, Susan / WYSIWYG, All the portable, makeshifts that kept Australians playing music on the other side of the earth from friends, family and tradition are a special interest to me. Bones, spoons, local native clapper sticks, empty kerosene drums, bits of wood tied to a tea chest ... and bottle tops loosely nailed on a broomstick ... and anything else that lets people participate instead of just sitting around listening is fair game in understanding our larrikin traditions. A related major interest is the free reed group - mouth organ, concertina and accordion - all contributing to the local musical accent. I look at Mudcat because it gives me an extra perspective beyond my Australian one. It helps me a lot, particularly when I wonder about what to put in the next issue of Mulga Wire or Singabout, to know what interests such a diverse bunch of keen musicians. If I help some of them in return - Bloody Good Thing! BTW: Our GUEST harmoniclive paid us a visit last Easter when one of our Ozcats enquired about others attending the St Albans Festival. You can check out here: St Albans pleasantries if I have my "blue clicky thing" working. Regards, Bob Bolton
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: pict Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:52 PM Gob is the Scots Gaelic word(and probably the Irish and Manx word too)for the beak of a bird that's where the English usage is derived from. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bob Bolton Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:52 PM G'day again, It looks as if the link doesn't like being directed via one of Mudcat's server aliases (Shorty or Ragtime). This might work better (otherwise ... JoeClones ... HELP!). Regard(les)s, Bob Bolton |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:08 PM This one is probably the most ridiculous flame job yet. BOB BOLTON????? Gimmee a break there clivedung..........Trying to flame Bob is like trying to ignite halon. One of the ultimate good guys of the 'Cat and I have yet to see anything of value that YOU have contributed. Congrats though Bob....You must be doing something right to get flamed by an asshole. Welcome to the Nomex Brigade! Spaw (and BTW, nice work Mr. Milner) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:54 PM Susan, you sure seem to have a lot of FOOD in those makeshift musical instruments of yours. Definite trend. Oatmeal in potato chip cans. Ice cream spoons. Even your purchased instruments are in the SHAPE of food. Definitely some sort of Freudian thing going on here, but I lack the training to pinpoint it exactly. Probably has something to do with breast feeding. :0) Alex |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Extra Stout Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:02 AM Perhaps "Harmoniclive's" postings are actually the work of the proverbial room full of typing chimpanzees, working their way up to the complete works of Shakespeare. If so, they deserve praise and respect. Good boy, 'clive, you deserve another banana. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:14 AM Yes, 'teef, I was worried my boobs might not be big enough to feed everyone, and I was running out of faith fish and loveloaves to divide. You should know, since I am confessing ALL, that I hammer my autoharp with an iced tea spoon as well. Bob, I get real tired of people telling me they are not musical and can't do a thing about it. "No musical bone in my body!!" Hah!! Someone has LIED to them! They TAP THEIR TOES, don't tell me they have no rhythm. If they can applaud, or speak any language, they can make music. Just ain't found their instrument yet. So I think of tying a batch of bells on their feet.... and pass around the homemade rhythm insturments. Pot lids, anything to get the noise underway. If it's homemade, they don't think they have to do it "right" and they just play. We say we PLAY music-- so sheeshe!! Playful, yeah! I have a pair of ashwood claves that bounce themselves so hard I hardly have to play, just control them... I hand those to some people and the rainstick to others, and we're off. Also our group never gives concerts-- we lead singalongs. My husband and I can hardly stand to attend concerts ourselves anymore-- it seems so unnatural that some people are singing and some watching. So--- long way around saying, GOOD ONYA. Come on over anytime. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Brendy Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:19 AM motormice, eh? Cute! B. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Ernest Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:21 AM Hello everyone, Bob Bolton contributed a lot of valuable information to this forum (that includes providing me with the lyrics, chords etc. for a song a friend of mine has been looking for fifteen years). I do not remember any comparable message by harmonyclive. So Bob Bolton, keep on! And I suggest that harmoniclive changes his alias in "disharmonyclive" All the best Ernest |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Jon Freeman Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:53 AM Oh well harmoniclive has given me my first laugh of the day. I suppose I should feel sorry for him but I am in warped mode this morning and I find the idea of being flamed for making numerous informative on-topic contributions hilarious. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: English Jon Date: 31 Jan 01 - 04:59 AM who the fuck is harmoniclive? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Jan 01 - 08:00 AM "shite" is not a word in common use in Oz. We only hear it from Brit. immigrants. (John Gray)
You wouldn't be using the term Brit in some novel way that includes Irish would you? That's not too advisable... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:12 AM Having just read the St Albans thread mentioned by Bob I must apologise to harmoniclive for suggesting he needs to take a break. As such an obviously accomplished professional musician he cannot take a break from the constant round of well paid folk gigs he gets. Which is why he is so well known on the international folk scene. I am sure he must be as good as the Bogles, Garbutts, Hutchins, Priors and Prines of this world. He is just being denied a wage by all us uneducated folkies. C'mon, Bob and everyone else doing this stuff for free, give the guy a break. You are taking the bread out of his mouth and stopping everyone with real talent making a living. Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Big Mick Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:22 AM And dischordanticlive..........just in case that "picked before it was ripe" pea you use for a feckin' brain isn't bright enough to get it, I would like to point out a fact that you should realize. YOU ARE GETTING A WELL DESERVED ASS WHUPPING IN THIS THREAD. Come on back when you have had time to ripen. Maybe then you will realize that it is not a sin here to disagree and argue whatever point you choose. But it is a cardinal sin to flame others just because you don't like them or disagree with them. Debate is a value in this forum. Flaming just shows you for the worthless piece of cosmic dung that you are. Oh, and by the way, another value here is forgiveness. All you have to do to receive it is to start contributing in a POSITIVE, or contributing way. You will find 'Catters to be wonderfully welcoming. Make your choice. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: kendall Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:33 AM Let's not shut him out totally, there is a remote chance that he actually does know something worth sharing.. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Kim C Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:49 AM Heehee! Warring No-Balls! HeeHeeHee!!!!! I know a few people like that... :) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: English Jon Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:08 AM Kendall is right. Come on Clive, tell us something useful? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Mooh Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:21 AM Hmmm...The Knowitalls sure beat the Idiots for informative reading, that's for certain. Nonetheless, how can we really tell if someone is a knowitall if all we see is that which is posted here, and why would someone weigh in with deliberate stupidity (that is, when it's not intended a humour)? I got major personal flames only really once, based on my contributions to a guitar tips thread, and I never thought I was imposing enough to be that threatening to folks. I'm tempted to suggest that harmoniclive find therapy elsewhere than here, but I'm not knowitall enough to make that judgement. Besides, isn't Mudcatville good therapy itself? Bring on the knowitalls, I learn from them! Selfishly, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Big Mick Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:30 AM Kendall and English Jon, I think that is what my last para said. And the next to the last gave the rules.................Don't screw with me, I may not know everything..........but what I don't know, Sandy does. If neither of us know it, it ain't important anywhooooooooo...............hahahahaha Mick |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:47 AM Damn, I do get pissed off here by so many of who do not know of what they speak. I have made a good a shockingly knowledgable friend in Mr. Bob Bolton --- all through Mudcat. I feel priviledged to have his important input---here and in private --- musically and otherwise. I save most of the information and communications he has so generously sent to me. For some of you, this is definitely a case of pearls before swine. So be it. It's your loss. ART THIEME |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: MMario Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:51 AM Art - I think just about everybody here agress with you on that. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Big Mick Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:53 AM Yep.........most of this is tongue in cheek agreement with you, Bro Art. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:57 AM Here at the ECU School of Art, we have the Gallery With No Walls... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,drover Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:57 AM You must be doing something right Susan. The heavy artillery's back. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,harmoniclive Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:37 PM do you self opinionated cocksuckers really think i give shit what you think? blow it out your arse! |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:43 PM Why does this annoying hemorrhoid keep coming back to read the thread, if it doesn't care what we think? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Amergin Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:04 PM Alex, the poor guy caught Rosie cheating on him the other day....He's rather distraught about it....and taking his anger out on others.... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Sarah2 Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:14 PM Indeed, mousethief, why does he come to the forum at all? Surely there's nothing here for him? Why not just go away and find a place he likes, where the people recognize his great worth and witty remarks (see two posts above for really a clever comeback we'll all want to memorize for ourselves), as well as his impressive knowledge of "music." Oh, well, at least he's learned so spell "arse" while here... Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Sarah2 Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:20 PM Oops, Amergin got in first...make that THREE post above. Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:25 PM Except "arse" is properly spelled "ass" as anyone who isn't one knows. (grinning, ducking, and running) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Sarah2 Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:33 PM mousethief, But he's pretending to be from Oz, isn't he? (Needs to get himself an Oxford dictionary and learn to look up spellings there in order to lends some small credence to the disguise.) Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:00 PM Ooooooh. I see what you're saying. I'm just a little slow today. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Pseudolus Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:18 PM To be honest, I understand you all defending him and all but I'm not really all that fond of Bob Bolton. His hair is kinda scraggly and he shouts when he sings and I, uh, wait a minute, that's MICHAEL Bolton.....so sorry...... I love it when the "Cat" gets feisty defending its own...!!!
Frank |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bert Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:23 PM Well I opened this thread thinking that it was about me. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mousethief Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:38 PM Sing along with Carly now:
You're so vain, |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bert Date: 31 Jan 01 - 04:40 PM Yup, I thought I was the most boring knowall around here. I'm greatly disappointed to realise that someone has usurped my exalted position. I guess I'll just have to start pontificating more often. Or maybe even post more of my songs. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: MMario Date: 31 Jan 01 - 04:43 PM Hey bert - how about the tune for "plastic flower seeds"? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Amergin Date: 31 Jan 01 - 05:50 PM Bert, I never considered you to be a knowall....boring, yes....but not a knowall*bg* Amergintheknownothing.... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bert Date: 31 Jan 01 - 05:54 PM PM your snail mail address MMario. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bert Date: 31 Jan 01 - 05:56 PM Oh and Amer-into-the-gin. PHHHTHHERRRRRT to you. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: GUEST,Grubby Date: 31 Jan 01 - 08:15 PM I have drifted away from The Cat a bit in the last few months, but each time I have a look the same old problems are there. If you follow Bob Boltons link to the St Albans thread you will soon see what a dickhead this harmoniclive really is. He establishes that fact with his own postings. This is one of his posting from that thread: "i would rather drown in negativity, than drown in puerile bullshit! what kind of drugs are you on spider?prozac?.in case you hadn,t noticed its a sad lonesome cold world,and trying to insult someone from the anonimity of the net doesnt help one bit.i think you had better crawl back under your rock before you get crushed by a boot heel." Seems to me he is doing to Bob Bolton what he is protesting about in his above posting. This effort by harmoniclive makes you wish (dare I say it) the old Gargolye was still around, he was a pro. He might have upset a lot of people but at least he knew what he was talking about most of the time in relation to music and he sure was great reading. Harmoniclive old boy you pale to insignificance in the shadow of Gargoyle. Regards Grubby
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: alison Date: 31 Jan 01 - 08:40 PM He is an Aussie, plays a mean harmonica, and guitar.... but I don't see the point of flaming Bob here.. if you don't like him... don't go to his workshops, or read his posts..... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bill D Date: 31 Jan 01 - 08:49 PM it's off to the thesaurus to attempt to comprehend just what "self opinionated" might be |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:08 PM Just skimmed through that St Albans thread. You get them everywhere don't you? Not that many though, fortunately.
But there was one quote from one of harmony's cronies that I loved: I was in a line to purchase food at the St Albans festival about 8 years ago and this woman turned to me in the line and asked why there was all these strange people around. That sums us up pretty well, thank God.
What I can never understand is how you get people who think that, just because you like one type of music, that means you are somehow stopping them playing whatever kind of music they like to play. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:21 PM Is it too late to flame Bert in the other thread? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bill D Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:35 PM nawww...Bert's up late...he accepts COD flames 24/7... |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Bob Bolton Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:16 PM G'day ALL, WYSIWYG: Will I be accused of thread creep in thread flaming me, if I get back to you comments of a few hours - and 37 or so posts - back? " Bob, I get real tired of people telling me they are not musical and can't do a thing about it. "No musical bone in my body!!" Some of the really musical people in this world are those that work at drawing people into music - not hiving off as something they make money from and that they try to keep for themselves. Just an example: I got into conversation with a bloke who was looking at instruments in the window of the local "Accordions 'n' Folk" shop. It turned out he wasn't after an instrument but ... he was on his way to his daughter's house, round the corner, where they had weekly family gatherings where everybody or sang played - even if it was just to shake the coffee tin ¼-filled with rice that they were handed. He obviously came up through the hard school of rhythm as the basic music. He told me how, when he was a lad at reform school, the kids used to purloin the wooden slats from the pull-down window covers of the old railway carriages and, by using the heat of candle to bend and harden them, turn each slat into a pair of wooden playing 'bones'. I can't exactly condone the theft, but it shows how basic a need rhythm is. One of the things I like to do is to get school kids - brought up in a society where everything has become a pay-for service - to join in with music (recorded - or played by whoever is there) by playing natural rhythm instruments ... clappers, rattlers (simple or complex like lagerphones), 'bones', &c. I sometimes think of this as "Bush Orff", since if pinches a fair bit from Carl Orff's Schulewerk methods.
I always keep in mind a song written by a local songwriter (maybe a good one to post to Mudcat - after I check with him) that starts; Keep it up! Regards, Bob Bolton |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: mkebenn Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:28 PM AH, ya' got Susan takin' the Lord's name in vain..Fuck off. |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Rollo Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:47 PM Heya Bob, OWN UP!!! You were doing that "harmoniclive" entry by yourself, because you felt a little desperate alone with your sheep and kangaroos and rabbit disease, so you decided to provoke them "right side of the world" inhabitants into uttering some nice words about you! Isn't it so? How I got you? Never write the first statement in CAPITALS. It was a little bit too much gunpowder. Only gibbering madmen speak in capitals. And death. But gibbering madmen couldn't say "up pops boring bob bolton" without stuttering. And death would just have stated "BOB BOLTON? - FOLLOW ME, PLEASE." By the way... Harmoniclive made an interesting point. What IS the difference between shit and clay? |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Feb 01 - 01:02 AM My dear Mr. Bolton, It was with great pleasure that I reviewed your kind and helpful exposition regarding the necessity of rhythm in the realm of human expression. Your kind attention to my remarks indicates that you are indeed a gentleman of the first order. Might I suggest, sir, that should your travels bring you Stateside, or should mine take me Down Under, that perhaps we might engage in a bit of musicification with our respective instruments, ignoring of course any feeble protests from those round about who may not be so gifted as to properly appreciate the fine cultural contribution made by people pounding away on the instruments in question heretofore thoroughly described and amply lauded? I remain, Your Humble Servant,
Mrs. Hardiman D. Fiddler (nee Praise) |
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 01 Feb 01 - 05:00 AM Not going to get involved... but wanted to quote this from Clive.... awful folk songs... ggnnarlfnarrrlll fgrrrr puh hah huh he hehe heeee... but - isn't it a shame that people have to turn to crude insults, when they run out of valid words to use in a lively discussion! I think it is pretty much a shame to have to use those words to anyone really - I try not to... it's too much hassle and well - I wouldn't like to be spoken to like that so I don't do it to others... What a shame`! I am inclined to agree with Alison - on what she said above... there really is no point flaming people... it's not nice. Ella
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Subject: RE: BORING KNOWALLS From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 01 - 06:58 AM Roundabout max'd this thread out For more intellectual and sophisticaed discussion turn to BS: SIR KNOWALL GOB, part deaux Cheers DtG |
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