What are you, really?

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:17 PM

Hey gnu...

flattop told me that drivers in Bouctouche stop for you if you even just look across the road. Is that true?

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:40 PM

Well, I just got back from a tour through the rally course know as Moncton and I believe it was a 'Toucher in front of me for about eight intersections who was looking for the "right" street in a rather reckless manner. She NEVER used her signal light and I had to lock up all four the first time she decided to stop abruptly.

As for your question, are you talking about drivers in front of you, pedestrians, or other ?

BTW, is flattop from Bouctouche ? Maybe I should do a NB 'Cats thread to see who I can hook up with. Hranners are scarce around the Moncton area. Just located the only other one I know of in this area last week. We are jammin on the weekend and I can't wait.

gnu

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:50 PM

He was talking about drivers stopping for pedestrians.

flattop is a Cape Bretoner. He spent some time living in New Brunswick while he was growing up. He lives in Ontario now.

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 05:18 PM

Yes, I find the smaller the community, the more regard given to the pedestrian, and Bouctouche is no exception.

Pedestrians are, for the most part, well regarded here in Southern NB, even on the race courses in Moncton, but if you ever visit Moncton, don't take any chances because the average driver's intelligence doesn't seem to match the manners.

BTW, that moose you mentioned in the Spring thread was probably a cross-border shopper from NB. It seems so weird to me, being from the boglands, that some people have never seen moose or yotes or whatever. Guess I'm just lucky. Guess that's what I really am, just a good old backwoods boy.

gnu

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: John Hardly
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 07:20 PM

"I've always been a dreamer without the will to waken an alcoholic not quite drunk enough A halfassed Davy Crockett with a prayer in his pocket with a road before me only I've made rough --Mike"

Absolutely loved that, Mike! Like I was walking along peacefully minding everyone's business and that reached out and GRABBED me!
--JH

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: mkebenn
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 06:45 AM

Thank you, John, maybe I'll finish it someday. Mike

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: GUEST,Patrish
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 10:24 AM

I'm living a baggy life,
its all too loose
My Alice band has slipped
I'm wearing very odd socks
And my shoes don't fit

But apart from that I'm fine!
Patrish x

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Blues Killer
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 10:33 AM

I'm drunk. Really!

Blues Killer

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 11:45 AM

Everything we are - everything we dare to be
We're prepared to play our part
To create a fantasy

Sometimes we are parents
We teach, we sing in bars
By day, we have our real jobs
At night we reach the stars

We are builders, and we're painters
We are singers of great songs
Sometimes we are grievers
When loved ones pass along

Everything we are - everything we dare to be
We're prepared to play our part
To create a fantasy

Some of us - retired
In the garden everyday
Computers - we are wired
We stay inside and play

But inspite of our vocations
and various locations
There's nothing that we wouldn't do
For a Grand Standing Ovation

Everything we are - everything we dare to be
We're prepared to play our part
To create a fantasy
Everything we are
Everything we are
Everything we are

This song was written by Carole Mc Andrew for our up coming 20th anniversay 'Play' on our little island. Some of the words were changed, with permission to suit the 'Cat'.

LL

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: CarolC
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 05:03 PM

Thanks gnu.

I've always wondered why I didn't see any moose when I was in the wilderness parts of Canada. I'm guessing the one I saw was habituated to being around people since I saw it in the parking lot. Maybe moose in the wild are more shy?

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: guest(intruder-inactive)
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 05:15 PM

...the last of the oldest ones
...the lightwielder
...a very tired old soul who is turning over the world to my idiot children

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: GUEST,(jo)
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:50 AM

im a gelfling
i practise random acts of kindness and senseless beauty
and look for the wonder in the world

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 07:39 AM

I am bored at work !

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 08:32 AM

CarolC... moose in the TRUE wild are much LESS shy. But, it depends on many factors, age, sex, time of year, number of moose, time of day....

EG, Sally would visit at dusk every day last fall. Big guy only visited once in the middle of the night - saw his tracks in morning - close enough for him to look in the windows of the trailer. Perhaps the snoring from my trailer was misinterpreted. I had one HUGE bull who would come to me for sugar cubes when I called - to about ten feet away. Worst thing I ever did. He was summarily shot at dawn the first day of the following season. I've always felt responsible because I taught him to come to me. I really didn't think anyone would take him that far back in really rugged country, but I was wrong.

I have had four or five moose running all around me, confused and scared by my presence, in the rut. I have had four or five watch/ignore me while I sat and had a smoke and talked to them, in the winter. I've watched four bulls square off and spar in what seemed like a round robin type training camp as if I was the audience. I've had cows with calves run at first sight and I've had cows with calves charge, which is the most dangerous situation in these woods, other than a hungry bear who doesn't understand why I am at the top of the food chain.

Anyway, the days of walking past a moose or bear at tewnty feet or feeding moose birds on your shoulder are waning as access to the backwoods by ATV's and such increase.

But, you can still find lots of wild places if you are willing to hoof it.

gnu

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:31 AM

I'm a singer of traditional songs, thanatolithologist, closet natural historian (but the skulls are on the walls), and I used to be a typographer but now I'm a digital prepress production tech.

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:03 AM

Well... this is interesting, Bat Godlet...

The American Heritage instructs us that:than•a•tol•o•gy (th^n1ú-tÄl2ú-jT) n. 1. The study of death and dying, especially in their psychological and social aspects. [ Greek thanatos death]

So I guess what you would do as a thanatolithologist would be...looking up really dead stones and getting them to share their feelings? If so, I can relate. I feel that way at work sometimes...

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Jande
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:33 AM

I'm a "Jande of all trades", and have managed to master a few. The rest are intermediate and beginner.

I am "the reach that exceeds the grasp or what's a heaven for?"

I am .

Indeed.

~ Jande

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: vindelis
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:27 PM

Unique

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:32 PM

Thanatolithologist -- sorry, just the study of gravestones and gravestone carvers. In my case, particularly New England slate markers between 1650 and 1815-ish (willows and urns make my eyes glaze over) and the carver John Just Geyer. Trip over some other pretty interesting stuff, tho' and just got back with a bunch of undeveloped pictures from Mountain View Cemetery (designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, c. 1863) in Oakland -- way out of my era & style, but what a great place!!!

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:41 PM

My calendar watch went dead. I'll have to go look in the mirror to find out what I am today. That's not always a pleasant sight.

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Robo
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:43 AM

I am the Man from God Knows Where.

Rob-o

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: GUEST,Dharmabum
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:28 AM

We are what we do. As St John Lennon put it "Life is what happens while we're making other plans....

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: wdyat12
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:45 AM

I am part BS, part real S, and mostly made of salt water, with a collection of musical instruments I wish I could play better. That's why I'm here on Mudcat.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 08:56 AM

It is a question I seem to ask myself more often as I grow older.

I used to think I was a musician primarily, with a job as Sound Engineer which fitted in quite nicely to give me a reliable, steady income.

These days I find that I am becoming less able to do my job, what with arthritis and tinnitus both combining to make the physical and acoustic demands moving out of my reach.

The depression that this and another failed relationship have conspired to precipitate mean that I've also lost interest in music, and in the social activities associated with that.

So what am I, really? Do tell me - I'm always the last to find out...

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: JohnB
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 11:08 AM

If I asked my wife, she would probably say something like "an absolutely wonderful, pain in the ass", she's still asleep so I wont risk becoming anything worse by asking her now. Seriously though if you want to know how you are percieved, ask others. There again there is a risk involved with that, they might tell you the truth. I am also tired after reading all of these postings on this thread. JohnB

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 11:24 AM

Bernard:

Don't be fooled by transient conditions and turns in the script -- what you REALLY are is a Great Author.

Like all Great Authors, you know, of course, that the script has to set up some Great Obstacles for the Hero to overcome. As the Set Designer you also get to decide what the environment in which the Hero, Bernard yclept, overcomes these Barriers in the Pursuit of Happiness, a condition to be defined by the Chief Psychologist Consulting to the Great Author, who also happens to be Bernard...

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:50 PM

Mmmm....

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:55 PM

Mmmm.... ? I waited for a 127 post thread to load for, "Mmmm...." ? C'mon... some insight... some wisdom ... something.

Rrrrgnu

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:27 PM

Relax -- that's just the Chief Psychological Counsel practicing his post-doctoral psychotherapeutic techniques, such as Advanced Active Listening and Semi-acknowledgement. It's all in the Wrist.

A

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:52 PM

So psycho-babble came from the wrist. I didn't think it could have come from a real homo sapiens brain.

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 05:09 PM

Thanks for finnaly killing the thread, GUEST. It needs a #2 anyway.

Subject: RE: What are you, really?
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 06:00 PM

Please go here for part two of this thread.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=32665