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Subject: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,WWWD Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:06 AM What Would Woody Do? With great bemusement, I, a now infamously anonymous and unwelcome GUEST, watch as Mudcatters fail to see a Real Folksinger (tm) when they appear among them as a mystery guest among them. Tee hee. Hey ADG.
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:10 AM Oops! Did it again! This is a duplicate thread? How did that happen? Bewildered and confused... But stil bemused! |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Jon Freeman Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:14 AM Looks like I may have got confused too. I deleted the message in the other thread. This one will have to be the live thread and the other the duplicate. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,WWWD Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:23 AM What Would Woody Do? With great bemusement, I, a now infamously anonymous and unwelcome GUEST, watch as Mudcatters fail to see a Real Folksinger (tm) when they appear among them as a mystery guest among them. Tee hee. Hey ADG. |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Bill D Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:23 AM it don't take much to bemuse some folks...... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:24 AM Oops! Did it again! This is a duplicate thread? How did that happen? Bewildered and confused... But stil bemused! |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:24 AM No' a problem there Jon. Only difference between the two was the latter post had one less "among them". GUEST Handle not to be confused with the DG handle, of course. Still chuckling over this one... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:11 AM Or confuse a whole lotta others... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:23 AM it don't take much to bemuse some folks...... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:24 AM Don't you know that the polite convention is that if you wish to be a guest but still converse in ongoing discussions, you choose at least SOME handle and then stick to it in that thread? So could you please at least stay "Guest WWWD"? This is from someone who has no opinion whatsoever on the threads where you "arrived" but who saw the result of your approach to posting. It isn't your fault people here will not relaxedly converse with strangers, but you are among people who do care, rightly or wrongly, that they have at least a clue to whom they are addressing themselves. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,WYSIWYG Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:27 AM SORRY ~Susan I just wanted to play along with the childish game |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:34 AM Susan, I appreciate your sentiment of wanting to caretake your fellow Mudcatters, but... ...what *do* you suppose Woody would do with a deliciously ironic situation like this?
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Amos Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:41 AM Geeze it's a good thing we finally got a REAL folksinger to show up around here. I was getting SO tired of waiting. But Unfortunately, Mystery Vomit, we have two criteria for excellence here: the second being a desire to actually communicate with fellow humans. And to be blunt I doubt you're as real as you claim, given that the usual hard lessons of folksinging which breed compassion and courtesy in the participant, do not seem to have taken root in this instance. Or did you mean "commercially successful" as a synonym for "real?". Regards, A |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:46 AM We will all flame together when we flame We're too chickenshit to do it with our name We might be one or many Of control we ain't got any But we all flame together when we flame There are some who seem to dominate the forum And if you aren't agin 'em you are for 'em The cult of personality Is harmful to our sanity So I've decided to become the quorum We're nothing quite as evil as you say We're really quite frustrated with the way The discussion here is goin' So the discontent we're sowin' Is supposed to bring a bright and cheery day We'd like you to pretend we aren't a person And then get mad when you commence to cursin' We may have meant no flamin' But we didn't put a name in So how could you see it any other way |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:51 AM Amos?! "...which breed compassion and courtesy in the participant, do not seem to have taken root in this instance" and "Mystery Vomit" in the same post? Member, who just hasn't logged back in yet. This may have been one of those weekends when I should have just shut off the computer and let this wave of abuse pass. |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: DonMeixner Date: 08 Jul 01 - 12:44 PM Hmmm.... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,What Would Woody Do? Date: 08 Jul 01 - 12:54 PM I relent. I have been fundamentally reborn as What Would Woody Do? I love this pseudonym so much, I think I might just have to go an' copyright it. All for myself. Maybe I'll make me up some WWWD? buttons and bumperstickers. Start hawking "I Survived the WWWD? Mudcat Wars" t-shirts to at my gigs. And of course, I couldn't leave without a song, so here's one I call "Don't Tell Woody I Made Me a New Song Outta One of His Old Ones" This land ain't your land This land is our land No place for strangers On our cyber island Don't try to post here Unbeknownest to us dear Cuz this land ain't made for you and me. Yours, WWWD?
EVERYBODY!!! |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Allan C. Date: 08 Jul 01 - 12:56 PM Well, here's something I have been wondering about: What does the "D" stand for? |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: What Would Woody Do? Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:17 PM The D stands for 'Do' - The action of doing; that which is done WWWD |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Allan C. Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:20 PM ADG |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Jeri Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:32 PM I'm a rebel, I'm a rebel But I ain't got any cause I got a need to prove I won't obey your laws And if there are no rules, I'll make 'em up myself 'Cause I need to break the rules to be a rebel Oh, I'm outside your walls 'Cause I prefer it on my own But then I'll turn around and say You left me all alone And I'll bitch and whine and piss and moan That you all abandoned me 'Cause I have to feel left out to be a rebel And I like to feel original 'Cause that's what rebels need to be So I follow the examples Of the ones preceding me So I'll be just like the others Saying anti-social things You gotta act like all the rest if you're a rebel |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Amos Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:42 PM Narc, narc! 'Oo's there, then? Argo. Oh. Well, Argo who? Argo Fuckyerself....
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: What Would Woody Do? Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:45 PM It's Arlo - not Argo... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Don Firth Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:54 PM Please define "Real Folksinger." Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Jeri Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:19 PM Guest, no fair pointing out the same thing I did. Don, define "real." What ever happened to Arlo anyway? Heard he was feeling poorly. (Looking for rock to hide under.) |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Jeri Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:28 PM No, no - wait. I meant that GUEST up there, not me!!! And the lyrics before that post - If I said anywhere that I sent them, I didn't mean that either. Crap - I go from Anal Fri to Semi-Anal-Mostly-Bored Sat to Stupid Sunday. Need to find me a bigger rock... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: catspaw49 Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:29 PM I never found any substantiation for that Jeri. I think it may have been just a rumor thing but I'd like to know for sure myself. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Don Firth Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:31 PM Jeri, I'm just asking GUEST,WWWD what he/she/it means by "real folksinger." Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,Creative Anarchists' Rebel Bowling League Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:38 PM Ergo Arlo Cryptically yours, WWWD Liberation Front |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Amos Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:42 PM God, WWWD, I have figgered one thing out about you for sure. Your eyes have got to be brown. A |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,RobDale Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:55 PM What would Woody do? Woody would make his point and move on. Woody would have something less trivial to protest. Woody would be be fighting fascists, not folksingers. Woody wouldn't be too concerned about useless definitions about "real" folksingers. Woody said "You can only write what you know." Woody would be sweetalking all the ladies. Woody would CERTAINLY be PROUD to let you know his name. Hey WWWD, lighten up! And you too, Anon Guest. Life is too short for this crap. Laugh with people, not at them. Or please move on. |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,WWBD Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:04 PM WWBD? He'd ignore this stupid fuck. Now, for the next three lines, consider yourself ignored.
WWBD
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,Confused person, hurt by uncalled for vulgar Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:17 PM to WWBD or is it WWWD? Who are you ignoring? Oh wise but unclear one? I don't think he'd ignore anyone with something to say if it were said with courage. But obviously if he were here, he would simply do what he would do. |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Jeri Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:24 PM Wads thread up into tiny, odiferous ball, walks to other side of room, pivots, shoots, and... |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Amergin Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:44 PM Arol's fine as far as I know....I go lurk on his message board from time to time and haven't heard nothing.... my question is...what is this all about? |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,RobDale Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:59 PM This is the weakest thread. Goodbye! |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Amos Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:03 PM LOL!!! |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Ebbie Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:28 PM Guest/ doo doo, it's difficult to get the joke when you don't know the subject. Flush your stuff down the toilet, give it an hour then come back a bit more coherently. OK? Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Brían Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:09 PM I can't beleive I wasted 5 minutes reading this. So long its been good to know ya. Brían. |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,Some Handle Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:14 PM |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST,khandu Date: 09 Jul 01 - 12:06 AM "if dogs run free, why don't we across the swooping plains? Hell, I am trying to redeem this piss-poor thread by inserting lyrics from a REAL FOLKSINGER! khandu |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Lonesome EJ Date: 09 Jul 01 - 02:02 AM Arlo performed live at the Boston Fourth of July Celebration and he looked and sounded great, although unlike the rest of us he seems to have aged considerably. He did City of New Orleans and his Dad's This Land is Your Land including his "favorite verse" about the sign that had Private Property on one side, and nothing on the other, and "that side was made for you and me". I probably should be honored to be posting to the same thread as the anonymous "Real Folksinger" but since I don't know who he is I'll just say
This Forum's my Forum |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Jul 01 - 05:34 AM Who's Woody? Why would anyone care what he would do? Dave the Gnome (Sureal folk singer and fish impersonater) |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 09 Jul 01 - 05:38 AM Lonesome EJ, That's a piss poor parody. Says a lot about you that you considered it 'good' enough to share... It really isn't very good, be honest! |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 09 Jul 01 - 07:35 AM Lonesome EJ, Glad you enjoyed ADG's show in Boston on the 4th. The Real Folksinger and Mystery referred to in this thread is Arlo. He posted to a Mudcat thread last week, talking about Woody. I think the WWWD? was intended to be clue to help people find the thread. Mischievous, certainly. But pretty harmless fun, IMO. Likely a number people did notice his presence, but it is a bit odd that no one called attention to his posting. But then, he slips in and out of the folk forums all the time. Sometimes he gets noticed, sometimes not. All |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Willie-O Date: 09 Jul 01 - 08:00 AM Arlo Guthrie is, from what I've read and heard, a smart guy, an excellent songwriter and song interpreter, and someone who survived the frequently-damaging combination of fame and the sixties with his head screwed on right. So it's great that he's been posting here. He belongs here. He's no more or less a "real" folksinger than two dozen other Mudcatters--I have no statistics and only the vaguest of criteria here, could be two hundred--who enjoy the exchange of ideas, music and community available in the Mudcat Forum. What anyone would want to seize on this as a reason to throw a jump-up-and-down "look-at-me" tantrum, is beyond my comprehension.
Willie-O |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: GUEST Date: 09 Jul 01 - 08:10 AM Willie-O Lots of Mudcatters wear the mantle. And if this thread is anything to go by, lots are also lacking a sense of humor and irony, not to mention the fun of the "find the mystery guest" part of it. Many terrible things in the world to get all worked up about. This isn't one of 'em. The reactions have been much worse than the original harmless prank, and a damn sight more entertaining that how many mudcatters have herpes, or liz the squek has fat ass! All |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Lonesome EJ Date: 09 Jul 01 - 02:57 PM Guest...Oh yeah? Let's see what you've got. |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: Lonesome EJ Date: 09 Jul 01 - 03:30 PM Oh, and since I'm too lazy to find it myself, can anyone provide a link to the previous Woody thread so I can read Arlo's comments? LEJ (working on new improved "This Land" parody. Welcome suggestions of rhymes for "Forum" other than ones I used in previous pee-poor parody) |
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Subject: RE: Real folksingers and mystery guests From: mousethief Date: 09 Jul 01 - 03:37 PM "find the mystery guest" "fun" Hmm. Nope, can't make 'em work together. Particularly given the damage some "mystery guests" have done to the Mudcat in the past. Sorry, All. Alex |
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