The Mudcat Café

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Feb 24 - 07:12 PM

Long live the Mudcat, in any case.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Feb 24 - 06:05 PM

Ooh, nostalgia! I har it's not what it used to be...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Feb 24 - 01:24 AM

No, threads 1 and 2 are still there, but 3 doesn't load. They're kind of out of sequence time-wise.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Reinhard
Date: 15 Feb 24 - 12:05 AM

> Here's the very first thread from Mudcat

which is the very thread we're writing to

> (don't ask why it's thread #4):

Threads #1-3 probably were deleted spam ;-)

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 07:21 PM

In the past I have much appreciated the observation
that serious research has its place in this forum,
and if the question what is mudcat were put to me,
I would include the research observation in my answer.

Subject: RE: Mudcat FAQ - Newcomer's Guide
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 05:17 PM

Hi, Mo - the Introduction is the introduction to the FAQ. The Wikipedia article is a pretty good description.

Here's the very first thread from Mudcat (don't ask why it's thread #4):

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=004

As you can see, it has no set purpose and no set rules, just a discussion forum built around a folk song database. There are those who specify what mudcat is and what it isn't, but I think most of us appreciate its lack of structure and purpose. It has been growing organically for 27-1/2 years.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat FAQ - Newcomer's Guide
From: Monique
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 05:41 AM

There's one on Wikipedia.

Subject: RE: Mudcat FAQ - Newcomer's Guide
From: Mo the caller
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 03:05 AM

Daft question for those of us who are here already, but
What is Mudcat?
I was giving someone a link and couldn't find a summary either here or on the Homepage.
On the table of content in this thread there is Introduction, but nothing happens when I click it.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 05:12 AM

long live Mudcat!

sandra

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: bbc
Date: 02 Oct 16 - 01:52 PM

I'm happy to have had my part in putting faces to the names on mudcat. Lots of good friends & lots of good information, through the years!

Best to all,

Barbara

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 06:20 AM

Alas, Skarpi, they were victims of the Great Tea Trolley Disaster of '02... (apologies to Frank "Bristow" Dickens.)

RtS

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: skarpi
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 01:43 AM

why can´t go in to Members photo and info .??

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 12:40 AM

Wow, Thread #1, I barely recognized you! But then we've all gained a few posts since 96, haven't we. Well, see you in a few more years. Take care of yourself.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Beer
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 08:13 PM

We sure lost a lot of good one though.
ad.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 08:02 PM

Thanks to Bill, & everyone who posted on this thread over the years/decades!

I've had a lovely nostalgic time.

sandra

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Beer
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 02:23 PM

Thank you Mick and maeve.
ad.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: maeve
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 12:42 PM

The revival of this thread was inspired by this other thread.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 12:41 PM

adrien - this is thread no.4 - see threadid=4 in the web address line. And I think Joe is saying this is the first thread and it's not no.1.

Mick

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Beer
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 12:39 PM

That also confused Nigel.
ad.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 12:32 PM

Date: 25 Feb 13 - 11:17 AM

Thanks, Bill D, for dusting off this venerable thread. Faces and names may have changed over the years but the sentiment remains.
Has a post gone walkabout?
The immediate prior post was 2010, so it looks as if Ebbie has ressurected it.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Beer
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 12:29 PM

Not sure I follow you Joe. What is thread no.4?   What was the first thread BTW?

adrien

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 12:25 PM

I still haven't figured our why Thread Number 4 is the very first thread...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 11:41 AM

Time flies... eh?

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Feb 13 - 11:17 AM

Thanks, Bill D, for dusting off this venerable thread. Faces and names may have changed over the years but the sentiment remains.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: C-flat
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:36 AM

In the last 10 years I've learnt a lot from this site, not just music-related, and found some great songs.
It's a nice place to be around, even if all you want to do is "lurk".

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 05:54 AM

...sorry - only just noticed there is a "translate" button.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 05:06 AM

Having been on since 2006, I think it's a good no-fuss design of a forum; although, ideally (cat among the pigeons!), it would be owned by the United Nations, with Max and Joe working for them...and a "translate" button to encourage discussion with folks in other lands would be nice. (I'd type the Happy Birthday tune in D, but, alas, it has a copyright on it.)

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: SylviaN
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 06:18 PM

Yes, let's celebrate - especially friends old and new.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 05:45 PM

Should do something to celebrate next year...let's all go to Max' place!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: JohnH
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 05:29 PM

Virtual card and flowers and thanks for the shoe site!
J.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 04:57 PM

Many thanks to Dick and Susan, Max and Joe - I've met so many new friends as a result of being invited to a Mudcat BBQ (hosted by the Ducks) at Whitby festival in 2001! (and am pleased to have met all 4 of you in Whitby too, though in different years).

Kitty

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Suffet
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 04:03 PM

Will there be some sort of 15th anniversary celebration next year?

--- Steve

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 03:12 PM

...but maybe we're slipping, Max. We didn't get around to celebrating our October 1 birthday until late October.

Happy Mudbirthday to all of us.

And thanks, Max.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Max
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 03:08 PM

Wow, 14 years. Who'd've of thought. Folks... I'm the lucky one. Thank you all for keeping me company and teaching me so many wonderful things. 3.5 million messages on 90,000 topics, in 14 years, unbelievable.

Much love, -max

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 02:53 PM

Well, so far it's been fun.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Crowhugger
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 02:51 PM

This has been my home page & online hang-out for more than 10 years, though you wouldn't always know it because often I just enjoy reading without posting. It's the best place I've found to enjoy talking with other music- & folklore-loving people. And it never ceases to amaze me how quickly the most obscure-seeming questions are answered! I often follow that type of thread just to be amazed anew.

When I'm not here it's because I'm eating, sleeping, running the dogs, making music or hanging out with my wonderful husband. That's it, 5 fundamental things in my life and Mudcat is one of them. Thanks to Max, the mods and everyone who makes Mudcat Cafe such a comfy and interesting online living room.

~CH.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 10:16 AM

I guess so, Jacqui! Your story is just part of the Mudcat magic!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 07:42 AM

I don't like to think of life without Mudcat. It's a real life changer.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Fidjit
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 06:23 AM

I'm just happy to be a part of it all. Thanks Joe & Co

Cha

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 06:49 PM

So far I'm still here hangin' out --- still thanking Max and so many of you who are also survivors.
Art

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 03:32 PM

what so many of you have said. I may be an infrequent contributor, but when I am online, I'm on Mudcat. Like SRS' father, the 'cat suits this retired librarian's heart. Thanks, Max & Joe & Dick & Susan and the whole Mudcat community. Keep on pickin!

Dennis

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 10:21 AM

If he'd lived a little longer, I know my father (John Dwyer) would have discovered and become a regular participant here at Mudcat. He died in November of 1997 and as a computer user was on the cusp of discovering this kind of music site. It would have suited his reference librarian's heart to research and post lyrics here.

SRS

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 03:26 AM

that's the magic of Mudcat, Joe, it defies mathematical calculations!

sandra

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 02:35 AM

It's over three years since Stewart asked, but this is indeed the longest-running thread, and always has been. I don't understand the math of all this, but somehow threads 1, 2, and 3 are more recent than this one, the immortal Thread #4 - which, coincidentally or not, begins with Message #4, which is the very first message in the very first thread.
There are no messages 1, 2, and 3.

14 years, hey? It's been a pretty good run. Let's hope for many more years. I was going to say that we should run at least until Max gets old and grey....but I think I noticed when I saw him a few weeks ago, that Max was already getting a bit of grey hair.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 06:41 PM

SCARY !! Its FIVE years since I was sat drinking coffee with Jerry and Ruth ! And that was after a STORMING evening with Max and his band after the '05 Getaway !!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Tootler
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 06:26 PM

Try Jerry Rasmussen's kitchen table, AC. He usually provides pretty good coffee.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: gnu
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:18 PM

Working out the bugs... and a few buggers along the way... hehehe. I was reminded of that by the last

Ahem. Decorum.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 04:56 PM

Don't worry AC. In this place you make your own coffee. That way it should be just to your liking!

I note hat earlier Shambles complained that the coffee was bad. Obviously he can't fend for himself!

Keep up the good work Max, and as we sang at Llantrisant "We'll keep a welcome in the hillsides"

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: Artful Codger
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:18 PM

I don't understand: I keep clicking on the links, but I never get any coffee!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Café
From: buddhuu
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:34 AM

Cool. :-)