BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat

Subject: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 12:30 PM

I was just thinking, in reading the speedily resolved quest for "I Can Hew", that one of the things I like best here is having so many like-minded people who enjoy he same things & are so willing to share their substantial bodies of knowledge on topics dear to our collective hearts.

Whenever I check in here I feel I've had a visit with friends, and I always have an opportunity to learn something new!

I also like the dirty jokes.

So, what do y'all like best?

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 12:32 PM

They've been sharing their substantial bodies with you, Des? Well, I never!! Huh!**BG**

Ditto, here, love the knowledge, talent, MUSIC, and caring.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 12:34 PM

Kat---see "the fatness of it all" thread for itemised descriptions of just HOW substantial said bodies actually are---hubba hubba!

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 12:57 PM

well I don't have to dress in character for one

yes but seriously folks - in a word -
community.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 01:06 PM

I like like the caft that this way I csan prove to people that I am compyotter litarte and not just a dumb looser like my buther Don. Matter of fakt I can chug 16 beer and type onehinded at the smae time! I a mlike no dummy eh/?

- BDiRB

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Mark Clark
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 02:18 PM

There are really two things I like about the Mudcat: the people and the songs... Oh, and the tips. Three things! Three things I like about the Mudcat are the people, the songs and the tips... Oh, and the diversity. Four things...

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 02:23 PM

Okay Mark.....Where does this thread fit in? I vote humor, but it may be tips.....sorta'......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 02:31 PM

Hey, this is more like it! I've only been in the pond a couple of months, and the "What I don't like about Mudcat thread" got tiring real fast. I like the seemingly endless information you can get on the Cat when you post a thread. Even if some of it is made up. I like the concern that people have for others... often strangers. And all the wise-ass stuff, too.
Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Dead Horse
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 03:22 PM

Tapping in to smart arses.
Sometimes appearing to be a smartarse.
Picking up usefull/useless information.
Reading other catters secrets.
Reading varied, and mostly intelligent, opinions.
Crossing cultural and national divides.
Getting links to all sorts of fun stuff.
Not having to stand in line when I wish to be heard.
Getting a superior feeling when I don't reply to idiots/flamers.
It's always there, when I need an old friend.
That's the first ten I could come up with.........
No doubt I will think of more after I've posted.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: hesperis
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 04:45 PM

Yup.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: GUEST,SDShad
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 04:51 PM

PalTalk song circles.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: paddymac
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 05:04 PM

My 2 cents is the very same as Mark's.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:08 PM

Because it's there !

Art Thieme (In spite o' what I've sometimes said. Thanks Max !!)

Subject: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:12 PM

Lots of stuff... most of the people...

And the things (and the people) I don't care for, are all too easily dismissed...

.-)

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Mark Clark
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:18 PM

Spaw, I think that one goes under “special effects” because one needs your special glasses to appreciate it.

Oh, and I wasn't expecting the bloody Spanish Inquisition.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:33 PM

No-one ever does.....!

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: AliUK
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:38 PM

Everything, especially the people tho the guests do get a bit tiresom sometimes. The one s who neglegt to put a name after the guest tag that is, and then sit ther slagging everyone off.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:28 PM

ya mean them whut don't like dum Amuricans, Ali? *grin*

wonder who the do like?

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Peg
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:32 PM

the helpful advice and timely responses from those more knowledgeable than me!

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:49 PM

I'm glad you love us all Peg............Peg?......Put down that brick Peg......Put it down now.......................It was just a joke ............. Seriously ......................Don't do it Peg....................Feet don't fail m...

THWUMP

......................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: GUEST,mmm1a
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 10:13 PM

I like finding lyrics from songs that no one in my area every heard of, but what I really like is the sites that I have found on here. The one that comes to mind first is the Hunger site. Don't think I would have heard about it if not for mudcat. Thanks to who ever it was that posted it. Also lots of friendly people willing to share information. :) mmm

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 12:48 AM

The camaraderie, the humour, the information, the people, the insults, the compliments, the insider jokes, the discussions, the new friends made, the new enemies whom one never gets to meet (mostly GUESTS), the serious discussions, the witticisms, and above all the CHARACTERS! Best time I've ever had at a keyboard.

- LH

Oh, and the chance to go on and on about such diverse subjects as Bob Dylan, Economic Democracy, hamsters, and William Shatner!

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 10:59 AM

me, I'd love to lock Willian Shatner in a room with Bob Dylan, give them each a hamster, and instruct them to discuss Economic Democracy...then I'd film it and make Little Hawk watch it on TV every day.

(but I have a weirder sense of humor than most....)

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Dead Horse
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 02:40 PM

Bill D is just what I don't like about Mudcat. There are some real nasty perverts lurking on the internet ;-) WOTS DYLAN EVER DONE TO YOU, TO DESERVE BEING LOCKED UP WITH TWO HAMSTERS?

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 02:50 PM

My question is what have the poor hamsters done to be locked up with either Dylan or Shatner!

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 06:08 PM

I suspect Dylan would be entirely uncooperative in such a situation and refuse to discuss economic democracy or anything else. Shatner, I'm sure, would find something to talk about...he's seldom at a loss for words. He would probably talk about himself, and try to get Dylan's reaction to his cover of "Mister Tambourine Man". The hamsters would roam around endlessly, searching the floor for food...that's what they do. If they encountered one another (which they soon would) there would probably be a nasty fight, and Shatner would most likely try to break it up and get bitten.

This would prompt a whole lot of bad language from Shatner and a brief snicker or two from Dylan.

Economic democracy would probably never come into the situation at all.

Sounds boring to me, but I would watch it just to see Dylan, but not every day...maybe every 3 or 4 days.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Desdemona
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 06:13 PM

Dylan would doubtless spurn Shatner's advances, superciliously clinging to his conviction that the latter never really UNDERSTOOD "Mr. Tambourine Man", when the fact is (as both The Captain AND the hamsters know) that his immortal interpretation was the only one that truly captured its real ESSENCE; after all, who could better realte to that "magic swirling ship"?

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:09 PM

Yeah, but Shartner would never dig being "stranded on my feet".

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:13 PM

Bill D. said: "me, I'd love to lock Willian Shatner in a room with Bob Dylan, give them each a hamster, and instruct them to discuss Economic Democracy...then I'd film it and make Little Hawk watch it on TV every day.

(but I have a weirder sense of humor than most....)"

I don't think that's too weird Bill. Weird would be if the hamsters gnawed on their balls as they talked about the Euro.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Anahootz
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:29 PM

FREAKS! Them's my Kinda people. I like it here enough to join up, to step out from behind my former Aegis of GUEST,GUEST and GUEST,MandolinPlayer and run naked and unfettered through the cyberfields with the rest of the...sorry, got a little carried away there *BLUSH*

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:33 PM

I like the fact the someone can start a thread asking for a SIMPLE recipe for cornbread and get 112 (last count) responses. No kidding, I think stuff like that is great!

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:52 PM

I like the friends I have made here. Thanks.

"Community" - like Mr. Red said. That is why I come here.

Glenda

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: DougR
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 11:06 PM

My friends and neighbors, most of whom I will never meet personally.

I enjoy bantering in the political threads, reading the music threads (because I can't contribute much in that area), but mostly it is the ineraction with people I have begun to think of as friends (even if we don't agree on politics).

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 11:16 PM

"Weird would be if the hamsters gnawed on their balls as they talked about the Euro"

...nawwww, weird would be tolerating hamster gnawing.

(but REAL weird would be getting thru one thread without gratuitous damage to someone's balls, 'spaw...did you OD on Cheech Wizard comix at some point in your checkered career?)

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 07:38 AM

.........yes............................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 06:35 PM

....no use offering you the cure, I suppose...you need to WANT to stop

(Lots & lots of 'Nancy' comics, with a 12 point program that includes 'Mark Trail' and 'Mary Worth'....oh, sure, you DO go around with glazed eyes and a silly expression...but...*grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: John Routledge
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 06:49 PM

This thread says 95% Please fill in your own 5% to make Mudcat complete. Cheers John

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 06:53 PM

...NO...NO........I can't do it!! Cheech was and is the man! Well, the lizard anyway......But on the other hand........ He told me he was God, but he never done a trick.....

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:57 PM

No! No! Not that filthy, disgusting piece of smegma, Cheech Wizard! I can never let the mention of Cheech Wizard pass without stating how much I loath that scumbag. I could really relate to the time his lizard helper was sent to retrieve the famous hat, and beat it up and pissed on it before bringing it back to the egomaniac Cheech. No fate would be too awful for Cheech Wizard, no end too grisly, no humiliation too extreme. Cheech Wizard, rot in perdition!

Just had to say it.

On the other hand...Nancy, Mark Trail, and Mary Worth? LOL! Sounds like death by terminal boredom.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 11:03 PM

By the way, Spaw and Vaughn Bode aren't the only people around obsessed with the subject of attacks on people's balls...

Stephen King can't seem to leave it alone either. There's virtually always an incident in any Stephen King story where something horrible happens to someone's balls.

It's really an odd fixation, if you ask me. Anyone got a psychological explanation for it?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 11:08 PM

I think I can transmit the feeling to you Hawk whenever we may get together.......Just a quick THWOOMPH and you'll see it for sure................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 11:13 PM

LOL! You're so shameless and predictable...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: DougR
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:02 PM

Well, he might be half that, LH, but I wouldn't want to say which one. *BG*

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:12 PM

AHHHHH Brenda Starr with her mysterious eye patched lover...now back to packing.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: dagenham doc
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 12:31 AM

N'all that too!.......luverly one the fread eh? luverly

Doc

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: GUEST,DMG at work
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 08:52 AM

I like the way a thread asking what like about Mudcat ends up discussing hamsters - that's just like my conversations with friends in real life.

I also like the way a thread asking about some obscure song will come up with the lyrics, singers, MIDI and then move on to the detailed background, alternative versions and its relationship to a host of other stuff.

Truly, the Mudcat would be poorer if it only had one of those.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 03:59 PM

It truly is a slice of life with diversity without adversity. It's real and it's in real time. I have an actual Cafe in my office that never closes which is filled with people knowledgeable on any subject you care to broach, let alone tunes. I can visit, I can participate, I can leave.

I like the kind and generous folk... it truly is a slice of life.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Ian Darby
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 07:25 PM

I like it because most of the 'Catters come out with stuff that is pretty close to what the voices in my head keep saying.

Especially the Hamsters.

Only written down.

Don't be too hard on Shatner, him and his mates did give us Tribbles.

Now Tribble balls..

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 07:48 PM

i like that they allow me to be here.....

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 07:54 PM

I thought they encouraged it Amergin !

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: dagenham doc
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 08:22 PM

You always say the right fings gnu... i wish i'ld gone to skool

Doc.

Subject: RE: BS: What I *LIKE* about the Mudcat
From: marty D
Date: 22 Mar 02 - 11:58 PM

Well, I've never asked a question that hasn't gotten at least a dozen answers. As I get smarter about music I realise that most of the answers are RIGHT too!

marty