Someone please start a good thread.

Subject: Someone please start a good thread.
From: 53
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:14 PM

Please start a good thread about anything. I see a lot of crap on here, and alot of stuff that I don't understand, so some of you vets out there in Mudville start a good thread.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:19 PM

Hey BOB, how's it going? You ought to check out the Buddy Wasisname thread. It's got some really good stuff on it. But you'll have to look in the links to see it.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: 53
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:21 PM

Thanks Carol C.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:25 PM

good is so relative...

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: 53
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:28 PM

To who?

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:32 PM

Bob, if you want to see some good threads, a place to look is alwasy BACKWARDS. What a lot of us do when the threads get boring is research in the old ones. For instance, check out some of the spirituals listed in the African-American Spirituals permathread. There is also a list in the FAQ of Memorable Mudcat threads. Lots of good stuff in there. Now, if you have some info to contribute to them go ahead and add it, but you don't need to post to them just to say you like them-- people get mad about that sometimes. See, when they see the old thread back up they get all excited thinking there will be some cool new stuff added and then when they see it's not anything new, they get disappointed. OK?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:39 PM

Hi BOB, it's good to see you back here.How are you? Susan is right about old threads, just put a word into the search thing eg guitar or whatever, then change the time thing to say one year, or whatever.I would try to start a interesting thread myself, but it's nearly 5 AM here in the UK and I am going to bed soon.john

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: 53
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:40 PM

Good night John, sleep tight.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:43 PM

Good night BOB.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:57 PM

BOB-Another goodv idea is look at the AN exxe if there is nothing good here, I am too drunk/tired to make a link (it will just go wrong) but it is at www.jonbanjo.com/forum/ there is lots of stuff there abouyt hobbies and crafts etc

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 12:01 AM

I made a spelling mistake, it is The Annexe.john

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Alice
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 12:21 AM

Hi, Bob. You might like this old one. Three-chord Songs and these, Threads on the meaning of folk
The one called "How To Create A Folk Song" (in the meaning of folk link) is pretty funny.

AliceË™

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 01:00 AM

Start a good one yourself... perhaps a music discovery you want to share; or music's effect on a hostile crowd; or the look on a child's face when its favorite music comes on; or a dog or cat or other animal's appreciation of music; or one's own debt to the role of making music in one's own life ; or a question on how to get a mood across in an instrumental; or how to write a song that has been niggling at the back of your mind; or your mate's reaction to the music you love; or : (You get the idea. There are a million of them.)

Welcome back.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 02:10 AM

My hamster likes June Tabor.john

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 03:03 AM

But ther is no joy in Mudville..

Mighty Casey has struck out!

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 04:34 AM

start one your self!! after all
If not you..Who??
If Not now,.. when??

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 05:36 AM

My first reaction to this was, don't complain about the lack of good threads, start one yourself. But that's nomnreally fair - for all I know 53 might have started up half a dozen great threads before starting this one to round off the evening.

Anyway, I'm glad this has turned into a thread mostly of people pointing the way to other ghood threads, present or past, rather than another griping session about how the Mudcat is going down the pan. (I wonder when the first of thoise was started ? I suspect about three weeks after the Mudcat emerged.)

Here is one a lot of people might have missed, . It is a permathread stuck right up the top (cf Poe's "Purloined Letter"): the Mudcat Site Map and PermaThread Index Riches untold.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: 53
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 06:39 AM

Ebbie, it seems that every time I start a thread people jump all over it, and start with the blue clickys saying that this subject has been covered earlier, so I usually just read and hope to find one that I like.

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 01:05 PM

The answer to that, Bob, is to come up with an idea so totally stupid or ridiculous that NO ONE here has even thought of it before...and launch a thread on that. I did this way back when with a series of threads on William Shatner, and the rest is history.

It helps if you pretend to be absolutely serious about it. Then there are usually a few GUESTS who start lecturing you about all kinds of things in an attempt to straighten you out and put you in your place, and so it goes...

Then, just to keep 'em off balance and show that you are not a "one-trick pony", you launch some other threads that actually are about serious and meaningful subjects.

This is how one fights cabin fever during a long Canadian winter. Cool, eh? Well, cold actually...

- LH

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: rangeroger
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 01:08 AM

Bob, I believe that when people introduce blue-clickies that point to old threads, it is only meant to add to the discussion. I don't think it means that since it has already been discussed that there should be no further discussion.

New discussion of a subject is always welcome, and the information in the old threads can still be germane to the new discussion.There is lots of info out there from people who are no longer with us.Read them,enjoy, and continue with the new.

rr

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 08:32 AM

hey bob, this is a pretty good thread. vl

Subject: RE: Someone please start a good thread.
From: Fortunato
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 09:16 AM

Hey, Bob, it's I, Chance. How ya doing? Yeah days go by where I don't see much I want to join in on. Still there's usually something. If you're still out there, check out my (Dis)Advantages of Recording Label Thread, you might find it interesting. Take care of yourself. Regards, Chance