BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?

Subject: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 05:54 PM

It would come as a welcome relief for me at least, if John of Hull and others could lay off their remorseless plugging of the one band around which their whole world seems to revolve.

No doubt that small world is important to them, but I think a sense of proportion and a little less selfishness would be in order. There must be hundreds of performers and bands in and around the Mudcat community, many doing dozens of gigs a year. If every booking provoked a thread, the cafe wouldn't be worth visiting.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:25 PM

Fionn - Well, yes, but... If I look at my own Mudcatting habits, I find that I frequently look into no more than 5 or 6 given threads on Mudcat on a given day. That's out of how many on the whole board? 60 or 70?

Given that fact, how can one or two threads about "Punch the Horse" be a problem for someone? Just don't read them!

Besides, if we discontinue "Punch the Horse", we may never find out what happens with the great Twillingsgate love triangle, and various other fascinating subjects like that.

Now it's easy...just resist the temptation to open a "Punch the Horse" thread when you see it. Pretend it isn't there. If all else fails, try cold showers, scourging, flagellation, hair shirts, that sort of thing...until you have well and truly broken the habit.

- LH

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:31 PM

Gee Fionn....Were you reading my mind or this post I made the other day on a different thread?

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Subject: RE: political threads
From: catspaw49 - PM
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 09:12 AM


Political discussion has been a part of the place for the past four years at least and there are times when I think it goes way past the limit of reasonable, but at other times is about right. Many here, myself included, enjoy these discussions. I just personally think we go overboard at times to the point where it seems every other thread is polishit and many of them on the same subject. Every policy change doesn't need a new thread when we're talking about the Bush administration or whatever. I wish we'd all think more before starting ANY thread ANY time. If I never see another Punch the fuckin' Horse thread started it will be too soon!
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Italics added.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:33 PM

Maybe we could just all go to Hull and punch them???

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:39 PM

Your mind's an open book to me, Spaw.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:52 PM

Well, guys, I promise not to start one. :-) BTW, have you noticed how few S***ner threads have been around lately? What self-control, eh?

- LH

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:16 PM

Spaw-as you were testing the new mudcat for a few months, you will obviously be aware of the "Filter Out" facility, so simple, just type Punch the Horse in the box, then click filter out, then you will never see another "Punch the fuckin Horse thread"!
Anyone else that dosent like them, just filter them out.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:21 PM

Yeah jOhn you tell them. I don't read the politic shit so why should they read our shit! And just so you know Fionn: the Punch the Horse threads are not about promoting the band but rather are all about a bumch of people who know each other either in 3d or through the cat taking the piss out of eachother without mercy and loving every second of it!

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:23 PM

Well sed Smallpliers.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:24 PM

PS, you missed a good jig at the Sun tonight, they were in fine form.john

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:25 PM

Yep.........if you don't like 'em, don't read 'em. I haven't read one of them yet, but based on the comments by folks above, I may.

Mick

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,Angry from Manchester
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:35 PM

What I would like to complain about, is all the repeats on TV, there are far too many and it's a bloody disgrace, it was never like that in my day, etc, etc, etc.

Angry

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:36 PM

I've just got in from the cows to find out that the PTH threads may be infected with irony. Awwwwwwww... Anyway, I'm off to Twillingsgate on the 13th October. By the small hours of the 14th, I'll have bloodied my first hyphenated nose and will be illegally parked in a stolen car. With my one true love. So there.      

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:39 PM

Will the seats be slashed......... oooooh please say the seats will be slashed!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:44 PM

From the thread Spaw refers to... "Mudcat a site where the English discuss folk sessions, the Americans discuss politics, & the Canadians chat amongst themselves"

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:45 PM

Lip Sampler, The seats will be moistened.....and slashed - yes ripped and cut and riven. There will be festoons of flailing ribbons of joyous vinyl and clouds of wadding, flying like a snowstorm of....er.....wadding. Sorry, I got a bit carried away there.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:47 PM

what you too on about?

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:49 PM

Oaklet, how did yoo , get home so quik anyway? yoou must have been speding, or have you got one od them porta bul compters?

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:50 PM

I ment quick.john

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 07:54 PM

A blue Toyota Hiace van and a fair wind jOhn and urges, sped me homewards. I must sleep now and dream.   

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:00 PM

Punch the horse and knock 'im doon
And then we'll howel at the moon!
Look out wold, the fur'll fly,
Up in Caledonieye!

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:17 PM

Het uhhh smallpiper? Are those scottish smallpipes under your arm there or are you just cleaning a pig... No realy... what key do you play in mostly? I'm actually interested...ttr

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:19 PM

This thread has an anecdote about something else that musicians might do to a horse.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:26 PM

I tried to filter out ol' Punch but now y'all are pinchin' the damn thing and it can't be done. Just goes to show that you can't keep a good asshole down......or a bad one for that matter......or a mentally ill ne......or an icredibly stupid one.......or any combination of the foregoing.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:29 PM

In that case spaw, just filter out "the horse".john

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:38 PM

Two guys sitting at the bar, and one looks at the other, lifts his glass for a toast and says "here's to missing the big picture!"

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:41 PM

Doesn't work that way John......We'd need to install a "Horse's Ass Filter" to do that in which case about 99% of the place would disappear.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 09:00 PM

i just tried filtering out "the horse" works fine here, it caught all the threads containing the phrase, including this one.

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,ossonflags
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:03 AM

It is quite intresting (and very flattering ) that one of the persons comlaining about a little light hearted and harmless banter among chums of the like persusion, find it fitting to start there own "punch the horse" thread.

As well as been very informative, mudcat is a chat line wich means just that.

Come on you lot,life is hard enough,lighten up a little!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: mooman
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:21 AM

Dear 'Spaw and Fionn,

I think it important at this point to mention that 99.99% of the Mudcat members are from 9Hull. In fact, all 9Hullites are Mudcat members.

Probably, on balance, it's probably better to let them have their "horse" threads here to occupy them rather than them having time to run amok amongst the general UK or (shudder!) even European or wider populations! (;>)

Best wishes

Moo

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:27 AM

Well said, Mooman

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: RichM
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 04:57 AM

Write what you want to.
Read what you want to.
Bitch about what you want to.
Ignore the rest.
It works for me....

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 05:00 AM

IN answer to Thomas the R's question...I have a combination set of smallpipes made by Hamish Moore. I have two interchangable chanters one in the key of A which allows me to play tunes in A or D and the other is in the key of D which allows me to play in D or G. So I can play in sessions with all types of instruments including melodeons. The four drones allow me to give a nice background cord in any of the above keys.

Now where we we oh yes jOhn the slashed seats refers to Ms P's predeliction for stealing cars and vandalising them apparently she gets into such a lather that it takes the Acorn ages to recover, he goes all glassy eyed and unnecessary

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 06:59 AM

Thank you Moo for such a lucid explanation. I myself have recently seen the latest video, "Punch the Horse Has Botflies" and it moved me to tears.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:19 AM

Where's 9Hull ?

Subject: RE: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:25 AM

9Hull was made famous by the fabulous first video done by Punch the Horse in which Punch is suckered out of his money by an Albanian Hat Blocker and finds help only after worshipping at the Temple of the Stars where he finds he was born under the sign of Lumides the Pants Salesman. Great stuff!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:42 AM

Thats it bouys youve got it in two!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Oaklet
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 10:50 AM

Mooman, I am afraid your worst fears have been realised. At least one Hull 'Catter is off to Lille in France on the 14th October to prospect for a suitable base from which to spearhead9 an assault on the taste, decency and spelling in incontinental Europe.

Can't be long before "Punch le Cheval neuf" threads really start to piss Fionn right off.

I have rub lime juice into my wrists in anticipation.   

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 11:26 AM

Oh me gotsh...yes, please! Ms. P sounds delightful... Is she friendly to Americans? If only I an extra three hours...

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 03:09 PM

Oo, is this another one of them 'Punch the Horse' threads. Who would be daft enough to start one of those?

But listen to Mooman, folks. There are ever so many Mudcatters in this area and it's saving us a fortune in phone calls.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 03:26 PM

I have no intention of using the new filter system to weed out threads that I have some objection to...or no interest in. If I did, then I would have nothing to get upset about any longer or to feel superior to either, and this would be VERY disturbing! It might force me to abandon the keyboard and "get a life" by hanging around downtown and making disparaging remarks about people's hats and shoes as they pass by.

Tension builds...as the countdown to October 13 begins!!!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 05:11 PM

hey check out the Lars Pimple at Cherry Burton UK thread its a total break from pinch the snout - I'm getting tired of promoting alternative threads OAKLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

All day at the job... dreaming of Ms. P... does she love jaguars? i do... 160 kilometers an hour, and nowhere near er... Does she take the ferry? Or would she rather jest Miss the boat, and tear it up! positively Hull8lluH ttr

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:13 PM

I like Jaguars, I used to have one, it was an XJ6 Soverign, Harpmaker used to have one as well. Did any other Hull catters used to own a Jag?

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:19 PM

I knew a girl from Cherry Burton once, she was called Jenny, and was a farming student, she was good at drinking bear 9she could drink loads).john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,John Prescott
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:17 AM

I have two at the last count,jags that is.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:27 AM

I Think you are an honest and deeply caring person john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: GUEST,Oakley
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:28 AM

You also have man-boobs, fatso.

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:28 AM

i got micksed up, she was from Bishop Burton, she was really good at drinking though, she could drink loads of Guinness and not fall over, i think farming students, and medical students drink the most bear.john

Subject: RE: BS: A break from Punch the Horse - please?
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:16 PM

Please don't tell me that "Miss the Boat" is not another Brit Folk Group.