BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat

Subject: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 08:53 AM

Since we've had the upgrade, with the automatic thread splitting, I keep on finding myself with increasing frequency reading old posts under the impression they are new posts, and only realising I'm doing so when the growing feeling of deja vu is crowned by reading one I wrote myself.

Not that I mind - it gives a fresh angle on things."What a load of irrelevant tosh this fella is writing - oh it's me..."

The incomparable Les Barker says the last, or possibly the first word, on the phenomenon - "Deja vu: a rhyme; it is impossible to experience deja vu for the first time."

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:10 PM

Didn't you post this once before???

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:24 PM

Now you say it I get a feeling I might have...Well, I will next time anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 07:46 PM

Of course if you're really into Mudcat deja vu, this is the place - the Mudcat timewarp

And here's a site for people who want good old-fashioned computers - http://www.dejavu.org/.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Burke
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 08:02 PM

McGrath, are you sure it's the splitting? I've just dipped into at least 3 threads I thought I'd be interested in. It turns out I am & was--they have been refreshed recently.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:04 AM

Not just the splitting, it's the refreshing as well, as it always has been. But the splitting system makes it a bit more frequent.

This isn't a complaint. I suppose it would be possible to have it so that a split thread opens on the most recent one - but re-reading old stuff isn't a bad idea. You notice things you missed.

Deja vu is a very folky thing anyway. We like the old songs, and play the old tunes, again and again, all with repeats. There was a fella on the radio some time ago who was saying that when he first heard Irish music he used to think "It's all the same tune". And then he got into it and he'd say "No, it's no the same tune at all." And then he really got into it, and came to the conclusion "Yes, it is really all the same tune - and I like it."

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Gareth
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:25 AM

Must go with you on that Kevin, cos senility is setting in.

Last week I tried to post some lyrics in response to an old request, to find I had already posted !

Criiiinge !!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: gnu
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:29 AM

I wish my memory was still good enough for Deja vu.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:30 AM

I've lost count of how many times I've seen two or more threads about the same thing seem appear almost simultaneously. Obviously they could be prompted by a topical event. If they are started by people from the same area, they could also be the result of a particular performance. In most of these cases, though, the threads are started by different people who are geographically separated - often by oceans, and about subjects which are not specially topical.

Of course people should really search the forum (and if suitable the DT), before they start a thread - especially for things like obituaries or music/lyrics requests, but I still think that it's uncanny that so many cases crop up.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 07:08 AM

That's synchronicity for you, once again.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 11:57 AM

This thread itself is...well...deja vue all over again!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Declan
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 12:02 PM

You'd better start another thread on this because the first time you say deja vu - it isn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 12:19 PM

One man's DejaVu is another man's.

Or perhaps it was.


As for if one should start a thread before checking out the archives, I dont see the harm in starting anew, it will seem new for the person who starts it ( at first), provides others with that creepy feeling of familiarity. And beside lets face it the whole thing is a bit of a delightful waste of time, and time again.

Nick
Nick

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 01:09 PM

But checking on previously existing threads mean that you can build on what's been done before. Or correct it perhaps.

Enough already.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: khandu
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 04:36 PM

Several years ago, a night spot opened in Jackson, MS, named "Deja Vu".

As my lucky wife and I, along with some friends passed it, lucky wife said, "Oh, look! They have opened a new spot."

To which I responded ,"Yes, I have "already seen" it."

No one got the joke.

k

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 04:56 PM

Khandu,

You're in with the wrong crowd, buddy!! Ya need to mix it up with the fast track!! Move to Biloxi!


LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 08:29 PM

khandu
You should have repeated the joke at a later stage and they would have miraculously remembered laughing at the first telling.
Problem solved.

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 11:44 PM

I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

--Stephen Wright

(How about that! My spell-checker automatically inserted the accent marks in déjà vu!)

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: Guessed
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 10:53 AM

Try spell checking the calendar and you get "days ya view"
I'll get my coat......

Subject: RE: BS: Deja vu and the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Itinerant Genie
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 11:36 AM

Well, I don't know if this is connected to the phenomena you folks are discussing, but ever since the "new Mudcat" appeared, I keep having this happen:
1. - I read a thread.
2. - I post to it.
3. - I open the thread to check my post, and it is in the expected sequence among the other posts.
4. - The next day I open the thread again and there are several other posts between my post and the one that was "last" when I posted mine.

Sometimes this results in my post looking silly. E.g., I make a point or ask or answer a question that has not been mentioned in the thread. The next day, other people's posts with the same Q or info appear before mine, and it looks like I've ignored them. Is this part of the "time warp" thing?

Genie