ultra-secret project

Subject: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 02:20 PM

coming down to the wire.

you know who you are. *grin*



your contribution needs to be winging it's way through the aether by the week's end.

(or confirmed it's in snail mail)

if you have no idea what I'm talking about you may PM me.

if I already have your contribution - never mind.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Micca
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 02:37 PM

and are you in receipt of same? or both sames?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 02:42 PM

micca - I just requested confirmation on your package.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:24 PM

Wouldn't a thread like this which means nothing to 99% of users be best moved to the BS section? Or conducted via PM?

Joe/clones?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:28 PM

I think I can safely say without breaking cover that it is a music-related project and that it is of interest to a number of actively participating Catters. No BS afoot here.

~S~

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:33 PM

Well why not do it via PM then?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:34 PM

Guest - it was deliberalty placed here for maximum visibility

I would explain it for you - but it *is* a super secret project - so I can't except through PM's which you don't have access to.

suffice it to say it won't be here long and that it is music related in the extreme

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:36 PM

It *HAS* been done thorugh PM's for several months - with 4 days left to deadline I used this as a high visibility push to finalize

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Kim C
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:37 PM

Darn! I feel left out. ;-)

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:46 PM

I would bet good money there will be another opportunity before too long, Kim. It's too cool to do just once! You need only PM Mmario to inquire about this, but I am sure he will not forget who posted an interest in it in this thread, bwahahahahahhhh!

If this did recur, there might even be a way found for Guests to participate via e-mail, via my motormice address. I have never known Mmario to be less than welcoming and inclusive.

~Susan

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:50 PM

OK, Mmario. Sorry

I guess I can wait 4 days.

curious to know, mind...

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:54 PM

4 days left - St Patrick's day, obviously.

American obsession with Irish traditional music above any other is a little sad in my opinion. I do however look forward to whatever 'it' is.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:05 PM

Nothing to do with St. Patrick's day, that's just the deadline.

MMario, I've not received any confirmation on whether the files I sent made it or not.

KimC, PM MMario, with four days, you may have something you could email him in time!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:40 PM

Damn, you Kat! (nothing nasty intended)

I wrongly guessed Irish music, so what the hell is it?

This is worse than Christmas Eve for a 5 year old!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:43 PM

sorry - what's worse - this is only the deadline for the first phase. The completion will be at some unspecified but hopefully not too long time in the future.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:47 PM

oh, vey!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: JohnnyBeezer
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:51 PM

I myself am doing something very important on the 20th March which will have far-reaching consequences and massive collateral fall-out,but I'm not telling you what it is so there!!
It's a secret!

Yours covertly
Johnny N

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Amos
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:06 PM

Good on ya, johnny -- I did somnething very important last week, as well. I'll tell you later, okay?? :>)

A

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:19 PM

I could say something, but I won't!

A Mudcat conspiracy theory.... hmmmm......

~S~

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:40 PM

I know I'll have to do something...then keep it secret too!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: hesperis
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:54 PM

What???

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: GUEST,Big Guest
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:07 PM

I know more than any of you about something, and it is not likely you will ever know. Only thing I will say about this thread is that either it is meant to create curiosity, or what the rank and file think about it doesn't matter.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:57 PM

If you'd like to e-mail me and ask, I'll tell you. It is indeed a worthy enterprise.

--Joe Offer (click to e-mail)-

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Giac
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 07:16 PM

I would be curious to know if my submission was received. MMario, I did email it, but not to you, as you suggested.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 09:15 PM

Giac - as soon as I know I will let you know.

Everyone - I'm sorry to be so secretive - but my access time is limited these days and I didn't have time for another round of PM's.

As I have said - if you PM me I will tell you what it's all about.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 10:25 PM

Oops--okay--I'll pm you soon.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:08 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:39 AM

March 17th???... this is only the deadline for the first phase???... music-related in the extreme???. Omigod! You're gonna drop banjoes on Baghdad!!!

BJ

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:42 AM

don't be silly. Bodhrans.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:43 AM

MMario, did you do what we talked about and can you PM me with the detail as I'd like to know which you chose....sorry guys, this does sound like a conspiracy,doesn't it?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Bagpuss
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:45 AM

How is it ultra secret if any member can find out by pming you?...

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:49 AM

That's the beauty of it.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Bagpuss
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:50 AM

Yeah well i never wanted to be in your sinky club anyway!

;-P

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:59 AM

I know the secret, and will do MY part by pummeling (gently) the more musical part of my household...*grin*

"banjos on Baghdad" weapons of mass distraction?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: My guru always said
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 09:10 AM

This WILL be worth the wait...... Be patient CatsAll ;-)

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 09:43 AM

dropping pianos would do more collateral damage. . .but I like pianos and banjoes. . . how about dropping accordians instead?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Micca
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 10:13 AM

or can I suggest accordianists? and Bodhranists
Did anyone else notice that there was only 1 Bodhran in evidence at Loughstock during the ENTIRE w/e? and even that was a very late showing on the Sunday night? I thought Ireland was Hip-deep in the things!!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: My guru always said
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 10:57 AM

Ha, I missed that Bodhran!!!!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: C-flat
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 11:48 AM

Bodhrans - Weapons of mass percussion?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 11:53 AM

C'flat.....kindly come here so I can smack your legs *G*.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 02:14 PM

I checked, and I was right: the use of bodhrans, banjoes, and/or accordians (or any variation thereon) is explicitly forbidden by the Geneva Convention, the Rules of Land Warfare, two hundred and sixteen different treaties, and good taste. They are considered WMDs: Weapons of Musical Dementia.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 02:25 PM

bagpipes then?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 02:43 PM

The Sack of Iraq?

ducks and runs away real fast

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Mudlark
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 02:50 PM

I'm working on it...if I can't get it to fly, I'll let you know over the weekend, so you wont be waiting for it. (Up in the air, junior birdmen!)

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 02:56 PM

grazie!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Giac
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:24 PM

Still grazie after all these years -- Ex-junior birdman gleefully making goggles with fingers, and preparing to fling a banjo player from the parapet -- "If you do not disarm ... we will taunt you again ..."

Oh, never MIND!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 06:45 PM

I'll try, MM, I really will!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Paul G.
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 09:56 PM

Well, I've sent mine -- and a right lovely one at that. But please...don't tell anyone. Paranoia strikes deep....

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Yorkshire Tony
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 10:09 PM

I read a very funny article about a plan to drop French existentialist philosophers on Baghdad unfortunately I seem to have lost it. Perhaps they could be taught to play the Bodhran first for additional impact.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Hrothgar
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:07 AM

No wonder so many of us are paranoid!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Schantieman
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 11:16 AM

One is reminded (well, this one is, anyway) of the siege scene in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 11:24 AM

Thanks for the offer, Joe, but not knowing is much more fun!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 11:29 AM

How about parachuting a crack team of neo-liberal economists into Baghdad to wreck the local economy and hand it over, Mosco-style, to the mafia that will spring up once Saddo has been removed?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: SharonA
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 12:49 PM

MMario, you answered my first PM but not my second one – please reply!   I may be able to send something tomorrow morning if I pull an all-nighter tonight.   Like Mudlark, I'm working on it!

Sharon, Believer in and Worshipper of the Last Minute

(If it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done...)

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 12:52 PM

sharonA - never got a second PM from you...which is why I didn't answer it. See your PM's

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 01:35 PM

My cats have declared war on the sitting room rug.....their claws are now weapons of mats destruction

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 01:38 PM

*thwack!* and you deserved it young lady!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:26 PM

Notice the subtle way in which the secret operation is covered up by Mudcat Humor? Like the three-dimensional feline, the Cats scrape humor over that which they do not want known -- our own weapon of mass distraction!

Thwack!!!


A

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:35 PM

Morty... now that I have wiped my screen of happy hour libations... good one !

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:38 PM

*clutches hands to temples*

{moans}

what have I done, lordy,lordy lordy.what *have* I done!?!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:54 PM

Heehee! I'm in! :-D

Okay, since we're making silly jokes, I'll make one. Heck, I may have already made it somewhere else, I don't know. Anyway... you all know what a cranio-rectal inversion is, right? Well, the operation to correct it is an ......................... assendectomy.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 07:56 AM

if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.....it's up to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.....

sorry - wrong state.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: hesperis
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 12:10 AM

Ok, I know what it is, probably can't do anything by that date, but if things look likely, will let MMario know.

I am on the lookout for any local bodhran players to give to the cause, though! (j/k)

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Mudlark
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 02:35 AM

Eureka! It will be in the air first thing monday morning.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 08:28 AM

This may be deleted or moved to the "lower" section now. Thanks for the forbearance everyone.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Micca
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 09:02 AM

MMario, are all the "bids" in?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 11:25 AM

Retroactive BSiffication?????

~Susan

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 May 03 - 01:13 AM

Has this moved along, now? Just wondering...;->

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 01 May 03 - 08:31 AM

yup - moving along...it's been trucked to Syria, may be moved to Iran shortly.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 03:08 PM

people - please let this drop off the list...

But FYI - this is one step closer to completion....

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 06:02 PM

Oh yeah... right. I'm sure. For the lazy ones, or, perhaps stupid, ie, ME, on both counts, what the fuck are you talking about !?

curiousandpissedgnu

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: BanjoRay
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 06:11 PM

Mornington Crescent?

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 05:05 PM

Gee, Mario, whatcha got to say fer yerself now?


A

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: michaelr
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 06:56 PM

The research, development, and production phases have been completed. Tests confirm viability. All that remains is the launch!

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 07:06 PM

!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 08:46 PM

Okay, thanks for the PM's.

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 05:35 PM

For continuity's sake, here's the missing link!

Subject: RE: ultra-secret project
From: Celtaddict
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 11:01 PM

Please tell us we outsider 'Cats will have a chance to order copies!