BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?

Subject: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,irishajo
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 12:23 PM

Which thread made you laugh the loudest? Guffaw the greatest? Point me in the direction of those threads that you still think about now and then and get a chuckle over.

I could really use a good laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 12:35 PM

'round these parts, podner, we don't cotton to 'best' and 'most' threads..*grin*...especially when there are too many to count! Some are funny, some are silly, some are bemusing.....and my memory is slipping!

If you want recent ones, do a search on "Martians"

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 12:38 PM

IMHO, The Campsite at Drumcree threads.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 12:38 PM

I kinda liked the one on Eminem too - that was aways back....

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 12:40 PM

There were several captioned "Humor Us", and they in turn have other humor links in them. That's intentional humor. If you want spontaneous BS humour try the Tavern series, especially the Steamboat story and the Mudcat Enterprise story for really terrific creative writing by bvright lights like LEJ, Jen Ellen and Peter T, Spaw, MM, etc. Classic threads like the discussion of Condoms started by Art Thieme are worth looking into.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 12:57 PM

The Campsite at Drumcree, funniest parodies I have ever seen. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:15 PM

If you're interested in the guitar, then the Ask Dr.Guitar threads are hilarious.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:18 PM

Druids and the Hokey Cokey. Cat Farts.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:34 PM

The Mother of All BS Threads was hilarious in its infancy and adolescence. Unfortunately, it is now a wheezing geriatric with over 1000 posts and is only being kept alive by being fed minute daily crumbs of BS by a handful of die-hard whackos with very warped senses of humor. At this point it's probably only funny to those who are doing the feeding, but the first three hundred or so posts are gems of inspired insanity.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,An inflatable correspondent
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:47 PM

I have had a good giggle at several threads at Mudcat over the years,but couldnt pin one down right now...

This morning I heard this joke on BBC television news that makes me giggle to myself everytime I think of it..

"An inflatable teacher,in an inflatable school gets called into the office to be reprimanded.....he's told by the inflatable headmaster that he's not just let himself down,and the pupils down,but the whole school down".....

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:50 PM

pencils

I tried to link to the original story of Cletus and the boys, but if you type "Cletus" into the search it explodes.

I am now typing this on library equipment.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,John Hardly
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 01:52 PM

sorry, t'was me above

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 02:11 PM

Wow. Just re-read PEncils, Pter T's incredible homage to long, hard, closely held tools of inspiration. Beautiful stuff.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 02:40 PM

There was one on bad writing that produced some marvelously funny and awful original prose in a variety of common styles (romance, mystery, fantasy, etc...), but I can't recall its title.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,the mudcat bad writer
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 02:43 PM

the mudcat bad writing contest?

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: John Hardly
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 03:04 PM

Bad writing contest

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 04:25 PM

There is no such thing actually. There are threads that start with a humorous story or joke that die quickly and other threads where the thread drift becomes amazingly funny. You can't create a "funny" thread here.....they just happen or they don't. Many times after a question has been answered the silliness begins and some of those threads are absolutely hilarious. Some have funny parts here and there. As a matter of fact, some of the ones I consider the best may have a section or two that are uproariously funny and the rest is quite straight.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 05:06 PM

I vote the Campsite at Drumcree thread...one of the few threads that actually made me laugh out loud - something that doesn't happen very often. Well worth a search and a read.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 06:44 PM

It all depends on your own sense of humour. For my own sense, the Campsite at Drumcree was by far the funniest thread I've ever read here. It, IMO was a work of sheer brilliance.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 07:29 PM

I'm new to the mudcat, but I reccomend "What Do You Call Your Thingie?" "I Know Where Uday Hussein Is" was also funny, until they really found him. "Where Do We Get These Weirdos" had it's funny moments. Perhaps I am easily amused.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 08:45 PM

There was one on tall tales tghat was pretty good as I recall.

I'll never live down that condom thread or so it seems. But I think it was the start of what would wind up being the separation of the music threads from the B.S. threads. And after all, that was the point of my startng such a dumb ass thread. How it got over 200 posts I'll never know though.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 10:56 PM

It goes without saying (but I'm gonna say it anyway because I never really understood what "it goes without saying" is supposed to mean) that a lot of humor is culturally determined. That's a polite way of saying that I don't have the foggiest idea what the Campsite at Drumcree thread is about and totally fail to see the humor in it.

But wait! Maybe that's the point! It's not funny at all but you Yookers are trying to convince us Yanks that it is funny. Of course, we aren't going to admit that we don't get it so we'll laugh as if we did understand it and then you can point your fingers at us and laugh at us for being idjits.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 11:15 PM

At a point in time when I really needed a lift I drifted onto a thread that exchanged a lot of farting stories. Some of those were hilarious--low-brow, and some were stupid, yes, but overall hilarious.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 11:21 PM

'Spaw, there may not be a funniest Mudcat thread, but you have certainly come up with your most boring post ever. Were you channeling Mr. Rogers? Lay off the 'Ludes, man!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 11:21 PM

i love the walt robertson thread....

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 12:19 AM

Yeah, if ya don't have a sense o' humor, IT ISN'T FUNNY ! ;-)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: alison
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 01:54 AM

"Campsite at Drumcree" & all the subsequent threads..... it helps if you know the songs being parodied and the various "celebrities" who are mentioned.....


there was a "how do you write a folk song" thread a long time ago too

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 03:43 AM

Thanks Mark!!! Once every now and again I can really crank one out. I tried many times to see if those posts had anything in common but all I could come up with was a dietary thing. It seems every time I am really boring as whale shit, I have consumed mass quantities of pineapple and macadamia nuts within the past 12 hours.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 04:55 AM

Resolutions for folk song characters has been good.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 10:11 AM

Bruce, Drumcree would probably have been lost on a lot of "Yookers" (I assume you mean people from the UK). I didn't get all of it by any means but I knew enough of the songs , characters parodied (plus I think it helps a little to have had friends from N Ireland) to find parts of it hillarious.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 12:38 PM

After being on the "cat" for 4 years now and learning to recognize the individual writing skills of the poster, I can tell you that you'll find some of the funniest things when you read between the lines. Take for instance Spaw's last post, now, to most of you, you will think that he was making a dig at Mark by suggesting he too is boring because of his "Hawaiian Diet".

You'll notice that Spaw used the words, "dietary", "pineapple", "macadamia nuts", "twelve hours" and "shit". This tells me that the man has not been behaving himself as far as his diverticulitis is concerned and that he has ODed on forbidden fruits and nuts. He should be ok in about twelve hours... after he has a good shit! *BG*

LL

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 01:35 PM

Aw,jeez,LL, you just had to go and share that with us,huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 02:28 PM

Well...yes Morti, I did. You know as well as I, that Spaw is a modest man. He doesn't like to share his troubles with any of us and so it's up to the rest of us to pay attention and to lend a helping hand if needed. My advice to Pat in this instance is to do like the constipated mathematician, and work it out with a pencil.

I'm outta here... before the shit hits the fan!!!!!
LL

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: alison
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 02:42 AM

found it

How to create a folksong (FS for dummies)

and there were some good story ones

Sherry Aims, folk Nurse

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 10:47 PM

i think them drumcree threads was really funny, and "punch the horse in south ferriby" is really funny as well.john

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 10:58 PM

some of guest,;gargoyles stuff is funny, i think thats because he is a bit mental.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 10:59 PM

While I still hold with that boring-ass post I made above, it's also worth noting that some threads are funny in a different way.....a long and continuous chuckling as opposed to an uproarious guffaw. Sometimes the chuckle lasts for years and you may be the only one, or one of a few, chuckling.

Extremely funny people who get themselves in trouble by making a simple sarcastic remark always crack me up in their discomfort............And so it has been with Art Thieme who is still trying to justify, live down, apologize for, or sweep under the rug, a thread he started to show how stupid some of the threads had become. He even mentioned it again here!

Art, you have given me years of pleasant chuckling by asking, "What Kind of Condoms do Mudcatters Use?"

Thank You....and thanks for all the great bad puns and jokes as well.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Micca
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 04:00 AM

well, "Drumcree" and several of the other threads mentioned the standard of creative writing is truly sublime.
But the " coffee down the nose " award goes to...


TARAAAAAAA,

Catspaw for the "Cletus, Paw and the Christmas trees" alto any of the Cletus etc. threads is good, that one had me on the Floor and took me ages to read as I had to keep breaking off to recover what passes for my composure

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 07:15 PM

Campsite at Drumcree - first of many threads. Nearly as long as the Lord of the Rings, but funnier. Some people find both equally impenetrable, but that's how it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:14 PM

The funniest stuff (ROFL level) is almost always unexpected and spontaneous. Often buried in the middle of something serious, even pretentious.

There are some good humourous storytellers that can string along a good tale here though - some of the previous mentioned threads are good starters.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 09:25 PM

This thread, caber tosser ljc, remains one of my favorites to this day, short though it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 05:04 AM

Drumcree.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Morticia
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 07:34 AM

All Cletus and the Reg boys stories qualify, so do the Drumcree threads and some of the Tavern threads were really funny too....I love this place!

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 07:37 AM

If you're just after jokes - and there's a lot of those threads too, then Drumcree probably won't be all that funny - the humour comes from the clever Parodies of Songs, Styles, and Artists: the more you know about the subject matter, the funnier it is.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:02 AM

For anyone wot's interested, I have the Campsite of Drumcree (threads I-IV and follow-ups) in book form (pdf) and can give people download details if they want to download a copy. PM me.One of Mudcat's best moments, and I'm still laughing.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: greg stephens
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:10 AM

As lots have said, it's the little jokes that occur in otherwise serious threads that are often the best. But for serious, well written, consistent funny writing that you'ld like to see published in a little book in your Christmas stocking. I would say the Drumcree stuff and the complete works of JOhn from Hull.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Teribus
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:21 AM

Campsite at Drumcree without a shadow of a doubt, you could make it into a book and make a fortune.

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: greg stephens
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:24 AM

Teribus has put his finger on a question that must have occurred to most of us, but I have never seen answered. Is the creator of Drumcree a professional writer, and if not why not?

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:40 AM

My nomination is jOhn from Hull's contributions on this thread .

Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 09:02 AM

The creator of Drumcree is a brilliant lyricist and mandolin player, but not a professional writer as far as I know. He is steeped by his blood in the Irish tradition, which means he is a natural pro at it, though.


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