BS: Mudcat Misquotes!

Subject: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:09 AM

I like the rather good thread on memorable Quotes from the Mudcat Forum.

From time to time, what is sometimes seen when one's glasses are not clean (or are are empty!), or when one hasn't had that morning coffee yet - or after too many cups of, er well, coffee. Somehow the mind jiggles things around but adding or removing or swapping or substitution words, and what is seen is not what was written, or what the author intended.

For example:

"Personally I prefer to play and/or listen to the music than to have a good time."

which is not quite what was actually there, and which caused me to stop and think, then realise that I had to read that again!

What the original was:

"Personally I prefer to play and/or listen to the music to have a good time."

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:28 AM

'Mudcat Mosquitos' I read and expected a thread about annoying posts.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: *daylia*
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:32 AM

I've never met the Mudcat Mosquitos! WHere are they? Must be here in the BS somewhere ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:50 AM

Well, ACTUALLY, Wolfgang, I was sorta expecting you to talk about OTHER threads..... sigh...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: JennyO
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 01:06 PM

'Mudcat Mosquitos' I read and expected a thread about annoying posts.

I read what you said here Wolfgang as "annoying pests"!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 01:47 PM

Martin Gibson is a wonderful guy

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:26 PM

Hiya, Marty The Troll Script Robot!

Non-persons are no hassle - cause they don't exist!

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 07:47 AM

LOL Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 10:14 AM

Martin Gibson is wonderfuly gay! I didn't know that...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 10:27 AM

ROFL....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 11:07 PM

Thread titled "Children's Workshop".

Just as well I read what the thread was about before I posted my brillant suggestions about making children - I could have got into lots of trouble...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 07:31 AM

Surely, "making" children is frowned upon outside most Southern States and the Fens of eastern England. What's special anyway about
children in Worksop.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:24 AM

Making babies is easy - take Johnson's Baby Powder, add hot water and stir.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 08:42 PM

Only trouble is making it dissolve.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Joybell
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 08:48 PM

I can buy "Puppy Mix" at the local feed store. Also "Wild Bird Mix" is that along the same line, Snuffy? Of course there's "Flea Powder". Why would anyone want to make fleas? Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 09:12 PM

I'm annoyed that they have taken dehydrated water off the market - was a great weight saver for bush walkers.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 09:28 PM

I'm glad you brought this subject up. foolestroupe, because I was once misquoted regarding something I said quite innocently about Spaw. Here is the quote. I'm sure you can find the obvious error in the text:

"...except of course for Spaw. He is an incompetent, simple-minded, concupiscient wretch. He is vague, obtuse, vulgar, and lacks discrimination. His attempts at what he thinks of as ribald humor are akin to the noisy wallowings of a dyspeptic hog in a cesspool, guaranteed to offend while perhaps amusing in some small peripheral way. He is silly, repetitive, pompous, licentious and vain. He bores more effectively than an auger. To peruse his inane ramblings is an experience similar to copulating with a dead porcupine, in that one suffers freqent annoying pain while attaining absolutely no personal satisfaction whatsoever. To call this man "human" in fact would be to stretch the term considerably beyond its usual compass into hitherto unglimpsed realms of sheer blundering idiocy that would have caused even the Three Stooges to feel a shuddering twinge of envy. In short, the man is a fool, a prat, a knownothing. He is the blither in blather, the riff of raff, the null of void. He makes Neil Young sound lucid! And that is why he is universally despised. It has nothing to do with the nude windsurfing incident at the marina. Nothing whatsoever."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 04:12 AM

obvious error? Have you made a noddy typo?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 07:47 PM

Ah! You didn't use a capital 'M' for Marina!

The Pedant Strikes!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 08:02 PM

Oh! You are SOOOO close...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Genie
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 02:46 PM

Wolfgang, you and I must be related. I also read this thread title as "Mudcat Mosquitos" and was poised to post that but found you'd already engaged in the same bit of dyslexia. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 04:41 PM

Why do so few people know how to spell dis....dysla....dyslo...dyslecs.....dyslec....dyslecs......dyslexia?
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:02 PM

Does a cxat go mxioa?
Or would it go mniao?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 07:13 PM

DNA--National Dyslexics' Association

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 09:01 PM

Quests that bother you

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 08:33 PM

Btw, Just who WAS that Obscure Irish Soldier that the Obscure Irish Soldier's Song was about?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 08:56 PM

"Arrogance - the cure for Mudcat Shunning"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 09:10 PM

"Trolling: a Cure for Shunning"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 09:26 PM

Bunny Fumper Stickers

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:41 PM

Squirrels in my Panties...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 10:54 PM

I still like "Mudcat Mosquitoes."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 09:28 PM

Great thongs for female singers.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 03:38 AM

The Doggy Doggy Few.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 06:03 AM

Why don't melodeon players give good h...

You're right! it doesn't say that at all!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 09:58 PM

Bastard Collection of Folk Songs - Songs of America

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Misquotes!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:17 PM

The Care And Feeding Of Moses