How Old is a Mudcatter?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:51 PM

if my calculatons are correct, one M-60 requires 3 F-20's for correct balance, nicht wahr?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 33
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:51 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Frieda
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:17 PM

M 41

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From: sharon 565
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:26 PM

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From: sharon 56
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:27 PM

Sorry.. Methuselah, I am not!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F33, the third
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:42 PM

I would like to meet the M60 that can keep up to 3 F20's!

My Ex (Joe, we're not all taken) asked me if I would trade him in on 2 18-year-olds when he had turned 36. Ummm, no. It was enough work training one M, wouldn't want to go back and train two more.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Margarita
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 06:27 PM

I'm 44 years sweet (gag)

sweeta Margarita

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: jet
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 07:33 PM

74 last august.I stil want to be a musican when I grow up.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F 33
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:20 PM

Hahahahaha, 2 F33s

This is going to be good fun...... how are you guys going to know which of us you're chasing?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jon Hindsill
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:52 PM

To Joe Offer---don't wish Pres. Clinton on the Republicans, we have enough embarassments of our own; but between EK & WJC we can sort of relax. M59

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:01 PM

I know which one I'm chasing. At 48 tomorrow, I feel like I am finally mature enough for a spritely 33 year old. But if she is going to act her age, I will look elsewhere. LOL.

All the best,

Mick Lane

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:11 PM

I want to congratulate the new champion - 74! They tell me that antiques are of great value, so cherish the role.

Former Champion, now runner up.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: jet
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:00 PM

with age comes wisdom. A year ago we had the great ice storm in Maine .This year I have 2 wood stoves .What a diffrence a year makes.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 47.5
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:01 PM

Was going to go a head and round up to the closest half-year, but what the hell! I'll enjoy my youth while it lasts.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F 38
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:19 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:24 PM

Hey there, Big Mick! Happy Birthday!! In two years you can begin to celebrate, as we do, only the SDBs (Significant Digit Birthdays). Bigger parties!

Sandy

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:42 PM

Great, my friend, and I will expect that we will find a place and get as many 'catters as we can together. That would be a great 50th present. A super session, maybe somewhere half way between Michigan and PA, eh? Would that we could.

Mick

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: f 40
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:43 PM

So, are there really a lot more men chatting, or are we women just more shy about such personal info?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: gargoyle
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:33 AM

Ah...was born a hundred thousand years ago
There ain't nothin' in this world I do not know
Ah...saw...Peter, Paul and Moses
Playin' "ring-a-round-de-roses"
And Ah'll whoop the man who says it isn't so.

M-$*

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:35 AM

Happy Birthday Mick, I'll be joinging you at 48 next month. I don't mind the aging so much but it's awfully embrassing when people think I'm young enough looking to be my youthful looking wife's (42) son, it's even worst to feel that young while pausing to catch a breath. Barry

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 100,000
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:37 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:48 AM

Barry,
LOL.......great post, and thanks for the wishes.
All the best,
Mick.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 04:36 AM

F 40, I don't know if there are more men here, but we certainly talk more often. We're a chatty bunch, aren't we?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 09:45 AM

Updated Data Summary

    

M     n=69     x=48.7

    

F     n=26     x=43.4


    

  Decade        M        F


    

10-19         0        1

  20-29         5        0

  30-39         5        7

  40-49        23       10

  50-59        27        8

  60-69         6        0

  70-79         3        0

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M45
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:38 AM

... and looking forward

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Will
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:44 AM

On the what do the kids listen to topic ...

I have three

My 12 year-old listens to the Spice Girls and Jewel. She says thanks when I give her Nanci Griffith and Waterson and McGarrigal and Pogues disks and then never plays them (so I take them back and play them myself).

My 10 year-old ignores all music as far as I can tell.

My 8-old listens to Beethoven and Carmen.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F 62
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:06 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M52
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 01:49 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F33 who is actually 34
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 02:01 PM

So, is that me out of the running for being chased now I've realised I'm 34? Knew it, a girl turns 34, and that's it... she's on the shelf! Glad your not a pram-chaser though Joe!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F54
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 02:07 PM

I remember 33. (You GO GIRL!) I remember 43. (Busy, bothered) I remember 53 (last week). 54 is great so far this week, just hitting my stride.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F43
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:09 PM

That would be busy and bothered (what type of bothered IS that anyway?) Glad to know I have yet to hit my stride!

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From: Amaranth
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:04 PM

M 43

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From: F29
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:47 PM

I have a few more months to go as part of the 20's so far the only one in my gender in this age

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 02:22 PM

HAH, ALISON You are no longer the young one. Welcome to the land of the old fogies!!!!!But you are still a mere lass to me, and I will continue to flirt shamelessly, despite your advanced age. :-))All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F45
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 03:49 PM

SWF,N/S, wellpreserved (pickling mixture helps) hair color variable, ooh - you didn't need to know all that stuff...sorry......

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 04:13 PM

Is there any truth to the rumor that someone is working on a chip to protect our kids (and grandkids) from stumbling upon the Mudcat threads, labeling them FOR MATURE AUDIENCES?

Just another foggy folk fogey.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete M
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:23 PM

Dunno about that Sandy, but if you set up the "Mother Knows Best" filters (aka "Content advisor" in IE) it wont let you access the forum - unsuitable language!! Mind you if the people who use these things knew about the ideas expressed here they would probably have kittens at the thought of little Jimmy reading them, they are far more dangerous than swearing and talk about whisper sex, he might grow up with an open and enquiring mind!

Pete M

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Panic Attack
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:52 PM

m50 Ian UK

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 08:21 PM

Sandy- Maturity? It's not synonymous with Age.Sometimes, not even close.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete M
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:47 PM

OK for those of you who prefer pictures, here is a stem plot of our age distribution in 5 year bands (does away with problems about "nearly" or "next birthday" and 33’s who are actually 34 etc)

  Age band           M                 F

<20                         |x
20-24                   xxxx|
25-29                      x|x
30-34                   xxxx|xxxx
35-39                      x|xxx
40-44              xxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxx
45-49        xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxx
50-54    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx 
55-59              xxxxxxxxx|X
60-64                    xxx|x
65-69                   xxxx|
>69                      xxx|

Pete M

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M62
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 11:20 PM

...and I've been told that I'll never be as old as I look. RonU

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jack Hickman - M - 66
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 12:00 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M45
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 02:35 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete (inactive)
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 05:08 AM

Clansfolk Ages

Pete - M 47

Simon - M 16

Eileen - F 47

Is it something to do with the 60s Folk Boom?

as there is a glut of 'young' 40-60 age group.

We have been trying to introduce more young people to the Traditional scene though folk clubs and Festivals. The Young Generation Contest at the Fyle Folk Festival has done well over the years several professional performers have come out of the Competition (eg. Kate Rusby).

Lets all stay young forever.

take care and sing well

Pete and family (Clansfolk)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M39
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:04 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Rasta
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:24 PM

F-50 I agree Jet when I grow up Ill be a better musician then I am now--Im still learing--aint life grand Rastaaaaaa

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:43 PM

I've always looked younger than my years (as did my parents.. youthful genes) so I have never thought of myself as 'old'. I was stunned (or stung) about 2 years ago when I was talking to a guy after the session was breaking up and he complemented me on my singing. He then went on to say, 'and it's nice that older people like you can pass on the songs to the young people...' ... and I had been thinking of him as a peer while I was talking to him... I could have popped him in the nose, as my daddy would say, but I'm a lady. I stood there speechless, instead, as my face blanched then blushed.

alice in montana

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Rasta
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:44 PM

F-50 I agree Jet when I grow up Ill be a better musician then I am now--Im still learing--aint life grand Rastaaaaaa

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Indy Lass
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 01:17 PM

F 42.5 I just joined about a week ago and I feel I'm already getting to know fellow Mudcatters. I learned about DT when attending a Celtic College session in Goderich, Ont. (I live in Indiana). These "how, what, where" threads have been helpful--nice to meet all of you!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 39
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 03:42 PM

Frank McGrath