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What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt)
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Subject: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Kris Date: 11 Jan 99 - 08:18 AM Now that we know age sex & occupation statistics, how about giving a verbal picture of ourselves. I'd be really intrigued to see how my mental images of various mudcateers measure up to reality (well, virtuality then). Honesty entirely optional. On the offchance that anyone will participate I'll start off. I am : 5ft 1 and a half, and compensate for lack of height by concentrating on width. Darkish brown hair with a brushing of grey - long on top (usually plaited) and very short sides & back. Big nose (aristocratic I like to think), reasonable cheekbones & orangey-green eyes. Can't dress smartly to save my life, bizarre taste in clothes and no idea of how to co-ordinate. Always wear black eye-liner 'batwings', and when going out tend to wear yellow&pink&turquose&orange eyeshadow all at once. Overall effect is 'old hippy'. Still, it makes me happy :) Kris |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Big Mick Date: 11 Jan 99 - 08:28 AM Aaaaahhhh what the hell. I am 6'2 1/2, about 245 lbs. I have longish reddish blonde hair. I don't know what else to say. Mick Lane. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: AndreasW Date: 11 Jan 99 - 09:01 AM I am 1.94m, 99kg (6 feet 4 inches, about 220 lbs for those who still have not yet learned the metric system), blond hair turning grey (but falling out with amazing speed), blue eyes, a full beard (I am too lazy to shave), my nose is a bit longer than I would like... I strongly prefer jeans and sweater to suits (luckily I don't have to wear suits at work, or I would have to look for another job ;-) Andreas |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jan 99 - 02:36 PM Well, I suppose this sort of thread is what generated Art's "condom" thread, but I think it's a natural inclination for us to want to have a broader knowledge of the people we've come to like so much. People stop me on the street and tell me I look remarkably like Steve Martin, so I suppose I must. I'm 5'8" tall and believe blue jeans and plaid shirts are the ultimate in fashion. -Joe Offer- ....and Art looks like this. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Max Date: 11 Jan 99 - 03:30 PM A picture says a thousand words that I am too tired to mention. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Sandy Paton Date: 11 Jan 99 - 06:42 PM You can look at the Folk-Legacy web page for inescapable evidence of my antiquity. On the other hand, looking through the "custom cassettes" part of the site will show how "time has made a change in me." The picture there, which still appears on our first Folk-Legacy recording (dutifully catalogued as EGO-30), was taken in about 1965. Rick Fielding teases me about it. But then, he's a lot younger than I and still has a headful of hair! Sandy |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Dan Keding Date: 11 Jan 99 - 07:00 PM I'm six foot four and about 250 (sorry, almost too old to learn metric). Full grey beard and longish brown hair. Dress casual just like my life. It is interesting to know about the folks on Mudcat but after we exhaust all thses personal threads lets get back to the music. Are there new trends among the younger players? Is there more interest in traditional music in some areas and not others? How are older performers compensating for time? I'm fifity and starting to get really stiff in my left hand. Anybody find ways to prevent this? I'm also moving to Champaign/Urbana, IL. Any Mudcatters around there to play music with or just talk folk? Dan |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: alison Date: 11 Jan 99 - 09:06 PM Hey Big Mick...... looks like you're not the biggest any more.............. that'll teach you to have a go at me in the "how old" thread!!!!!!! hahahahahaha I'm 5 feet 2, just over 50 kg, red hair (at the moment), hazel eyes. For those of you who haven't seen this before... this was at a gig at a reasonably local folk festival... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bill D Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:05 PM here is the bare beginning of a website...just me right now.. click I have pictures from the FSGW Getaway to post very soon...including Dick Greenhaus, Susan of DT, Roger of Baltimore, Ferrara, Bruce O, Songbob...maybe a couple others...
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Jenny Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:19 PM Let's see ... how to make this sound snazzy ... oh, well ... I'm 5' (possibly a wee bit under), zaftig, sometimes I'm curvy ... sometimes show my prosperous girth, have naturally curly/wavy hair (depending on the humidity), brown hair with lots of red, brown eyes with lots of gold, irish/jewish descent. jenny |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: gargoyle Date: 12 Jan 99 - 12:10 AM Four Cubits 15 Stone And not a farthing more on either. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Frank in the swamps Date: 12 Jan 99 - 06:01 AM Seven & half foot long, seven inches between the eyes. My youthful yellow banding long ago gave way to a deep charcoal, but my belly skin is still white. Have most of the ridges on my back & tail, though they're a bit worn from scrapes with all the old bulls. My tongue & throat are a delightfully ghastly death white, teeth are yellow, except for the one that's missing thanks to a waterskier who wouldn't let go the damn rope! Frank i.t.s. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Steve Parkes Date: 12 Jan 99 - 08:11 AM 5'8", 11 stone (that's 154lbs to you lot over there), moustache, glasses (and reading glasses now, sadly), all my own teeth, all my own hair - which is still an attractive shade of medium mousey (thanks to my grandmother for the genes!), except for a teeny-weeny touch of grey at the sides (you should see my kid brother - 39 and white as a sheet!), 36" waist and 34" inside leg ... how much more do you want? Steve |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: May Best-Offer Date: 12 Jan 99 - 09:40 AM Joe, now that I know what you look like, I think I made a good choice. The honeynoom was out of this world. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Songbob Date: 12 Jan 99 - 04:18 PM Well, Bill Day says he has a more recent photo, but there is an old one on my homepage, at Hope I got all the brackets right on that! I'm just barely htm-illiterate.
Bob Clayton
Close, but no cigar, Bob. Your link should look like this: |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 12 Jan 99 - 10:39 PM Well, I look forward to Bill D's photos. I think he caught me trying out some slide guitar licks in a workshop. I am 5' 9" and 330 lbs. (Should I be Big Roger?). I sport a moustache and goatee. I wear glasses. They've been tri-focals for a few years (couldn't read the CD packages anymore, arms too short). The glasses, beard and moustache serve to hide my gloriously round face so I am not mistaken for a full moon (forget the wisecrack, Art). Brown hair, just to the ears. I've gotten a little gray on the sides and my beard is more salt than pepper. Hazel eyes. I smile a good deal and thanks to my dentist it looks like I have all of my teeth. I have been blessed with a long body and with short arms and legs (inseam 27). This causes me to hold my guitar close to my neck so I can get my arms around to the strings (reminiscent of early New Lost City Ramblers). The grayer I get, the more I remind people of Burl Ives. My clothing of choice runs to T-shirts, jeans, and athletic shoes. I am old enough to refer to them as dungarees and sneakers. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: harpgirl Date: 12 Jan 99 - 11:20 PM running along the moonlit santa fe at midnight... usually naked...deerskin boots...bow and arrow...several greyhounds...a cloak in winter...lambent...harpgirl |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Don Meixner Date: 12 Jan 99 - 11:39 PM Lets see, I am 48, 5'11" 235lbs. I too have a penchant for jeans, flannel, and sweetshirts. I have worn a beard since 1970 and am folically challenged. What folicals I have are a mix of Auburn, brown, and gray. A recent convert to bi-focals, which are no damn good when it comes to the hammered dulcimer. I usually have to buy shirts 2xl because they are the ones that fit my shoulders and are baggy everywhere else. I don't care if my sox match as long as they are warm and clean. Young women at work say I look like their uncle and older women say I look comfortable. I wonder if thats good? |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bob BoltonBob Bolton Date: 13 Jan 99 - 07:16 PM G'day Mudcatters far and wide, (Many in US and very wide, if we can believe the descriptions!) There is a good site on Australian Folk Music and it includes a page of my photos of the local folk scene - currently and back in the 1970s) ... it even includes a view of me at a recent National Folk Festival - at the head of "The Bolton Files": http://folk.mountaintracks.com.au/Folk_Australia/contents.html. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: AliceAlice Date: 13 Jan 99 - 07:21 PM I looked like this about four years ago, and now I look like this after being sick for awhile. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: AliceAlice Date: 13 Jan 99 - 07:26 PM Pretty bleak, eh?.... that's what being sick will do to change you. Are we getting a stutter on all the names and messages? |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: BarbaraBarbara Date: 13 Jan 99 - 08:34 PM Nope, not mine, (I don't think... we'll see for sure when I send this) but I have to reset my cookie each time I sign on so maybe only once is not enough. I hope you are recovering, dear. Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: BarbaraBarbara Date: 13 Jan 99 - 08:54 PM looks like I'm BarbaraBarbara too, AliceAlice. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bill DBill D Date: 13 Jan 99 - 09:20 PM *wondering if re-setting give us two identical cookies which are getting read* and does this mean I have to put up 2 identical pictures on my page?...and can one of me surf while the other sleeps? |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: McMusicMcMusic Date: 13 Jan 99 - 11:12 PM When I was younger and my hair was lon, I looked a little like George Harrison (Abby Road version). Now I'm a little like a relic lost in space. 5 feet 9 (and a half) about 190 lbs. and dropping; thick red-brown hair with a few gray invaders snaking their way in; a moustache grayer still. Execpt for the standard male-pattern thing on the forehead, I still have a full head of hair, as well as a complete set of teeth. Can usually be spotted wearing glasses and a perplexed look. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: McMusicMcMusic Date: 13 Jan 99 - 11:15 PM With all the double names--does anyone remember a childhood game called Red Rover, Red Rover"? |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: - Offer, JoeJoe Offer Date: 13 Jan 99 - 11:33 PM In the nickelodeon; All she ever wants is love, McMusicMcMusicMcMusic
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: CraigCraig Date: 14 Jan 99 - 12:25 AM I'm 5'10" and 180#. I'm 49 and eleven months with graying brown hair. I wear T-shirts and jeans whenever I can. AliceAlice you still look good to me. Craig |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bob BoltonBob Bolton Date: 14 Jan 99 - 01:42 AM G'day again(againagain), I don't know what happened to the URL for the Folk Australia site ... this stuttering must have confused the server!
The Australian site I mentioned is at: Regard(les)s, Bob Bolton |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: McMusicMcMusic Date: 14 Jan 99 - 02:02 AM Offer JoeOffer, A song in my honor! I've ne'er been so flattered! And I agree with Craig Craig--Alice you ARE lovely!! |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: The Charming and DebonaireJoe Offer Date: 14 Jan 99 - 02:43 AM Sounds like we have a unanimously high opinion of Alice. I'm still waiting for a few singing lessons in the shower... -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Wolfgang Date: 14 Jan 99 - 03:15 AM here you find nearly everything about me except my age. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Wolfgang Date: 14 Jan 99 - 03:18 AM ...and I'm not stuttering usually |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: alison Date: 14 Jan 99 - 06:30 AM Hi Bob, The Folk Oz page is temporarily off line... has been for over a month now. Hopefully it'll be back at the end of this month......... It's a great site and we miss it, (Are you listening Valda?) Slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Big MickBig Mick Date: 14 Jan 99 - 06:37 AM Alice, No shameless pandering here,(I save that for Alison...***grin***). You have got to be kidding. If you consider this substandard, I would love to see what you consider great. Mick |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bill DBill D Date: 14 Jan 99 - 10:53 AM lets see if this works...for Wolfgangs site...
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bill DBill D Date: 14 Jan 99 - 10:55 AM nope...you actually have to paste the regular address in the form and choose your language...but it is a neat trick |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: AliceAlice Date: 14 Jan 99 - 10:57 AM Well, if I get a great picture taken I'll post the link. Funny you should mention the shower, Joe, because the second photo was taken when I was experimenting with my digital camera... I took the photo in the bathroom mirror, and the shower is right behind me.... The lyrics taped to the shower wall right now are Auld Lang Syne, 5 verses and the chorus, to be sung to the original tune at the end of the Burns performance I will be doing later this month. Has anyone taken my suggestion and taped lyrics to the shower wall? Thermal fax paper stands the test of moisture. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Big Mick Date: 14 Jan 99 - 11:41 AM I hesitate to admit this, knowing this fine bunch of folks I hang out with, but I tried it shortly after you posted it and we had a little fun at your expense. The facts are that it works pretty well. I sing in the shower anyway, so mights well pur the time to use. All the best, Mick Lane |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: rick fielding Date: 14 Jan 99 - 02:47 PM Well, so Sandy Paton thinks I was kidding him about his early "image". Hardly. As anyone who has met the man knows, in his youth he resembled a Greek God. (and one of the good ones, I might add) Today however he looks like a folksinger, which is as it should be.
As to my own appearance, well the full head of hair that Sandy refers to is courtesy of "The Hair Club for Men". I've tried to reply to Steve Latimer about my radio show, in the significant folkie thread, but the gremlins won't allow me to send it. So Steve, maybe you can find it here. "Acoustic Workshop" is on Monday nights (for 10 years) at 9-10pm. CIUT. 89.5 fm. here in Toronto. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Dr John Date: 14 Jan 99 - 02:50 PM 5' 10"; "slightly" overweight; blue eyes; fair hair, red beard both turning (turned?) grey but all my own. Been told I look like James Gallway or Derek Jacobi - will sign any autograph for a fee. Scruffy despite years of effort not to be so: now given in resignedly. |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: bbc & Duane D.bbc Date: 14 Jan 99 - 02:59 PM Although we don't expect many people to be interested, here *we* are, courtesy of my son's webpage, representing the NY & NJ Mudcatters (bbc is David's mom & Duane D. is bbc's fiance). bbc & Duane D. best to all, bbc |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: VixenVixen Date: 14 Jan 99 - 03:08 PM 17.3 hh, dk ch. mare, aged, sound and sane. Requires experienced handler--high spirited and very forward. Big mover, scopey, bold. Excellent ground manners. No flash, lots of power and endurance.
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Herr Doktor DoktorJoe Offer Date: 14 Jan 99 - 03:09 PM Hey, that translation site does a fairly good job, although I'd like to think I could do a better one. But Wolfgang, what's "Parawissenschaften"? Is that what we call "parapsychology"? Oh, and I'll bet you'll never find a translator, human or machine, that can handle those awful German acronymns. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Bill D Date: 14 Jan 99 - 10:45 PM well, I did it..sort of! here are 2 links to me and others from the FSGW getaway..(I still have not figured out how to link the two pages... I put Bruce O & Dick G right below me on page one page one and Several others on page two I know several of these pics are large..*sigh*...learning this on the fly....but it is a start! |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Susan A-R Date: 14 Jan 99 - 11:30 PM 5 ft 5 in or there abouts, 140 or so lbs. brown eyes behind VERY thick glasses, short dark brown hair, running a bit to gray and it generally LOOKS like it's been under a chef's hat. 's me.
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Rasta Date: 15 Jan 99 - 02:14 AM six foot three acused of looking like a cross tween Neil young and Imus what can I say |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: MudGuard Date: 15 Jan 99 - 02:31 AM Hi Joe, Parawissenschaften = all those stuff some people see as science, but is no science, like parapsychology, astrology, ... GWUP = Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften = Society for scientific research of para-sciences (roughly translated) And in defendance of the German language: American acronyms are at least as awful as German acronyms!!! Andreas (Defender of the German language) |
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Subject: RE: German Acronyms From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jan 99 - 03:06 AM Looks like I drove an LKW (German truck) into a KKW (German atomic power plant) with that one, Andreas. ....or did I??? Well, I have to admit that we Americans have our share - especially the military. I spent a good part of this week on Air Force bases, drowning in acronyms. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What does a mudcateer look like? (truth opt) From: Wolfgang Date: 15 Jan 99 - 03:27 AM Joe, actually there's nothing much to add to what Andreas has written. The respective American acronym is CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) sometimes misnamed Psi-Cop by their opponents. Reading sceptical literature on such claims is my second way of spending the free time if I do not visit MUDCAT (now, if that was an acronym, what would it stand for? Musik Und Dichtung, Charakteristischerweise aus Alten Texten) Wolfgang |
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