What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.

Subject: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:00 AM

I'm just curious...

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:05 AM

whole body condoms, with those twist ties at the top, for people who find all parts of the female anatomy erotic.

Yours muffled, Peter T.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:08 AM

Art..

How are ya?

Is it just me or are not many of the current threads boring everyone to tears. I've just replied to one... somewhat cynically..., It's asking where they're from? Who cares? Get a life. (Not You Art}

Bill

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:24 AM

This is getting to be a little ridiculous and certainly not in good taste. This is definitely not an appropriate forum to this kind of thread. Clean up your act Art. You can be offensive and way out of line. I realize that people don't have to click on a thread but if we want to encourage young people to Mudcat and enjoy folk then this ought to be a site that parents don't have to worry about. I hope we don't need to start censoring thread titles. Let's stick to the folk topics. The threads on where people live and what they do are interesting and appropriate but this one is definitely not necessary.

Annoyed

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:25 AM

Bill,

That's precisely why I started this stupid thread!

Art

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:30 AM

Yes, anon., you're right!! This ought to be what toothpaste do we use.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:31 AM

Dear Annoyed,

Brother Art made a wholly appropriate thread for a folk music site. One of the most important of the folk genres is the one where a statement is made about how a society has lost its collective good sense. Brother Thieme has just pointed out that our online society seems to have lost its focus lately. And as one who has been participating in the loss of focus, he brought me back to center. Check out the threads in the last two weeks or so and it seems to focus more on online curiousity than music and the issues that spawn it. Now, I view you all as friends and acquaintances, hence I have been playing along. But I must admit to wondering where the music discussion had gone to.

Good job, Brother Thieme.

Mick Lane

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:33 AM

aRT

i'M DYING TO HEAR YOUR RESPONSE TO A NEW THRED I'VE STARTED. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO TELLYOU WHICH ONE IT IS

bILL

tOO TIRED TO CHANGE CASE ON COMPUTER...........

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:39 AM

g'dAY mICK

pLEASE TELL ME WHO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTOR TO FOLK MUSIC IN THIS CENTURY ON ANOTHER THREAD I'VE STARTED

tHANKS

bILL

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:42 AM

I am sorry for my insensitivity. But the point I intended was pretty much made.

Art

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Kris
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:47 AM

Mick - re online curiosity : Don't tell me.. Curiosity killed the 'cat. Hope not :)

Kris (I know, I am one of the sinners, I can't help it. As a penance I am wracking my brains for an idea for a truly music-oriented thread)

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:56 AM

OK guys...

I'm off to bed here in australia.

Drop this tongue in cheek thread and leave it to annoyed.

Who is the most significant contributor to folk this century????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

G'Night Art.

Bill

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 12:23 PM

Can we please stick to the point of encouraging people to post whatever they like.

If you don't like the subject just ignore it and the thread will quickly die. I would like to think that no one here. is, or considers themselves to be more important than anyone else.

I for one mind less about threads here asking personal questions than ones that reduce the forum to the level of some of the newsgroups.

I am a little annoyed too.

P.S I use that toothpaste with the stripe in it.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 02:29 PM

Oh, cheer up, its a joke! (I was originally going to say a capo, but changed my mind) -- sure the threads are getting a bit narcissistic, but people are snowed in, their credit cards are over the limit, and they have not made the list of the most influentialpeople in the millenium. Don't click if you don't want to play, as the actress said to the bishop.

Note the name of the master of this thread, and be warned!

Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Allan S.
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 02:42 PM

Whats a condom :-} TOthe person above Who said What kind of Capo do we use? Isnt Capo Franch slang for a Condom???

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 02:58 PM

I dunno, Allan. You try a capo instead of a condom, and tell us how well it works. OUCH!!!
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Max
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 03:25 PM

I use trojan ribbed. I find this a perfectly acceptable conversation. To think that condoms is a dirty idea that kids should not be exposed to is a terrible attitude. My daughter was born in my wife and my senior year of High School. We are a teenage pregnancy. As a parent now, I beleive you should be able to talk about a condom with a straight face, comfortably and not as a dirty idea. You should be able to keep them on your night stand instead of your sock drawer. Your kids should be able to talk to you about it. We cannot deny the amount of sex in our society, the casual attitude towards it today, and the inevitable desire for it. To avoid talking about condoms is to pretend that sex does not exist or cannot hurt a person and a family. A condom is a good thing, and I will always deal with a condom as easily as I deal with a toothbrush, or a comb. Is it appropriate in the threads? Yes, it is life, folk is life, music and frieds and life is what this is all about. Sorry to the annoyed, but I don't see anything wrong with it here. Especially with such fine, open minded people that are the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 04:00 PM

Folkmusic not much fun any longer? Can't do the "Game of All Fours" in C above High C anymore?

Maybe it's because you just put the first scratch in that Martin D-28 you told us about on the "What Kind of Guitar Do You Play" thread in November. Maybe it's because you used those extra heavy strings you read about on the "What Kind of Strings Do You Use" thread and your 1964 Vega Pete Seeger long neck folded up like Myron Florin's accordion. Maybe it's because you're a 42 year-old diagnostic computer pathologist for a non-profit internet marketing firm making $535,000 a year but you work 26 hours a day and plug into Mudcat on your coffee breaks.

What are you gonna do? Trade in all your nGhardaraha na Ceoltori a Brachandurandandra CDs for Dr B and Da Bad Noose house-rap fusion discs? Not a chance!

Pull yourself out from underneath that snowbank (applies to North Americans living above a line stretched between San Francisco and New York and Brits living North of Spaghetti Junction), wipe that Ultimate 40 Suncreen off your sweaty red nose (applies to Australians currently not holidaymaking in the Blue Mountains) and sign up for Uncle Art's Family Folk Music and Condom Camp (location to be determined by on-line thread).

To secure your place, send $50 (American, Australian, Canadian or Euros accepted) to Art Thieme, c/o Walgreen's Drug Store, Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, NY, USA. Please include 2 dozen new condoms (of your favorite brand). Art will personally test (possibly with another person) the integrity of each of these sheaths and report on his findings at the "Hi, my Mudcat user name is....?" cocktail party on the first night.

Important: HTML literacy is mandatory for attendance.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Barbara
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 04:31 PM

BIG RUBBER CONDOM
tune(If you wear a red rose)
Helen Thomas(?)
If you wear a condom, a big rubber condom
then I'll wear a great big smile,
Get out that gutta-percha,
It ain't gonna hurt ya,
And stretch it for a mile
(......)
So get out that condom, a big rubber condom,
Come on and make my day
Put on that condom, that big rubber condom,
And we'll go for a roll in the hay!
(all I can remember)

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: bbc
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 04:43 PM

Good for you, Max! If we're going to have sex, let's do it responsibly.

bbc

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Bert
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 04:51 PM

I agree with Max. It sure is a folk topic. There are plenty of jokes and folk tales about condoms and there is at least a handfull of songs about them.
Personally I thought the thread was hilarious and wasn't the least bit surprised to see that Art had started it.
So Annoyed, put your smile back on and search for condom in DT.

As a matter of interest, I wonder how many folksongs there are that can be attributed to someone not using a condom. Songs like 'Blow the candle out', 'The Nutting song' etc..

Bert.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 06:16 PM

G'day,
I sometimes wear a capo, but only when I want to practise safe music.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 06:18 PM

I've read that before rubber, sheep's intestines were used with a string tied around the end. The article didn't say which end.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 06:36 PM

If you haven't yet seen one of the marvels of the DT - The Ancient And Old Irish Condom - please check it out. Just noticed that it has a tune. I've only ever heard it recited.

Maybe Joe can do his fancy stuff with the HTML to link the above song. Thanks Joe.

Regards
John

Yer welcome, John. -Joe-

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Allan S.
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 08:31 PM

Lighten up guys and gals I taught Biology and put in 2 years in the medical corps and saw some interesting infections. that could have been prevented by the use of a condom. while nothing is 100% safe at least most infections can be prevented. THere is some discussion that a virus can pass through latex. THe Sheep cecum [like the addendix] will allow the AIDS virus to pass. THe y are still on the market. I think the brand was 4X As to the joke An american whoes wife has just died goes in to morning and goes in to a store asking for a Capo Nueff meaning a black hat THe french owner thinking of the slang term for condom asks why THe american explains why and the answer is "Ah you Americans so sentimental" Oh well I will put a condom on my Martin If it must be near other Guitars

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 10:47 PM

I use True North Polar Bear Specials, rated for 45 below.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 10:56 PM

"condom-minimum"

....so there was this condom factory in Texas, and when Alaska was admitted to the Union, some Alaskans, who wanted to rub it in about now being the largest of the United States, placed an order for 12 gross of condoms..all to be 10 inches long!

The production manager went to the president of the firm and asked.."So, what do we DO with this order?"....The president thought for a minute and said...."Fill it....mark 'em 'medium'"

sure..those items are one aspect of our folklore..and I know several more jokes..but I suspect they are already on a hundred joke sites...

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: rich r
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:15 PM

This all reminds me of the line in the Tom Paxton song :

Condoms for sale! Condoms to buy!
Yuppies in the sky.

rich r

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Jenny
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 11:38 PM

I understand why this thread was started, but Max makes an excellent point. A forum is a group of individuals discussing a common thread. Not every thread is going to be for every person. My thinking is that if a thread doesn't interest one, don't go there. With cyber communications, most often we never see those with whom we are communicating; it's natural to want to know a bit more about one another. There has been a generality of feeling towards folk music mavens for many, many years. The generality is that we turn up our noses at anything that does not relate directly to traditional music, acoustic music, etc., i.e., we are folk music snobs. I know that isn't true, but some of the people visiting the Mudcat site may not. So ... if the threads wander off the the subject of playing/singing folk music, so be it. After all that business with gargoyle, I have been reluctant to do anything more than lurk in the forum and maybe a few others are feeling likewise, which would account for some of the more lighthearted threads. And, Max, the message you sent has to be taken seriously ... thanks for your candor. jenny

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: gargoyle
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 12:04 AM

Being a "traditionalist" I prefer "Lambskins." Yes, they ARE from sheep intestions; they are commercially available at the local stores. If your concerns are mearly contraception and not "desease preventrion" they are tops....and they are reusable after washing.

From Junior High Days comes this ditty:

In days of old, when knights were bold,
And rubbers wern't invented
They tied a sock, around their cock
And babies were prevented.

Somehow I get an uneasy feeling that the Mudcat is being used for a college senior's demographic study in "Social Ecoology." Next questions will be dealing with "toothpaste," "detergents," and lengths of anotomical appendiges.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 01:02 AM

G'day, Hey Bill D, You don't get condoms from a factory, you get 'em from a mine. Hence the song "On The Banks Of The Condom Mine".

Why do they have Roman numerals on the Paris town hall clock? ..... They couldn't use French letters could they.

Cheers, Alan

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 03:44 AM

Of course condoms are O.K. to talk about, here or anywhere else, but they are a bit limited as a musical instrument, all I ever seem to get out of them is one loud percussive bang!

As we all know this thread was not started for the purpose of dicussing condoms but to make a point, it was made and with some humour but can we move on now?

Jenny said some good things and surely we all want eveyone here to feel that they can un-lurk and contribute. If they don't then I suggest that they are in the wrong place. We have to work hard towards a situation where people can feel free to do that, without all that tiresome stuff about if the subject is offline or discussed two years ago or anything else.

Reply to the thread, don't question the poster right to say it. To my mind The Mudcat is an inclusive 'club', without any stated rules that I am aware of and that is why I like it, if it ever becomes a place for the self-chosen few, I for one will not be there.

If you don't like the subject don't contribute, it is as easy as that. The posts about where, why and what we do, were and continue to be well supported (but from now on a little bit more inhibited) and that says it all.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 04:17 AM

Shambles, you gotta work on your technique. A condom works great as the string on my mini gut-bucket. Stretch it right, and it changes tune better than a rubber band. Of course, if we had three or four, we could really have a "rubber" band.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 04:20 AM

Alan in Australia had an interesting point. I understand that sheeps' intestines are still popular, but while they're still in the sheep.

Steve

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 04:31 AM

Joe, After reading some of the earlier comments on this thread, I think that should be "Rubber Banned." catspaw

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Kris
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 04:50 AM

Shambles makes yet another good point! I sometimes get the impression that once there has been a thread on a given subject it is kind of a faux pas to bring the subject up again. But with new people coming along all the time we probably shouldn't worry about it too much. Same subjects may throw up new viewpoints anyway. So - how about digging in your memories and re-visiting some golden oldie subjects, just to counter-balance the lighter-hearted threads.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 05:13 AM

Hi, Kris - it's certainly just grand to bring a subject up again and again at the 'Cat. HOWEVER, it's far better to revive the old thread and continue the previous discussion, rather than starting a new thread and scattering the information all over. That way, we build a body of information, rather than repeating what has been said before. Go to the Forum Menu and try a Forum Search ( or click here), and see if there's even been a thread on the subject. If you post a new message to that thread, it will bring the whole thread to the top of the menu.
You can use the Filter on the Forum Menu to do a quick search for names of threads posted within the last year - if you want all the threads for the past year, leave the filter box blank and set the "age" for 365 days (or however long, up to a year)- be prepared to wait, because the list of a year's threads is long. You will see that some thread titles repeat over and over again, so information about certain subjects is scattered all over or hidden in threads with generic titles like "lyrics request" - THAT'S what we're trying to avoid.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Mo
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 07:44 AM

Shambles - this "loud percussive bang" of yours - is it accompanied by shouts of "yes! yes!!YEEEEEEESSSSSSS!" by any chance?! Don't knock it - there are many men out there who would kill for this effect. And women too, ooh, be-lieve me! The neighbours are generally less keen on this kind of music though.......! Gives a whole new meaning to Rise Up Singing!! Sorry, sorry sorry!!

Mo

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 08:32 AM

I just love this place. See "Annoyed" how appropriate the thread is. We have come to a very good place. This thread has shown that Joe's programming (remember that he is not really human)includes a humor file. I laughed out loud. And Shambles, you are right on the mark. Sometimes I get crabby, I guess we all do, but the last thing I would want is to have us become folk snobs. This thread reminds me to be helpful and not preachy.

And Shambles, you know we are friends, and as a friend I am asking you to teach me to play that condom. I don't care what the hourly rate is!!!! Based on the reaction you got from Mo, I must add this instrument to my arsenal. ***LOL***

Mick

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Bert
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 09:19 AM

Joe,

I knew this guy who had a rubber drum.
...But he couldn't find a rubber band to play it in.

Bert.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Philippa
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 09:19 AM

I heard a story about a young man who who was seen coming out of the shopping centre with some dozen multi-packs of Durex (condoms). "You must have a heavy date tonight, Mick", said his friend. "Uh, well, it's like this," Mick admitted 'sheepishly', "I was going to buy a Daniel O'Donnell album, but every time I went up to the counter, I was too embarassed to ask."

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Sheye
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 11:18 AM

It's amazing how we walk criss-cross and wander through so many different ideas. We force each other to explore to thoughts, some of which are outside our comfort zone. One day when we are old or dead, there will be some amazing traditional songs that will have been borne from the cosmos of the 'cat.

Hey Peter, Ya remember our go-rounds from a year plus ago, about some folks wanting to specify thread topics? Exactly right, "don't click..."

Gargoyle, somehow I just can't see myself washing out condoms. Would they go in with the whites? Do they survive the spin cycle? (smiley emoticon thingy)

Art, to answer the question posted, in my best Mae West lure, it ain't so much what the picture of the box looks like, honey, it's what it's filled with that counts.

(I hope all those uncomfortable with this topic have left by now, they may consider me being across the line...)

Peace be with you (or maybe piece???), Sheye

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Bert
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 11:54 AM

While we're on the subject does anyone have the words to Barry Rabin's song about 'a Roller in a Condom Factory'?

Shey, re: it's what it's filled with that counts. Remember 'size doesn't matter'.

Bert.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Barbara
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 12:29 PM

Geez, Bert, talk about flogging a dead.., oh never mind... does this mean youre going to post a link to your song again?

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Allan S.
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 01:41 PM

As long as were discussing size this should put an end to it . there was a man from dan damiter, whoes organ was of enormous diamater, it wasn't the size that brought tears to their eyes but his rhythim Iambic pentamiter

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 01:43 PM

To anyone else who doesn't like the various Mudcat "surveys":

Does this mean Curiousity DOES kill the "Cat"?

To everyone else who's having fun with this one:

I once sold condoms which came in individual matchbook covers to a band in Boston called "Skin". Great advertising packet to hand out at concerts. This was at the height of the AIDS scare, so it was also very PC & "enlightened", besides being a LOT of fun!

Keep it Light and Easy! kat

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: mike cahill
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 02:36 PM

to john in Brisbane, the tune that is sung to (round here at least) is "Rosin the Bow".

There is a condom factory in South Kirkby in Yorkshire England that makes a condom that it sells under the brand name of "JIFFY" and yes the advert suggests that you "come in a JIFFY" (well it's funny in england)

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Peter T.
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 03:52 PM

Dear Sheye, I am shocked to find you at this disgusting site, but glad to see your voice (?) again. Of course I remember the old days, back ages ago, when threads were threads, not these jumped-up, new-fangled things. It takes me back....

Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: Bert
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 04:10 PM

Barbara,

I knew that would get your attention:-)

Bert.

Subject: RE: What brand condoms do Mudcatters prefer.
From: tina
Date: 12 Jan 99 - 07:13 PM

Well, I can't comment on condoms, but if ya want to talk about dental dams....