BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet

Subject: PROS AND CONS OF SPECIES CHANGE OPERATIONS
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:43 AM

PROS AND CONS, SPECIES CHANGE OPERATIONS?

(GUEST): Hi, I'm a regular Mudcat member but I want privacy for this delicate topic. For a long time I have felt so alone! I just don't fit in.... I've felt different from an early age-- at kindergarten I couldn't feel comfortable using silverware, OR eating with my hands. And that thing people have about religious differences-- I just can't relate! Anyway, for a long time I have suspected I'm actually meant to be a raccoon... if you've had any experience with the surgery, please advise.

~S~

Subject: MEN'S MUDCAT BANJO LOGO THONGS
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:47 AM

MEN'S MUDCAT BANJO LOGO THONGS

(Dick & Susan): Is there any interest in Mudcat thongs, deliverable by Christmas? (Have a few unclaimed after the Getaway.) One size (2X) fits all!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:54 AM

EDITING THREADS

Hi I live on the south coast of England and I am fed up with my contributions to this forum not being edited or altered in any way Even when I write absolute rubbish, nobody bothers to change it so that it reads like a reasoned and intelligent post. I have tried repeating the same post over and over again, but nobody seems to notice, the Volunteers ought to at least delete these duplications to prevent me from lookig silly!

G..

Subject: WAYS TO COOK AN AARDVARK
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 12:50 PM

Hey...all these recipe threads, and no one has yet managed to mention most of the exotic species! So I thought I'd start at the beginning. Zebras by Spring!

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 01:18 PM

Oooh, Bill, and you EVEN changed the subject heading with your suggested thread title! I wondered if anyone would catch that.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Writers + Basilisks
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 01:44 PM

HOW TO MAKE CHEESE

Take a spoonful of Gorgon and put it in a pot on a low heat, then add a spoonful of Zola, mix togethere thoroughly, take it off the heat and allow to cool. This will of course result in 2 spoonsful of Gogonzola, if however you put the Zola in first you will end up with Zolagorgon, and there is no such thing.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:25 PM

How about :Some Of My Best Friends Are Republicans?"

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: DOES ANYONE ELSE MISS MARTIN GIBSON?
From: bobad
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:36 PM

You know, I was just saying to myself today that this place just isn't what it used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:01 PM

Halleluhyer!

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: *daylia*
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:03 PM

WYSISYG, why go to all the trouble of surgery when you could learn to shapeshift! How about a few lessons with the legendary Japanese "raccoon-dog" and Master of Shapeshifting ...

Tanuki!

In Japanese folklore the Tanuki has great physical strength and supernatural powers. Like the kitsune (fox), it is a master of shape-changing and disguise and is a mischievous creature taking all sorts of disguises to deceive or annoy travellers. Standing by the road side on its hindlegs, it distends its belly (or rather scrotum) and strikes it with its forepaws. The Tanuki is also depicted in a fox like form, playing crazy and dangerous pranks with its enormous scrotum, which measures eight tatami mats!

Subject: Bringing Water To Room Temperature
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:11 PM

I know from experience that almost anything can be learned here on the Mudcat -- seems there's an expert here on just about every discipline under the sun.

So, here's my question...

What equipment should I expect to have to acquire to bring a glass of water to room temperature?

Once ably equipped, how does one go about actually bringing water to room-temperature?

Thanks in advance,

John

Subject: PIN exchange
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:13 PM

Hi

I'm into numerology and in particular the significance of the Personal Identification Numbers we choose. My VISA card number is 4520 1209 1230 1233 and my PIN is 6239 ... what's yours?

J.R. Smythe (exp 06/08)

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:25 PM

Today is the tenth anniversary of Lovemuffin's takeover as president-for-life of the White Male Aryan Supremacist Brotherhood of Accordian Players. Happy anniversary and warmest congratulations to Lovemuffin!

Subject: Instructions : Room Temperature Conversion of H2O
From: Amos
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:30 PM

John:

You will need:

1 glass
A supply of water sufficient to fill same
1 room. Preferably the room should be part of a house to acheive normal results.

Place glass with water in it in the room. Precision results require the glass be placed in either the geographic center or the thermal average center of the room; for home study, anywhere near the middle of the room will serve, as long as the windows are closed.

Observe temperature of water in glass alternating with temperature readings of room in a series of locii around the outside of the glass, but one foot away.

When the set of temperature readings stabilize within +- .5 degrees F of each other you have succeeded.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The non Amos way
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:46 PM

You pour some water into a glass, stick it anywhere in the room, open all the windows and doors until the room temperature is the same as the water in the glass.
See Amos that's the easy way to do it, why do you always complicate things?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Janie
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:53 PM

I did a search and could find nothing on this, so I'm starting a new thread. Hope I'm not duplicating a topic.

I'm wondering about 'catters theories on how Bill Monroe was able to hit those really high notes. I was priviledged to see Bill perform at a number of festivals over the years, and I observed that he would tap his foot extra vigerously when reaching for those contra-tenor notes. I'm wondering if he tied a string to his big toe, ran it up his pants leg, and attached it to a rubber band wrapped around the family jewels. If that wouldn't deliver that "high lonesome" sound I can't think of what would. Any help or other ideas appreciated.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Janie
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:54 PM

Did I really post that? *blush*

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:55 PM

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Giok, I never saw a glass with windows AND doors! (Must be a UK thing)

And I thought no one would play!

Remember, folks, GENTLE fun, OK?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 03:55 PM

No, Janie, I did it for you!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 04:10 PM

Lyr Req: O Danny Boy

Subject: WHO HAS 'EM?
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 04:15 PM

Fish have 'em
Music has 'em
Grocers have 'em

Tires have 'em
B notes have 'em
Apartment buildings have 'em

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: GUEST,Sleepless Dad
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 05:54 PM

Does anyone know the chords for "Black Velvet Band" and "Tom Dooley". Are they considered folk music ?

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:11 PM

ADVICE SOUGHT: HOW DO I COOK HOTDOGS?


Greetings, anonymous guest. Are you ever smart to remain anon ymous. Just the same, here's a step--by-step recipe from the new cookbook, "Nigella Lawson's 'Don't just Drool Over Me, Read The Damn Recipes' Cookbook."

HOTDOGS

Equipment needed:
1 pot
1 plate
1 fork
Stove
1 Pckg hotdogs
1 Pckg soft, full of air, white flour buns
Mustard
Relish
Ketchup
Kitchen or kitchenette, or hotplate in lousy, ill-equipped apartment

1. Find a pot.
2. Alternating left and right feet, approach sink with pot.
3. Using the opposite hand from the one you're holding the pot in, turn on the cold water tap and fill the pot three-quarters full.
4. Again, alternating left and right feet, walk to stove, turn it on medium high, and rest the pot of water on the stove. bring to boil.
5. Walk to refrigerator and pull out a package of hotdogs.

Opening The Package:
If you're living with someone, grab the package from the center and pull apart. I you live alone, grab the top corner of the package with your teeth and tear. If one or two hotdogs fall on the floor, let out a curse. You have 5 seconds to pick them up before they would need to be rinsed.

Cooking The Hotdogs:

Drop a hotdog or two or three carefully into the pot of boiling water. Turn the heat to low, cover, and simmer for tenfive or ten minutes, depending if you like your hotdogs juicy or split-open from overcooking.

With a fork, remove hotdogs from pot, and place in buns set out on a plate. Spread with mustard and relish. Take the bottle of ketchup and return it to the fridge or shelf, reminding yourself that you prefer mustard and relish only on your hotdog, reserving the ketchup for the main course, hamburger.

Chanteyranger

Subject: Book mobs
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:12 PM

Well, are there any? Does Oxford UP have a war going on with Cambridge UP? And how does Longmans or Viking get on with the German houses? Will Baen paperbacks "go the mattresses" with Pocket? And who's the capo di capii in Chicago?

Subject: FORTUITOUS FINDS IN TRASH CANS
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:01 PM

hey! No one has yet had a thread on good stuff you find in other people's trash! I once got an entire metal office desk! And once it was a minature trampoline with one spring missing.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:10 PM

(Put fingers in ears)

La laa! la laa! Lalalala!

Subject: RE: BS: The things I admire about men.
From: Peace
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:57 PM

I am a woman.

Subject: RE: BS: The things I admire about women.
From: Peace
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:58 PM

I am a man.

Subject: RE: BS: The things I admire about Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:02 PM

Some days he's my type and some days he isn't.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:04 PM

Bill, the desk used to be a WHAT?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:08 PM

Rap, U of Chi Press is capo di capii.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:11 PM

'it' references the secondary antecedent implied transitive verb clause in the placeholder 'got'.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: bobad
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:13 PM

Is that true or are you bullshitting us. I can't tell.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Peace
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:14 PM

A pronoun references a verb?

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Peace
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:19 PM

Bill's a philosopher. He is on a philosopher's stone. HA HA

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: bobad
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:24 PM

Oh (to quote the rt.honourable sir j)

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Peace
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:27 PM

He must have been sober at the time, because he spoke much more laconically than that when he wasn't. And, we know THAT only happened twice.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: GUEST,Todd S. Unsupervised
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:54 PM

'Who is your absolute most favorite guitar player of all time?'

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Peace
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:00 PM

I will answer that. Blind Willie Snodgrass, the Third.

Subject: RE: BS: Gamey NewThreads We Ain't Seen As Yet
From: Severn
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:11 PM

Subject: NORTHERN HIGH LONESOME:

So, speaking about Bluegrass and high notes, I give you purists these propositions:

If Bobby Osborne was born somewhere in between NYC and Philly and Frankie Valli had been born in Kentucky would would each one have ended up being the other?

Could The Four Seasons be considered a Northern Outpost of the "High Lonesome Sound"?

("Ah'd Like to introduce yew tew AWL the Frankie River Valley Boys....
Over here on the banjer from the Great State Of........")

Does anyone remember the Rudee River Valley Boys who sang Bluegrass through megaphones?....
"Ro-o-o-o-Dee-e-e-e!....."

Now insert the name Larry Stephenson for Bobby Osborne and try again. Try to tell the difference.

Finally, how come the Osborne Brothers never released a Gospel album called, "Hallelujah!-Osborne Again!"?

Sorry folks, Osborne the Hell out of you, ain't I?

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:29 PM

*applause*

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:31 PM

now *I* can't tell whether 'it' refers to what I once got or stuff you find ...in this case, it is both- although the grammar is suspect, the analysis shaky, and the verbiage verging on virtual vagary.

(durn it, Susan, don't ask me questions when I ain't feelin' too whippy!)

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 03:44 AM

How many licks does it take...


...to get to the center of a Martin D-45?




by Martin Gibson

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 07:37 AM

(Sorry Bill, you knows Ah loves you....)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Stringing your Bodhran at Home
From: Amos
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 09:15 AM

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 12:33 PM

Bill, regarding exotic recipes; I found that Hummingbird tongue pate' is particularly good however it takes over 2,000 birds to satisfy most palletes.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 12:41 PM

well, it can be stretched with Hummingbird Helper, so you can get by with 750 per serving.

Subject: Microsloth Announces Bloatware for Music
From: MMario
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 12:52 PM

Top Officials today at MicroSloth Corp. announced the release of an advanced Vocal Music Recognition system - the new software does require three dedicated servers in addition to dual workstations and over $25,000 in associated microphones but has proven capable of distinguishing between two notes sung by Luciano Pavrotti with an error range of less then 78%.

Subject: LIVESTOCK-FISHING-- HOW, AND WHAT TO AVOID
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 08:31 PM

I guess Mama's right-- fishin' in her laying flock could put the hens off their production. So-- how can I fish effectively without disturbing the hens, or Mama?

Alternatively, have you had success fishing for, let's say-- pigs?

~Susan

Subject: FIRST STRING OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
From: John Hardly
Date: 26 Oct 05 - 10:10 AM

Mark Twine
Gene Sisal
Jerry Stringer
Line S Pauling
Thread Flintstone
Glark Cable
Steve Roper
Don Knotts

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Janie
Date: 26 Oct 05 - 12:44 PM

Elitist Types Who think being in tune matters AKA

Why all the dirty looks.

Subject: OUR SORCHA MAKES COUNTRY-WESTERN VIDEO!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Oct 05 - 08:20 PM

Wal I swar, my bes/bud's the star of this one!

TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 08:24 AM

waht all this is about?

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Recycling Republicans, New Uses
From: GUEST,Another Guest
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 01:28 PM

Are there any?

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:44 PM

Link doesn't work for me Susan, but I've sure as hell been laughing my socks off at that song every time I hear it on the radio. I prefer to listen to country music stations when I'm in the US, but am a bit fed up with every second song being "The Redneck Yacht Club"
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Threads We Ain't Seen Yet
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 03:58 PM

Giok, try getting the video from here:

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/nichols_joe/artist.jhtml

:~)

~Susan