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Subject: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 02:43 PM Does anyone notice a common characteristic of Mudcatters that is reflective of their nationalities? sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Divis Sweeney Date: 09 May 06 - 02:48 PM Hope your well number 6. Yes the Irish argue and are never wrong ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: MMario Date: 09 May 06 - 02:48 PM Most of the ones from the UK seem to type in English - except for Sir - whoever he is this week- from Hull. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 02:48 PM rephrase ... a unique chateristic of their nationality. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Rapparee Date: 09 May 06 - 02:52 PM I'm an arrogant, overbearing, gun-totin', ultra-conservative, Yankee from Idaho. And iffen ya don't like it, draw!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 02:54 PM OK ... 2 distinct characteristics that I can also detect. Divis ... I'm Hangin' in there. Thanks. How about yourself these days? sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: MMario Date: 09 May 06 - 02:54 PM (I was gonna mention the Idahoans - but decided it was safer not to do so. He gets riled so easily. And whatever you do, don't call him a 'spud') |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Rapparee Date: 09 May 06 - 02:55 PM Or a "spud dud." Or an "Idahoer." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Amos Date: 09 May 06 - 02:55 PM I'm, like, a totally country-loving cool dude, from the groovy beach country of like Southern like California. I, like, like liking, so I'm cool with whatever, you know what I mean? Man, that Rapaire, he's such a character. Totally L-7, but, you know, like, I like him, you know? I'm like, "I can't help liking the guy!", like. Whatever. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: MMario Date: 09 May 06 - 02:56 PM Good lord, six - I usually have trouble finding two common characteristics in siblings, let alone people as diverse as an entire nation. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Rapparee Date: 09 May 06 - 02:59 PM And iffen ya wanna draw, I suggest starting with something easy, like a house or a tree or a stick man. You can work up to more complicated things like dragons and paramecium when you're experienced. A good art teacher can help, too. And use a #4 pencil and a kneaded eraser to start with, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 03:01 PM I know what you mean MMario ... I should add we are talking macro here, not micro. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: gnu Date: 09 May 06 - 03:06 PM After much in-depth research, I find Canucks tend to be over-analytic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Ebbie Date: 09 May 06 - 03:55 PM I like many dud spuds. And I like 'chateristic', sIx. I don't often go into the chat rooms but they seem pretty chateristic and seem to have a good time. I haven't been in Alaska long enough (18 years) to speak knowledgeably about the typical Alaskan, if there is such a thing, but in all likelihood I'm a stereotypical Oregonian. Whatever that is. They too are a little spudlike. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: MMario Date: 09 May 06 - 04:03 PM Ebbie - where I grew up they would figure you were 'just visiting' to see if you liked the place or not. 2nd generation were often considered "newcomers" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Beer Date: 09 May 06 - 04:30 PM Well I'm an "Acadian" and a "Spud" and proud of both. Beer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 04:40 PM Right on Beer !! Good one ... The Acadian part of ya sorta takes the gun tottin edge out of the spud rancher. Gnu ... you have the universal brotherhood of engineer approach ... sorry bud, you cannot particpate in this thread. I should have mentioned engineers, family members and Latvians cannot participate. Ebbie ... the 'chateristic' was for you guys living up in Alaska .. very cold. Rapaire ... jeezuz ... calm down pal. Wasn't looking at you! Whew. Amos ... what can I say ... typical Kalifornian. MMario ... as I mentioned, think globaly, the Big Picture. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: jacqui.c Date: 09 May 06 - 04:55 PM Being English I am awfuly polite, particularly to the colonials that I come into contact with these days. Tea at four o'clock without fail, cucumber sandwhiches with the crusts cut orf. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Amos Date: 09 May 06 - 05:01 PM Hey, dude, nothin' typical here. Life here is Cal is kinda groovy cuz we all think for ourselves, ya know? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Peace Date: 09 May 06 - 05:28 PM "I'm an arrogant, overbearing, gun-totin', ultra-conservative, Yankee from Idaho. And iffen ya don't like it, draw!!" I can't, so this'll have to do . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Ebbie Date: 09 May 06 - 05:33 PM "Tea at four o'clock without fail, cucumber sandwhiches with the crusts cut orf." Jacqui lol Pinky and nose in the air and all that but breeding inevitably shows, dunnit! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bill D Date: 09 May 06 - 05:43 PM ah...we are playing "stereotypes"! Sure, there are some, but it's usually safer not to mention them..*grin* I find 'differences' in the sense of humor, the use of language, and concepts of 'what is important' in daily life. But most of all, I see difference in various groups awareness OF the differences and how to adjust when they meet folks from other nationalities. "further, deponent sayeth not" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bert Date: 09 May 06 - 05:46 PM Cucumber sandwiches! (Bleedin' posh git, grrr, mutter, mutter). It should be fish paste sandwiches WITH the crusts. Oh! and 'arf a pint o' Whelks to go wiv 'em; not forgetting the Sarson's Vinegar. And if yer lucky a pint o' mild. Accorse, now I'm a transplant to Colorado, it's a bowl of green chile, a quesadilla and a pint of Laughing Lab. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Ebbie Date: 09 May 06 - 05:53 PM What a culture- crashing blow, Bert! Of course, your prevous menu would have the same impact on me: 'fish paste? Whelks? I don't even understand the mild, other than as a concept. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bert Date: 09 May 06 - 06:03 PM Yes it's certainly different Ebbie. But Tree makes award winning green chile and I love the stuff. When I get a desire for fish paste, which you don't see out here, I just make some. Of course if you're making it yourself then you don't have to skimp on the ingredients. Just take some home smoked salmon (again made by my darlin' Tree) and mash it up with butter until you have a nice spread, add salt and pepper to taste and spread it on crackers just before the guests arrive. You have to be sure to hide some in the fridge though, because there won't be any left. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Georgiansilver Date: 09 May 06 - 06:07 PM Cucumber sandwiches bring the word 'regret' to mind. When I was about six years old we went to visit a rich Aunt. My parents lectured my sister and myself, about how to behave, before we left home. We were warned to be on our best behaviour and above all polite.....So when offered a cucumber sandwich by this wonderful old lady...this little six year old said "Oh yes please auntie, they're my favourites"...I had never tried one before and did not particularly enjoy it but it really impressed my rich Aunt.....The next time we went and she had delicious looking cream cakes on the table my lips were watering. She said "Help yourselves" I thought to us all but she added "Not you Michael, I have your favourites here for you" and produced two rounds of cucumber sandwiches. Do you think she knew? Ah well it was a long time ago and I guess I quickly got over it. Think I might have learnt something about 'Honesty' also. Best wishes, Mike. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: jacqui.c Date: 09 May 06 - 06:35 PM OK Ebbie - you rumbled me. I'd rather have a curry than a cucumber sandwich and mint tea or a glass of wine rather than Earl Grey or Dargeeling. I have settled so well in Maine (well, it is 'New England') that I don't think that national characteristics usually count for much. Seems to me that people is people the world over..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Ebbie Date: 09 May 06 - 06:39 PM hahhaha By the way, Jacqui- does New England remind you at all of the old 'un? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Don Firth Date: 09 May 06 - 06:45 PM Well, lemme see, now. My father's side of the family came from Orkney, so that probably means Celts or whoever the hell was there before the Celts came along (had a penchant for standing big stones on end, for some strange reason—does that have any relationship to tossing the caber?), liberally mixed with the Norsemen who used to use the islands as a staging ground for raids on the rest of the British Isles and points south. My mother was a full-blooded Swede whose parents immigrated to the U. S. from Dalarna. I was born in California and spent the first nine years of my life there, then the family moved to Seattle, which my parents regarded as home. I took three years of French in high school, but I can't speak it for purple poop because I never had an opportunity to use it. I don't speak Italian, but when I read lines from an opera libretto, I'm told my accent is near perfect, although half the time I have only a foggy idea of what I'm saying. I spent over a year in Denver, where I ate a lot of grits (even though that's hardly The South, and it wasn't by choice), and I never did find a decent chiliburger in the whole city. I love most kinds of seafood, and I love Chinese and Indian food, but basically, I'm an omnivore. I do eat oats from time to time, in cereal and bread and oatmeal cookies (with raisins and—I hope—chocolate chips!). I think it was Samuel Johnson who said that oats are "a grain fit only to be fed to horses and Scotsmen." I like the pipes, and when riled, I can swing a claymore with the best of 'em. Any national characteristics in that mess? I've lived most of my life in Seattle, but since I was born in California, does that make me an artificial Seattlite? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Amos Date: 09 May 06 - 07:24 PM Eb: The old 'un is why she's in New England!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bunnahabhain Date: 09 May 06 - 07:29 PM GROAN!!! Don, that was aweful. Truely aweful.... Well, despite living in Scotland for some considerable while now, I am very definitly English. The diffrence is important. I even vaugely know G and S's finale to whichever operatta it is all about duty that ends which for 'He's an english man' But as engineers are excluded, as, presumably, too much of a breed apart, I don't count. And pedants should probably be also, for the general good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: artbrooks Date: 09 May 06 - 07:49 PM Green chili? In Colorado? Ha! People from Colorado all wear thick socks and hiking boots...except the ones in Denver who might as well be in Manhattan. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Ebbie Date: 09 May 06 - 08:04 PM hahahha (Sorry, Kendall!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: katlaughing Date: 09 May 06 - 10:30 PM Ah, but Art, it was Mexican/Spanish before it was Manhattan West! In certain parts you will find Teevos(sp) and Birks instead of hiking boots AND, if ya venture far enough away from the ski slopes and granolas you will find a few cowboy boots left over from olde times.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 10:34 PM ""further, deponent sayeth not" you do remind me of a Methodist preacher Bill D. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bill D Date: 09 May 06 - 10:40 PM Methodist PREACHER!!! That was supposed to sound like a nervous lawyer! Was it my accent? (well...I was Methodist way back when) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 10:43 PM Hey .... I was close. Good one. LoL sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Amos Date: 09 May 06 - 10:47 PM BEsides, Bill either stole that line from me or, I think, from Robert Heinlein who graciously allowed me to steal it from him. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 10:50 PM Well ... now I've stolen it. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bill D Date: 09 May 06 - 11:07 PM We stealeth no line before its time....hmmmpppff. I have known that line for nigh on to forty-'leven years, now. Just don't get to use it every day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 09 May 06 - 11:13 PM Good try 6
A comedian is never better than the product they work with.
Overall, a very stupid thread.
MMario - you must be New England - I was not accepted even after five years....(but some "senority" with a little BS kept me out of a weekend in jail.)
Sincerely,
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 09 May 06 - 11:50 PM I apologise Garg ... difficult these days keeping up to the standards. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Catherine Jayne Date: 10 May 06 - 02:50 AM I'm a Yorkshire Lass....and known for calling a spade a shovel! (straight to the point!) A bath is a bath and not a barth etc etc! I've been tracing my family tree and my father's father is Scottish as were his family going back generations. My parents are both of Scottich descent and and have moved back to the North of Scotland. Most of my traits though are definitely Yorkshire!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: jacqui.c Date: 10 May 06 - 07:20 AM Ebbie - the more things change.... There are superficial differences between Old and New England but the attitudes and behaviour of the people is similar. There is a bit of a reserve here, although I have never been made to feel out of place at all. Amos - I do love the country of my birth and, if it wasn't for Kendall, wouldn't be this side of the Pond. Doesn't stop me disliking what those in power are doing to the place, but that goes for here as well. A very wise friend once said that it's not where you are it's who you're with that counts. I'd go along with that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: mandotim Date: 10 May 06 - 07:45 AM Tricky this one; I've traced my family name (Mundy) back, and originally it was a Norse name. (No, not like Red Rum!)My ancestors raped and pillaged their way down the west coast of Ireland, and eventually some of them settled there. The family split into two; one lot became minor Irish Gentry, and the other lot were itinerant workers who came to England to build canals, railways, roads and eventually houses. No prizes for guessing which lot I'm from! My father was born in Lancashire, and my mother in Yorkshire, and I was born in Uppermill which was in Yorkshire but is now in Greater Manchester, which used to be part of Lancashire. I think of myself as European, to avoid the arguments. Tim from Bit on the Side |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: catspaw49 Date: 10 May 06 - 08:42 AM What is this? Like, I'm an American and I worship the automobile in all its forms? Sure......We use up an unbelievable amount of gas as my wife drives a 100 mile round trip every day and except for the price now, I don't care. I spend a lot of free time and gas following all forms of auto racing but being a midwesterner I know that dirt is for racing and asphalt is for getting to the races and I love the smell of hot asbestos and burning methanol. We consume massive quantities of all sorts of trash and don't recycle diddly squat.....I mean what is the point? I'll be long gone before any of that mess comes back to haunt me. That what you're after Six? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: bobad Date: 10 May 06 - 08:45 AM I see there is madness to your Methodism, Bill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Tannywheeler Date: 10 May 06 - 08:53 AM Ah'm uh bigod Texan, by God. We talkin' our nationalities as individuals? Or as citizens of the nation of Mudcat? Tw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Janie Date: 10 May 06 - 08:58 AM Well...I'm a West Virginia hillbilly transplanted to the South. Love beans and cornbread but not grits. In West Virginia we tend to be New Deal Democrats, Primative Baptists, and to worship the brother-and-sisterhood of the UMWA. We are an odd amalgram of puritan, God-and-Country liberals. Oh yeah. And we think there is no lovelier song than that of a baying coonhound under a full moon. Not a lot of hillbilly people or southerners on Mudcat. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: redsnapper Date: 10 May 06 - 09:12 AM I'm an Earthling from the Sol system. No more information is necessary or relevant. RS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bill D Date: 10 May 06 - 12:10 PM "...madness to your Methodism..." since the Methodists aren't supposed to drink, I guess I figgered there was madness IN Methodism. The Unitarians were MUCH better....but even they had too much ritual for my taste. I lived in the heart of the Bible Belt for almost 30 years, but except for a tinge of Midwestern twang, nothing stuck to me... If there is ANY characteristic that could be close to universal among the enormous variety of people we have here, maybe 'taking certain amenities for granted' would come close. It's hard for many of us to truly understand that a lot of the world can't do that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: katlaughing Date: 10 May 06 - 12:11 PM Janie, do you put butter and sugar on your cornbread? My dad told me it was an old Southern tradition passed down from my gggranddad who was from West Virginia. We do the same thing to biscuits. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 May 06 - 12:12 PM I can't believe that I've been in Texas this long, but it is 24 years almost, though my heart and my sentiments emanate from the Puget Sound area in Washington where I spent the first 26. Like Ebbie said, I'm still more like a typical Washingtonian in my politics and sentiments than I will ever be a Texan. (There are a few others states not listed here with brief residencies and the last few years in before I permanently left WA were commingled with seasonal work in other states. In other words, don't try to do the math from those two numbers above, but don't inflate it too much more. . . ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Janie Date: 10 May 06 - 12:25 PM Kat--We are butter and molasses cornbread folk. Oh--and it was southern cornbread with white cornmeal, just enough flour to make it stick together, and no sweetening in the batter itself. And baked in a skillet preheated to a very hot temperature to make a dark brown bottom crust. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 May 06 - 12:41 PM My Texas friends love it when I brine then smoke any good salmon that happens to come my way. But I don't grind it into a paste for crackers. I usually eat it out of the container standing over the kitchen counter. . . it never lasts as long as the recipe says it is able. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Bill D Date: 10 May 06 - 02:57 PM Alaska Mike brought Salmon to two consecutive Getaways....it was kind of a case of toss it on the counter and get out of the way to avoid being trampled! (well...not 'quite', but there were no leftovers..*grin*) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: autolycus Date: 10 May 06 - 03:33 PM I'd say mudcatters have the unerring capacity to swerve from the question that starts a thread as soon as possible. There are then two classes of 'catters. Those who want to get back to the subject and those who would like nothing less. Then it's cherchez les 'chats. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 10 May 06 - 03:55 PM Picky picky. We're talking about the aspects of our background that make our origins, possibly our nationalities, distinct. Did you have something to say, Ivor, or are you here just to complain? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 10 May 06 - 04:21 PM Catspaw49 ... "what am I after" ... 5 ... nothing really. Don't be so paranoid ... like a typical American. :) My son, a friend, and I where sitting around the other evening and got on to the topic of 'characteristics' of different nationalities. My son lived in the orient for 2 years and travelled extensively through Asia. While spending much time dealing with these people in everyday life, waiting in airports, border crossings and whatever he said after a while he could detect a Korean, Manchurian, Cantonese, Vietnamese, a Thai or Cambodians just by watching them, as they all have specific ways and mannerisms. My friend who happens to work for Air Canada also mentioned the same thing. This is what sparked my thread here, as Mudcatters we are from all over. I was just wondering,if our different nationalities could be detected in our posts or whatever. One aspect I find is different regions also come into play in how we act, not just the 'nation' of which we are from. While reading through these posts there is also mention your of one's heritage especially true with North Americans as we all are sourced from somewhere else. All in all there is no hidden agenda or personal conspiracy in my posting it ... just curious. As to thread drift doesn't bother me ... some of it is interesting regardless. Redsnapper ... I suspect there are more than a few from other solar systems here in the Cat. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: gnu Date: 10 May 06 - 06:10 PM I am not allowed to post to this thread because I am an engineer? My brothers in arms built this entire world... built this internet and you say I can't even.... aaaaccccckkkk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: bobad Date: 10 May 06 - 06:31 PM "My brothers in arms built this entire world." What about your "sisters in arms" AKA mother nature, who "built" the real world around us and not the transient, illusory constructs of "man?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: autolycus Date: 10 May 06 - 06:56 PM SBS - LOL. I'm still getting the hang of this conversation thing when it starts out as a question, so now I don't know which question to respond to; there seem to be several bouncing around. I have no idea what characteristics of mudcatters in relation to their background. HOWEVER, i don't suppose there are many around here with 2 grandparents hailing from the Ukraine, and a 3rd from Lithuania. My mother, the parent with the Russian parents told me that the family had gone to Ukraine from "somewhere in the Austro-Hungarian Empire". Since I love music, I of course assume as a truism, that the family name back then was Mozart, and eventually evolved, the way names do, into Goltzer.(There are some currently dotted around the US, Goltzers not Mozarts, you understand, tho' it IS curious that both contain the letter Z.) Are there many who grew up mostly in Hendon,N.W.London, something of a comedown from Mozart, but I put on a brave face when I go out. People here in Norfolk have heard of Mozart, you see. Which is why I've brought myself up on Western cultural values, in a free-floating Jewish manner. (Unlike Mozart) (And John Prescott) (Bit more like Blair or Bush) (Except the Jewish bit) Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Arne Date: 10 May 06 - 09:36 PM Norwegian by birth and citizenship. United States by upbringing and culture. Cheers, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 10 May 06 - 10:17 PM Me .... born Canadian. 8 years ago became a refugee from Upper Canada to Maritime Canada. Never have looked back. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: bobad Date: 10 May 06 - 10:19 PM What made you move out there sIx? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 10 May 06 - 10:26 PM A wish and a dream to move out here, get out of Toronto ... then the opportunity came in an offer good job. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Beer Date: 10 May 06 - 10:32 PM Good for you 6. You also can't smell the salt in the air living to far inland. Beer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 10 May 06 - 10:38 PM I know I complain every now and then about the fog and the gales coming off of the Fundy, but I wouldn't trade for anything. The people here are also special, non-judgmental, sincere, abounding with humour, and don't take themselves too seriously. It took me all these years to finally feel I have a home. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Beer Date: 10 May 06 - 10:46 PM I know this is off the topic but when the family moved up to St. Thomas Ont. I asked dad once when I was visiting how he liked the fiddle players up this way( Dad was a great fiddle and piano player.). He answered that there were some pretty good ones but "You can't feel the salt in their music". I never forgot that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: number 6 Date: 10 May 06 - 10:50 PM He was correct on that Beer, natural born they are too .... I hadn't picked up a guitar in twenty some years until I moved here. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Ebbie Date: 11 May 06 - 02:05 AM Bill D, - FYI: Alaska Mike was not the only one who brought wild Alaska smoked salmon to the Getaway the last two years. So did KT and I! Not only that but I think ours is better- done by a friend of ours who does the hest salmon in town - and Mike's salmon is store bought. So there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: kendall Date: 11 May 06 - 08:00 AM My ancestors came here from England in 1635, so I guess the Limey influence is quite strong. We pretend to be polite, but deep down we are seething for being born in a poor state. We are so poor, the name of our state only has one syllable, and only one neighboring state. A full 1/3 of it is bordered by New Brunswick CANADA. If not for that civilized neighbor we would be more like Massachusetts or New Jersey. Come to think of it, why am I complaining? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: jacqui.c Date: 11 May 06 - 08:14 AM Because it's your natural state dear. :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 May 06 - 11:36 AM Jacqui, he calls to mind an obit I've read in this week's paper in Everett, Washington: "Mary Low, Obstinate, Stubborn, Irish mother of three, Left This World for Better Arguments Elsewhere." SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: jacqui.c Date: 11 May 06 - 01:18 PM I'll remember that one SRS. When he gets obstroperous again I'll quote it as going on his headstone, like - tomorrow! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: kendall Date: 11 May 06 - 01:34 PM My head stone is going to say: I KNEW IF I LIVED LONG ENOUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: autolycus Date: 11 May 06 - 05:08 PM My latest idea for my headstone comes from an old Goon Show:- How Very Interesting That Was. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Alice Date: 12 May 06 - 09:51 AM I think the US is too large to say there is a "common characteristic of Mudcatters that is reflective of their nationalities". The only thing I've noticed is slang, the turn of a phrase, that may give a clue on where a Mudcatter lives. Just reading through this thread, it is obvious that states and regions of the US may have a local stereotype, but the land is so big with unique histories, cultures and local accents, there isn't a common characteristic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Tannywheeler Date: 12 May 06 - 11:36 AM Got it right, Kendall. Gettin' old sucks--but beats the alternative all hollow. Tw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Gurney Date: 13 May 06 - 05:17 AM My impression is that, spelling apart, it is difficult to assign a nationality to anyone on the 'Cat, let alone a national characteristic. So no, can't help there. Personalities, now there we have some gems, like ShaneBDiBR and jOhnfromHull. Most people in the world seem to be either Saxons or Celts in behaviour, anyway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: Cluin Date: 13 May 06 - 07:43 AM Kendall, my headstone is going to say: Well, fuck! What was the point of all that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities From: kendall Date: 13 May 06 - 09:05 AM "Where am I going ? what am I doing in this handbasket? |
