BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?

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From: Peace
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:29 PM

Nelly Furtado faz minha dor de cabeça ir embora.

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From: number 6
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:28 PM

No peace ...... Astrud Giberto

sIx

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From: GUEST,KB
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:27 PM

That looked better with Chinese characters.

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From: GUEST,KB
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:26 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:26 PM

Nelly Furtado. Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!

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From: number 6
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:25 PM

Oh ... ok ... then how about

Olha que coisa mais linda, Mais cheia de graça, É ela menina, Que vem que passa
Num doce balanço, caminho do mar
                                          
Moça do corpo dourado, Do sol de Ipanema, O seu balançado é mais que um poema
É a coisa mais linda que eu já vi passar
Ah, porque estou tão sozinho, Ah, porque tudo é tão triste, Ah, a beleza que existe
A beleza que não é só minha, Que também passa sozinha
Ah, se ela soubesse, Que quando ela passa, O mundo sorrindo se enche de graça
E fica mais lindo, Por causa do amor


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:21 PM

And remember, ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM

Eu teria que causar toda a sorte do quibble mas parece-me que a lama no português é realmente lama. Hmmm… Eu quero saber como o lama traduzirá do inglês no português?

ALIMENTAR A LAMA!

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From: number 6
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM

Dave's not here, man!

sIx

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From: IWTATBM
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM

Eu não compreendo o que você diz a Peace? Fale o português por favor.

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From: Peace
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:11 PM

Fuckin' right, mano.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:01 PM

Eu fui dito uma vez (por alguém que falou ambos) que o português é rather como o espanhol mau. Eu não tinha sabido antes aquele que eu falei o português.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:29 PM

Torta e chá da lama de Ahh. Idéia boa que, que, que. Você soa muito inteligente que, que, que.

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From: GUEST,what, what, what ?
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:23 PM

Eu estava lá no homem de começo estou dizendo um farewell multi lingüístico extravagant outra vez. Tenha uma fatia do mudpie preferivelmente e um copo de chá eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:08 PM

Hello todos,
A palavra para a mud no português é lama. Eu não falo o português eu mesmo. Adeus para sempre.

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From: number 6
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 12:15 PM

Bobad ... done the Highway 61 drive from Memphis down to New Orleans ... in a Jeep Wrangler .... and a great memorable trip it was.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:39 AM

I live about 20 miles from the Mississippi well north of St. Louis. There are a lot of dams up this way but my brother canoed from somewhere in Minnesota to St. Louis so it can be done. He said he had a really good time. He didn't specifically mention the mud.

BEAT THE MUD!

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From: bobad
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:35 AM

I'm glad to see you come clean.

That's a trip I have always wanted to and will, one day, make - except not by water, rather by driving Highway 61 in my VW Westfalia.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:26 AM

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Well, that can be cured. Just take a raft down the Mississippi from St. Louie to Nawlins or even further south. I'd suggest the whole river, but there's a bunch of dams above St. Louie.

I will, in the interest of full disclosure and bad taste, note that when we sang that little ditty while in college we ofttimes substituted the word "meat" for "feet" and thereby added a whole new dimension to the song.

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From: JennyO
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 11:45 PM

You want mud songs? Here's one:

The Hippopotamus Song

Words by Michael Flanders
Music by Donald Swann and Michael Flanders

A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day
On the banks of the cool Shalimar.
He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay
By the light of the evening star.

Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair
His fair Hippopotamine maid.
The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus
And sang her this sweet serenade.

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow,
And there let us wallow in glorious mud.

The fair Hippopotamus he aimed to entice,
From here seen on the hilltop above,
As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice,
Came tip-toeing down to her love.

Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound
Of the song that they sang as they met.
His enamorata adjusted her garter
And lifted her voice in duet.

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow,
And there let us wallow in glorious mud.

Now more Hippopotami began to convene
On the banks of that river so wide.
I wonder now what am I to say of the scene
That ensued by the Shalimar side?

They dived all at once with an ear-splitting splash,
Then rose to the surface again,
A regular army of Hippopotami
All singing this haunting refrain.

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow,
And there let us wallow in glorious mud.

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From: bobad
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:16 PM

Pardon my cultural illiteracy, I guess I've been hanging out with the wrong people.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:12 PM

Gracious sakes! The cultural illiteracy that abounds where you least expect it!

When the sun goes down, the tide goes out,
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout,
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud".
What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand...
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud,
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud.
Lordy, how they play it!
Goodness, how they sway it!
Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim,
How they pound the mire with vigor and vim!
Joy! that music thrills me!
Boy! it nearly kills me!
What a show when they go!
Say! they beat it up either fast or slow.When the sun goes down, the tide goes
out,
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout,
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud".
What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand.
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud.
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: autolycus
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:05 PM

Why do so many not use the simple option re mudslinging namely;

If you get mud slung your way, ignore it, pretend it didn't happen.

Why bother responding (I think, for once 'reacting' is the right word), why bother reacting to every bit of mud slung?

   That may or may not mean that mud-slinging would eventually cease. Why allow yourself to get caught up in it? i don't like being ignored and I may be in the majority about that. I just think mud-slingers feed off reactions.

And interestingly, from a psychological point of view, the recipient of 'mud' is probably not the REAL target anyway, (See Laura Huxley's book You are Not the Target.



    Ivor

BTW. If we counter each letter we type as a separate post, might we hit the target?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:03 PM

Well I stand corrected but that's not how I always heard it.

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From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:58 PM

Alternate Lyrics by Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer (1961)


DARIN: Hey, John, you ever been to Mississippi?
MERCER: No, man, but I sure would like to visit down there.
DARIN: You would?
MERCER: Yeah
DARIN: Well, I'll tell you what then, let us hop on a plane and went.
MERCER: OK, I hear it's very nice.
DARIN: It is, it is.

MERCER: When the sun goes down, the tide goes out
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout
DARIN: What?
MERCER: "Hey, hey, Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud."

DARIN: And what a dance do they do!
Lordy how I'm telling you
Why they don't need no band
They keep time by clapping their hands
BOTH: Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi mud.

(Instrumental Break)

DARIN: Lordy how they play it, goodness how they sway it
There's Uncle George and Cousin Jack,
Look at those fools peckin' on their back.
MERCER: What joy that music thrills me,
DARIN: It do?
MERCER: Boy, it nearly kills me.
Sister Kate hollers, "Son,
You sure get muddy, but it's mighty good fun"

BOTH:When the sun goes down, the tide goes out
The people gather round and they all begin to shout
"Hey, hey, Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud."

DARIN: What a dance do they do!
BOTH: Lordy, how I'm telling you
MERCER: They don't need no band.
DARIN: They don't?
MERCER: They keep time by clapping their hands
DARIN: I see
MERCER: Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud
When the people beat their feet
DARIN: Yeah, yeah
MERCER: And the people clap their hands
On the M I double S I double S I double P I mud!
DARIN: An 'A' for spelling!

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From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:57 PM

MISSISSIPPI MUD
(James Cavanaugh / Harry Barris)

Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Irene Taylor & Bing Crosby) - 1928
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orch. (vocal: Bing Crosby) - 1928
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - 1954
The McGuire Sisters - 1956
Joy Bryan - 1957
Ray Charles - 1960
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer - 1961
Jim Kweskin - 1968
The Muppets - 1977
D.C. Anderson - 1997
BSQ - 1998
Also recorded by: Dinah Shore; Bix Beiderbecke; Bob Crosby; Lawrence Welk; Lester Lanin; The Platters;
Johnny Wiggs; Pasadena Roof Orchestra.


When the sun goes down, the tide goes out,
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout,
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud".

What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand...
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud,
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud.

Lordy, how they play it!
Goodness, how they sway it!
Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim,
How they pound the mire with vigor and vim!
Joy! that music thrills me!
Boy! it nearly kills me!
What a show when they go!
Say! they beat it up either fast or slow.

When the sun goes down, the tide goes out,
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout,
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud".

What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand.
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud.
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:53 PM

Beat you feet???

I don't think that's how it goes.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:49 PM

I am quite familiar with the mud of the Mississippi and that picture looks (and, I am certain, smells) nothing at all like it. Of course it really IS a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi mud, and I heartily endorse it!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:00 PM

and now - the song!

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From: GUEST,what, what, what ?
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:59 PM

circle them all and put them in a MUD RING

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From: IWTATBM
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:54 PM

I'd just like to say goodnight to you all. Hope you all have very pleasant evenings and sleep well. I still don't quite understand mud though.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:49 PM

In the words of Lenny Bruce, "Men would shtoop mud." So be careful where you dine.

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From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:46 PM

By golly, he's done it. THERE is a slogan to get drunk for and maybe even hungover.

EAT THE MUD!

I just said it ten times fast. It has a real ring to it. That would have been a battle cry to beat all.

However, it could have had disastrous results in the Mexican Revolution, because then folks would have been homeless.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:44 PM

EAT MUD

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From: IWTATBM
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:41 PM

Thanks Peace. Yes it's ME 'I was there at the beginning man'!!! Now known as IWTATBM. Feels kind of strange but I was getting fed-up of writing such a long name - now I don't have to. I know IWTATBM is unpronounceable, but it's quite catchy and not many people on Mudcat have unpronounceable names.

EAT MUD

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From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:40 PM

FEED THE MUD

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From: GUEST,KB
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:37 PM

Oh, yeah, I forgot.

FEED THE MUD!

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From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:35 PM

I love your new name, IWTATBM. It is you! A name that implies intelligence and foresight but also speaks for the silent and subdued in a quiet yet clear manner. True, no one can pronounce your name, but it matters not. You are you to us who are we and you to you who are I or me to you. To everyone else, you are IWTATBM.

EMMA: Did you notice in that first pic that someone fed the mud a quad with a creature on it? FEED THE MUD!

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From: GUEST,KB
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:30 PM

New name? Do I know you? I must admit you seem somehow familiar, like a lost snippet of a movie seen as a child.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:29 PM

ok - more mud!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:28 PM

But what if you have more than one mud? Do you then have muds? Oh, the pain.

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From: IWTATBM
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:27 PM

Your right. I'll stay then. What do you think of my new name?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:26 PM

I am with you, KB.

FEED THE MUD!

In a philosophical sense, mud is just dirt and water, but allegorically, it represents the tensions between wet and dry, transparent and opaque, up and down, over and out. It rhymes with cud and stud, blood and flood. It would rhyme with sud, but sud only comes in bunches or groups, gangs even. A gang of sud is suds. I mean, like when is the last time someone asked you if you wanted a glass of sud. Right. Never. You always get asked if you want suds. Put a layer of soap in the bath, and does it produce sud? NO, I say. NO! It produces suds. Does suds rhyme with mud? Again, NO.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM

ok - if this doesn't work!
MUD!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM

The mental gymnastics do get a bit confusing, but invigorating at the same time. My only solace is that I never understand what is going on so this thread is really just par for the course.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:19 PM

It's still no clearer to me. Emma are you saying real mud is good and metaphorical mud is bad? Is that it? Or is some metaphorical mud good as well? It's all so confusing. I think I might quit this thread for a less complicated one.... Does anyone know a less complicated thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM

I was thinking and a thought came to me. Mud, even when wielded in good fun, can produce tears and wailing and much gnashing of teeth among those struck by same. Perhaps this should be a mud free zone. Or maybe a free mud zone. Yes, that's it, Free The Mud! That is my new battle cry.

FREE THE MUD!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:17 PM

That's just it. We open up the thread for mud, and because people are so damned contrary, none appears. Even saying something like, "Go stick yer head in the toilet and flush it twenty-three times, turd head!" will bring a response like, "Would it be OK to flush it three times instead? We have metered water here." This is the teflon thread. It may hit the fan, but it sure don't stick.

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From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:13 PM

Darn! try clicking on Video then "mudder"

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From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:08 PM

these guys think so anyways