BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:10 PM

"A British company is developing computer chips that store music in
women's breast implants.   This is a major breakthrough.

Women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts, and not listening to them."

LOL, Becca

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Emma B
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 01:38 PM

Blunt 'worse than a traffic warden'
(Sunday July 30, 2006 08:52 AM)

Singer James Blunt has beaten traffic wardens and noisy neighbours in a list of the things Brits find most annoying, a new poll has revealed

The list of 100 pet hates, commissioned by Lactofree, also includes ex-smokers in ninth place, Carol Vorderman at 12 and Americans at 46.

from "Yahoo News"
Lactofree questioned 2,059 people aged 18 and above - maybe they had come across 282RA?

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: frogprince
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

What it really is, folks, is that, since he had the stroke, 282RA has tended to try to say something, and has come out with a word close to the one he meant to use. He really meant that he wanted to have threads just for JERKS like himself.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:59 AM

If you don't understand what someone is talking about in a thread, why not just ask? Most folks are more than happy to explain and you get to learn something new, what's the problem?

Music is great, no matter where in the world it comes from...I think the many cultures on Mudcat are a huge benefit!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,Dixie
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:49 AM

Hey 282RA,
I'm from Texas and therefore certainly not a a Yank. Sorry for intruding on y'all's thread.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:43 AM

Heh!

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:32 AM

Adds a whole new meaning to the term 'suspended sentence'...

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:31 AM

"I think you will find that most UKers here are very friendly and would assist anyone from across the water in whatever way they can. Just like most 'catters over there will help anyone here. Just the odd one or two like to stir things up and, as usual, it is the vocal minority that get noticed!"

I'd go along with that, and add that most, like myself, are decidedly PRO America, and PRO Americans. If we are anti anything, it's your current government's activities on the world stage, and we are just as anti the activities of our very own arse licking PM.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:26 AM

One of the last places in Hull to gve up public hanging? Nah CAN'T have been....LES is still around...

Suppose it COULD be true...at a stretch...(*G*) but if so, its time they bloody brought it back...

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:02 AM

Hi Mike

Have a quick look at 282RA's thread on BS: The Holy Stoogaic Wisdom to see how this started. About 5 posts down is where it started and it continues throughout the thread. When his comments were responded to in kind he threw a tantrum - Which is why you could be seeing some threads as anti-American. They are not realy. Just anti-idiot:-)

I think you will find that most UKers here are very friendly and would assist anyone from across the water in whatever way they can. Just like most 'catters over there will help anyone here. Just the odd one or two like to stir things up and, as usual, it is the vocal minority that get noticed!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:55 AM

It don't bother me none that a high percentage of the threads are focused on music from somewhere other than the continental U.S. (Hardly ever see a Hawaiian thread.) You can't dictate what people want to talk about. Who'd want to. The wonderful thing about Mudcat is that you're bound to find a few threads at any given moment that are of interest to you.

"Here we are now, entertain us," was a memorable line from one of my favorite folk groups, Nirvana. No sense bring that attitude into the Cat.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:37 AM

The Term "Yank" was used indiscriminately (also irrespective of race or colour) by Aussies during and for some time after WWII to refer to any citizen of the USA.

I'm an Aussie, and I'll use MY slang however I want... :P

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,freds
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:35 AM

Oh, we forgot.

Bite us.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,freds
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:34 AM

Why in the world would a yak post to a thread? It's hard enough for these beasts, living in Tibet, without making them use a computer keyboard. I'm tired of anti-yak discriminiation. I say, Equal Rights For Yaks! They're just as good as cows or aurochs or muskoxen!

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:28 AM

Obviously this thread was started by a troll. Notice that there isn't a single reply from the idiot?   He or she is having a good laugh.

Also, I would like to continue my campaign to put an end to the use of the word "Yank". I am sure folks in the UK cringe whenever they are called "limeys".

It is my understanding that the word "Yank" became popular during the Civil War. The Confederates would use it to describe the Union, and it was not said with affection. It smacks of bigotry and hatred.   Maybe I am too sensitive, but it really irks me that people won't think twice about using it. I do realize it is said with affection, usually, but there are better words.

Okay, enough of my PC rant!

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Becca72
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:22 AM

A British company is developing computer chips that store music in
women's breast implants.   

This is a major breakthrough.

Women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts, and not listening to them.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: nutty
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:19 AM

Mike ... If you knew the nationality of those posting in the BS section , you would see that a lot of the anti-American comments are made by Americans. (Particularly where Bush and his government are concerned)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,Mike Miller
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:04 AM

Dave,

   Not to delve into political morass, but the BS section does seem identifiably anti-American. Folksingers are, to a great extent, leftist and the USA is, to the left, what salami is to a vegan (Chew 'em up but spit 'em out). Like most folks, we criticise our government and our culture with impunity but we get a little huffy when outsiders do the same. Like Brits, we are proud of our identity, and it is unpleasant to be, constantly, bashed for it. No one is saying that you can't flail away at all things American but don't act so surprised that we are offended and that we do not choose to participate in the bashing.

                      Mike

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:37 AM

Nah - It's down in Cornwall, Mike. Or is that Truro? ;-)

282 and anyone else missing it. Look up Max's state of the union address earlier this year. Direct quote without comment -

Americans: We're losing to the Limey's. I attempt to lure American Folk artists, historians, archivists and enthusiasts to the Mudcat, and am repeatedly rejected because the Mudcat is now viewed as an UK Folk Forum. I don't blame the UK'ers, nor wish them to change anything they are doing, however, I'd like a nice balance so not to alienate either.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,Mike Miller
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:32 AM

Jerry, 282 is not trying to yank your chains. He fears that Brits are chaining his Yanks. He misses the reason why British folkies are more active as posters than Red, White and Bluegrassers. I suspect that the British are more connected with their folklore and folksongs than we are for any of a number of reasons. My experience, as a professional folksinger in both societies, is that British (and Irish) audiences were more attuned to their own traditions than American audiences and, in response, more performers of traditional music were steadily employed. Although Mudcat postings have expanded into the neo-folk, folk-rock, and out and out pop, this is, after all, a folksong based group and a high percentage of Mother England's brood is to be expected.
Like 282, I would like to see more Yankee Doodle data on these pages but not at the expense of less John Bullshit. The English love their folk music and so do I.

                      Mike (Yeah, now I remember. Thurso is up at the top of Scotland, but, for all I know, Hull is in Iowa)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:12 AM

There's been far too much Yanking of something, that's for sure...

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:53 AM

You trying to Yank our chain, 282?

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:42 AM

I just realised that Kendall is about as far North in the USA before you hit Canada as Kendal is in England before you hit Scotland:-)

Don't know if I mentioned it when you were in Ingleton, Kendall. Did I say you were only about 30 miles off your namesake town (without the extra 'L')?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:33 AM

Kendall - are you a Yank?

& I thought this was a world community

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: kendall
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:32 AM

eric, that is a good one! Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: kendall
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:31 AM

9 out of 10 obits here are people I never heard of. Mostly Brits, is that a problem? Hell no, I just move on.
This place would be not nearly as much fun without the Brits, and I'm damn glad they are here.
If you suffer from geocentricity, there is a cure, it's called travel.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:29 AM

Halifax still has it's gibbet, if 282RA wants to try it out I'm sure we could adjust it to fit his XXL size head.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:25 AM

I have a little problem here. I'm English, married to a Mainer and living in Maine, which is part of New England. Would I be allowed to contribute to the new Mudcat order as set up by our friend?

I, personally, have met a lot of American 'Catters in the past couple of years and see plenty of American interest threads on the board. I have also learned a great deal more about the USA, its people and history than I ever have and I think the same is true for my American friends.

People talk about a 'global community' and, whilst that may be difficult to achieve from a political point of view I think that, here on Mudcat, we've got it in microcosm.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: skipy
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:51 AM

Thread is the name of a deadly phenomenon that appears throughout Anne McCaffrey's series of science-fiction novels about the fictional planet Pern. It consists of a rain of threadlike silver filaments of a space-borne mycorrhizoid spore that devours all organic matter that it touches. These filaments bridge the space gap between Pern and their origin, a rogue planet called the Red Star, when the two planets are close enough. ...
Skipy
(red rag to a bull this one!)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:50 AM

"The Rolling Stones got their name from the Howlin' Wolf blues song "Rolling Stone" - Keith Richards was a fan of the version recorded by Muddy Waters,"

See Rock Band Name Origins

I couldn't find the lyrics to that Howlin' Wolf's song [anyone got them?] but I did find this website full of other song lyrics and mp3s:

Howlin Wolf Song Index Page

Here's the lyrics to one of my favorite Howlin Wolf songs:

Wang Dang Doodle
by Willie Dixon
recording of 1962
from The Rocking Chair (Vogue 600111), copyright notice

Tell Automatic Slim , tell Razor Totin' Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
A we gonna pitch a ball, a down to that union hall
We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long
All night long
All night long

Tell Kudu-Crawlin' Red, tell Abyssinian Ned
Tell ol' Pistol Pete, everybody gonna meet
Tonight we need no rest, we really gonna throw a mess
We gonna to break out all of the windows,
we gonna kick down all the doors
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long
All night long
All night long

Tell Fats and Washboard Sam, that everybody gonna to jam
Tell Shaky and Boxcar Joe, we got sawdust on the floor
Tell Peg and Caroline Dye, we gonna have a time
When the fish scent fill the air, there'll be snuff juice everywhere
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long

-snip-

This is my way of saying that I enjoy "breakin out all of the windows,and kickin down all the doors" that separate one culture from another. Thanks to Mudcat, folks can learn that "its a small world after all" by reading and exchanging comments, information, insights, or just havin fun with people in near & far away places. In doing so, one of the things we're bound to find [if our hearts & minds & spirits are open to this insight] is that in many ways -regardless of our race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion and other cultural indices, we have much more in common than we have that is different.

So let's keep on pitchin 'a wang dang doodle all night long' and all day long too!

And let's bring others into this big tent so that they can add their flavor to the mix! If people come to Mudcat for positive reasons-to share, to learn, to relax, to give & to receive emotional support, to to enjoy themselves with play on words and limerick games and others, to meet old friends and make new friends, then the more the merrier. 'Walk right in, sit right down', make yourself at home.

But if you come here to muddy the water, and start some stuff or add some mess to the pot that's already stirring-if you come here to start some trouble, then you can let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:24 AM

Did you hear the Scottish hill farmers version, Azizi?

Hey, MacCloud, get off a my ewe...

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:17 AM

Someone in Canada tried to pinch Halifax once. Stan Rogers? "I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier..."

Didn't know Halifax even had a pier. Went to Sowerby Bridge once and it was under 6" of rain water but I don't think that counts...

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,Bunnahabhain
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:11 AM

Do ypu really mean Yankees, or Americans? Are those Southerners really beyond the pale? And what about out west, as some of those states were little more than a few campsites and some worried looking livestock at the time the division was important?

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:08 AM

Thanks, John O' for helping me realize what song the title to this thread reminds me of. I found these lyrics in the aptly named website Lyriic ZZ.com


Rolling Stones
Get Off Of My Cloud
I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby

The telephone is ringing
I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is it there on the line?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you
Well, I guess I'm doin' fine"
He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise
Don't you people ever wanna go to bed?
Just 'cause you feel so good, do you have
To drive me out of my head?"

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud baby

I was sick and tired, fed up with this
And decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful
There was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like
A flag stuck on my window screen

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around, baby, two's a crowd

-snip-

[no relation]

The slogan for that website is "Double ZZ; Double content.
Yeah!!

:o)

:o)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: mandotim
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:06 AM

Hull and Halifax; weren't they the last places in England to abolish public hangings/floggings? Hence the saying, I think.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: John O'L
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:45 AM

I think 2 has the right idea, but he's thinking small.
I think all you folkies ought to stay off my threads (does that still mean trousers?) and leave the place to us blues enthusiasts.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:10 AM

"Wasn't Hull one of the towns in that old folk (English!) song about the ravages that Industrial England was subject to ...

think it had the phrase Hartford, something and Hull (as a pun on Hell)..."

"Dalesman's Litany".

Refrain:- "From Hull, and Halifax and Hell, Good Lord deliver me"

It's in the DT.

282, when you talk about folk music roots, yours are the same as ours, except that ours are about 600 years deeper.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:43 AM

Not sure if its Gnojna, Gnojnik or Gnojno.

(Yes they are real!)

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:39 AM

Good point Dave.... So which side does the Gnome bit come from then?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:34 AM

So, typical American knowledge of geography then? ALL none-yanks when refereng to 'catters from the UK. So there are only 2 countries in the world?

If you ment all UKers what about the Irish? I think you will find that they are non-UK. If you meant English why not say it? Wouldn't keep me off anyway - I am half Polish/Russian and like to spend time with my family in Illinois anyway:-)

If you want a forum just for yanks then why not start one? Either that or lighten up. Just because you can't insult people as well as you thought you could it is not the end of the world.

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:28 AM

Still think you should read a few history books, 2. You seem to be repeating yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:18 AM

It's because they've been taught properly by people who speak correct English!!

I dunno.. you steal our language and corrupt it... you steal our folk songs and corrupt them... I'd come and live with you but I think I'm already beyond redemption!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: GUEST,Marion
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:15 AM

Katlaughing said (speaking of color vs. colour):

"LOL, Maryrff...but just to confuse things, some of us 'mericunz spell it with an yew, too!:-)"

I didn't realize that - is it a particular geographic area where this is the case? Or is it a case of individuals who spell it differently because they're Anglophiles, or old-fashioned, or whatever?

Cheers, Marion the curious former linguist

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Matt_R
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:09 AM

This attempting at baiting people is a failure

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: The Walrus
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:54 AM

Hull? I can find it on a map easily
(You have to know where somewhere is to know how to avoid it
(Dons helmet, ducks and runs for cover)

"From Hull, Hell and Halifax..." ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:54 AM

I spent a week in Hull one Friday.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Paul Burke
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:41 AM

Hull? Isn't that the big dog-shaped island in the Pacific?

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:11 AM

Hey two,

don't be afraid
take a Brit post
and make it better.

Me - yank? No, but I'm not a Brit either - I come from Thessaloniki. But I was lonely on my national folk forum so I came over here. In any case you won't find me discussing Rooney (why talk about Mickey anyway?) or BNP (I'm more of a BLT man).

Robin, Hull is a myth - it doesn't exist, or at least no longer. They went and built another town on top of it. It's now Kingston upon Hull, and that's its proper name (check it out).

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:35 AM

Wasn't Hull one of the towns in that old folk (English!) song about the ravages that Industrial England was subject to ...

think it had the phrase Hartford, something and Hull (as a pun on Hell)...

Subject: RE: BS: All non-Yanks please stay off my threads
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:28 AM

Just because one or two Americans here are ethnocentric doesn't mean that the rest of us feel that way! As was said above, the more the merrier. Personally I LIKE telling friends that Mudcatters are from all over the world. I can't imagine wanting only one nation's people's opinion on a subject.