The Mudcat Is Under Fire

Subject: RE: The Mudcat Is Under Fire
From: Fergie
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:53 AM

Hi fellow Mudcatters

I usually stay away from this type of thread but I feel that I must comment on the above,

I think Mudcat is a tremendous asset to the Tradition. I visit almost every day and I learn lots, I get lyrics, airs and tunes, background information, valuable insights into the history of songs, singing and singers etc. etc. Its priceless and its free.

I have made good friends here and I have had some memorable laughs.

I want to thank Max and the Clones and all the people involved for the trojan unpaid work they do to keep this valuable resource going, despite the constant attacks it comes under from both without and within.

Thanks you for Mudcat warts and all.

Fergus Russell

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: number 6
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:54 PM

Hard Rain = spam

biLL

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: bobad
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:52 PM

It would be appropriate if "SPAM" was substituted for "RAIN."

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: number 6
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:45 PM

The Mudcat is under fire !!

Wouldn't the appropriate song by Bod Dylan at this time be "A Hard Rains Gonna Fall'

"And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall."


biLL

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:57 PM

That's interesting, Clinton, because it's probably (or at least debatably) the most brilliant song Dylan wrote in his entire life. The lyrics in that song are simply incredible, specially considering his age at the time. It's the ultimate social comment song.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Lox
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:34 PM

deadly ninja wielding his nan-chaku with awesome skill

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:11 PM

But then, as if ordained by the Supreme Diety, there appeared from the shadows a

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Lox
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:08 PM

Looks like you've got it under control to me ...

... control ...

Impressed by her gaze, and wondering what it was that was in his direction that she was looking at, he moved around behind the back of the guitar performance stool and pulled his chain mail down over his bottom.

Thank god he had found the chain mail in the nick of time. His previous idiom of camouflaged jean claude van-damme-esque jungle warrior simply was not well enough clothed to handle this ... vision of ... erm ... loveliness?

The Iron codpiece was unfortunately a few sizes too small and sank loosely and inneffectively from his waist like a rowing boat full of uncomfortable hippos.

He drew his trusty portrait and waited for the inevitable onslaught.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:52 PM

I want to know what Nurse Ratched is going to do next. . .

Turning her impressive gaze in the direction of the churlish youngish-middle-agish-man in chain mail, leaning on a custom guitar performance stool, she took a step toward him, enema rod in one hand, syringe in the other. . .

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:41 PM

But will you tell her when you get home?

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:32 PM

How about "I'll tell me ma" instead - good compromise?

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:30 PM

"I'll buy if you play "It's Allright, Ma"

(I'm only Bleeding)?? That one? That might be my least fav Dylan song of all time....

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:13 PM

Another three swings of what exactly?

Look, I'll buy if you play "It's Allright, Ma" all the way through and do a really good job on it. But I'll only buy one (drink) for you.

I wouldn't doubt that my perceptions of others on the Net are frequently off the mark, and I think that's something you and I probably share in common. ;-) Neither one of us is omniscient.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:07 PM

You wish.

Once again, you show just how far off the mark your perceptions are....

Wanna buy another 3 swings?

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:02 PM

Poor Clinton...flailing around, hoping against hope that someone will be offended enough to still care. ;-)

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:00 PM

100

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:59 PM

"Take your hand off my leg!"

"It's not my hand."

"It's not my leg!"

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:57 PM

That's no banana ...

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:51 PM

Because he has a banana in the right.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:47 PM

why is this guy getting an enema in his left ear? Really strange...

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:41 PM

Ooooooooohhhh......


Right there baby .......


Aaaaahhhhhhh ...


Yeah ......

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:35 PM

Nurse Ratchet! Over here! The guy lounging on the river bank! Enema first? OK!

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:27 PM

suddenly the surface of the water broke and lox emerged gasping for breath ...

... his muscles glinted in the half light and bulged and clenched in ecstatic agony as he grasped for the nearest overhanging vine ...

... The gash across his left cheek looked pretty nasty, but he didn't even know it was there ... It was just a flesh wound ... all in a days work for an action hero of his calibre ...

... He wiped nanobot slime from his armpits - what a strange discovery that human BO was the most effective way to subdue them. And he had thought at first that his attemp to put them in headlocks was the last ditch futile attempt of a desperate soul with no other options available ...

... "well ... that'll teach those varmints to come round here again" ... he thought,

... before collapsing in a heap on the river bank and waiting for the reception committee of mudcat nymphs to transport him back to safety ... there they would tend to him ...

(to read the rest of this story you must pay a subscription of 29.99 per month)

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 02:36 PM

Let's see how long the ants will keep scurrying around because someone mighta kicked their little hill a little....

Keep waving your antenna, guys.... It's guaranteed to help

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Amos
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 02:32 PM

Eddie:

The spambot posts were obviously the product of a demented, immature, anti-social incompetent with no sense of decency and the brains of a leprous wombat. This rules your speculation out, as the person you refer to lacks the necessary intelligence.


A

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: eddie1
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:43 PM

I seem to have missed out on all of this but I can't help but wonder if it's someone in The White House trying to get back at Mudcatters for saying nasty things about him?

Eddie

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:30 PM

Well, I seem to have missed the big event. Hmm. Oh well, back to pursuing Winona, I guess...

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Shaneo
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:30 PM

Thanks lads and lassies [hard to know who is a lassie sometimes] I only come here to learn the songs and add a bit to the threads at times and also to gain knowledge about the songs .
I'm just your average folk/ballad singer who has been sings for over twenty years in pubs/clubs around Ireland , but I have a passion for the songs and thats what takes me here , to learn the backround and info. on the music.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:29 PM

Yep, we got it taken care of.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: GUEST,Fat Clone
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:24 PM

The attack started even earlier. I killed off the first one and then a dozen or so more about 8:40. I had to leave before 9 to make an appointment and had to run before I could be of much more help.

First off, don't try to horn in on my status as the fat clone. LOL.

Second, it's alright. I got this deleting posts thing down to a science because of all the practice I get. Just ask Rog. We cleaned them out in a hurry. You get the next batch. Mudelf, the Huge and Magnificent.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:12 PM

Shaneo, there are very few of these. Two of them posted above. In Clinton's case, I am just tired of his ridiculing people, and his constant bitching about how the Mudcat is a second class forum. In Shambles case, you only need go read his "closed threads and deleted posts" thread to understand why folks are nasty. In both cases, it doesn't take long to figure out why folks don't care for either one of them.

You post and don't worry about it. When Clinton tells you to get a life, or points out why this isn't a decent board, feel free to tell him to bugger off or ask him why he spends so much time here. With Roger, exposure to him will help you figure him out. He is a little more seductive in his approach, but a full fledged troll nonetheless.

Mick

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Amos
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 12:29 PM

Shaneo,

post without fear and ignore the rolls and black crosseyed souls who think the very thing is to make nothing of others. They are in a minority and deserve no attention.

A

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 12:28 PM

When you join a thread here even misspelling is shot down , yet it seems ok for others to use the most appalling language to one another

For the record - it is Mick's example (as one of our 'moderators') who is the example to follow - and not the example of the self righteous, know it all assholes that he refers to.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Shaneo
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 12:12 PM

Is there a bit of history between[bad blood] some people here ?
Some days when I come here I'm afraid for my life to even post a request for a song or info. on a song for fear of being ridiculed.
When you join a thread here even misspelling is shot down , yet it seems ok for others to use the most appalling language to one another

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:52 AM

Has it every occured to you that when you post, you just look like a fathead that's jammed so far up Max's backside all we can see of you is feet?

Lox and I were messin about as the 'attack' went on.... That you can't see it, surprises me not in the least....

Go back to knobbling Max's gob... It appears to be what you're best at.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Wolfgang
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:51 AM

"heat in the ass" translates into German as a praise, but that would be unlikely considering the poster. Or perhaps we misunderestimate Clifton Hammock?

Woffbang

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:36 AM

But CH, it is so easy. One just needs to sit and wait for you to post your arrogant, know it all bullshit. We get hit by a major spambot attack, and minutes in you are there with the same tired and predictable arrogant shit.

Problem resolved in record time, take a break.

And by the way, does it ever occur to you that when you ridicule people for posting here, and ridicule the site, that you just look foolish?

Mick

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:32 AM

minor attack started at 11:24 AM...*grin*

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:24 AM

Get stuffed Mick... You calling me an idiot or a know-it-all is pretty damn rich.

Pull yer fat stupid heat outa your fatter (but smarter) ass

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:11 AM

Major attack starts around 9:00 AM. By 11:00 AM it is stopped and cleaned up. Don't listen to self righteous, know it all assholes. The whole thing was handled very well, with the integrity of Mudcat back in shape. Those that point out that about 2 dozen or so use this place are just idiots. It is visited by many, but I can think of a couple that could leave and wouldn't be missed.

Job done, let's get on with Mudcattin'.

Mick

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:10 AM

Here is an article about these new bots. It's just a guess that one of them might have been the culprit, if it got into a member's computer.

SRS

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Amos
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:09 AM

I don't think thinking is part of their equation. It strikes me as a juvenile lash-out.

A

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:03 AM

I hope it wasn't home-grown.

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Emma B
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:58 AM

nuisance value? You'd think we had enough with our own "home-grown" stuff :)

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:57 AM

What are they trying to get out of it? I checked out some of the URLs, they are all bogus, so it's not someone pushing porn sites or whatever:(

(I trust my firewall and anti-virus/ anti- spyware checking...)

I get a lot of emails that have random text in the body, sane thing, what do they hope to get out of it?

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:50 AM

And I missed the whole thing by attending Sinsull's song party. Oh well!

Thanks, Max!

Charkey Noble

(you would not have enjoyed it, "Charkey" [skinny clone])

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Emma B
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:36 AM

Phew! - well done team

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:33 AM

I'm sure that's a quote from a western movie...

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: Max
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:25 AM

I seemed to have stopped them, now we need to clean up the mess.

{working on it....skinny clone]

Subject: RE: THE MUDCAT IS UNDER FIRE
From: GUEST,Rathingle
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:19 AM

It's good to see some of the older threads popping up again