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Total BS: Self? Parody

10 Dec 00 - 01:36 PM (#354492)
Subject: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Snuffy

Yesterday afternoon there was a thread that kept a small number of us in hysterical fits of laughter while shorty was out of action. When he came back on-line this thread had been deleted by a power-that-be.

We have been discussing the disappearance in this thread Shorty's Back , and the general opinion seems to be that the thread was pulled because the title was objectionable, not because of the various postings on the thread, which were good-humoured parodies of various 'Catter's styles and obsessions. If that's the case then this attempt to resurrect the thread should survive; if not, then this thread will probably disappear as well!

I managed to resurrect the first 50 postings from my IE history. There were probably only a couple more. If you feel slighted because you're not mentioned, don't complain - log out, come back as a guest and parody yourself. It pays to advertise!

Wassail! V

Subject: Mudcat is totally unreliable
From: GUEST,anonymousethief
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:12 PM

Mudcat has gained a reputation on the net for being unreliable and down more than it is up.

What gives?


From: GUEST,kat/katsnotlaughing
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:17 PM

Yes, I have noticed that too. Mudcat has been down a lot of late.


From: GUEST,Catspaw365daysayear
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:19 PM

I am sure that I will think of something dumb to say about this.


From: GUEST,Praisethelord
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:20 PM

Mudcat started going down when I stopped asking Jesus to keep it up.


From: Ebbie
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:22 PM

I keep all three of the incarnations (www.mudcat.org; ragtime.mudcat.org; loki.mudcat.org) bookmarked. When one doesn't go through, I try one of the others. So far, one of them always does, usually loki.

(Note that two of the addresses are not on the www.)

Ebbie


From: GUEST,Joemakemeanoffer
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:22 PM

I will try and find links to previous threads that discuss why Mudcat is down so often.


From: GUEST,Ebbieandflowie
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:24 PM

Thanks Ebbie. I'll have to remember your advice.


From: GUEST,Rick Fieldingofdreams
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:26 PM

This didn't used to happen when before the Internet went electric.


From: GUEST,Maxtheknife
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:28 PM

I think I accidentally cut off the server.


From: GUEST,Ken Doll
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:30 PM

Buy my CD! Barbie did.


From: GUEST,Dick in the Green House
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:32 PM

Buy Ken Doll's CD from me and I'll donate 27 cents to the Mudcat Fixit Fund.


From: GUEST,Catspaw365daysayear
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:34 PM

I am still sure that I will think of something dumb to say about this.


From: GUEST,Matt_R_U_goingtoscarboroughfair
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:36 PM

Mudcat worked better when Mbo was around.


From: GUEST,Ken Doll
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:37 PM

No it did not.


From: GUEST,Matt_R_U_goingtoscarboroughfair
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:38 PM

Yes it did.


From: GUEST,Ken Doll
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:40 PM

You know nothing, you're just a kid. If you want to learn something, buy my CD.


From: GUEST,anonymousethief
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:43 PM

Why does every thread have to turn into this kind of bickering between Ken Doll and Matt_R_U_goingtoscarboroughfair?


From: Giac
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:43 PM

Why not!! This morning I got an e-mail that my ISP has been "acquired" and will change as of tomorrow! Tomorrow for godsake. Why tell me at all, ah mean, AH MEAN, why bother!

See, the problem is, I figure, that all the mice in the Internet wheels have been "acquired" for the recount. Go to bigger wheels and maybe use rats (they'll be out of work after the election fiasco anyhow), bigger and meaner, yup, that'll do it.

... the shark bite, with its teeth, babe, scarlet ...

Giac, who really needs to be at NYCFTTS.


From: GUEST,Ken Doll
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:44 PM

It is because that stupid kid won't buy my CD.


From: GUEST,Matt_R_U_goingtoscarboroughfair
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:47 PM

Gramps, I don't need your geezer music. I can always listen to Leaden Zeppelin sing "Midnight At The Oasis".


From: GUEST,Reallylittlehawk
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:52 PM

I will write a major protest song about the unreliability of Mudcat.


From: GUEST,Catspaw365daysayear
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:55 PM

Why can't I think of something dumb to say about this?


From: Bill D
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 02:59 PM

"please deposit another $2.00 in quarters for 40 more minutes" *ka-ching*

and then go here


From: Ebbie
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:00 PM

LOL!

Ebbie (I've been wishing I had a friend named Flo)


From: Jeri
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:18 PM

Bill D, that's a BIZARRE site! (And this is a bizarre thread, but I can understand someone talking to themselves today.)

Ebbie, how about a song? "Ebbie little thing you do is magic?" My name doesn't make for much fun, but the combination with my middle name does rhyme with a bunch of things.


From: GUEST,Jeriatric
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:41 PM

That's what she thinks.


From: GUEST,Ken Doll
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:43 PM

Jeriatric,

You must be old enough to buy my CD.


From: GUEST,SuperMario
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:46 PM

Do you have a tune for "Mudcat is Totally Unreliable"


From: GUEST,Brew So
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:48 PM

"Ye Mudcat is Unrelyabble" was entered in the Stationers Register in 1646. A copy is available on my Scary Songs website.


From: Ebbie
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 03:58 PM

'And its message is subliminal'. Tra la.

Ebbie


From: Zebedee
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:02 PM

Whoever 'Guest' is, I think that it should be recognised that he/she actually makes a fair point.

I love mudcat, and in no way could I provide anything better.

it does get frustrating sometimes, though

If money / time is an issue, nicely done sponsorship would suit me

Ed


From: GUEST,Maxwell House
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:09 PM

Hey, posting with your cookie set isn't allowed on this thread. Log out or butt out!


From: GUEST,Wild rover
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:12 PM

Help, I'm looking for the words of an Irish song I heard in abr in the 70s. I think it's called No Nay Never. Please e-mail the words to me at thick@brick.com. Thanks


From: GUEST,gargoil
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:19 PM

ha! It's all me--I mean I-- I mean you though you got rid of me, but now I'm everyone!


From: GUEST,Snuffit Out
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:27 PM

Here is an ABC for the missing tune of Mudcat is Totally Unreliable

X: 151
T:Mudcat is Totally Unreliable
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:C
G2E|F2D|G2E|C2C|D2E|FED|G2E|C2z|
G2E|FFD|G2E|C2C|D2E|FED|G2E|C2z|
GGE|F2D|GGE|C2z|DDE|FED|G2E|C2z|
G2E|FFD|G2E|C2C|DDE|FED|G2E|C2z||

What's Ale? V


From: GUEST,Doogie R
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:31 PM

Even though I am outnumbered by all you commie, pinko, Clinton-loving left-wingers, I can still protest this thread drawing attention from the Democrats attempting to hijack the Florida vote!


From: sophocleese
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:34 PM

Shouldn't this be in the Parodies thread?


From: GUEST,*** #1 unPleasant***
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:37 PM

This repeated failure of the Mudcat is a conspiracy led by the Pope to stop me posting Orange songs.

Conman


From: GUEST,Alain of OZymandyus
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:38 PM

snuffit: if you remember, I gave you a program to convert those ABC files to midis! Now I have to type all those little red letters in!


From: Amergin
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:38 PM

I have an idea who this idiot is....


From: GUEST,one of the many faces of Eve
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:41 PM

why must it be only one idiot? We have large supply.


From: Amergin
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:49 PM

What's wrong? Not original enough to make up a name for me?

So tell me why are you acting this way? Are you having domestic problems? Is your dog refusing to touch you now that you ran out of peanut butter? Come on you can tell me....

Amergin


From: Ebbie
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 04:57 PM

Speaking of 'totally unreliable', Mudcat won't let me into the membership page- and how else does one log off? I want to be a GUEST!

Guest/Eb


From: GUEST,Am Urgin'
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 05:03 PM

Ebbie, go to http://www.mudcat.org/member/EntryForm.cfm


From: Amergin
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 05:06 PM

That's a little better. I feel a bit better now that I have been included with all of those great folks above. Thank you for making my day.


From: GUEST,Malcolm Douglas Fir Tree
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 05:16 PM

"Mudcat Is Totally Unreliable" is in fact related to "The Super Search Is Down" and "Why Is Mudcat So Slow" and is described in "The Oxford Book Of Obscure Songs" see also

This thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread
and this thread

Malcom Douglas Fir Tree


From: sophocleese
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 05:37 PM

Damn! Ostracized again! I'm going to sulk.


From: Jeri
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 05:47 PM

There's not much going on, and I think it's pretty funny, myself. I AM, however, extremely upset over one thing - why didn't I think of "Jeriatric?!?!" (Must be the Alzheimer's.)


From: GUEST,Dave Ostracised
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 05:50 PM

Damn Soap_and_Cheese. How dare you use MY name like that?


From: GUEST,Car-oilC
Date: 09-Dec-00 - 06:45 PM

Tell me how to get into the resources pages. It doesn't work even when I type loki in front of the .mudcat in the url

Car-oil


10 Dec 00 - 01:50 PM (#354504)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Noreen

Thanks Snuffy- I missed this.

Noreen


10 Dec 00 - 01:51 PM (#354505)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Rick Fielding

Hey, very funny.

And EVERYTHING was better before it went electric!

Rick (really)


10 Dec 00 - 03:24 PM (#354540)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: sophocleese

THanks Snuffy, I thought it was quite funny too. I left to go to a concert and when I came back it was gone. Thanks for resurrecting what you could. I missed being called Soap and Cheese. Now I feel better.


10 Dec 00 - 03:37 PM (#354546)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)

What a Hoot! This was, and is, the best thread I've seen for months. Yours, Aye. Dave


10 Dec 00 - 03:38 PM (#354547)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

hee hee hee- thanks for the chuckle!


10 Dec 00 - 03:53 PM (#354551)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Mary in Kentucky

O wad some power
the giftie gie us.
To see ourselves
as ithers see us.

--Robert Burns


10 Dec 00 - 04:16 PM (#354556)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Geoff the Duck

I am just sorry that when I logged on at about 1am last night (GMT), I was wanting to use the computer for non-mudcat purposes, and as a result I did not sit down and properly read the "lost thread" whilst it was live.
I would did intend to follow it to its conclusion at leisure, but am not now able to. Thanks "Guest" for recovering what you could from the original. I was amused.
GtD


10 Dec 00 - 04:22 PM (#354559)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Woolie-OhDamn...

Up here in Canada we're sick of that election that they can't figure out who lost it so they can be president. This wouldn't happen so much if there were more hits on my mp3.com site where I have recently posted a song that I wrote on Rick Fieldofdreams' former guitar which is different from my Martin O-18 which is an acquired taste but good for playing quietly and I met Stan Rogers and Stockwell Day richly deserves his impending retirement and did you know I opened for Archie Fisher?

Just wondering, I have no opinion.

Wooly-Oh-DamnICan'tHaveABeerButICouldSureUseOne


10 Dec 00 - 05:46 PM (#354593)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,antiMattR

Oh Why does every one attack us for being young and not getting laid and for liking Oasis, and not understanding the point, but turning innocent threads into personal attacks??? and me up to my ass in college work and wood glue...I cant be bother, you are a bunch of old fogeys..and I fart in your general direction..


10 Dec 00 - 06:02 PM (#354599)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,I'monlyhereforthebeer

Shut yer festering gob, yer tit. Yer mother was a hamster, and yer father smelt of elderberrys. I wave my private parts at you, you son of a silly person.


10 Dec 00 - 06:44 PM (#354627)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,upchuck

I'm the forgotten one. The other Chucks never even admit they know me. I wrote a parody of A-Rovin' that goes:

In Amsterdam I ate my lunch
Mark well what I do say!
In Amsterdam I ate my lunch
I'd see it again, I had a hunch
I'll eat no more little wriggly things that crawl back up
A-ralphin', a-ralphin', oh ralphin's not much f-u-n
I'll eat no more little wriggly things that crawl back up

One night I crept from my abode
Mark well what I do say!
One night I crept from my abode
'Cause I hankered for some garden toad...

Well, you get the idea. They never let me sing this one - can you believe it?!?!


10 Dec 00 - 07:05 PM (#354637)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Poor-Tisha

Well I'm awarding sloppy kisses to all and making like I'm doing y'all a favor instead of spreading nasty internet germs all over the place....who's next?


10 Dec 00 - 07:34 PM (#354641)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Neon Bonniephyte

I am so confused. At first I thought as I was new, I needed a name that reflected that and I saw my self as being Little Neophyte. I later thought that as my name is Bonnie and I was learning the banjo that I should change to Banjo Bonnie. I then thought that as I was still learning that I should go back to being Little Neophyte but to sign my self as Bonnie so that people would no that Little Neophyte was really Banjo Bonnie.

I then thought that perhaps that was too confusing and thought that maybe if I combined the two to make Neon Bonniephyte this would simplfy matters but I no longer know who I am.

Your thoughts would be so appreciated.


10 Dec 00 - 07:42 PM (#354644)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Jon Forebrain

Bonnie, I searched for one on the web, and NameMe appeared tobe the most likely candidate, but they have no Mac support. I am working on a programme that will hlep you do that. I should be able to knock something together in another 10 seconds or so./


10 Dec 00 - 08:10 PM (#354651)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Humerus Buttock

Bonnie I had trouble finding a name for myself. I knew it had to have a bone in it and I like words that end in "ock". I started off with leg bones, and tried Femur Cassock and Tibia Hammock but I knew that I was more of an arm bone than a leg bone so I tried Ulna Peacock. There was still something wrong though and I realised that the second word needed to be anatomical too so I arrived at Humerus Buttock.

Just keep thinking, you will get there and it will be worth the effort.

HB


10 Dec 00 - 09:27 PM (#354670)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Guest/Ebbiephant

I just want it known that I forget nothing Ah, God knows I've tried...

Ebbie


10 Dec 00 - 09:38 PM (#354676)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Sorcha

Sorry for the non guest post, but I am just myself, and myself is not just real great just now.

Scorchy, who does not have a lot of excess heat today.


10 Dec 00 - 09:53 PM (#354686)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Scorcha

I'll warm you up Sorch.


10 Dec 00 - 09:57 PM (#354688)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Ricky Fieldmouse

Hi! Howdy and Wow! Just heard the most obscure fantabulous guitarist in the world! He's called "Blind Bermuda Schwartz" and you've just GOTTA GOTTA hear him! He's only sold six albums in his lifetime, but he's done the best version of "It's So Lonesome in the Saddle Since My Horse up an' Died" I've ever heard.

By the way how's everyone doin' on their Bb demented 9th?

It's real easy (if you've got seven fingers on yer left hand) just make sure you practice til yer fingers start bleeding! Gotta invest in the music ya know! Gotta, Gotta!

"insert joke here".

Ricky


10 Dec 00 - 10:29 PM (#354700)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,MuTed

I hate to correct you Ricky but the Bd Demented 9th is not a chord. To keep with correct naming conventions, theoretically, it would have to be called a Bb Demented Augmented Suspended Maj 9th.

MuTed


10 Dec 00 - 11:06 PM (#354715)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Guest: SCROLL

Allow me to introduce myself; I am SCROLL, trolls good twin.
Please ignore troll. His postings are delusional and why the "Home for the Terminally Bewildered" lets him have access to a computer is more than I can fathom.
It only gets him all worked up, and he raves for days about imaginary people named "Spaw" and "Ebbie" and "Max". I wish he abandon this ficticious world and return to his job at the family firm. Mater is so upset that she has postponed her yearly pilgrimage to Monaco for THREE days!
So, please. Ignore him. Don't reply to his ravings and we may yet hope for a cure.

SCROLL,Esq., P.A.


11 Dec 00 - 11:09 AM (#354948)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Nyneve

Mudcat is unreliable because I imprisoned Merlin for all eternity (read your Mallory my child).

Simple innit like?

Nyneve

:-(

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11 Dec 00 - 11:39 AM (#354964)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: annamill

Hey, you forgot me!! I'm evidently not spending enough time on Mudcat. LOL!

Love, GUEST:annamill


11 Dec 00 - 12:00 PM (#354977)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,animated

Hi Friends!!! I don't have much time to spend here since Honey and I have been building that resort on the other side of our river. We're almost finished, and would like to invite the entire world to come make beautiful music, eat, drink, and be merry! Max, we remembered you! The fur-lined hammock is waiting for you out in the gold pagoda.

I hope everyone can make it!!! This is going to be fun!!! Please PM me for directions, or let me know where the nearest helicopter landing site is to your house.

Love,
animated


11 Dec 00 - 12:20 PM (#354988)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Plumpton

Log out? I thought it was The Old Log Inn?

A gathering? Is a gathering occuring here? Mayhaps one could furnish details eh young Annamill?


11 Dec 00 - 12:37 PM (#355001)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: annamill

Thank you. That's better except it's a heated fur-lined hammock. (Gathering in January)

Love, animated (I like that. it fits)


11 Dec 00 - 01:08 PM (#355022)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,anamated

refresh


11 Dec 00 - 01:10 PM (#355025)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,animated

refresh

C'mon folks. who's going to be there? Sorry I misspelled my name. This self-parody stuff is tough!


11 Dec 00 - 01:14 PM (#355027)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Steve Flatulater

Is this thread about Willie Nelson? Well why not? EVERY thread should be about Willie.


11 Dec 00 - 01:20 PM (#355035)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,(Really)

Great thread. I laughed. I cried.


11 Dec 00 - 01:20 PM (#355036)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Jeriatric

Well, I'll be there, animated. Connecticut, right? Now if I can just remember where I put my car keys... Ooh - I just remembered I have a spare set in my fiddle case, so I'll shortly be on my way!

...er, wait a minute...where did I leave the damned fiddle case???


11 Dec 00 - 01:20 PM (#355037)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Peter Tea and Empathy

"The Beatles more popular than Buddah?" I hardly think so.

As I was sitting in the Louvre the other day absorbing the sheer majesty of Pierre de Galoshes' "Homage a Jeux de fou d'Avril", I thought "What a load of codswallop!"


11 Dec 00 - 03:44 PM (#355156)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Dave (the old salt)

Ahoy mates, welcome aboard, watch your step there or you'll fall overboard. Don't want to have to jump into that cold water to rescue you just now. Yours, aye, Dave.


11 Dec 00 - 03:50 PM (#355162)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Catrin

lauughing outloud at this one folks - thanks for resurrecting it Snuffy!


11 Dec 00 - 03:56 PM (#355169)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Dice Clay O'Possum

Man, don't you people have lives? I mean, here I am, a feckin' piece of sculpture, forced to put up with some idjit that keeps violating my anus with his putrid breath; not to mention his delusions about those inbred sloths masquerading as FieldofDreams brothers Rug, Rug and Rug...and CleatMe! Have you read some of those posts suppossedly from CleatMe? I have to live with this person. H*ll, you all feckin' well know that I am the ars*h*le. I mean, how many sane, rational people do you know who would believe a ceremic ocarina actually types in messages to the internet? I mean, the executives of Dow Index Companies aren't that stupid, and I should know! Of course this could all be an irrational fantasy caused by sniffing too much glue while making stick dull-cimers, but I don't think so.


11 Dec 00 - 04:04 PM (#355172)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Matt'R'O'Fact

Look, what's so special about folk music? I mean, look at Oasis, they write great lyrics and musically you can tap your toes to it, and isn't that what it's all about? Hmm? Girls never give me the time of day.


11 Dec 00 - 04:05 PM (#355175)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Morticia

It's eight minutes past nine here.....


11 Dec 00 - 04:32 PM (#355186)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Rambles

I have been reading this thread with interest and I wish to equire what is the meaning of this thread and why did it start?

I don't mean why did anonymousethief originate the thread but what is the deeper meaning of this thread and what does it tell us about ourselves as human beings. Or perhaps, more to the point, are we human beings and assuming we are, how can will really be sure whether we are right or wrong when it is only we who can arrive at such a conlusion. Or is there an alien culture that told us that we are humans and if so, where do they live? If this alien race told us that we are human beings how do we know that they are correct and how do they know who they are? Could it be that this alien race were given their identiy by an other alien race who also told them that we are human beings?

Considering the possibility of the number of aliens that may or may not exist, we need to consider the number of planets that may exist and how many support life as we know it or do these aliens who may or may not have told us that we are human beings have to be life as we know it when is likely that as we are unaware of thier existance that rather than being life as we know it, they are in fact life as we don't know it?

Rambles


11 Dec 00 - 07:02 PM (#355274)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Snuffy

Rambles

Yes


11 Dec 00 - 08:34 PM (#355326)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Burke

Thanks for the laugh! I can get to a machine without a cookie, but don't have a clue what I'd call myself.


11 Dec 00 - 08:36 PM (#355329)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Rambles

Snuffy, your answer is fraught with simplicity. Please PM. me with an infinitely more complex explanation so that I may question the motivation behind every preposition and comma.

Rambles


11 Dec 00 - 08:44 PM (#355336)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Matt_R

Oh MattRofFACT, I found music girls like...CREED. Some have actually admitted to getting turned on when hearing me sing "Arms Wide Open".


11 Dec 00 - 11:14 PM (#355401)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Bill D'a bonfire

*sigh* *groan* *mumble* *cuss and swear* Matt, *sigh* *groan* *mumble* *cuss and swear* this is a parody *sigh* *groan* *mumble* *cuss and swear* ... and nothing to take to heart *big grin* *smiles* *chuckles*....


11 Dec 00 - 11:38 PM (#355408)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Rick Fielding

Lost track of this for a couple of days. Hilarious, and never mean-spirited (if we don't take ourselves too seriously).

Gotta stop saying "gotta"!!

can't think of a joke to insert here!......for now.

Rick (real one)


12 Dec 00 - 12:35 AM (#355428)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: alison

great thread.. thanks for resurrecting it.....

slainte

alison


12 Dec 00 - 01:54 AM (#355445)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,FriendlyBrendy

I just don't see how (because you know I don't get into this much, myself), anyone could object to a bit of pasquinading. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....(the idiots can - Click Here - ), well, then we must, by definition, agree that it in itself must be part of the creative process.

Bit like What is 'Folk Music'?, I suppose.

Even Bob Dylan would have agreed. I mean, like, who does he remind you of?

Eh?

Plagarism is rife in society today, and in order to get to my point I will have to search through numerous web pages, taking many hours, and many days, while steadily increasing my Flesch-Kincaid level
But that's the way the world is today, I'm afraid.

Me? I'm perfectly fine and friendly (me mammy loved me!) But if I think someone's trying to take the piss, I'll tell them to shag away off for themselves.
I've got loads of links I could send you to, to further prove my point, but I'm not going to waste my time doing it, if'n half of yousens just sit there and be content to have the information be brought to yiz on a silver platter.

So yis can take that whatever way youse will. My life wont change much, one way or the other.

B.


12 Dec 00 - 06:16 AM (#355499)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Little Neophyte

I greatly appreciate the humor on this thread.
I am now in counseling for my lack of identity. The psychiatrist says there is hope for me.

Little Neon Bonniephyte


12 Dec 00 - 09:30 PM (#356102)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Rick Fielding

Don't sweat it Bonnie (or Little Neo, or OverallGal) we're Canadian, we aren't SUPPOSED to have an identity!

As far as identities go, I wouldn't mind being Elizabeth Hurley's dress!

Damn it, TWO bad jokes in one post...satisfied Fieldmouse?

Rick


12 Dec 00 - 10:48 PM (#356139)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: sophocleese

I'm still trying to find something in my manner or my presentation that would be decent material for a parody. I have to admit that I haven't found it yet, I must suppose therefore that I am perfect in all ways and, consequently, better than the rest of you.


12 Dec 00 - 10:56 PM (#356140)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Soph-Oh-PLEEEASE

I don't like that Matt_R, he looks like my brother..icky icky icky! Matches his taste in music too!


12 Dec 00 - 10:59 PM (#356145)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Soap_and_Cheese

In fact I am so GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD that I just thought to write this song...

Lord How it's hard to be humble
When you're perfect in every way


13 Dec 00 - 01:48 AM (#356219)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Rick Fielding

Soph, I can see the problem the parodists might have in doing an impression of you. T'ain't anything to do with perfection, just that nothing parody-wise jumps out. You just don't seem to have any (publicly) annoying habits or "beat it into the ground" positions.

I've got tons. Someone who's into proper sentence construction could have a field day with my habit of using brackets. My tiresome references to Quentin Crisp having all the answers, would qualify as well. Oh, and the harping on playing "proper chords", "investing in the music", and always improving your accompaniement skills...those are rife for parody. Not to mention using.....dots...when I can't instantly think of the proper punctuation. My suspicion of religion and outright hatred of authority come into play now and then as well....oh, and I still know practically nothing about the computer! Sheeeit! Next to that you ARE perfect!

Rick


13 Dec 00 - 06:25 AM (#356258)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Little Neophyte

Soph, maybe you should make an appointment with my psychiatrist. I am quite sure he would find lots of decent material for your parody.
Sometimes you just got to dig deep thats all.

Little Bonaphyte


13 Dec 00 - 08:14 AM (#356282)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: sophocleese

Thank you, thank you. I have been struggling and losing sleep with this question for the last couple of days. I should have remembered that I had merely to describe the problem and the kind loving people at Mudcat would be falling all over their feet to help me. Again I am deeply moved by the willingness of Mudcatters to go that extra mile and make sure that no concern is left unanswered. Thank you, thank you, I really mean that.


13 Dec 00 - 01:15 PM (#356470)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Jeri

Well, nobody's really done one of me except me. I'm fairly sure I can think of a lot of things about my writing I would parody if I were someone else. Maybe I'm just no fun...


13 Dec 00 - 01:25 PM (#356481)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Jon Freeman

I think Rick has answered the why Jeri. Some people do have more obvious traits than others and I can't really think of anything to do with you - wish I could - I guess I could use Jeriatric and call you an old fart ;-). I think I have ran out of ideas now anyway. I have been:

Am Urgin, Malcolm Douglas Fir Tree, Dave Ostracised, Neon Bonniphyte, Humerous Buttock, MuTed, Rambles (1st appearance), Bill D'a Bonfire and Soap_and_Cheese.

Jon


13 Dec 00 - 01:30 PM (#356488)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Little Neophyte

Oh you are a blast Jer! I know for a fact you are a parody haven. I spent an afternoon and evening with you in person, remember?
I'll go ask my psychiatrist what he thinks I should write about you.

Bon


13 Dec 00 - 01:31 PM (#356489)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: mousethief

I'll confess that I was Matt'R'O'fact. That's all.

Alex


13 Dec 00 - 02:00 PM (#356511)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Jeri

Me: Upchuck, Jon Forebrain, animated (the first one), all but the first Jeriatric, and I think perhaps a couple others before the thread got zapped.


13 Dec 00 - 02:09 PM (#356529)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,MMarioBBrothers

You guys are wasting time. You could be out collecting tunes for the Digitrad.


13 Dec 00 - 02:30 PM (#356555)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,MrzzzyDotes and DozzzyDotes and Litlamzzzidi

Well I'm not a Christian and I don't play one on TV. My kids have learned all about funny threads but they aren't brainwashed. Not that anybody here brainwashes me, you are all lovely people.


13 Dec 00 - 03:04 PM (#356583)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Juri-rigged

As soon as I get done digging a hole to China in my garden and dump those pesky slugs down it, I will find that tune you newbies are looking for, after I make sure Kendal's megabytes don't take a chunk out of AntiMatteR.

Oh, by the by, I've just written a new tune, a real killer which will knock Bonnaphyte's white sox off, then we can examine the balanced view of why Spaw wants her to wear them.

This is in addition to my practising on a gazillion fiddles, toning up my voice, and imparting practical knowledge on the whole.

In my spare time I analyse critical situations with 8,000 words treatises on Satan's minions.

Juri-rigged


13 Dec 00 - 03:13 PM (#356590)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,ALlusion on the Yellow brick road

I reckon I am the FAIR ONE and can beat the bodhran outta any of you, even tho ya are me mates! After visiting 250 different bodhran and flute makers in the "old country", I finally settled on 80 slightly different tunings for over 40 flutes, bought myself 30 new harps, enough to make sure you are all green with envy, so ya remind me of home, and managed to visit every trad musician ever to live in the most beautiful scenery imaginable, while packing my children on my back. Simultaneously, I took National Geographic-worthy pictures of the highpoints, sitting up in the wee hours at the pub downloading them for digital delivery to share with you lot.

I reckon it is to me da's credit and Rosie's that not once, while I was there, did I click my ruby red slippers and say, "There's no place like home." Now that I am back on the Yellow Brick Road, though, I am looking for those slippers!

It's all just an

ALlusion to me!


13 Dec 00 - 03:17 PM (#356592)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,MrzyDotes n DozyDotes n Litllamzidivy

Why does it allow you to type in more letters on your name than it posts to the thread? Is this a plot to make sure people don't see Christianity as just another religion?


13 Dec 00 - 03:25 PM (#356602)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Mouse in the Chateau d'If

Oh come off it, MrzyDotes, let's all be friends here and there's no need to get ridiculous. Maybe you need to go take a walk around the block or something. Some of my best friends are pagans. I get along with everybody. I'm so magnanimous even I can't believe it.

Ox xO
=o=


13 Dec 00 - 03:41 PM (#356620)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Jon Freeman

Mrzzy..., The input box for the name is limited to 50 characters. It looks to me as if the is the size of this field in the datbase. My guess is that when it was decided to prefix names with "Guest,", this input box should have been reduced to accept only 44 characters to make a maximum of 50 in total.

Jon


13 Dec 00 - 04:00 PM (#356631)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: MMario

Whover came up with the charact Carict parody of MT's "mouse" - that's great!!!!!


13 Dec 00 - 04:10 PM (#356638)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: mousethief

caricature?

Yeah, really funny. Hahaha.

:-)

Alex


13 Dec 00 - 05:37 PM (#356726)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Guesto

I think the deepest most meaningful song I have have ever sung is "Jesus want me for a Sunbeam." Can any of you experts tell me who wrote the words. Who wrote the music. When it was first published & all the books it's ever been published in.


13 Dec 00 - 05:45 PM (#356732)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,GitJoe HanzOffer

Please, if you're going to post a blue clicky to a song that's not in the DT, post the lyrics, you lazy bastards! Sheesh!
GitJoe HanzOffer


13 Dec 00 - 05:50 PM (#356738)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: mousethief

I think some of the phoney names are almost as funny, or even more funny, than the stuff posted under them.

Although, and perhaps it's not for me to say, Mouse From the Chateau D'If is kind of stretching it.

Alex


13 Dec 00 - 07:18 PM (#356820)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Mousethug

Waaah! Nobody thought up a good parody of MY name! I demand a recount!


13 Dec 00 - 07:27 PM (#356826)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: katlaughing

How about RodentRobber?


13 Dec 00 - 07:30 PM (#356827)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Amergin

Or KatFood....or KatFrying....


13 Dec 00 - 07:32 PM (#356831)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: katlaughing

Or, A'mer gonna git you! LOL!!


13 Dec 00 - 07:43 PM (#356842)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,kat/katspitting

Oh, Amergin, you are such a devil. You are my god and my sole reason for living. If I were not already married, I would take you up for myself. I may be eighty years old, but a woman has some needs to be filled.

luvaybigboykat


13 Dec 00 - 07:56 PM (#356851)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: katlaughing

Tsk! As if being married made any difference! **BG**


13 Dec 00 - 08:04 PM (#356854)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: alison

hahaha


13 Dec 00 - 08:32 PM (#356873)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Jeri Bean

Wanna hear me sing like Dick Gaughan? Now where's my clothespin?


13 Dec 00 - 08:42 PM (#356881)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Emergin'

Today I slipped on a banana peel, so I wrote a poem about how for years the Government denied the existence of banana peel-related injuries. Did you know that in Idaho they have Banana Peel-Eating Dayz in early April?


13 Dec 00 - 09:11 PM (#356903)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Jeri

Hey, I never told ANYBODY about that clothespin!!!


13 Dec 00 - 09:16 PM (#356908)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Little Neophyte

Jeri it is the safety pins you are not supposed to tell anybody about.

Little Neo


13 Dec 00 - 09:49 PM (#356930)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Noah Merck, Hulaboy

I hope all the single women out there know that I'm ALMOST DIVORCED and VERY ISOLATED out here on a BIG ISLAND in the middle of the OCEAN, if you get my driftwood... And what the hell does Aloha mean, anyway?


13 Dec 00 - 10:21 PM (#356951)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,kat/katspitting

keeeuk, keeeuk, Oh, boy, I just had to spit out a hair ball. Want to hear something embarrassing I did today? Ole Rog caught me drinking out of the toilet. I guess I have been around these darn cats too much.

Oh, Hula Boy, wooohooo! Over here big guy!! My dear Amergin informed me today in a PM that since I was 60 years older than him, I'm way too old for him.:-( I'm not too old for you am I?

luvyasexykat


13 Dec 00 - 10:37 PM (#356964)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,kat's, well...um...CATS

Ms. Kelpie here, claws unsheathed, and I am here to tell you that NONE of we seven, we Blessed Seven, ever drinks out of the porcelain font; THAT is reserved for the dawg! We worship at the feet of the Heat Goddess and partake of only the clean waters which have cycled through Her sacred sites.

Furthermore, we suspect Mr. A'm a gonna git you, is casting aspersions because he is just a young whippersnapper who needs his arse kicked not into the next county, but out there to that big ole LONELY Isle of which poor Hulaboy speaks. Perhaps then he might learn the proper respect for our quite YOUNG and Beloved Mistress!

Ms. Kelpie, Matriarch in waiting


14 Dec 00 - 06:44 PM (#357356)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Geoff the Duck

Haven't got time tonight to read this thread, let's keep it live and back to the top.
Refresh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I got carried away there
GtD


14 Dec 00 - 06:59 PM (#357367)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Yawning

Hi there, Catters! My ancient joints are creaking this evening. I am so excited! I just recieved my first package from the Hair Club! Well, anyways, I hope you all have your notepads handy, and your creative juices flowing, 'cause you're gonna need them for our next challenge!!

This challenge was sent to me, the great and holy Queen of The Mudcat, by my subject Amoose.

Naïve Detective Suspects Fair Play CHICAGO-- Phil Kelly, a naïve detective with Chicago's 15th Precinct, suspected fair play Monday in the shooting death of local businessman Arnold Haver. "The shocked expression on the victim's face leads me to believe that he received some tragic news and subsequently committed suicide," Kelly said. "The fact that the bullet hole entered through his back shows just how determined he was to kill himself." Kelly also cited the misspelling of Haver's name in the suicide note and the fact that the left-handed victim was found with the gun in his right hand as evidence of the incredible stress he was under before taking his own life.

Now my dear, loyal subjects, you all know the prize for winning this Challenge. The winner gets to guess my real age! So go for it Challengers!!

Yawning


14 Dec 00 - 07:12 PM (#357372)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: katlaughing

LOL!!! Excellent, Yawning!!


14 Dec 00 - 07:13 PM (#357373)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: DougR

Good job, Snuffy!

DougR


14 Dec 00 - 08:45 PM (#357422)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Snuffy

Hell, even Loki's down now. This is the first time I've used Ragtime - may have to get used to it.

Wassail! V


14 Dec 00 - 10:10 PM (#357450)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,raginogre

This reminds me very little of the time I broke both my g strings while playing my 12 string in the swimming pool.The song was was in contrapuntal tuning and very difficult to play. I learned it from a 45 or was it an EP of Lower Slobbovian folkditties. If you want the chords,lyrics. and full orchestral score,I have the songbook around here somewhere and will snail mail them to you.

ro


15 Dec 00 - 02:18 AM (#357472)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Ebbie

LOL!!


15 Dec 00 - 06:14 AM (#357513)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Jerimander

Oops, sorry, wrong thread, I have a good idea to post to one of the election threads.

Jerimander


15 Dec 00 - 08:52 AM (#357568)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Peter T.

And I look down onto the frozen pond, which the wind has rippled into an imperfect mirror, and I see the deep December sky, and I think -- is this pond image a parody of the real? -- an amusing distortion -- or a travesty? -- one of the many inadequate representations of that immensity arching above us, but this one a failure of Nature herself -- or perhaps even a burlesque? -- not the low form of burlesque, but that form of burlesque that followed each Greek tragedy designed to send the patrons home laughing at their own part in the vast comic conspiracy? Or, as Traherne says, is such an image an image of ourselves, distorted reflections of the ideal that we carry about with us; or, to be more pointed, like the crumpled photographs of forgotten loves that the lonely carry about half-forgotten in their wallets, to be rediscovered only occasionally when, upon receipt of a new wallet on Christmas day, the shards of one's official life and one's unofficial secrets, are shaken out from the old and transferred to the new?

yours, Peter T.


15 Dec 00 - 10:09 AM (#357615)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: MMario

wow


15 Dec 00 - 10:19 AM (#357623)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Little Neophyte

I don't know Peter, lately I find it cathartic to throw away the old pictures with the old wallet.

Little Neo


15 Dec 00 - 11:07 AM (#357650)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: CamiSu

LOL!!! But I think I may be too ordinary to parody as well, though...I do use (ellipses) and ...er...brackets too often in my way-too-long sentences! As well as too proud of my daughter WavyGravyStar.

CamelSu-mi who is too lazy to log off and on again!


15 Dec 00 - 12:17 PM (#357713)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: annamill

This is definitely one of the classics to be kept! What fun and a very talented somebody??

Love, animated


15 Dec 00 - 12:39 PM (#357740)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Annimated

refresh: So who's coming? Sweetie-pooh and I have found some extra crawl space in the attic for more people to sleep!

Don't make me ask you again!


15 Dec 00 - 12:48 PM (#357750)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Maxed-out

Oh, Annimated, I'm coming for sure, but I'll be bringing my dear friend MaryCrack with me. I need some one around who will laugh at all of my lame ass jokes. BertnErnie might be coming over, but he said he might be a little late. He needs to get injected with some growth hormones. I tried to talk him out of it. I told him size doesn't matter, but he refused to listen to me. Oh well. I'll see you then.

Maxed-out the Mudcat God


15 Dec 00 - 01:35 PM (#357784)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: GUEST,Plumpton53

Love to be there Animated! What is the date? You moved yes? I think I have the directions. Is it near The Old Log Inn? Is Loki down there cause he sure ain't up here. Hope I didn't wear out me welcome last time. Was I there last time? Egad


15 Dec 00 - 01:43 PM (#357789)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: annamill

Listen, am I supposed to be in here or are you having this conversation just by yourself? ;-) **BG**

L.A.


15 Dec 00 - 04:13 PM (#357907)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Matt_R

I did that too, took a picture of a loved one out of my wallet and ripped it up into little pieces. Then I threw them down a sewer grate. No lie.


15 Dec 00 - 05:50 PM (#357972)
Subject: RE: Total BS: Self? Parody
From: Greyeyes

Peter T. "that form of burlesque that followed each Greek tragedy". Do you know something I don't? I understood burlesque was a C17 Italian term.