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02 Nov 02 - 05:17 AM (#816677) Subject: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: greg stephens Not having had access to computers and not being terribly interested, I recently discovered Mudcat purely because I was interested in folk music. Realising what an interesting place it is I stayed. But the inevitable question arises, is the internet full of mirror images of Mudcat devoted to other nerdy interests, and do they discuss the same sort of things. For example, if I were to seek out a group devoted to collecting teapot stands, would they also be arguing about Celts, Moscow Theatres, whether teachers should say "you" or "yous", and asking where to buy woodburning stoves? Does anybody have any relevant knowledge? |
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02 Nov 02 - 08:52 AM (#816754) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Leadfingers Define relevent |
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02 Nov 02 - 08:58 AM (#816756) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Crane Driver Define 'nerdy'. If this was a nerdy site, we'd never be discussing anything more than 2 inches from our noses. The range of topics covered on Mudcat shows that there are some here who, if not actually having a life, at least know what one should contain. There probably is a site for collectors of teapot stands, since if you can conceive of something, it surely exists somewhere in cyberspace, but what they discuss there I wouldn't like to guess. Interesting, eh? I'll have to think about that. Andrew |
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02 Nov 02 - 09:23 AM (#816775) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: mack/misophist The answer to your question is painfully obvious -- 42. |
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02 Nov 02 - 11:08 AM (#816831) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: MMario The internet is indeed filled with sites about various nerdy interests - often very narrow fields - in my experience the Mudcat is unique - in that it revolves around a common interest - but allows discussion and comment about virtually anything. Many sites are special interest and static - others are special interest ONLY - and few show the life that the Mudcat does. |
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02 Nov 02 - 12:02 PM (#816871) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Alice Greg, here is one site that created a collection of many, many forum topics, adding them as members requested. I found it because of nature and gardening but used to visit one there called "The Kitchen Table" where everyone talked about BS like they would around a kitchen table. The site owner censors the forum with a filter that detects what he considers obscenity. Don't talk about dogs and type the word "bitch", or you are sent to the disney.com page. People are banned regularly there. It is quite an active site with a wide range of forums. Forums. Click here All Forums (listed alphabetically) Antiques & Collectibles Appliances Beauty & Fashion Beverages Building a Home Buying and Selling Homes Camping @ Nature.Net Care Givers Cars Clay and Ceramics Cleaning Tips Computer Crafts Computer Help Cooking Cookware Cooking Outdoors Crafts & Decorations Craft Exchange Cross-Stitching Decorative & Tole painting Dessert Exchange Diet Club Dollmaking Electrical Wiring Electronics Entertaining Exercise & Nutrition Fiber & Needle Arts Exchange Fireplaces Flooring Furniture Gardening @ GardenWeb Get-Togethers Grandparents Graphics & Scanning Health Heating & Air Conditioning Holidays Home Decorating Home Disasters Home Repair Household Finances The Kitchen Table Kitchens & Baths Knitting & Fiber Arts Marriage Menopause Money Saving Tips Once-a-Week Cooking Organizing the Home Paper Arts Parents Parents of Infants Parents of Toddlers Pets Photography Plumbing Pools & Spas Porches & Decks Quilting Recipe Exchange Remodeling Retirement School Scrapbooks Sewing Soap & Candle Making Special Diet Recipes Stepfamilies Vacations Vegetarian Exchange Web Authoring Weddings Woodworking Gardening - at GardenWeb Accessible Gardening African Violets Alabama Gardening Alpines & Rock Gardens Annuals Antique Roses Aquatic Plant Exchange Arizona Gardening Aroids Asian Vegetables Balcony Gardening Bamboo Begonias Bees & Beekeeping Bonsai Book Reviews & Exchanges Bog Gardens Brugmansia Bulbs Butterfly Garden Cacti & Succulents Cacti Gallery California Gardening Canadian Forums Canadian Garden Exchange Carnivorous Plants Carolina Gardening Citrus Clematis Community Gardens Companion Plants Conifers Container Gardening Cooking @THS Cornucopia Cottage Gardens The Cutting Garden Dahlias Daylilies Dried & Pressed Flowers Drought Edible Landscape Far North Farm Life Favorites Florida Gardening Foliage Plants Fragrant Plants Fruit & Orchards Fuchsia Garden & Flower Crafts Garden Accoutrements Garden Art Gallery Garden Clinic Garden Exchange Garden Experiments Garden Junk The Garden Party Garden Photo Gallery Garden Sources The Garden Traveler Garden Writers Gardening in Shade Gardening with Kids Gardening with Stone Georgia Gardener Geraniums Get-Togethers Gourds Great Lakes Gardening Greenhouses & Garden Structures Growing from Seed &n |
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02 Nov 02 - 12:05 PM (#816873) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Alice Harvest Heirloom Plants & Gardens Hellebores Herbs Herbalism Hibiscuses Home Decorating @THS Hostas Hot Peppers Homesteading House Plants Hoyas Hummingbird Garden Hybridizing Hydrangeas Hydroponics Integrated Pest Management Irises Irrigation Japanese Gardens Landscape Design Lawn Care Lawn Mowers Riding Mowers & Tractors Lilies Louisiana & Mississippi Market Gardener Meadows & Prairies Metro NY Gardener @NYGardener.com Mid-Atlantic Gardening Midwest Gardening Miniature Roses Moon Garden Moss, Ferns & Cryptogams Name That Plant! Native Plants Native Plant Exchange New England Gardening New England Exchange New Jersey Gardening New to Gardening Northern Gardening Northwestern Gardening Ohio Valley Orchids Orchid Gallery Organic Gardening Organic Rose Growing Ornamental Grasses Ozarks Region Pacific Northwest Exchange Palms & Cycads Perennials Permaculture Pests & Diseases Plant Exchange Plant Propagation Plumeria Ponds & Aquatic Plants Porches & Decks @THS The Professional Gardener Rocky Mountain Gardening Rose Exhibiting Rose Gallery Roses Rose Propagation & Exchange Salvia Seed Exchange Seed Saving Sewing @THS Shrubs Soil, Compost & Mulch Sources Southeast Coastal Gardening Southern Gardening Southwestern Gardening Square Foot Gardening Suggestions & Comments Test Tennessee Gardening Texas Gardening Tips & Techniques Tool Shed Topiary Tractors Trees Tropical Plants Tropicalesque Gardens Vegetable Gardening Vermicomposting Vines Violets Virginia Gardening Weeds Wildlife Garden The Winter Garden Winter Sowing Woodlands Forums at Nature.Net: Bird Watching Bluebirding Raptors Camping Nature Photography & Optics Name This Animal Reptiles & Amphibians Sustaining Our Environment Search the Forums Forums at GardenWeb: Butterflies Hummingbirds The Wildlife Garden Name That Plant! Native Plants |
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02 Nov 02 - 12:09 PM (#816876) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Amos Alice: Overwhelming, huh? So mamny subjects, so little time! A |
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03 Nov 02 - 11:02 AM (#817412) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Mr Red Greg - have you ever been to the mornigton crescent (MC) message board? Given that it is fully in keeping with ISIHAC and the bbc do not allow even veiled references to other websites, advertising and profanity (eg Cockfosters is always removed despite it being on the underground network). There is just the same personal banter and thread drift though to a lesser degree because there are far more narrower interest message boards. And far more & funnier nom de keyboards. But it doesn't have the mix of erudition and levity of this MC. |
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03 Nov 02 - 11:11 AM (#817416) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Leadfingers I actually know a Wasp Fancier- He has a rough time 'cos none of the wasps fancy him. |
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03 Nov 02 - 11:32 AM (#817428) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: John MacKenzie There had to be a sting in the tail/tale. Giok |
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03 Nov 02 - 03:42 PM (#817622) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: greg stephens By the way, I would hate to be accused of plagiarism. To give credit where credit is due, I lifted the title of this thread from a reference by Adrian Mitchell, well known poet and playwright, to someone in a library poring over the Wasp Fanciers' Weekly. |
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03 Nov 02 - 04:31 PM (#817663) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: GUEST,Q There are a number of wasp breeders.Many kinds are very useful. Here is one from Univ. California Riverside: Wasps In southern British Columbia (and probably elsewhere west) there is a large wasp that fights with hummingbirds at the feeders. The wasps generally win. Some orchid flowers mimic wasp females and trick the wasp into pollinating the flowers; Wasp sex This one is fun: Talk to wasps Yes, we need a wasp fanciers thread at Mudcat. |
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03 Nov 02 - 04:44 PM (#817678) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Jack The Lad Will Hornets do? " A 'ornet lived in a 'oller tree, A narsty spiteful Twud were 'ee."-Anon Jack The Lad |
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03 Nov 02 - 06:47 PM (#817728) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: okthen I'm a snail fancier and see nothing wrong with wasp fanciers,not that I've ever met a wasp fancier,but someone's got to love them.homing snails |
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03 Nov 02 - 06:52 PM (#817730) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: Gareth Snalil Fanciers - Ond I thought that the Sexual life of the Camel was AHEM !!! Kinky - now why is this not in the DT ?? With regard to WASP's Is there really a WEBSITE devoted to White Anglo Saxon Protestants ?? Gareth of the Green Anorak |
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04 Nov 02 - 11:10 AM (#818047) Subject: RE: Wasp Fanciers' Forum From: okthen "Blue clicky" won't work for me, homing snails hope this does it. |