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02 Sep 03 - 12:23 PM (#1011286) Subject: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,irishajo Which thread made you laugh the loudest? Guffaw the greatest? Point me in the direction of those threads that you still think about now and then and get a chuckle over. I could really use a good laugh. |
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02 Sep 03 - 12:35 PM (#1011298) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Bill D 'round these parts, podner, we don't cotton to 'best' and 'most' threads..*grin*...especially when there are too many to count! Some are funny, some are silly, some are bemusing.....and my memory is slipping! If you want recent ones, do a search on "Martians" |
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02 Sep 03 - 12:38 PM (#1011301) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Seamus Kennedy IMHO, The Campsite at Drumcree threads. Seamus |
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02 Sep 03 - 12:38 PM (#1011302) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,MMario I kinda liked the one on Eminem too - that was aways back.... |
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02 Sep 03 - 12:40 PM (#1011304) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Amos There were several captioned "Humor Us", and they in turn have other humor links in them. That's intentional humor. If you want spontaneous BS humour try the Tavern series, especially the Steamboat story and the Mudcat Enterprise story for really terrific creative writing by bvright lights like LEJ, Jen Ellen and Peter T, Spaw, MM, etc. Classic threads like the discussion of Condoms started by Art Thieme are worth looking into. A |
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02 Sep 03 - 12:57 PM (#1011318) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: ard mhacha The Campsite at Drumcree, funniest parodies I have ever seen. Ard Mhacha. |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:15 PM (#1011331) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: C-flat If you're interested in the guitar, then the Ask Dr.Guitar threads are hilarious. |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:18 PM (#1011336) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Sorcha Druids and the Hokey Cokey. Cat Farts. |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:34 PM (#1011343) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Bee-dubya-ell The Mother of All BS Threads was hilarious in its infancy and adolescence. Unfortunately, it is now a wheezing geriatric with over 1000 posts and is only being kept alive by being fed minute daily crumbs of BS by a handful of die-hard whackos with very warped senses of humor. At this point it's probably only funny to those who are doing the feeding, but the first three hundred or so posts are gems of inspired insanity. Bruce |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:47 PM (#1011356) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,An inflatable correspondent I have had a good giggle at several threads at Mudcat over the years,but couldnt pin one down right now... This morning I heard this joke on BBC television news that makes me giggle to myself everytime I think of it.. "An inflatable teacher,in an inflatable school gets called into the office to be reprimanded.....he's told by the inflatable headmaster that he's not just let himself down,and the pupils down,but the whole school down"..... |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:50 PM (#1011357) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST pencils I tried to link to the original story of Cletus and the boys, but if you type "Cletus" into the search it explodes. I am now typing this on library equipment. |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:52 PM (#1011361) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,John Hardly sorry, t'was me above |
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02 Sep 03 - 02:11 PM (#1011378) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Amos Wow. Just re-read PEncils, Pter T's incredible homage to long, hard, closely held tools of inspiration. Beautiful stuff. A |
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02 Sep 03 - 02:40 PM (#1011406) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Little Hawk There was one on bad writing that produced some marvelously funny and awful original prose in a variety of common styles (romance, mystery, fantasy, etc...), but I can't recall its title. |
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02 Sep 03 - 02:43 PM (#1011409) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,the mudcat bad writer the mudcat bad writing contest? |
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02 Sep 03 - 03:04 PM (#1011432) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: John Hardly Bad writing contest |
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02 Sep 03 - 04:25 PM (#1011491) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: catspaw49 There is no such thing actually. There are threads that start with a humorous story or joke that die quickly and other threads where the thread drift becomes amazingly funny. You can't create a "funny" thread here.....they just happen or they don't. Many times after a question has been answered the silliness begins and some of those threads are absolutely hilarious. Some have funny parts here and there. As a matter of fact, some of the ones I consider the best may have a section or two that are uproariously funny and the rest is quite straight. Spaw |
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02 Sep 03 - 05:06 PM (#1011525) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST I vote the Campsite at Drumcree thread...one of the few threads that actually made me laugh out loud - something that doesn't happen very often. Well worth a search and a read. |
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02 Sep 03 - 06:44 PM (#1011604) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,Jon It all depends on your own sense of humour. For my own sense, the Campsite at Drumcree was by far the funniest thread I've ever read here. It, IMO was a work of sheer brilliance. |
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02 Sep 03 - 07:29 PM (#1011643) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: LadyJean I'm new to the mudcat, but I reccomend "What Do You Call Your Thingie?" "I Know Where Uday Hussein Is" was also funny, until they really found him. "Where Do We Get These Weirdos" had it's funny moments. Perhaps I am easily amused. |
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02 Sep 03 - 08:45 PM (#1011691) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Art Thieme There was one on tall tales tghat was pretty good as I recall. I'll never live down that condom thread or so it seems. But I think it was the start of what would wind up being the separation of the music threads from the B.S. threads. And after all, that was the point of my startng such a dumb ass thread. How it got over 200 posts I'll never know though. Art Thieme |
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02 Sep 03 - 10:56 PM (#1011746) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Bee-dubya-ell It goes without saying (but I'm gonna say it anyway because I never really understood what "it goes without saying" is supposed to mean) that a lot of humor is culturally determined. That's a polite way of saying that I don't have the foggiest idea what the Campsite at Drumcree thread is about and totally fail to see the humor in it. But wait! Maybe that's the point! It's not funny at all but you Yookers are trying to convince us Yanks that it is funny. Of course, we aren't going to admit that we don't get it so we'll laugh as if we did understand it and then you can point your fingers at us and laugh at us for being idjits. |
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02 Sep 03 - 11:15 PM (#1011754) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Stilly River Sage At a point in time when I really needed a lift I drifted onto a thread that exchanged a lot of farting stories. Some of those were hilarious--low-brow, and some were stupid, yes, but overall hilarious. |
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02 Sep 03 - 11:21 PM (#1011756) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Mark Cohen 'Spaw, there may not be a funniest Mudcat thread, but you have certainly come up with your most boring post ever. Were you channeling Mr. Rogers? Lay off the 'Ludes, man! Aloha, Mark |
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02 Sep 03 - 11:21 PM (#1011757) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST i love the walt robertson thread.... |
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03 Sep 03 - 12:19 AM (#1011792) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Art Thieme Yeah, if ya don't have a sense o' humor, IT ISN'T FUNNY ! ;-) Art Thieme |
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03 Sep 03 - 01:54 AM (#1011812) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: alison "Campsite at Drumcree" & all the subsequent threads..... it helps if you know the songs being parodied and the various "celebrities" who are mentioned..... there was a "how do you write a folk song" thread a long time ago too slainte alison |
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03 Sep 03 - 03:43 AM (#1011834) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: catspaw49 Thanks Mark!!! Once every now and again I can really crank one out. I tried many times to see if those posts had anything in common but all I could come up with was a dietary thing. It seems every time I am really boring as whale shit, I have consumed mass quantities of pineapple and macadamia nuts within the past 12 hours. Spaw |
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03 Sep 03 - 04:55 AM (#1011856) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: MBSLynne Resolutions for folk song characters has been good. |
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03 Sep 03 - 10:11 AM (#1011983) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,Jon Bruce, Drumcree would probably have been lost on a lot of "Yookers" (I assume you mean people from the UK). I didn't get all of it by any means but I knew enough of the songs , characters parodied (plus I think it helps a little to have had friends from N Ireland) to find parts of it hillarious. |
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03 Sep 03 - 12:38 PM (#1012061) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Lyrical Lady After being on the "cat" for 4 years now and learning to recognize the individual writing skills of the poster, I can tell you that you'll find some of the funniest things when you read between the lines. Take for instance Spaw's last post, now, to most of you, you will think that he was making a dig at Mark by suggesting he too is boring because of his "Hawaiian Diet". You'll notice that Spaw used the words, "dietary", "pineapple", "macadamia nuts", "twelve hours" and "shit". This tells me that the man has not been behaving himself as far as his diverticulitis is concerned and that he has ODed on forbidden fruits and nuts. He should be ok in about twelve hours... after he has a good shit! *BG* LL |
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03 Sep 03 - 01:35 PM (#1012101) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Morticia Aw,jeez,LL, you just had to go and share that with us,huh? |
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03 Sep 03 - 02:28 PM (#1012141) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Lyrical Lady Well...yes Morti, I did. You know as well as I, that Spaw is a modest man. He doesn't like to share his troubles with any of us and so it's up to the rest of us to pay attention and to lend a helping hand if needed. My advice to Pat in this instance is to do like the constipated mathematician, and work it out with a pencil. I'm outta here... before the shit hits the fan!!!!! LL |
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04 Sep 03 - 02:42 AM (#1012495) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: alison found it How to create a folksong (FS for dummies) and there were some good story ones Sherry Aims, folk Nurse slainte alison |
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17 Dec 03 - 10:47 PM (#1075033) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull i think them drumcree threads was really funny, and "punch the horse in south ferriby" is really funny as well.john |
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17 Dec 03 - 10:58 PM (#1075041) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull some of guest,;gargoyles stuff is funny, i think thats because he is a bit mental. |
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17 Dec 03 - 10:59 PM (#1075042) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: catspaw49 While I still hold with that boring-ass post I made above, it's also worth noting that some threads are funny in a different way.....a long and continuous chuckling as opposed to an uproarious guffaw. Sometimes the chuckle lasts for years and you may be the only one, or one of a few, chuckling. Extremely funny people who get themselves in trouble by making a simple sarcastic remark always crack me up in their discomfort............And so it has been with Art Thieme who is still trying to justify, live down, apologize for, or sweep under the rug, a thread he started to show how stupid some of the threads had become. He even mentioned it again here! Art, you have given me years of pleasant chuckling by asking, "What Kind of Condoms do Mudcatters Use?" Thank You....and thanks for all the great bad puns and jokes as well. Spaw |
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18 Dec 03 - 04:00 AM (#1075143) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Micca well, "Drumcree" and several of the other threads mentioned the standard of creative writing is truly sublime. But the " coffee down the nose " award goes to... TARAAAAAAA, Catspaw for the "Cletus, Paw and the Christmas trees" alto any of the Cletus etc. threads is good, that one had me on the Floor and took me ages to read as I had to keep breaking off to recover what passes for my composure |
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18 Dec 03 - 07:15 PM (#1075748) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: McGrath of Harlow Campsite at Drumcree - first of many threads. Nearly as long as the Lord of the Rings, but funnier. Some people find both equally impenetrable, but that's how it goes. |
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18 Dec 03 - 08:14 PM (#1075794) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: The Fooles Troupe The funniest stuff (ROFL level) is almost always unexpected and spontaneous. Often buried in the middle of something serious, even pretentious. There are some good humourous storytellers that can string along a good tale here though - some of the previous mentioned threads are good starters. Robin |
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18 Dec 03 - 09:25 PM (#1075840) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: CarolC This thread, caber tosser ljc, remains one of my favorites to this day, short though it is. |
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19 Dec 03 - 05:04 AM (#1075979) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Hrothgar Drumcree. |
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19 Dec 03 - 07:34 AM (#1076054) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Morticia All Cletus and the Reg boys stories qualify, so do the Drumcree threads and some of the Tavern threads were really funny too....I love this place! |
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19 Dec 03 - 07:37 AM (#1076059) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: The Fooles Troupe If you're just after jokes - and there's a lot of those threads too, then Drumcree probably won't be all that funny - the humour comes from the clever Parodies of Songs, Styles, and Artists: the more you know about the subject matter, the funnier it is. Robin |
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19 Dec 03 - 08:02 AM (#1076094) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Fibula Mattock For anyone wot's interested, I have the Campsite of Drumcree (threads I-IV and follow-ups) in book form (pdf) and can give people download details if they want to download a copy. PM me.One of Mudcat's best moments, and I'm still laughing. |
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19 Dec 03 - 08:10 AM (#1076100) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: greg stephens As lots have said, it's the little jokes that occur in otherwise serious threads that are often the best. But for serious, well written, consistent funny writing that you'ld like to see published in a little book in your Christmas stocking. I would say the Drumcree stuff and the complete works of JOhn from Hull. |
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19 Dec 03 - 08:21 AM (#1076106) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,Teribus Campsite at Drumcree without a shadow of a doubt, you could make it into a book and make a fortune. |
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19 Dec 03 - 08:24 AM (#1076109) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: greg stephens Teribus has put his finger on a question that must have occurred to most of us, but I have never seen answered. Is the creator of Drumcree a professional writer, and if not why not? |
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19 Dec 03 - 08:40 AM (#1076120) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST,Skipjack K8 My nomination is jOhn from Hull's contributions on this thread . |
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19 Dec 03 - 09:02 AM (#1076133) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Amos The creator of Drumcree is a brilliant lyricist and mandolin player, but not a professional writer as far as I know. He is steeped by his blood in the Irish tradition, which means he is a natural pro at it, though. A |
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19 Dec 03 - 10:28 AM (#1076154) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: greg stephens Thanks, Skipjack KB, for pointing us to that classic set of JOhn postings. Someone ought to anthologise some good examples....difficult to publish, as they have to be taken in the context of the often mundane threads in which they appear. My personal favourite, though I wouldnt have a clue where to find it, concerned a cardboard box contining some remaindered ice-creams and a bag of cheap bananas from the market. I may have the details wrong, and may have conflated two posts, but that is my recollection of the subject matter. |
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19 Dec 03 - 05:32 PM (#1076427) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Art Thieme Spaw, The feelings are mutual. Pat & Karin, have a fine Christmas. And the same to all. Art |
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19 Dec 03 - 08:14 PM (#1076537) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: jaze Any of Spaw's outbursts regarding the movie or music of "Songcatcher" Also the one with kid's answers to essay questions regarding history was hysterical...."a myth is a female moth" Do another one of those! |
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20 Dec 03 - 12:33 AM (#1076665) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: rangeroger My Bodhran is too Thight rr |
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20 Dec 03 - 02:40 AM (#1076688) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: ard mhacha Greg, The main contributor to Campsite at Drumcree is all of what Amos says about him, he can be a wee bit touchy at times, but a hidden genius. Ard Mhacha. |
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20 Dec 03 - 05:55 PM (#1076987) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: LilyFestre My all time favorite, about fell out of my chair laughing post was about Buttercup Bubblebrain. Turned out that my priest and his wife are Father Crusty Cootie Sniffer and Mrs. Snotty Cootie Sniffer.....yep...STILL makes me LAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Michelle :) |
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20 Dec 03 - 07:10 PM (#1077044) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: The Fooles Troupe Thanks LilyFestre Unfortunately the Fooles are responsible for that one... in as much as they ever ARE "Responsible"... Since there is no "Search Facility" for looking through the list of one's past postings, I can't find the name of that thread... Of course the BS threads are often filled with those TRYING to be funny... the Name Change thread for instance at the moment... started out sorta sensible... Robin (Thinks he's in charge of the other Fooles...) |
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20 Dec 03 - 08:06 PM (#1077071) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: LilyFestre Hey....all ya gotta do is go to the main page and type in Buttercup Bubblebrain beside the filter and hit the drop menu...click on 180 days. That's how I found it....... Michelle |
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23 Dec 03 - 11:28 AM (#1078496) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST Art...can you assist me in finding the name and the artist of a particular song about JFK? It goes something like: "John F. Ken-ne-dy, What a remarkable Young Man Was He, at age forty-three, was elected to the president-cy. He was born in 1917 the second child of nine in the State of Massachusetts in the city of the blind.... Thanks Steve Woodke 1-888-327-3524 Bismarck ND |
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23 Dec 03 - 11:35 AM (#1078500) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Little Hawk I find it deeply distressing (and yet soooo predictable) that no one has mentioned William Shatner yet in this thread. It's obviously a deliberate snub, because everyone knows that nothing in the known Universe is funnier than threads about Shatner. You're all just crawling with envy. You don't fool me one bit. |
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23 Dec 03 - 08:45 PM (#1078933) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Blowzabella My vote goes with John from Hull |
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25 Jan 04 - 01:05 AM (#1100778) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Mudgaurd's post in the "Fascists" thread is the funniest bit of written i've seen here for ages, brilliant stuff! |
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25 Jan 04 - 01:07 AM (#1100780) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Not Mudgaurd, I meant Wolfgang. |
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25 Jan 04 - 10:07 AM (#1100926) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: GUEST The Drumcree threads--not only is it a brilliant bit about Irish music, the writing effortlessly good and natural (at least in I & II), but it also parodies the web forum medium itself. Which makes it much more complex and rewarding than anything else ever written here that I've seen. It also could stand on it's own, another measure of good humorous writing. Also the only thing I ever read in this forum that made me seriously laugh out loud--over and over and over. To me, it's all the funnier because so many Brits and Yanks don't fucking get any of it, and have to vote instead for adolescent male potty humor or the drunken village idiot as the funniest moments at Mudcat. Humor being in the eye of the beholder, the 'what is funniest' choices says more about the posters, than about what is actually the most brilliant humor. |
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25 Jan 04 - 10:21 AM (#1100934) Subject: RE: BS: Funniest thread on Mudcat? From: freda underhill Try Sgt Kat and her Howling Mudcat Commandos if you feel like a good laugh... fred |