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17 Sep 98 - 07:53 PM (#38481) Subject: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Ian HP One internet site is claiming that Dylan has AIDS, and this is the reason for his recent illnesses. Can anyone confirm or refute this? |
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18 Sep 98 - 11:40 PM (#38573) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. probably Monica Lewinsky Chet W. |
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19 Sep 98 - 12:07 AM (#38576) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Jenny Chet ... you're bad! Jenny |
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19 Sep 98 - 10:29 AM (#38603) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: John M Not Aids It's only constipation ! " And its a hard, and its a hard, and its a hard " |
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19 Sep 98 - 10:59 AM (#38606) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Alice Chet.... you're clever (and right on)! alice |
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19 Sep 98 - 12:20 PM (#38612) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Ian HP OK, smart a**, this was supposed to be a serious thread. Has anyone any REAL information? |
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19 Sep 98 - 02:55 PM (#38626) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Mo Why are you so keen to know? If he does or doesn't, will it affect your attitude to his music? Or are you just being prurient? Enjoy the music, let the man live his own life in peace I say. |
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19 Sep 98 - 03:30 PM (#38633) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Ian HP I'm keen to know because: a. I am interested in people as well as their music b. If it is true I would like to send a message of support, having had close friends who have died of AIDS c. If it isn't true, then the site which is putting it about needs to be told Satisfied? |
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19 Sep 98 - 03:37 PM (#38636) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Mo Peace, brother - a little less aggression would be appreciated!!! |
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19 Sep 98 - 05:54 PM (#38644) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. I meant no disrespect to anyone, including Bob, who I revere as a minor deity. It's just that if he's sick (his health has never been great since his various drug habits and especially since that weird heart/lung problem he had last year) it doesn't matter what the disease is, I only hope that it's not serious. If he's dying, we will all pray and mourn in our own ways. "Bob Dylan with AIDS" sounds like nothing more than a tabloid headline. Besides, it's none of our business unless he wants it to be. I love Bob Dylan, Chet W. |
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19 Sep 98 - 05:54 PM (#38645) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Art Thieme No, Dylan is on the AYDS DIET PLAN ! |
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19 Sep 98 - 06:38 PM (#38652) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Ian HP Mystery solved - I think, I hope - I am glad to say. Mo, thanks for your message, and sorry if it came over aggressive. But I do not think we should question whether a thread should even exist, or where our interests lie. Any how . . . When I found the Dylan info on the net the page it was on had only a single line. It has now been added to considerably. It turns out to be by Alan Weberman, who is a self-confessed Dylan-trasher. He puts 'evidence' for his case of Dylan having AIDS, but it is, well, suspect to say the least. He revels in it. He - Weberman - must be sick, desperate, or both. If you really want to visit the site, it's at http://www.dylanology.com/aids/
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19 Sep 98 - 07:30 PM (#38657) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: THE TINWHISTLERS MUTHA Don't worry about it Ian....you will find that the blowhards at this forum hide all their rudeness behind haughty language, they absolutely come unglued when you take the direct approach. My guess is , that with a name like Ian, you are a Celt and are used to more direct communication. I personally found nothing in anything that you said objectionable or aggressive, but I too, still have my testicles. geeze...Chet. Don't apologize for a joke! Anyone with a brain KNOWS it is a joke....why do you care about those that don't? |
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19 Sep 98 - 07:51 PM (#38659) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Art Thieme If ya don't have a sense o' humor, it isn't funny !! |
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19 Sep 98 - 08:51 PM (#38669) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. My sense of humor, being embedded in haughty language, could not have endeavoured to have comprehended the subtle nuances of your folksy wit. I think that calling me a smartass, however, was a nice, thoughtful touch. Off to my library to muse over dusty tomes of forgotten lore. Quoth any raven, nevermore? At your service, Chet W. |
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19 Sep 98 - 09:33 PM (#38672) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Good grief folks - get a life! |
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19 Sep 98 - 11:36 PM (#38678) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. What lives are available? Chet W. |
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20 Sep 98 - 03:12 AM (#38688) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: BSeed It's interesting to note that the person who suggested getting a life has no identity. --seed |
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20 Sep 98 - 04:10 AM (#38693) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: posted in the name of BSeed All the sordid details are right here
http://www.dylanology.com/aids - titled Bob Dylan has AIDS |
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20 Sep 98 - 04:29 AM (#38694) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Mo Ian - glad it's good news! In return I'm sorry too if I came across as stuffy, it's just that as Chet pointed out, your thread did look a little "tabloid" and that doesn't seem to be Mudcat's style! Still, maybe I came across as a bit too prissy about it. By the way - Tinwhistler's Mutha - nice generalisation there! As I'm as celtic as you can get, where does that leave your "direct approach" idea? I could tell you - but that would be rude! (!) Cheers, Mo |
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20 Sep 98 - 04:51 AM (#38700) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Ian HP I am in two minds as to whether to reply. I do think this thread has gone past its usefulness. But since you ask. . . Yes, I do like to be direct, yes I am a Celt, yes I do have a sense of humour, yes I do care about what happens to people, and having had three close friends die of AIDS, there are nevertheless some things I find unfunny. Like AIDS jokes. Goodbye and God bless, one and all. My intention was to find the truth, not to make jokes, to offend, or to - God help us all - appear tabloid. |
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20 Sep 98 - 11:37 AM (#38711) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. Thanks to those who did not hide their senses of humor or their hostilities behind "haughty language". Being of Celtic origin myself, I also appreciate that the rudeness was direct and plainly spoken. Chet W. |
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20 Sep 98 - 03:23 PM (#38729) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Jenny As I, too, am of Celtic descent, I'm pleased to know from whence my directness comes (is the last phrase too haughty?); my mother always says it from my maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother ... Jenny |
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20 Sep 98 - 03:58 PM (#38731) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Mo Given that your mother was direct enough to tell you this Jenny - I would think so!! This is developing into a whole new thread really, isn't it? Ahh, Bob Dylan - what an effect he has on all our lives! Mo. |
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20 Sep 98 - 05:19 PM (#38735) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Pete M Well I originally avoided this thread because it seemed as noted above "a bit tabloid", but finally got here, and it's actually far more interesting than the title implies. I'll do my two pennorth of stirring by adding that as someone who may be accused of using "haughty language", I do not repeat not use it to "hide rudeness" and resent the implication. One of the great strengths and joys of this forum is that for the, most part, we can all hold and share strong views on a subject without descending to inane name calling. Those who have to deal with me in the flesh would never I think, accuse me of being anything other than direct, but that does not mean rude, or that one must abandon formal English. As for blaming your character deficiencies on your ancestry, I suspect that many English people have a celtic forbear, and many Scots / Irish / Welsh Anglo-Saxon. Add in Dane, Norse, Hugenot, Norman etc etc and the futility of ascribing racial characteristics, if such exist, to an individual becomes clear. Right, having got that off my chest, if you find out where one can purchase lives Chet, let me know, I could do with a few in reserve for when this one runs down. Haughtily - Pete M |
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20 Sep 98 - 09:30 PM (#38758) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: BSeed I'd certainly like to know who posted a link to info on Dylan--in my name. Anyway, it wasn't I (he said, haughtily). --seed |
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20 Sep 98 - 11:08 PM (#38769) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: gargoyle The Answer My Friend - Is Blowin' In The Wind |
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21 Sep 98 - 06:00 PM (#38856) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. Keep blowin', brother! |
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21 Sep 98 - 06:07 PM (#38857) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: dick greenhaus Enough, already We're beginning to sound like the IR-Trad newsgroup. |
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21 Sep 98 - 10:26 PM (#38898) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: The Tinwhistler's Mutha to Pete M *grinning like the cat that ate the canary* I just pull the strings and the puppets dance.
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21 Sep 98 - 11:08 PM (#38904) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Dan Mulligan "two pennorth of stirring???????????" *lmao* You use a couple of archaic words and you think that you are some how demonstrating a more formal style of English than others. I suspect that it is in effort to hide the utter lack of substance in your argument. Strip away the olde English and the haughty indignation and what you have left is very shallow indeed. As for character deficiencies.....it would appear that you own the franchise on that product. Clearly, the statemant to which you alude was referring to cultural, not genetic, tendencies. And while such a statement is dangerously broad sweeping, it is not unfair to comment on cultural traits that make us all so very interesting. Dan |
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22 Sep 98 - 01:25 AM (#38920) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Frank in the swamps Whistletosser/Mulligan, 1) If you have testicles, why do you hide behind two shadows? 2) The Scots are Scots, the Irish are Irish, the Welsh are Welsh, the English/Scot/Irish/Italian/German/French/Indian/African/I-Don't-know-my-granny-changed-her-name-but-I-wanna-be-romantic Americans call themselves Celts. This forum, to the best of my knowledge, never had any name calling/chest pounding inane antics of this this sort until you started it. Grow up. Or Email me directly, I'm in the Mudcat directory. Frank in the Swamps. |
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22 Sep 98 - 02:34 AM (#38934) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: BSeed All right, everyone. Take a deep breath, count slowly to ten, and then give yourselves a hug...now, isn't that better? --seed |
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22 Sep 98 - 02:37 AM (#38935) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: BSeed Actually, I forgot myself there for a moment and probably brought down the wrath of the habitues of the pedantry thread. Everyone is singular. Give yourself a hug. By the way, who did what to turn this thread aqua with red type? --seed |
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22 Sep 98 - 04:15 PM (#38993) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Mo Probably because it's gone red with badly contained apoplexy.... Either that or it's to haughty to be the same hue as the rest of those threads! Mo |
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22 Sep 98 - 05:28 PM (#39005) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. It all started with some guy calling me a smartass. While the need for an apology might seem obvious, it does not seem to be forthcoming. Let's ignore these geniuses that started this mess and maybe they'll go away. This place has always been too civilized for this sort of crap. Chet W. |
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22 Sep 98 - 07:24 PM (#39019) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Jenny I'm glad to know someone else's screen is aqua with red type ... I thought I did it and it was just on mine. Let's put this thread to bed ... it's getting nowhere fast ... and maybe these otherwise lurkers will lurk away. Jenny |
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23 Sep 98 - 04:41 PM (#39126) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: John M. So how is Paul Simon doing ? |
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23 Sep 98 - 05:52 PM (#39134) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Elvis is dead, and I'm not feeling so hot myself. (That's the title of a book, son.) |
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23 Sep 98 - 11:18 PM (#39172) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Big Mick Deja Vue all over again. And low and behold, wait, I meant don'cha know (don't want to appear haughty) it's the same player causing the ruckus. And based on his last posting, enjoying it. All the best, Big, haughty, and Irish as a person who has three out of four Irish emmigrant grandparents can be, Mick |
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24 Sep 98 - 09:38 AM (#39210) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: John M " I don't know anything about Music, I my business you don't have to " Actual Elvis Quote Honest, and profound statement from one of the biggest names in Entertainment . |
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24 Sep 98 - 12:00 PM (#39214) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Earl In America everyone has the right to be haughty, direct, rude or just a plain ol' smartass, regardles of race, creed, color, or national origin. |
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24 Sep 98 - 10:47 PM (#39293) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: kevin ryan I was once haughty myself. It was a youthful indescretion. (And, Yes, I kept the shirt--just in case "Mr." Starr calls me to testify! As yet another Celt--Will anyone need a second tomorrow at dawn? |
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25 Sep 98 - 08:53 PM (#39410) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Lurker John M. Now THAT was funny...thank you for having a sense of humor. And that goes for Gargoyle and Chet and Mo and Jenny as well. Mick I don't recall ever seeing Pete and Ian create a ruckus here before... |
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25 Sep 98 - 09:50 PM (#39418) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Big Mick Lurker, I wasn't referring to Pete or Ian. If you will check the thread titled "Essential Irish Session tunes", will find that the same person who raised the "haughty" issue here, raised a similar issue in that thread. It got ugly and I am not proud to say that I let myself get sucked into it. Every so often I go back and read it to remind myself that a sense of civility and respect for others opinions is required in online communities, in order for me to get the full benefit of opinions of and discussion with others from many backgrounds, cultures and experiences. That is what makes the 'Cat such a treasure to me as a singer of songs. All the best, Mick |
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25 Sep 98 - 10:10 PM (#39421) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Jim B. I understand why T.M. said "i pull the strings and they all dance." All he had to do was say "they absolutely come unglued when you take the direct approach" and they oblige him by doing just that, as well as being haughty and insufferable. John, I hear that Paul Simon has very serious athletes foot...you can read all about it at www.drshoals.com. (perhaps its from those diamonds...)Even more noteworthy is that Art Garfunkel has dry scalp...(in his case that might be terminal.) |
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25 Sep 98 - 10:43 PM (#39423) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Lurker It would appear that the ruckus here was in full bloom here before the haughtiness issue was brought up. And it would seem to me that that person was saying "peace brothers, don't be so sensitive." I don't read the "celtic" threads much, so i missed that other thread the first time...it would appear that you were the antagonist that time,Mick .... |
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25 Sep 98 - 10:43 PM (#39424) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Jenny This thread needs to be buried. It has truly dimished the enjoyment I get from this site. R.I.P. Jenny |
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25 Sep 98 - 11:32 PM (#39427) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: gargoyle Ahhhh.....Jenny...Jenny...
if it deminishs your pleasure of the site
Don't read the BLOODY thread
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25 Sep 98 - 11:51 PM (#39429) Subject: Enough is enough From: Joe Offer I think Jenny's got a point, Gargoyle. Enough is enough. I'm here to have a good time, to meet nice people, and to learn more about the music I love. I have to deal with nastiness everywhere I go nowadays, since "in your face" attitudes seem to be the fashion and people seem to think they have a right to be offensive to others. Not here, please. Let's keep this a friendly place - an experiment in harmony, if you will. Maybe, if we all work on it, we can show that people CAN live in peace. -Joe Offer- |
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26 Sep 98 - 12:19 AM (#39436) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Jim B. No joe....gargoyle is right ...you are wrong. Jenny keeps coming back here for more. She can end the thread any time just by not reading it any more.... |
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26 Sep 98 - 02:53 AM (#39445) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: BSeed I agree with Jenny and Joe. This thread has been outright unpleasant at times. I'll apply the coup de grace. If you want to continue to talk about thread attitude and courtesy, go to the thread of that name. --seed |
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26 Sep 98 - 08:16 AM (#39481) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Big Mick Say Goodnight, Gracie. |
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26 Sep 98 - 11:57 PM (#39572) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Chet W. I am truly sorry that I ever got involved in this thread. Chet W. |
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27 Sep 98 - 10:31 AM (#39617) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: John M Goodnight Gracie ! |
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27 Sep 98 - 06:06 PM (#39670) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Art Thieme As the executioner said as he pulled the electricity lever causing thousands of volts to flow through through the body of John Wayne Gacy (remember him?)----------------"Say goodnight, Gacy!!!" Art |
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27 Sep 98 - 07:39 PM (#39684) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Mulligan That was great, Art! *LMAO* |
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28 Sep 98 - 10:08 PM (#39801) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Joe Offer Art, do you get PAID for groaners like that one? -Joe Offer- |
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29 Sep 98 - 01:46 AM (#39834) Subject: RE: Bob Dylan with AIDS? From: Bagginz I've seen Bob in concert twice in the last two months. He was quite amazing! Aids? I doubt it, and anyway it's none of my business(or yours) . |