MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?

Subject: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 06:21 PM

I hope you don't mind, Idle Musings, but I figured the thread was long enough and full of enough junk for us to take your formerly very interesting thread over here. Here's the old thread. Ignore the last 1/3rd of it (Yeah, my post, too;) ) I promise to ignore any flamers on this one, if you all do, too. :)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 06:42 PM

Well I have to say I think that all the mudcatters I have met so far, are as, sometimes more dopey(in a good way) or outgoing as they are on the forum. I have only met two who do not come across the same as they are here. I am a new mudcatter but I have met about two dozen as I go to the Jug Inn on Wednesdays and we ahve one of the largest mudcat weekly gatherings, if you wish, around. Guess what I'm like in real life. COmpleteli the same.....NUTTER comes to mind, just ask Mrs.Duck or tig or Bill Sables....the list is endless and they will all tell you how much of a freak I am!!

Emma xx

P.S - I'm proud'a it tooooooooooooo!!

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 06:42 PM

I'd really like to hear what Bill has to say since he must have met more of us, both sides of the Atlantic, than anyone else.

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 06:49 PM

I wouldn't bet against Dick Greenhaus or Susan of DT or Sandy Paton as being the ones that have met more Mudcaters than anyone else.

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 07:02 PM

In the order that I met them...

Allan C is pretty much exactly as I expected him to be. (This is a good thing.)

flattop is even more multifaceted and interesting than I expected, and that's saying a lot. And he bakes incredibly delicious bread. In fact, he's an excellent cook.

hesperis' musical talent is even deeper and more complex than I expected.

Little Hawk is a surprise a minute in the Mudcat, and he's that way in 3D, as well. He sings and plays Dylan better than Dylan.

Rick Fielding is a bit of a Papa. He seems to care about people quite a lot.

Peter T. is younger and has a much more boyish personality than I expected.

Of the other Mudcatters I've met, I've been delighted with all of them. But I had no preconcieved ideas about them because I hadn't had a chance to observe them in the forum enough to form any.

flattop and Little Hawk both hum a lot, which I find quite charming.

Carol

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: Peg
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 08:04 PM

I posted this to the other one before I saw the new one:

Please Bill tell us what you think of people you have met!!! I am with Amergin, rescue this poor thread.

Okay, I will do a bit.

Kendall is very sweet and much less scary in real life than you would think...oh, and he's a wonderful performer. Naemanson is a big lovable teddy bear type with a nice voice who knows some great songs.

Jeri (if she is the one I remember) sings with some real intensity...

Animaterra is a sweetie and sings like an angel and has a real "Libra" peacemaker feel about her, and pretty long, long hair!

Barry, well Barry must be heard to be believed: a rich, lusty tenor made for sea shanties. Let us all hope he recovers well!

Judy Predmore works tirelessly for the folk music community and is a Martun Wyndham Reade fanatic! She also has a lovely way with a song and really makes it her own. The Woodchucks know some incredible songs, both funny and deep, and are real live Vermonters in every way imaginable...hair to shoes...

I met lots more Mudcatters at the NH gathering but can't recall their names now, sorry!

Also met Micca while in the UK, and he is a handful! A lovable, talkative, effervescent madman. Quite the photographer. Don't get him started on the UK pagan community...and also got to meet Liz and her SO and daughter, lovely people!

Peg

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: Micca
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 08:10 PM

I have met a goodly few and they have been, to a person been as pleasant and friendly as on here, some have aspects of their lifes, politics etc, I might not agree with, but I agree with what someone said further up, the initial little bit of akwardness when one meets new people wasnt there...Bill is just like I imagined, like something out of the Bible, but kind and helpful...Llanfair was as expected but Taller,,,and Bagpuss, was certainly a surprise (pleasant, far more beautiful than expected, given the pink and orange cat metaphor) but everyone else I've met has been, if anything, better, than on here.. in that the 3d has made them the same but better... esp the Americans it has been my pleasure to meet.. Dick and Susan, Fortunato, Peg, Karen... were ALL so good to meet and such good company...with SOHs and of Irony...wonderful!!!! and I look forward to meeting many more catters too...Yorkshire...Llanstock 2

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 10:24 PM

Well since I was the first one to get flamed in the other thread (sadly, by someone I quite liked) I'll try to get back to the positive attitude that I. Musings had in mind. (good thread "I",)

I've added it up and my initial number of "Mudcatters Met", in the first thread was definitely on the low side. Much closer to fifty-five. Most I've met while on tour, but I'd forgotten several of the Ontario Mudcat folks.

Most ARE pretty similar to their Mudcat personae IF you read ENOUGH of their posts, and look between the lines a bit.

Gotta mention one who came as quite a surprise though. Bill Sables. Wonderful man. Wish he lived next door. He simply was much more VIBRANT than the computer screen conveys.

Some I met, and would have liked to get to know better (like Bill D and Joe Offer for example) but I was sick as a dog right after the show, and I don't think vomiting during a song circle would have gone over too well! Ha Ha!

Pam and Dave Swan are well known as Class Folks here, but you ain't seen a room light up til you've seen Pam walk in. She's bloody TALENTED as well!

Hey Carol..you're probably right. T'is my cross to bear!

Rick

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: kendall
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 10:42 PM

Peg, you are a doll, but, you just blew my cover!

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 10:46 PM

I just posted this to another thread but it seems to fit here. I have YET to meet anyone here but an interesting phenomenon (to me, anyway) is that, in another forum in which I participate, I am percieved COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY from how I am percieved here. Not sure why..

The mudcat, like other forums, is fascinating as a sociological phenomenon.

People who congregate almost inevitably fall into roles. Ever notice how, in every new crowd of which you become a part, you already "know" many of the individuals? In a general way, the individuals in the new group will remind you of the individuals in other groups of which you are a part.

The departure from this sociological phenom is that, in these on-line communities, there is a different standard by which individuals are evaluated and assigned their position/role. For instance, physical characteristics that command attention (beauty, stature, color, the ability to pull off "physical comedy" etc.) no longer apply, nor can they be "used" as tools.

It's been my observation that this results in immense frustration for certain individuals who for the first time, 1. Find themselves without their formerly reliable attention getting tools. or 2. Are misunderstood because their communication skills are overly reliant on physicality. (of course, the upside is that heretofore overlooked people can have previously unnoted wit and intellect really shine)

Consider also that, this being a music related site, the number of "performer" personalities is probably statistically, abnormally high. Remember Don Firth's description of how Walt Robertson instinctively knew how to become the focal point of the room? Imagine that those skills are absent, but you still desire what has (for you) always been your role.

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: flattop
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 10:56 PM

Before I get confused with Little Humming Hawk, I'd like to point out that only one of us believes that Jimmy Carter was eaten by killer bunnies.

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: Peg
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 11:02 PM

Kendall:

well, sorry, dear...but do recall our first exchange in "real life":

AS we were aoll sitting in Barry;s living room, waiting for the sessiun to really get going, I made some sort of bawdy pun on something you said, and you looked directly at me and said, quite forcefully (as if you really wanted to give me a chance to reconsider what I had said but if I was too stupid to do that it sure as heck wasn't your fault) "You don't even know who you said that to, do you?"

I recalled your name from when we were introduced. "Kendall, right?" I said. I paused and said to the people nearby "Excuse me, I'd like to retract that!"

So you see, our preconceived notions of people based on Mudcat conversation DOES influence how we interact with them in the flesh!

Peg

Subject: RE: MC.Personalities-Part 2---Flame-free?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 11:08 PM

Before I get confused with Little Humming Hawk, I'd like to point out that only one of us believes that Jimmy Carter was eaten by killer bunnies.

It's a pity too, flattop, what are we going to do about that gullibility factor of yours?