mellow mandolin.cafe

[Barbara Shultz]

Eddie, you are a doofus! (there, is that better? haha)
Anyway, you are to blame that I woke up this morning with LEAVING BRITTANY playing in my dreams! I'm gonna rock it when I finally get back to a decent camera!

[allenhopkins]

Hey, we could always resurrect this recent "hot topic" about whether "F" (as in "F-5") stands for "Florentine." At least one poster walked off in disgust. But rather than dropping an "F-bomb," I'd rather enjoy a brief period where the threads are supportive and informative, the language is moderate and (relatively) articulate, and the trolls are quiescent.

Soon enough, someone will start a "Chris Thile is cooler than Ricky Skaggs," or "Gibson mandolins are crummy and over-priced," or "Bill Monroe used a capo, and just wouldn't admit it" thread, and the squabbles will recommence. Or I could just start one about the Dixie Chicks...

[mrmando]

Maybe the new board software includes a tool for zapping troublemakers' computers? Send a virus to the IP address that fries the hard drive?

A certain well-known agitator cropped up a couple of days ago, but the IDs he was using, and the threads they were on, have all vanished.

[Barbara Shultz]

Or to quote a well known old school Saturday Night Live skit.... Jane, You Ignorant Slut!

[CES]

Bill Monroe sucks!

Chris Thile sucks!

Bluegrass sucks!

Banjos RULE!!!!!

You forgot the best of all...EITHER/OR:

A) Chris Thile is better than Bill Monroe AND uses a Blue Chip pick.

B) Bill can't touch Ricky's mullet and should have "passed the torch" to him graciously rather making him pry it from his embalmed hands.

C) "I only payed 129.95 for my mandolin, and it sounds just as good as any **insert maker of choice, but thinking Gibson to give it real teeth** any of you other suckers bought!!"

Ahhhh, love must be in the air...

[Barbara Shultz]

Maybe the new board software includes a tool for zapping troublemakers' computers? Send a virus to the IP address that fries the hard drive?

A certain well-known agitator cropped up a couple of days ago, but the IDs he was using, and the threads they were on, have all vanished.

It's good to know that trouble-makers can be zapped into thin air!

[swinginmandolins]

Thanks to moderators on this site and Scott for this! Things get nipped in the bud or those who don't play nice get sent packin'.

[John Kinn]

Alex
You forgot the sure fire starter GIBSON SUCKS!!!!!!

Or this one: Pac Rims suck!!

No, to be honest, I prefere the calm and friendly environment mostly found in this forum, where you can actually learn something every day, and blatant statements are no part of this...
John

[outdoors4me]

You forgot the best of all...EITHER/OR:

A) Chris Thile is better than Bill Monroe AND uses a Blue Chip pick.

B) Bill can't touch Ricky's mullet and should have "passed the torch" to him graciously rather making him pry it from his embalmed hands.

C) "I only payed 129.95 for my mandolin, and it sounds just as good as any **insert maker of choice, but thinking Gibson to give it real teeth** any of you other suckers bought!!"

Ahhhh, love must be in the air...

I think this could go somewhere...

Beck

[Robert Lane]

How about... how many mandolin players does it take to change a light bulb........................................?

Seriously I like the way people are treated here and know when to have fun a not take things seriously.
Robert

[Pete Hicks]

I guess we are all maturing, or ripening.

[Barbara Shultz]

How about... how many mandolin players does it take to change a light bulb........................................?

None..... I'm a musician, don't want to take the chance of burning my fingers! Anyway, I'm too busy to change a light bulb, and I don't need no stinkin' light to play this thing!

[mandroid]

were 'the Blue Meanies' smoking Woad?

[fatt-dad]

is Ricky Scaggs really an acoustic engineer?

f-d

[catmandu2]

Phasers on kill...

[KristinEliza]

ahh...I have enough calluses so changing a light bulb is cake!

Maybe we can petition to start a "puppies and rainbows" forum...a safe haven where everyone will agree with us, tell us how informed we are, what great players we are...

[Robert Lane]

[Ben Milne]

I believe the left hand side is the standard direction of travel.

[Gary Hedrick]

is there any kind of music besides bluegrass????????

[woodwizard]

Look out! I feel a lock down coming soon! ...

[Ron McMillan]

This is surely the point where someone (not me!) lets slip that people who play F mandolins are narcissists driven only by their perceived vision of themselves and whose judgments (such as they are) suffer clouding from their obsession with a couple of pointless, purposeless, acoustic-benefit-free fancy-schmancy fragile twirls in the wood - when all they ought to do is buy a nice A and get the same sound for less money and none of the fragility.

But to do so would be inflammatory, and that's not nice in the new, kind, all-is-right-with-the-world, benign Cafe as extolled by the OP.

;-)

[JeffD]

Do all A style oval hole players plant their pinkies when using a capo or refuse to pay more than $0.45 for a pick to play chop chords at an old timey jam?

[Gary Hedrick]

I would guess that 80% of the mandolins sold today are for "other than bluegrass" uses and that about the same percentage of folks on the list are non bluegrassers.......and that's fine with me...

I'm so mellow...................

[man dough nollij]

were 'the Blue Meanies' smoking Woad?

That's out there, even for you, Mandroid.

[Jim MacDaniel]

oh, i dunno ... how about cow chip picks?

"Cow chip" is slightly nicer way of saying what I thought when I first saw their price.