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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: CarolC Date: 19 Sep 00 - 06:29 PM Thanks, Little Hawk. I think that's exactly what I was aiming for, but I didn't realize it until you pointed it out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Sep 00 - 06:10 PM Hi! I just came up for air, and look what I've been missing...what a great thread! Carol C - you have a great sense of place and timelessness. It sounds a lot like some of the best moments in my trip to Cuba. Add to the scene little sand lizards that bask in the sun and scamper away when you come too near, then stop and gaze at you intently with jewel-like eyes. As the afternoon sun begins to wane, brightly coloured chameleons emerge from the shrubbery, resplendent in astonishing colours...bright blue, deep indigo, leafy green, golden brown, chocolate, and coral pink...each one in a colour scheme of its own choosing. These lizards are clearly expressing nothing more than sheer joy, as their colours in no way serve to camouflage them. I have always really like lizards. This is what you do, folks. Find one whom you love dearly and take a walk under the shining moon. Listen to the ducks quacking sleepily across the bay (and make sure it really is a duck...that's an in joke). Stop at a local cafe for a late snack. Then go back home and lie around for hours and hours in the arms of the one you love...and drift...and drift...and dream. Do every kind thing you can think of for them, because kindness returns seven-fold to the giver. Maybe life can get better than this, but if so, I sure don't know how.
Time passes slowly up here in the mountains
Once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good lookin'
Ain't no reason to go, in a wagon to the town
Time passes slowly up here in the daylight - by Bob Dylan, who also said... May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 00 - 04:12 PM there's a tavern in the townin the town someone said there was a nice padded room for me here? is that it over there? Thank you. Just hook the coffee maker to my IV and lock the door. thank you!
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 00 - 04:07 PM Tatterbrains, you are still welcome here to design and partake of your own recovery strategies. Me, I am off to start a Newcomers Tavern. There sure are a lotta taverns in this town. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Jed at Work Date: 18 Sep 00 - 07:06 PM YRick - you should start every show with This One's the Dreamer. Great song, and great recording. I love the way it starts with a bang! .... makes you sit up and take notice!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 18 Sep 00 - 05:53 PM Wooooohaa!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Sep 00 - 05:48 PM Bearing garlic bread aloft on a pretty tray... la luh la la, la luh la, luh la luh lala luh lah... Mbo SWOOPS in for the garlic bread but UPSETS the tray as he dives in under it for... a MEGA-HUG! Breead flying! No worries!! We catch it in mid-air! LAFFin??? {{{{>>>>hug<<<<}}}} oooOOOFFFfffff!!!! Hey! He SWINGS me offa my feet (and me such a big girl too!) and TWIRLS me around MADLY! Giggle giggle snork snark giggle blush!!!! Ooooh! Whotta hugger! Huh! Catch my breath! All rosy cheeked! I SPENT ALL AFTERNOON converting messy messy text into Excel, THE HARD WAY. Yikes! Cut! Paste! Drop! Drag!!! More hugs! I think I blew up a new member today! Ooops! Sorry SorP! SorP-- hey I know!!! Introduce yourself HERE, then start a new thread-- Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern, for all un-introduced new members to wade in and say hi over drinks or bubbles or..... you get the idea. So it goes! Off to ECW potluck! Brainlessly! ~Susan~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:11 PM My Italian blood begins the bubble up...WHERE'S THE GARLIC BREAD?! WHERE'S THE GARLIC BREAD!? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 18 Sep 00 - 08:22 AM Mmmm, just popped in for a few seconds R & R. Back from leave, 384 work e-mails to delete, er, I mean deal with, plus paper in-tray. May never get to see what went on here while I was away, hope you've all been good. RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: CarolC Date: 18 Sep 00 - 02:38 AM hhhmmmm.... I smell garlic and basil. Somebody must be making pesto. I wonder if anybody brought some wine. I think I'm going to have to bestir myself for this feast. Umfff...although I do hate to leave this beautiful nook. Goodbye fountain. I'll be back soon... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: hesperis Date: 18 Sep 00 - 01:01 AM Well, that was some hug! Thanks, Mbo. Did someone say olive bread? Mmmmmm. Where's the garlic? There's just something about garlic and basil and olive bread, in a rose garden under a waning moon. And my super-spicy muffins for dessert. I brought a whole basket, so dig in! ~*sirepseh*~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MAG (inactive) Date: 17 Sep 00 - 10:52 PM So glad all y'all like my roses. Now there are abundant basil (rhymes with dazzle) plants amongst the tomatoes, for whipping up some fresh pesto ... goes well with this olive bread ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 17 Sep 00 - 05:07 PM Oooh oooh! >>HUUUUUG<< |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: hesperis Date: 17 Sep 00 - 02:38 PM Sure. I'll take a 'bone-cracking' bear hug, thanks. Not too hard though, I need to play at Song Circle tomorrow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 17 Sep 00 - 01:24 PM Anyone else in need of hugs? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: flattop Date: 17 Sep 00 - 11:05 AM What a woman! Didn't let me get away with a polite Goodnight Irene. We waltzed between the holsteins all night long and I barely noticed. I must be lightheaded. Watch out for those meadow muffins - Rick Kane warned us in his song Meadow Muffin Blues. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: CarolC Date: 17 Sep 00 - 03:01 AM This little nook is beautiful. I lie on my back on the thick, lush carpet of grass. The grass feels cool and soothing, and it tickles my neck and arms. I like the way the branches of the antique rose bushes join together to form an arch over my head. I can see the deep blue of the sky through the latticework of the leaves and branches. The scent of roses wafts gently around me, bathing me in the fragrance of a bygone time. There is no time here. Only beauty. I can hear the sound of water, jumping and falling playfully, in a little fountain that I can see just beyond the entrance to my little nook. My consciousness floats carelessly away on the trail of rose-scent, as I descend, gently, into a deep slumber..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Sep 00 - 01:42 AM We can start the dance now and finish it when there is time, and in between we can leave ourselves dancing the night away. Starts like this. I curtsey and rise to your outstretched hand. You write what's next. Then leave us dancing. *Curtsey* The really neat thing is I still get to go home to my husband, who eagerly awaits, and yet am dancing here with a gentleman and good friend. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: flattop Date: 17 Sep 00 - 01:07 AM Thank you Praise. It's getting might late though. Shouldn't you be skipping home soon? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Sep 00 - 12:55 AM flattop... flattop.... the next dance is yours. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Sep 00 - 09:00 PM MAG, I'll be right over. My house is cleaned from the monthly jam session last night and if I make tracks fast and stay outta my house maybe it'll stay clean till next month's. Where can I go after MAG gets tired of the electric autoharp? I'm packed and ready! Have washboard, will travel! But I don't do windows! ~S~
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: CarolC Date: 16 Sep 00 - 08:57 PM Sounds lovely. Is there someplace where I can rinse this sand off of my feet? (Scones with peach puree...just the thing after a day at the beach.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Jolly Date: 16 Sep 00 - 01:44 PM Sounds wonderful. At this rate, I'll never get unpacked! Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MAG (inactive) Date: 16 Sep 00 - 01:36 PM My house is cleaned for my book group last night, there's lots of leftover lemonade and fresh scones with peach puree, so if anyone wants to slide over into my rose garden, come on in. I only plant big splashy-looking pink or purple roses with old rose perfume (no kidding). The roses are coming off our annual hot streak and are at their perfumey best. There are a couple of nook/crannies if you want to flop down on a small blanket and eat currants or heirloom brandywine tomatoes right off the stem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: hesperis Date: 16 Sep 00 - 12:22 AM flattop's probably just busy with work. He gets like that sometimes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Sep 00 - 11:39 PM flattop, Figure out why you stopped writing before you resume. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: hesperis Date: 15 Sep 00 - 08:46 PM Leej, go ahead. Here I was expecting jokes about 'hummus' and dirt (humus), and instead someone knows what hummus is and wants some! MMario - Well, *if* I get really lucky and come across an original hardcover copy of Child Ballads, I'll proofread fer ya. Unfortunately, that's not very likely... Well, I wanted to play music again, so I know I'm not sick or anything. Wrote a song today, first draft. I'm ignoring it until monday, and then I'll work out the music. *sigh of pure happiness* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 00 - 11:56 AM bert - without mucho $$$$ or driving for hours I won't be able to get access...not to hardcopy I HAVE e-text - just don't know if it is accurate or not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Bert Date: 15 Sep 00 - 11:49 AM Mmario, Where's Bruce O when you need him. He's bound to know where you can get access to Child Ballads. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 00 - 09:40 AM Hesperis - yes, it really is about 1400 pages to proof, trouble is it has to be done against existing text of Child's Ballads - which mean having access to the hardcopy. I've never even SEEN a copy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Lonesome EJ Date: 15 Sep 00 - 02:21 AM Here,Hesperis.Mind if I dip my Dorito in your hummus?I'm out of salsa... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: hesperis Date: 15 Sep 00 - 01:56 AM flattop can't explain how his mind works, actually. Because his mind doesn't actually work... IhadtosaythatitwasthereI'msosorryandIreallymeanit,honest! MMario, if you REALLY have 1400 pages to proofread, I'll do it. I will read almost anything! Including *empty* cereal boxes. Including strange threads on mudcat at 2 am... Well, right now, I need to be somewhere sitting in a hammock, in the hot shade under a hot sun, with a jug of water next to me, a very tall glass of spiked honey lemonade sliding down my throat, an automatically replenishing plate of really good falafels, hummus, and celery sticks balancing on my stomach, and a pile of books three feet high next to me. I'll probably finish the books in about three days. I need to just kick back. I don't even want to do music right now. (Actually, I'd better go check my temperature...) ~*sirepseh*~
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: flattop Date: 14 Sep 00 - 11:21 PM Please Praise, you're embarrassing me. I've got my image as a tough nut to protect. I miss you too but I wouldn't say it on a public thread. Looks like we've been hanging by different threads. I only have time to read a few these days. How about you? Looking back at the PMs, it looks like I owe you one. I don't know why I didn't reply, except, perhaps, the last one that you sent sounded so conclusive that I couldn't think of anything to say. You ended that last one with six numbered points. Actually, I owe you a couple of other replies. I never answered your questions that followed your Chicago stories. Then there was that night that you asked me why I bait you. I never did give you a proper answer. I haven't forgotten. One of these days I will try to explain how my mind works. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:30 PM flattop, I miss you. Where you been? You get my PM's a couple weeks back? My PM page has been acting funny. Here we had finally learned how to talk to each other. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:17 PM hugs back! Know anyone with a copy of Child's ballads that would like to proofread a really LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG document? like 1400 pages or so? gee, why did everyone run screaming out the other door? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MAG (inactive) Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:49 PM I'm 51 and chubby, MMario. I'll take a good long hug. MMMMM! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: guinnesschik Date: 14 Sep 00 - 08:11 AM Guess I fell asleep in a quiet corner somewhere. Can someone re-align my back? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: flattop Date: 14 Sep 00 - 07:04 AM A bit of alcohol and I'm confusing words for the real thing. Strange. You had me worried. Please let me apologize. Clams but no slurpies and no tongues? What kinda party is this? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:16 AM (Primly) *G* Hey! I just read a definition of snogging that is MUCH MORE EXPLICIT than any I have seen before! I had misunderstood! I must clarify! This symbol: } : ~ *>) ...is a kiss on the CHEEK! NO, not THAt one, straighten up! YEAH! A sincere but sisterly and chaste sign of affection! No slurpies! Sound effects, maybe, well OK, sure, but NO TONGUE! I may not be the mudSaint but I ain't the focking mudIdiot either! At least not today! They say here in Pennsylvania, I was born in the morning, but not this morning! Night, all. Well... I think I'll sneak into Jen's conga line first.... Party on. Oh, and flattop, there was no barfing, merely an offer of same. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Jolly Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:57 PM Not too hard!!! Oh, that's nice!!! By the way, can I get a drink in here? Or is it "serve-your-self"? Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:47 PM Ok, Kim, you're next! SQUEEEZE! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Jolly Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:45 PM Hey, Mbo, a 24 hour hug is nothing to feel sorry for. I wish it had been me. (I think I'm more your age anyway.) Campfire's gone left me home alone tonight - so I guess you could let go if you want to . She probably needed it, though. Kim (with a "member" name, now!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:27 PM I wonder if poor Campfire wants me to stop hugging her now! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: MMario Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:24 PM Haven't had a mudcat clambake in a long time! CLAM-BAKE! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: CarolC Date: 13 Sep 00 - 09:54 PM The sun is hanging low in the sky. The warm breezes are mixed with cool air to signal the coming of night. The water is calm, with little waves that dance and flicker like candle flames as they reflect the setting sun. Some people are standing in the shallow part of the water. Their trousers are rolled up above their knees to keep them dry. The people have garden rakes and bushel baskets. They are bent over, digging around in the mud of the tidal flats for the clams that they will take home and eat, steamed, with ears of buttery sweet-corn. I don't want to leave this place. The sand still feels warm under my feet. The air is pungent with the scent of the sea, and it feeds my soul with it's life. The sound of the gently moving water lulls my spirit with its rythmic push and pull against the shore. This is the place where innocence lives, and I want to stay. Carol |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Sep 00 - 07:56 PM flattop, I declined the suggestion to be Momcat and i declione the mudSainthood too. As far as your other comment... *G*-- I can not only hold my liquor and take a good punch, I can hold my punch and take a good liquor. Adjust spelling as desired for effect. Melatonin AND cold medication, mmm!!! Good MORNING everyone! BTW, in case anyone was wondering, MMario is all male AND a great hugger. He has my endorsement for any females on the loose. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Mbo Date: 13 Sep 00 - 07:53 PM Yes it is fine! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: guinnesschik Date: 13 Sep 00 - 07:33 PM Wow! I can mix and serve drinks, and all I need is some floor space...clean preferably, so I can sit if the mood strikes, some new strings for my fiddle, a bottemless guinness and warm, freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies. Is it okay if I kick off my shoes? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Sep 00 - 06:12 PM One careful snogger maybe, what about the other 4 careLESS snoggers who had them before you!! Hey, if you do that thing too much, do you get snoggers jipple?? Down a bit with the foot rubbbbbbbbbbbb aahhhhhhhhhhh, yes, can I get down from the wardrobe now...... Like the last phone call you take is always 5 mins before closing and they want to renew half the books written by Catherine Cookson and Barbara Cartland, on four seperate tickets, of which they only have partial numbers and the dog ate the other one.... Jeez, do I miss that NOT!!!! Bit more rum please, my tum isn't empty but the glass is.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for Tatterbrains From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Sep 00 - 06:11 PM One careful snogger maybe, what about the other 4 careLESS snoggers who had them before you!! Hey, if you do that thing too much, do you get snoggers jipple?? Down a bit with the foot rubbbbbbbbbbbb aahhhhhhhhhhh, yes, can I get down from the wardrobe now...... Like the last phone call you take is always 5 mins before closing and they want to renew half the books written by Catherine Cookson and Barbara Cartland, on four seperate tickets, of which they only have partial numbers and the dog ate the other one.... Jeez, do I miss that NOT!!!! Bit more rum please, my tum isn't empty but the glass is.... LTS |