BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:50 AM

"JD on the rocks and Diet Pepsi with nacho chips" -- oh. Next year maybe??

We'll take a chocolate for the road... Love to all...!

~ B in LB & astro

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:49 AM

That must be where TIP disappeared too. Probably expects tips from the local inebriates. Boy is she in for a surprise.
Does Bert's card work there too? Or do they actullay pay for drinks?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:42 AM

I vote flush it... several people have been wallowing in there, and I know for sure that one of them wore naught but a leopard print bananahammock...    and it wasn't Severn....

Chocolates on the bar, grab 'em whilst they're fresh, they've got to go today because it's now Lent and I can't borrow another stomach to keep them in.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 08:53 AM

How do we break it to her that MMArio never showed uop and all we have is JD on the rocks and Diet Pepsi with nacho chips?

What other bar? Is the Mudcat Clique over there keeping it all to themselves? Who is Nurse Ivy?
The plot thickens...which reminds me.The Jell-O pit dried out into a glutinous maroon mess. So eat it or flush it, guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 09:50 PM

If you've got it, Becky, flaunt it!

All that would kill a diabetic like me, but I'd probably die a happy man!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 09:28 PM

Hubby astro and I are stopping in to make up for lost drinking time. We went to Valentine's dinner at a great Tucson restaurant, had a 4-course meal (that we didn't realize we were making reservations for -- ouch in the wallet, but wonderful otherwise), and both did without the wine: me for not mixing with my drugs and astro because we had an 8-hour drive to do the next day (from Tucson to Long Beach).

So, bartender, line 'em up -- we'd like

First course:

the 2007 Lioco "Indica" Carignan/Petite Sirah/Mourvedre/Granache that was to go with the sweet potato gnocchi, seared and served with cashew, goat cheese, thyme and truffle oil

and

2006 Villiera Sauvignon Blanc to go with the Quenelles of Dover sole and sea scallops, served over lemon creamed spinach with sweet lemon zest and fleur de sel

Second course:

2007 Viña Godeval Godello to go with the Sunnyside-up Bigeye tuna on a bed of fava beans, sunchokes and oven-cured tomatoes

and

2006 Ampelos "Gamma" Syrah to go with the Braised lamb cheeks with cacao nibs, blood orange and River Road Gardens [local] kale, served with twice-baked Camembert new potatoes

Third course:

wine free salad course -- saves you a couple of glasses...

Fourth course:

N.V. Bodegas Hidalgo "Alameda" Cream Sherry Palamino/Pedro Ximénez to go with the Coeur á la crème with raspberry coulis

and

2007 Chapoutier Banyul Grenache/Mourvedre to go with the Dark chocolate tart with candied orange and walnuts.

Got it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 09:03 PM

What other bar? There's another bar?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:52 PM

Ah, therein lies the rub.... there's a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.... and then there's all that canoodling on top (if you like it that way, other positions are available...), there just isn't the time to sit and look at the one you love that way any more.















Especially when he's in the other bar with his hands around a certain Nurse Ivy.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:52 PM

I dropped by for a double JD on the rocks with a twist. The Captain's surgery went better than expected. All the females around him are relieved and apparently sharing a room at the inn together. I wouldn't want the suite next door.
LOL
Such a relief.
Glug Glug Glug
And another...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 05:29 PM

Spice Girls?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Amos
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 04:07 PM

Not much variety without them spice, eh, mon chef?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 04:05 PM

You're right, Amos!

With all the fun had in this place, nobody seems to fall in love, except (or except WITH) animals and monsters. Not much of a singles bar and hardly anybody ever brings their spouse.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Amos
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 09:18 AM

LOVE

As soon go kindle fire with snow,
as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

             William Shakespeare

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 02:37 AM

For Canoodle, see the Uxbridge English dictionary thread....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 07:19 PM

This is more exciting than Who shot JR? Who's canoodling the octopus? What octopus????? Where's the squid????? What's a canoodle?
This has probably been the worst Tavern ever. No duck. No Turkey Turd Beer. No Christmas tree. I'm leaving. Someone else can close up.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 04:49 AM

How infinitely disgusting. I found a large, waxen vampire-clone (must be an extra from one of those silly TV shows) sucking out all the raw fisn from the sushi... BLECCCHHH. Luckily, I gave him such a walloping, he won't be back.

NOW I'M GOING TO SCRUB OUT THIS KITCHEN WITH BLEACH TO ELIMINATE ALL DISGUSTING TRACES OF THAT PALLID FREELOADER.

who's that canoodling in the corner with an octopus? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ... I'm getting outta here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(N.R.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,Boris the Bat
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 04:45 AM

Aaaagh Aaagghh Aaagghh Aaagghh Aaagghh Aaagghh

No, it wasn't the happy sounds of a Vaentine's day tete a tete, it was the sound of Vladimir the Inhaler, as Nurse Ratched slammed him again and again against the kitchen wall.

"Hmmm, a woman of spirit" he thought, as she threw him like a speeding bullock out the kitchen window and across the far horizon.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:20 PM

We quieted down and suspended the subplots so that people could relax in peace and quiet. It was incredibly quiet. No posts from 8:30am to 5pm. I guess it's impolite to talk with another mouth in your mouth. It's not much of a spectator sport and I figured I was backing the wrong holiday.

Then I remembered that it was Chinese New Year, and I could go participate in that one with a lot more feedback. Chicken w/ Basil & Ginger Hot Pot from Sechuan Pavillion---THAT'S the ticket!

"When the egg roll's called up yonder, I'll be there......"

I suppose everybody was too busy to notice me gone anyway.

:-) A wise man knows everything
A shrewd one, everybody :-)

That's my fortune, and I'll be leaving it to one of you lucky catters in my will....

Daily Numbers 6 9 0    Lotto Six #'s 66 35 6 2 32 49

If one of you gets lucky with those, remember me in YOUR will....


WAIT! What's in this box on my chair?---A Valentine-shaped red goose feather pillow with a note that says "Here's rest for the downhearted". No signature, though.

But I always love a mystery, even if it's all I've been left to love. (Sigh!).......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:23 PM

I could take a dose a them nurses, GIN. Ooooo... calm me nerves eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:10 PM

I don't do Valentines days.... I shall spend the day drunk and thereby miss it completely.

Pash the rummm.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:36 AM

AHHHH A new day. And Valentine's Day at that.

Look! Someone left some lovely brittle or bark. There is a heart shaped box of what must be chocolates on the bar. The TIP and her bin are gone. All is well in Mudcat land.

The squid is even soothing his wounds in the Jell-O pit.

Too early for JD. I will sip a black coffee and enjoy the peace and quiet.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:29 AM

tiptoeing in


dropping off home made almond toffee bark (mind your dental work)


tiptoeing out












gasping for breath outside the door....maybe they didn't notice.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:43 AM

This is a Valentine's Day warning to you all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:40 AM

She's NOT my floozie! I don't hire the help here, and she's more like lowered help! She's been pretty rude to everybody, and most of us find most appropriate your use of a bin named after her.

Nobody has wrestled our friend the gator who is diong bouncer duty for us tonight. He was just being wary of meeting up with Ratched, whom he'd only known by reputation. I didn't know that Ratched had actually arrived already and that SHE bound the Squid, so I apologize there, but I didn't like the idea of our own folks making him a pincushion. Squiddy sought out Ratched, so he got himself into that one!

I acknowledged the healing powers of the jell-o pit and those who sent me there already I'll go ahead and thank you and Becky by name, for recommending the use of it and I'll single you out in praise for making and choosing the new jell-o. Wonderful decorations, as well, Mary!

But I chilled and mellowed out and quieted down and relaxed into the nice mood yiou set so that you could have the peace, quiet and loving atmosphere you wanted and now you have the urge to regurge, binge and purge with more champaigne on the way. I stopped feeling sorry for my self and rolled with the flow, and now you're feeling sorry for yourself and rolling with the overflow!

Dim the lights, start up whatever entertainment you booked-Who have we got this year?-for the stroke of midnight has passed and Valenntine's Day itself is actually upon us. Let us stop the arguing and enjoy!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Now, shhhhhhhh!.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 09:20 PM

Janie,
Last booth on the left. And bring me another bottle of champagne.
Sulking here - imagine being accused of being Ratched. sniff.
I didn't chain up the squid - Ratched did.
I cleaned and re-filled the Jell-O pit with Red Cherry Jell-O. But do I get a thank you? No - just abuse from Sev and his floozie.
Make it two bottles Janie. And bring a tip bin. I think I am going to be sick...
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:41 PM

Aaaaaaaaaaaah! I feel a lot better now after a relaxing rest in the pit just like you folks told me I would. Gelatin On The Skeleton! Hooda thunket?

And warm towels! Becky, you're an angel!

I came out of the Burn Ward in a bit of a funk and actually wrote myself farther into it. Depressed and nasty is not a good place to be. Crabbyness does not become me, so, sorry folks!

I'll sit back and absorb all the peace and love vibes from all around me and be gellin' after I rinse off the gelatin. Be back in about a shower!.......

Just don't cause harm to my animal runnin' buddies....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:21 AM

Nurse Ratched? Wrong end? You do the pun.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:13 AM

NO, Liz!

You don't eat the present security force, he who regularly keeps Mmario supplied with Chef Michael Rodebeaudachaux's Cajun spices and the rest of us in free Louisiana music from his tail-gator draggin' wagon and has done us some good turns in the past. He's all that stands between you (and US) and Nurse Ratched and maybe that mere laddie bloody Vladdie, as well. Besides, he's a personal friend. You don't see me ordering up your prescious Raven-kitty to be stir fried in the wok, do you? You're no better than Ratched herself and her craving for calomari.

I'd always thought better of you than that, Liz.....

Let me go back to some mellow-Jell-o healing here in the pit to restore my usual good spirits.......









......I suppose if he were to come out on the wrong end of a tussle with Nurse Ratched, you could call for a proper cremation in cream sauce without much opposition.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:24 AM

Janie - all drinks in the Tavern are on someone else (not always figuratively) - Bert's Card is still holding good although it's a tad warped around the edge that goes into the ATM... it's the foreign currency that does that.

Who is in charge of the barbie? I want an alligator steak and make it snappy!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 02:18 AM

I just need a drink, and am willing to salute any occasion near and dear to some one, somewhere - as long as someone else is buying?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,Vladimir the Inhaler
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 02:07 AM

I look foward to encountering some delicious delights in this tavern..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: freda underhill
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:53 AM

wow, thanks for the invite, SINs,just what I need, a little Valentine's company with some distinguished guests. They all seem very comfy, except - who's that strange woman with the perpendicular eyebrows in the nurse's costume? And who's the old goth in the cape, with the Hollywood smile?

oh well, it's important to be inclusive and I'm not one to judge by appearances.

hey, will a tipple in cyberspace impact on my sugar levels? and will cyberconsuming confound my calories?

this couch is comfy and I'm settling in for the ride..
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:43 AM

I sense a ghostly presence, perhaps, a man after my own heart.. or liver....


N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:58 PM

Warm, thank you so much!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:24 PM

Severn, the Jell-O was highly therapeutic for my imaginary burns, and if I can take a dip with my lovely rash, I'm sure you're welcome to squish on in with your genuine, computer-verified burns. I'll warm a towel or two for you. Or do you prefer them chilled?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:51 PM

Whoa, there, SINSULL!

YOU invited The Grizzly Of Love in here and shackled and humiliatingly dressed my buddy The Squid, setting him up as a trial-and-arrow ob-jay d'art-board! For all we know, YOU could've spent your time away posting those threats as Nurse Ratched.

I tried to beg for better treatment of the squid and tried to Ratched-Proof the place with security so that YOU could have the peace, love food and music you claim to crave. and, in my current state of mind, I'd have certainly hired friendlier wait-staff that looked more like Tippi Hedren than Tip O'Neill. MY trash? I thought she was one of your escaped Christmas presents!

So, this is what I get for all my efforts?......

Desert Dancer, how was the Jell-o pool? I might try a dip and get away from all this if nobody objects to or is bothered by the sight of burn scars covering my chest, left arm and shoulder. I'm just here to relax and unwind, as well. I'll see if I can get my mood back to normal...

A robe? It might have been borrowed by a-robe-ic dancers practicing on the other side of the room. Something from A-robian Nights, I think...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:24 PM

I'll take the, thank you Gnu, and I'll thank you if you'll kindly avert your eyes...

frogprince, don't slur your words -- see the Mudcat Recovery Ward thread for details... the rash is not contagious.

Is there a shower in here? I'm feeling pink and slimy, but my Imaginary Burns are cooled for the moment...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:55 PM

"...cooling her rash..." is there any way that that phrasing was accidental?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:54 PM

Dis robe?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:38 PM

Eek! A gal goes in for a quiet skinny dip in the Jell-O and all of a sudden there's a party going on!

Who took my robe??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:26 PM

Sigh...I leave for a few hours and look what I come back to. an we not have a nice little get together with music and good food and friendly chatter. Does it always have to end up with wrestled alligators and Liz wedged in the john? And who's the floozie with the cap and apron? Some of your trash, Severn?
Get the gecko out of the Jell-O, Desert Dancer is cooling her rash there.

That squid is starting to look a little green around the gills. Does he need water or did someone frighten him?

i am taking the back booth and a bottle of decent champagne.Nothing on the barbie so I'll start some steaks and burgers in a minute.
Who's tending bar?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:22 PM

As any gentleman understands, it's poor form to back out of a romantic encounter on Valentine's day, and possibly impossible when the door's locked.

My veined and wrinkled arms are rolling up their sleeves, and I'm getting the knives sharpened. the belt is blunt, as are my commands. I've a duty to let the world know that romance is a dangerous thing to slip into - as is a slip knot.

but slip not, nor make a slip of the tongue, for bestiality with octopusses is not my thing, I'd rather catch em in the fishnet, and consume them completely :-)and who is Nurse Ratched? a few clues for the clueless..

I'm cunning as a cut snake,
with eyeball like golfballs,
I'm a former Miss Macedonia
and came second in their weight lifting division,
I'm a butcher trained as a Nurse,
with particular expertise in lancing boils,
and the hair on my legs is longer than my armpit hair.
A little wobbly in some parts, but able to be firm with the weak.

A cute find for any lucky hopeful on Valentine's Day, if i say so myself...

N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:06 PM

Whoa, Geico! How much water did you drink, dude?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:02 PM

The alligator is having second thoughts about volunteering to be bouncer at the door. This lady sounds like she could throw him aside as if he were the Geico Gecko. Hell, it even took Johnny Weissmuller and Jon Hall a couple of minutes to subdue a gator, and that after a bit of wrestling and rubbing their bellies and putting them to sleep. This broad sounds like she could travel back home with a new set of luggage and shoes! Speakin' of the Geico Gecko, I'd better check and see if my insurance with the Bayou-Feedback people is all paid up.....

Miz Tippy, ma'am (short for Tipitina-He knew her from back in the Big Easy), could I have a Gatorade Julep, please?....Make that two!....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:28 PM

Fishnets - it's fancy dress, is it? Don't forget the fluffy lavender bedsocks ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:55 PM

if it's a BASH, I'm in.
If you're after a good time, be very scared.
and if you're a squid - squirm, boy, squirm.

I'm ready with the goggles, fishnets and spear - what could be more fun? and as I've mentioned, I love a little calamari (burp) .. well done..

N.R.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:40 PM

I don't do Valentines... I'll take the flowers anytime and the chocolates every time, but I don't do Valentines... Bloody Hallmark Holiday...

Gimme a long island iced tea, and easy on the tea.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Severn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 04:55 PM

Aaaaaarrrrrrgh! I show them more than just quarter, mateys!

Since becoming a diabetic a couple of years ago and often eating at home before time as a means of diet control if I go out to pubs and such, even when I only get a diet soda or two, I always tip the waitstaff as if I'd eaten a full dinner and had downed a few drinks.
Good things still come to those who but wait, and that quarter was here when I arrived. I'd have never thought of pocketing it either.

My good lady, you sorely misjudge me.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:56 PM

Hmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern pre-Valentine Bash
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM

"Get off the table, Mabel, the quarter's for the beer!"