Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:21 PM

ENOUGH ALREADY DAMMIT!!!

I am tired of of being sick and tired and also tired of being the Mudcat Poster Boy for wacky, near death, experiences! I'm sure you are all tired of it as well.....LOL.

Home is great and I'm learning how to navigate with the walker but getting stronger every day.   But I ask you, when did you ever hear of anyone who had to learn to speak, walk, write, etc., after they had an appendectomy?

I will read this thread this evening and start posting more as I get stronger over the week but once again, I thank all you for everything. You're all the best......this remains the best site on the net because it is and has has long been a real community of real friends...........I love you all.

And if you disagree I suggest you fuckoff because you're obviously some kind of broke-dick jadrool and a shit for brains of the first order (just to assure you this is a real Spaw message.)


Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:30 PM

Daves equipment just showed up at my door, go figure at the exact time the one I bought him showed up at his door ... Oh well so it goes LOL

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:04 PM

Right... about time for an update innit?

Better yet, time for a new thread started by the old fart himself!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:39 PM

Queequeeg, on the other hand, was a "harpooneer" who went down with the ship."

Ah. That's what they thought.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:39 PM

A quaint quilter wanted to qualify to add quantities of quahogs to a quilt for the queen in memory of Queequeeg, but the committee was in a quasi-queasy quandry and querulously queried Quequog regarding required qualities of quarks needed for proposed quadruple quadrangles in each quilt quadrant, causing him to quietly quake at the question. A quack doctor prescribed quinine, and nothing more was decided.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:25 PM

If you got them confused, you'd never pass the bar.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:16 PM

Oh, don't confuse either with quahog clams.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:15 PM

Quequog was the cabin boy, Amos, and was roasted for dinner in the original unexpurgated director's cut. Queequeeg, on the other hand, was a "harpooneer" who went down with the ship.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 11:10 AM

Quequog alone was escaped to tell thee, good Rapparree. Floating on his own coffin, and paddling with a banjo of arcane design, he made his way, gaunt and shriveled but alive, to the wide sandy shores of Argentina, where he took up filling bobbins as a trade and lived to a ripe age. Not old, but exceeding ripe.


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:54 AM

But come to think of it, at least Moby-Dick (not the hypens!) got something to eat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:31 AM

Yeah. Too bad everybody died at the end.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:47 AM

Rap, brings tears to my eyes .. sniff sniff, what a heartwarming story of the sea and one man ... alone amongst the waves

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:27 AM

Imagine living in a country where the worst offence committed was a fart.

Shed a tear for Peeleg.

Poor Peeleg's dead and gone
Let me hear you sing his song.
Poor Peeleg's dead and gone
Let me hear you sing his song.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:05 AM

How are they gonna fine Spaw... by mail?

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:43 AM

Malawi moves to ban farting Malawi's government has confirmed reports that it intends to outlaw breaking wind in public.

The African nation's justice ministry says the proposed legislation is part of a wider campaign to "mould responsible and disciplined citizens".

Local media is questioning how the proposed law will be enforced when it is so easy to blame the offence on others.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:53 PM

I know PhD's for whom their reach for the expurgated, censored, and edited Moby-Dick exceeds their grasp. In fact, there is quite convincing proof that Hermy Melville was smokin' hemp and drinking laudanum when he wrote it. H also made up words as he went along.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:38 PM

When I awoke, for a ;pmg moment I could not be sure what had happened. The last imageI remembered was the roiling ocean and something about Peter Pan and - was it Tinnkerbell? My mind was fuzzy and it seemed the thread was beyond my grasp..

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:37 PM

Yeah. Too bad in the original no one was left to tell the tale. Makes you wonder how Melville heard of it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:06 PM

Thus endeth. And so it was. Naught, dead, for evermore. Still, a saga. Sniff.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 09:31 PM

...The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the groove; - ran foul even as it set upon the very boat, being as it was near the petrol tanks. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turd caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.

For an instant, the tranced boat's crew stood cheering and applauding and voicing their approval; then turned. "The ship? Great God, where is the ship?" Soon they through dim, bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana or something similar, I know not what; only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea. And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight and down the drain from which Ahab had so recently removed the plug.

But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the shrunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billions of billows they almost touched; - at that instant, a red arm and a sickle and hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing the flag flag of rebellion faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar. A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks and curses and obscenities too awful to repeat, and his imperial middle feather thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it, even though I have no idea of what that means.

Now small fowls that maken melody flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago, but in truth longer, for as I said earlier, there is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath, or perhaps God's own spatula; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness and the discharges from the head of Pequod. To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea of his adoption, his home, his very soul. It rolls the midmost waters of the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic being but its arms. The same waves wash the malignant moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans, and watching this water roll and roll again makes one wish to make water with it, and so one does, especially Peeleg. Thus this mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay to it; seems the tide-beating heart of earth. Lifted by those eternal swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Peter Pan and his mistress Tinkerbell. As I said before. In the meantime, everyone, including me, was dead.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 07:15 PM

"Where you been, Jake?"

"Fishin'"

"You don't have yer bait bucket."

"I said fishin'... not catchin'."

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 07:06 PM

I don't think they had room for whales. I think it was kinda like when my brothers and I go deer hunting: we have a good time, but the hunting part just means hauling them out of the woods, cleaning them, having the butchered and all that. Far easier to tell stories than to actually hunt the things.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 05:24 PM

SINS!!! Don't tell him that! He'll want me to send the pics to him too. And, I just don't feel comfortable with that. I TRUST you.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:37 PM

So Rap. Where did they put the whales?


By the way, Spaw, I need your help in the hairy arm thread. Gnu is threatening to send me pictures of his butt to confirm the presence or lack of hair. Please don't make me do that.

SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 02:56 PM

Dan... or rotten shark... them thar Vikings is ravenous.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 02:41 PM

Sorry I've been remiss in the good wishes on this thread, been sort of distracted with some one else's health issues.

All I go to say now is


YAY! Hope to read ya Friday!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 12:11 PM

which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers or whales or perhaps about dachshunds or a whaler's crew after a long voyage

I could just be the first mate Rap after he ate pickled herrings or that lye / fish cod disk so favorited by the Scandinavians

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 12:01 AM

...During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers or whales or perhaps about dachshunds or a whaler's crew after a long voyage. The title was, "Dan Coopman", wherefore I concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper, many of whom have long since flown the coop. I was reinforced in this opinion by seeing that it was the production of one "Fitz Swackhammer". But my friend Dr. Snothead, a very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German, or perhaps High Dutch and Low German, in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box of sperm for his trouble - this same Dr. Snothead, so soon as he spied the book, assured me that "Dan Coopman" did not mean "The Cooper", but "The Merchant". In short, this ancient and learned Low Dutch book treated of the commerce of Holland and other low subjects of the Low Lands; and, among other subjects, contained a very interesting account of its whale fishery. And in this chapter it was, headed "Smeer", or "Fat", that I found a long detailed list of the outfits for the larders and cellars and basements and butlers' pantries of 180 sail of Dutch whalemen; from which list, as translated by Dr. Snothead. I transcribe the following: 400,000 lbs. of beef. 60,000 lbs. Friesland pork. 150,000 lbs. of stock fish. 550,000 lbs. of biscuit. 72,000 lbs. of soft bread. 2,800 firkins of firkin butter. 20,000 lbs. of Texel and Leyden cheese, put up in Leyden jars. 144,000 lbs. cheese (probably an inferior article, perhaps the cheese of Limburg). 550 ankers of Geneva. 10,800 barrels of beer. 174,000 lbs. of wood shavings, to provide fiber for the diet. 8,000 hogshead of claret. 2,900 barrels of fine brandy or cognac. 18,000 kilts, of the best Scottish plaid. 250,000 gross of gutta-percha coats for the members of the members of the crew. 7,200 firkin knives for the firkin firkins of firkin butter.   

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 11:23 PM

I don't even know Spaw, but I've seen comments on a lot of threads I look at so I hope, I hope, I hope! Go home and finish healing,

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Crowhugger
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:59 PM

This is wonderful news, makes my day. Until I saw the latest thread titles I kind of dreaded to look in on the Spaw threads. This is just the best turn of events! About bloody time, too, after keeping us on pins and needles all this time...

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:54 PM

Sheet fire, son...

No, I mean exactly that... Sheet fire...

Welcome back from the brink...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Hawker
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 07:36 PM

Great news, Glad the recovery is going so well.......Now stay well and take it easy for a little while!
Lucy x

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 05:17 PM

Well Rap we need another installment of Moby's Dick since Spaw will be coming home ... You left us hanging on the last one, gotta know what happens. The excitement is building ... tee hee

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 04:40 PM

If ever I get to the USA, I hope to say hello to Spaw somewhere he can say hello back (or whatever alternative message Pat thinks appropriate for the circumstances...).

Kitty

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 04:23 PM

It's going to feel a long time till Friday!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 03:16 PM

I can't wait for his response to that PM Sins, it will be classic Spaw I think

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:27 PM

Welcome back to the lan dof the living, Spaw. Check your PMs. You probably have one from a fake Mr. Gall. You will be amused.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 12:57 PM

It was really good to hear how strong his voice sounds, they were going to take the trach tube out permanently and let the wound heal ... Just wonderful to hear him laugh and sound like himself. His notebook is on its way to him ... absolutely wonderful

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:52 AM

One thing that Pat said when he phoned - he has had some pretty scary procedures in the past, stuff that could have caused horrendous complications and yet it was something as 'simple' as an appendectomy that brought him so close to the brink.

I was just so glad to hear his voice last evening.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

Yep... that seems about right

(but, I don't think they let Gregory Peck shout that)

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:56 AM

Scholars have determined that Ahab's last words were "Ah, f-URK!" followed by a splash.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:20 AM

Wonderful news! You get home and get cozy and get well, ok?

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:58 AM

Hey Catspaw, when you get home and read this thread, do me a favor and go to your bathroom mirror, and holding your right hand upright, place your right thumb on your nose and wiggle your fingers while sticking out your tongue and occasionally making a loud raspberry sound.

Welcome home, pal.

Chance

PS Don't ever f@#$%ing do this again.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 03:56 AM

So very glad to see this news. Looking forward to Spaw posting here again!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 02:42 AM

more good news!

keep posting that good news.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Janie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:58 PM

Good on ya', Pat! (and Karen, Tristan and Michael.)

Keep getting well.

In the meantime, and beyond....

Be Well.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: maire-aine
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:41 PM

What a great way to start the new month!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:12 PM

I said it a long while back... just imagine how we will all feel when he posts again... and now many are all in anticipation as it may come in a week or so. What will his first post be? I have a prediction, and I don't think it contains any "nasty shit".

In case it does, fuck you too for scaring us all silly you broke dick prick.

Sorry... didn't mean too get so sentimental.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 08:50 PM

No SRS, Dave offered, it was his equipment, I told him just to please keep it. I am just glad that I could help. I was going to do that anyway but it is a shame that I had to wait 2 full weeks for something that never came nor will... who knows maybe someday the dang thing will show up. if it does then I will set it aside for autism or the next catter who crashes for that length of time-

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 08:28 PM

Hey, Dan, be sure you kick them UPSide the head to get the insurance for the parcel they lost, to cover that purchase! Otherwise we'll have to start sending you gift cards or something useful that helps defray the cost.

SRS