BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Micca
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:51 AM

Tink, all I can say is " If THATS her Grannie," WOW!!!!!!!! and everyone is someones Mum, sister or Grannie,

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:56 AM

Can we have a 'Grab a Granny' night for us older drinkers please? Unless someone can explain to me what a 'Nick-knack Party' is.
I just hope this Mudcat Tavern Nouveau is better than that over rated Beaujolais Nouveau stuff they foist on us unsuspecting Brits each autumn.
A large Spey malt please barkeep, and don't contaminate it with coke, that's considered sacrilege in Scotland.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 07:50 AM

Indeed Giok - The only thing you put in Good Whisky is MORE Good Whisky .
Ok Sorch - Hows about a nice relaxed Raglan Road in D ? NOT in bloody B which was where I played it last night ! Actually had to switch the brain cell on !!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 08:01 AM

Something cool and easy I think... it's bloody sweltering out there! Raven the new kitty has had his first outing into the garden today..... I think he's a bit overwhelmed because he's now flaked out on my knee fast asleep! Pass over some kitty milk and some of that iced chocolate genever please?!   

(Memo to self... genever in glass, kitty milk in saucer... not the other way round..... euuuughghhhhhhhhh)!
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 08:52 AM

How about grab a non-Grannie for those of us who don't qualify?

The squid is not too well....*passes the squid to Troll

Soooooo here's the sick squid I owe you.

Ok...I know where the door is...I've been shown it enough times.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 08:55 AM

A good job it was your turn to have it that night Terry, otherwise when you tried to switch it on nothing would have happened. SNAFU!
I think I'll try a drop of Highland Park this time barkeeper, and can you serve it in a glass without a hole in it, the last drink just sort of disappeared.
Giok [ Hic!! ]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 09:00 AM

Jacqui could I have a piece of that ginger? Pretty please?

Another brandy alexander please barman....

I might just take it outside to the sprinkler...it's bloody hot in here...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 11:38 AM

YYAAWWNN1 Stretch; Grunt; Scratch!

Wha....Wha......HOLY FREEZHING HELL!

Why didn't shomebody wake me? I've been here three daysh. The wife'll go Apes**t.

I'd better throw my hat in firsht, ash a target for the rolling pin.

Shhee y'all later. That bitter'sh shtrong shtuff.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 12:11 PM

And there is Grannie
Swinging on the outhouse door
Without her nightie
Swinging on the outhouse door.

SO Tink, did she say who the srtist was or why it was put in the garden in the first place? Any pictures of it in pristene condition? Any info on the house and the mysterious basement or its occupants? She must know. Was Grannis a whore? Naked posing circa 1900 - HMMMM?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 03:32 PM

Pardon me, barkeep, but I would greatly appreciate a very, very good single malt Scotch.

On ice.

And pour some diet Pepsi on it; I've got to watch my blood sugars.


I've just come down from the Isle of Skye
And I'm not very big and I'm awfully shy
And the ladies say when I go by,
Donald, where's your trousers?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:29 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: C-flat
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:47 PM

Giok has either reacted badly to the "sick-squid" joke or, like me, is having a flashback of Andy Stewart on the "White Heather Club" new-years-eve special, elbows out, cheeky grin and a sly wink to camera!!

Or maybe there really is a hole in his glass of Highland Park.

I'll have what he's having!

C-flat.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: C-flat
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:48 PM

.............no coke!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:54 PM

I'm with Giok. The particular horror of the diminutive Stewart strutting around the set singing what was arguably the worst abortion ever to masquerade as a Caledonian song is one of the memories I would most like to forget.

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH indeed, and I'm not even a Scot.

Don T

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:08 PM

Well my sister used to sound cute singing it when she was three.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:40 PM

DIET PEPSI with a malt whisky NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Put what you like in a blended whisky, but there are only two things to put in a malt whisky, one is more whisky, and the other is pure Scottish water, about the same amount again as the whisky. You cannot possibly appreciate the taste of a decent malt if you adulterate it with any other additive, especially sugary soft drinks.
Barman pass me the Sal Volatile please.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: rumanci
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:46 PM

Barman ?
oh well - it is better than some of the names you call me

Here you are Giok

|_| One Sal Volatile and Diet Pepsi coming up

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:48 PM

Barman !! A Large Whisky , and Pronto !!



Certainly Sir - One large whisky and pronto coming up !

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:51 PM

EEeuuuwww someone said the 'D' word!!!!


Wee don' neeed no shteenkeen Dieyets......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 07:52 PM

(Before y'all go off the deep end, I'm jist a-funnin' y'all. My friend Alice was out here the first week in May and she brought me Knob Creek bourbon and a bottle of Scotch somebody gave her -- she don't drink that stuff. Something called...hell, I never heard of it afore...Bowmore. From Islay. I ain't had the guts ta open it yet. And I will drink that like I drink the Knob Creek, the 16 year old Bushmills, the 10 year old Bushmills, and any other GOOD whiskey or whisky -- neat, or with a small dollop of crystal water.
























Or maybe with cherry Kool-aid. I dunno.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 07:55 PM

The sculptor was the then owner of the house who she remembers as a German man named Hans. The statue was made in the late 30's or early fourties is her recollection. (But then again she hadn't even been dreamed of yet.) The woman said she would come back with photos taken during a party in the back yard. Hopefully I can get more information then. I love to find out about the speakeasy.

Two fingers of fine scotch please while I put up my feet and hear the faint strains of old blules drift up from the basement. Check those fiddle cases as they come in the door okay. Musicians only.

tink

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: bobad
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 09:41 PM

Bowmore whiskey from Islay (pronounced eye-lah by the way) is among my favorites. Its characteristics are smokey, peaty, iodiney and slightly carbolic with the tang of the salt air coming in off the Atlantic.

Is it 12 or 15 years old ?

I used to indulge in the 12 year old as it was all I could afford, and only on occasion. The price here has now gone beyond my range ($50 cdn).It can be had in Vermont for $18 U.S. and I enjoy it on my yearly trip down.

Drink it with a splash of good spring water and you'll be transported to the rugged wind-whipped shores of Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 10:07 PM

Well, since Alice brought it around the fourth of May, I figger its at least six weeks old. I mean, come on...she's from Kentucky!

Actually, I think it's the 15 year old stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Troll
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 10:22 PM

I said th' "D" word Liz.

Y'know that theres not enough alcohol in th'Tavern to satisfy me if ever I start again. I'm stayin' teetotal fer YOUR sake and the sake of everyone else who drinks.

Don't deny me my Diet Pepsi.

Will someone take the squid? It just made a mess on my shoes.

Ah well, they'll just have to be black from now on.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:59 AM

Bobad - as far as I'm concerned ~ ALL malt whiskeys are carbolics... I'm far more interested in a drop of Ba'jan's finest (that's Barbadian to you), mixed tall with some lime juice, enough ice to put polar bears on and full fat coca cola..... I'm one of these people who CAN tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi....

Mmmm.. this is baad... it's not even 8.00am on a Sunday morning and I've got a hankering for a tall R&C....

Nurse! The SCREENS!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:25 AM

I should leave the Tavern and go to chur...nah.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:50 AM

Not generally a spirit drinker myself, but el_punkoid_nouveau and I went to a tasting of bourbons and they were wonderful..we ended up buying a bottle of Fighting Cock and it's the only spirit (apart, perhaps from Navy rum) that I can drink straight...and do.....often.....

Diet anything is a no-no....added synthetic sweetners, which all diet drinks contain, are a REALLY bad idea. You wait and remember my words...in another year or two it will be all the headlines etc that sweetners are terrible for you and do all sorts of horrible damamge. If you MUST drink non-alcoholic, the best thing is either water, or water with a squeeze of lemone juice, preferably with ice.

Now...back to the brandy alexanders..(Hmmm, there's a thought...wonder what a bourbon alexander is like?)...what are we singing at the moment?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: rumanci
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:52 AM

spirituals ?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: rumanci
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:53 AM

neat !!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: GUEST,Leadfingers
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 10:23 AM

Sunday morning the songs HAVE to have SOME religious content I suppose ! So I will leave the Guiness and have a Malt Whisky -That's as Spiritual as I am going to get .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 12:20 PM

I saw a butterfly flutter by,
Fie, man, fie!
I saw a butterfly flutter by,
Who's the fool now?
I saw a butterfly flutter by,
Saw a dragonfly drink a flagon dry –
Thou hast well drunken and who's the fool now!

Anyone want a hit on my bottle of Echo Springs whisky?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Leadfingers
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 12:28 PM

[_] Cheers Charley

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 12:28 PM

Sounds good to me Charlie! It'll make a nice nightcap before I go to bed.

I saw a flea heave a tree,
fie, man, fie
I saw a flea heave a tree,
who's the fool now
I saw a flea heave a tree,
twenty miles out to sea
Thou hast well drunken, man,
who's the fool now?

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 01:23 PM

Here ya go, Lead.

I don't care if it rains or freezes
'Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Lyin' on the dashboard of my car.
I can go a hundred miles an hour
Long as I got the Almighty Power
Screwed up there with my pair of fuzzy dice.
Halleluia! Halleluia!

JD on the rocks with a twist, please.

And somebody get that squid into a tank. He's suckin' up all the crystallized ginger.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:05 PM

When I drive around at night
And the cops think that I'm tight
They won't find my bottle tho' they ask:
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For his head comes off you see
He's hollow and I use him for a flask.

Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus, ridin' on the dashboard of my car...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:23 PM

Drape the squid over the sprinkler. . . that's right. . . hmmmm. . . he seems to be inflating.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:40 PM

* I saw a maid milk a bull
Fie man, fie.
Saw a maid milk a bull
Who's the fool now?
Saw a maid milk a bull,
Every pull a bucket full
Thou hast well drunken man
Who's the fool now?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 04:01 PM

Oh the black cat piddled in the white cat's eye
And the white cat said cor blimey
Well the black cat said you silly little sod
You shouldn't have stood behind me.

Mud in your eye Cats!

Giok

[It goes to the tune of 'The Girl I Left Behind Me']

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:46 PM

OK, here I am back from a weekend of bluegrass music and mud. Where's me corner chair and bottle of chardonnay? I hope you lot have left me some ginger, I need it at the moment. I think I'll have to feed some to Kendall, for some reason he's had a bit of a dicky tummy this weekend, can't have anything to do with copious amounts of alcohol that he drank Friday night........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:15 PM

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:20 PM

I saw the man in the moon
fie, man, fie
I saw the man in the moon
who's the fool now
I saw the man in the moon
And the inn a man mooned
Thou hast well drunken, man,
who's the fool now?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:10 PM

Not me!! I've got chocolates!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:41 PM

Liquer-filled chocolates...yummmmm!

Stolnichniya, por favor, and ice cold!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:44 PM

The ginger is in the squid, Jacqui. Fancy some spicy calamari?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 03:34 AM

£6

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: JennyO
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 06:55 AM

Serves him right for eating all that ginger!

EEEUUWWWW! And I was going to have some of that too. Think I'll let the squid have it now.

Interesting variation on words there, Micca...

'ow about anovver one of zose whhisshhhhky's Chaaaaarlie, hic?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:49 AM

If that squid's eaten ALL the ginger he's stir fry!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 08:07 AM

Stir fry Squid and ginger ? Another Thai meal ??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 08:09 AM

Yep - he'll be 'Thaid' in knots if I get my hands on him.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Nouveau
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 08:20 AM

Thai me to the moon and let me
fie man fie
Fry me some ginger squid
I am full now
Buy me malt and now, it'll go with Pad ga Pow
Now you've put coke in it
Who's the fool now.

A large Old Pulteney please barman.

Giok