BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered

Subject: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 07:39 AM

It's that time of year again...

Many of us are left in total bewilderment regarding certain happenings across the pond (from my side) or across state lines (from the other side) or across the universe (from Chongo's side), so here's a place to chill, hang, and other things ending with out, all on Bert's card.

The place has been de-loused, de-furred, de-scaled and de-corated, the sign saying 'wet paint' is an observation and a warning, not an instruction. The decks have been swabbed (cultures are being examined in the lab as I type), the bar polished, the barbeque scoured, the chairs reupholstered (I went for wipe clean leather) and the beams dusted (for prints if nothing else). Even the squid was put through the car wash.

So come on in, pull up a chair, pour a drink and make mine a large one please, the anti-biotics have finished and I still feel like crud!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: olddude
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 08:33 AM

Dear Liz
you are a light in the darkness my friend ... I will have a diet coke please

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 10:18 AM

Well, what a find. Go out walking and who knows what one comes upon.

I'll have something a bit stronger. I would like to say that I'll take a stinger- light on the creme de mint - but I discovered after a long absence that a stinger is a serious drinker's drink so I'll have just a nice glass of cabernet instead.

(Settles into a deep, cushiony chair, satisfied)

So how is everyone? Anybody here who went to the Getaway?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: ranger1
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 10:37 AM

No, I think we're all Getaway Absentees in here. It's too early in the morning for me to think about alcohol, so make mine a big cup of Wicked Joe's Wicked Chocolate coffee, lots of cream and a little sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 11:48 AM

I got up at 5:30 AM, to catch a flight home, and now I am home,and it's about 5 PM, it doesn't feel like it's the same day.
Going to see Andy Irvine tonight, so just a beer shandy for the moment.
Thanks Bert!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 01:03 PM

Sounds good, John Mac, but what comprises a 'beer shandy'? I've heard it many times but I still don't know.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 02:01 PM

If we combine the Mudcat Tavern with the Mudcat Recovery Ward

I propose
Intravenous Inebriation

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Will Fly
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 02:14 PM

I'm just back from my "local" - where I've consumed a pint of bitter (Fuller's 'London Pride') and several shots of Mount Gay Rum in the 'Old Gits' Corner. So, I'm in a mellow mood and happy to join the company here. I bring with me a bottle of Alnwick Rum - blended in the ancient Northumbrian market town of Alnwick - and I commend it to you all. It warms, it pleases, it makes one happily and gently feathered.

Cheers, dear hearts!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 02:22 PM

"This is a funny sort of launderette. I can't see any washing machines."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 02:33 PM

Beer and clear lemonade 50/50 Ebbie.

Also very nice to use ginger beer instead of lemonade.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: open mike
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 02:49 PM

I wish I had a picture the shirt i made for a fire victims' benefit 2 years ago it said "How to get from bewilder to re-builder"   I am still trying to figure out how.....so if this place is for the bewildered, i represent that!!

meanwhile, as i posted recently on my facebook page,
when life gives you lemons, insist on salt and tequila!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 03:16 PM

That's what UKers call "lemonade" not what USAians (or Lemonade Lady) call "lemonade".

So wehre is the said tavern?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: gnu
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 03:20 PM

Two steps forward, one step backward, three steps to the side... wait, no... that's how you get out.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 03:26 PM

How much have you had to drink Richard... You are in it...

There are no absolutes in life... only vodka.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 03:47 PM

Oh. There used to be something on the mudcat entry pages referring tot he mudcat Tavern, and I thought there might ahve been a spinoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 06:02 PM

Just keep an eye out to your left Richard, the squid pit is still a bit tacky....







Well what else would you call pink plastic flamingoes on an orange artificial lawn? Has Sins been decluttering her garage again?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 11:00 PM

Hi! I'm just back from Getaway and I want to start the 12 Step Program.

Poteen, for the first step. And I'll squeeze from Sterno for the second.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 12:48 AM

Just back from the Getaway and not sure if I belong here or in the Recovery Ward.
Here I can share that due to a luggage snafu of my own creating, I arrived without luggage and survived on borrowed undies.
If I win the lottery I promise you will have your chance Miss Lizzie. Though I am not sure that THEgsgw IS UP TO THE CHALLENG, dAMN cAPSLOCK.aLICE IS STRUTTING ON THE KEYBOARD.
mORE TOMORROW.
sins

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Slag
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 02:38 AM

You can double my last double double, if it's not toil or trouble. Too bad that you sanded half the flavoring off the grill but it should come back in a week or two.

Just learned that there is a place (a town?) in California named "Starfleet". I gotta go check it out but if there is such a town, it WOULD be in California.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Slag
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 02:49 AM

OK, there is and there isn't. It's not worth the search. However there is a place called Orris that really is and isn't. You'll find it on most maps of California but that's the only place you'll find it. Why do I bring that up here? Do you know how hard it was to find THIS PLACE? Well, it's not like "Nowhere" Arizona on the stretch between Kingman and Phoenix.

Therefore, and in conclusion, I've been to Nowhere but not Starfleet. I've been to Orris but it was NOWHERE. I'm here now as in "Be Here NOW" (wasn't that by Baba Rham Das?) with my double double double, reading my copy of Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes. Night All

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 08:16 AM

Now I'm so bewildered I can't remember where I left the jello delivery tanker.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 08:38 AM

It usually falls to me to call for and set up the recliners for those who like a good long sit in the Tavern, and I'm too busy this year for recliners myself... but here they are for those who want them:

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Better not set 'em too close-- they're breeder stock.

Somebuddy with time for HTML pretties might want to paint them in color; I was thinking of our dear Alison whose name Sir Mick the Big always paints in multicolor. AKA particolor... so for party-colors..... you get the picture. A nod to her in her troubles.

As for me, Liz, just a quick, strong cuppa to take on my scooter (I call her Sugar Dog)... and if the Jello Pit becomes ADA compliant I'll be back when I can. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 08:55 AM

Can you give me the root to Orris?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: olddude
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 11:50 AM

I don't know Orris but I know Orvis, best fishin poles ever !!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 12:41 PM

Hardy's of Alnwick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 12:44 PM

Mehead, it spinneth.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: MMario
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 01:14 PM

Ebbie - I missed you!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 01:33 PM

Leo, I missed you too! sob

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: MMario
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 02:08 PM

lemmee tell you - there is some incredible young talent coming up...based on what we saw at the FSGW Getaway this weekend; can't wait to see them develop - because they are starting WAY up the scale.....

HEY! Who the HECK has been in my KITCHEN! They've wrecked the seasoning on the grill; my Pink Himalayan sea salt was moved and the Hawaiian Black salt is MISSING!

If the tenderloin of baby brontosaurus is missing from the freezer heads are going to ROLL!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Amos
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 02:13 PM

Second the motion. As for bewilderment, I have found it absolutely confuzzling to land amongst people who do not sing and who talk about "product lines" and "human resources" instead of people making things, and especially instead of peeople making music. I am reminded of the look of bewilderment on DOrothy's face when she came out of her house after it landed, and found herself surrounded by alien bipeds speaking in strange tongues; her whole mindset was still in Kansas and she couldn't deal with this new reality. mine is still in the Peace cabin listening to Janie do "Shake Sugaree" and Ernie belting out his stuff, and trying to keep up with Jed's amazing instrumental talent. The Munchkins and Gillikins in this other world do not play music--they only download it, and it is in bizarre scales and voicings I cannot understand. Talk about a bridge too far...Anyone seen my ruby slippers?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 03:02 PM

Mario - wasn't that brontosaurus disguised as chicken that they covered in pineapple and plopped on rice at the Getaway? I thought you had contributed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 03:10 PM

Sins-

That could NOT have been baby brontosaurus: If it were, it would have tasted like chicken!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: MMario
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 03:22 PM

I dunno bruce - the chicken didn't taste like chicken - why should bronto?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 03:40 PM

Maybe it was gladusaurus!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 03:54 PM

And you think it was chicken because???

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Slag
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 05:50 PM

Orris is on the old Ducor Road (Ducor-at one time it was Dutch Corners but got shortened) between the towns of Ducor and Richgrove. The road parallels the Old Porterville highway (65) which was at one time the old Butterfield Stage Coach Road. Google it and check out Google maps and for a real clear picture of it use Google Earth. Of course they ask you if you want to make Airline reservations, hotel accomodations and etc. but... Well, check it out!

I having second thoughts (as I WAS bewildered last night) and can't remember if it was Nowhere AZ or Nothing AZ. Gotta check that one, It's been too many years.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 06:14 PM

Orris root

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Slag
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 06:56 PM

Yup, it was Nothing!

"What did you do today Sheila?"
"Nothing."
"You little hussey!"

I claim the "T" shirt consessions!
"I've seen Nothing!"
"I know Nothing"
"Doing nothing in Nothing"

Take 93 South out of Kingman and see Nothing!
I gotta move. I'm having more fun with Nothing than I am here!

Orris, Sister City to Nothing.

There's nothing in Orris
But something in Nothing.
Are you bewildered yet? Have a drink on me!
It'll cost you Nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 07:05 PM

Whatever you say, say Nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 07:48 PM

Nothin' ain't nothin' but it's free.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: GUEST,Ebbie, housesitting
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 08:06 PM

Insert 'worth' somewhere in there.


Good to know I'm in the right place.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 10:05 PM

Pausing at in-laws on the way home from the Getaway...glad I found the hidden door into here!

Slept 11 1/2 hours last night, and I wasn't one of the sing-all-night crowd. 3 nights and 2 days of wonderful non-stop music, and the only things that I regret are that I couldn't clone myself so I could hear everything and that the place was teetotal. Gimme a beer, please. On second thought, gimme 2. Then again, just let me have one of those recliners, shove one end of the hose into a keg, and give me the other end. Oh yeah...and a slice of 0f roast bronty, medium rare.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 10:50 PM

Me too -- two kegs. I've been wandering around all day in a fog.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 02:45 AM

Damnnn!

an infestation

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 04:18 AM

Keep yer gin up, Giok.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 09:49 AM

And pull your giok up, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 10:47 AM

Mario in the kitvhen:
"I've got plenty of nothin' and nothin's plenty for me..."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 01:55 PM

I am befuddled. Can I stay anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 02:20 PM

Bewitched, befuddled and bewildered....

Talisker, please. The sun has passed the meridian.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered
From: maeve
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 02:25 PM

I see a new wing has been built onto the tavern, gnu: Relax in the Mirimichi Lounge.