BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 09:07 PM

From the kitchen comes a hearty voice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 11:24 PM

and the smell of grilled auroch drifts in from the yard beyond the kitchen door. Mmario's spirit is strong in the pantry as well (and seen off to the side of the room is a basket with a heap of a wool shawl, a ball of yarn and a crochet hook glinting in the light.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Severn
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 07:58 PM

Those left in The Tavern burst out in song commemorating Severn's 75th birthday. Some of those remember when he was young and in the way....

Some of the doctors and nurses from the hospital have even drifted in to sing...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 09:56 PM

And many happy returns! A squid starts a windup to throw some birthday cake in Severn's general direction.

Duck!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 02:13 AM

Happy Birthday (thud)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 08:03 AM

A new Christmas tune 'Extremes on Earth and Advil to men' is heard coming from Siri.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 10:47 AM

It's 2024! If you're anywhere from Kiribati to, almost, Shanghai...

So far...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 08:39 PM

He has been walking around the Tavern, clutching a flagon of something alcoholic while trying to get a certain duckdog to stop humping his leg. “How interesting,” he thinks, “that I have ambled through 2023 and 2024 and now I’m back in 2023. DAMN IT STOP THAT! My leg is not for your gratification! Go do Squiddy — there are more legs there!”

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:25 PM

Ooh, is the tiger duck here too? The one from Panama, where everything smells like bananas?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 08:55 PM

The valve oil for his trumpet smelled like banana oil. The reason for this is unknown, at least to the trumpeter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 24 - 03:06 PM

Maybe it's the Unseen University's librarian.

Crivens!

Ook!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 24 - 10:18 AM

Excuse me? Librarians do NOT smell like bananas. Some smell Ike musty old leather-bound books and in the past some smelled like nickel cigars, cheap pipe tobacco, inexpensive perfumes, and even of less-than-the-best beverages, but improved wages helped correct that. But bananas? Fie upon the thought!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Severn
Date: 03 Jan 24 - 10:47 AM

Many people wished me many happy returns, but this year, fittingly enough, everything was the right size and color and/or was quite satisfactory.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 24 - 03:23 PM

Tee hee!

This parTICular librarian likes bananas, but does not smell like them, not being in Panama.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 24 - 03:10 PM

Aha, from Mrrzy I catch the reference to Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld fiction.
Their librarian is an orangutan if memory serves.

Of course Rapparee would never smell of bananas.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 06:52 AM

With only a day to go for the 12 days of Christmas an ASPCA raid on the tavern claiming cruelty to Aurochs, Wombats and Bats has cleared the wildlife from the pub. I'm puzzled that there was no mention of squid.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 07:11 PM

The Epiphany Tavern 2024??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 10:17 PM

Indeed! The twelfth knight was joust here...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jan 24 - 03:58 PM

But what of the Three Kings?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 08:02 PM

The three Kings -- Martin Luther, BB, and Elvis -- got into a Ferrari and drove off after living gifts of banjoes, bagpipes, and bodhrans. He talked them out of also leaving oboes, hautboys, and cowbells. Quietly he starts preparing the Tavern for the next event by covering the furniture, shutting down the taps, being sure the fire is out in the stoves, and petting Squiddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 08:22 PM

has the Wombat left?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 08:18 PM

Hibernating behind the bar with some bear that wandered in.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 09:06 PM

sleep well in your Dreamtime, Wombat

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Severn
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 11:56 PM

Severn, having begged a ride back to Rockville MD in able to resume his duties as The Librarian Incongruous Of The Library Of Digress in order to get out the best from the archive his listeners. He is wishing there was someway that he could broadcast the tavern or even the recovery ward live.......

For The Mudcat Epiphany Tavern, are the participants restricted to playing only Epiphone musical instruments?

By the same token, when the C. F. Martin, Luthier King holiday finally rolls around, will there be similar restrictions on instrumentation?......

Let nothing you dismay!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Severn
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 09:40 PM

R.I.P. Gnu. This place will never b be there same without you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 11:36 PM

harpy still alive but just barely

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jan 24 - 02:47 PM

Well, the Tavern this year opened with the passing of Shane MacGowan,
and now it closes with the death of gnu.
So gnu has joined the ranks of Mudcat Taverns Past.