Nothing happened while you were gone, Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Janie
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:43 PM

On the 4th day of his vacation, Amos takes in the view from the cabana.

"Ahhh....life is very, very good."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:44 PM

Hey, that's ice cream! Just ice cream!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Bill D
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:44 PM

Ok, those of you who arrived early... is this the house we are partying in?... it's...ummm.. hard to tell after some of the 'alterations'.

Be very careful of that little shrub in the yard.....


(no, I am NOT gonna post the address ... if word gets around, we might have all them sailors from the Navy base in the harbor up here.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: MMario
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:45 PM

NINE to THREE?

What kiind of elitist administrative slack-off hoity toity types wrote THOSE lyics?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:53 PM

Arise, you prisoners of starvation
Arise, you wretched of the earth
For justice thunders condemnation
A better world's in birth.
No more tradition's chains shall bind us.
Arise you slaves, no more in thrall!
The earth shall rise on new foundations.
We have been naught, we shall be all.
T'is the final conflict
Let each stand in his place.
The international working class
Shall be the human race.
The international working class
Shall be the human race.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Janie
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:54 PM

Hope Amos recognizes it when he gets home.

Did I miss the start of the hockey match? What inning are we in?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 02:10 PM

Da mpucg 's snuck eteen mny vront eeth


Aside to MMario - it was originally Heigh ho Heigh ho it's off to school I go.


I blew up their goalie. Game over.


Janie - Barracuda blocked that last picture. Am I going to get fired for surfing the net looking for porno?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 May 09 - 02:34 PM

Sorry about pushing that button. Here, let me clean up the mess.

This is going to be a bear of a job!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 May 09 - 02:39 PM

I do't know why you're having trouble recognizing the place. I don't think it looks that different!

Nice touch with the elephant suits. They look so real, it's hard to believe they're really just polar bears.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 02:53 PM

The volcano is a nice touch. Don - leave it. It looks great.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 09 - 03:20 PM

Bill D, you're trying to scare people. We know this is the right house--he uses Mudcat as his homepage, and just look at his computer, it's a MAC, ferchrissake! How many zealots who have Mudcat cookies use Macs down here? Oh--I meant to ask--how was all of that beer? Stale, I bet. See if Rapaire has any more cold Moose Drool (the bottled variety, Rap, not the really fresh stuff).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 03:26 PM

Besides - he left his guitar and hat in the study - or what used to be the study...and used to be a guitar...actually we have no proof whose house this is. I wonder if anyone remembered to bring the wand from the tavern.

Meantime WATCH IT FRENCHIE! I see you behind the tree with your stick.


That is a stick, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 03:53 PM

We can just leave it. Amos likes to putter about the house, fixing things and working in the yard and all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: MMario
Date: 05 May 09 - 03:59 PM

Take food and booze with you when you leave, though. I'm sure Amos would want us to do so. He's generous.

And we wouldn't want to attract ants (or worse) if he's late getting home.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:01 PM

If he's smart he'll stay tied to his kayak once he gets home, so if he falls into any of these liquid-filled holes he can haul himself out into the boat. Maybe we'd better leave a few ropes tied to heavy furniture or beams and draped over the edge in a few spots, like they do in some places with flash floods and winter ice, where people need to rescue themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: MMario
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:03 PM

It's too bad we didn't think to document this on video. "Extreme Makeover - Mudcat Division" ; we could make a mint on downloads....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: GUEST,Slops Ragout
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:15 PM

So this is where he lives, huh? I knew him back when I waa his oiler on the "Firkin Maid", sailing out of Fiji under Panamanian Registry. Leastwise Amos said it was Panamanian Registry. I don't know myself. Yeah, I was the oiler. And the cook, when I wasn't oilin them shafts. I remember one night in Papeetee I think it was, Amos was oilin his shaft when the girls daddy came home. But enough of that. I brought him a present from my last trip. Not the cabin boy, nossir, but sosme of that bakolo and kava stuff he used to like so much.

You don't think he'll mind me sittin here on his settee for a bit do you? My clothes are kinda oily and dirty, but hell, old Amos won't care.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:15 PM

This is very exciting. I can't wait to see how the house implodes!

And Amos was thinking that his safe house could never be tracked down.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, from an undisclosed location

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:31 PM

Rolling into back yard with my paintball tank as the van full of paintball equipment rolls up into driveway.

Hiring a human target is quite expensive. Do we have any volunteers?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:38 PM

Got one for you, Tam. That Frenchie isn't a hockey player. He's a Morris Dancer. Oh good lord there's a whole side! No 2. No oh crap at least a dozen.

The tintinnabulation of the bells bells bells AARGHHHHH

Shoot, woman shoot!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 May 09 - 05:21 PM

No not the Morris dancers. They are endangered species. and it still isn't known how the all male sides propagate.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 05:28 PM

Asexually, like amoebas. Or amoebic dysentery.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: GUEST,Gluon The Cosmic Duck-Dog
Date: 05 May 09 - 05:30 PM

QUARK!!!


(Translation: You guys will never get this mess cleaned up. I, however, can fix it for ya... for a price. It's a simple matter of folding the space-time continuum in such a way that the existence of this party is hidden from view in your three dimensional universe. I can do it easily, uing my trusty ACME Space-Time Continuum Steam Iron and a can of Niagara Space-Time Continuum Spray Starch. You, on the other hand, didn't even know such things existed, did ya? Like I said, I'll do it for a price. And bring that goalie over here. I wanna hump his leg.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 09 - 05:48 PM

The giant squid has been very quiet--did he forget to stop playing hockey?

No, wait, darn it, someone turned the room temp down too low in the rink, he's stuck to the surface. DON'T SCRAPE HIM UP OR HE'LL LOOSE SUCKERS!!! Thaw him slowly so it won't hurt, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 09 - 06:05 PM

Calla Marie... she'll know what to do... Olyve Oil?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 May 09 - 06:32 PM

Paintball target volunteer? I really think that the ineffable MAX needs to get in on the blame fun. UH-OH...he heard that and took the site down....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 09 - 06:49 PM

"(no, I am NOT gonna post the address ... if word gets around, we might have all them sailors from the Navy base in the harbor up here.)" Bill D

Post it, Bill! San Diegans love their sailors.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 06:52 PM

Yeah! And with the Marines here too they'll get along like, oh, gasoline vapors and a match.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 09 - 07:16 PM

Well, she says dubiously, if you're sure you can control them. If you need help, just ask. Lots of muscle, not to mention music, in this place.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 07:49 PM

Not many brains, but lots of muscle and music. Sort of like the rowers on a trireme going into battle.

But I was thinking...we need something to roast marshmallows and stuff over. Does anyone besides myself understand...napalm??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 May 09 - 07:58 PM

The volcano isn't roasty enough for you, Rap? Must be one helluva big marshmallow...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:01 PM

Gasoline and soap flakes, cooked over a low fire? How about a few fougasses to barby the bronto?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:16 PM

Humming "All the nice girls love a sailor. All the nice girls love a tar..."

SINS carefully warms some salted water to melt the ice around the squid. SEVERN! Get away from that burner. We will have NO theatrics here.


WArm water in a watering can, add the spray attachment and, being sure to coat every damn bell with salt water, she heads for the ice rink. A little spray here and a little spray there and voila! though a strange shade of blue, the squid is free.

Meantime the rusty bells quiet down and the Morris Dancers make do with some single malt and ale. Apparently that careless remark about propagation has them all confused.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:16 PM

Oh, goody! I've always been partial to fougasse and willy peter and thermite and stuff. Gotta keep Amos' pipes from freezing up from the ice rink, don't we?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:29 PM

Pull up some planks and the saw horses I saw in the back of the garage, the FOOD IS READY! It took about 24 hours to roast that beast through, but there should be enough for the next couple of days.

Anything extra goes on Janie's fancy plates, covered with plastic and will be put on the rink to chill. But dig in. I brought some of Cousin's Bar-B-Que sauce from Fort Worth. It's the best! (Better get some of the silver from the kitchen, no way plastic cutlery is going to work with this meat.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:30 PM

I got my K-bar!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:37 PM

I haven't seen the cat. Has anyone seen the cat? Come to think of it, I haven't seen the naked nuns either. Is it time to slip back to the Tavern and put some thought into what we do next? So far, spontaneous (combustion and otherwise) has ruled, We really need a plan. And some more whiskey. We're out. Unless some place delivers. Maybe MMario knows...
That dirty man with all the strange drugs is making me nervous. He insists on lighting up near Rapaire.
Hey i know - what can we throw into the volcano?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:40 PM

Isn't that where the cat went? and the nuns?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Donuel
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:42 PM

Belize has the best selection of previously legally owned cars in the world.

What is Amos bronging back?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: frogprince
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:57 PM

Nah, after the nuns got naked, they all decided to use the door out to Black's Beach. We've been having a blast out there playing volleyball.
Woooah, I think that one section of charred shell is the room where I left my clothes! Is there a towel left intact around here? I'm used to resort etiquette, as in having one to sit on when you sit on folk's furniture. I woulda put my pants back on, but...like...what pants?...
Anyone got any after-sun lotion? I sorta lost track of time out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Bill D
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:58 PM

"Post it, Bill! San Diegans love their sailors"


Nawwww...he knows where *I* live, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 May 09 - 10:11 PM

...what can we throw into the volcano?

Well, tradition calls for a virgin, but they're in pretty short supply around here... How about a tanker truckload of extra virgin olive oil?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 09 - 10:38 PM

What a waste of perfectly good Olive Oyl! Ate who, Brutus? Toss him in instead.

Just when did Amos say he was coming back? I think we can extend the cleaning potential from the Tavern into the house, what with all of these connecting corridors, doorways, and bottomless pits, but someone has to keep an eye out and get the cleanup started before he walks in the door.

Eat, eat! The food is getting cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 09 - 10:43 PM

I do hope, when he finds this, that he decides that it is better to laugh his ass off and not off the asses who made this mess. Know what I mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 09 - 11:02 PM

Ain't nobody gonna off nobody, iffen ya catch ma drift....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Janie
Date: 05 May 09 - 11:05 PM

I think we have until at least Saturday to get the Welcome Home banner up -

Provided, of course, there is anything left upright to tie it to.


Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm heading for the victuals !




Not volunteering to get shoved in the volcano, but if time heals all things, it has been long enought that...oh, nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Janie
Date: 05 May 09 - 11:06 PM

Pardon the bold type.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 09 - 11:08 PM

Not to worry, Stilly- I've got my escape route all mapped out. Involves three of the connecting tunnels. He'll never even know I was here.

Not that I have much doubt that he'll know whom to credit - or blame, as may be.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 May 09 - 11:08 PM

Where the HELL is BARKY?!?!??!??!?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern commences @ Amos' house
From: Janie
Date: 05 May 09 - 11:15 PM

Amos and his tru-love gaze out at the moonlit cove.

Just think how excited he would be to know what he is missing at home!