BS: Safety

Subject: BS: Safety
From: Louie Roy
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 05:58 PM

How did some of the other mudcatters celebrate the day before Xmas. I was out with a bunch of my friends and after having a couple of beers and several bloody marries topped off with a bottles of red wine I did something that I'd never done before I took a Taxi home. I knew we would probably run into a road block but being in a taxi they waved the taxi through and I got home safely. But since I had never driven a taxi before and I don't know where I got it and now that it is in my garage I don't knw what to do with it so if any of you mudcatters would like to borrow it for New Years eve let me know

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: GUEST,frogprince
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 07:06 PM

On the one New Years eve when things got most seriously out of control for me, I was, fortunately, only about four blocks from my Chicago apartment. I was doing all right going home until just as I was rounding the last corner; then someone stepped on my hand.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 07:48 PM

It's all right for you lot. Since late November I've been posting from inside a fairy ring. I can't get out unless I can find a willing Christian to do a chant. No luck so far. A month on just mushrooms is not funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 08:19 PM

I suspect that you are lying, Steve. Fairy rings are very small, and there isn't mushroom in them.


Sounds better when you say it. And when I thought of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 08:46 PM

You haven't been to the downs in Bude. The fairy rings are a hundred yards across. I'm in one of 'em right now. You don't know any Christian chants by any chance, do you?

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 09:12 PM

"Oh Sweet Bitterness!
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I too have been covered with thorns."

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 10:08 PM

Okay. Here's a Christian chant. Gregorian, no less.

Dies irae, dies illa,
Solvet saeclum in favilla:
Teste David cum Sibylla.

Quantus tremor est futurus,
Quando iudex est venturus,
Cuncta stricte discussurus!

Tuba mirum spargens sonum
Per sepulcra regionum,
Coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,
Cum resurget creatura,
Iudicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur,
In quo totum continetur,
Unde mundus iudicetur.

Judex ergo cum sedebit,
Quidquid latet apparebit:
Nil inultum remanebit.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus?
Cum vix iustus sit securus.

Rex tremendae maiestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Salva me, fons pietatis.

Recordare Iesu pie,
Quod sum causa tuae viae:
Ne me perdas illa die.

Quaerens me, sedisti lassus:
Redemisti crucem passus:
Tantus labor non sit cassus.

Iuste Iudex ultionis,
Donum fac remissionis,
Ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco, tamquam reus:
Culpa rubet vultus meus:
Supplicanti parce Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti,
Et latronem exaudisti,
Mihi quoque spem didisti.

Preces meae non sunt dignae:
Sed tu bonus fac benigne,
Ne perenni cremer igne.

Inter oves locum praesta,
Et ab haedis me sequestra,
Statuens in parte dextra.

Confutatis maledictis,
Flammis acribus addictis,
Voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum quasi cinis:
Gere curam mei finis.

Lacrimosa dies illa,
Qua resurget ex favilla

Judicandus homo reus:
Huic ergo parce Deus.

Pie Iesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. Amen.

Now bring me a beer or six.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Dec 15 - 10:31 PM

hahahhah You poor fellas. Good luck to you then.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 01:49 AM

I can't drive, so won't need it, besides as I live in the suburb zillions of Sydneysiders flood into to celebrate New year, I tend to stay home & try to ignore it

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 02:22 AM

"I tend to stay home & try to ignore it"

Me too, I can't stand being surrounded by a horde of piss-heads bellowing at each other, and all the false bonhomie. Worst spectacle of all is the linking hands and singing that bloody awful song at midnight, followed by the bouts of tonsil-hockey between complete strangers.

Vile.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 03:31 AM

I stopped going out on New Year's Eve when it occurred to me that I had never had a good time on that night. Everybody trying too hard, too loud, too *everything* became too much. Discovered that I enjoy being by myself on the occasion and toasting the year in in a bit of a ritual. Now New Year's is my favorite night!

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 04:46 AM

Midnight on New Years Eve will see me and my good lady down on the beach, bottle of Champagne in one hand, handful of rockets to pass to whoever is setting off the fireworks and hopefully the piper up on the cliff. Cracking place to see the New Year in.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 05:29 AM

Tonsil hockey is good. Just got to avoid the pit monsters.

We'll be in the local pub. Tonsil hockey with one particular barmaid sounds like my idea of heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 06:25 AM

Play me that, Rapparee, to the tune of Mozart's Requiem and I'll happily stay in the fairy ring!

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 06:07 PM

Strange New Years traditions 

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 08:36 PM

We operate number two on that list, Ed. I'm the tall dark stranger and have been for at least fifty years. I knock on the door as soon as I hear the village church chime midnight, bearing a plate which holds a lump of coal, a pinch of salt, a piece of bread and a silver coin. I expect to be greeted by all within and handed a goodly tot of Scotland's finest (even though I'm in Cornwall). If we happen to have been out beyond midnight, I have previously ensured that said plate is secreted outside somewhere, so that the others can go in first while I rescue the plate, after which I knock on the door. The New Year absolutely must be let in. It can't get in by itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 08:38 PM

Louie... thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 15 - 09:38 PM

Okay, Mr. Shaw! Here ya go!

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 01:44 AM

Mrs. Fenswoman and I retire to bed at our usual time - 10:30, or thereabouts - on New Year's Eve. We don't subscribe to mediaeval superstition and practices, and tomorrow's just another day as far as we're concerned.

Of course, we spend the hours from midnight until two or three a.m. cursing the piss-headed, shit-for-brains clowns who yawp about in the street, setting fireworks off and disturbing our sleep, but hey-ho, at least we're warm and comfy, and we won't feel like shit in the morning!

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Fossil
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 03:11 AM

I have sung Mozart's Requiem, too Rapp!

Nice try, half a cigar!

Happy New Year, all

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 06:41 AM

Thank you, Rapparee. Someone added a bit on to the Sequence at the beginning and cut lumps out of if! I stop listening at the point at which Mozart finally put his quill down, at the first part of the Lacrymosa.

Subject: RE: BS: Safety
From: GUEST,Stella Maris
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 07:41 PM

Mozart's Dies Irae