BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023

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.

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: 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: 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: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 09:06 PM

sleep well in your Dreamtime, Wombat

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: 08 Jan 24 - 08:22 PM

has the Wombat left?

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: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jan 24 - 03:58 PM

But what of the Three Kings?

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: 05 Jan 24 - 07:11 PM

The Epiphany Tavern 2024??

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 02:13 AM

Happy Birthday (thud)

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: 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: 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: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 09:07 PM

From the kitchen comes a hearty voice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 11:55 AM

Honey badger don't give a dam, either. Beware their offspringing honey wombadgers!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 01:56 AM

Today's wombats don't nudge, they IGNORE anything in the way to where they are going - they just go through whatever it is. My friend had to give up his plan for a lovely picket fence.

Manners were always better in the past ... everything was always better in the past says sandra as she reaches for another hot buttered crumpet while listening to the music of The Good Old Days.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: GUEST, Ghost of Mudcat Taverns Past
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 04:13 PM

A quiet moment after the last song fades allows a faint hum and whirr to heard in the large tavern space, possibly drifting through an air vent up near the ceiling. The wombat nudges open a side door on that side of the tavern to reveal a coat closet full of overcoats and boots but with a door visible in the back wall. Mudcat Recovery Ward is printed on an index card and held in place on the door with yellowed tape. The sound is louder now, yet still muffled.

A strangely conformed bird dog appears from nowhere (it snuck in behind Rapparee and has listened quietly all month). The dog snuffles and scratches at the Recovery Ward door until the latch releases. Now the tavern customers can hear the clear sonorous tones of Art Thieme holding court. The captive audience members in the Ward groan in their beds, and it isn't certain if they are in pain or reacting to the puns.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: GUEST,Ghost of Mudcat Taverns Past
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 03:20 PM

A shortish rotundish impish spirit shimmers into view behind the bar. No instrument, just a twinkle in his eye, he performs unaccompanied a bastardized version of The Franklin Expedition, followed by a number that the assembled room seems to recognize and sing along with, The Gladiator.

Whisky bottles are heard to clink as he fades into the mirror behind the long wooden counter. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: GUEST, Ghost of Mudcat Taverns Past
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 02:50 PM

Another shadow can be seen to shimmer, a taller form with a banjo is only in discernable when the head is turned and viewers glance out of the corner of the eye. It's Jed Marum's spectral form. The clear tone of the instrument is heard, then Jed sings Banjos We Have Heard on High, followed by The Scotsman. The specter chuckles and is heard to say "Brian Bowers just sang it, Mike Cross wrote it. . ."

His laughter fades into the eaves. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 12:37 PM

Oh, and don't even try to hiccup and sneeze.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 03:49 PM

In that order, for he is very aware that doing both together causes your head to implode.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 09:03 AM

The bat was singing harmony, but in ultrasonics...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: GUEST, Ghost of Mudcat Taverns Past
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 11:57 AM

Shadows at the back of the room shift but the source of light is indistinct. A faint strumming is heard and as it reaches the squids and bats and wombat they each settle into a quiet pose. People in the room notice the shift in energy and detect the guitar strings.

Amos starts to sing.

The room is silent, except for a few sniffles. He sings another.

Rapaire (old spelling) burps then blows his nose.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 08:35 AM

The bat is flittering around, clutching some mistletoe, hovering suggestively over varous folks...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 08:06 AM

Cranberry is just a tasty natural preservative but Mistletoe berries have opioid qualities.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 03:20 AM

Hello? Are you open Xmas Day? I've got a tanker full of cranberry flavoured jello here for the tub and a trailer full of mistletoe.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 09:25 PM

Let the raucous sleighbells jingle
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle
Driving his reindeer across the sky
Don't stand underneath when they fly by!

Is the flue open? Is the chimney swept? Is the fire out?

I wanna size 40 stocking! rumbles the ghost of Lee Hayes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 08:14 PM

Up on the roof there is the stomping of reindeer hooves, the sound a sleigh brake breaking, and a not-so-jolly voice using definitely unChristmas-like language.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 12:20 PM

Synching lips loose ships, don't they? That crash musta been some ship coming loose, somewhere.

Salesmanship? Authorship? Worship? Yeah, the wor ship just busted out into some solstice song or other, but that wouldn't have caused the crash. Maybe it was the rhinoceri...

The dragons are going back for more riz sauce piment, as their fires were getting dim, as were the wits of the various folkies whose bats are in that belfry.

*The* bat has taken its head out of the sour cream it had dunked into to avoid erupting in actual flames, and is also going back for more. It looks like it has a white Santa beard, but it doesn't know it yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Severn
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 11:20 PM

Batavia, one of bats from the tavern belfryt Tells our Australian visitor that there's yet another womb bat in the building, as she is pregnant. Glasses are raised all around in a congratulatory toast!

After the ghost of Amos finishes his song, Severn offers to start up one. When someone asks if he will be lip synching, Severn replies that he'd much rather cause jaws to drop than to cause lips to synch and launches into a traditional Floridian Christmas carol called "O, Tanning Balm" singing something about lovely limbs, before he is rudely interrupted by a loud crashing noise........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Severn
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 10:49 PM

To Donuel and others who have asked. The radio shows that I do are on WOWD FM 94.3 community radio within 7 miles or so of Takoma Park Maryland or streamable worldwide at
takomaradio.org
My two hour monthly shift on 'Ballads In The Morning" was on Friday Dec. 22nd from 8-10am an featured half music of Christmas and half of Winter in general and.d will be archived to the public for two weeks after it was originally broadcast by going to the above site.

You have a few days left before Christmas itself to time in and enjoy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 09:44 AM

Curry? CURRY? C'est pas l'Afrique, ça. Néanmoins, condor, bat, and various small dragons are now flying around breathing fire...

Lighting the 9 candles stuck in some poor individual's Labia Menorah!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 08:06 AM

Even a butthard crumpet gets harder with age but these just melt in your mouth.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 07:46 AM

sandra did not try it as she can't stand firey stuff, but would still like a buttered crumpet

please & thankyou

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 04:08 AM

The African Man has brought a pot of his dangerously fiery curry sauce, and he's put it on the table as a 'dip' with some crackers. The old lady watches as people try it then choke, cough and shriek! Buttered crumpets are offered, to dull the pain.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 06:14 PM

The giant wombat starts as an eldritch shriek emanates from outside the half-open window. It gets more and more unbearable, the pain, oh the pain.....

.....then the door opens once more, and a bagpiper strolls into the tavern.

"G'day, mate!" he says. "I'm Bruce, Sheila is coming too."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2023
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 04:55 PM

And the condor in the rafters is getting hyperactive.