BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?

Subject: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Caitrin
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:55 PM

Well, as some other 'catter said, "Theme nights are fun, but..." it's nice to have the old place back. The tavern was where I first got hooked on the forum, sucked in by the lure of Big Mick's recipes. So, welcome back to the Mudcat Tavern, hope of folkie fun and fellowship!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Mbo
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 10:08 PM

Caitrin, come over to Hearme, quick! I'm gonna do something good!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:06 AM

Caitrin, there's no place in this wide world I would rather be. Now who wants to hear "Blown Away?"

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: paddymac
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:49 AM

Who's pullin' pints here. I need one quick. Had a rehearsal tonight which went well, and on the way home I had a close encounter with the local constabulary. Seems as tho I inadvertently went straight on a left turn arrow, thereby technically running the light. Talk about feeling stupid! As luck would have it, the man behind the badge was a humane fellow and sent me on my way with an admittedly well-deserved scolding and an ample dose of humble pie. Make that two pints - I'm walking home from here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:52 AM

Hey, keeper, put paddymac's pint on my tab. Anyone who can charm an ossifer into humanity must be a Folkiste Extraordinaire!

Caitrin, when you come back I have a couple of hundred cookies more than I needed -- would you like to distribute them? Delicious they are but my waist doesn't understand my tastebuds anymore!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Escamillo
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:38 AM

Are there power amplifiers here ? No ? wheeewww! I'm just coming from the thread on "sound enginners deaf" - wait - I'll take out my earplugs - aaahh..
It is 3:30 AM in Buenos Aires and we have 24 C degrees - expecting a day of 40 C - please pass me that pint for a bath and another to drink..
Un cálido abrazo - Andrés

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 08:55 AM

It's nice to be "home" ---is the magical mystical caffiene machine still...there it IS! Yes! Coffee Royale, ummmm....

Mbo - you claim to be lyricly impaired, and yet do such nice re-writes of standard tunes? I should be so impaired! I'm going to try to talk my group into your Morning has broken.....

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:17 AM

Whew! Are my little pinkies tired from transcribing all these wonderful songs you guys are writing lately! Can this tired old Keeper of the Book have a half pint of Guinness (for medicinal purposes only, of course)? And don't tell me it's too early in the morning for it, either. I've been up half the night with a tummy ache and I need something to settle my frayed nerves.

Aaaaahhhhh, that's better. Now I can handle some of your wonderful coffee, MMario. Well, Happy St. Bridget's Day everyone! The scones and jam are on me this morning!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:33 AM

*eg* *veg* Áine - the thought of scones and jam on you this morning.....

Are you trying to drive the men in here nuttier?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:39 AM

Where, exactly, on you are they? I won't go any further on this one, though, because it has the makings of a bawdy ditty I _don't_ want to write! ("And she said she would show me her sweet scones and jam"...)stop! Muse, stop!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:41 AM

aww, Amos, you don't have to name names.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:45 AM

MMario, Amos -- Don't stop! You're making my millenium . . . this is better than being whistled at by the construction guys . . .

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:52 AM

have you ever taken a scone, and v.e.r.y..... s.l.o.w.ly...spread it with the jam, making sure to cover each tender, delicious portion? Then, top it with double-cream, the kind that's so thick and rich you can't pour it? Such a scone has to be savoured, slowly, as it tittalates your tongue, the rich cream, sweet jam and tender scone melting together.....almost entreating you to nibble just a little more....

wipes brow

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 10:09 AM

Mario, if this were a public place you'd be busted for that long, slooow, delicious, dizzying description. Oh, the cream! Oh, the jam! Nibble again, MM!! Oh, Ann, those lovely scones!

I never knew what comapny was, til I came to Mudcat town. (Hums, licks cream off upper lip). Mmm.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Bert
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 10:19 AM

Home made strawberry jam of course and clotted cream. Aaaah!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 10:41 AM

Hmmmm, Do you think Áine has enough scones and jam for everyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 10:45 AM

If I know Aine she can scone and jam all of us under the table and still sing a Gaelic lullaby or "The Gathering of the Clans".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 10:53 AM

Thank you all for enjoying my breakfast treat . . . but, I'm feeling like I've made a big enough 'exception' of myself, like my mamaw used to say . . . Scrambled eggs, bacon, and biscuits with cream gravy are now being served in the front room. Please go help yourselves and don't forget to take a steaming cupa with you! ;-)

Yours (stickily), Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 10:57 AM

For those of you who don't know, Áine is the Irish goddess of love! Woo-woo!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:09 AM

Annie's scones and Caitrin's cookies
They could satiate a Wookie
They're the sweetest treats what am!
With Kahlua, cream and jam!

Wrap your tongue around this fashion!
And you'll know true Gaelic passion!
They're the best things ever tasted!
Any more than a mouthful's wasted!

Now, dear Annie, don't me modest
You're our own, A Gaelic goddess!
And its you we're dreaming of
When we sing of Irish love

And sweet Caitrin, so retirin'
Mbo finds you so inspiring!
Nothing shakes a folkie's bones
Like Caitrin's cookies and Annie's scones!

(I really do have to get some work done here today..but I am shaking all over )

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:16 AM

Now, I want you all to understand that I'm doing this NOT for myself (hahahaha), but for Caitrin's sake --

Amos, give me a title and that one's in the Songbook . . . just because it's the only song that's ever been written about me (not even the dear hubby has done that yet!), that has nothing to do with it (hahaha) -- It's just such a grand tribute to Caitrin's Cookies!! Really, that's why I want it in the Songbook -- No, *really* -- Oh, nevermind . . .

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:22 AM

Gastronomic Passions :<))

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: fulurum
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:35 AM

can anybody post a picture of this on the new picture thingy from the other post. it sure would be much more interesting than seeing everybody posing with their (musical) instruments. (no offense)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:42 AM

Well, this is kind of virtual orgiana -- you have to provide your own overheated (and overwrought) images! That's what makes it so risky!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:46 AM

Sounds better than haggis!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: fulurum
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:09 PM

anything sounds better than haggis. probably taste better too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:15 PM

Ya know, I actually ate some once,back before I had the recipe, and if you don't know what's in it,it ain't half bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: fulurum
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:19 PM

well it would stand to reason, if it ain't half bad, then then it can't be half good either.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:31 PM

LOL, fulurum! This is Irish reasoning at its best. Question is, which half is it that can't be good, if the whole isn't half bad? Sounds like one of those sociological /Scholastic aptitude tests!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: paddymac
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:37 PM

Geez, Aine, I apologize for dese guys drooling all over you. Here's a towel to dry yourself with. I'd offer to help, but yer old one might get a bit annoyed. It would serve him right, though, for never having written you a song. Now, I wouldn't deny Amos the right to name his own song, especially after he bought me that delicious pint, but I suspect when he thinks about it some more he'll come up with something like "The Scones of Aine", or "Sweet Fantasies", or maybe even something more graphic, like "Lapping Curds and Jam From Aine's Scones". Uh oh, here comes the boss...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:47 PM

I yield! Let Paddymac name the tune, and I'll pay the piper. Tell yer boss I said it was all right, paddymac -- a short top-secret project for which you were the only possible solution!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: fulurum
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 12:48 PM

ok here we go half full or half empty? if one half isn't 1/2 bad and the other can't be 1/2 good, then the portion that Sorcha ate was the better part, provided that with this Scottish dish, that there could be a better part.In this situation I will be more than happy to accept the opinion of the esteemed Sorcha. By accepting said opinion, I would consider myself a hypocrite if I was to try this dish, as Sorcha might take this as an affront to (his/her?) fine judgement. So I hereby take the pledge never to eat haggis, not for reasons of culinary repulsiveness, but as my part of the effort for world peace, as well as peace here on the mudcat forum.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:09 PM

Hey! I'm the piper around here! Well...at least the junior amateur piper....

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:11 PM

Well, let me know how much it costs for Paddymac to name the tune, Mbo. I'm good for it, virtually speaking.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:16 PM

I'm so confused! Fulorum is doing his bit for world peas. I didn't know that peas were that well organized, or that ANY vegetable was...Mick musta been around

Mbo - I used to be the second junior assistant apprentice to the....never mind...

I'll have another cup of that coffee royale.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:24 PM

It's the royale,/i> part that gets you confused, Mario -- this here is a Damocracy -- goverment by the Dams. Or the damned, depending on how you spell it.

I can't parsley imagine world peas. But gimme some cafe royale and I'll conjure it up with one jicama imagination. Lettuce now be up and doing!
As for Mick being around, he's been around the pea-patch, and he's more around than he used to be for sure.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:31 PM

Amos, buddy, I think I need to return the favor and write a song for you! Thanks for always puttin' me in!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Troll
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:45 PM

Amos, it's not "world" peas; it's "whirled" peas.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: fulurum
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:54 PM

of course veggies are organised. somewhat at least. just take a looked at the congress and senate. for more proof look at the political machinery here in N.Y.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:59 PM

Sorr about the italics. Mbo, you are always welcome in any song of mine. You have a distinct place in my Mudcat imagination.

I'm a little too leathery for your more romantic stuff, but feel free to squeeze me in only if the mood so impels.

And my aplogies for misspelling whirled. I have never whirled a pea<\i>, although I sometimes aim crooked!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 02:20 PM

SOMEone's getting extra scones! *glare*

Another royale have I coffee will!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 02:27 PM

Coryale the Woffee Havil Yew Swish, Err! I booked in the lak but the scones done gone! That last one wasn't extra; it was a production bonus.:>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: fulurum
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 02:30 PM

oh yeah. forgot all about the scnes. any pictures yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 03:35 PM

Dear MMario,

Do not glare, mon frere, I've got some fresh-baked soda bread in the kitchen for you, with *real* butter and some peach preserves that I put up last spring. See, I'm putting the kettle on for us right now. Now, come on over here and sit down beside me and let's have a little chat!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 03:42 PM

There goes a fine lady. I suspect she teaches small children for a living! :>)

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 03:56 PM

it's a good thing she does. That way she's probably used to the way my mind works.

oops! Did I say that out loud?

peach? mmmmm,mmmmmm.

I'm collecting FAR too many songs I want to sing. Still haven't memorized two of the LAST three I chose and have an umpty-dozen more I've found......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 06:10 PM

Hey! These scones, like the Stone of Scone, belong to us!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: jeffp
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 07:45 PM

Better the Stone of Scone than a scone of stone. OUCH! I need a beer, if anyone will serve me after that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 08:19 PM

After we serve that one -- wait you're turn and we'll serve you up next. One pint of jeffp, coming up.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern #Who Knows?
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 09:07 PM

I guess it was the talk about scones of stone above, but I just got to wondering: does anyone make a beer/ale equivalent of biscotti, the hard cookies you have to dip in coffee to eat? Someone of you culinary types ought to come up with a hard salty pastry that would be enhanced by dipping in Porters or Guiness or Green Death, and that would enhance the experience of imbibing the heavenly brews. They could be called Mudcat Munchies and sold--at first--via the auction; Muddies would be encouraged to introduce them at their favorite watering holes and they'd be bigger than McDonald's and Max could quit his day job and there would be peace on earth forever and ever, amen.

--seed