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Subject: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 02 Dec 05 - 09:25 AM I opened the first window yesterday: behind it were the three kings (Albert, BB and Freddie). Can't wait to see what other 'Catters find behind subsequent windows, perhaps even an Ass called Humphrey...? RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Emma B Date: 02 Dec 05 - 02:14 PM Wot? - no chocolate? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Bill D Date: 02 Dec 05 - 02:22 PM I thought Albert and Freddie were only princes... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Bainbo Date: 02 Dec 05 - 05:09 PM Plenty of wise men. No sign of a Virgin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Dec 05 - 05:49 PM And behind door number 2 today - a large red nosed creature, with strange headgear. Giok - what are you doing in that stable? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 02 Dec 05 - 07:24 PM Are we here to add, or merely to vent? Or to become 7th Day Adventists, perhaps? ...And what's behind the green door? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Dec 05 - 07:32 PM Frankie Vaughan? G. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Dec 05 - 07:38 PM Sorry Liz, but a man's got to do what a man's got to do. [and I did it over there in the corner] G [Blushes furiously] |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Dec 05 - 07:00 AM Door number three today.... a bemused looking sheep. Giok, is this French Tickler gumboot anything to do with you? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Bainbo Date: 03 Dec 05 - 02:15 PM Ooh, look. A snow scene. Hank Snow. Still no sign of a Virgin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Dec 05 - 06:34 AM Day 4, am I the only one opening the windows here? It's a shepherd, wearing a dressing gown and tea-towel, but looking a might vexed..... I think someone has been ... toying with his sheeps affections. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Dec 05 - 06:45 AM Baaaaa-a-a-a-a-a-a--a-staaaaaard. G |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: gnomad Date: 04 Dec 05 - 07:03 AM The only one, Liz? We know better than to get between you and a possibility of chocolate.8-]> But I am watching each day with 'bated breath. Enjoy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advance Cullender 2005 From: Severn Date: 04 Dec 05 - 12:13 PM Considering all the windows being opened, is "advent" merely short for "add ventillation"? Could someone help clear the air on this for me (in a single bound)? Meanwhile, could we devise a special calendar for Emma B (my candidate for Rook-ee Of the Year) as seen from the INSIDE of her windows with four-and-twenty black birds of various sizes and species doing different zany seasonal antics outside each one until all windows and possibilities are "tapped out"? ....Or is that considered thread drift? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: DMcG Date: 04 Dec 05 - 01:02 PM My daughter is opening her calendar: Dec 1 - A shepherd Dec 2- Two shepherds - is a trend developing? Dec 3 - The crib with baby - Surely a little premature? Dec 4 - Yet another shepherd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Dec 05 - 01:16 PM Morti is opening hers Day 1 A choccie, yippee! Day 2 Another choccie, wahey! Day 3 A 3rd choccie, I like this! Day 4 And another choccie, sod the calories it's Christmas!! No you can't open them all at once! G ☺ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Dec 05 - 02:27 PM Limpit and I have an Advent Candle.... do you know how hard it is to get Advent Candles these days? It's a very tall pyramid and the wax is melting into the most amazing shapes... Day 4 and it's got Mr Burns from the Simpsons on one side, and a suggestive shape on the other. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: *Laura* Date: 04 Dec 05 - 02:29 PM i had a kid dressed as a shepherd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Morticia Date: 04 Dec 05 - 03:24 PM I think it's really mean of you to spill the beans, John.......now where can I hide the evidence of one desecrated calendar and buy another? Oh.....and you were right, I DO feel 'ick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Nigel Parsons Date: 04 Dec 05 - 03:33 PM Has anyone ever wondered why advent calendars have 25 windows on them? Advent starts on the last Sunday in November. Someone is cheating us of our chocolate ration!!! CHEERS Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Adventure Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 04 Dec 05 - 03:39 PM Severn opens his: Dec. 1- Look in this one! A full-up Holy-Day Inn manager talking of financial "in-stable-ity" to some folks with with strange yellow circles around their heads. Dec. 2-...and The Donkey They Rode In On--The fabled "Ass Of Peace". (Note lack of yellow circle) Dec.3- A dockside market view of the legendary Ethel Mermaid who figured in the first Christmas shopping spree. The other two presents can be found anywhere, but for Myrrh (antiquated spelling), you have to go to the source. Dec.4- Frank, looking all insensed about something. What blessed wonders will tomorrow bring?...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 04 Dec 05 - 04:00 PM Special celebrity guests at Emma's calendar windows: Hitchcock Poe Sheryl Crow Eddy Raven King Fa-Rook Crow Jane The Maltese Falcon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Dec 05 - 04:37 PM Can I exchange this Luncheon Vulture for a Rook Token? G. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Dec 05 - 06:54 PM I suppose a duck's out of the question? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar of Sweet Dates2005 From: Severn Date: 04 Dec 05 - 08:14 PM That Mall-Tease Falcon really consists of Maltese Milk covered in extra-dark semi-sweet. So THERE'S yer falcon chok'lit, Emma! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudchat Calendar (Windows 2005) From: Severn Date: 05 Dec 05 - 01:52 AM Another day, another window in my calendar! I'd have thought Mudchat editions would have nothing but doors..... CRE-E-E-E-E-E-E-EAK! ("Welcome to Inner Sanctum")-Aaah, I've got it open! Here it is!... Now let's take a look...... Dec.5- "A Mall (And Its Night Visitors)". Gonna find out who's Menotti or nice, I guess. Written as an attempt to convert kids to opera (A Grand YOUNG Opry?), it didn't make them stop screaming, but it made some at least scream on key. Treetops may glisten, but children DON'T listen! Still on some folks' Classical "Chopin- Liszt", though. (Yeah-Old Joke, the last one...I know! But it fits, which is more than I can say for a lot of your presents!) What will tomorrow bring?..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 05 Dec 05 - 05:18 AM Men in white coats if I'm any judge Severn. Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: RobbieWilson Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:02 AM Why would you buy an Advent calender when Blue Peter taught you years ago how to make one out of two coathangers and a load of tinsel? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: RobbieWilson Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:03 AM I meant Candle, by the way, not calender. Sorry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Dec 05 - 10:07 AM I have both, and today found a shop selling Advent candles so have stocked up for the next 4 years! It was 4 coathangers and lots of FLAMEPROOF tinsel.... See here and click to play. We had our own version in church, made from a cross piece of painted wood with holes wide enough for candles drilled partway through. We gave them up when we got a faulty candle. There was an air pocket all down the wick and it burnt down in about 3 minutes, setting fire to the holder. Now we have metal chandeliers! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Dec 05 - 01:30 PM Sunday before last our vicar was preaching his sermon about the Advent Crown. For some reason he decided to lower the tone by constant references to "Four Candles". The first time it was funny. The second time people looked round to see the reactions of others. The third time people were looking to see who didn't get the reference to the Two Ronnies. After that it became somewhat repetative! Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Event Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 06 Dec 05 - 03:29 AM I don't what's in the one that Liz and Bainbo are opening, but here's what's in my advent calandar today..... (He ran to the window, threw open the sash)..... JOSEPH! Relegated over the years to being the "Co-Star Of Bethlehem" and humbled in the Carol where THE LORD gets Mary's cherry, he was always an Unsung (Unless you view "What Child Is This" as Joseph's Carol) Hero to me. Rome never officially designated him as such, but to me he served as The Patron Saint Of Stepfathers back when I very much needed such guidance, so to honor him in my heart, a much needed.... HAIL JOSEPH!!!!!!!!! ....in a "Hail Mary!" World. I'D name a last minute pass or shot for you, my friend! You're full of Grace to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Splott Man Date: 06 Dec 05 - 07:47 AM Day 6: 3 wise women (does that mean they're not touching the chocolate?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Tinker Date: 06 Dec 05 - 09:36 AM Now here is a musical Advent calendar that seems very Mudcat An actual grownup version that begins when Advent does... but there's no chocolate... tinker |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Tinker Date: 06 Dec 05 - 09:40 AM Giok, be sure to check the shepherd in day one of the "grown-up" calendar.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 06 Dec 05 - 10:15 AM I did Tink, gaiters is spelt wrongly, and so is whisky, what with that and no sheep, it's not for me I'm afraid. G ☺ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Dec 05 - 06:40 PM And on St Nicholas' day too... He's the patron saint of pawnbrokers, prostitutes and small boys..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advert Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 07 Dec 05 - 07:32 PM Time to open another window to an old-fashioned Christmas season and...What's this? Something in a whole different time altogether... "We-e-e Freaking disoriented are....." Dec 7) A "Jap Zero"? A reminder I guess of a defining moment in American life that defined our parents' generation, and by doing so, ours. It redefined our lives is so many ways great and small, but it occurred to me, after thinking how old and tired I felt after working 11 hours today, if it wasn't for Pearl Harbor, some of us might have even been a few years OLDER than we are today. There's that unnatural sibling gap in there. So now I may feel a bit younger, but I still feel still feel a great sorrow for this day and all its countless ramifacations. With tomorrow's window I may be happier and back in Bethlehem, but today is for reflection. We'll see..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:48 PM More reflection today.... 8th December, 25 years since John Lennon was shot. A single silver star in today's window. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Shipping Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 08 Dec 05 - 08:56 PM Liz got a silver star (from The Star Club, Hamburg?) for John in HER window. I Wonder what's in mine?... Dec 8)Three Ships! I always wondered what the ships had remotely to do about anything when I was a kid, because I didn't remember any Bible references in Sunday School, and hence, never really cared much for the carol. Then I heard Roberts & Barrand's version with their Nowell Sing We Clear ensemble, that was collected from a Humber fisherman. In this version, the three ships were carrying "crawns" (skulls) of the Three Wise Men as "relics" to be stored at "Koln-Upon-Rhine" (The Cathedral at Cologne), back in the days when churches had to have Holy "Authenticated" relics on display to attract pilgrimages to festivals or Holy Observances(I guess that's what passed for tourism in those days)and there was a great trade in uch artifacts. Where are they now, in musty cathedral basements somewhere? If anyone has any confirmation that said skulls actually reside there, I'd be curious to see the information, so please post. It makes more logical sense to me (the best kind!) even if it's a fabrication, PLUS I like the song better. (It's on "Hail Smiling Morn" Golden Hind Music GHM 102) Since it was a one-crawn-per-one-ship arrangement, I assume they were dealing with Union contracts even back then. I used to do the song at sings with a lengthy intro about all this, but realized if I cut out all the talk, I could bill it as "I Saw Three Ships In Half"! "Bye, Bye, Bye" until tomorrow..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Jazzy Date: 08 Dec 05 - 10:26 PM what is up came to my home 1080 Gerda rd free food came on Dec 10 2005 12:30 till 1:00 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 09 Dec 05 - 02:01 AM A tiny window! What could be lurking behind this one? What could fit?.... Dec.9) Why, it's Carole, The Ancient Yuletide Troll! Fa La La La La La La La La Soon to be starring in her own animated special, unless the Elves Union has it's own way. A bitter age old rivalry, rights and discrimination suits are still in litigation. But if she wins out, she'll need a Theme Song, folks..... Any songwriters out there?...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Party Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 09 Dec 05 - 02:18 AM Jazzy! Jeezy! What, ho! What town? What country? What Planet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Emma B Date: 09 Dec 05 - 01:06 PM I was in Koln cathedral on St Stephens day a few years back - wonderful - surrounded by snow and hundreds of candles burning inside I wasn't allowed to look inside the box so I can't guarantee the skulls are really there but the shrine still is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Ernest Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:55 AM Another very oriental looking guy with a long beard... is it just another shepherd or is Osama hiding here.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Dec 05 - 06:01 AM 11th today. I'm hoping there's chocolate in this one because I've not had any for 3 days.... No. Just another sodding shepherd. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 11 Dec 05 - 07:58 AM I was trying to discern what the sailors on those three ships were singing. I think it was "Haul the Decks", but I can't be sure.I'll listen again... Dec 10) No chocolate yet here either, but today I found a nut confection in the shape of Christ. So THIS is a Pecan Divinity! All those years while driving through the American South, we never stopped at a Stuckey's, which by their signs out front, seemed to be the chapel of choice where they went to worship these things. I was also told they spoke Pecan-ese and all the waitresses were named Praline. I don't see any Stuckey's any more, but there was a time before the Interstates were built that they were all over the likes of US Rte.1 and 301. "Pray-Le-e-e-en! Honey is that Yoo-oo-oo?" Definately sounds like one of Chuck Berry's girlfriends of uncertain age. Who says no pecan before Christmas! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat AardvarkCalendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:19 AM Dec 11) Still no shepherds, but here's a Gardener watching HIS Phlox by night. Not the same thing, mind you, but some of you sound like you're getting more than enough shepherds (sodding and otherwise) to last us all. "What next?", he wondered out loud.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:39 AM Hey jazzy, Sorry I couldn't make it. Who showed? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Geoff the Duck Date: 12 Dec 05 - 05:18 AM I'm thinking of making a shepherd pie.... Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Dec 05 - 03:39 PM Today is the 12th and guess what - NO SHEPHERDS!!! There's a jolly little robin and a worried looking turkey..... the robin is sharpening a big knife and trying to avoid some cheeky little sparrow with a longbow. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Ed&Vince Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 12 Dec 05 - 05:35 PM What sort of warm and fuzzy sight will be behind today's window? Well wouldja lookit that! Dec 12)A bunch of policemen singing Christmas carols. Which songs, you ask? My guesses would be: "Police Navidad" "Go Tell It To The Mounties" "Gotta Arrest Ye Merry gentlemen" "Police Come Home For Christmas" I'll leave them to their day in quart..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 13 Dec 05 - 02:36 PM Dec 13) A Wiseman singing! It looks like Mac, actually. "Tis sweet To Be Remembered" is not a carol, but a noble sentiment nonetheless. It'll do just fine. Scotty's probably home with Lulu Belle, and Chubby The Wise Man is off fiddling around somewhere, and they'll make their presents known eventually. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 14 Dec 05 - 03:28 PM Ho hum....Nothing better to do than anticipate another advent window opening..... "Go tell it on the mountain that JESUS CHRIST, I'm bored!" And look! It's only some pudgy little stable hand.... Dec 14) Jonathan "Round John" Verjun, the fat ugly kid who ran the stable at the Holy Day Inn lost what could have been his claim to everlasting fame when they misspelled his name in the song. He showed Mary to her quarters (as originally noted in the text) and then left them and went home to vanish into pimply obese adolescent obscurity. Never got his own animated cartoon or nothin'! Where's another one of those little pecan thingies? ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Dec 05 - 03:43 PM And a happy St Lucia's day to all! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Adjunct Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 16 Dec 05 - 02:51 AM One rarity from the vaults: Dec 15)An actual still from the legendary unreleased Disney seasonal short cartoon film with Pinocchio & Giapetto in heir adaptation of "A Child's Christmas In Whales" Would I lie to you? Of course even my ex-wife was more faithful than a Disney adaptation...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:22 PM Dec 16th. A whole heap of Christmas Cookies today, all covered in sprinkles and chocolate chips. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 17 Dec 05 - 02:54 AM No fair, Liz! You got chocolate chips and I got the equivalent of reindeer chips This one's no fun at all!..... Dec 16) Increase Mather and Gov. William Bradford of Massachusetts To remind us, of course, of how the celebration of Christmas was decreed illegal by the Puritans in their state from 1659 to 1681. Celebrants were considered uncontrollable and unruly rabble, subject to a five shilling fine, if caught. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Dec 05 - 04:39 AM Such monies to be donated to the Mudcat Cafe, run by the exceedingly good HRH Max D Speigel, c/o Speigel Towers, West Chester, PA. Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: DMcG Date: 17 Dec 05 - 06:29 PM I reported a baby appearing in my daughter's advent calendar on 4th December. She's just opened today's window ... and its ANOTHER baby. Now, call me picky, but I don't think twins is totally orthodox. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 18 Dec 05 - 05:50 AM Brian Church, columnist in Athens News, reckons a Greek advent calendar shows who's going to be on strike on each day! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:20 PM Dec 17) A bunch of Corn-fed Irate soldiers around a winter campfire singing "Don We Now Our Gray Apparel" and talking about "Mail Early" with lots of "Lee-way" and take nothing for "Grant-ed". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Dec 05 - 01:37 PM They must be having a Levee. G. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: skarpi Date: 18 Dec 05 - 03:34 PM I thought I would see something hóhóhóhoooo calander? hahahah , I have not open yet, any window , I am afraid I would see another guitar that Iwish to get :>)) all the best Skarpi Iceland. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Dec 05 - 01:42 PM Missed yesterday, was in the bathroom. Today, 19th, it's a pantomime Dame, complete with chandelier earrings and a 4ft wig!! Or is that Elton John...... Wonder what was in yesterdays window? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: gnu Date: 19 Dec 05 - 02:04 PM I can't believe you guys are still cranking them out. Excellent!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcut Prevent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 19 Dec 05 - 05:13 PM Still no Shephards (Who cares!) ....But still no chocolate. It's about time for the choc--Oh God no! It's chocolate all right, but this is a Vietnam Flashback of the worst kind!......... Dec 18) A Tropical Hershey Bar! OK, who's the wise guy? For any of you who have never had the pleasure, Tropical Hershey Bars were made to be issued to soldiers in hot climates. They don't melt in your hand, they don't melt in your mouth, they don't melt under a blow torch. Dope smokers over there would complain that they would dry out your mouth so bad that if you didn't have any liquid around you, eating one when stoned could fataly turn the inside of your mouth to chalk. (I personally got to watch this happen to someone I was playing cards with--somebody found a canteen just in a nick of time to save him. It wasn't a pretty sight.) We would give all of ours away to the local children and I suspect they made bomb proof bunkers out of them, bunkers that are probably standing today. I've seen them for sale at camping supply stores. Definately for survivalists only. I only ever got as far as one bite. Our Major was the only person I served with over there who ever claimed to like them. A cruel joke from whomever in the Cat sent me the calendar. (Not my Secret Santa). I'll have to check the wrappings again for clues..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Dec 05 - 05:44 PM Sounds as if they were related to 'Compo Rations'... a cruel joke played on the British Army by the Catering Corps. These pre-packed "convenience" foods were to be used as a last resort or under combat conditions. I tried some once. Just the once. There was a misbegotten creature who really enjoyed the biscuits (shaped like cork mats and about as tasty) but he was a dog and they gave him terrible smelly flatulence. As he was the Major's dog, and the Major was a twat of the first water, we gave the dog lots of these biscuits, usually round about afternoon teabreak on a Friday, when we knew we wouldn't be seeing the animal for 2 days. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 20 Dec 05 - 09:46 AM Yesterday, coincidentally my 35th wedding anniversary (...and they said it wouldn't last!), I got a turtle behind my window...didn't say if it was Myrtle! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:09 AM There was a young lady called Myrtle Who had an affair with a turtle The result of their sins Was triplets not twins Which proved that the turtle was fertile [and Myrtle] G I've never had an advent calendar, is it some weird English thing? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: rumanci Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:16 AM hmmmmmmmmm No weirder than the rest of English things Giok *bg* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: MMario Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:18 AM I dunno - they were pretty popular in New England. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advil Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 21 Dec 05 - 03:27 PM I'm gonna go somewhat sentimental on you, so here's a dreamy picture postcard pose of sorts in today's window..... Dec 19) A couple from down the block.... For this purpose and this season I shall refer to them fondly as "The Fideleses, Adeste and Semper". She's sitting in an apartment decorated for the Holidays, longingly staring at a soldier's picture on the piano. Actually, it's not a real wooden upright, just his Fender Rhodes keyboard. He'd told her that it was just a short commitment he was involved in, a weekend warrior type thing, but he's been overseas for a few years now and still doesn't know when he's coming back. So she waits. Hang in there Desty, I realize the Holidays will be extremely rough on you. I know I never got around to one of his band gigs to hear him play that thing like I'd always said I would, but believe me it's still on my priorities list, higher now than ever, for when he gets back and resettled. I promise. ...and for all those of you out there, for each time you end up singing out "O, Come All Ye Faithful", I hope somebody, in some way shape or form, shows up. That's enough for today.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 21 Dec 05 - 03:56 PM Dec 20) At Long Last--A Shepherd Not that I really cared to see one, as all the others opening their calendars on this thread have had a severe overload of them and have already written just about everything about them that it's possible to write. So it turns out that I have little or no use for this guy. So my question is THIS, do I have to recognize HIM as My Lord? I have always gladly given that title to the Baby Jesus, but since have had this guy I don't need thrust upon me unwillingly, he seems to fit the definition of The Lord, as "My Shepherd I Shall Not Want". And since he's not German, I just can't send him off to the pound.... A true Theological Dilemma here.... What To Do?...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: MMario Date: 21 Dec 05 - 04:00 PM does he have a halo? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Dec 05 - 04:15 PM Todays picture (21st) is a blazing Yule log, Wassail to all those who celebrate this day. Personally, I prefer the chocolate variety, one of which I shall be making in a few days time..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advintner Howl-endar 2005 From: Severn Date: 23 Dec 05 - 06:34 PM Dec 21) BELLS, Lots of 'em! OK, You,ve been shopping all night.... ...Now imagine The Hairy Simian Chorale, 50 apes in choir robes (Yule Gibbons) singing...... Too Many Bells Too Many Bells Too Many Bells Too Many Bells Too Too Many Many Bells Bells Too Too Many Many Bells Bells Too Too Many Many Bells Bells Too Too Many Many Bells Bells Too Too Too Many Many Many Bells Bells Carols Too Too Too Many Many Many Bells Bells Bells Too Too Too Many Many Many Bells Bells Demons Too Too Screaming Many Many From Bells Bells Hell Merry Merry Merry Christmas Sal- vation Army And The Hare Krishnas Too Ding Many Bloody Bells Dong Too Dong Many Bloody Bells Ding Too Ding Many Bloody Bells Dong Too Dong Many Bloody Bells Ding (Ever Faster....) Too Too Ding Hell's Many Many Bloody Bells Bells Dong Too Too Dong Bells! Many Many Bloody Bells Bells Ding Too Too Ding Hell's Many Many Bloody Bells Bells Dong Too Too Ding Bells! Many Many Bloody Bells Bells Dong .....and on into the night.... Sweet dreams, Everybody! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Re-invent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 23 Dec 05 - 06:47 PM Damn! The spacing didn't transfer right from the reply space! The last part should look like: Ding Hell's Bloody Dong Dong Bells! Bloody Ding ....and more space between the two parts of Too Many Bells in order for those primates to sing their parts properly.... I'll be damned if I'll try it again! Hope you get the idea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcaterer'sAdvent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 23 Dec 05 - 07:29 PM Dec 22) Good chocolate at last! With caramel inside! I can take a day off from the writing and just enjoy it...... I'm allowed one free pass..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:24 AM Dec 23)MARY First off, what did she really look like? The woman of a million (at the very least) faces, at one time, way back when, one painted a picture of a woman with a yellow circle around her head, and it was sure to end up in a gallery somewhere. Beacuse even if they all look different, they all were divinely inspired, or else they wouldn't all be in galleries, right? That gal's in a lot of galleries! Are all the pictures of Our Boy Joseph all hiding, off hanging in boileries somewhere? But I digress...... Secondly, What made God choose Ms. Mild (Judging form all the folksongs and carols, that was her last name) over all the other women out there? Sure, lineage was important, the David connection and all, but surely she wasn't the only candidate. Was there a lineup, a pageant? God had to go for looks, if only to assure that His Son would LOOK charismatic, so what were the final criteria other than purity of soul and a significant other willing to go along with the scheme? Was God a leg, tit or ass man, or was there something in her face, eyes or smile that clinched it? It may sound crass, but there had to be breeding considerations, like breeding dogs or horses. So here's our poll for the day: Which painting of The Virgin Mary do you think most favors her? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 26 Dec 05 - 07:37 PM Open the large advent window here for christmas eve and....What's this!!!!!....... Dec 24)Another Advent Calendar! I open the first window I see and there's..... Another Advent Calandar! So I get my magnifying glass and tweezers and open more windows and find MORE calendars and windows.... Somewhere in the background, The Russian Christmas Overature is playing as I turn my Russian Nesting Calendar upside down and shake it over the table real hard and out comes an avalanche of chocolate!!!!........ ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! I did manage to figure out who the person who was not my Santa, was that sent me this calendar through the mail, so.... Thank you, Rab_Noolas! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Dec 05 - 08:03 PM It still amazes me that despite all the evidence and the lineages given in the Bible, Mary never looks Jewish. She's always pale white, blonde haired, dressed in blue and with a neat little face. I know there are pale white, blonde Jews out there, but in Judea? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Amos Date: 26 Dec 05 - 10:56 PM I'm sure she was given to weight and had a moustache. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 27 Dec 05 - 02:23 AM We're coming down to the wire now! With all that shaking for chocolate, the last big door ar the bottom has stayed closed. Here goes..... TA DA!!!!!..... Dec 25)THE BABY JESUS! There's a million pictures of the Christ Child, too, but it would be harder to repeat the poll we did on Mary as the child is pretty well wrapped up-"dressed to swaddle" as they say. I can't tell the eye color on this one, there's no hair visible, and in the poor stable lighting it's hard to tell whether the skin is that of your average Medeterranean Jew of that area or the blond blue-eyed savior of many later paintings, whether deeply felt, or merely....felt. Those yellow circles around the heads don't really give off that much light. I tend to like it that way, as there's not enough showing to cause an argument that would eventually lead me to go off in a huff and form yet another sect, cult, cell, denomination or club based on my own interpretation. "Unto us a child is born...Unto us a child is given" I'll just have to go with that and rejoice the best I can accordingly. Best of The Season and The Coming Yeat and The Coming Life and The Coming Afterlife, should it come, to all! Speaking as a postal worker, if he comes again, I'd hope he'd bring Armageddon, as I'd hate to do all this TWICE a year! ....and there are job openings for people with close to 25 ideas (when in doubt, pad it with shepherds and chocolate) to do this next year. So they heard me exclaim as I rode out of sight..... "REST YE MERRY, AND LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY!"...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 27 Dec 05 - 11:57 AM Wait! Just as I was going to scrap the advent calandar, I saw a little unopened door for the 26th on a little birdhouse out in the yard and YES!!!!!...... Dec 26th) ...It's a Wren! ...and a dead one at that! Hmmmmmm..... Shall I go from thread to thread or to PMs or websites collecting money for the funeral, as in days of old? Shall I hold a Wren Fest? Shall I give the spare ribs to the poor, as John The Red Nose suggested? Or shall I just throw the wren in the nearest trash can afterward and send all moneys to Max? I may not get any money here in America--not even enough to cover my possible bail expenses. Oh well, here goes!.... Wish me luck!.... (knock!) (knock) "Joy, health love and peace Be all here in this place....." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 27 Dec 05 - 05:15 PM Kentucky Fried Wren..... don't think it will catch on. We had another dead mouse today, but that was the kitty rather than the calendar. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Midcut Adverse Calendar 2005 From: Severn Date: 28 Dec 05 - 05:38 AM A saddening thought. If I hadn't have shaken the calendar so hard to get all the chocolate out, would the Wren still be alive? Forgive me, I knew not what I did...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Advent Calendar 2005 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Dec 05 - 03:47 PM I suspect it would have been a goner anyway... it's been cooped up behind that door for nearly 4 weeks with no chocolate.... it's probably that what did him in.... Sorry. LTS |
