C'mon, folks!! It'll be better'n Garrison reading the greetings on Prairie Home Companion, cause we all know each other! Ron will read them, if you don't want to bother with mp3s, just send him an email!!

Can't you just hear it? "Ho, ho, ho, this is Big Nick...er, I mean Big Mick, sending out me love for the Fair One and setting up for the Fertility Rites in the Temple. Greetings to all those other LayAbouts At large and everyone else at Mudcatville. Long may Max reign!"

"Joe Offer, here, with a gentleman's hello from sunny Cal, up in the chilly-willy mountains, where I get a special massage daily from my lovely intended."

"Spaw sez, we'uns, that's me, Cletus, and Paw, and Reg, Reg and Reg kin tawk write chere on da raydeeo and tell all of them Mudcat peeple ta hev a Mary Crismas and ta by theyur trees from us'ns nex yere. Oh, an' thanx to Meester O'les co fer letting us do this here greetin'!"