Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: georgeward Date: 06 Dec 05 - 05:30 PM All of this loggorhea about flatulence is enough to make a fella ponder the merits of virtual friendship....which is sorta where Mudcat has gotten us to, over time. So, virtual friend, take in all the light that this digital miasma can't really obscure and let it heal ya. I'm adding mine. - George |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: JudyB Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:48 PM Spaw - Good thoughts headed in your direction! JudyB |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Joybell Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:42 PM À la votre, Joie Beifall, Freude Acclamazioni, Gioia Cheers, Alegria Aclamaciones, Alegria Cheers, Joy |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Joybell Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:14 PM Spaw, Sending thoughts from us too. Please get well. Cheers, Joy |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 06 Dec 05 - 03:57 PM Ya know y'all, I think any breaking of wind might be a real pain in the arse, at the moment, if ya know what I mean. I know there are good thoughts going out, but maybe it would be nice for Karen to read a few more of them to kinda even out the fun stuff? Just a thought, no offence intended. Thanks, kat |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Rapparee Date: 06 Dec 05 - 03:37 PM A duet CD in the offing, perhaps? |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 06 Dec 05 - 03:29 PM Spaw, don't you think that Kendall, Big Mick, Joe Offer, Sinsull, myself et al are merely little baby bloops in the world of real farting. You sir, are the maestro. I thought it was Le Petomaine - the magnificent French farter of stage, screen and wax disc of the 19th century - until I heard about an accident (similar to mine above) which almost ruined his career. Apparently, after a lavish introduction by the M.C. he came on stage from the wings, dropped trou, and bent over to favor the audience with his famous rendition of La Marseillaise Flatulente, when, instead of the first notes of the melody, a gurgle and splash were heard followed by a semi-solid plop on the floor. Abashed, Le Petomaine turned to the audience and said, "Pardonnez-moi! I was just clearing my throat!" I know this would never happen to Maestro Spaw - my hero!! Seamus |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 06 Dec 05 - 03:16 PM Funnily enough, Tris LOVES A Mighty Wind and watches it frequently. Karen told me he is also entranced with bluegrass music. Susan, that's one of the most beautiful Thanks Givings I've read. Thanks. kat |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Rapparee Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:52 PM Threaten to bury them with him if he dies on us. Or cremate them with him if that's the case. Either he gets well or spends eternity with them. I know which I'D chose! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: jaze Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:12 PM I know how to get him going again. We could mention Neil Young's new cd or......God forbid.......SONGCATCHER!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: SINSULL Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:11 PM The Little Pissant and the Golden Shower Award - I had almost forgotten. HMMMM Take care of yourself or you'll receive one when you least expect it. But since you'll be laid up for a while, I am putting together some tapes and videos to amuse you. Of course I will include Songcatcher and A Mighty Wind. But I am having a hell of time finding a copy of Dainty Davey: The Collection - that unforgetable ditty as sung by everyone from Kate Smith to Seamus Kennedy. I'll keep trying. Meantime, tune into South Park. All the flatulance you could possibly need and then some. Last night's episode has the town citizens bursting into flames in an attempt to save the ozone layer by suppressing their natural emissions. It will do until you can fill us in on the latest adventures of Paw, Cletus, and the Reg Boys. Did I hear that they got a dog? SINS |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:39 PM Spaw, You have been doing way too much of this! It's time to quit all this foolin' around and layin' about and get yourself out of the hospital. Time to get you life back to normal. Oops, excuse me, I'm sure life has never been normal for you. Just get back to being the unique person you are: missing half a brain, full of bad air, making up incredulous stories, and generally mucking about. I, too, have been missing you on the threads and I, too, would love to have you show up at the next Getaway. I have no desire to meet you at your funeral, so get well. Big RiB |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Wesley S Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:20 PM Spaw - Here are your choices : 1 - Get well soon or else we will find a team of Mudcatters to come to your hospital room to sing Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done" over and over and over and over and over until you rise up out of your bed fully recovered. 2 - Or we'll all chip in to send Shambles a plane ticket to fly over there to explain the fine points of censorship on the Mudcat over and over and over and over and over until you rise up out of your bed fully recovered. Don't make me come up there. In the meantime my thoughts and prayers are with you and your loved ones for a speedy recovery. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: ranger1 Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:00 PM 'Spaw, you have to get well soon. I haven't met enough Mudcat icons yet for them to be dying off! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Flash Company Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:19 PM Speaking as a relative newcomer, this is terrible news. My Sister-in-law went through this in 2003, 15 weeks in Intensive Care. She came through it and celebrated her 80th Birthday yesterday! Hang in there, Spaw, we're all with you! FC |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Allan C. Date: 06 Dec 05 - 11:24 AM I have consulted my set of Catspaw Scatology Cards and have found indications of many more years of craziness for our dear 'Spaw. 'Nuff said. Get on with it, buddy! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: kendall Date: 06 Dec 05 - 10:48 AM Seamus, by the time you reach my age, you will have gained much wisdom. However, there is one piece of wisdom that I will share with you now..."Don't ever trust a fart." |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Wolfgang Date: 06 Dec 05 - 10:46 AM Get well again. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Peace Date: 06 Dec 05 - 10:22 AM Yeah. Three days in the hospital and he took a turn for the nurse. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Den Date: 06 Dec 05 - 10:15 AM Spaw, get well soon and remember to keep your pecker up. On second thought probably the wrong choice of words where Spaw is concerned. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 06 Dec 05 - 09:31 AM 'Spaw, stop doing this to us!! I think you better go into the Founder's Wing at the NYCFTTS for a full R & R. Hang in there old buddy and get well soon. Love to the family. RtS (former bedpan supremo NYCFTTS) |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Rapparee Date: 06 Dec 05 - 09:25 AM I do think that it would behoove you to remove yourself from hospital care and return to your home, whatever it is. There is only so much that you can do in a hospital before they fill you full of simethecone and plug up what Nature intended to float free. Some years ago a friend of mine was in a similar situation. He, too, expressed himself loudly, odoriferously, and often. They pumped him full of simethecone (an invention of the devil!) and he couldn't release the pressure. It kept building up and up, but there was no release possible. Finally it came, but not in the usual manner. It came, well, orally. The force of it blasted him through the head of the bed and out the window, propelling him a full three blocks and into the swimming pool of one Prudence Symington-Worth, sole daughter and heir of the Symington-Worths (of Grossbeck, Ohio). She was entertaining the Mayor, the Chief of Police, and the cultural affairs attache from the Mongolian Republic when he landed. The force of the landing broke the hold of the simethecone on his intestinal track, and the bubbles that arose from the swimming pool were ignited by the Mayor's cigar. Reports of UFOs poured into Wright-Patterson AFB, obscure (and stinky) explosions reverberated overhead, and the pool was emptied of water. There was a happy ending, in that Pru-Poo (as he calls her) was so impressed that she fell immediately in love with him, they were married, and have lived (so far) happily ever after. So get out of there. You're already married. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: jacqui.c Date: 06 Dec 05 - 08:43 AM Spaw, get your arse out of that bed and into the Mudcat Recovery Ward or I'll get my friend Nurse Ratched to pay you a visit and you really don't want to meet that lady. I'm searching the UK for a really good musical toy to bring, as my offering to a master, in January so you'd better be well enough by then to survive a visit from the Morses! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: MMario Date: 06 Dec 05 - 08:41 AM Not much I can add; - Karen - if you need any of us to come out and whup him upside the head - I'll be first in line...I know the way to the house and I'm sure I can get directions to the hospital. Keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers - including Wayne and Connie - who are high on my list of shining examples of what a friend should be. and 'Spaw? Dammit - get better or I'm sending the boys the drum set I picked up at last summer. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 06 Dec 05 - 08:26 AM Hey Spaw, May your bunions be throbbing soon and you are hopping around with the joys of spring again soon. We miss your flatulant ways, it's because of you I admitted to a male pal that I'd never seen a fart lit before, and he obliged... Funniest thing I've ever seen, and the most bizarre thing I've ever had a dinner guest do after the dinner was over. Was better than after dinner mints for finalising the meal, and more spectacular than Blackpool lights on a dark evening. May you be back online soon and I hope your family get to see you at home for Christmas. Lots of shift your arse thoughts and hurry up and get better. But seriously, take it easy, recover soon. Ella who is Sooze really... |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Janie Date: 06 Dec 05 - 08:24 AM Pat, You gotta feel all the good energy, light, prayers, and methane gas that all here on Mudcat are sending up and out. Please, please, please get well and go home for Christmas, then come back here with your stories. Karen, You and your boys are included in all of this. Take care of yourselves. (((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))) to all. Janie |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Big Mick Date: 06 Dec 05 - 08:22 AM You people need to relax. Have you all forgotten that Spaw is a Senior and founding member of Lane, Patterson, Fielding and Swan, Layabouts at Large and for hire????? We recently got a big contract and it was his turn to take this one. And it is a beaut!! He's got folks doing everything for him. This is why he is what all the rest of you layabout wannabe's should aspire to. Go get 'em Spaw, but remember not to break a sweat. But ........ we do have a lot of laying about coming up, so I need you to finish this one and get yer arse back to the orifice ..... errrr, office. Seamus, who you trying to kid?????? You could shit at a screen door and not touch a wire. You are in the same league as Spawzer is all day. I love ya, buddy. Please get well soon. I am praying every day for a quick recovery. All the best, Mick |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Micca Date: 06 Dec 05 - 07:36 AM Spaw, anything I might say would be well short of what I think, so Get yer ass off the bed ya malingering ol'coot and get back to the best medicine there is for making you feel better, Karen and the boys!! we are all thinking of you and pulling with you (No, Not your extended finger, you evil old scrote)I was sayng to Khatt the other night that I was hoping for another Reg boys Christmas story, but I will wait happily until you are well again, candles lit aand I am breathing with you mate, Micca and CatsPHiddle |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Partridge Date: 06 Dec 05 - 07:33 AM I'm sending angels with gasmasks...............I'm sure you will be up and about soon. Take care Pat, love Pat x |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Fibula Mattock Date: 06 Dec 05 - 07:24 AM Spaw, as the person who makes me spit coffee over my keyboard the most I REALLY think you ought to hurry up and get your flatulent arse out of that hospital bed. Thinking of you, and crossing my fingers. (I'd cross my legs as well but it'd go against a life time of habit.) Get better soon, and much love to Karen and the boys too. All the best. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 06 Dec 05 - 07:14 AM I've also been missing your posts, so Get Well Soon, You'll feel Better (to quote my favourite get-well card) sandra would ya believe the Goooooogle ad below! Natural Stress Therapy. Dr Antonia Ruhl's Amazon Fertility Program helps women get pregnant did I miss something in this thread? |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: katlaughing Date: 06 Dec 05 - 06:38 AM Bert, this time I really don't think Pat would have seen any humour in the posting which was deleted, nor would Karen, who will be printing this out and taking it to him, at some point. I give thanks that our beloved Spaw is healed quickly and is in comfort. I give thanks for this, or something better, for the highest good of all concerned. Thanks, everyone, kat |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: saulgoldie Date: 06 Dec 05 - 06:34 AM I'm sending you my best positive energy, Spaw. See you back here SOON! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: gnu Date: 06 Dec 05 - 05:47 AM Thoughts and prayers. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 06 Dec 05 - 05:42 AM Jeez, Spaw, turn my back for one minute... But you know it's true- we're all rooting for you, in our own ways. Me, I'm sending light and love and healing thoughts and prayers to you and Karen and the boys. And to Wayne and Connie, true friends of the heart. We love you. Allison |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Gervase Date: 06 Dec 05 - 05:19 AM Bloody hell, man, just get that ticker sorted and out of the hospital pronto - they're full of sick people! Seriously, your serene flatulence, fight this bugger and beat it. This place is far too genteel and fragrant in your absence. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Hrothgar Date: 06 Dec 05 - 05:18 AM I won't light a candle - I'm scared of an explosion. Get well soon, Spaw. Thanks for the news, kat. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: John MacKenzie Date: 06 Dec 05 - 05:05 AM There are two choices here Spaw. 1 You are the Mudcatter I want to meet most, so you have to get better so I can make that happen. 2 If the thought of my visiting is what is worrying you, then I promise not to visit. Whatever it takes my friend in Mudcat, either way I don't mind, just get better. Thinking of you and Karen and the boys. Slainthe Giok [When I was younger they used to have stainless steel bedpans, and boy did they resonate when you farted, these newfangled papier mache things nowadays are not so much fun.] |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: mooman Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:57 AM Hey Spaw man! You were my welcolmer here six or seven years ago and I hold you in great esteem. If you do not get yourself well and back here soon, I will have to take over the awarding of The Golden Shower Award (and I already have a nominee in mind). So to avoid trouble at t' mill, get well soon! Peace moo (or the moo or mooman or mcmoo as is your wont) |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Geoff the Duck Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:57 AM Spaw - I first arrived at Mudcatland because somebody said it was about Folk Music and Song. You soon taught me what it is really about - people, fun and damn-fool stupidity. Get yourself well and get your backside out of there - I'm sure the nurses would appreciate some fresh air. I'm not lighting any candles - you could blow out a whole hospital wing.... Anyway - who would keep the inmates at the NYCFTTS entertained at Christmas. I can't hold a panto without you in the Royal Box! QUACK! Geoff. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Morticia Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:55 AM Dear Uncle Pat, sending all the (gentle) hugs and love I can to you, Karen, Michael and Tris........you've beaten much tougher odds than this, mate, I know you can do it again.We can't possibly do without you as well, even if it is only the very infrequent, smartass comment these days. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: alanabit Date: 06 Dec 05 - 04:37 AM Spaw, you get yer flatulent arse out of hospital mate. You are needed elsewhere. Like all other Mudcatters, I am looking forward to having back here. |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: suzi Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:52 AM I dont know you spaw , but I tell also that you are well loved and missed here....so come on you are needed home for christmas where your wonderful family awaits you..... I will light a candle for you too....love and light suzi |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Bert Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:11 AM Hi jon, It's a shame someone deleted that message, Spaw would have got a kick out of reading a message from Mudcat's own "Spaw Wannabe". |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Dec 05 - 02:07 AM I dunno, Spaw. This health stuff is a concern. I hope you get better soon. It's not something I ordinarily do, but I thought I'd have a big, long, musical fart in your honor - but then I see that Seamus has already offered to do that, and he can do it far better than I. I know what I can do - I'll hold the match......Boom! But get well, hey? -Joe- |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Fossil in NZ Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:27 AM Adding nothing at all to what's already been said - take the ride, Spaw, old chap - pay the dues, suck it all up - and get back out of that there hospital asap, man! We need you here... the trolls are circling! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Blake Madison Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:14 AM Blake Madison, private investigator, stumbles into the bar looking like a cruel experiment to study the long term effects of alcohol and disappointment. "Usual, Blake?" says the bartender. "yeah, but make it two," replies Madison, the Pall Mall between his chapped lips bobbing, lurching, and dropping a two inch ash caterpillar on the bar, which Madison ignores, accidentally mashing it into the soiled elbow of a 16 year old trench coat purchased for him in New York's Chinatown by an ex-gal pal who fell for him before suddenly wising up and sobering up simultaneously. "Expectin' a friend, Blake?" Madison drains the tumbler of its precious 4 ounces of Four Roses and smacks his lips. "No. I'm drinking for two tonight, Max. Me and a wounded compadre, fellow seeker of truth, y'know." Madison downs the second drink, belching "set 'em up again for me 'n my pal." The bartender upends the quart bottle, which bubbles merrily in the subdued amber fluorescence of the back bar. "He a crimefighter?" says Max. "Nah. He's a bullshit fighter. Got a nose for it. Unfortunately, he's got a tricky ticker. Kinda like one of those old fashioned alarm clocks...every once in a while the alarm goes off, and he's got to go in and get it rewound. Somethin like that, anyway. If you ever met him, you'd remember him. Funny fucker, sees flatulence as a practical joke that pizza and beer like to play on us. Drives a big nasty looking stroked and bored Chevy. Got a weird thing for possums." "Possums?" "Yeah, possums. He likes Patrick Sky and Lenny Bruce, too." "Sounds like a complex guy." "Not really." Madison knocks back the last Four Roses, and wipes his mouth on his sleeve, transferring the smudged cigarette ash to his upper lip where it gives him the look of a rather seedy Clark Gable. "He sure can drink some whiskey though. Better set 'em up again. Bastard's liable to keep me here all night." |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: GUEST,Lyrical Lady Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:10 AM It's been ages since I've visited this site and one of the reasons I check back every so often is to see if there is anything new from Pat! This is a upsetting turn of events. I remember very well the last time I was ill, Pat picked up the phone and called me here on Saltspring Is... just to check in with me. That phone call meant the world to me and I wish I could do the same right now...Pat!! I'm thinkin' of ya and sending every good positive thought I can muster your way!!! Please, get well soon! Barb, from Saltspring! |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: KT Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:46 AM Spaw, I've been missing your posts around here, as well! Heal well and swiftly, and grace us with your presence again. You've no idea how important you are to this place. And I second what BillD said. I want to meet you at next year's GETAWAY! KT |
Subject: RE: BS: One more time, for Spaw, please From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 06 Dec 05 - 12:42 AM Spaw, I'm gonna rip a major fart in your honor this very minute......wait for it.... BBRRRAAAPPPPPH! Dammit! I believe I've shit myself! Oh well, I better leave it to the acknowledged master. Get well, soon, Pat, and come back and cut a few. Seamus |