MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 May 08 - 08:59 AM

I have one of those fountains....

You have to mix the chocolate with a little vegetable oil which does affect the flavour somewhat, but not so big an effect as the one all that oil has on your digestive tract. Not for nothing is it used as a lubricant!

However, it does make for great soft scoop icecream if you freeze the remainder after you've played in the fountain.

I may let you borrow it one day... but I'm playing with it at the moment.

LTS

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: MMario
Date: 07 May 08 - 08:38 AM

we could try filling the wine fountain with chocolate - but I'm not sure the pumps could handle it.

What about the hot tub? Properly tempered chocolate should be as beneficial or moreso then a mud bath. . .

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 May 08 - 06:23 AM

Liz, let me introduce you to Millionaires Shortbread Should fulfil two of your desires at once.
Sorry, but I can't help you with any of the rest.


G.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 07 May 08 - 02:58 AM

chocolate fountain ! Heck wie certain Catters it wid hiv tae be the size o the fountains in Trafalger Square.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: maeve
Date: 06 May 08 - 09:48 PM

That's a good idea- as long as we use dark chocolate. No double-dipping please! On the other hand, Liz might try to climb into the fountain...

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: frogprince
Date: 06 May 08 - 09:26 PM

Has anyone considered getting one of those chocolate fountain thingies for this place? So far I've just seen them rented for wedding receptions.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 May 08 - 05:37 PM

Shortbread dipped in chocolate..... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

LTS

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: MMario
Date: 06 May 08 - 03:58 PM

How can we have s'more when we ain't had any yet?

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 06 May 08 - 03:56 PM

Smore?

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 06 May 08 - 10:49 AM

Aye but she loves chocolate more

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: frogprince
Date: 06 May 08 - 08:45 AM

Mudcat's Little Lizzie loves shortbread, shortbread,
Mudcat's Little Lizzie loves...

(And not only was it stupid, he can't sing worth a damn...)

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 May 08 - 07:16 AM

Squiddie Day Care?


Hand me over the shortbread plate please, I've not any since before Christmas!

LTS

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 06 May 08 - 03:20 AM

awww it is so nice tae see a squid wie a maternal instinct.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 06 May 08 - 03:10 AM

No banjos? Careful what you say, Squiddy lad. Yer liable to end up in The Mudcat Recovery Ward.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: GUEST,The Giant Squid
Date: 05 May 08 - 08:36 PM

No banjos! and keep the volume down over there in the corner, the babies are still sleeping.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: JennieG
Date: 04 May 08 - 08:57 PM

Petticoat tails please thank you Megan.....mmmm that was lovely. Now can I get you a coffee?

Do I hear the band in the corner tuning up?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 04 May 08 - 05:36 AM

Ok there are two plates on the bar one just ordinary peticotetails the other is scots teddy bear hugs for those in need. Tak yer pick - - - - Naw no tae the shortbread Rapaire now look at the mess

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: JennieG
Date: 04 May 08 - 12:59 AM

Megan can I please have some shortbread if I bring the coffee? please can I? pretty please? huh? huh?

I luuuurrrrrve shortbread........must be my Scots ancestry coming out......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 May 08 - 11:53 PM

Who would have guessed? The squid may have also been listening to the Blue Bottle Special (are there still a few available for purchase, Leo?)

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 03 May 08 - 07:04 PM

gnightgnu Megan.... sleep well and rest well. And the same to all... this Tavern is a place of comfort... cyberspace mayebe, but full of friends who care. Well, I care.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 03 May 08 - 05:32 PM

Jings I think the squid must have sang them all tae sleep.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: maeve
Date: 03 May 08 - 12:33 AM

And as the babies settle in, the squid sings a familiar lullabye...

" Quo' the haddock to the skate--
Lunnon is a far gate;
Quo' the haddock to the eel--
Crook ye your tail weel.
Dear bocht, dear saul',
Keep a chip o' Drum's faul;
Keep a chip o' Mair time;
Keep a chip o' Ritchie's wine,
A' the nowte o' Youmer tee--
Jollie fykes.
To the rumple, to my tykes,
Kent ye John Young, John Auld?
Sneerabuck, Snarabuck,
Fillgabuck and Lenabo,
Culterkill and Auchmagant,
Little Wartle, Muckle Wartle,
Fite Kirk o' Rayne--
Awa to Fisherfew
To see the boats come in..."

Shhhhhh! The bonny bairns are sleeping! Good night Max and family. Sweet dreams!

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:54 PM

OK who let the squid hold the babies? eh eh own up its going to take hours to get them back, mind you they did stop crying and there are some very contented sucking noises maybe max has found a babysitter

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 02 May 08 - 03:24 PM

Ahhhh.... no fight necessary. Thanks to Bert.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 May 08 - 02:34 PM

The door creaks open and Stilly walks in on a gush of muggy warm Texas spring weather. Affecting a Texas drawl, she calls for attention:

Y'all pull yerselves away from slobbering on the granite counter top a minute and look out this here window:

The old tavern is right over there in Max's back yard! And there's the gravel parking lot beside it, complete with room for the Auroch barbecue pit. I don't think he quite expected all of us in his basement.

I already took a look in--Bert's card is still over on the old bar, waiting to be used to pay for all of this. And I see a tentacle flapping at the western door--I bet that's your pal Mr. Squid.

You have to figure that the outage this morning was Max trying to be polite and figure out how to evict all of these Tavern denizens from his basement. Don't wake the babies when you tiptoe out of the house and back to the old tavern.

Besides, there might be a few folks back in the recovery ward who don't even know all of this happened. Has anyone been back to check on them? And Nurse Ratched? How is she?

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 02 May 08 - 12:25 PM

Pour me just one more before the fight starts, eh? Make it a double.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: MMario
Date: 02 May 08 - 09:12 AM

be careful Rap! Someone may hit you with a baggie full of water.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 08 - 09:03 AM

Maybe I'll leave my fly open....

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 08 - 09:02 AM

Today...at noon...I have to lunch with...with...the Chamber of Commerce. Jaysus lord forgive me my sins!

Fortunately this only comes around every couple of years.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 May 08 - 10:48 PM

And, here's me thinkin' you were casting aspersions on my mental state, Sins! Give that woman a TRIPLE JD, please! I think she needs it!

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:57 PM

Watchutawkinbout? I unnerstood everting Megan wuz sayin. I thought everyone knew, for instance, that "fecht" was "fight" (as in the German "fechtbuch" of the Middle Ages).

It's been an...interesting...day. I'd like a single barrel bourbon, please. Booker's, perhaps, or Knob Creek.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:51 PM

Confused katlaughing and Batgoddess. Ah well - off to the butcher for a blood test. I am overdue. But...a little JD (make it a double!!!!) on the rocks can't hurt.
Me and Seamus will grow old and cranky together...

Wonder what they will do if I refuse to give him back?

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: astro
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:40 PM

Well, happy b'day to you desert dancer, we'll pour the pints down tomorrow when I get home....

To DD in Tucson from Astro in LA....

until then, the old Tavern is open till we close it....

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:37 PM

Where did BatGoddesses posts go? Or am I hallucinating again? This is really becoming a problem

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:12 PM

hey, no interfering with men & women waving sticks (or hankies!), it's May Day & therefore Morris day!

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 08 - 06:39 PM

I bought Seamus a harness years ago after Kendall fed him a Guinness just before obedience class. He takes it off as fast as you put it on if you don't tighten it quickly. Fortunately I have a large fenced in back yard and he is content to wander around marking his territory and leaving land mines for the gardener to stumble upon...or in.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 08 - 06:37 PM

Move over, Batty. Bad day at the office and I am cranky. Forget the Jell-O pit. I clean when I am cranky. It is mucked out, scrubbed to a shiny white, filled with comfortably tepid water and a somewhat hungry squid. Will you help me guide the Morris Sides over to the edge. Then I will buy you a drink and we can commiserate. Or maybe we can find a banjo player and just have a good time.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 May 08 - 01:55 PM

Door opens smoothly, quietly letting in another "shortbread" woman, hair a little more white, sticking out around her head like a wind-frazzled halo. She looks around, liking what she sees.

Heya, folks! Nice to see the new place. I want to go on the record in favour of the international flair of languages. It's good for my brain to figure out what Megan's on aboot fra dae t'dae!**BG**

Been a long time since I've been to the Tavern. Wonder how long it'll take for us to muck out a jello pit in the back...anyone have a spud for Mick's thong?

Ya got my amaretto sour back there, MMario? Thanks, darlin'...

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: bfdk
Date: 01 May 08 - 01:43 PM

Uhm... didn't consider the skunk...

Now, that gives rise to a totally different scenario.. Jacqui walking her two menfolk on each their harness, a skunk happens along, Seamus jumps forward to greet it, Kendall retreats equally hastily in the other direction, and the band starts playing 'Torn Between Two Lovers'...

Ah'll get me coat.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 01 May 08 - 01:31 PM

I'm glad to catch some virtual morris dancing, at least! (ClaireBear -- I like your team's kit!) I'll start with a champagne cocktail for me birthday.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 01 May 08 - 01:27 PM

bfdk.... "Sins, did you get the poor tormented pooch a harness instead of his usual collar? If not, do so asap. It takes the strain off the neck but still leaves you in full control,..."

Of a Dauchshund, maybe, but Mary holding Seamus back with a harness... from a skunk? Ain't gonna happen.

Give us anudder afore the fecht.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 01 May 08 - 10:22 AM

Ok if we are in Max's basement where have we sent Mackenzie. Max please tell me you live beside a river ;)

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 May 08 - 10:21 AM

American [sic], is an English dialect surely?
That's what Megan's speaking too!

G



[Cosy down here in the shelter, where's Dave Willis?]

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 May 08 - 10:05 AM

"Hooray, Hooray
The First of May
Outdoor f***ing starts today"

Although, it may be a sign of age, but I'd rather be inside the tavern with you lot & a nice pint of real ale (or two...)

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 01 May 08 - 10:04 AM

Whits wrang wie your greet face jings fowk canny talk proper in here.
Shillpit - Thin, weedy
"Bauchle" - the opposite of "big yin", usually a "wee bauchle" is used to describe a shabby-looking person, especiually a small one.

A fecht(fight) weel(Well then ) Haud(hold) ma coat

ahm peedie (or peerie if yer a Shetlander) meens little

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: frogprince
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:55 AM

I actually managed to decipher some of what Megan said, but...

"thon shillpit wee bauchle"?

"a fecht weel haud ma coat"?

"ahm peedie"?

I propose an amendment to make American the official language of Mudcat!

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Bill D
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:44 AM

*happy sigh*....Mudcat is in its new quarters, and Megan is serving shortbread and ***Highland Park***. Life is good.

(Highland Park is my very favorite malt for daily use...YUM)

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:39 AM

I dinny ken whaur thon shillpit wee bauchle Mackenzie gets aff wie cryin me vertically challenged indeed ahm peedie dae ye hear. As fur them whit incinerate that ahm in fur a fecht weel haud ma coat.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:39 AM

It has ^%&^$^#*&*!! %^^$#*&!ing SNOWED!! It's May the f'in' First! And there's three or four #@#$! inches of s--w on the ground!

Gimme barrel of Everclear, and put in one ice cube and a straw.

#$@#$!ing snow.... The $%^&*!!ing daffodils are up, ferchrissakes!

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: MMario
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:06 AM

later - Ken Muzak said he'd be swinging by with his panpipes and tabour

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:03 AM

Burbs, hm.... will there be a live Muzak concert streaming along with the wine?

~S~

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 May 08 - 08:53 AM

well, Black Joak danced in the dawn this morning (17 hours ago) & were singing lustily, getting ready for more dancing when I left JennyO's club about an hour ago.

we've had the Oz & Us sides, now for the English Morris sides

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 01 May 08 - 07:36 AM

I rambled around the garden at dawn this morning (well, dawn-ish, it took me a while to find a shoe), saluted Aurora with sloe gin and toddled off to work via the bus and tube. After an hour on public transport, and two hours at my desk, someone asked why I had leaves in my hair...

Ho hum.... I think I better stay on the soft stuff, I have to excercise my Constitutional Right later this afternoon and I need to remember who NOT to vote for in the London Mayoral Elections.

One of those iced teas please.. the Long Island variety?

LTS

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: bfdk
Date: 01 May 08 - 05:44 AM

The air raid shelter won't keep a determined Meg out of your hair, Giok.

Sins, did you get the poor tormented pooch a harness instead of his usual collar? If not, do so asap. It takes the strain off the neck but still leaves you in full control, so my vet informed me when Milloup presented himself with similar problems a few months back. Hmmm... while you're out shopping, maybe you should get one for Kendall as well. Jacqui might appreciate that ;-))

Rum and coke for me, please, and I'll be over there watching that Morris team.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: TheSnail
Date: 01 May 08 - 05:14 AM

ClaireBear, Apple Tree Morris are clearly outstanding in their field.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 01 May 08 - 05:02 AM

Smart move, Giok, letting her know where you are.

Keep!!, pour me a glass of whatever is handy... quick... before the fight starts.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 May 08 - 04:21 AM

Megan was brought up on shortbread , which is why she's vertically challenged. Rumour has it, that she also drinks condensed milk.
G


[I'll be in the air raid shelter if anybody wants me.]

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 01 May 08 - 04:15 AM

I have only one thing to say to that "WHITE RABBITS" :p

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 01 May 08 - 04:09 AM

And it will have to be decorated with cowslips, bluebells, sycamore boughs and red tulips with the odd wallflower here and there, all of which were picked at dawn.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Megan L
Date: 01 May 08 - 03:41 AM

Bill ya big girls blouse peat free malt indeed ye'll hae a glass o this Highland Park and Lump it. Shortbread anyone.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnomad
Date: 01 May 08 - 03:24 AM

T-those electic t-things over t-there..are they s-s-servers?

We better behave in here, I think this tavern is in Max's nice new basement. Do you suppose the squid will be a problem?

For now I'll be v.good, a nice double espresso will do me until I get back from work.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 May 08 - 02:29 AM

Claire - may favourite pic of the side here   who said all Morris dancer clumped about in heavy boots?

sandra

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: ClaireBear
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 08:11 PM

Funny, I was just going to ask the same question. We can bring a case or two of Sonoma County wines to share, and some St. George cheese...

Claire

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 08:02 PM

ok if I bring a Morris side with me, as they'll be dancing at JennyO's club tonight, I'm sure they'd love the practice (drinking the dark vile brew that is)


sandra (any Perrier water for me & the younger members of the side?)

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 07:59 PM

Full bathroom? Is Liz stuck again?

I'll take a JD on the rocks with a twist. The job is in chaos but more important - Seamus the Dog is staying with me and has a pinched nerve in his neck, By now he has figured out that if he yelps in pain I will run, fuss, massage, while the cats stand by concerned.
He has of course checked out the skunk nest - no residents in sight.
His meds (Seamus not the skunk) require extra water and extra walks so today I went to work and left the back door ajar. Kitties loved it.
Tomorrow, a "sitter" comes to visit so the old boy can pee at intervals.
Make it a double and throw in a side of Tequila.
Auntie SINS, who worries more about the dog than Kendall.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 06:19 PM

It's marble...we just TOOK it for Granite....



(ok, I'll buy a round, for that one....make mine....ummmm...... a non-peated single malt.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 06:15 PM

Granite wet bar.....

Description or instruction?

LTS

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: MMario
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 02:53 PM

Don't panic - I just checked and there is Turkey Turd Beer under the bar; and the tanker-truck of dark vile brew is still hooked up to the taps.

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 02:46 PM

Yeah! No Hrans or Turkey Turd Beer? Spawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

Subject: RE: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: Amos
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 02:44 PM

Oh, man, what the fock?? So... we're gonna be 'Burbites, huh? No more creaking, cob-web strewn doors, patched-gravel parking lots, lazy bums drooling on the scarred floor, motorcycles driving through the batwing doors, squids in the Jello Pit... it's gonna be one of those gawdamm Bounce commercials, isn't it? Jeeze Louise, MM, duck behind the bar and grab me some dark foul-smelling brew before someone transforms it all into fockin' Perrier with plastic wrap around the bottles...

Didja ever get the feeling you were waking up from a dream and would rather not? Ya know whaddI mean? Jeeze...



A

Subject: MudCat MayDay '08 Tavern
From: MMario
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 02:21 PM


HEy!

WHERE's the TAVERN?

*slack-jawed amazement*

Just look at the place! Brand new hardwood floors, lots of windows, lots of light, granite wet bar, full bathroom!!!!... In addition there's a Hammond Organ, a 19th century pump organ, guitars, banjos, accordians, dobros, flutes, kazoos, drums and a multi-tiered fountain that appears to be flowing with wine.

You'd hardly know it was the same place.