BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 03:45 PM

Ah... that's my week done... plus 4 hours extra just to keep the boss happy..

Celebrating the departure of a family member to the far shores of St Helena this weekend, so may not be here much in body, but rest assured, I will be in spririts! (Mother in law usually has a goodly supply of gin!)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: coldjam
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 02:02 AM

Ah, thanks for the meaning of "handfasting" Liz...it would be a good term for Squid coupling as well! Maybe better as hand-over-hand-over-handfasting...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: lady penelope
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:55 PM

Ah MAG you have embraced the way of The Gin Fairy.....   :0) Hurrah!

I vote we keep the squid and not cook him. I hate calimari anyhoo and the neck rubs really are very good.....

Now if y'all will excuse me, I have some serious napping to catch up on......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 02:57 PM

Oh! You mean those wrinkles on your body aren't your underclothes? Then you've been in that water WAY too long!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:41 PM

I don't want to iron 'em; I just want to know where somebody hid 'em, in case it ever cools off enough to get out of this aquarium!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 04:15 AM

Why no underwear jokes?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 01:49 AM

THERE WILL BE NO IRONING OF UNDERPANTS IN THIS TAVERN!!!

Now get out there, get a drink and get a life!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:15 AM

Monday is my day off; Monday is the last day of the weekend for me.

Tanqueray gin and tonic, w/ fresh lime and lots of ice. That't the ticket on a really hot day.

Song circle w/ harmonies, anyone? How about "Foggy Foggy Banks?"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:16 AM

There was a thread about handfasting a year or so ago when Micca and CatsPHiddle did it.... but basically it's a public announcement that you and your partner are going to live together as a 'married' couple without the fuss of all that church mularkey, much like 'jumping the broomstick'.

I remember Rolling Rock... I think it's what got me into drinking real ale. And yes.. the best birthday present I ever bought myself was a dishwasher. Boy has THAT ever been value for money!

Good for you for quitting the band, for making that decision... just don't go filling the gap immediately or you could end up worse off! Take a few months to kick back, consolidate your position and make your own music for yourself.

Now hand over those beers and get me another pool boy... there ain't no such thing as Monday morning here!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:45 AM

Ya know, way back at the beginning of this thread, I was whining about my mental bandleader.

I have now quit the band, and am happy as a clam! Have had private decompressions with others in the band (who are also all quitting) with good beer, and feeling out from under in a major way.

Congrats to Lady Penelope; love is a wonderful thing. dishwashers are, too.

Here is enough Rolling Rock (a U.S. beer I used to drink in college) to go around.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: coldjam
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:46 PM

Lady Penelope...dare I ask the meaning of "handfasting"?

Ya know, that "squid soup" everyone's been frolicking about in, ought to be about ready to start cooking up about now...I always add a bit of wine to my mine...might help make the squid enjoy the, er, process a bit more...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:13 PM

MMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Slushhyyy.......... : )
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:18 PM

Well Liz and I decided you needed a set of 8 cocktail glasses that all matched....and they are large enough to get a BIG cocktail in them!! It will take Liz a while to say "My slush has run out of Puppy!!"

Anyway....where's the GIN??!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: lady penelope
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:12 PM

Having noticed the "Dishwasher safe" notice on the side of the box Parker immediately retracted his initial comment of "Not more bloody glasses for me to wash...."

They really are very nice glasses and we'll have to get you round to drink out of them soon!

Whilst it's Parker and I's first wedding anniversary, this year was our 10th year handfasting and 17 years we've been together in total! Gluttons fer punishment..... :)

Now, where'd I put that burger.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:33 AM

And you had a jolly time? Was the present useful? Another (nearly) 6 weeks and it's our 16th..... Don't get that for manslaughter these days...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: lady penelope
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:34 AM

Left a bit..... up a bit..... aaaah, that's lovely........   Back in the aquarium after a night of alcohol fueled frolicks ('twas Parker and I's first wedding anniversary....) ......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 12:09 PM

Ho hum.... still watching Painted Ladies.... more than ever today.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:04 AM

By Gaw, that second one has broad shoulders.. sure she's in the right thread? Whatever, shoulders like that, she can take on the Squid in the jello pit.

I think I need another drinkiepoos.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 09:02 PM

Bernadette Peters has been compared with a Gibson Girl.

Example one

Example two

Maybe she would like to join the barbecue? Or would it put someone's nose out of joint?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 05:30 PM

Ah.. this is a use of the phrase 'married couples thing' that I was previously unaware of.....

Manitas nearly died of shock the first time I got in the bath with him..... not used to mixed bathing, poor boy.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM

Hmm, must be a married couples thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 04:07 PM

Honest, I'm not lookin' to get "riveted" to anybody. If my wife's crazy work schedule gave her a chance to be here right now, she would be in there with me in no time.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 04:04 PM

This should be rivetting!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 04:01 PM

Yeah, hotter'n hell again; Penelope, it it okay with you if I hop back in there with you?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 02:55 PM

That's a relief... I thought you were drinking guitars!

Personally, I'd rather have a Eko... sounds like a Gibson but is half the price!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 02:29 PM

or Gibson

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 02:19 PM

Gibson
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:46 PM

Gibson? Gibson's Finest 12 year old Canuck whiskey? Never touch the stuff. It touches me back. And, I'm touched as it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 12:11 PM

Penny - you do know what they use those arms for, don't you?

Be careful how much you let him massage!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: lady penelope
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM

'Scuse me.....'scuse me...!!! Can someone pass me my gibson? I'd get it myself only I've discovered the squid's really good at shoulder massages and .... well... it's too damned hot to bother getting out of the aquarium......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:29 PM

Perhaps the bourbon's for the cook. Doesn't go in the sauce, just the hired help! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:36 AM

sounds good Rapaire - but it doesn't sound like a bourbon sauce; even using my imagination.

Shouldn't a bourbon sauce have BOURBON? even a little? or was b*u*t*t*e*r a typo for b*o*u*r*b*o*n?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:32 AM

I have a GREAT recipe for a bourbon sauce for bread pudding. Unfortunately, it's at home.

Mash the raspberries, add honey, spread on warm bread that's buttered with good butter. Or...well, use your imagination.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:18 AM

Now that sounds good!

I took a bread pudding to a potluck one time and it seemed so "ordinary" (though I love it just the way it is) that I looked around and found a recipe for melba sauce. To die for over the top of bread pudding!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 08:59 AM

Liz, marinate the raspberries in tequila, ginger and lime, then put on a very hot grill just long enough to caramelize a bit and heat through. yummmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! (easier to do on a grill pan then an actual grill)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: skarpi
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:49 AM

How come you ll get all heat ?? is it unfear or are we just lucky
to have this wheather like we have ?? The heat here is 8 to 23-4 on C
depence where you are its in the North of Iceland where it is warmest,
but has been colder here in the south of the land ..

well its gonna rain in the end of the month in UK and Danmark
so I hope you all enjoy it becouse I have had enough I have been
trying to paint my house since May and I am not still finish??
we had only 6 dry days in June and in this July wellll they might be 6
days ?? it has been rain all the other days so what will you have
a hot summer or rainy summer or little bit if both ???

well I am now just waiting for the snow and the blizard
I am worry about the coming winter it gonna be one of thouse who are bad.

so with a sunny smile in my heart and soul
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM

I don't trust grills.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: coldjam
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 05:01 PM

It's not that I don't like barbeque Raspberries, it's just that they keep falling through the grill...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 04:41 PM

Barbequed raspberries???

It's not so much the size that matters, I just find the bigger ones have more stamina and can carry bigger jugs of margheuritas.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:29 PM

Hey, I'm back! Diccha miss me? I also brought back the gin, and there's a truckload of Zenner's apple sausages coming that just ask to be barbecued as well as a truckload of fresh Northwest raspberries.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 02:53 PM

bert's credit card is still working, so d*mn the cost!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 02:44 PM

Pool? You got a pool table? I've never played before. Can someone teach me? As long as it doesn't cost too much per game, eh? And what about darts? I have heard it is a lot of fun. Does it cost much per game?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 02:19 PM

Your demand is outstripping their supply Liz.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:39 PM

Sorry Liz, the ACLU threatened us with an injunction if we "continued to discriminate against applicants based on size" - I guess they believe size doesn't matter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:14 PM

Otherwise known as a bucket of margheurita!!

That last pool boy was a bit small.. are we running low?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:31 PM

Anaesthetic is what you need for that MMario.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:22 PM

yikes! Isn't that your fourth pool boy today, Liz? (not that we're counting or anything...)

Can someone mix me up a drink that will kill the taste of shambles-postings from my brain?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:20 PM

The final count was 9 Painted Lady butterflies.. they look like a sort of washed out Red Admiral but are a bit bigger. They migrate to the UK in summer and they were attracted to my white buddliea. It was a most enjoyable 30+ minutes I spent watching them... just what summer is all about.

So hand over a Slushie and grease me up another pool boy.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:17 AM

Six swans a swimming?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:56 AM

Changing the subject completely.. it's not yet 9.00am and I'm watching 7 painted ladies sunning themselves in my garden.

Better than any squid show.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: coldjam
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 07:00 PM

I'm feeling a little squidish myself talking about cepholapods tentacles...as a matter of fact I am pretty sure that is an actual condition we played a benefit for last year...tragic really...little children- stricken with cepholapods tentacles...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:55 PM

He's a squid, an aquatic beastie.. why would it want to dry its tentiticles?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:59 PM

Or dry his tentacles.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:49 PM

What else would he blow his nose on?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:26 PM

I told you he's a six quid and didn't feel towel.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:10 PM

What does an aquatic animal need a towel for? Especially THAT squid.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 01:17 PM

Eeuuuuwww... that's the towel the squid was using!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 01:10 PM

I think MMario stuffed them in the side of the barbecue grill to stop a draft. You'll have to make do with that skimpy towel.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 08:20 PM

At least it finally cooled down enough to get out of the aquarium. Okay, now, where did somebody put my clothes?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 06:22 PM

Giok... what have I told you about the gene pool....!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 06:26 AM

You could end up with 'A soul singing sadly soused squiffy squid' Who was unable to say 'The Leith police dismisseth us'
Giok
[Ten twisted tentacles tapping on the tank]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 03:52 AM

Er... Jungian petticoat there I think.... I was as jober as a sudge.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 07:19 PM

His "tentsicles," Liz? Have you been drinking?

Oh, okay. Nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 06:20 PM

Please, NO!!!

Have you any idea how much control over his tentsicles when he gets pissed?

None?

Exactly.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 06:16 PM

T'row da wee bugger inna punch! 'e'll feel needed and inebriated.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 03:44 PM

But we have to make the poor squid feel needed somehow... he hates being left out of things.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:12 PM

Then why bother the squid to begin with? Just leave him in the aquarium and throw the lettuce and apricot goo at people and drink your wine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 08:12 AM

glaze the squid with the apricot jam and then wrap with the lettuce; serve chilled with a good white wine. (proper way to eat apricot glazed squid lettuce rolls is to toss the roll at someone and drink the wine. repeat.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 04:29 AM

Giok... out of the gene pool.... NOW!!!


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 04:25 AM

Cephalopods are not struck on lettuce cos it is like a kick in the tentacles to a carnivorous jet propelled beast.
It makes them ill, and there's not a lot you can do on sick squid.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 04:10 AM

Do squid like lettuce or are you suggesting as a garnish?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: coldjam
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 07:28 PM

My advice is to throw the jam on the ice cream and the lettuce to the squid.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 05:21 PM

So what can I do with 5 pots of apricot jam and a lettuce?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 04:01 AM

Whooo hoo!! Squirty Cream!! Get your feet out of the jello pit, I'm coming in!!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: coldjam
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:24 PM

I am horribly late I know, but I just got back from baking (and by that I mean it in the global warming warning kind of way) at a 4 day (mostly) dulcimer festival, in which we tent camped, and I could really use copious quantities of anything iced & alcoholic (tiny umbrella optional). I stopped on my way and picked up some premium vanilla ice cream, hand-picked, homegrown strawberries and a crate of containers of whipped cream. What you do with the individual components is totally up to you...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:01 PM

Why ARE they always pissed [allegedly]?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:58 PM

As far as my drinking goes, no newts is good newts.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:17 PM

You can't ask a lot of an axolotl. Unless he's tiny, which means he's my newt!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:42 PM

no, I think that's a newt swimming in it. Maybe an Axolotl; in fact, given the fluid it is swimming in, probably an Axolotl of the Alcohol Axolotl variety (Ambystoma Deleriumtremons)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:33 PM

I think it's more "Ol' Unconsumable" but what the hell, it's not purple and there's nowt swimming in it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:30 PM

Is that a bottle of "Ol' Combustible" ? Or did someone just refill a fifth with some moonshine?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:12 PM

OK, so I did go for a tramp in the woods... and yes, he got away, but I managed to get his stash of hooch... don't drink it too close to the fire there...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:55 AM

no- garfield is actually a solid flesh colour - the striping is an optical illusion because of the way his hair grows.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:53 AM

Maybe his doctor can tell you differently!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 12:40 PM

Garfield is patterned orange and white, last time I saw you Mario, you were missing the orange stripes!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 11:30 AM

I wondered why that guy went streaking through here so quickly!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 11:30 AM

I don't do that kind of exertion under *any* circumstances!

- well - a nice liesurely stroll through the woods maybe...after I have something to eat, and drink

and a nap

Did I ever mention Garfield was patterned after me?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 11:30 AM

LTS went for a tramp in the woods; but he got away!
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 11:26 AM

Does that mean you are up for a tramp through the woods, or a game of volleyball, after downing a few sausage? or maybe, a contra line?

(for me, a snooze over here in this lovely hammock.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 08:18 AM

sausages heavy? no - heaqvy is a 2 kilo steak, blood rare, with about another kilo of sauteed mushrooms, gravy, mashed 'taters, and a couple slices of pie for dessert!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 05:34 AM

Ah yes... plain cold water.. Drank 2 litres of it yesterday in 2 hours. The liquid in to liquid out ratio is severely off balance.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 10:01 PM

I don't know how you guys can eat that heavy stuff when it's sooo hot. (and if you want to know why it's sooo hot, go see Al Gore's movie ...)

I took homegrown blueberries to a potluck on Saturday. Once I did that and one kid scarfed them all. I had to warn his mother what can happen, but I guess all you Moms know.

water, water. plain cold water. nothin' like it ahhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 05:47 PM

I fancy a Cumberland Sausge cooked on the barbecue, with some Onion Marmalade.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 05:35 PM

Ahhhh.... pass me over that Long Island Iced tea.... I did a concert this lunchtime in 30+ degree heat where we sang about 85% of the Mozart Requiem in 30 minutes, to a piano we could barely hear and all wearing black.... It was a good gig, but I could have done without the mad panic dash back to the train to get back home for another concert at Limpit's school, that started at 2.00.

Now it's about 18+ degrees and too hot to sleep. I'm figuring that enough LIITs will cool me down and knock me out for the night.

Hand 'em over Barkeep!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 01:32 PM

It's soooo nice and cool in here; are you sure some of you ladies don't want to jump in? Would someone be kind enough to bring me a plate of that potatoe salad, and a little lemonade? It's way to hot to get out of here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: SunnySister
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 12:26 PM

Hummm, looks like I am late coming to the outdoor party... glad to see ya'all here.

I brought my mom's world famous potato salad. This version's got the black olives... my favorite! Sorry I can't eat with you, on a major diet, so I'll just sit here drinking water and watch all of you eat. Every so often, I'll ask how what you're eating tastes so I can live vicariously through you. :)

--SunnySister, who is glad Liz the Squeak is so smart! This is a great idea~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 12:15 PM

groan

You really worked on that one.

Barkeep, make sure there is a big bowl of water for the shaggy dog. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 12:00 PM

Even though late to the BBQ..(but bringing some lovely beer from Dogfish Head as my contribution)...I can solve one problem...Liz allowed as how..." I don't eat things that have more limbs than I do.." The trick is, you confront the creature with the excess appendages and warn it about your intentions. It will then be converted into the proper configuration.....


what? You doubt?






Everyone knows...."He who is forewarned in four-armed!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 11:01 AM

I figure by the time I wake up I will have sweat myself a little private pool anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 10:50 AM

It's going to be 105 here, MMario. You might want to get a little closer to the aquarium to cool off after that nap.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 08:52 AM

Hi! I'm back! what year is it, anyway? I'm just gonna lay me down on a blanket and snooze for a while -

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 05:02 AM

You're using that special ruler again aren't you....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 04:24 AM

A foot is 12" isn't it?
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:08 AM

Yes... it does make his feet look exceptionally big.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 06:21 PM

SRS, I think it's just that you're not used to seeing some things in that large a scale...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 05:41 PM

frogprince, I thought you were going to wear a suit when you went in the aquarium.

Hey, folks, don't stare, but doesn't that glass and water seems to magnify objects?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 02:32 PM

I know a girl with nice buns!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 02:27 PM

Thanks for the warning. Sounds too rich for me. Speaking of bangers. I just bought a whack of Hot Italian susages and Honey-Garlic sausages at half price - no, due date is July 22 - so, anybody got some nice buns?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 01:38 PM

Mmmmmmmmm... thanks. Next chocolate & lime cheesecake I make is yours.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 01:36 PM

\_/

(((

(___)

Sorry, Liz. Best I could do.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 07:23 AM

Well I've been sitting here for ages waiting for the blokes to come over all culinary minded, but I can't even get my margheurita refreshed, let alone a plate of sizzling bangers and a bowl of potato salad!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 08:10 PM

Geeze, youse guys. You don't understand the concept of BBQ. You are suppose to be hot and desparately sucking on your cold drinks, in anticipation of the ingestion of copious quantities of charred mammal flesh, still raw in the middle, such that a full night of sleep is impossible.

Togas? Are preferred. As is your own accomodation... RV, tent or blanket.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM

Just got from a day of staffing the air-conditioned art gallery; I brought a bag of ice to throw in the aquarium. Close your eyes if you're sqeamish; I'm goin' in!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 06:40 PM

Well there went a jolly hot and sunny St Swithun's day... another 40 to come?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 04:45 PM

Don't worry about the grill today, just slap the meat on any handy metal surface that is outside in the sun. 102 today, 103 predicted for tomorrow. That aquarium is looking VERY inviting right about now, squid or no!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM

Reminds me of a friend whose daughter and her friends used to play things like Barbieb Stew. I quit worrying about girls when i hear stuff like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 04:56 PM

Ah... the weekend is here again.... Slush me up, puppy boy!

Sling another Barbie on the grill - see those abnormally long plastic legs just curl right up..... Bliss!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 05:08 AM

Not as fur as I know, maybe there's an escape claws?
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 03:34 PM

Do they charge extra for furry lobsters?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 12:37 PM

I'm still sticking with my rule of not eating anything with more limbs than I have....

Mind you... it would give Chongo a run for his money!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 10:21 AM

the hairy lobster has a very high percentage of ammonia in it's body fluids , so probably doesn't taste very good.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 10:11 AM

I'll go for some good Northwestern Dungeness crab myself. . . let me know when it's low tide and we can go wade around for some.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 04:37 AM

Hairy Lobster
Seriously though I did hear of the hairball in lobsters before, and it was theorised that pieces of cowhide complete with hair were being used in lobster pots as bait. It has the advantage of lasting longer than fishy baits. This meant that lobsters ingested the hair along with the hide.
Could account for the fisherman who said, "I haven't seen hide nor hair of a lobster all day"!
Giok

I'll get me carapace.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 03:47 AM

I swear I found a lobster in the hairball my cat coughed up the other day....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: number 6
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 04:50 PM

One of my employee's father is a lobster fisherman off of Newfoundland ... declared he found a hairball in a lobster he caught.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 04:48 PM

Could BE beaver then....

Does it taste fishy?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 04:40 PM

"Fur dolphin" is just code meaning his neighbor's Labrador retreivers got out there and chased the fish in the water. I do believe the dogs usually survive the experience, so I'm not sure what the fuzzy part is.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM

Damn.... I thought that was beaver.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:42 PM

Fur dolphins! That, spit, explains, spit, the hairball.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:27 PM

They both taste pretty dang good!

BTW - you do *not* want to know how difficult it was to teach salmon how to navigate the Drums of Seneca in order to spawn. Had to use some freshwater fur dolphins to lead them the first couple of generations.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:22 PM

AH, but mine was marinated then smoked over alder and it started out as Copper River King salmon! It's the amount of natural red that gives the flavor that huge boost! I think perhaps yours is reflecting those great salmon oils in the juice that form a skin* on the fillet and lighten the surface when it has finished cooking.

(*The word "congeal" comes to mind, but it isn't my favorite word to describe fine cooking!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 11:08 AM

Mine was smoked over Alder, applewood and clippings from cabernet grapes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 10:57 AM

That looks a little pond-raised, MMario.

SALMON

How's that?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 10:16 AM

SALMON!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 10:11 AM

Someone go close that Texas door or too much heat will seep into the tavern area. 101 in the Fort Worth area today. Ugg!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 08:38 PM

The salmon is just coming off of the grill--someone be prepared to beat back the cats in case they close in as I carry it to the table. Move that chocolate out of the way, please--THIS is the food of the gods!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 07:20 PM

Gin?? Hurrah!!

I have supplies of Gin and Green and Blacks!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Alba
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 07:04 PM

Did you say Cider Liz.....I'll have a large bucket full please and I would like that Pink and Yellow twisty straw thank you very much....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 05:58 PM

Well that's a first... people here below the salt, paying attention!

Bring on the cider!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 02:02 PM

Liz - when someone states a Universal Truth it takes a while to digest; so everyone else tends to puase a bit - especially if they are paying attention.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 01:35 PM

Oh, and


100

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 01:35 PM

Well that finished that conversation....

Still don't know how I hurt my ankle.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 04:45 AM

Sugar, caffeine, alcohol. They're deadly.... yeah, but short of sexual exhaustion, what a way to go!!!


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 01:31 AM

Chocolate beer isn't bad.

That thing with chocolate liquor, mint liquor, and heavy cream/ice cream is better.

But I don't do them anymore. Except virtually, here -- I'll just do both bottles here with coffee ice cream in the food processor. and ice.

sugar, caffein, alcohol. They're deadly.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 04:57 PM

Oddly enough, that was the only programme in which I preferred the blonde... something about David McCallum that hasn't faded over the years either.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 04:54 PM

You went to bed with Napoleon Solo, the man from ankle?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 04:46 PM

Now can anyone explain how I managed to pull my ankle ligaments last night when all I did was go to bed.....?

I can, but you swore me to secracy, remember?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 03:05 PM

Do have a beer to wash that down with Liz.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 02:37 PM

Only two?? I hope that's each!!

Now can anyone explain how I managed to pull my ankle ligaments last night when all I did was go to bed.....?


And no... there was no chandelier or jumping off wardrobes involved.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: EBarnacle
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 10:57 PM

Remember that more than a few of us will be at the South Street Chantey Sing and Barbie on July 15. PM for more details.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 09:27 PM

We have a local winery here advertising (honest) Chocolate Raspberry Wine. Shall I fetch a bottle or two for you guys?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 08:12 PM

Two buckets of chocolate as ordered, one milk, one dark, where do you want me to stow them ladies? Oh, just open them stick in two spoons and ........ RUN!    arrrghhhhh    almost got killed in the stampede.... phew.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 05:17 PM

Well there went the chocolate gin... having to make do with the apple flavoured gin now... burp.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 05:14 PM

Well! I'm ready to go--anyone going to play any music or do some dancing this evening? My mowing is complete, front and back, and I just finished my nap. I didn't know I was going to take a nap, but I sat down for a minute and a while later found myself stretched out on the couch--a very satisfactory nap, indeed!

Pass me some of those chocolate covered cranberries, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 03:35 AM

Aha... but you've never seen me fight to get to the chocolate.... sod the Queensberry rules mate, it's every chocoholic for herself!

Cadburys have been using an advertising slogan that I find most offensive. On all their big bars they've put 'More to share'... like that's ever gonna happen!!!

Now where's that chocolate flavoured gin?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM

There is no such thing as excess chocolate, but sometimes it's in the wrong place, such as near the Squid. You do not want to see a giant mollusc on a sugar high....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 10:22 AM

There's extra chocolate? :P

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 10:20 AM

Did anyone notice the slide set up on the back side of the aquarium?

Liz can wash off the extra chocolate, should there be any.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:55 AM

Those are great for some things - but you do lose out on the - ahem- tension release - afforded by kneading the dough. or some days, pounding and beating and bashing and hitting the dough.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:44 AM

You'll need one of these Mario!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:42 AM

fresh baked bread being sliced as we speak!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:33 AM

Cheers Giok mate

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:27 AM

Have some Swan Beer from the Swan Brewery, to wash down your Swan sandwich toasted in a Swan Toaster Possibly at the Swan Cafe
Giok
[his cygneture!]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:14 AM

Is your famous cottage bread in the oven yet MMario? I want a swan sandwich with my beer..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 08:11 AM

an imu is a pit oven - hawaiian style.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 07:36 AM

Imu? What on earth is an imu? Some kind of pre stuffed Emu?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 06:06 AM

As someone more famous than I once said, I must get out of these wet clothes, and into a dry martini. So wave the the Vermouth at the Gin bottle that's in the freezer, teach that olive the breast stroke, and oblivion here I come!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 05:42 AM

No Sins... I don't eat things that have more limbs than I do. That squid has more than its fair share of apendages and it serves him right if he gets athletes tentacle. Now get him out of that chocolate so I can get in.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 09:37 PM

Hey look! The squid got into the S'Mores and is coated in marshmallow and chocolate. Wonder if we can pass him off on Liz as some exotic truffle?
Poor guy is sticking to the ground. Somebody help him into the aquarium. He looks like a mouse in a sticky trap. YUK

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 06:27 PM

Ker - splash!!! * _{* ~} * * ~

bubbles are heard to rise from the astonishingly full aquarium tank that towers over the site of the old jello pit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 04:46 PM

Ah.... it's imu.... I thought it was the drains again...

Slush me up, puppy boy!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 03:57 PM

featherly!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 03:55 PM

I'm about ready to open the first imu; the first couple of swans should be just done.

Smell pretty good, don't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 03:44 PM

Mmm.... found some alcoholic lemonade from Italy now... that duck better watch out.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 11:25 AM

Ah, yes, that was it! I just couldn't visualize the source, just the cuts of meat in the cooler. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 09:32 AM

SRS - Weren't you around for the Velociraptor grill?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 06:28 AM

Wascawy Wabbits on the BBQ, Elmer mate... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:21 AM

A duck with twizzly bits? Well I've heard of the ubiquitous turkey twizzlers much beloved of J Oliver Esquire, but not duck ones!
It's not a rubber ducky is it?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:00 AM

This duck tucked on my lap has sucked my Pimms dry. This duck should buck up and get the truck back.

Ooooooooo, pretty.... I like that one with the twizzly bits....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 12:51 AM

Excuse me, but what the bloody heck is everybody talking about?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 12:27 AM

Lookit those fireworks; look at those that make one big even ring of stars, with the colors alternated all around; and that one that makes one big round bloom of color, with half one color and half the other; I've never seen either of those before.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 09:37 PM

Pimms = cookies?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Les from Hull
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 04:56 PM

'go together like a horse and carriage'

Or a horse and bucket (if you grow roses!)

According to the blicky Giok provided, we drink it by the gallon! Well my next Pimms will be my first!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 04:09 PM

Freeze borage flowers in your ice cubes, they look lovely in a drink.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Emma B
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 04:04 PM

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pimms-no-1-cup_index.html

borage
go together like a horse and carriage

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 04:03 PM

Here it's a very English, henley Regatta, drinks at the tennis club sort of drink.
Giok
[for whom it isn't alchoholic enough]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 03:57 PM

What's Pimms and what does borage have to do with it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 03:56 PM

my fave thing to barbeque is a product made by my friend..
i grilled a half dozen of them yesterday. Tempeh patties
with ginger and teriaki flavors. yum yum and good for you
too. Lean Green Foods makes these. SO(Y) Good!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 02:00 PM

Stir it!
G

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Les from Hull
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 01:43 PM

Look here, I ordered an industrial amount of borage to go with the Pimms - everybody knows you can't have proper Pimms without borage - what where you? dragged up?

Unfortunately there seems to have been some sort of mix-up over the 'phone. Any ideas what I can do with all this porridge?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 12:08 PM

"Play your cards right and it could be your ducky day" she said, looking round for the orange sauce recipe!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 11:23 AM

A duck sidles up to Liz and tucks itself quietly into her lap.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 04:56 AM

Of course it will taste like chicken.. what do you think chickens evolved from?

And Bunnahabhain, you dropped a B there... it's the Purbeck hills on the Jurassic Coast, which stretches all the way from Devon to Kimmeridge Bay,
and beyond.

Hook me up to the Pimms tanker then, in the absence of Margheurita boy, but take the celery out please, it a) adds nothing to the flavour; b) makes me hurl and c) it gets me in the eye every time I try to drink.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 11:00 PM

Auroch is about as old as we go, though it seems to me that we had something -- was it frozen Mammoth? -- a couple of years back. MMario cooked it, you'll have to ask him.

Personally, I think it's a waste of your time. You know what they'll end up saying--that it tastes like chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 06:53 PM

Marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate, both light and dark for S'Mores. A cold beer and a nap now.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 05:27 PM

Ahh, just in time, her puns are degenerating, the Pimms tanker is here. The lemonade and Random floating fuit and salad will arrive shortly.

I shall contribute the barrel of my own beer, which is tasting better with every pint.

BTW, the Kimmeridgian epoch is named after Kimmeridge, Dorset, where the Pureck hills meet the sea. The whole bay, 50 odd miles across, is fameous for dinosaur bones, and is now a world heritage site, and very pretty. There is only one question though...

Can any of these time travellers go back and get us some dinosaur steaks? The trick is to stick the marinade onn before you come back, so they're absorbing the flavour for 150 million years!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 04:23 PM

Damn.. I was going to suggest you use the pit as the oven for the sturgeon....

Or is he just going to roe, roe, roe his boat?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 04:22 PM

He says it'll end up looking something like this. Ambitious bugger! Someone throw him a harbor seal. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 04:00 PM

Did anyone else notice the giant squid just now slither past dragging a long hose? I think that rascal is turning the jello pit into an indoor saltwater aquarium.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 02:46 PM

It makes for one heck of a roller-coaster ride on the way back home tho!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 02:42 PM

I would've gone back a lot farther, but there's something about a big explosion if you go back too far....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 02:08 PM

My range is pretty limited these days, Rapaire; I haven't actually worked in a library in decades.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 01:46 PM

Bleedin' wimp, that MMario. I went back the Kimmeridgian epoch of the Jurassic -- about 140 million years ago. Mario only went back a few hundred...the wuss.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 01:25 PM

Must have been that H G Wells fellah who started it MMario. Times like these you wish Sherlock Holmes and Doc Watson were real people you could ask them to investigate eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM

I've become slower at the time travel over the years, Dave. In my younger days I would do the round trip daily - now I head downtime on Friday evenings and barely make it back uptime Sunday night.

It helps if you have ever worked for a library; but If I mention much more then that I'll have the Idaho Legion (Library Enforcement Division) after me; they made me swear an oath in library paste not to reveal the secrets of L-space.

The Doctor and I haven't been on speaking terms since he claimed it was one of my cigarette butts that started the Great Fire of London. He totally ignored the fact that the butt in question was a non-filtered and I smoke menthols with filters! The man can't stand to be wrong!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 12:28 PM

MMario, you are a crafty sod...how do you tavel in time so fast? is Doctor Who your best buddy or something?   Can I pass around the caviar to these lovely young ladies?...The ancient mariner bowing politely towards the ladies, walks up to one and says "I highly recommend this caviar to you young ma'am" ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 11:55 AM

Nurse Ratched is Hors de Combat at the moment, having gone to a surprise ice skating party, and forgotten her skates. Just give her a kangaroo burger, and some Sydneysider Salad. No Margaritas, Salsa, or tortillas for her today, she's gone off Mexican food.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 11:48 AM

uhmmmm? where is everyone? Queen Bess let me have a small sturguen - it's only a six footer, but it is female and full of roe - so fresh caviar!!!!! and she tossed in a dozen swans.   v I thought I'd do them in a pit oven - they are a little tough when you grill them.

Hello? Anyone still here?

oh - c'mon guys - I was only gone 842 years, round trip. The barbecue *can't* be over yet!!!!

hey!

OLLEY OLLEY OXEN-FREE!

*Note to self - if you find a sign on a tree saying 'Croatoan' - freak out!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM

Speaking of "green shit," I see the haz-mat crew has finished pumping out and hosing down the jello pit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 11:32 AM

At Christmas time the mother of a friend of mine would make whiskey sours, add red or green food coloring, and freeze them to slush. There was an official name for this, but I never knew it. We called the drinks "Red Shit" and "Green Shit."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 08:32 AM

Batten down the hatches, LtS is drinking again! It's rough weather ahead! Reef 'em all!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 08:21 AM

My puppy has run out of slush... where's the Margueritta boy?

I'm hiding out here so's I don't have to look at the extra half inch of loft hatch that is bound to be sticking out ~ the old one fell off on Saturday, so I made a new one today. I measured, I measured again, I cut... but still it looks bigger than the old one.... Hmmm... hope the old one was a bit small....

It's the going down to the cellar to get the big ladder to get to the loft that bugs me. I can't hang the door with the loft ladder hanging through the hatch and I can't get to the hatch without the loft ladder....

Bring me more Slush!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: GUEST,MAG in Portland
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 01:47 AM

aah, feeling mellower after a day at the Portland Blues Fest.

BBQ is good; I'll start marinating this carton of baby back ribs tonight. Proper grilling is also necessary for good ribs.

Gin & tonic, anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 12:17 AM

Cleaning out the freezer, Rap?

Has anyone seen Nurse Ratched around lately? Is she busy in the recovery ward? Are there any occupants we can cheer up with some freshly-charred animal remains on a bun?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 08:56 PM

I'll kick in a few cases of Moose Drool, Polygamy Porter ("Take Some Home To The Wives"), Fat Tire, Trout Slayer, Blue Paddle, Cutthroat, 3 Dachshunds, and Dead Guy.

And I contribute some more fresh Copper River Salmon, a few haunches of bison, and a hundred or so pounds of (farm raised) elk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 03:33 PM

I agree Giok. Grilling a proper cut of meat is all that need be done. Of course, the more you can slather on a hot dog, the better. Takes the taste of the "parts" away. Not metally, but taste bud wise, anyway.

Now, who wants a small bowl of my seafood chowder? Baby clams, scallops, lobster (doubled up and the shrimp omitted), haddock, potatoes, onions, butter, and made with, of course, skim milk... got to be health concious, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 03:22 PM

Whoa--Poppy, put that sausage. . . oops. Well, it's gone. The catahoula is really fast, so put your meat up, like I said. Or everyone will be have bare buns like Liz. (I'll have one with relish. . . )

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 03:09 PM

I could just go a nice tasty bun... but don't bother with the lettuce or tomato... just the buns please.

Now can someone do something with that huge fish over there? It's looking at me in a funny way... Could it be this wedge of lemon and bowl of toasted almonds?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 03:43 PM

I *don't* especially like the taste of meat, which is why when I think I'm craving a "burger", I generally wind up with the veggie variety, because what I'm actually craving is the combination of condiments, lettuce, tomato, etc on a nice toasty bun!

An important exception to my "take it or leave it" attitude towr=ards meat occurs on my annual visits to my family in England, where myself and my children all become devout eaters of sausages (and yes, the Cumberland sausages are something to write home about, no condiments need apply!)...I'll be there in less than a week, and am already getting excited about the real ales, the sausages, the old friends, the morris dancing, and even a little about the medieval conference at which I'm giving a paper (although that comes considerably further down the list than the real ales...)!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Alice
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 02:09 PM

I like the taste of meat AND the other flavors, too, especially if the meat is a hot dog. Come to Montana and we'll give you a real beef steak (or bison) without anything else on it.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 01:54 PM

What is it about meat that Americans want to cover it in relish, and slaw, and pickles, and ketchup, or catsup?
Don't they like the taste of meat?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Alice
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 01:45 PM

Here's a ziplock baggie with some slices of Aloe Vera leaves - those teenagers who floated the river sunburned their backs! (For real, my son is playing a gig at a bar mitzvah today and yesterday sunburned his back to lobster red. Have been cutting up the aloe plant and slathering.)

I've been craving a good hot dog, grilled to crispiness on the outside, yummy mustard, sweet pickle relish, ketchup, some kraut on top....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 01:15 PM

Oh--you might not want to leave the meat out unattended--the dogs might snatch it unless it's already on the grill (they'll stay away from the heat). And they're fast--you won't get it back once they have it. Even if you still wanted it. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 01:02 PM

Okay, okay, I can take a hint. . .I got out the mower and I knocked down the tall grass around the hackberry over to the side of the barbecue area. Haul a few of those lawn chairs over and you'll find the shade is quite comfortable. I'm sorry but I'm going to leave the dogs' wading pool there, it gets too warm when it's in the direct sun. They won't bother you too much when it's this hot out.

I have some Copper River salmon to add to the lineup, and I make some pretty good Country Style ribs (it's the homemade sauce).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 12:46 PM

Nah... this one had an undercarriage!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Les from Hull
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 12:04 PM

Liz - it might have been a Gypsy Moth

If it attacks again, just shout out what it says on the wing!

Amy Johnson - she was from Hull an' all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 11:19 AM

Looked at that one Giok, nope.... no distinct markings on it and it was much darker. I spent a fair bit of this morning looking it up in the book, but no joy. It's too generic to be anything and too big to be nothing.

No problems with the snoring Gnu, just remember the pants this time.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 06:21 AM

Haggis burgers? Only if I can bring Turkey Turd Beers to go with 'em.

I am up for a game of 'who can snooze the longest'. As long as you don't have one of those silly rules about my snoring waking up the other contestants. I'll be right over after my nap to take part.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 05:39 AM

Liz you description could fit so many moths, it might be a Heart and Dart , you're in the right area, and it's the right time of year for them.
Giok

PS Can I bring some haggis burgers and a few slices of Lorne Sausage?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 04:44 AM

OM, there's a creek out the back but make sure you put them in upstream of the squid - he's taking a holiday too.

Happy Canada Day to the Canucks, and Independence Day to the Yanks.... Pull up a chair, lay back and kick off the cares of the day. Can someone put a match to that citronella candle there? The sunny weather means the outhouse is buzzin' up a storm.

Can someone call the 'Mello Jello Pits Maintenance' guy please? Whilst we're outside we should take this opportunity to get that thing serviced.... Bert's card should still be good.

Now... who's for a game of 'who can snooze the longest'? (Not breaking my own "no sports" rule here: If a dog can do it, it's not a real sport).

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: open mike
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 01:23 AM

is there a creek in which to chill a watermelon?
if so i will thump a good one from the farmer's mkt. too.
some salmon and corn on the cob would go good over the coals
(unless there is a plastic doll of some sort smouldering there)

If anyone wants to use my intellitouch tuner, you are welcome to.

I understand some of the early mud gatherings were called
"Tune it , or Die" is that really true?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 11:57 PM

I'll pitch in the potato salad. Just a simple, old-fashioned potato salad is really nice at a BBQ: Potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, chopped celery, scallions and flat-leaf parsley, mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Okay? Well then, I'm off to the farmer's market for ingredients.

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MAG
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 09:48 PM

Sausage and friendly cats. sounds good. I'm over the hump of my summer activities at work, which is a huge load off.

I'm in this contra dance band and the leader wants those of us who sing to work up a buncha numbers o we can do more than just be a dance band. I'm game; I love to sing. I am not sure her expectations are realistic. She has been dropping hints that I am to start teaching her how to sing. Does she want to sing like me in 30 easy lessons?? She also thinks "somebody" ought to write original material. d-uh.

OKOK, no bitching. breathe deep ...

but truly, I get enough crap at my day job to overflow my crap quota.

I'm working on Rocky Road to Dublin; where the @##$%^ are you to breathe?? speaking of breathing.

water, friends, water. I'm tired of being overweight. she says.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 09:32 PM

Someone bring the humane bug zapper too please... just been divebombed by a moth the size of a Lancaster Bomber... seriously... it was huge by moth standards!!! And no, I checked, it's not a Gipsy moth. I had to wrestle it out of the jaws of the Raven kitty, but it's flown off into the night now and seems to be OK.

(Any entymologists out there... it was about 3 cm nose to tip, fore and under wings mottled in shades of brown and black, like bark. Smooth antennae that rested parallel to wing, rather than back over head. Thorax was rusty brown colour but that could be where the cat got it, light brown abdomen. Head was fuzzy and set under rather than on the end).

Raven is miffed. I may have to let him catch a sausage.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 09:03 PM

Thanks MMario MMate give the Queen my love and here's a little song fer ya .
The Virgin Sturgeon

Caviar comes from the virgin sturgeon,
Virgin sturgeon is a fish.
Virgin sturgeon needs no urgin'
That's why caviar is my dish.

I fed caviar to Louisa,
She's my honey tried and true.
Now Louisa needs no urgin'
I recommend caviar to you.

I fed caviar to my grandpa'
He was a man of ninety-three;
Screams and cries were heard from grandma,
Grandpa had her up a tree.

I put caviar in the punchbowl,
That livened up the party, sure.
What am l doing stripped down naked ?
Thought these girls were sweet and pure.

I fed caviar to my sweetheart,
She always did it cheerfully.
Now she does it with a vengeance,
Oh, my God, it's killing me.

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: MMario
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:46 PM

Dave - I'll try top bring back a couple coils of cumberland from this weekend - but I'm also going to petition the queen for a sturgeon or three; they were still decent eating size in 1585.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:18 PM

Burning sausages? would never happen if my mate MMario was cook. Are they Cumbeland sausages by any chance? mmmmm very partial to Cumberland sausage I am, and they are hard to find here in Nova Scotia.

Dave (tam)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:03 PM

There is a shady spot but it's right over there by the restroom windows... you may find it a bit .... fragrant.

Still, the smell of burning sausages should cover that up nicely.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 07:54 PM

Liz - Just to be VERY Picky , is there a convenient shed or lean to close to the B B Q for those of us who DONT like playing in the open air ??

Subject: BS: Mudcat Tavern & Barbeque Summer '06
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 07:42 PM

On the top half of the globe, summer has arrived, so fire up the Barbie (jees, I hate that doll), sling another bottle in the cooler and pull up a lawn chair... the Mudcat Tavern has moved outside for the duration (to avoid the smell coming from the jello pit mostly) and you are all invited to a 'Bring and Burn' Barbeque in the garden.

I'm sitting here with an ice cold pint of milk and a mushroom/pepper kebab...

Only rule is NO SPORTS TALK!! You want to talk sports, you go find a sports site!

Now.. where did I put that extra thick sweater?

LTS