BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MAG
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:26 PM

Oh, I live in wheat country, and wheat sheaves would be fine with me.

The pumpkins do show up MUCH better than the turnip, tho'

I'll be in the rocker with a large black longhair purring on my lap.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 02:53 PM

As I was walking down the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there, again, today
Oh How I wish he'd go away

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 02:50 PM

My family's favortie ghost poem. Ahem:

Early one morning, late one night
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot earch other.
Two deaf policemen heard the noise
And they came running and shot the two dead boys.

It always frightens me to the very core of my being and then I get all choked up with emotion.

I hope you weren't TOO frightened by it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 01:10 PM

that really should be turnips and wheat sheaves....but those "pushy Americans"...sigh, what can one do?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MAG
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 01:08 PM

Costume contest.

Group singing of "With 'er 'ead - tucked - underneath 'er arm"

Scary stories in the basement by lanternlight.

What shall we have by the fireside?

Decorate with pumpkins and cornstalks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:14 AM

How about if we...oh, damn. I just thought of something.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:27 AM

biblically? that's rude!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:21 AM

Zeus, your speligns getting worse. Are you SURE you're not jOhn9 from Hull, and where did you get that red ink from, that's cool man!! I'm stuck with this yucky sepia stuff.

Lady p, I knew the Kraken when he was still asleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:10 AM

fill the jello pit with green gooey ectoplasm, stock the bar with high proof drinks and ban matches from near anyone's breath!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 07:33 AM

Should we be thinking about Haloween decorations yet. We were very impressed when we visited last year, passing through Pennsylvania, seeing all the porches and gardens decked out with witches in rocking chairs and ghosts in the trees and pumpkins and the like.

What would you U.S.A.tians suggest for the Tavern?

Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,ZEUSS
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:01 AM

We set him free.




He wrote so many petitions we let him go.




We werre getting smothered with all the ink.



Personally, I didn't think he had a leg to stand on...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 04:06 PM

Not to mention the ink.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 03:54 PM

Erm I thought like the Kraken you were imprisoned by Zeus.....?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 08:39 AM

"How do we know that the Squid isn't an Olympian in disguise?"

Because squids aren't allowed into the Olympics due to the fact that we can multitask in the field events and run rings around all the swimmers. However, some of us do live on mountain tops and hurl lightening bolts from the clouds. Plays havoc with the tentacles though if you can't let go quickly enough. Very painful is a singed sucker.

I'll get me mantle.......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:09 AM

How do we know that the Squid isn't an Olympian in disguise?
Now THAT could cause some interesting supernatural offspring!!!

And I expect that Google are trying to put in a bid for refurbibshing the Jello Tub.

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:30 AM

Changing into human form to seduce...

Don't see swan or bull there.... so will that mean we're spared a sudden outbreak of minotaurs?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:24 AM

Why is google advertising copper bathroom equiptment?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:23 AM

the Olympian gods weren't Omniscient though, were they? seems to me they were tricked and fooled and hidden from a lot and that couldn't have happened to a being possessed of Omniscience could it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:19 AM

True, Big Z, spelling isn't in the job description. But "Omniscience" is one of the basic qualifications. And as the you Greeks say, "Καλύψτε τις απαιτήσεις ή είστε ιστορία."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:24 AM

he must be, he's posting here, isn't he?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:17 AM

By the beard of the prophet of extremely bearded people!!!!!!

THIS PROVES THAT ZEUSS IS REALLY jOhn9 from Hull.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,ZEUSS
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:47 AM

Curious!
I do not recall SPELLING as one of the qualifications for the job!
Hmmmmm...

Let me look...


Thunderbolts...


Changing into human form to seduce...


Angry...


Good at leading lesser gods...


NO!

Cannot see speling there at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:45 AM

hematite?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:29 AM

Please sir, may I have some ore?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:27 AM

BTW - only the tongues of the Turquoise-throated Puffleg were used for the hummingbird portion of the pate. Only the best for Max and Emily!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:16 AM

whoa - didn't have time to do up a really good extinct beast roast - so threw a couple of mododaukions* into the oven.












*mododaukions - a boneless giant moa, stuffed with a deboned dodo, stuffed with a boned great auk, stuffed with boneless breast of passenger pigeon, stuffed with a pate of hummingbird and lark's tongues.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:00 AM

Cake and ambrosia eh? Didn't know that deities ate custard!!!!! My mate Neptune only drinks beer.

Damn you for spotting my mistake LtS. I suppose you'll now be reporting me to the Department of Stealth and Total Obscurity.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 04:48 PM

's okay, I think he's drunk again. Can't spell either "Zeus" or "atmosphere" correctly.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 04:44 PM

Eyoop, Ole Zeus has woken up.... who prodded him then?

Before you know it, we'll have magical bullsh!t all over the place...

All very well for the deities, but it really buggers up the roses.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,ZEUSS
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 04:38 PM

Actually, Mortal, I'm quite partial to cake.

Goes nicely with a bowl of Ambrosia.

Just because the atmosphete on Olympus is quite rarified doesn't mean we are out of touch with you ephemerals.

You must be finding your 19th Century quite interesting!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 08:10 PM

Okay. I'll have to check with the G 'n' G's though.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 05:47 PM

You could use Shambles.. he's nearly human....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 02:47 PM

Dang. Gotta have a human being for a human sacrifice.

Guess them Gods 'n' Goddesses will have to make do with used beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 01:25 PM

Now here, Rap, is something Traditional and worth celebrating.

Max and Emily


Barkeep!
Lay out as many glasses as you can find.
We've got a CELEBRATION on our hands!!!

MMario!
Get a couple of extinct beasts roasting, quick!

Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 11:19 AM

QUACK???

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 10:10 AM

What is needed here is something old-fashioned.

I suggest a human sacrifice to appease the Harvest Gods 'n' Goddesses. Does anyone here happen to know a human being?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 04:29 PM

Can't be that sick then, can you... I hope you aren't claiming sickpay or benefits..... they'll do you for that you know...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 11:55 AM

The good thing about being a squid is you can hold all the parts of a flat pack together and put the screws in at the same time. Took me no time at all to do my kitchen!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Freaking Tricky Deskophobe
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:25 AM

You may find it oblivious, but it's screwing me up!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:21 AM

Obviously you need three screws.

See Stephen.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Freaking Tricky Deskophobe
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:19 AM

Can anybody here give me a hand.
I've had this flat pack computer table out for days and I can't get it put together. Anybody know why there's three screws left over every time I think I've got it done?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Frisky Below Deck Hand
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 08:33 AM

Ooh Shiver Me Timbers Matey!
You'd be a frisky deck 'o phobe if you had ever seen what them giant squids do when they get their testicles wrapped around the main mast...

I 'aint been above deck since at sea.
It gives me nightmares, it do!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 05:49 AM

NO, he doesn't... and I should damn well think not after what he did to the barmaid last time. I was appalled, disgusted and a teensy bit jealous..... but she'll never be the same again. We've had to start calling her Stephen.

So... all you friggatriskadeckophobes - come on in, find a corner and hide in here for the day.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 09:57 PM

You know, Shane never comes here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 07:27 PM

I was so quiet my post didn't even register!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 06:57 PM

Quiet enough for you?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 06:56 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 12:12 PM

Noisy?
I'm pretty near silent!
Well - as long as you inore the bells the banjo and the bombarde...

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 08:44 AM

I think I've been in a rut for some time....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 08:23 AM

WILDEBEEST!!!!!!! GNUS!!!!!!!! The Tavern's noisy enough as it is what with ducks and elephants, let alone great herds of cloven hoofed beasties gallumphing about the place.

At least we squids slither about quietly. Apart from the rutting season, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:21 AM

They've gone now....










































No gnus is good news.










I'll get me coat.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:20 AM

They are doing a special sweep, bedecked with flowers...


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GNUs and ROSES

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:12 AM

I don't care.. I'm just sitting here chuggling to myself (that's sort of a giggly chuckle or a chuckly snigger....) because I know who's got which Santa... hee hee hur hur!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 06 - 01:32 PM

Wildebeest? We're having swarms of wildebeest?

That's gnus to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 04:01 PM

I've got Wildebeest down for 10.45 on my programme, that is, if the puffins have finished their "Puffin Pyramid" routine on time.
By the way, it might be a good idea to get the bunting inside before they sweep them down.

Oh, and put a pint in the pump for Giok.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 03:48 PM

Baaasiiiil!......... And when can we expect the herds of wildebeasts sweeping majestically across the plain?

Speaking of wildebeasts, having watched "The Wild" yesterday, I'll never look at William Schatner the same way again.......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 03:46 PM

Fill another flagon! And give ten to that guy over in the corner!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 03:11 PM

Happy St Basil's day!

Or was that Dennis?


Ah what the hell....

Happy Gioks' Birthday!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 06:05 AM

Not forgetting Trafalgar Day of course. My Spanish cousin El Squiddo still speaks of it in hushed tones, but then he does have laryngitis.
No need for the green paint art, I have my own, but I prefer lemon to pine in the disinfectant stakes.

Now, there's a man's drink - Pusser's Rum with a dash of Dettol!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 04:28 AM

No Christmas stuff until after Samhain.... this is an Equinoctal tavern, not a Solstice one....

Besides, there's Hunters Moon (the next full moon), Hallowe'en and the Battle of Hastings to go yet!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:31 PM

O Architeuthis, O Architeuthis, wie grün sind dei-ne Blätter.
O Architeuthis, O Architeuthis, wie grün sind dei-ne Blätter....

I dunno....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 07:30 PM

I thought we were going to spray the squid with green paint and pinesol?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 07:22 PM

When are we going to open the presents and decorate the tree and stuff?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:25 PM

No.. but I've had rather a lot of red wine and I have to work tomorrow!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:21 PM

A glass of water, Liz? You sick?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:03 PM

Wanna bet? I have the directional talents of a stunned weasel... besides, I'm sitting here in the chair with a long glass of water....

Not iced water, seems the radiator didn't like being flushed.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 05:04 PM

Well, I learned to call the folks who live here neither "Spud Duds" nor "Idahoers."

And this place is not really secret: it's between Utah and Alberta and Wyoming and Montana and Oregon and Washington, with a tad of Nevada peeking in from the South. Actually, if you head straight West from Butte, Montana you can't miss it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 04:45 PM

Would that be a 'secret Idaho'?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 03:31 PM

'Cause he lives there?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:35 AM

Why Eydahoo?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 09:53 AM

Pooh, Squiddy. Take a tip from the whales: flip the boats over! But do watch out for the marine biologists, as they are simply odd and absent-minded sorts.

Me, I'm going to go home today and have some Redbreast ("The Priest's Whisky") or, perhaps, some Moose Drool. Or both. I call it "A Drooling Priest" or maybe "A Holy Moose." ("Holy Moose, Batman! Did you see what the Pope is wearing instead of his usual hat?")

My work here in SLC is done for the moment. So I will bid Auf Wiedersein to the city by the lake and head North to Idaho.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 09:20 AM

Wow.... I got 100 and I didn't even notice!!

Shows my mind was busy elsewhere.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:19 AM

Hope you were all out celebrating the Harvest Moon last night... didn't see much of it here, it was pissing down. Still.... the corn is in the barns, the hay is in the loft, the sloes are in the gin and the cat is on the dryer.

We're spending the day in an industrial fashion, preparing our radiators for use - so hopefully tomorrow night we'll be warm. In the meantime, there's the last of the 2yr old sloe gin to be ingested, so save me a chair by the fire, I've got some pine cones to sling on it - that'll clear the sinuses, and the moths!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

hook me up an IV please. I wanna get drunk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:17 PM

Garlic gibsons.....? Mmmm, very interesting idea........ Specially as I've run out of cocktail onions....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 10:11 AM

I thought the whole point of scrumpy was that it *isn't* "decent"?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 10:08 AM

I'll stick to olives thanks.... although Olive might not approve!

Or a pint of scrumpy.... been years since I had a decent pint of scrumpy...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 09:12 PM

A garlic martini...I'll call Jenn! Meanwhile, could I have an Arrogant Bastard ale, please? And a dish of fried calamari on the side.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 07:21 PM

Penny - As I understand it a Gibson is a martini with an onion in it?
One year out on the canals with Bargecade we got into Garlic Gibsons (hand mixed) - somewhere near Bosworth Field on the Ashby Canal
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:56 AM

Pure heresy MMario, we are a pure breed and have nothing to do with fancy, colour changing beasties. What did Darwin know anyway, he had to write a book just so he could learn things from it himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:12 AM

hey squidie! Is it true Squid are descended from Cuttlefish? Or is that just a heresy of Darwin-fish?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:05 AM

Ah, Rapaire, yes I've heard of this calamari business from my Italian and Greek cousins. Barbaric I call it. In fact Great Uncle Sid was talking about getting some of his North Pacific mates together to go round and scare the shit out of some of these calamari peddlers. You know the score, appear suddenly from the deep waving tentacles about and rocking a few boats. Have to watch out for these marine scientist types though because all they can think about is size, as if that matters, and those tape measures they use are bloody cold on wet appendages.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 10:00 AM

Right now I'm sitting in my room at the Little American Hotel drinking...COFFEE!! Straight up!! Black!! Caffienated!!

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Coffee!

Squiddy, do you know that they serve your relatives here? They call them "calamari" so that nobody knows that they're really squids. Octopodi (which is what they call octopuses), I mean, they're just dumb animals, right? But I do think that this "calamari" thing has got to stop. Before you know it people will be squid-baiting, bringing in Sperm Whales to watch the fights and all. It's brutal and neither humane nor squidane and I for one refuse to be a party to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 07:47 AM

The surprise is that it tastes almost entirely unlike tea.

Don't try squeezing the lime into it either.. that's the sea slug.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:50 AM

You humans are a funny lot, fancy making cocktails from guitars.

Down here in the deep the drink of choice for the discerning alky is Sea Slug Surprise, shaken not stirred of course otherwise the sand settles at the bottom. Served with a sprig of kelp and a slice of sea cucumber.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:00 PM

Just some that should come with a very big warning label.......

I believe that to cope with a hard day of playing team leader to the hard of thinking (at work) I need a very large gibson.....

Aaah, gibson martinis, the choice of drink for the woman that knows her own mind.......

And wants to get out of it........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 03:45 PM

There ARE no verboten drinks!!!

Liz De Squeak

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 01:08 PM

Polygamy Porter and Evolution Amber are proof that you can make good beer and still stay within Utah's archaic 3.2% limit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 10:08 AM

?!?! Have the LDS changed their minds about verboten drinks?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 09:59 AM

I think that I shall today go to Salt Lake City.

Phone rings.
"Hi. Vatican City here, Pope's Right Hand Man speaking....WHAT!? (Puts hand over mouthpeice.) Your Emininent and Really Great Holiness, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that Jesus is on the phone. He's come again. The bad news is that he's calling from Salt Lake City."

SLC -- where they have just opened a boutique DISTILLERY!!! Yes! And they have several breweries that make decent beers, too! Like Polygamy Porter ("Bring Some Home To The Wives." "When one is not enough!")

It's for a meeting, actually. I'll still be a the Tavern. You can't get rid of me that easily.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:32 AM

Ah well, at least they grow back. Ties torniquet around severed leg and hobbles to the recovery room avoiding elephants. One good thing, at least that duck's proved he's a sucker!!

Laughs at own pun. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha.............

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:07 AM

Burp.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:01 AM

Mmwffmenwlllfmmmph... (brushing chocolate crumbs from chesticles)

Mmphwhat cakeffff?

No cakemmmphmnn here, mmmmmmmphlenumph.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:59 AM

Can someone just pass me that Bowie knife off the back of the bar?

Thanks!

Sounds of hacking and sawing.........

Right! That's better!

Flies across to the bar counter to return the knife.


Maybe if you lot have finished speculating, one of you might try actually cutting the cake?

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:21 AM

Oh Squiddy... I object in the strongest terms possible to your comments about my person... I'm not that well known.

And just be grateful that you ARE attached to the duck.. it could have been the elephant!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:01 AM

What has this thread come to? Ileave you alone to play for 5 minutes and you have to bring it all down to your pathetic scatalogical level.MMario I'm surprised at you joining that well known harridan and person of extremely low moral standards (yes LtS you know who you are)in discussing the merits or otherwise of elephants bums.

Why am I still attached to a duck???????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:31 PM

See? international hands across the sea cooperative songwriting.

or maybe knot.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:20 PM

When the pie is opened,
The air will start to hum
'Cos five and forty pachyderms
smell just like CatSpaw's bum!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:16 AM

Sing a song of credit cards, we're drinking all the rye
Five and forty pachyderms, baked in a pie

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:13 AM

Mayhap a female giant squid is encased therein, ready to spread joy and ink everywhere.

Or a sperm whale, ready for a night of jello-rasslin'.

Or it could be a pack of pachydermal piccolos, with the pachyderms on the way if they didn't get lost.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 07:58 AM

What is that huge cake on the back terrace? and how the heck did it get there? It looks to be about 75 feet across and g*d only knows how many layers!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,cats - cookieless
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:21 AM

Thought it was about time we has a bit of singing...

Oh... What shall I do with my Octopuses leg?
Not much I'm thinking...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:12 AM

Awright, who's trying to impersonate me then? I dunno, a feller goes away for a couple o' days R&R in a nice secluded rock pool with a VERY sexy mermaid friend and this happens. Usurped!!!

Slaps impostor with 2nd right tentacle "have at you sir, I demand an apology or it's cuttlefish at dawn".

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 10:53 PM

I'm back from the Grand...ah...Tetons.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,the Squid
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 05:06 PM

"All right then, can't a feller even take a nap around here - and what's this bulk sitting upon my second from the back left tentacle?" [feeling around] "A couple of small bumps there...a BIG bump a little lower down...doesn't smell like it's worth nibbling on... Why is is wriggling around so? Time to go see what's happening in the jacuzzi." [squid ambles off, stage right]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM

Ah.. that....

Just give it a wipe over with some wet wipes and it should clear up a treat. Failing that, a shot of penicillin works.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 03:02 PM

I haven't the foggiest what you'd call it, but the effects are officially oooky......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 01:21 PM

Who let the squid do what on the sofa?


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 03:23 AM

Pinch punch, first of the month and no returns........

Oooh, come into the tavern for a bit of a rest. Had to attend my brother in law's wedding yesterday. I'll just take me gibson and go sit in the 'crash corner'......... Oo............... eh?
What the.....?

Right......Who let the squid on the sofa???!?!??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 03:26 AM

Damned good guard animals too... you can get around the fiercest dog with a good steak, but geese? Noooo way.

Unless you've got a cephlapod with a stuchie.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Cats
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 01:04 PM

Geoff the Duck ~ Geese are very good with prunes, they keep you going for ages.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:49 AM

Anyway - the races aren't due to start for days yet. Which of you lot tied me to the cephalopod? I only closed my eyes for a minute...
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:47 AM

Anyway - the rA

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:39 AM

I was goosed once.
Not funny!!!
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 07:29 AM

LtS have you been peeking again?? Or is it a case of penis envy? Many members of the female gender of a "certain age" seem to develop this although not usually about cephalopods. I wonder if there are any dolphins amongst your ancestors. I have not yet ascertained the sex of the duck although I beleive it to be a male of the species (which in itself is worrying). I have 'Googled' ducks but this particular variety seems to be a one off, even the Wildfowl Trust has been of no use, beleiving me to be quackers!

Cats, please don't introduce geese into the equation, it's bad enough being tied to a duck.

Barkeep, give me a large stiff one - whisky that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 06:13 AM

So, as it's Michelmas we have to have goose and a fair..... like wot we do at Tavistock and Nottingham....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:42 AM

"But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask,"

No wonder the squid wants to stay in the jello pit.....

Just one question.... is it a girl duck or a boy duck?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:14 AM

The quid slowly wakes from his slumber and wonders why the world has gone blue and also why he is now attached to a duck by a part of his anatomy that shouldn't be attached to anything other than another squid.

Wallpaper???...................... Flock off!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:04 AM

Happy St Michaels' day - Venerated as one of the three Archangels, one of the seven who stand before the throne of God; Patron saint of demon killers, several islands and underwear.

My Michaelmas daisies are actually true to their name this year (last year they were over and done by my birthday), a delicate pale purple, they look stunning against the green and gold ivy behind them. Well, they did til the cat rolled over them.

It's also a quarter day - the year is 3/4s over and it was traditional for country people to change jobs at this time. Quite often, this meant moving house too, to a new farm or area.

So... to celebrate this, I'm moving from my seat by the door to that one over there by the window. And I think I'll have a Green Dragon cocktail to celebrate... Barkeep - bring on the Creme de Menthe!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 05:32 PM

That is not flock wallpaper....


Did someone let the squid in again? We've only just got the stains out after last time!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 05:18 PM

[curtsey] Thank you for the lovely dance, Mmario dear. It's a little hard to do those spins wrapped together in a megashawl in the water, but we did it, didn't we?!?!?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 02:28 PM

Oh deary deary me...... Well those images now require me to have a VERY large gibson, thakyouverymuch........

I say, I like the flock wall paper........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 02:15 PM

All I can tell you is Ivar's favorite saying: "Keep Clam!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:57 AM

SRS, you're only squiddin' us, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:42 AM

if anyone is counting. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:39 AM

A 13 legged race, Geoff--that must mean you have five? I visualize you on all fours with, um, a cane, or a stick, perhaps? Crawling around with the squid and his 8 legs? Or maybe you're counting the squid's feeding tentacles (two more appendages) and his gigantic, er, ah, member? That would be 11, and your two legs to make 13. Please enlighten us to what arrangement of appendages you have in mind?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 10:20 AM

...and the squid, grabbing five bodhrans and five tippers, begins to play along.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:53 AM

awww, Wys - you know I don't dance......






oh DRAT!

the woman just don't take "NO" for an answer!!!-mumblegrumblemumble

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:44 AM

Oh Lord, better not let Spaw decorate the cake, either. I'm afraid to even start to picture the possible results of THAT.

Could I just ask that we not use Tavern threads to bait or bash The Shambles? (Thinking about those possible results.)

Mmario, are you dancing with me, or not? :~) I think I hear The Curly Shuffle.....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:37 AM

Isn't he doing a hornpipe? That would make this the Squid Hornpipery.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:26 AM

Look! The squid is dancing!

From the looks of it, this must be The Squid Jiggin' Ground!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:20 AM

Who is going to decorate the cake, then?
And don't let Catspaw blow out the candles, we cold lose all the walls.
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:11 AM

I'm not sure. I think we're ramping up for the big birthday bash celebration - but around this place it's hard to tell.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:08 AM

Hi folks!
Saw the lights on a couple of days back, but was a bit tied up to get here sooner.
What's the programme, then?
You can put me and squid down for the 13 legged race if you like...

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 01:50 AM

I know where you could get a cooking pot big enough to boil a teenager in, but only if you cut their legs off and layer them....

My biggest pot will only fit a small child. Or 4 cats. Or possibly Shambles ego.

Personally, I'm trying to lose some weight. Trouble is, it keeps finding me. Anyone fancy a nice plate of veggies and fruit?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 09:23 PM

Blanch, smanch -- it's delicious raw! What would the Japanese be for Apatosaurus sushi?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:20 PM

Maybe, but it's hell to blanch the things. There are no pots big enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 03:45 PM

And it's less filling, comes with batteries, and some installation is required.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 03:00 PM

Aptosaur goes best with a single malt, not wine.

and it's perfect for all occasions where an aurochs just isn't enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 02:53 PM

Aptosaur - is that right for the occasion?

And what wine would you have with it?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 01:44 PM

Anyone read the latest article in the papers that claim the reason dinosaurs went extinct was because time-travelers utilized them as a food source? Hysterical - they can't believe that!

Anyone want some more Barbecued Aptosaur? Or shall I put it in the fridge for tomorrow?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 11:19 PM

Ex-Lax, he thinks. Wouldn't THAT be the shits?

But he banishes even the the thought of the thought from his mind and quietly sips his rum-and-rum while sitting the corner.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 10:46 PM

I prop up a little jazz stand in the corner.


here is a number we do that used to be about an analyst and his patient.


My president told me
That we really needed a war

he told me we'd win it
just like he had beat poor Gore


We'll take Baghdad and we'll get right out
Capture Saddam and the people will shout

Now do you still think he's crazy?
no more ifs or ands or buts...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 09:45 AM

[How do you think the jello got green? It was lemon jello when it went in. "Lime jello" is merely the polite term we use to refer to it.]

Due to everyone's wonderful consumption of fluids in the Tavern last night-- GOOD JOB!-- the methylene blue consumed has now been fully excreted. The culprit's contamination of stored liquids can now be dealt with-- I'd suggest a unique, holiday-approriate Mudcat Healing Circle.

In any case, let the party go on! I believe some of us were dancing.....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 09:17 AM

Ah-ha! he gloats. This is also a great way to find out who pees in the pool!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 08:50 AM

(UK joke) The squid lays in the tank clutching his tentacles(?) and gingerly rubbing his third left leg. What fool had jelloed everything again causing the barkeep to slip and plant a heavy size 10 in his midriff? Anyway, who needs a jacuzzi when an ordinary bath and several cans of beans work just as well. He drifts off into an uneasy slumber and dreams of his great uncle Sid, the one who palled around with that Moby fella, the one called Richard or Rick or something.

Something blue drops into the water........................

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 02:25 AM

Well that's this tavern down the pan already!

: ]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:11 PM

"Blue urine from a red lady..."

Let's see...just a bit of this upper lip wax and the filter...is...stuck! Green Jell-O. HOORAY!!!!!

Now for the Halloween decorations.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:03 PM

Vinton sang it. But Elvis is forever remembered painted on it. I say-- fugg 'em both!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:00 PM

I thought that was Bobby Vinton, not Elvis.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:30 PM

Yes, I am singing. Oh wait, you meant Elvis. Yes, the autographed painting of Elvis on black velvet, the one done in fluorescent paints and with the blacklight shining on it, is singing too.

I just kinda thought it was time for the blues in the night....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 06:54 PM

Oh dear...the autographed Elvis picture...is it the King himself singing? ...Blue veeeellllvet...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 06:40 PM

She peed bluuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeee urine,
Bluer urine was the night....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Tootler
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 05:29 PM

Blue urine is a symptom of porphyria wot George III had and wot sent him bonkers.

Anyone brought an instrument? we can have a session

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 05:23 PM

I'll contribute a batch of my famous blueberry muffins, keeping with this developing story line.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Amos
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:49 PM

Urine is blue, dilly dilly.
Urine is green.
Urine hot water, dilly dilly,
So says the Queen.
Trouble for you dilly dilly,
Trouble all through,
Urine trouble deep, little buddy,
For making things blue.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:18 PM

oh, sorry, that was me. . . a dyslexic, signing the blues. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:17 PM

. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 03:51 PM

Well I got up this morning.... Saw my piddle had turned blue.
Got up this morning.... saw my piddle had turned blue.
Got up at seven, but it was Six when I went to the loo...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:14 AM

Quietly, stealthily, Ninja-like, he puts methylene blue in all the liquor, beer, wine, water, and other liquids -- except the bottle he carries clutched to his bosom.

"This is time for the blues," he thinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:30 AM

In fact I do have some salmon, but it's in aspic-- well, I'll just lay it out on the buffet.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:12 AM

Fortunately for Mudcatters wandering in from the surrounding autumnal countryside, that jello won't do any harm, only turn the bath green for a little while in the warm water until it filters out of the hot tub's circulating water.

The aquarium, now moved out back behind the bar, await's the arrival of it's squid guest. Hopefully that is the last appearance of jello for a while. . .

Anyone have any salmon?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: leeneia
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:56 AM

To the festivities i contribute the only cheerful song about autumn that I know:

---------
Goldenrod and asters, all your hands can hold!
September wears a party dress of lavender and gold.

(I learned it at age 6.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:29 AM

Of course, if it's a festival, there won't be need for so many recliners to clutter up the place-- because with the crisp, cool weather, we'll be dancing instead. [sets out chair for anticipated short breaks]

Sloe dancing, for me-- let's go, Mmario!

It's also that time of year when aqua-jogging moves indoors. I believe I hear a couple of earth-movers coming, and the builders behind them. I've said for years I needed an indoor pool on the preimses-- it took Liz's excellent thread to see it could be right here! [waterproofing the break-chair]

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:20 AM

...one bottle of pop, two bottles of pop....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:10 AM

Hey, as we say back home, you buy a round, I'll buy a round.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,MAG at public terminal
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:04 AM

She slinks in, duct-taped song books in hand, and quietly polls the singers to see who is up for some rounds ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:51 AM

Us fellers from The West don't drink slo. We jist pour it on down! Gimme a Tom & Jerry, barkeep -- it's cold out here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Morticia
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:23 AM

It was a particularly fine crop of sloes this year. Anyone want any of last year's before I start on the next batch?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:07 AM

......and the squid sneaks in, puts nine packages of lime jello into the sunken bath, and slinks back out again......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 07:55 AM

Is it Sloe Crop Monday? already! How time flies! Seems it was just last week when I was bottling last years....ah well , time to haul out the ought-five Sloe Gin.

Subject: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:59 AM

Bert's card is still holding good, there's a tinge of Autumn in the air and I'm bored rigid already today... so let's open up this tavern again and celebrate the Equinox - Vernal or Autumnal, depending on your hemisphere - Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, 82 days til Christmas, Sloe crop or harvest festival....

The Tavern has been refitted since that terrible accident over Bank Holiday.... you'd think the clientele here would know not to do that with the squid..... the jello pit has been remodelled into a classy sunken bath, complete with jacuzzi fittings again, bubble bath on tap and muscle rub lotion on the side. There's a comfy little nook by the fireplace, just right for Seamus and the Captain (chains provided) and a lovely selection of rustic tables and comfy chairs for the singers. Thanks to the explosion, there's a new roof with better accoustics over the players area, and just behind the settle there is the storage unit for banjos. It leads directly round to the fireplace so they'll be kept nice and warm for you.....

There's an improvement in the bathrooms too.... The stalls are that little bit wider so you don't bang your elbows, they're made of that write on/wipe off stuff so the grafitti won't get stale (please use pens provided) and the fire extinguishers now work. I did try and get some of those scent squirters that make it smell nice in there, but it seems that urinals come with that 'cowpat fresh' smell already built in. Ah well, at least the HazMat team survived. Mostly...

So... pull yourself a beer, settle in a chair and get ready to celebrate Michaelmas.

Cheers!

LTS