BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006

Subject: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:20 AM

I'm there virtually, but won't get there in the flesh-- my flesh will be at the doc's and then, later, at a hockey game. But if I have a beer at the game, I'll count it as a Getaway toast!

You? Stuck here at the Cat? Drinks are, as usual, on Bert's credit card. The "I couldn't Getaway either" commiserators' line-up at the bar is begun!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 01:10 PM

Haveta work. Gotta look at the Gall's catalog now. Gimme a big ol' glass of Redbreast.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 02:14 PM

I'll take a glass of red. Thanks. I'm feeling sad this morning. A dear friend of mine died yesterday (See Obit Don Drew) and we're all going to miss him terribly. He was a unique treasure of the community.

Thanks for being here. I hope - and feel sure - that they're having a grand time in West River.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: My guru always said
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 03:25 PM

I'll raise a glass of Port with you at the Tavern, funds didn't allow the trip across the pond this year, maybe next. Candle lit for those close who have or may be passing. Slainte,
Hil

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 03:27 PM

For whatever reasons.............aw shit, just give me a Jack and Coke and make sure somebody who goes does some video dammit!!!

HEY BARKEEP........Where's the friggin' drink?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Severn
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 04:30 PM

Ebbie,

I will try to make connections for you for any taped CD performances this year. Last year's stuff you sent brought me great joy.

Leftydee,

One of your "Death By Accordian" band T-shirts will be proudly worn in your honor and hopefully show up in some pictures or film.

gnu,

I will save aside certain special items for the Mudcat online auction, so that you can have a chance at them.

Everyone Else,

Drinks of something or another in unmarked flasks will be lifted in a toast to all absent friends known and unknown in The Tavern I will personally make. In exchange, please tip the Tavern barmaids well for me.


Miss all of you, whether I already know you or not!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 04:50 PM

Lift a glass to the librarians who find one of these deals in the flower beds, as we just did. (Yeah, we called the cops.)

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Becca72
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 04:53 PM

The page expired, Rap... :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 04:57 PM

If you don't see it, it's a steel-spiked war club....

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 04:58 PM

Commercially made job. The cops were glad to get it off the streets.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 05:06 PM

I too am thinking of my lucky friends at the Getaway, and I wish them all the best. Remember guys, to tell us the best place to stash the booze for next years extravaganza!
I rise my glass to you all!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 05:08 PM

They better be having fun, that's all I gotta say.

Hit me agin.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 05:13 PM

Hey! Leave those barmaids UPRIGHT!

Just dropping in until I can get to the Getaway on Sunday. Working until then...


Many of you WILL be at the Getaway, in spirit.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 05:48 PM

Thought the Getaway was a no spirit zone this year:0) We will therefore raise a glass or two for you all to cheer us up for not being able to get there.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 07:10 PM

I expect MMario will be at the getaway, so I may have to volunteer to take charge of the rotisserie. I've set traps and snares, so it is anybody's guess what we may be going to eat this weekend.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 10:10 PM

I could go for some nicely grilled breast of archeopteryx, perhaps in a dill sauce with just a hint of lemon.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 10:23 PM

Here's a hug, Ebbie. I'm sorry for your loss.

Good to see you all, misery loves company ; )

My misery's loving a little Jack Daniels... warm on a very cold night.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 10:42 PM

Thanks, Dani. Don was a unique man- and a real treasure of the community. He and I go back a long way and I will miss him sorely. He was just 56 and except for high blood pressure I really don't think he was unhealthy. The autopsy will probably answer some questions.

Funny about the Jack Daniels- I was just thinking that this is a hard liquor kind of night! It is cold here- stunningly beautiful with the snow covered mountains and the clear air- but cold.

I'm going to music about an hour from now but I think I'll leave my Martin at home. I'll use my friend's Washburn; it has a thunky sound but what can you do.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:20 PM

Well.... to be delicate about it..... the G'way alcohol cannot be SEEN, but that doesn't mean it isn't THERE. We have the advantage there-- we can see ours.... except that it ISN'T there. ?!?!?!?!?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:23 PM

hahhahha Wizzy. Ain't that the truth!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:48 PM

Ah reckon it is, although quite strange!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: KT
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:27 AM

Hi Y'all! May I join you? Next round's on me.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 03:35 AM

Hey, wait a minnit- has Bert's card expired?

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: rumanci
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 06:31 AM

Don't worry yourself Ebbie (and a special hug for you and your loss)
THIS round's on KT
and heck
I'll stand the next one
OK ?

(but Rap can bring his own lemon to the party)

rum x

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 10:32 AM

So far I've not had much luck with the snare, but the fish trap has managed a decent large salmon, so I've got it smoking. It is having difficulty though, as it hasn't got any hands and is having trouble holding the Capstan Full Strength and the Zippo lighter at the same time.
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 10:52 AM

Maybe you could light 2 fags yourself while looking into the fish's eyes in a suggestive fashion.
A bit like Humphrey Bogfish and Lauren Baconroll.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 10:57 AM

...while at the same time he tootles his whistle and with his other hands plays the piccolo banjo. I tell you, the fish won't be able to resist. The man is a powerhouse. (That moment of time last year when Geoff did that very thing will stay with me. Thank you.)

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 11:17 AM

Good morning, all.

I've got the coffee on, there's a little whiskey left in the coffee mug: I think I'll leave it there and mix 'em.

Bring your mug around while it's hot....

How about a song? I'll start, with a new tune I'm learning. Have y'all heard of Jolie Holland? I've been wanting to learn "Faded Coat of Blue", and used I-tunes to hear some different versions, and happened upon her. Her album "Escondido" has that, AND a MEAN version of "Mad Tom of Bedlam" (more later) AND a bunch of her own weird, cool stuff.

The song I'm working on has a wonderfully melancholy piano, and terrific lyrics. The refrain is what I sing when I think of them all having such fun at the Getaway without us:

DAMN SHAME
Jolie Holland

I hid out on the front porch
I laid up in my mind
I looked for me a lover
the best one I could find
He got himself a ticket
on an international flight

Oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame
is what it is
oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame

The smell of burnt exhaust
drifts into the bar
it's midnight in California
it's high noon where you are
motorcycles and booze
dirty old perfume

Oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame
is what it is
oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame

I tried to go to sleep
in my haunted little room
the shadows are churning
in the passage of the moon
It'd break my heart to tell you
I couldn't come so soon

Oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame
is what it is
oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame

Tell me one more time
why you went away
It makes a little sense
in the light of day
when evening comes around
all my senses fly away

and it's nothing but a goddamn shame
is what it is
oh it's nothing but a goddamn shame

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 11:23 AM

That's a lovesick song right enough Dani.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:28 PM

Ain't no good, inexpensive women's winter coats to be found. Ain't no decent inexpensive blankets to be found.

Damn.

I'd like a hot spiced rum, thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:51 PM

Speaking of blankets, I dreamt last night that I was going somewhere that would be unheated (not the Getaway, surely?) and took my sleeping bag and three blankets along. At the pickup point/bus stop? there were two homeless old guys and I meant to give them two of my blankets but somehow I found I had given them all three. I woke up trying to figure out how I could get one of them back. (One of the blankets was a soft, eggplant-colored one; another was a fiber-filled quilt and the other was a rough-textured greenish blanket- what we used to call army blankets. If you see any of them abandoned along the road, give me a call. I'm freezin' here.)

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:09 PM

To the tune of the old forebitter Paddy West:

Now as I was a-walking round the town,
Feeling cold and glum,
The Mudcat Tavern was close at hand
So I steps in for some virtual rum;
I says to WYSIWYG, "A glass of your best,"
And she turns to me with a smile,
"I'll pour you a glass of virtual Port Royal,
Won't you sit by the fire awhile?"

As I was sipping that rum, me boys,
I heard an awful din,
As all at once the door banged open
And some old Mudcatters blew in;
One was a Giok MacKenzie,
Along with our old pal Rapaire,
There was Ebbie, Dani, and KT,
Even Geoff the Duck was there.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:16 PM

There were so many of us
and more all the time
Some came by plane, some by bus
Some hitched, not spending a dime
We couldn't be at the Getaway
We couldn't be with the crowd
So we followed the road 'thataway'
and found our friends warm - and loud

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: KT
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:29 PM

So let's raise a glass to the Getaway and all the folk what's there
No finer folk could e'er be found, we all are well aware
And those of us who're left behind, we'll have our own "AWAY"
"Away" our sorrows, envies, too. Another round, today?

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:37 PM

Heck this is almost as much fun, and you get more sleep, and less sheep"
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:55 PM

Don't give up the sheep, Cap'n.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 02:03 PM

Damn the torpid-o's
Full spleen ahead!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 02:04 PM

Smoked salmon fillets are ready folks. Choice of rye bread, soft white rolls, unleavened flat bread to suit kosher, halal or window cleaners and mustn't forget the toasted beagles.
Yes.... Beagles. There was a fox hunt got mixed up with the line of snares. The fox escaped, thankfully. I am assured by Oscar Wilde that foxhunting is the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable. The uneatable got away but I caught a bunch of the unspeakable and they are roasting nicely. Plenty of fat on them so should crisp up a treat.
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 02:21 PM

Mmmmm.... If you'll make a little room on the grill, I brought some super-yummy ribeye steaks, been sitting all night in the famed bourbon-ginger marinade (that's not BOURBON, damnit, it's Tennessee WHISKEY!). Medium-rare, please, with a pinch of salt and pepper, and the baked potatoes you can just throw on next to them. I've got the butter ready to slab on top of it all. When they're ready I'll bring out the crispy iceberg salad. I made that buttermilk-blue cheese dressing fresh, it's best when it's icy cold!

Might be time to move on to some wine... I like a big fat red with the steaks. What do you recommend with the salmon, Geoff?

You remind me of the day not long after my partner and I had got our new restaurant open. It was Saturday breakfast, and we'd asked one of the employees we'd inherited to fix the chalk specials board out on the street. People kept coming in chuckling, but nobody said anything! Sometime that day we walked outside and saw, "Coffee and Fresh Hot Begels!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Morticia
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 02:46 PM

Someone budge up and make a little room for me too? Three years I've been trying to make it back to the Getaway and I still haven't suceeded.Still, if someone could pour me a plastic cup of Jack Daniels, pass me one of Mary's bourbon balls, give me a Big Mick hug and play me something a little bluesy with some shit hot harmonies,it would be almost as good.

( Who am I kidding? Waaaaahhhhh!)

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 03:31 PM

Morty- how about we ALL go next year?

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 04:03 PM

yes ebbie how about that, I am in Getaway next year ..............

I wish I could be there .

All the best skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 04:45 PM

Way to go, Skarpi! It will be lovely to see you - and to hear you again. I definitely want to hear you sing 'Forget Me Never' again. I had forgotten that song. I'm singing it again and love it.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 04:52 PM

Hey, hey. There'll be no Big Mick hugs here. He's with 'them', and we've got us. You'll have to settle with hugs from us, all around. Good to see you, Skarpi. What'll you have?

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 05:00 PM

I put this above the line in Skarpi's thread, but it belongs down here with the REAL people.

(Tune: You figger it out...)

We are the Mudcat posters
Who're not at Getaway,
We're not sloshing beer down,
We're not on a spree.
Stay-at-home songsters
Boys and girls
Why should we be
Among those churls?
We are the Mudcat posters
Who're not at Getaway.

Iceland, Oz, and England,
Yanks and Canucks too,
Deutschland, Spain and Ghana,
All in the same stew!
We are the Mudcat posters
Who're not at Getaway.

What do we care for Big Mick,
Kendall, or the rest?
Someone has to stay home
And keep the downy nest.
We are the Mudcat posters
Who're not at Getaway.

Soon they'll be returning
Full of tales and cheer,
But we will surprise them
'Cause we've drunk up all their beer!
We are the Mudcat posters
Who're not at Getaway.

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 05:51 PM

Hey, Geoff, where'd you gt that salmon? We'vegot some,too, from the best smoker in all of alaska! It's gotta be fresh, and WILD. None of that farmed junk, thankyouverymuch.

Now then, who's got a song to start us off?

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 06:01 PM

well here is one one from me ,

I'm an Icelandic cowboy
on my Icelandic pony.
I travel around in the west.
I know all the ways around Snæfellsnes
'cause that's where my baby stays.

I've been to the east, and I've been to the west.
I've been to the north and the south.
Once I met there an old polar bear
but I found out he had a big mouth.

That's why I'm singing for you, forgotten cowboys,
forgotten cowboys of the world.
Come to Iceland, 'cause it's a nice land
and you can shake the shephards hand.
And if you come to Iceland you can join the local band


All the best skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 06:46 PM

The salmon was pretty wild when he dropped his ciggie in the jello pit for the third time. If he hadn't got help from the squid he'd never have finished the pack!

Mortie - you can always count on hugs from all the Ducks.

As for the wine list, here is My Wine Recommendation.
Enjoy.
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 06:48 PM

Edmund's gone to the Getaway, and I'm stuck here with three resentful cats, six loads of laundry and nothing interesting in the fridge. Guess I'll pop on down to the tavern ...

I'll have a nice tot of Rapaire's Redbreast with ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, you ol' librarian, you!

Subject: RE: BS: Couldn't-Getaway Tavern 2006
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 07:02 PM

You could crack me a bottle of Youngs Double Chocolate winter ale. I'm ready for one after all that cooking.

The unspeakable are about roasted. I'll be slicing and dicing in about 5 minutes. Thought that they should go nicely with the nettle soup and dock pudding.

Quack!