BS: A Mudcat Baby?????

Subject: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 10:55 PM

Someone, very special, mentioned at the Getaway that he and his lady were expecting. Only a few of us heard it. He wanted to keep it somewhat quiet but not totally. The baby should have made an appearance by now. And I can't stand it!!! Well????? Either announce or PM me. The suspense is painful. If you prefer to keep the news to yourself, I will suffer on but love you just the same.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: JedMarum
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 11:11 PM

Oh - I thought since we've had Mudcat Gatherings and Mudcat Song Books and Mudcat CDs - it was time have a Mudcat baby!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 11:11 PM

hmmm?? I know several who I'm sure it isn't....well, I hope all is well and that news is both good and forthcomimg.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Tinker
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 11:41 PM

Welcome gift is on the way...those archtypical godmothers insist on appearing no matter what you try...

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:48 AM

aww - c'mon - tell!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Willie-O
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 09:35 AM

spill. cause it ain't me.

or we might be forced to start a guess list of, let's see, partnered up hetero males who were at the gathering without their SO. (I presume the last point.)

who are SPECIAL.

now what could that mean?

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:00 AM

W-O, I was thinking the same thing. I believe we would have noticed someone 7 months pregnant!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:04 AM

Awrright Jeri, who'd you spill the beans to? Damn........I thought our secret was safe.......damn.

No..........I am not serious. But that would be one fine looking kid.......and what a voice..........and he would have to play fiddle, guitar, Irish Bouzouki, whistles, pipes, bodhran..........and put up for Rick. How they hell would I explain that one to the Missus..............LOL.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Max
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:14 AM

It's me (well, not me exactly, but it's my doing). Just a couple of weeks away. There's more to tell, but I gotta run. I'll explain more this afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:21 AM

HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL! No wonder you're (visibly) around here even less than usual!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Noreen
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:23 AM

Congrats, Max! Much joy, health love and peace to all three of you, and lots of hugs.

♥ Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:28 AM

Max!! is pregnant???

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:30 AM

hot D*mn! gotta get the baby present machine in high gear!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 10:36 AM

What do you mean by "my doing" exactly Max....what _have_ you been up to???

Congratulations, Daddio!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 11:27 AM

Can't wait to see what he names him/her.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: GUEST, Goosed
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 11:33 AM

Gee Whiz, Amos. Didn't your father tell you about that?

Goosed

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 11:57 AM

nice one Max. Best of luck to you all.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: mg
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 12:14 PM

congratulations...mg

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 12:30 PM

I just was skeptical about his..um...placement skills, Goose, so I suppose he has been practicing in secret.

You guys realize what this means, don't you -- we need to promote the Mudcat CDs TWICE as hard so we can even get Max some dough as CEO of the Mudcat after he pays for the ISP, the fat new servers and a new establishment for the Mudcat Radio!! We need to get the news out about this Mudcat CD thing around the world! Ron Olesko of WFDU-FM in New York is thinking about doing a one-hour show on it, because he thinks it is "an important project". Well, it may not have been all that important, but it is now -- this hyar village has a chile to raise comin' up!! :>) FLOOD Dick. (Not you, Max!)

:>)


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Jeanie
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 12:39 PM

Great news !
- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 12:49 PM

Max is pregnant? I guess kicking his balls all those times had a bigger effect than I had previously surmised...........So Max, you plan on natural childbirth or are they going to need to do a C-section? How's the morning sickness? And listen, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you film it???......I mean like I'd really like to see this!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 12:54 PM

Spaw -- it'll probably about the same as one of your larger Brawwwmps -- you know, natural delivery, no drugs anyone wants to admit to, no surgical intervention needed, a lot of pain followed by a huge relief -- I agree the visuals might be interesting to some folks, but I must recuse myself from that group! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 12:56 PM

Listen Max......Now you know that other post is just a joke and all, but let me get serious for a minute here.

The rumor going around the back channels of the 'Cat is that if it's a boy you're naming him "Blind Muthah Fockin Pennsylvania Lemon-Lime Spiegel." If this is true, we need to talk because although I know you love the blues, you need to leave out the "blind" part.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 01:20 PM

WooHooooo!!!!!!!

Congratulations you two!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Willie-O
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 01:29 PM

Congrats Max & ?. Really, I don't know that you have a lot to explain...it's all perfectly normal! but if you do, please go ahaid and tell us!

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 03:03 PM

Congratulations Max

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 04:21 PM

an upgrade? To Max 0.9?...when is the downloading?

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:07 PM

I think this is version 2.0, Bill!! Did you think we were still in beta?? LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:16 PM

Thank you, Max. I was beginning to worry that I had "misremembered" (it's happening a lot lately). This is so exciting.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Mudlark
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:34 PM

Congratulations, Max, and best wishes to you, mother and child...

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Max
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:44 PM

It's been a hell of a year folks. I might as well tell you about it now, since the kicker is already out of the bag.

Yep, got a Mini-Mudcatter on the way, and as you would expect, we do have some appropriate names picked out. We chose not to learn the sex, so we don't know what's gonna pop out, but the doctor did say it's not a puppy (darn). If she's a girl, we picked out Lilly Ani. If he's a boy… are you ready for this?… Taj Lightning. No shit. The due date is January 20th, but all indications say its-a-coming early. The baby has already turned and dropped, and Emily (Yes, Emily is the love of my life who was kind enough to gestate my baby) is an active person who is pulling double shifts as a waitress because of our financial challenges. My bet is 2 weeks from now. And no, I'm not quite ready.

More good news, after a 2 year legal battle (which in addition to the contested divorce helped create my financial challenges), I have finally gained custody of my other offspring Alexis Hope. She'll be 13 years old in March, and will come live with me shortly afterward. Instant Family. Best money I've ever spent. It looks as if the divorce will go through in a couple of weeks now too.

So the landlord came up the other day to let some painters in to paint the windows, and notices a crib that we had recently purchased. The next day we get a letter saying to get out or pay and extra 30% rent starting December 1. Why? The lease was for 2 people. Apparently my unborn child makes it 2 ½ and soon 3. We tried to get out, but ended up paying the extra 30% for December. We're still trying to get out, but Emily can't carry things on account of her giant belly and many of my friends are too busy or are out of town due to the holidays to help us move, and now we need a 3 bedroom dwelling in a good school district because Alexis is coming too. My credit is shot because of the divorce, Emily's too because of her divorce last year. We've looked at a lot of places, but our price range limits us. Nothing suitable yet.

Onstage is dead. We've been successfully sued by a creditor, so I had to completely stop doing business. You may have been noticing the Web site, email and links slowly going away. I need to distance myself and everything from any association with Onstage. What really sucks is that I'm locked into paying for the Yellow Page ads still in print but can't accept any of the business that may come from them. Oh, well.

So I've changed careers. I am now a licensed Real Estate Agent in Pennsylvania and soon Delaware. My technological knowledge is already paying dividends. I consult for a couple of Brokers and Agents and Mortgage Brokers as well as sell houses and commercial properties. Not a lot of income now, but next year looks very promising. I've got a couple of sales already logged, but I won't get paid for them till March.

In addition to some health problems (now completely resolved) it's been a challenging year. But I feel so good about 2003 I'm bursting. I managed to line up everything I could want in my life: a promising career without a boss, a wonderful loving relationship, my daughter, and new baby… a family… a real life. Patience and perseverance has paid off.

The year of Mudcat was interesting. We lost most of our servers this year. (Shorty, Jah and Pene's computer are added to the list in the last few weeks). All that is left now is Taj (web), Bertha (help) and Charlie (database). But we still managed to get the upgrade done. I have a few more behind the scenes things to do, which will cause some downtime, but I'll warn you as far in advance as I can. Oh, and if I have to move suddenly, which is a possibility, that might mean a few unpredictable months of the Mudcat. I probably won't have time to get the new apartment wired in time to make it a smooth transition. I'm in talks with 2 outside services to take over hosting for these few months of uncertainty. My housing issues can only possible last until June, so at least it's finite.

I apologize for not being more present and responsive this year, and I promise to be more attentive from now on. Just know that I was not blowing anyone off, I was just preoccupied with life for a bit. But I'm back now.

Which leads me to a Mudcat Radio Revival. A few folks have mentioned how much they missed it, and I realized how much I miss it too. I'm in talks with a coffee shop down the street from us that will likely allow us to use their upstairs section on off nights to do just about anything we want. So, if we can solve the technical challenges, it looks like we'll get something going. Not sure what format, or how often, but its in the works. It may not be affordable to do at all or with any regularity. We had to take the archives down, because we let our ASCAP license ($250 at last check) lapse. So maybe if we do it, we'll broadcast it live and leave the archive up for only a week. Not sure, but it is at least in my head.

Thank you all for your support this year. I can say with certainty that without it, the Mudcat would not have made it through the year. Me either. Thanks for all the CD sales, I hope you enjoy that. And thanks especially for the people who picked up the balls that I dropped. Amos and dick and susan, Pene Azul, Joe Offer, etc. Thank you.

But now that I'm back…

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:57 PM

Bloody Hell Max.... and we thought you were just in a funny mood!

Hope all goes well, good luck.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:58 PM

WOW-O-WOW!! What a year!! Good news and it looks like most of the bad is behind you. Yea!!! Thanks for catching us up, Max and congratulations. You want us to mix up some mojo and go to work on your landlord, or just use it to conjure up a better place for you all? Really, really glad to hear that you are getting your daughter back. Wow!! And, a baby! And a love!! And, radio!!!! Yippee!!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:03 PM

Blessings to you and Emily, Max, and to Alexis and Lilly/Taj.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: nutty
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:10 PM

All the best for 2003 Max ....it looks like being a hell of a year.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:11 PM

Keeericed boy, you still need a kick in the balls and the first chance I get I'm gonna' give you one........Taj Lightning my ass.........dear gawd, let this guy have a girl, even with the "Ani" part........

Okay....so you're workin' it out and to be absolutely truthful, I've always figured you would. Life ain't worth livin' if you're just sitting on the peaks. Too long in the valleys can be a killer but the views that you get from both are what makes things clearer. In the end we are responsible for what we've done and when it's all tallied up, if we've done our best by each other, the trip was worth every fall and every climb.

There's a highway risin from my dreams
Deep in the heart I know it gleams
For I have seen it stretching wide
Clear across to the other side
Beyond the river and the flood
And the valley where for so long I've stood
With the rock of ages in my bones
Someday I know it will lead me home
.........from "Prayer in Open D" by Emmylou Harris

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: treewind
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:14 PM

Well, Max, all I can say is...

Happy new year!
It's got to be better that the old one!

Joy, health, love and peace.

Anahata

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Llanfair
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:15 PM

Congratulations, Max and Emily. You've had such a tough time, and yet the Mudcat goes on.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Willie-O
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:18 PM

I was wrong, there WAS a lot to tell. Thanks for clueing us in Max.

I am stunned that a landlord can get away with that kind of piracy. JEEZUZ!!!!

Great to hear the radio show will get new legs. Best of holidays to you and Emily. And I know something about headstrong hardworkin women, but try to get her off the doubles pretty soon!

Best
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Gareth
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:47 PM

Max, when yer down the only way out is up.

Please acept my best wishes to you, your good lady Emily, and your familly.

The only thing I would request is that if there are any pressurers on you and the Mudcat, that you tell all us Catters well in advance so that where finacial support is needed matters can be dealt with in an organised and orderly fashion.

Again please take my best wishes, and I am confident that I speak for all Welsh and European followers of the Mudcat.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 07:23 PM

Max! Emily the News Lady! I thoughtyou two had personalities that went well together. I'm glad your life is looking so much better. Now, since Emily's familiar with the web radio stuff, what about the comeback broadcast being from the delivery room?

Max, any way to get all the midis and the supersearch index off poor deceased Shorty and onto somebody else?

Anyhow, congratulations and BE HAPPY!

Love,
Me

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 07:24 PM

Taj Lightnin'???? Well, at least it's not Cletus. Screw the landlord! Shed 2002 and start anew. Congratulations Max and Emily and Alexis!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:07 PM

Waiting with bated breat to be able to send best wishes to Mini-Max!
Quack!
Geoff the Duck!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Tinker
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:08 PM

When I sent a welcome package and said #1 daughter got first pick I couldn't have guessed she'd be coming home too. Great news !

Now Max, just a question did ya pick that name before or after you named the server???? Taj Lightning?? Boy better like the blues...

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:21 PM

Max, man, what a year!!

All is forgiven.

Ya know we're on your side and we are gonna keep on rolling to make the revenue stream exceed the Mudcat Nut -- starting with promtioing the Mudcat CDs to every corner of the world we can get a word out to. Starting with New York and Portland.

And if ya wanna know why, it's cuz you've done something for us, in case ya never noticed that -- you furball!!

Well done on building a family. A year from now, with a decent sales record behind you and some money in the bank, you'll be fat and sassy and feeling like a king. Just remember to keep on communicating, especially among all these wonderul people who are moving in to share your life.

We love ya, ya know!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:53 PM

Wow! I can't say it any better than it has been said. Keep well, Max, and if we get radio, that will be wonderful too. If we don't we can live with it......Hi Emily! Have a girl, OK?

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: mg
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:57 PM

About the housing..is there a vacant house on the market that won't sell for some reason taht you could live in free and show? hard with a new baby and a teen but it might get you over the hump. mg

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Dani
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 09:31 PM

It IS hard to believe a landlord can do that, Max, but the same thing happened to my husband and I. We lived in an apartment complex that had been fairly well wrecked by Hurricane Hugo, and the management didn't like to get around to fixing holes in roofs, etc. I was one of the complainers when MANY months later repairs had not been made. When they found out I was pregnant, with a one-bedroom apartment, they did, in fact, kick us out. Moved everything in that state, and went into labor shortly after. Without the $$ to pay a lawyer, there's not much to do about it.

There were many, many hard times after that. Sounds like yours came before ; ) But things DO, in fact, get better.

I hope hard times move behind you and you can enjoy your family. I wish you all the best.

Read a wonderful book recently recently by/about a man named George Dawson who learned to read in his '90's. Wow. What a life. And talk about some hard times. But the main theme of the book (from whence the title) is "Life is so good. And I do believe it's getting better!"

May it be so...

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 02:45 AM

Love ya, Mister. I wish we could go have a beer. I will have to take a ramble so's I can change a diaper and spoil a kid. You left out of the Getaway without a goodbye hug and I will deliver a kick in the gonads for that one, but it will be delivered with love and followed by a Big Mick hug.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:49 AM

Glad things are looking up on the personal front, Max, hope the career changes also bear fruit and the various Mudcat fundraisers help to take the pressures off.
Best wishes to the mother of the Mudkitten(why not Fred [or Frederica] McDowell Spiegel- it has a ring to it!).
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: mooman
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:59 AM

Dear Max,

Very best wishes to yourself and Emily for the coming arrival and much support for you in resolving your remaining challenges during the coming year. It is an absolute credit to you that you managed to keep Mudcat going through all of this and you have my utmost admiration for your perseverence and tenacity.

All the very best also for Christmas and the New Year.

Richard (mooman)

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 12:24 PM

Congratulations Max & Emily. I hope you still manage to have a great christmas and that the New Year turns out to be fantastic for you.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:29 PM

Max...serious note here, which I shall also PM and email...just in case.

You know how close I am...and I have a VERY large van if "moving stuff" should become a sudden need. Obviously, there are days when other things might interfere, but you never know if you don't ask!...I might even be able to scare up some warm bodies.

Congratulations, and keep in touch.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Giac
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 06:15 PM

Other than all that, Max, how's it been goin'? **Grin**

I like Taj Lightning and hope it's a boy!!

Congratulations to you, Emily, Alexis and the approaching little 'un.

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 07:53 PM

And Bill's van even works sometimes!
(Meow - we really are a family, aren't we!)

I kinda like Taj Lightening myself. You can call him Taj, or TL or TaLi. When he pitches baseball, he can be "Taj 'Greased' Lightening'."   Lilli Ani has too many 'ee's in it, and she'd probably be called "Lil 'Orphan' Ani" by other kids even if she won't be an orphan. My name isn't all that weird and other kids called me "Jeri Jean the Jelly Bean" just because it rhymed. Glad my name wasn't Jacko Switt or something. Children are cruel...

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 08:01 PM

hmmmppff! Jeri..after 2...that's TWO fuel pumps, it works ok, mostly...sort of....usually

(yeah, we are family....and it gets bigger..my 20 yr.old kid, Darriel just agreed to be part of a moving party if needed...and you KNOW he is big enuf...*grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 09:08 PM

And with Shadowmonk around - you won't need ladders for anything! *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 10:18 PM

I think Lilly Ani sounds Hawaiian...almost like the beautifully musical name of the last Hawaiian Queen, Liliakalani(sp). And, I really like Taj Lightning. Though Lightening might be better since he will be lightening your wallet, as all kids do.**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Genie
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 10:27 PM

Max, your landlord gets the Ebenezer Scrooge Award (or maybe the Grinch Award) for this year, in my book.  Why would having an infant justify that kind of rent increase?
Any frustration with Mudcat's technical glitches has subsided, now that I know, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story."

I'll try to send a donation before the end of the year (or maybe just order another CD set.)

Mazeltov!

Genie
 
 

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Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 10:30 PM

Taj Lightning........I still can't................okay, look, you need to add some other blues thing in there like a fruit or something like "Boy"....Something else fergawdsakes...............Add in the Pennsylvania thing too somehow for reference like Mississippi John...................................HEY!!!! I got it!!!!!

Taj Lightning Beaverboy Spiegel

Yeah....that's better.........and just think how popular he'll be with the girls!!!!!!!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 11:16 PM

It's spelled "LILI'UOKALANI."

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 11:16 PM

I'm at a loss for words.

Just Incredable! Do you think she/he will be a New Years Baby? :-)

Good Luck with the...

New Family
New Occupation
New House

and New Year!

JAB

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 10:14 AM

Wow. What a story. It does seem like that landlord is taking unfair advantage of your situation--and a grace period ought to come into play. I'd suggest that with all of this chaos that there are probably at the very least tax advantages to be had. Might be worth it to hire an accountant to do the taxes, if you didn't do that already.

Congratulations on the baby--such a wonderful conclusion to the year!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Marion
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 12:57 PM

Congratulations Max! I hope you have a boy, cause the boy name is funnier.

Marion

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Mrs Cobble
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 01:56 PM

Congratulations Emily and Max. Blessings to all your family hope you have a wonderful 2003.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: momnopp
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 02:02 PM

And speaking of tax advantages, if s/he's born before the end of the year, you can claim him/her as a dependent (well, Emily can, anyway) and it might make the tax bug bite a little gentler.

But seriously, Max -- congrats and best wishes for much love and peace in your household; wherever it may end up being. Depending on the timing, you can probably count on me and Dylan to join BillD and the short, little dude (Darriel) to help out. Just don't try and do it on December 28th!

Many blessings upon all of your assorted, little heads.

Love,

JudyO

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Melani
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 02:07 PM

Congratulations, Max and Emily! You have survived and prospered!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: SharonA
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 02:46 PM

Holy cannoli! What great news!! Congratulations, Max, Emily, Alexis and baby-to-be!!!

I've got to agree with Jeri: those baby names you propose are prime candidates for teasing-targets once the kid goes to school. But hey, if you want to shell out even more money for the child psychiatrist, it's your nickel... :^)

Seriously, though, if you need another hand to help with the move when it happens, please let me know. I'm only an hour away! I can't lift heavy boxes (because of the lupus) but I can surely help pack 'em and unpack 'em.

In the meantime, a pox on your rotten landlord for charging extra for a fetus, fer chrissakes!!! Here I thought that the baby-to-be's residence was Emily; if anybody should be charging rent, she should! *G*

Anyway, best wishes to you, Max, and to your family, for a happy and PROSPEROUS new year!!

Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 12:35 PM

Sharon:

Dimes to donuts the landlord's a Republican; they abjure principle when profit looms. You are quite right. Emily should be charging the landlord the privelege; and in fact, a fetus is not a tenant in any legal sense and the guy could face a serious breach of contract suit in small claims if anyone had the energy to prosecute it, IMHO (but I am not a lawyer).

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 01:01 PM

May the new year shine brightly on you and the family, Max. You have a great attitude and it sounds as though you've got love and support to see you through. I wish I lived closer, cause I'd be there in a shot to help you move. Just name the date and time, and I'll be there'll be others to carry the stuff to Bill's van!
(and I think Taj Lightning's a GREAT name!)

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: hesperis
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 04:46 PM

Wow!!!!!!!! That is fantastic! Best of luck with everything.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 06:07 PM

Taj Lightning's as good as "Moon Unit" or "Dweezle"...better, I'd say

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Genie
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 08:52 PM

BTW, Max, isn't a baby mudcat called a "minnow?" I think Taj Lightning or Alexis sounds a lot better! *BG*

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: DancingMom
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 09:37 PM

Wow! Happy New year to YOU!!
Name that kid whatever you want, and enjoy your precious family. Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 08:50 PM

Definitely better than Dweezle but how about John or David or...SINSULL?

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 02 - 03:27 AM

Or, Spaw, Reg, Cletus, or Cleigh?

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Marion
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 01:45 AM

Any news on the Mudkitten?

Max, although I said above that I liked the name Taj Lightning, I'm starting to worry that if you're too obviously trying to predestine him to be a bluesman, he'll rebel and listen to nothing but pseudo-Celtic relaxation CDs.

Marion

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 03:01 PM

Maybe it was a hermaphrodite. Nothing to be embarrassed about; it happens every day.

But that would probably make its name Taj Ani or Lilly Lightning, both of which are far more catchy than the original ones.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: mg
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:33 PM

time for an update. Any present or impending baby?

Can you put in an address in case we are inclined to knit something..

(you're lucky..I can't knit.)

mg

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:02 PM

Go here for that information, Mary.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: MMario
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:03 PM

use the mudcat address under "contribute" or "contact"

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 12:08 AM

My most recent Mudcat donation check was cashed this week, and it was accompanied by a package of baby garments. I hope there's someone around to wear them pretty soon! (And I hope those CD sales let Max get the computer(s) he needs to bring Mudcat to the next level of efficiency--even if he's at less than 100% from sleep deprivation).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 11:42 AM

Refresh. . . still waiting!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 04:23 PM

waiting...

i included something for the baby in a late christmas package I shipped recently.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 04:40 PM

Did Max move? Did the baby make the big move? (If he/she is smart he might be staying inside where it's warm!)

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 04:43 PM

Too true SRS.......If it's as cold there as it is here!!! Tell ya'....the balls fell right off my monkey.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 06:24 PM

Wow! Keepus up dated

Regards

Gillie

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Max
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:44 AM

Well, Monday (the due date) came and went with no baby. Doctor's appointment in the AM, and Emily is going to beg to be induced. They may want to wait at least another week, but we hear begging can sway this particular hospital. So it looks like any day now. I'll certainly let you all know as soon as I can. Thank you for all your kind words and cards and gifts. We're very excited...

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: harpgirl
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 02:21 AM

...gee whiz Max and EMILY ( way to go, Max) I'm always the last to know...just read this thread....so the baby is still enroute, eh????

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 03:47 AM

Doesn't sound like "Lightning" to me.........

We're all thinking about you.....

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 07:44 AM

Aaaaahhhh...............a beautiful little woman to grace the home................throw yourself off a bridge now.............I have raised 2 and am currently being trained by a third young woman............prepare your heart for magnificent highs............and bottom of the ocean lows..........hahahahahaha.............I can't wait to hold her. Good man, Max!!!!   Can't wait to hear.

Love to you and the your partner,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Tinker
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 07:56 AM

Mick, if you re-read it's still in the waiting stage....unless you have a source you haven't revealed... Max give that lady an extra hug today, two if the Doctor doesn't sucumb to begging.

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:05 AM

Yes Tink, I understand that. But Max spoke of her as in the present, just waiting for her to move her royal backside out of the the snuggy environment she is currently habitating in. Get used to it, Max. You will spend a great deal of your time waiting once she makes her appearance.............hahahahaha.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Tinker
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:17 AM

And you know Max and Emily's baby will be a girl because????

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:40 AM

Big Mick is rarely wrong about these things! LOL!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bassic
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:12 AM

In 1981, my wife and I were visiting a close friend and his very pregnant wife. This was their first child and one of the first of our friends to start their family so it was all quite new to us.
Out of curiosity I asked if I could feel the "bump" and ended up giving mum (who was feeling very tired and frustrated at the wait) and the "bump" a friendly cuddle for about half an hour. It was a lovely feeling and mum relaxed and was asleep fo most of the time.

My wife and I then went home only to be telephoned about an hour and a half later to say that labour had started as soon as we had left and the baby (a girl)had been born in the ambulance on the way to the hospital!!

Ever since then I have been know as "The Inducer" amongst my circle of friends and frequently get asked to "lay on hands" in order to bring on a late delivery and so far, every time I have done it, a baby has been born soon after!!!

So Max and Emily, I am placing my hands against the screen rite now and thinking "new baby" thoughts.............................(I guarantee that the baby will be born............ soon).

Good luck and best wishes.

Gordon

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:24 AM

How about Max orders up a labor-inducing pizza from this joint in California?

SKIPOLINI's PREGGO PIZZA

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:27 AM

(Spaw, there's WIndex under the sink in the kitchen....) :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Max
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 11:32 AM

Back from the doctor. If nothing happens before the 29th, their gonna induce then. We don't know the sex, but all wives tales point to boy. We'll see.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:14 PM

Send for a pizza.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: nutty
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:26 PM

Yep ....Lazy boys

best wishes to all three of you. Max

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:31 PM

Oh, god, I can't imagine how horrible it would be to give birth with that volcanic slurry of pizza going through. . . Don't do it, Max. They'll never let any of you live it down in the birthing suite if you ever want to go back. This is the stuff that legends are made of. Stories about it appear in Reader's Digest. And consider, once labor starts, nausea is a typical result. Do you really want Emily barfing up that pizza before she starts her breathing and pushing?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: C-flat
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:59 PM

My partner was 22 days over her due date, despite following all the advice of "hot curries", "plenty of sex" et al!
No suprise to me when our baby turned out to be a girl!
Trainee woman............always late!
Good luck to you and yours Max.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: rock chick
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:25 PM

Congratulations Max & Emily, all the very best, hope everything goes well and I love the name Taj Lightning.

Better not let bassic near the wife's tummy, I've heard he has BIG hands!!

There again as Emily is due 'like now' she must have quite a big bump :o))

Joking apart I wish you all a very happy and healthy life.

Shelagh

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:34 PM

Sure hope everything comes out OK, Max and (especially) Emily.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Dani
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:42 PM

My littlest one was very late. She's STILL snuggly and hard to drag out of bed in the morning!

I've got some secret induction tricks if you want to PM me before trying the big guns.

DON'T try the castor oil margarita. It DOESN'T work... the way you hope it will, anyway!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Tinker
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 02:36 PM

Hmmm, my young lady was two weeks early. It was the layabout boys who couldn't get movin' for an extra two weeks !! Don't have much faith in the 'sure things' but might as well enjoy the fun ones it can't hurt...

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: harpgirl
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 07:13 PM

yeah...Nathan was two and a half weeks late and 9lbs 15 ounces. He's 6'3" and 280 now....I vote boy!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 07:29 PM

I guess babies will do as they will...play some loud blues, Max..might get some action ;>))

....and all the best!...(and van offer still goes if it is needed)

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 07:33 PM

Take her shopping where she can get in a good long walk. My son was early, first daughter came on the date we'd predicted, second daughter was way early.

Hang in there, give her lots of love and reassurance, backrubs, and both of ya, remember to ~~Breath!~~

This kid's gonna have more aunties and uncles than a mongrel mutt!**bg**

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:48 PM

Most parents go through the "Okay, what do we call the kid's private parts" routine and come up with something cutesy. In our case I recall that a local DJ had been referring to his as a "Hoozhee"....kinda' like Hoosier with an "ee" in the end instead of the "er." So instead of saying what you normally might....."The kid's got a rash on his dick"......you become more socially acceptable by saying he has a rash on his hoozhee, thing, water spout, tallywhacker, or whatever.

Max and Emily have this one in the bag unless they are the "must use proper terms" types and say penis. I mean, considering the name choice, what else could this kid's be but a "lightning rod?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 11:51 PM

Doesn't seem to have harmed my children to have used the usual names for these things instead of baby talk. But don't start scaring the pending-parents off with such philosophical matters, Spaw. Plenty of time for that later once they've been able to welcome this next 'Cat into the world and catch their breaths.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:21 AM

That Spaw will go a long way around the block just to talk about dicks, huh? :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:28 AM

Well Amos, I felt I had to explain. When SRS say she had her kids use the "usual" names then I wonder what those are. To some I'm sure that in the male case, it's a penis, but to me the "usual" name is a "dick." Oddly enough, I have a lot more difficulty in saying penis than dick. For instance, I would never say, "Amos is certainly a penis-like cranium," but I have no problem observing that you are a fockin' dickhead!!!........But in any case, I think Beaverboy will indeed have a "lightning rod."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:09 AM

Spaw,

My kids certainly know the slang (they're 14 and 10 now) but those aren't the terms we use amongst ourselves, should the need arise.

Several years ago, in order to encourage cooperation between my children I developed a special set of rules for a game we play called "Scribble." It isn't fair to call it Scrabble, because it might confuse anyone who came along thinking we were using the usual rules.

The kids pool their letters and play against me. They take turns spelling whatever they want to, including proper nouns and rude words. We frequently allow the blind swapping of letters in the box if they're having trouble spelling a really good word. They are encouraged to spell off of the board, and get points for courtesy and lose points for being rude. We've had a few rude words spelled when the opportunity arose, but they don't go out of their way for them. It seems that once we lifted the "we don't talk like that" rule from our domestic venue, it isn't a big deal if those words are used, but they aren't used very often. And it's usually in the context of humor.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:20 AM

Clarification: "being rude" constitutes being impolite to one another. Not the use of the words in question on the board. Clear as mud, right?

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Big Mick
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 01:04 PM

Oh ye foolish, foolish wee people. To doubt aul Big Mick in this matter is folly, indeed. She will be a beautiful, wee lass.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 01:35 PM

So what's wrong with willy?

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 02:04 PM

W stands for false Willie-o
But Johnny is the fairest man...

See, it's a musical thread!

Thinking about you, Max & Emily. Natural's better than induction though- let her (him) come in her (his) own good time!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Tinker
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 07:13 PM

Mr. Big Mick,

....wee people????

.....foolish, foolish wee people????

'tis an attitude of folly aul Mr. Big Mick to question the wisdom of the Little Ones, of that there is no doubt.

But we can agree the babe will be loved and beautiful.

Ms. Tink

Wee??? Foolish??? Hmmmmmm.....
Just waiting....

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:03 PM

She won't feel so "wee" when her head is crowning.

Children like to hear stories about when they were born. I tease my daughter that she weighed 8 pounds 7 1/2 ouches.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:18 PM

I dunno, Spaw -- seems to me, off hand, that you, yourself, have a lot more thoughts relating to dicks in your skull than I do. I'm more of a boob guy, to be honest with you, and my record definitely, um, supports that salient position. Your highest accomplishment on the Cat, aside from near-death experiences, has been getting everyone to imagine you peeing in a river from a railroad bridge with that "Deep, too!" line. I, on the other hand, founded the Temble of the Golden Globes to widespread unspoken acclaim and international support and high feeling.

I mean, if we're talking about kids and all we should get our definitons really clear, because otherwise they are going to get all confused, and when they meet "little Uncle Spaw", instead of telling it like it is and telling ma that "some dickhead was at the door", they're gonna report that it was an aureola-face instead, and no-one will be able to understand what happened!! And its a little early to teach them "shit-for-brains".

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:59 PM

Amos, it's never too early to learn. My son Michael at age three and a half was eating at the table as another child was acting the fool. Mikey just kept eating but finally couldn't take it anymore and turned to the kid and said (with an all too familiar inflection), "Fockin' asshole...." He's now 10 and I await the inevitable call from school...............

And Amos, I think we need to find some area of agreement here. Let's talk ass. Not yours or mine, but those ever so round and beautiful forms attached to the female of the species. 'Scuse me I have to, uh, leave for a few minutes..................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 11:24 PM

Oh my god...Michael is learning to be Catspaw!! The world is NOT ready for this.

Well, Spaw, one of the saddest and hardest things about parenthood is when your kinder feed your own persona back at you!! LOL!! Boy, are you ever gonna get yours!! ROTFLMAO!


OK, man, I'll reach -- figuratively speaking -- a compromise and talk about ass. I am sending you my fundamental list of the best ones on the Mudcat today --- the TOP ten svelte posteriors in all Mudcat land. This is highly...um...sensitive information, so I am sending it by PM. I especially request that you do not reveal my methods of investigation. But if you are nice, I'll share them with you. .... it's a computer thing...LOL!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 01:59 PM

Max is gonna scratch his head when he next reads THIS thread with the title "A Mudcat BABY."

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 04:45 PM

bABIES KNOW WHEN TO COME. oops drat capslock! Trust the baby. They are much wiser than we are.

~S~
(borrowing a cookie)

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 05:13 PM

Yeah, I guess -- Barky was adamant about not going through with it even after it started. When the pressure gauges started being pinned by the conflict in efforts (push out versus stay in)and continued up there for hours, the docs finally got nervous about it and decided it was CSection time, but at least Barky got the 28th instead of the 27th as her boithday. I am not sure what that means, if anything, but it is a sure fack.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Strupag
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:41 PM

Hi Max and Emily,
As a mudcutter of only about a year I was reluctant to enter this thread but what the hell!
I find myself looking up the site every day for the news so I have as much right as anyone else to wish you both all the best and give the bairn an old celtic greating- Scottish Gaelic Style. Beannachd Leibh
gu ur tearlach airson bliadhnaichean ri teachd.
(Blessings to you and your family for the future)

Andy agus Morag

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 08:55 PM

Nivcely said, Andy!

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 09:59 PM

A MUCAT BABY is called a "fry", right !!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 11:23 PM

So, now we get a MudFryUp? LoL, Art. Wish the fry would arrive......

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 12:12 AM

She'll be bringing home a mudfry when she comes!!
She'll be bringin' home a mudfry when she comes!!
Hey, he who the Cat created
Has just been replicated!
She'll be bringing home a mudfry when she comes!


Yeehaww, and all that!!


Congrats to all three of you....


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 12:50 AM

Just saw this for the first time. I have two things to add. First, castor oil worked like a charm for my ex...though she had a miserable couple of hours before going into labor. Chacun a son gout.

Second, Max, if you need any free medical advice any time after the cord's cut...you're on. I mean it. I'll PM you my cell phone number. (I don't carry a beeper now that I'm working as an 8 to 4 consultant...)

I'm also heartened to hear about your daughter. I didn't fight for custody for my daughter, for a variety of reasons, but I'm hoping that at some point in the future (she's 8), she'll want to come live with dad. Glad it's happened for you.

All the best to all of you.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: alison
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 02:24 AM

gothing like a good orgasm to get labour started..... gets the right hormones going (trust me I'm a midwife)...... so if you can convince Emily to let you anywhere near her.....


good luck

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 03:10 AM

Hello Max and Emily.

I hope all is well, and look forward to hearing some news soon!

We're getting impatient over the pond.

All the very best to you all.

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Dani
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 02:35 PM

OK, Alison, I was reluctant to mention it in front of all these people, but you're absolutely right. Orgasm'll do the trick. But hers, Max, not yours.

DO NOT try the castor oil! Or at least, try orgasm first. Castor oil gets all the wrong muscles going.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Beccy
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 02:55 PM

Do lots of walking and heavy lifting. It worked 3 times over for me... Plus it gives you a head start on getting into kid-chasing shape for after the baby comes. That way you kill two birds with one stone.

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 04:44 PM

That would be fledged birds you're murdering? (If it were eggs, you'd call it abortion).

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 05:27 PM

Okay, Max and Emily have the weekend planned out for you here........

First, both of you enjoy your Friday night and then, first thing on Saturday morning, Emily slings Max over her shoulder and carries him to the kitchen where they each have eggs and bacon followed by coffee, but Emily has a quarter cup of Castor Oil chaser. Then Emily carries Max to the bedroom where they both dress and then again carries him back to the kitchen where they prepare two of those pizzas. After eating one, emily carries Max back to the bedroom for a few laps around the track....Remember Max, it's Emily that needs the orgasm, not you! Emily carries Max to the TV where they both eat any pizza leftovers and Emily has another quarter cup of Castor Oil. As dusk settles and after putting pizza number 2 in the oven, it's off to the bedroom (Emily again is carrying Max) for another session. If you ain't up to this Max, give one of us a call. Back to the kitchen where they off pizza number two and Emily has a monster Coke with castor Oil again as the chaser.

One way or another, you're in for one helluva' day on Sunday!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 05:57 PM

That imagery, Spaw, is really something! It would be intersting if this baby is born on Sunday. . .then we can all speculate about which portions of this prescription they decided to follow. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 06:04 PM

Spaw:

You crack me up, man!!

Max:

The "it's her orgasm, not yours that counts" is the only thing in this thread of lasting value. You should have it burned on a brass plaque and put it over your computer!!
I promise you it's good for years and years!! LOL!

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 08:42 PM

I just lay back and let the surgeons do it all... Bratling was too big and I was too asthmatic and with rising blood pressure to do anything.. Good job too.. she was 8lb 12 1/2 oz and 2 weeks early. Never had a contraction, not even the Braxton Hicks practice run. If they'd let me go naturally she could have been 9 1/2lbs or even 10lb!

I have it on good authority that an orgasm works really well... gets the same sort of muscles going... but isn't that what got you here in the first place??

Good luck with it, whatever it turns out to be.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 11:49 PM

My ob/gyn had a very nice policy when it came to sex and pregnancy. She said "you tell him whatever you want, and I'll back it up. You want sex, fine, I said it's okay. You don't want sex, fine, slacking off or none is okay by me, too." I don't remember feeling very sexy either time.

I slept through most of the early labor with my first child, and woke in the morning with the water breaking. Three hours of hard labor and she was born. My son was just 1 1/2 hours of hard labor, after a morning in easy labor while working at the neighborhood recycling program. I was carrying around bags of cans and bottles. ;-) Both were born a week or two early, so I don't have any practical experience to add to the castor oil/pizza/orgasm suggestions. (I vote for number three, if you plan to try any of them!)

I didn't use an epidural or any fancy anesthesia, either. We used a pudendal block that is very local and wears off after just a couple of hours. So no headaches or anything from the painkillers. Since my son ended up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for two weeks (premature lungs, though he was 38 weeks), I was up and following him the next morning. I wasn't in the hospital more than about 18 hours. Friends called to find out how I was and I was already out of there, following Dylan to the children's hospital. It's amazing how fast you can recover from childbirth when you need to! After about three days of people giving me rides back and forth, I just started driving myself. Waiting two weeks to drive was for the birds.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Dani
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:04 AM

Max, for the record, I did NOT intend that comment (hers, not yours) for LIFE advice! Just for getting babies on their way out.

Sheesh.... now what kind of a firestorm will we have?!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 12:19 PM

Curry and a 'Big Cuddle' got the twins on the way. Also the last time I cleaned the windows - is it dark out? As for pain releif they numbed my left knee but the liitle blighters sneaked out by another route!

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 12:22 PM

Hey, Dani, if the guys are recommending this as vital information to each other, don't distract them! More power to them in this endeavor, and I'll offer to send a few pieces of lumber to Amos. He might be able to make more if he uses a woodburner and forgets the brass. Use these as another Mudcat fundraiser. . .

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 01:09 PM

ROTFLMAO, SRS -- no, I don't think it would sell -- it is the kind of lesson every guy wants to inscribe in his own little way!! LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Mudcat Baby?????
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jan 03 - 12:50 PM

Well? Where's dat baby?

A