Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers

Subject: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 12:56 PM

FORTUNATO'S PRE-GETAWAY SINGAROUND/JAM!
Thursday, November 1st Silver Spring, MD
Held annually 7:00pm until
Potluck for locals, Veg Chili and some drinks provided. Travelers need only bring voices and instruments.

PM me with rsvps, please, and directions, location if necessary.
always a pleasure
cheers, chance

It just get's better every year.

Absentees are encouraged to phone in their contribution...

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:28 PM

Oh What Fond memories ! Maybe we'll make it next year !!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:30 PM

I'll take a rain check, Chance! I would love to be there.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: greg stephens
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 05:23 PM

Chance, me old son, I have a meeting in Alrewas, Staffordshire, England at 12 noon, which is probably 7AM your time maybe? Plenty of time to get there in the private jet, if I have got round to buying one by then.It's kind of dependent on record sales. If not, I fear me and Kate will have to give this one a miss, but have fun anyway.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 06:24 PM

Lead Fingers, next year for sure!

Ebbie, you beautiful creature, your rain check is platinum

Greg, my lad, I believe it's all a matter of publicity. Could you arrange to get caught getting out of a limo while showing off your lack of knickers? I'm sure record sales would soar and that Leer Jet would be a cinch.

Until then give my best to the lovely Kate and we'll drink a toast to absent friends.
cheers, chance

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 09:54 PM

The Shivers? It sounds like a disease.
Next year for sure.
Have fun.
Mary

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 10:05 PM

ahem...allow me to clarify:

That's SHY/vers, Miss Mary, long 'i' and accent on the correct syllable, please!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: GUEST,kt not logged in
Date: 07 Oct 07 - 11:13 PM

Chance, will ya come and get Ebbie and me?

KT

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 12:52 AM

KT!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 01:56 AM

The question is: How far can Chance swim? :)

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 05:18 AM

Does this mean I dont get to address KT and Ebbie from the courtyard of a motel in Shakespearean (or other)Verse for another year? and just when I had come up wwith a "new" verse too!

"Awake! for morning in the bowl of night
has flung the sttone that puts the stars to flight..."

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 08:25 AM

I wish we could get there but we will be otherwise occupied with the Patons that night.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 09:08 AM

KT and Ebbie (belles on the balcony) alas, I cannot swim a stroke, they didn't have water when I was a kid...
wish you could be here! we'll have a toast to absent friends at 8:00pm EST, so get your glasses ready...

jacqui we'll see you at the getaway then, best to all, join us in the toast to absent friends.

cheers,
chance

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Charmion
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 09:31 AM

Edmund (CET) and I plan to make the scene, and will be kept away only by fire, flood, international disaster or contagious disease. The thought of blowing town far enough to escape all possibility of contact with our jobs is quite dizzying in its appeal.

I really need to play some tunes.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 07:29 PM

OOOooooh!! Charmion and CET!! Oh Goody!!This should be FUN!!!! and Toast..FREE TOAST!!!( havent had toast for ages (I lost the recipe)

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 07:36 PM

Didn't you file that right behind the recipe for boiled water?

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 07:36 PM

HEY Micca......One of my favorite weirdos has just the song to help you remember the recipe!


    Yeah Toast
Heywood Banks

All around the country and coast to coast
People always say what do you like most?
I don't wanna brag I don't wanna boast
so I just tell em I like toast

[Chorus]
YEAH TOAST!!
YEAH TOAST!!

I get up in the morning about 6 AM
had a little jelly had a little jam
take a piece of bread put it in the slot
push down the lever and the wires get hot

[Chorus]
YEAH TOAST!!
YEAH TOAST!!

Now there's no secret to toasting perfection
there's a dial on the side and you make your selection
push to the dark or the light and then
if it pops too soon press down again make toast

[Chorus]
YEAH TOAST!!
UH TOAST!!

When the first caveman drove in from the drags
didn't know what would go with the bacon and the eggs
musta bin a genius got it in his head
plug the toaster in the wall buy a bag of bread make toast

[Chorus]
YEAH TOAST!!
UH OHH!

OuI monsuier bonjour coquette
on hon croisoiant on vous a vere
morishe vour Eifel Towere
ouI marie baguette bon soir

[Chorus]
FRENCH TOAST!!
FRENCH TOAST!!



Spaw

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: ClaireBear
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 08:22 PM

Perhaps Lucas make toasters as well.

(I know they make refrigerators, which is why the English drink their beer warm...)

I used to drive a Triumph 2000 and then a Saab 99, both of which had Lucas electrics, so I do have a right to comment...

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 08:27 PM

I'll try to be there, work permitting...


Anyone need a left-handed banjo?

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 08:36 PM

ahem.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 08 Oct 07 - 09:02 PM

a toast at 8pm?    that's 4 pm for me......wonder what my boss will say if I'm caught raising a glass at work....hmmmmm.....maybe I'll be able to make it after all..........

Chance you could fly.....

Micca, you can call and recite those lines to us any time! I know, it's not the same without the balcony!

KT

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 09 Oct 07 - 09:38 AM

Well, KT, we'll have a second toast at the time you recommend, we wouldn't want to endanger your gainful employment, just tell us what time you prefer!

Extra toast(s) are not a problem (wink, wink, nudge)

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: KT
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 02:06 AM

Okay, Chance, Ebbie and I will toast right along with ya....say....at 10PM your time! Won't be quite the same without first hearing SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK   ing lot, but we'll toast to your health and a good time for Getawayers, all!

KT

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Oct 07 - 01:25 PM

Don't forget to RSVP, if you're on for the Singaround!

regards, chance

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Oct 07 - 01:35 PM

So far, I have kept my day-shift Thursday- so I should be there- with the left-handed banjo.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Oct 07 - 02:13 PM

Bruce o'Beard, banjos are indeed welcome at The Shivers, as long as they are house broken. As for the left-handed part, we are equal opportunity banjoists ("There'll be no distinction there").

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Maryrrf
Date: 16 Oct 07 - 04:05 PM

Wish I could get there, but I'll be working till noon on Friday - at which time I'll head to the Getaway!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Oct 07 - 07:20 PM

we'll miss you Mary, but we'll see you when you get there, I'm driving up with Micca and Susette will be along later on.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: DeeRod
Date: 20 Oct 07 - 02:11 PM

The beer you buy always tastes better than the beer I buy.

Count me in.      Dick R

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 01:57 PM

Micca
Your ride to the getaway has been delivered.
It's electric blue. Prepare to cruise.
chance

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 09:16 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 03:56 AM

and I am sure it will to Chance, refresh that is

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 09:14 AM

Shortly shall we comport ourselves in festive fashion, squire Micca, and withal...

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Severn
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 11:41 AM

Outside chants of a short stop by, but I'm a working lad at 4am and will hopefully drive straight on out to West River in a fully packed car w/o a nap afterwards.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: ClaireBear
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 12:54 PM

Chance, I should have said this earlier -- I'd love to come, but I'm flying into Dulles from California in the early evening, and my hotel is in Leesburg (carefully selected so that I could cross the Potomac into MD without going anywhere near DC). After flying all day, I's afraid I won't have the energy to drive to Silver Springs and then back to Leesburg. Alas! Raise a glass for me.

Claire

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 02:08 PM

Severn, we'll see you by the river, then.

Claire, we shall toast you with the absent friends.
We'll arrange a viewing of the Micca by the water.

cheers

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 02:43 PM

Mutter Mutter Mutter !!!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 02:44 PM

Next year , I hope !

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:29 AM

A toast at 8PM tomorrow night. Sing a sad song for me...maybe "Ghostriders".

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Severn
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 08:19 AM

The version dating from pre-inflation times, SINSULL? Time to "move Vaughn" or merely time to move on? It won't be the same without our "Cattle-ist For Change" displaying her unlimited range.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 09:28 AM

Sins, "Last Chance" doing "Ghostriders" without the "Horses Asses" backing it up, complete in Horse, Donald Duck and Flamingo costumes?? Naw wouldnt be the same!!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Severn
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 09:55 AM

We beg your pardon!

Not "Horse's Asses" Micca. We were "The Poor Horsemen Of The Apochryphal". The horses' asses and shakable tail feathers had to be kindly supplied to us from elsewhere! (Nag's Butt, North carolina, maybe?)

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 01:22 PM

Sev, on the night it was "Last Chance Fortunato and the Horses Asses" I know, cos' I was there. and if you dont like that all I can say is"......and the horse....."

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: beardedbruce
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 01:42 PM

Micca,

Should I find you some pink beer, just to get YOU into the Getaway spirit of things?

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 02:58 PM

BB, Kriek, Belgian Cherry beer is very good as is the Framboise( the raspberry version), both are a bit STRONG tho' but both are distinctly red-pink coloured.

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Severn
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:14 PM

Do they still make Sparkling Pink Champale?

I still recall Liner notes to an Otis Spann LP where Don DeMichael described a Chicago club and Muddy Waters' "personal table where the Champale flowed like wine".

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Micca
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 02:55 AM

I dont know about Champale, but I am leaving for the airport in 5 so HLVB
Micca

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Barry Finn
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 10:52 PM

Right now you all are hopefully in the thick of it & having a hell of a time, save some of it for us who are green with envy & couldn't get there early enough to join you. Wishing you all a splendid night, see you this time tomorrow, I hope the green wears off by then.

Barry

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 12:34 AM

Mille grazi to Chance & Suzette for hosting this shindig!

A splendid time was had (and probably still being had) by all. I left so I could get some sleep. I have a feeling I won't be getting to much over the next few days. Plus I have to socialize with the cats, as I'm going to be leaving them to their own devices for a few days.
Anywho, I snapped a few pix, they are posted here

Seeya at the Getaway!

Subject: RE: Pre-Getaway Singaround: The Shivers
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 06:12 AM

Looks like a good time was had by all ! The piccies brought back memories of 2005 , And I hope I WILL be able to get over next year ! Have a good Getaway !-