Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts-see new thread

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

It show's how much and how many people care about Spaw. Just too bad it didn't end before this.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:45 AM

The SPAW theory of socio economic Evolution

There is a socio-ecomomic evolution that applies to all man made movements...

It starts with a cause or a good idea and becomes a movement.
The movement becomes a business
and the business becomes a criminal racket.

plug and play any "cause" into this equation and you will see the inviolate truth of this natural evolution.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:52 AM

OK. Where IS the old fart.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 12:55 PM

Kat, that video was brilliant! I wish we'd sounded even a little like that. Our performance was suitable only for captive audiences like Spaw -- in fact, even Spaw might've gotten up and bolted outta there to get away from it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 01:38 PM

Hope you are bit stronger today, Pat.

Hope you are a bit rested today, Karen.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 08:58 PM

Okay, he's in for it now!

...With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face - at least to my taste - his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide a fart. Through all his unearthly gaseous emissions, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bloodshot bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand flatulent devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Ohioan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor, nay, not even a dose of Beano. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved to his ankles, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one and indeed his whole figure promised good head. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington's head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top with a veritable Stromboli beneath. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 09:54 PM

"indeed his whole figure promised good head"

Rap, you are one sick puppy!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 02:48 AM

Rapparee is committing Melville sacrilege. As it is in a good cause, I will let it pass.

But just you stay away from John Milton, ya hear?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: My guru always said
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:11 AM

Still sending positive thoughts!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:40 AM

Still sending positive, new-year-new-start thoughts your way!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 08:57 AM

Is he home yet?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:58 AM

Why not, VT? You some sort of Miltonaire? You read things like "Aroapagitica" and "Paradise Mislaid" and stuff about the slough of despond (which is where you end up when you read too much Milton)?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:04 AM

Hey, Pat. Just got this from a friend.

Year to date statistics on airport screening from the Department of Homeland Security:


Terrorist Plots Discovered          0
Transvestites                     133
Hernias                        1,485
Hemorrhoid Cases                3,172
Enlarged Prostates             8,249
Breast Implants                59,350
Natural Blondes                     3

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 12:28 PM

Aarrgghhh... don't mix up the johns. Bunyan is not in same league as Milton.

Bunyan is an outhouse compared to Milton who is wonderful fully fitted ablutorium, with hot and cold running Little Pissants.

I should say though, I got so frustrated in the middle of my Milton course that I actually did write him a Dear John letter.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 03:33 PM

Bunyan? Paul, you mean?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE better!
From: olddude
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 03:35 PM

Get out of that hospital and get back here you old goat ... enough already !!!

Subject: UPDATE 6 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:35 PM

Just spoke to Karen and it just keeps getting better!!!

Fever is down, vitals are good...the nurses say it is time to get him up and m o v i n g! Still has the trach and they put in the vent at night for rest. Best sign is, he's getting antsy, trying to ask "when are they gonna do this and that" and going nuts 'cause no one can understand him. Karen is going to go get a small write on-wipe off board at the office store. I asked her didn't they have any there. She said they have them all over the hospital, just none for the patients. Gee, ya'd think?

He is acting happier and his writing is getting stronger, so that will help, too.

She will be talking to them tomorrow about where he will go for rehab. In a day or two, she might have an address for us to send cards to; she'll let me know. I feel badly, every time I've called, lately, she's been asleep! This time she needed to get up for work, so I didn't feel so badly, plus she was planning to call me anyway.

This is GOOD news!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Dave Swan
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:47 PM

Yep. Good news. Thanks again, Kat for keeping us informed.

I'm about ready to being heaping abuse on the lad. Soon.....

D

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:55 PM

I was trying to stay awake for a while longer to help me sleep better tonight but this news is a welcome bonus.

I shall sleep better.

Spaw... I hope you sleep well tonight. Rest well and get stronger my friend. I miss you.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:03 PM

Thank you, Kat. I suspect there were a number of us hovering around waiting to see if there was more news.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:20 PM

C'mon Spaw!!!!!!!!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 11:33 PM

What will be the first words he writes?

Da-da? Mamma? When am I getting out of here? I've gotta go poo-poo?

What do YOU think?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Janie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 11:41 PM

Hmmm....I think I probably wouldn't write what I think 'Spaw might write.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 01:02 AM

Ya know - think he could manage to stay in there until this hits 1,000?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 01:08 AM

"microwave me a burrito" is what I'm thinking

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 02:21 AM

@ Rapparee
I know you know which Bunyan I mean. Willful obtuseness doesn't wear well on librarians. Best improve your wit, Pilgrim, lest your weak attempt at humour land you in a personal slough of despondency.   You could do better with some sort of word play on bunions. Maybe take some instruction from Severn. :0}


@ Pat
Good to read that you are getting better. I hope the nurses have rose tinted specs at the ready for reading your first entry on that white board. Wouldn't want to blind them.


Sending more healing thoughts your way. Thanks Karen and Kat for keeping us posted.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:02 AM

excellent news

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: My guru always said
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:48 AM

Such wonderful news!!! Hope he doesn't piss the nurses off too much while he's recovering, he needs to mend properly, not get chucked out of hospital too early...

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Dharmabum
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 07:59 AM

We're pullin' for ya Spaw.
Keep it up.

DB.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:26 AM

Spaw, you poor puppy. Snuggle in and rest. You still have Christmas to look forward to.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: bbc
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:29 AM

I haven't been leaving many comments, but I *have* been following this thread. Poor Pat! Nobody should have as many hard times & close calls as he has! Wishing you all the best, always, Pat (and, of course, Karen, too)!!!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:29 AM

Lookin' forward to havin' an address... I got somethin' to send the Spawzer... Sho nuff do...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Hawker
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:34 AM

YAY! Great news! Thanks Kat. :0)
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:40 AM

Phew.... good thoughts still coming for all.

XX

LTS

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM

Paul was John Bunyan's brother. John wrote that awful book, and Paul "disgraced the family" (as the family history says) by hanging around with some blues babe. Ollie Cromwell finally tired of Paul always putting him down and had him chopped -- didn't even ax him. Paul high-lined outa there to the Colonies (and took the babe with him), where he lined up a job cutting trees chop-chop. The rest is history: Paul went on to be a big, big man and John also made some progress.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: alanabit
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 10:03 AM

Good news! I am not sure what the first words will be there, Rapparee, but I should think that "Broke dick Malucca" will be in there somewhere! Let's get Spaw back, bouncing and as badly behaved as ever.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Morticia
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:30 AM

A heartfelt thanks to the gods who look after Spaw, I don't much care who they are and another to you Katmedarlin' and hugs all round to anyone.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Amos
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:32 AM

That's "mammalucca", alan.... Not to be confused with a Moluccan, which is a cockatoo, or Spaw, which is a cockamamie cockup...never mind...


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

ok ok Rap...I give... UNCLE

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 11:44 AM

Never argue with a trained music stand!

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 J
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:03 PM

It's been a long hard haul but it's looking a whole lot better this week.

But all these blisters! And I'm almost running out of shanties.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:17 PM

Thanks for the news and also for the dating in the thread title for updates-- saves enormous time when I am on the jump as I am so much this year.

~S~

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Lox
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:23 PM

I hope Spaw takes his time and uses it to breathe and look outwads at the world instead of sitting at the screen like we are damaging our posture and tiring out our eyes and enfeebling our minds.

Go somewhere beautiful Spaw - and bring your guitar!

I'd rather hear about how well you're doing for a while before I hear from you.

Now sod off :-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:38 PM

Spaw, I'm late to this thread, but here's sending good and healing wishes to you! Remember patients with attitude tend to be motivated....

Dan

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 02:13 PM

Rap... how did he get hooked up with that blues babe? She was as big as an ox!

Spaw... have you been told yet today? Or are ALL the nurses polite?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:49 PM

oi!   I am a blues babe... Who you calling a big ass?

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:27 PM

""What will be the first words he writes?""


""%*&(*&$()* (^*(&^&(%% %££*£" £^*(& ( Broke Dick Mammaluccas!""

The rest will probably be non repeatable in polite company.

Come on Pat, prove me wrong!.......or right!........Whatever, just get well.

Don & Winnie T.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:34 PM

I am surprised none of you have thought of his favourite word: JADROOL, as in this inimitable posting by Himself:

A song is a song is a song. Yeah, uh-huh, sure.......so then a rose is a rose is a rose.......and a broke-dick jadrool is a broke-dick jadrool is a broke-dick jadrool and you are. Seems right to me.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:42 PM

jadrool: jadrool is the italian for cucumber and why italians choose fruit for derogatory slang remains a mystery. Colloquially it means "lazy bum" and can be used amicably or as an insult.

"Be cool, jadrool."

or

"get a job you fuckin' jadrool!"

From the website "Urban Dictionary", in case you didn't know what "jadrool" meant.

Subject: RE: Catspaw needs lots of good thoughts UPDATE 6 Jan
From: olddude
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 08:49 PM

My guess is the first word will be needle Dicks