Stony Stratford: Damp Squib

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 04:31 AM

me n' Ella will be there, all being well. We're leaving Bristol about 9-ish on Saturday morning (hangovers permitting), so we'll arrive...when we arrive!

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST,Matthew Edwards and Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 05:05 AM

We're here! Where is everybody?

See you at York House at lunchtime.

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Gareth
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 07:42 AM

Be afraid - Gareth is enroute.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Morticia
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 07:47 AM

And I'm just about to leave,minus Gomez I'm afraid, but see you all there.

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 09:29 AM

Alas poor Gomez I knew him A fellow of infinite jest Of most excellent fancy Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 09:45 AM

rite... I'm leaving my hoose armed with destructions for Fibula to read out for me on our way, I reckons we should be there around 11.30 - 12... and for defo hangovers permitting of course

ah... gotta go, work bellows

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST,ooops
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 10:07 AM

that was me.... Ella....

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 10:09 AM

Beware Fibula,

You are going to meet lots of fat old men who want to get inside your pants

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 10:16 AM

Hmm. Am I supposed to be worried, flattered or bemused?

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST,Ella cookieless at work
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 10:19 AM

ahhhhh Fib.... steel girdle at the ready I reckon...

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 10:23 AM

Fibula,

I doubt you need flattering, so worried, is probably the best bet.

Ella offers sound advice

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 10:43 AM

Don't be bashful, Fibula...

The word 'babe' could have been invented for you

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Cllr
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 12:41 PM

Dag nabit I've had to work late but I will be there later

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Les from Hull
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 02:20 PM

Well, have a lovely time, you lot. We'll expect a full report when and if some of you sober up. We're very sorry to miss this event, but some friends have decided to matrimonify this weekend, and we're 'helping them celebrate' (officer!)

Les and Maggie

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler at ma-in-law's
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 06:55 AM

Just unpacking. After a quick sandwich I'll be joining you for a pint at the F& H & then on to the Crown.Herself is going shopping in Milton Keynes and will be back to shovel me up when her credit card melts or when she feels you've all suffered enough whichever is the sooner.
RtS

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 12:36 PM

You're doing a great job Dai - we're enjoying ourselves .

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST,HelenJ
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 03:44 PM

Looks like JohnJ and mum will have to forego gathering. My 'ex' lost his wife and JJ had to go to the U.S. to sort out paperwork for him. JJ hates the place - Clearwater - plastic food and lots of it. We'll be with you in spirit. How's about the Jug? Sounds good. Tara and have a great time,

Helen J.

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 04:15 PM

for Fib

NOBODY'S MOGGY'S LAND (No Moggy's Land) (Bob Kanefsky)

Well, how d'ya do, old Moggy the Cat? I just noticed you landed where I almost sat. D'ya mind if I push you a bit to the side? I've been driving all day on the road where you died. You've been squashed like some butterfly pressed between glass Were you hit by a truck that was moving too fast? Did he slam on the brake as he saw you go past? Or, Moggy the Cat, did he step on the gas?

CHORUS Did he honk the horn loudly? Did you stand your ground proudly? Did a shadow fall o'er ya as the truck mowed you down? Did your eyes glow in that fleeting darkness? Did the birds come and pick at your carcass?

The ground squirrels and mice all seem happy today, The butterflies frolic; the hummingbirds play. A mockingbird sits there composing a dirge Till he finally yields to his scavenger urge. The robins and sparrows all join in the feast In their joyous relief that the terror has ceased. And the birds dance around you, not sad in the least, Like the Munchkins danced over the Witch of the East.

Old Moggy the Cat, I still wonder why You road-kill look so damned surprised when you die. Did you think that some animal spirit survives? Did you really believe that a cat has nine lives?

Kitty

Subject: Lyr Add: NOBODY'S MOGGY'S LAND (Bob Kanefsky)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 04:19 PM

Sorry, the end fell off. Here's the full version (I hope!):

NOBODY'S MOGGY'S LAND (No Moggy's Land)
(Bob Kanefsky)

Well, how d'ya do, old Moggy the Cat?
I just noticed you landed where I almost sat.
D'ya mind if I push you a bit to the side?
I've been driving all day on the road where you died.
You've been squashed like some butterfly pressed between glass
Were you hit by a truck that was moving too fast?
Did he slam on the brake as he saw you go past?
Or, Moggy the Cat, did he step on the gas?

CHORUS Did he honk the horn loudly?
Did you stand your ground proudly?
Did a shadow fall o'er ya as the truck mowed you down?
Did your eyes glow in that fleeting darkness?
Did the birds come and pick at your carcass?

The ground squirrels and mice all seem happy today,
The butterflies frolic; the hummingbirds play.
A mockingbird sits there composing a dirge
Till he finally yields to his scavenger urge.
The robins and sparrows all join in the feast
In their joyous relief that the terror has ceased.
And the birds dance around you, not sad in the least,
Like the Munchkins danced over the Witch of the East.

Old Moggy the Cat, I still wonder why
You road-kill look so damned surprised when you die.
Did you think that some animal spirit survives?
Did you really believe that a cat has nine lives?
Well, if that is true, this is life Number Ten
Getting ever more flat, spinning round now and then,
As the cars run you over again and again
And again and again and again and again!

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 17-Sep-02.

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Lanfranc
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 03:32 AM

Dai,

Thanks for putting that together for us.

It was good to meet old friends, and put a few more faces to names.

I hope that "The Friends of the Mudcat" help keep this site going.

Sorry we couldn't stop longer.

Alan

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler at ma-in-law's
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 05:31 AM

It was good to see the gang at the F&H & Crown yesterday. I didn't get to talk to many (too many loud "boxes"!)but I was impressed by the singers and musicians altho' not my usual style. They weren't even put off by my out-of-tempo washboard playing.
Despite the injunction brought against me by the Health and Safety Executive I did give the occasional toot on the kazoo (must have been the odd half of Spitfire!). I also broke my New Year resolution and "sang" once,(sorry, guys) but in mitigation I had been tipped the wink it was time to empty the bar to encourage people to get back to York House.
As a non-parent, I thought the assorted bratlings behaved very well too!
I hope the rest of the weekend went off as well. Well done, "Dai"
RtS ( a face made for radio; a voice made for mime)

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 12:46 PM

Continued in the After Stony Stratfird (sic) thread

Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Damp Squib
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 11 Feb 02 - 06:00 AM

I promised Morticia the final verse to "The Old Dun Cow". As far as I know it was written by Pete Twitchett who used to run the Croydon Folk Club, in days of yore, when it was at "The Waddon". I might as well post it so that anyone else who wants it (Vectis ?) can pick it up.

I'll also PM it to Dick Greenhaus to see if he can add it to the DT version.

Then all of a sudden, in the firemen rushed,
And they saved us one by one.
But when they came to save the booze, they found it had all gone.
And when the fire was reported in the papers the next day.
They said they found no booze at all - It must have all boiled away !


The fire really did happen many years ago at "The Dun Cow" in The Old Kent Road. It was feared that several drinkers had perished in the fire, until they were found floating in the cellar, which was Half full of water, all in advance states of intoxication.