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BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2
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Subject: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Catrin Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:14 PM OK Praise, you asked for it.
Welcome, welcome one and all. And if you don't know what I'm talking about read this Catrin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: mousethief Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:16 PM Whew. That was a long nap. I want to thank everybody for not shouting while I was sleeping it off. Now back to that single-malt scotch.....
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:24 PM Burke, Yer kinda east of us, but if there is a chance to gather with you and other NY Catters in *upstate*, count me and hardiman the Fidddler in! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Catrin Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:30 PM I must get into the habit of making the smiley faces :-) I think my first post sounds a bit harsh - wasn't my intention in case anybody thinks it was. It must be my round by now - anyone fancy a pint of theakstons old peculiar? Cheers (clink) Catrin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:31 PM It's true, I don't dance! Does this sound familiar? ;-)
I don't dance, you won't sing
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: death by whisky Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:45 PM Bushmills,and I've got Alan singing on Hearme...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:49 PM I'm a-comin'! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:51 PM BTW, the praisepoems are in part one, but POST HERE. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Cavia_P Date: 21 Sep 00 - 07:38 PM Wheeek! Oh thank you Praise, that was a wonderful surprise. My two Little Furry Masters are wondering just what the heck's got into me. You should have seen me popcorning round the flat wheeeking my fuzzy fool head off! :o) (wheeking and popcorning means happy, happy cavies) Leppus Rex and Mouse Thief are not the only large rodents in the Tavern tonight! Now I'm back at the Tavern I ought to introduce myself... Mrs Duck, Patrish and a couple of other friends told me about Mudcat, so I owe them a huge THANKYOU! I live in Hull, England with the aforementioned LFM's. I sing when I can, dance a bit, recite the odd comic monologue and play the pocket bodhran. (Yes that's a real instrument!) I've been around the folk scene for about 15 years. I go to half a dozen festivals each year, but these days I tend to spend my festival time in the pub singaround sessions. The LFM's have a web site where they let me include some of my other interests. Phew! After all that lot it must be my round? Cavia_P
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Burke Date: 21 Sep 00 - 07:55 PM Praise, I'm really busy so I don't think I'll be trying to organize something anytime soon. Since you're so interested in OT Gospel I think YOU might like to get to the New York Sacred Harp Convention. Oct. 13-14 in Ithaca. More Here. Or PM me for information. B. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Noreen Date: 21 Sep 00 - 08:07 PM Thank you, Praise! I snuck in about six months ago (not a one for the grand entrance) and felt at home so quickly that I forgot to introduce myself. So, as you asked: I am now sitting getting my breath back after dancing a very energetic High Caul Cap, drinking a pint a fresh orange juice and soda with lots of ice cubes. The selection of drinks here is amazing. (I'll have that Jameson in a minute, thanks, Jon.) I sing all the time and am a 'words person': a friend of mine used to tell others that I knew the words to every song ever written. I wish! I was brought up singing Irish traditional Irish songs and that is my first love, but I love all sorts of music and am learning a lot from the diverse community here at Mudcat. I play piano a bit and have played with ceili bands- that looks like a nice piano in the corner- anyone mind if I give it a try? I'll accompany your session for a bit if nobody minds, it helps the dancers keep in time with the music as they're getting a bit noisy now! The newcomers are getting to know each other well! I was brought up near Liverpool and now live on the edge of the Pennine Moors near Bury, Lancashire. My concertina stays at home until I can play more than two Kerry polkas on it! Well, looks like Tinker and 'Spaw are ready to dance, so ANYONE ELSE FOR THE KERRY SET? (sound of very fast polka starting up). You brave enough to have a go, Matty? Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: GUEST,mrs_zezam Date: 21 Sep 00 - 08:14 PM (it's me, Mary-Guest -- I spent time in your "name" thread today and realized my need for a more permanent one)... My Word! What a welcome! ... thank you Praise and everyone! This is all so touching & I'm starting to cry into my virtual beer. I feel dizzy trying to keep up with you all! This is too good to be real... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Sep 00 - 08:18 PM Be sure the tears are real or it won't do any good... down deep... where our souls run dry. Burke-- MY JAW HIT THE FLOOR! Didn't know about it! Welcome all. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:09 PM My, Praise., that's the first time I ever got put in a poem. Thanks! I guess I'll have to be careful around Mbo, tho, or I'll end up with a reputation. Maybe it's too late. May as well have another McSorley's, then. Then I'll be ready to dance. Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:22 PM I can't dance, argg!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:23 PM Everybody can dance. Some people just don't know it. Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:28 PM I suppose I can do the Watusi... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: GUEST,mrs_zezam Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:48 PM Praise -- real tears, real happiness! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Naemanson Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:05 PM Matt, in cyberland even I can dance! Who's for a few steps around the floor? Praise! You up for a dance? (Leers) I like the slow numbers so I can get up close and personal. Oops! I don't usually talk like that. Must be the Irish Coffee! When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore, When a farmer has need to cut some more feed he cuts more hay, When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee thats a moray, He's a New Zealand man with a permanent tan, he's a maori. If you got vitamin B, C, D and some E, You need more A. Everybody sing! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:16 PM Ooh, a man who can sing and dance at the same time! Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:18 PM I'm a creep! I'm a loser! What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:26 PM Oh, Mbo - Let me show you that you CAN dance. Come over here and put your arms around me....oh, wait, that's a hug, isn't it. We KNOW you can do that. Now just slide your right foot over a little (could we have some slow music, please?), lean over it, slide your left foot....SEE, we're Dancing!!!!! Kim
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:33 PM WHOA! Now yer gonna make me cry! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:41 PM Oh, don't do that. You're covered in sawdust and you'll get all soggy! Doesn't wood warp when it gets wet? Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:45 PM Ah, but I'm sawdust free now! The project was completed this afternoon! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:49 PM Well, in that case, let me buy ya one for congrats! What'll you have? (Another McSorley's for me, please) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:54 PM Well, since I don't drink alkyhol, and I been drinking soda all day, I'll got for some nice sugar-laden sweet tea. Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Jock Morris Date: 22 Sep 00 - 03:51 AM Praise, My truelove's name is Lin, seeing as you asked so nicely.:-) I'm a happy chap today 'cause I get to see her again this evening. Not easy living over 300 miles away from the one you love. Scott (Had a few drinks here now and I'm starting to open up a bit more and use my real name) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Lepus Rex Date: 22 Sep 00 - 03:54 AM Whoa... I fall asleep on the couch, and next thing, everyone's gone. Even that wussy bouncer. Must have closed... Man, it's 3 am Central US time (the ONLY time that counts). What's with all this freakin' sawdust? Guess I'm going back to sleep, ehhhhh... ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Noreen Date: 22 Sep 00 - 09:49 AM Lepus, Mbo brought a bag of sawdust from the workshop as bedding for you- you didn't look too comfy without it. Everyone headed over to that HearMe joint a while back and the music was still going strong when I left. I've come back to put the kettle on, I'm sure I saw a large teapot under the sink ...and I'll make a big plate of ham butties 'cos everyone'll be hungry after such a long session. Now what can I find for our veggie friends......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 22 Sep 00 - 10:12 AM 300 miles! Man, try 2000+ miles! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: mousethief Date: 22 Sep 00 - 10:21 AM Well, I've done 1700 miles and it was tough. Glad it's over.
Don't fall in love with a webby (sorry, couldn't figure out how to make that last line scan) Yes, this is based on real life experience! We've been married 3 years and are happy as can be!
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 22 Sep 00 - 10:26 AM Funny, Alex, and oh so true! BTW the last line is great! It reminds me of that Taj Mahal song about the car... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Bert Date: 22 Sep 00 - 11:19 AM Noreen, you "sing all the time and are a 'words person' and know the words to every song ever written". It's a good job that I'm happily married or I'd be after ya!!! ;-) Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: guinnesschik Date: 22 Sep 00 - 11:35 AM Woah..I just slipped out so Himself wouldn't come lookin' fer me, and the place has filled up again. Greetings, all! Sorry I missed the waltz, 'cause I coulda played "Midnight On The Water" fer ya'. It's a nice, slidey, Texas kinda waltz. A round for all! And are there any other Texans in here? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Carlin Date: 22 Sep 00 - 11:52 AM Praise!! Thanks for the verse!
If everyone wants to dance....and ya like slow songs....I discovered a few years back you can slide right from Tenessee Waltz into I Can't Stop Loving You without missing a beat...they sound good together too. If you want to close the medley with a bang you can jump straight into McCloed's Reel.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Naemanson Date: 22 Sep 00 - 12:10 PM We're whiskey drinkers, whiskey drinkers all, Don't give us any rum or vodka alcohol, And if you want to give us beer, And you want to hear us cheer, You'll have to place a Guiness here! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Mbo Date: 22 Sep 00 - 12:18 PM On the eighth day God made sweet tea! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Noreen Date: 22 Sep 00 - 12:23 PM bert... (blush)... you dancin'? ;0) Noreen |
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Subject: 8th day From: mousethief Date: 22 Sep 00 - 12:29 PM Olives. Mushrooms. Music.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Noreen Date: 22 Sep 00 - 12:30 PM Naemanson, did you write those words for That's amore ? Very clever & funny. Having a great time here, sorry I've got to leave for a REAL weekend away!!! See you all next week- Party on, Wayne! Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: guinnesschik Date: 22 Sep 00 - 12:41 PM Happy weekend, all! I've got to head home and make spaghetti! Hugs! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Naemanson Date: 22 Sep 00 - 02:46 PM Nope Noreen, I got those words fair and square. I stole 'em! Some of those have been percolating in my head for so long I can't remember where they came from. Others I got from Spider Robinson's books about Callahan's SpaceTime Bar and Grill. And if you haven't read those then you've never read a book! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Naemanson Date: 22 Sep 00 - 02:49 PM And, BTW, Noreen and all. Have a great weekend in the real world. One last round! Is there still room on Bert's card? No? Here use my light blue card. Never seen one of those? Hey with that card the sky's the limit! Drink up all for the week is over and the weekend begins here! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Tinker Date: 22 Sep 00 - 03:23 PM Quick a drink, no a double. Just spent the day with forty 8th graders at the Brooklyn Museum's New Hip Hop Exhibit. They LIE. It's titled Roots, Rhythm, and Rage. One Zoot Suit and Cab Calloway's Sheet Music to Hi-de-ho....No Bawdy Blues, No Strange Fruit.... A fast polka perhaps, a Texas two-step... I need to wash the world away...Strengthing Prayers Requested Tinker PS I spent two really great summers selling dictionaries in Texas...Road houses and Country Radio.. Little Yankee girl was never the same.
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 23 Sep 00 - 12:05 AM Well it looks like I got here a bit late again I was really hoping for a tune, but it doesn't look like anyone's here there are no cars or horses or wagons out front (notthat that necessarily means that nobody's here) and it's sure quiet which would be a sign that nobody's here but one could only hope for maybe a small crowd and maybe somebody has a whistle or a possum-shaped ocarina in his or her pocket, but on the other hand, I always feel stupid walking into a pub with my bodhrán and not having anyone to play with and maybe I oughta just go home, but when you just go home and blow off the party you inevitably end up hearing that same old story that begins "You shoulda came man you REALLY should have come cause last night Paddy Keenan came in and played his pipes till sunrise, and Tommy Peoples and Kevin Crawford and Liz Carroll were all there and you REALLY shoulda been there..." and I always hate that cause then I'm kicking myself and saying that "I REALLY shoulda came.", and so I walk up to the door with my fingers crossed and I open the door and I walk in and I see... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 23 Sep 00 - 12:52 AM An empty room except for the guest bartender and he only speaks Swedish and so I really can't engage in much conversation but he has a Swedish/English Dictionary and so I am able to get the point across that I could really use a cup of coffee and so we play checkers while we're waiting for it to brew and he beats me 9 games to 4 and he shows me a painting that he appears to have brought with him and there are Valkyries fighting with slingshots, marshmallow skewers, and potato spud guns, against a 3 headed giant and several Knights that used to say "nyeekh" and I'm just about to shrug it off as kind of meaningless (uncultured bodhránai that I am) when I realize that in the backgroung there are all sorts of images such as guitars and squirrels and flowers and I get lost in all the beautiful colors and the ingenius hidden portraits and landscapes and there is a map of Kerry in the fur of the giants tunic and....the coffee is ready and I really don't even want it now as when I go home I am going to bed, but I really oughta have a cup, seems how he made it on my account, and so I'll have just a wee bit and .....MMMMMM it's the best coffee I've had in ages so I sneak a peek at the burlap sack the coffe came out of and it says (curiously enough, in English) Scandinavian Christmas Blend and so I celebrate a little bit of Christmas in October and although we have no tongue in common, coffee and paintings are languages that anyone can understand but I've been here long enough and so I'll take my leave of my new found friend with a hearty hug and you guys REALLY should have been here! Rich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 23 Sep 00 - 12:55 AM Oops I meant Christmas in September |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: guinnesschik Date: 23 Sep 00 - 10:25 AM G'morning (stumbling in with fiddle)coffee? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers Tavern - Part 2 From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 23 Sep 00 - 11:34 AM Be sure to try the Scandinavian Christmas Blend Rich |