BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 02:28 PM

Oh deary deary me...... Well those images now require me to have a VERY large gibson, thakyouverymuch........

I say, I like the flock wall paper........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 05:18 PM

[curtsey] Thank you for the lovely dance, Mmario dear. It's a little hard to do those spins wrapped together in a megashawl in the water, but we did it, didn't we?!?!?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 05:32 PM

That is not flock wallpaper....


Did someone let the squid in again? We've only just got the stains out after last time!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:04 AM

Happy St Michaels' day - Venerated as one of the three Archangels, one of the seven who stand before the throne of God; Patron saint of demon killers, several islands and underwear.

My Michaelmas daisies are actually true to their name this year (last year they were over and done by my birthday), a delicate pale purple, they look stunning against the green and gold ivy behind them. Well, they did til the cat rolled over them.

It's also a quarter day - the year is 3/4s over and it was traditional for country people to change jobs at this time. Quite often, this meant moving house too, to a new farm or area.

So... to celebrate this, I'm moving from my seat by the door to that one over there by the window. And I think I'll have a Green Dragon cocktail to celebrate... Barkeep - bring on the Creme de Menthe!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:14 AM

The quid slowly wakes from his slumber and wonders why the world has gone blue and also why he is now attached to a duck by a part of his anatomy that shouldn't be attached to anything other than another squid.

Wallpaper???...................... Flock off!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:42 AM

"But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask,"

No wonder the squid wants to stay in the jello pit.....

Just one question.... is it a girl duck or a boy duck?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 06:13 AM

So, as it's Michelmas we have to have goose and a fair..... like wot we do at Tavistock and Nottingham....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 07:29 AM

LtS have you been peeking again?? Or is it a case of penis envy? Many members of the female gender of a "certain age" seem to develop this although not usually about cephalopods. I wonder if there are any dolphins amongst your ancestors. I have not yet ascertained the sex of the duck although I beleive it to be a male of the species (which in itself is worrying). I have 'Googled' ducks but this particular variety seems to be a one off, even the Wildfowl Trust has been of no use, beleiving me to be quackers!

Cats, please don't introduce geese into the equation, it's bad enough being tied to a duck.

Barkeep, give me a large stiff one - whisky that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:39 AM

I was goosed once.
Not funny!!!
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:47 AM

Anyway - the rA

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:49 AM

Anyway - the races aren't due to start for days yet. Which of you lot tied me to the cephalopod? I only closed my eyes for a minute...
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Cats
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 01:04 PM

Geoff the Duck ~ Geese are very good with prunes, they keep you going for ages.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 03:26 AM

Damned good guard animals too... you can get around the fiercest dog with a good steak, but geese? Noooo way.

Unless you've got a cephlapod with a stuchie.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 03:23 AM

Pinch punch, first of the month and no returns........

Oooh, come into the tavern for a bit of a rest. Had to attend my brother in law's wedding yesterday. I'll just take me gibson and go sit in the 'crash corner'......... Oo............... eh?
What the.....?

Right......Who let the squid on the sofa???!?!??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 01:21 PM

Who let the squid do what on the sofa?


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 03:02 PM

I haven't the foggiest what you'd call it, but the effects are officially oooky......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM

Ah.. that....

Just give it a wipe over with some wet wipes and it should clear up a treat. Failing that, a shot of penicillin works.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,the Squid
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 05:06 PM

"All right then, can't a feller even take a nap around here - and what's this bulk sitting upon my second from the back left tentacle?" [feeling around] "A couple of small bumps there...a BIG bump a little lower down...doesn't smell like it's worth nibbling on... Why is is wriggling around so? Time to go see what's happening in the jacuzzi." [squid ambles off, stage right]

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 10:53 PM

I'm back from the Grand...ah...Tetons.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:12 AM

Awright, who's trying to impersonate me then? I dunno, a feller goes away for a couple o' days R&R in a nice secluded rock pool with a VERY sexy mermaid friend and this happens. Usurped!!!

Slaps impostor with 2nd right tentacle "have at you sir, I demand an apology or it's cuttlefish at dawn".

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,cats - cookieless
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:21 AM

Thought it was about time we has a bit of singing...

Oh... What shall I do with my Octopuses leg?
Not much I'm thinking...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 07:58 AM

What is that huge cake on the back terrace? and how the heck did it get there? It looks to be about 75 feet across and g*d only knows how many layers!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:13 AM

Mayhap a female giant squid is encased therein, ready to spread joy and ink everywhere.

Or a sperm whale, ready for a night of jello-rasslin'.

Or it could be a pack of pachydermal piccolos, with the pachyderms on the way if they didn't get lost.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:16 AM

Sing a song of credit cards, we're drinking all the rye
Five and forty pachyderms, baked in a pie

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:20 PM

When the pie is opened,
The air will start to hum
'Cos five and forty pachyderms
smell just like CatSpaw's bum!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:31 PM

See? international hands across the sea cooperative songwriting.

or maybe knot.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:01 AM

What has this thread come to? Ileave you alone to play for 5 minutes and you have to bring it all down to your pathetic scatalogical level.MMario I'm surprised at you joining that well known harridan and person of extremely low moral standards (yes LtS you know who you are)in discussing the merits or otherwise of elephants bums.

Why am I still attached to a duck???????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:21 AM

Oh Squiddy... I object in the strongest terms possible to your comments about my person... I'm not that well known.

And just be grateful that you ARE attached to the duck.. it could have been the elephant!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:59 AM

Can someone just pass me that Bowie knife off the back of the bar?

Thanks!

Sounds of hacking and sawing.........

Right! That's better!

Flies across to the bar counter to return the knife.


Maybe if you lot have finished speculating, one of you might try actually cutting the cake?

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:01 AM

Mmwffmenwlllfmmmph... (brushing chocolate crumbs from chesticles)

Mmphwhat cakeffff?

No cakemmmphmnn here, mmmmmmmphlenumph.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:07 AM

Burp.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:32 AM

Ah well, at least they grow back. Ties torniquet around severed leg and hobbles to the recovery room avoiding elephants. One good thing, at least that duck's proved he's a sucker!!

Laughs at own pun. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha.............

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 09:59 AM

I think that I shall today go to Salt Lake City.

Phone rings.
"Hi. Vatican City here, Pope's Right Hand Man speaking....WHAT!? (Puts hand over mouthpeice.) Your Emininent and Really Great Holiness, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that Jesus is on the phone. He's come again. The bad news is that he's calling from Salt Lake City."

SLC -- where they have just opened a boutique DISTILLERY!!! Yes! And they have several breweries that make decent beers, too! Like Polygamy Porter ("Bring Some Home To The Wives." "When one is not enough!")

It's for a meeting, actually. I'll still be a the Tavern. You can't get rid of me that easily.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 10:08 AM

?!?! Have the LDS changed their minds about verboten drinks?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 01:08 PM

Polygamy Porter and Evolution Amber are proof that you can make good beer and still stay within Utah's archaic 3.2% limit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 03:45 PM

There ARE no verboten drinks!!!

Liz De Squeak

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:00 PM

Just some that should come with a very big warning label.......

I believe that to cope with a hard day of playing team leader to the hard of thinking (at work) I need a very large gibson.....

Aaah, gibson martinis, the choice of drink for the woman that knows her own mind.......

And wants to get out of it........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:50 AM

You humans are a funny lot, fancy making cocktails from guitars.

Down here in the deep the drink of choice for the discerning alky is Sea Slug Surprise, shaken not stirred of course otherwise the sand settles at the bottom. Served with a sprig of kelp and a slice of sea cucumber.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 07:47 AM

The surprise is that it tastes almost entirely unlike tea.

Don't try squeezing the lime into it either.. that's the sea slug.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 10:00 AM

Right now I'm sitting in my room at the Little American Hotel drinking...COFFEE!! Straight up!! Black!! Caffienated!!

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Coffee!

Squiddy, do you know that they serve your relatives here? They call them "calamari" so that nobody knows that they're really squids. Octopodi (which is what they call octopuses), I mean, they're just dumb animals, right? But I do think that this "calamari" thing has got to stop. Before you know it people will be squid-baiting, bringing in Sperm Whales to watch the fights and all. It's brutal and neither humane nor squidane and I for one refuse to be a party to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:05 AM

Ah, Rapaire, yes I've heard of this calamari business from my Italian and Greek cousins. Barbaric I call it. In fact Great Uncle Sid was talking about getting some of his North Pacific mates together to go round and scare the shit out of some of these calamari peddlers. You know the score, appear suddenly from the deep waving tentacles about and rocking a few boats. Have to watch out for these marine scientist types though because all they can think about is size, as if that matters, and those tape measures they use are bloody cold on wet appendages.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:12 AM

hey squidie! Is it true Squid are descended from Cuttlefish? Or is that just a heresy of Darwin-fish?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:56 AM

Pure heresy MMario, we are a pure breed and have nothing to do with fancy, colour changing beasties. What did Darwin know anyway, he had to write a book just so he could learn things from it himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 07:21 PM

Penny - As I understand it a Gibson is a martini with an onion in it?
One year out on the canals with Bargecade we got into Garlic Gibsons (hand mixed) - somewhere near Bosworth Field on the Ashby Canal
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 09:12 PM

A garlic martini...I'll call Jenn! Meanwhile, could I have an Arrogant Bastard ale, please? And a dish of fried calamari on the side.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 10:08 AM

I'll stick to olives thanks.... although Olive might not approve!

Or a pint of scrumpy.... been years since I had a decent pint of scrumpy...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 10:11 AM

I thought the whole point of scrumpy was that it *isn't* "decent"?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:17 PM

Garlic gibsons.....? Mmmm, very interesting idea........ Specially as I've run out of cocktail onions....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

hook me up an IV please. I wanna get drunk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:19 AM

Hope you were all out celebrating the Harvest Moon last night... didn't see much of it here, it was pissing down. Still.... the corn is in the barns, the hay is in the loft, the sloes are in the gin and the cat is on the dryer.

We're spending the day in an industrial fashion, preparing our radiators for use - so hopefully tomorrow night we'll be warm. In the meantime, there's the last of the 2yr old sloe gin to be ingested, so save me a chair by the fire, I've got some pine cones to sling on it - that'll clear the sinuses, and the moths!

LTS