Where is Micca?????

Subject: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 08:00 PM

Four phone calls in ten minutes, all looking for Micca. I finally answered the phone "Mudcat Central...Mary SINS speaking...How may I direct your call?"
Keep in mind, I am up to my neck in pink Post-Its, paper carnations (also pink) and...well you get the picture. So where is Micca and when will he arrive in Maine?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:02 PM

Why I am right here,dear Heart, and not a shred of "Pink" In Sight
!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:31 PM

short thread!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:35 PM

Yes, but the question is.....where is 'here'?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:59 PM

The Hulk used to ask that very question in his more quiet moments...which were few, come to think of it.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 10:09 PM

He is at Tink's and will head up to Maine on Wednesday or Thursday. i have had numerous phone calls and it sounds as if this was not a Getaway to miss...SIGH! Next year.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 12:59 AM

He's right here

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 03:54 AM

Yes, SINSULL, it was a wonderful Getaway, and you are in Big Trouble for missing it. I didn't get my annual dose of abuse, and I don't know if I can make it through the year without it.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 04:44 AM

.."not a shred of "Pink" In Sight"

Not to worry, Micca, Mary will set you right the moment you arrive there.. ;o)

Don't forget to take pictures, hehe..

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: artbrooks
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 05:46 AM

Have we all been too kind to you recently, Joe...that you felt you needed a ration of shit? Arrangements can be made, I'm sure.

Next year for us, too.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 06:31 AM

Micca - remember that little task I set you? Did you accomplish it??

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Emma B
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 06:34 AM

Thanks Micca for your "postal delivery service" - much appreciated; enjoy the rest of your trip wherever you are :)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 04:09 PM

And where is his birthday thread?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 04:55 PM

Actually, SINSULL answered the phone with WHAT?!?!?!? when I called.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 07:57 PM

He spent the morning searching for a proper English Breakfast so we wondered the town and bought bread from a proper little bread shop with a Geordy baker.then on to the London Food Company for a jar of Frank Cooper's Oxford Marmalade and a box of PG tips tea.

Micca's doing fine......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 08:31 PM

But, is he In The Pink yet?

LOLOLOLOL!
AND
tee hee!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 08:47 PM

Coffee, and scrambled eggs if he's lucky, here. Or a bacon butty at PJ Hooker's. Hmmmm - Pink eggs and hams?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 08:53 PM

pssst, it ain't pink, but if you put a dab of grape jelly in the eggs, they'll turn GREEN!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 08:58 PM

Mary I thought it was Green Eggs nad Ham??

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 09:30 PM

Hi, Micca, my name is Ed. I couldn't figure out how to Private Message on this web site (I'm not a member, so, maybe that's why), so, I just found your most recent thread to contact you.

I am involved in a production of a play called "Underneath the Lintel", by Glen Berger. There is dialogue in the play referring to the song "When it's Night Time in Italy, It's Wednesday Over Here," and a portion of it is sung. I've been researching the song, but as far as audio recordings I could only find a snippet that did not include the entire refrain. I also came across a thread on this website from about a year ago on which you told another person who was looking for the tune to this song that you had an mp3 of the song you could email. Would you happen to still have that lying around your computer and would you be willing to help me out? If you don't still have it, any ideas on where I could hear this song in its entirety?

I would really appreciate any help you could give me.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 09:33 PM

Oh my, this has turned into a Productive Music Thread! I'm sure he'll answer Ed.










I liked the pink! So there!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 09:35 PM

I hope so! lol

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 09:52 PM

Oh, and Ed -- you have to be a member to use the PM function. You are more than welcome to join our little band of crazies. It costs nothing and will bring you no spam. The benefit is the PM function and verification of your identity on your posts.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ed02
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 10:01 PM

Well, I've become a member! Exciting, eh? And all for Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 10:19 PM

Yea for Ed02! Welcome to the Nut House!

The things we do for Micca....have you seen the Pink Thread?
Pink Singaround at Sinsull's or somesuch....hee hee.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ed02
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 10:59 PM

Incidentally, just what exactly is this website I've joined?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 11:00 PM

All for Micca!   Sounds like a song to me!

"All for Micca! Me jolly, jolly Micca..."

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 01:08 AM

Ed, it is SUPPOSED to be a discussion board for folk music and blues but we get off topic a LOT, hence the BS section, chat room and all the other craziness. Be brave and check out the links, search functions, etc. Don't miss the drop down menu under Quick Links.

Don't worry, it and we are relatively harmless. No spam, little porn and nothing sent to your in box. We are only dangerous at feeding time.

Basically, just a bunch of nutters.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ed02
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 02:34 AM

Sounds quite divine, if I do say so myself.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 06:35 AM

ED02.
thread.cfm?threadid=91852#1749687

Another thread on the song.
If you PM me your phone number I will have Micca call you when he gets here. He can sing it for you. Have you a recorder? Where are you?
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ed02
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 07:15 AM

Yeah, that's the very thread I came across, actually. And, I'm currently living in the dark and scary world of between cell phones-ness and I'll be in or between classes all day today -- however, I will be able to continue to check this thread, so, whenever he shows up, then... et cetera, so to speak here.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 08:38 AM

EdO2, the plan is I will be in Maine By Friday, but If Mz Mary is indulgent I may be able to create and send an MP3 of a verse and the chorus, which is the verse, and there are 2 sort of interjections between the bits , so to speak, anyway either PM me a phone number or a email and we can come up with something.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,SINS
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 11:53 AM

What's in it for me????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 12:00 PM

A banjo player?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,SINS
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 12:41 PM

Did Micca take lessons?????

What do you mean Friday, Micca?
SINS< Secretly Sighing with relief - two extra days to straighten up this mess.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 10:11 PM

His Londonship just called. he and Jude will arrive tomorrow around 7PM. So much for cleaning but they have clean sheets. And of course, Micca's room is "decorated". heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Alba
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:12 AM

"Inquiring minds want to know"
I am sure some do Mary.........*twisted smile*..
Not to worry. YOU will know when he gets there for sure...LOL
Jude x

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:21 AM

I know a couple of someones who are VERY excited, today! Have FUN!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:27 PM

He is on the train towards Boston.. several hours in... I oh so wanted to tag along, but the house might not be standing if I had...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:37 PM

I hear he is being met at the station in Boston by Charles Rivers.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Alba
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 01:16 PM

He better be where he issupposed to be.....

Alba over and out....*BG*

Love and Light, Love and Light

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 01:20 PM

We leave the rest up to providence.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 01:53 PM

Hopefully not, Giok..Providence is 50 miles from Boston. :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 02:11 PM

I know Becca, I also know someone who lives there.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 02:59 PM

The two of them ought to be meeting in just a few minutes. I'd love to see that, esp. when those around them hear their accents! What a dee-Light!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 04:06 PM

Yeah, someone will walk up to them and ask if they're Irish...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 04:08 PM

In Boston?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 04:09 PM

Giok, never underestimate the stupidity of the average person on the street. Especially in the US.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 04:34 PM

Tami - is that the 80% that haven't seen the brain cell?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 04:52 PM

Those would indeed be the ones, Jacqui.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 05:10 PM

Could someone please give him a nudge about the little task I set for him too? I love him dearly but he isn't always the best at remembering stuffs and this is very important stuffs.Thanks!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 06:11 PM

I do remember a born-again waitress who started annoying Kendall by going off on Harry Potter - it had been a loooong drive and we didn't give a crap. Then to add insult to injury she kept INSISTING that he had an English accent. heh heh One pissed off Downeaster.

I will nudge him, Mortie.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 06:58 PM

Well, they should be in Portland.... probably eating and thinking about settling in... may need a good long rest before tommorrow.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:01 PM

No they are in Boston. Missed a bus or got reservationed out. Anyway they are in Boston and expect to be on the 9PM bus which gets in here about 11:30. So the perfect hostess is attempting to stay awake but----ZZZZZZZZZ. No I do not snore!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:08 PM

Oh, darn! Thanks for letting us know, Sins! I was getting a bit worried.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:28 PM

They're on a BUS??? Holy dogcrap Batman........They'll smell like those chemical toilets, cheap cigars, diesel fuel, and three day old dog piss! Have a shower at the ready or better yet get the hose. Or stop and run them thru a car wash..............geeziz......buses..............Makes me shudder just to think of it.

You will definitely have to address these olfactory issues before moving on with "Music from Big Pink" or whatever ta' hell you're calling this weekend.

Ya' know I was gonna' post how much I'll be missing and how much fun it all sounded but after this I'm happy to be here in The Buckeye State a thousand miles away AND upwind of you!

Buses.............bleah.................

BTW, the lobster still has not arrived.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Severn
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:40 PM

So now we must face East toward Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:44 PM

SIGH!!! Spaw - please have the doctor take a look at your meds.
They have ariven in Portland. Tami is on her way to pick them up. She and Jason are doing brilliant imitations of the Travelocity gnome.

I hear a car door. Be right back...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:45 PM

We're waiting.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:50 PM

All I know is that IF they were on a bus you'll definitely have to burn their clothes. Was my lobster on a bus? No wonder its been so long and of course it will be inedible what with that bus stench all thru it.......................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 09:56 PM

For one thing, they coulda rented a car or jacked somebody or something!

For another, doesn't anybody know where Severn's 'off' switch is? Maybe we could hire somebody to kidnap him and and mail him to Spaw.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:04 PM

Do you think he'd taste like lobster? Be sure to also send a shitload of butter.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:39 PM

LOL! Spaw and Severn on a roll...tastee!

Just spoke to Micca, Jude, Mary and Tami. Sins said they have absolutely hideous champagne glasses with cheap champagne to boot, but they all sounded deliriously happy regardless. Frankly, I am a bit concerned for their sanity, but...that's nothing new!**bg**

Micca and Jude have ended any love affair either of them might have had with the city of Boston...:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca "and the horse"?????
From: Severn
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:56 PM

My daughter in college in Columbus DOES want me to visit more often........

What kind of Vacation Spaw did you say you're sending me to?

Healing hot water springs to soak in, you say?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 11:19 PM

Ever so glad you are all settled in ....

Sorry the city proved less than hospitable...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 01:17 AM

Jeri, I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that! Can't afford a new computer just now.
KT

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 06:13 AM

The calm before the storm. I am up and showered and awaiting some coffee. I hope they stay in bed for a while so I can wake up. Jude is wonderful - even Lizzie came to greet her. And Micca looks great - all smiles and stories. He forgot that he had called me on Moday night from Tinker's so for a few minutes he thought I was mind reading.
"Mary? Have you ever heard of a catalog called (I interrupt) Oriental Trading. Horrible tack!' He stares at me and adds "They have this hideous (I interrupt) life size stick on the wall Nativity scene with all Irish people..." Stunned silence then "Honest Micca - we talked on Monday"
He is very tired.

I will let Tami tell you how she found them at the wrong bus terminal.

That lobster should be a lovely shade of green by now Spaw - aged to perfection. I wouldn't share it with the family Spaw. Keep it all to yourself.

Severn has a battery pack tucked up behind his right ear. Takes a Phillips screwdriver and some nerve. It's a dirty job but someone has to do it...

COOOOOOFFFFFFEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 06:39 AM

So you had plenty of disinfectant huh? Didja' burn the clothes? Hope you didn't try to get the whifffies out by washing them. Nothing known to man will remove that gawdawful bus stench.

Glad they are safe and sound.....well Jude anyway. I don't think Micca has been sound in a long time and the memory loss shows things are getting worse.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca and the hound he rode in on????
From: Severn
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 08:09 AM

He'd probably believe the "For-Micca" counter top was installed in his honor if the ladies whispered it to him sweetly enough.

I didn't realize I had the same model head as Phillip, whoever he is (certainly NOT a Phillip with regular!), and that getting into my screwed up head required a specialized tool. However, I'm sure the contents, "mal" and "dis" included, could surpass any flea market or thrift store SINSULL, Jacqui and Truebrit have ever imagined in their WILDEST dreams, a Panderer's Box maybe better left unopened...

Mess with it if you dare!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,SINS
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 08:11 AM

They smelled fine. Fed them, gave them some drink (actually Micca provided the champagne), whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed.
Jude was up early but is a non-morning person like me so she quietly sipped her coffee until we both entered the state of civility.
Lizzie really likes her and she never gave the little white kitty any treats. Very strange.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 08:28 AM

we have arrived and are safe in the booze-up of the Family!!!.
I BLOODY HATE BOSTON!!!!!!
It smells of Catholics!!!v Grim unwelcoming dour folks and an atmosphere you could cut.
My Train was 37 minutes late arriving at South Station, and we couldnt get on the bus (we wanted which we had sensibly allowed an hour gap to manage the transfer) and couldnt get on the one after either, we finally got seats on the 7 pm and got to Portland at 9,Spaw, I am reliably informed the bus is Cleaner faster and cheaper than the train) but got off at the Greyhound bus station, to find none of the phones worked!!! so I had to try and remember where I had hidden my cell phone so we could call Mary, of course we didnt know that Portland ME had TWO bloody bus stations!! and Tami was searching the other one!! I dont think I could do Justice to Tami's description of her search for us so I will leave that for her, suffice tro say we finally got here to Lasagne and fizzy wine as detailed by Sins!!, Now we are up and about and contemplating Bacon Butties and (heaven) French Vanila Coffee at TJ Hookers around the corner!!! Yay, I'm BACK!!!!
PS Morticia, I remembered and the plan is a foot possibly next Wednesday.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 09:49 AM

It was easy, I walk into the (proper) bus station, see no signs of Micca or Alba and walk up to the counter.

Me: "Excuse me, but has anyone seen a gnome and a Scottish woman?"
Man behind counter (looking at me strangely): "Um, no..."
Bus driver: "Did she have a guitar?"
Me: "Probably"
Bus driver: "They got off at the Greyhound station."

The Greyhound station is in a very sketchy part of town, and not that far from the nice bus station. Personally, I think Micca's first clue should have been the fact that the place was locked up tight.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 09:57 AM

He used to finding locked doors when he arrives somewhere, and they knew he was coming!
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 10:12 AM

They smelled fine??? Really???

They must not have ridden a real bus. Must have been a Sears bus...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 10:14 AM

Fine is a relative term, Spaw. MIcca smelled better than usual.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 11:11 AM

Tell me about people getting off at the wrong Bus Station - And bear in mind that there are TWO bus termini at Heathrow !!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 06:40 PM

I don't suppose he's had time to look for the little something I gave him to forward on, has he?

I bet he left it at home...

Ho hum...

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 08:09 PM

With his advancing years I'd say he has one helluva' time looking for his own "little something" when he has to......and he probably forgets that he has to.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 08:56 PM

SPAW! Knock it off! And for Heaven's sake go back on the Valium! By the way, Christmas is coming and it is almost time for Cletus and company to descend on your humble abode and make it humbler. Any idea what they have been up to this past year?
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 09:25 PM

guffaw!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 09:43 PM

By the way, Micca, Jude, Tami and Jacqui are at the Press Room as we speak. Those of us who have to work for a living are here in Maine...grumble

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Nov 07 - 10:37 PM

I'm not sure if I'm conscious or this is all a dream. Back from session, and it was a doozy. Micca and the Wyckyd Wymyn were still there when I left. I haven't been in a couple of years or so, and it was good to be back. I do need sleep though.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:46 AM

Micca has come and gone from Maine. He is now safely tucked away in Linn and Tom's dug out bedroom. I may de-pink his room while he is away.
He will be back on Tuesday and then off to see the lovely Allison. Then back to South Portland for a few nights, a dinner at Trubrit's, hopefully one quiet night with me, maybe another Press Room gather, and then home to old Blighty (whatever that means). So for those intent on his adventure, stay tuned.
SINS, off to work

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 09:19 AM

Enjoying the peace and tranquility of the woods of New Hampshire with wood fires in a genuine cast iron stove a small Ginger moggie that is the Nosiest cat EVER and should have been named Parker .,The company is perfect and my hosts are friends of long standing and a visit from Jeri last night The peace here is tangible, Autuumal colours and most trees fashionably bare clear starlt nights and friends what more could one ask?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 09:23 AM

Flush toilets?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 10:10 AM

GIOK!!!!! CELLAR!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 04:54 PM

So, when do I get you, dear friend? Better phone me quick- something has come up and I will be gone Thurs-Sun.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:46 PM

maybe he;s hiding in the cuboard?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 04:24 AM

Closet more like!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 06:21 AM

He is with Linn and Tom - a very raucous bunch including Jeri last night. Tonight dinner at the Acorn then back to Maine and a rainy day in Tami's park. He will be in your arms on Thursday, Allison. Leave some for us! Tami is in charge of him. Then back to Maine . Dinner on Thursday with TruBrit - anyone see a pattern here? This is as bad as Kendall and his groupies.
Friday - I am not sure.
Saturday - the Shanty Sing.
Sunday - head for home unless we can convince him to stay.
Of course this changes hourly so feel free to update.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 08:14 AM

Sins, I think you have got it essentially right, I am very much enjoying the quiet time in the rainy woods of New Hampshire and the company of friends , if you heard what sounded like a raucous after dinner party, well I think it must have been something on TV, as we were having a very quiet after dinner chat about the mystical significance of certain songs, such as Baa Baa Black sheep and the hidden messagees in "Whup, Jamboree"" and anyone at says there was drink taken is mistaken!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,SINS at work
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 08:25 AM

You will have to let me know the name of that TV show. Tom and Linn don't have a TV. All that noise from a neighbor's house two miles away?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 08:33 AM

Did he say who's TV Mary?
G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:11 AM

Shut up, Giok!!!! Stop stalking me!!!! Get back down to the cellar and stay there until Jacqui says you can come out.


Given that she doesn't know you're down there, this will be interesting.
smirking
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:15 AM

The man will be worn down to a mere shadow of himself!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:23 AM

I know he's there, but he deserves some cellar time, even if just for the horrible puns he inflicts on the rest of us.

Maybe we'll let him out in time for Hogmanay.




















Maybe.............................

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:34 AM

Sniff

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 12:15 PM

Psst! Giok! I know where the back door is and I've got a key!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 12:22 PM

Careful Tami - it's an awfully big cellar.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 12:23 PM

100

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 12:27 PM

TERRY! CELLAR!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 01:18 PM

Ya know my cellar has history and it's in need of a good fall clean out. Can I borrow some of the cellar dwellars?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 01:23 PM

Troglodytes shall volunteer.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 03:57 PM

If Its Tinkers celler lets all voulnteer!!!! It has a Bar!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:23 PM

Micca - looking forward to Thursday -- I understand we will be a small, but incredibly select group consisting of Jacquid, Kendall, me, you, Sins, Becky72 and Tom (never forget the cook).

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:44 PM

Debs, I am delighted and honoured to accept your invitation.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:50 PM

Fabulous -- bring your voice and a song and we will all be fine. Wish so much I could come down to the Pressroom on Saturday and hear everyone but family and work responsibilities are getting in the way...........

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 11:29 PM

The Annual dinner at the UofNH Conference Centre went off very well also, the Food,was, as ever, Incredibly goodas was the wine. The most delicious Beef and mushrooms and FRESH vegatables, and Baked Alaska dessert the usual crew of Self, Tom , Linn, Jeri and Sinsull had an excellent meal, may thanks to my companions for the sucessful 4th Annual, British-Press room Dinner

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 06:22 AM

An excellent meal and a new recruit for the Press room. Our waitress is an English Major who enjoys serving and folk music. She went away with a plethora of business cards and a Gordon Bok CD. Hope Micca gave her a tip as well.
Thank you, Micca. The meal was wonderful Sorry I couldn't finish my dessert - I didn't expect Chocolate Cake for Three.
The wine tasting was memorable but I am sorry I missed out on the single malt marathon the night before.
Micca is tucked away in the pink paradise upstairs awaiting the arrival of Tami and another adventure - this time with Allison.
I am off to work and sanity.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 06:47 AM

I don't have to eat for a week.... Feel just like a tick on a hemophiliac. Have to waddle off to work now.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 10:11 PM

Micca and Tami have been and gone and left me with the happy glow that only such incendiary devices can achieve! They got hopelessly lost, in Keene of all places, but came staggering in eventually, whence we picked up our conversation where we left off in London 2 years ago!

They are wending their way back to the coast in the darkness, but sheer Micca-ness will light the way home.

And I must say I was delighted to finally get to meet ranger1!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 10:44 PM

Lost in Keene?! Goodness, sounds like there should be a song in that!**bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 08:15 AM

If a certain Gnome had thought to ask for directions before we set out, there wouldn't have been a problem...

As to where the little fuzzy one is now, he just woke up from a lovely night on my couch because someone locked him out last night.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 08:30 AM

Gnome? Something that small round and fuzzy can only be testicle surely?

G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 08:31 AM

Giok, CELLAR!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 08:44 AM

I understand Micca and the entourage will be at the Saturday sea shanty session (I love alliteration), but might we also see you at the Press Room tomorrow night?

Cheers,

Peter

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 09:26 AM

Locked you out??? You were supposed to call and let me know if you were coming back Wednesday or Thursday. Why didn't you ring the bell or knock???? What time did you get back? I was up late last night but sitting in the sun room.
I don't believe a word of it.
And by the way where did all those F$%#@&ing penguins come from? They are everywhere. One even crapped on the dining room table!
SINS, cranky

The door is unlocked now.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 10:25 AM

LMAO!!

Tami, his genetic programming prevents him from asking for directions, darlin'.

Locked out?! This gets better and better!

Lost & locked out
Micca of London-town
Unable to give a shout
Had to settle for the couch!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:18 AM

I will deal with these slanderous allegations in the order they are posted
1 The directions were printed out before we left and included at least one non existant street in Keene in their final stages

2 there were NO illuminated house numbers or mail boxes in the street when we found it but there was a note on the door directing us.
3 I am NOT pre-programmed not to ask the way, I frequently do(for further evidence ask my spiritual adviser, they will tell you I am always asking for directions)
4 We arrived back in Portland at about 1 am and decided it would be kinder not to wake Mary as we know she has an early start. BTW the arrangement was we would call if we were NOT coming back that evening,
5 We were delayed by the same problem that Mary and I had making the same journey before by the confusing signage near Concord NH which ended with us heading North towards Laconia instead of East to Portsmouth.
6 Why do I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on my visits to the USA wandering around in the dark in the back areas of New Hampshire?
7 and my final comment is ".......and the Horse......"
Micca (safely back in Portland with the moggies)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:23 AM

Bit tetchy after a night on the sofa, isn't he?

luvyadarlin'....kat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:31 AM

I've read the last few postings and can tell you here and now that it's a complete load of bollocks.

The man is incapable of finding his arse with a streetmap and an arc light.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 12:24 PM

Glad you made it Micca. Would you mind cleaning the penguin shit off the table? And collect the little critters all in one place. They seem to be adhering to walls, inserting themselves in assorted scenes and in general making a nuisance of themselves. Bernadette of Lourdes is particularly upset at the one sneaking a peek up the Virgin's skirt.
Now all I need is a miniature Dopey to herd them around.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 12:28 PM

But Micca's going home.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 12:32 PM

Giok............Horse.............

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 12:59 PM

Keep it up Giok and I will have a word with your Secret Santa. You will find yourself with an autographed collection of Barry Manilow CDs and a hula hoop.

Cellar!!!!!!

How you doing with the Penguin Project, Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 01:18 PM

What Secret Santa?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:57 PM

Its so SECRET even YOU dont know about it???

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:59 PM

I think I got Terry's Santa from 2 years ago.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: curmudgeon
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 06:17 PM

Sorry Giok, I was Terry's SS two years back, but was too busy to get involved this year. Happy guessing !

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 06:20 PM

Well maybe it was last year Tom, when he got CH, and didn't get no pressies.
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 06:51 PM

Every time i see this thread title, I think of the little child's fingers game and sing it in my head. You know the "Where is thumbkin," then Pointer, Tall Man, Ringman and Pinkie?

Where is Micca?
where it Micca?
He's at Sins'.
He's at Sins'.

How is he today, Sir?
Very well, I thank you,
Run away, run away.

Where was Micca?
Where was Micca?
Over at Tami's.
Over at Tami's.

etc., etc. back through the whole trip!**bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 07:35 PM

Actually he is at Trubrit's for dinner. I crapped out. This working for a living is a bitch.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 07:40 PM

{{{{{{{MARY}}}}}}}

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 07:51 PM

He's gonna need a week to recover once he gets home.
Well it seems Mary may need one too.
At least the nuns seem to have traveled on... Penguins now ..must be the cold Maine winter coming on.

Love Ya both

tink

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 09:39 PM

Hahahahaha....pooping penguins are nothing compared to what I *think* her Secret Santa is going to send her. Mary be sure to have a big shovel! Heeheeheehee!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 01:18 AM

I work for a living too but I managed to be charming during dinner....of course, it helped that I did absolutely nothing towards the meal except turn up twenty minutes before it started.......I have been tied up in boring classes for two days..............

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 06:50 AM

A shovel? Oh dear. Found another penguin - in the fridge. SIGH!
Micca is tucked away upstairs I suspect for the day. It is a cold and rainy day - perfect for a lie-in and I think he needs one.
Alice pissed on the dog's bed and managed to include a quilt - SIGH!
Tomorrow I get to sleep in and then the Press Room. YEAH!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 07:56 AM

TRUBRIT neglects to mention that she was curled up in a chair, sound asleep after dinner and didn't even know that we were leaving!

A lovely evening, Tom produced a wonderful stew and Kendall made apple pie for desert. Micca finally got to meet Becca72 as well.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 08:15 AM

Was she snoring?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 08:48 AM

Mary, we wouldn't mention such a thing,
My thanks to our very gracious Host and Hostess for a most pleasent evening in good company with delicious food and wine. It was a great pleasure to meet Becca, who doesnt resemble Kendall, but has a similar sharp mind and sense of humour!!! My sincere thanks to you all,
I am having a quiet morning looking at the rain (theres this guy building a boat and some guys herding animals out back.....) before popping up to TJ Hookers for breakfast (Liz, They make Bacon Butties with REAL crispy bacon) and maybe a perusal of a few shops with Jacqui later.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 09:45 AM

I hope I wasn't snoring -- I am so sorry to Micca, Kendall, Bacca and Jacquie for my rudeness -- I don't remember falling asleep but am told categorically that I did.......I can only offer the excuse of two brutal days and a long and nervewracking drive in the dark and the rain on roads that I am not familiar with -- not my idea of fun....! Good thing you all know that I love you.......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 10:58 AM

It was a great dinner. My thanks again to our hosts.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 01:38 PM

Deborah,
Isn't it wonderful to trust your friends so completely that you can fall sleep in front of them. The first time I visited Kendall and Jacqui's new home, I closed my eyes for a few seconds and fell sound asleep on their couch. I think they were flattered.
Dinner with the Coward's is always an event. Sorry I missed it...and the floor show.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 06:39 PM

I could get used to this. Micca is in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove and filling the house with wonderful smells while I sit at the computer with a glass of chilled wine and play Poker.

He does get emotional over chicken. Shouts of despair when he thought I didn't have butter or oil (I have both) in which to saute the onions.

Peel me a grape, will you, Micca.
Actually I think he has grapes for dessert. No wonder Deborah loves Tom.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 06:47 PM

Tom and Deborah have 3 wonderful felines whom I enjoyed very much but man oh man didn't I get it when I got home. My boys were not happy that they had been cheated on.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 10:30 PM

Becca - you miscounted -- we have four wonderful felines and one wonderful canine....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 05:44 AM

The little scrote has his uses then!
G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 05:54 AM

Sorry, Deborah. The 4th didn't make an appearance so I assumed there were only 3. Still, I think another cat would have just added to my detention time anyway. :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 07:58 AM

micca can cook?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 08:04 AM

Micca can definitely cook! And he shops for it - we spent quite a time in Hannafords yesterday getting exactly what he wanted for that meal. I was tempted to turn up on Mary's doorstep for dinner last night!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 08:05 AM

We stayed home and Kendall cooked instead.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 08:15 AM

You have a kitchen in the cellar?
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 08:19 AM

No Giok - I let him out of the cellar to cook but then it's straight back down there again!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 08:41 AM

A wonderful meal and there was more than enough for you Jacqui. Followed by Black Russians and single malt. I am a little concerned - Micca wears "trainers" and insists on telling me about them. Guess he hasn't heard of Depends.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 09:24 AM

Depends on what you mean by Trainers, in the UK Trainers are worn on the feet, they are a sort of footwear worn when Training in a Gym!!!or when Running, and yes I can cook and I would invite everyone that has been critical on this thread to a meal (now what was that rule about never pissing off a Chemist?)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 09:27 AM

It got a reaction.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 09:53 AM

Where is Micca????? Well, I just looked it up, and here is the answer...

Micca is on page 630 between "Micah" and "mice".

It says:

Micca - Dwarf-like inhabitant of Middle-Earth in the Tolkien mythos, possessed of a stocky, powerful body, quite hairy, with extremely bushy black eyebrows. Miccas startle their foes on the field of battle by suddenly raising their bushy eyebrows, grimacing, and uttering a hideous ululating warcry. They eat watercress and haggis. They are unpredictable in the extreme.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 09:59 AM

That's him, that's the wee hairy person we all know and loathe love.
Giok
¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 10:52 AM

That definition is very one-sided. There are whole other dimensions to our Micca...perhaps the fellahs never see it, but oh what he does for the ladies! 'twould make you jealous, guys!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 11:02 AM

Word gets around.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 04:56 PM

Yeuccch, relli here guys, go steady!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Nov 07 - 05:17 PM

They don't usually talk much about stuff like that in the Tolkien stories, Kat! Such matters are kept discreetly to the imagination of the reader. It was a much more chivalrous and courtly age than our own in that respect.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 08:02 AM

I was thinking the same thing Kat. When Kendall, Micca or Sandy Paton arrive anywhere, there is a line of ladies of all sizes, shapes and ages waiting for a cuddle.
Some just have it...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 10:31 AM

It's the eyebrows, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 10:49 AM

No. It's not. Not even the leather coats.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 10:52 AM

Well geez.....Damn thread is becoming depressive............***sigh***..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 11:03 AM

You just buy a leather coat, Spaw?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Micca
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 04:11 PM

Here I am at Logan Airport Boston (it still smells of Catholics) waiting to board my flight home. My Heartfelt thanks to all the friends who have made this visit so memorable,
SINSULL for her hospitality and friendship whose value is above Rubys (and Ruby is pretty tall)
Kendall and Jacqui for just being such totally nice friendly people
Tami. for the great Expotition to darkest Keene and just for being Tami
Tom and Deborah for a memorable dinner and a chance to meet Becca,who is charming.
Tom and Linn for the New Hampshire days and the times at the Press room and through them all the folks at the Press Room for the Sterling welcome.
Jeri, what can I say, one of the most impressve songwriters.. etc.. I could go on...and on
Tinker for the New Jersey stay and to her family also
Chance and Suzette, always a pleasure to visit
I will write a proper thank you when I get home but it seemed important to at least make a star, I shall miss you all in the coming months.......and...of course.....The Horse....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 04:15 PM

Big Horse?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 04:59 PM

See you next year Micca!!!!!! Stay awake at work tomorrow.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 05:41 PM

I was happy to get in a brief phone call this morning before they left for Logan. This was probably his best visit yet.....a very happy man! One day he'll make it to Ohio or I'll make a Getaway some year when all the stars line up.

Like many others here though, I've enjoyed following his travels and escapades. That's what makes the place so much fun sometimes. The great accounts, a combination of tall tales, assorted lies, and perceived realities, when combined with a few photos gives a warm fuzzy to those of us thousands of miles away.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 07:40 PM

I put him on the bus to Boston. Then went off to Jacqui and kendall's for a romp on the beach with Seamus, a trip to the Christmas Tree Shop and a pre-Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Very nice, even got the makings of a turkey sandwich for lunch tomorrow. No Creamed Onions.

Try to stay awake at wotk Micca or at least stay away from things that explode.
My house is very quiet and very empty.
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 08:22 PM

It is those hugs, Mary, I am sure of it!

Spaw's got "warm fuzzies? I'm stopping off at Spaw's house!!!

Micca, take care, darlin'.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 03:39 AM

Honey, I'm Home.....

and at work too
arrived at Heathrow at 5.09am
and at work at 8.05 am. but it is only until 11.30am so I should make it

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:30 AM

Bet the little kitty will be glad to have you back. Get some sleep. I am off to work.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:43 AM

Here's hoping that Micca survives the next... oh wait - time zones.
My guess is he'll sleep for many hours.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:04 AM

It is deafeningly quiet here, except for the kitten climbing the curtains. Glad you had a good trip home.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:20 AM

See Giok - all females!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:24 AM

I'm sitting here in a quiet house watching the snow swirl around the autumn foliage. And now I'm heading off for a little extra sleep myself.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:29 AM

Glad you got home safely Micca. Thank you for your entertaining company.

I'll catch up with you in December, I hope.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 10:21 AM

Should be tucked up asleep with his little mog by now.

Glad to hear you made it home safe and sound, darlin'.

kat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 01:10 PM

Micca,

Nice meeting you at the Press Room and hope to see you again...either on a future visit here or on my next trip to London.

BTW, I'm planning to learn the version of "Not the Fields of Athenry" that you sang. It's just the song that a good Irish Catholic Bostonian such as myself should have in his songbook. ;-)

Cheers,

Peter

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 01:18 PM

It's a lot better than the original that's for sure ;)
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:06 PM

Tired but happy would appear to sum up the LFU having spoken to him tonight.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 07:23 PM

That, and boy does he have a happy, clingy moggie, meeping all over the place. It's so nice when they do that instead of snub you for being gone.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:59 AM

I spoke with Micca last night. His kitty was clinging happily to him. Both were having a cup of tea and then a godd night's sleep.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 07:48 PM

That's good...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,jerry
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 10:10 PM

Did anyone get an answer to the When It's Nighttime in Italy search. I'm working on Lintel as well and I am looking for the song.

[e-mail]

(Refreshed appropriate thread for guest and sent him an email.)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:53 PM

There are posts missing...or am I still confused? Meantime Micca called to wish us all a Happy Thanksgiving. The time change has screwed up his meds so he is a bit confused but not too confused to make it clear he will NOT be here for New Year's Eve. I guess I will be forced to call him at midnight EST time if I am still awake. heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:32 AM

Mary, his being here for New Year was about as believable as what you told him!

Hehehehehehehe.......................

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 12:04 PM

jacqui - shut up!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 01:28 PM

Heya all you non-vertically challenged pee-opal, at least he's taller than I am! (Well, I think so.:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 01:49 PM

He's just the right height for hugging tallish women...hehe

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:29 PM

Becca, that has got me into SO MUCH trouble over the years!!! BTW it was great to meet you!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:55 PM

Wonder who the sniping GUEST is? A "fury" animal??? For the record, if Micca played the banjo, he'd be perfect.
heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 07:22 PM

It was wonderful to meet you, too, Micca.



*for the record, I'm only about 5'7" :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:22 PM

I am 5'5". Use to be 5'6" but I am shrinking.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 05:08 AM

He was in Chat last night !!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 05:08 AM

And another 200 th !

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 09:27 AM

So he's home safe and functioning. MAybe we can let this drop off the bottom...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 12:23 PM

Five foot two
Eyes of green
Oh, but what those five could do
Has anybody seen my gal

(I think I grew to 5'2" just to match up with my dad's singing of that song!)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 01:34 PM

I beat you by half an inch Kat!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 03:15 PM

I'll bet we'd still see eye-to-eye, jacqui! **bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: skarpi
Date: 25 Nov 07 - 07:23 AM

Micca you can come out now , I think they found you .

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Just a guy
Date: 25 Nov 07 - 09:53 AM

Well...........I have not been in here forever, always thought many of the threads were, shall we say, rude.

However, it has been a delight reading this one, neat people obviously talking about a very neat experience - "Getaway" - and a stranger can feel the happiness and good will being shown.

Although I am a 'Yank', I can still wish ALL a belated Happy Thanksgiving. 'Tis the phrase "Thanks giving", not the date, that is important.

Have a good day.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:46 AM

Micca, Do me a favor...don't buy a black leather coat. I don't need the competition.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 12:43 PM

He has one - just as cuddly as yours, Kendall. But I was trying to keep it a secret.
Micca called last night. He and his kitty in London miss the hustle and bustle of Maine. I think he is suffering from "the house is too quiet" syndrome.
Maybe we should start calling him to say Goodnight at 9PM our time right across the country...maybe not.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 03:03 PM

Hmmm we could start around 2 Eastern Standard time and call with a lullabye every hour until we all get to sleep....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 08:32 PM

Little Hawk was worried. I think it is time for Spaw to dig out the fireworks and assorted religious statues to set Little Hwk straight again.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 09:38 PM

Well, actually, this poor thread was about to drop off the bottom of the page when I posted the "Micca Found!!!" thread. It was a roundabout way of keeping this one alive, and it has worked magnificently, don't you think? ;-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 12:48 PM

I agree LH.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 12:36 PM

Well, I for one would like to know where the Gnomish one is at the moment, now that he is no longer under my watchful eye. Are you being good, Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 02:47 PM

Good at what, Tami?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Amos
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 02:59 PM

You can rest assured he is being VERY good at what he does best -- being Micca....



A

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 08:08 AM

And that's a very good thing for him to be - wherever he is.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 09:50 AM

Has Micca inherited a large amount of money? There is an awful lot of sucking up going on in this thread...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 10:24 AM

Nope - I just have a predilection for funny, smart, nice men.

Micca fills all those characteristics as does my own sweetie.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 10:33 AM

Seamus?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 11:08 AM

hehehe

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 11:26 AM

Seamus going skunk embracing - and smart?? *bites tongue...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 11:28 AM

In fairness, Bente, Seamus is the same dog who figured out how to open and drink from a Poland Springs water bottle..so it comes and goes. LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 01:14 PM

And how and when to grab and hide the TV remote. He also trained Alice and Freddie to knock over the treats box and nudge them down onto the floor for him.
He is quite amazing.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 01:40 PM

All right - both my sweeties.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 02:56 PM

He is also an accomplished pick-pocket

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 03:06 PM

That is a skill that all dachshunds aspire to, but alas it is rendered difficult by their short legs.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 03:52 PM

I taught him pickpocketing. Seamus has a sense of humor - it is really funny to watch. The eyes light up and you know he is up to something. Then he snatches the scarf from your shoulder or the elastic from your hair and takes off with it.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 04:19 PM

When he was a puppy he used to steal things out of my handbag. Boy did he get pissed when I started hanging it off the top of the door. :-) He definitely does have a healthy sense of humor. But then I would expect nothing less from a dog in my family.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 10:39 AM

He's still tidying up at the North Poole, after his Christmas duties as Santa's hairy little elf.
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 10:43 AM

I thought that I saw him at an airport yesterday............

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 10:46 AM

Waddya know, a 747 with fur balls.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 11:30 AM

So he was dressed in a kilt, Giok?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 11:32 AM

I have seen that wee man in a kilt, and it's quite a sight Mary.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 11:57 AM

So have I - his first Getaway wa spent in kilt and cloak. He has the legs for it and I far preferred the kilt to what he wasn't wearing that first morning in the shower room.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 11:58 AM

Does this mean that he is in Scotland with you, Giok? I want to know where to call at 3AM on New Year's Eve.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 12:08 PM

Maybe that's why he's not letting you know where he is :)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 02:04 PM

Interpretation: somebody tried an unsuccessful preemptive phone call. Micca's gone to ground to escape the dogs of Maine, who would howl at him down the cold moon-kissed microwave satellite beams in the frozen lonely hours at the New Year's birth.

Or something. Jeez - I feel all poetical-like!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 02:28 PM

Uhhhh...don't give up your day job, Jeri.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 04:12 PM

Don't you listen to her, Jeri. I thought that was right purty.I think I know where the little fat one is too, but I ain't saying and ain't none o' youse got my phone number so nyah, nyah.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 04:17 PM

But we know who does, Morticia. Do you honestly think you are safe from us?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 05:00 PM

Does anyone have his new address and number???? Where would I hide if I knew that the Nor'easters were after me with a phone and an empty bottle or two of champagne?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 05:01 PM

Australia?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,A Foreign spy
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 09:50 PM

I saw that Micca tonight. He was sitting in a flash house eating meatballs and drinking red wine. He had a kilt on. I don't know if anyone dared ask what he was wearing under it. He was having a rare old time and was up late for his age, I reckon.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 10:31 PM

There was something rather hairy that flew by the house, today. The hair was not white, so I know it wasn't a late Santa. Could it have been Miccadarlin'? There's been a lot of wind, lately, perhaps he got blown off-course from London?**bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 11:07 PM

What's a "flash house"?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 11:09 PM

Related to the term "flash company" perhaps?

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 05:36 AM

I know where he is, I know Morty's address and phone number, I know Micca's address and phone number, but what I don't know is where the hell that smell in his kitchen is coming from.

Micca... I may have to move some of your boxes to find
a) what it is
b) where it is
and c) how to get it out before it grows fur and walks out on its own.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 07:38 AM

Liz. Your mission, should you accept it is to seek said Smell, and DESTROY!!!!!



"where the winter blizzards blow
and the ******* fleets at rest
safe in ******** harbours sheltered bay
safely anchored.......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 07:51 AM

" THE LITTLE POT STOVE from Nic Jones

Where the winter blizzards blow and the whaling fleet's at rest
Tacked in Leith harbour's sheltered bay safely anchored ten abreast
For there's the whalemen at their stations as to ship to ship they rove
Carry bags of coal with them and a little iron stove "
******************

Hi there, Micca!

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 08:08 AM

Point of pedantia: Little Pot Stove was written by Harry Robertson.

So... anchored already, eh? Good old '******** harbours sheltered bay'...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 08:26 AM

You're correct, of course, Jeri, thanks. I believe the person who posted the reference was indicating version source rather than authorship.

Click

How nice to hear from you, Micca, sly fellow!

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 09:37 AM

I recognize the symptoms. He is in what we call his "Yahoo stage".

You know, "Free at last, free at last, thank God, I'm free at last.!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Severn
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 09:47 AM

Free at last and worth every penny of it!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 11:02 AM

So...he is somewhere along the route of the Underground Railroad? But doen't London have an Underground?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 11:06 AM

Yes Sins
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 11:19 AM

This is SO annoying.

One of the pleasures of New Years Eve is to wake the little reprobate from his sleep at about 5.30am and now we have to find someone else to bother.

Mutter, mutter, whinge, whinge..................

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 11:23 AM

Hee hee.
I shall not be at home either, lucky me.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 01:38 PM

Nor me.... hur hur hur!!!

I can give you the number of a local taxi firm... in Glasgow.. they should appreciate a call at about 3.30am.


It appears Micca's returned to his trollish troglodyte roots and is presently lodged underground somewhere.

I can't locate the smell but I'll try in daylight on Tuesday. Thank heaven I'm used to Manitas's ass (and you try saying that after a beer!) and can stomach such stenches. I fear locating it could involve the flamethrower and machete.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 03:07 PM

I wonder wonder wonder wonder where Micca could possibly be?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 04:56 PM

I know its probably been said already but this is panto season so.....













He's behind you!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 04:58 PM

Oh no he isn't !

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 05:01 PM

Are you sure Giok?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 05:04 PM

Absolutely certain mate.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 05:33 PM

Liz, here's how to go about it:

1. Put on sturdy mittens
2. Stand by
3. Whistle
4. Grab it when it bolts

Oh... and I'm not at home for New Year, either.. :o)

Bente

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 06:46 PM

Oh yes he is!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 06:57 PM

He is currently the stand-in for the Roaming Gnome in the Travelocity ads. Duh!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 09:00 PM

Do you think he's found a lady? Maybe that's why he's laying low.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 10:30 PM

You are a hopeless romantic, Jacqui. More likely he's found a warm bed, a full fridge and some decent wine.

Laying low, indeed!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 10:33 PM

...and a computer to borrow.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 04:02 AM

Well he asked me to look after the cat for a while, but I think he had an alterior motive... knowing me as he does, he knew I'd not rest until I'd tracked down the smell and eradicated it... when I post that it's gone, he'll return home all smiles and fairy lights.

I'm going over in daylight later and I'm going to follow the cow- sized bluebottle that was buzzing me last night...

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 04:35 AM

He doesn't just lay low; he stands low too!
G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 06:46 AM

I do not have to come in here to be insulted and have nasturtiums cast at my character and height etc. I can go ANYWHERE!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 07:04 AM

And you have too.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 08:02 AM

Oh where and oh where has our Micca gone?
Oh where and oh where can he be?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 08:28 AM

Told you Jacqui, he's behind you!
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 09:04 AM

Liz, borrow someone's dog.

I worry at what the smell might be. Cat comments, a small furry corpse or perhaps a larger, less furry one. We know it's not Himself, because he's posting from his Undisclosed Location.

I certainly hope the weather is better where he is, because there's 7" of snow on my porch, my car and my driveway, which may be easy to shovel because it's the fluffy stuff. Plus, it's supposed to stop around noon.

Am I stupid enough to drive in it? Quite possibly, but only time will tell how bad the roads are. At least there will be fewer drunks on the road tonight. More will probably be some distance off the road.

Oh well, I just hope Micca's someplace safe and warm, curled up with a nice mug of something and a warm computer

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 09:48 AM

Maybe we should all put out bait - a Magnum of decent champagne and chocolates.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 10:36 AM

Told you Jacqui, he's behind you!

No silly, that's Seamus.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 01:02 PM

I think you'll find that his weather is very similar to yours Jeri.
I think your bait might work Sins?
G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 01:33 PM

Why would I take a dog with me? The smell is bad enough as it is!

Daylight visit has not disclosed the origins of the aroma... maybe I should try it sober next time.

The cat is an indoor kitty and wouldn't know what to do with a small furry/feathery if you coated it with Kit-e-Kat and gave her a bib.

Either some previous tennant has died in there or there's a rogue sock on the loose.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 01:44 PM

Having recently trodden on a disembowelled "small furry creature" I would not bank on that Hairy little toerag, Wugsie, not knowing what to do with it and possibly viewing it as a tasty snackette and diet supplement,
I hate to suggest the obvious, but the waste bin outside the kitchen door has the remains of some cat food tins in it, could this be the "source" of the offensive odour? AFAIK there are No fugitive socks!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Iarf
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 06:27 PM

Micca!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,

Still Breathin'

Good Man.......

Dave W

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 08:43 PM

There's a kitchen door?

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 07 - 09:15 PM

Mystery solved. Unable to host New Year's Eve at my house due to work (SIGH), I found a party arrived tonight.
A little like the Whos.
It came without...
But a turkey and a ham and a variety of veggies and cheeses and breads and wines and champagnes and crackers and Micca and Edmund and Charmion and and and.
I found the wandering UKer in a snow drift with a bag of chocolates and some single malt.
Happy New Year all.

Now who the hell is going to wash these dishes?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 01:35 AM

Well Sinsull - for what it is worth, I ain't going to wash the dishes.....!!! Nice non party though.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 01:37 AM

Happy New Year, Sins! So did they all get home, safely, or did the snow stop 'em? Must not've been a very tall snowdrift!:-)(luvyaMiccadarlin'!)

kat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 01:44 AM

Tons and tons and tons of snow -- and more to come.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 04:13 AM

"From: Micca - PM
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 07:38 AM

Liz. Your mission, should you accept it is to seek said Smell, and DESTROY!!!!!"



I choose NOT to accept it. I fear this is one that you'll have to deal with yourself.

I'll leave the appropriate phone numbers where you can see them on your return and I'll bill you for the therapy.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 10:00 AM

This sounds really ominous, Liz. Plumbing problems? Dead animals? Previous owner a mass murderer?
Happy New Year, I guess.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 10:13 AM

No, new owner a bit scatty!
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 03:21 PM

I know where he is too -and he is having a great time!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 03:37 PM

He is off with Tami today. Probably Joey and Bandit too. Hope he wears his new Maine boots - it's a jungle out there.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 03:46 PM

Jungles are nae bother at a' fur a herry wee scunner like thon Micca pal, fist cuzzin tae a gorilla thon wee mannie.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 05:07 PM

He's not long left our house where he made himself useful installing a new DVD burner on my pc. He also had to hear the Bluegrass version of Rolling Home on Kendall's cd.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 05:17 PM

He's still shaking his head in disbelief, by the way.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 06:28 PM

Not a great deal unlike myself....

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 06:33 PM

Anybody know the words of La Cucaracha?
G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 06:42 PM

There ya go.
B

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 07:45 PM

I know a few of the lyrics in English.

Here' a tune and quite a gay one,
Down in Mexico it greets us,
When the street musicians play it
This will be the tune that greets us.

la Cucaracha La Cucaracha
Paid for dancing in the street
La Cucaracha etc.


Sing the chorus then repeat

My Spanish needs work. This goes back to my boyhood in gramar school.



La

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,KT not logged in
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 10:32 PM

Okay, I'm help me out here. I admit I have not read this entire thread, but just tell me this....Is Micca really over here again? now?

KT

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 10:48 PM

Giok, more versions than you may want to know: Click Here!

KTdarlin'...he is arse-deep in snow, so it's gotta be back over here or up nawth!**bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 04:30 AM

Can't be much snow then if it only comes up to Micca's arse!
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 04:55 AM

Yes KT, we're getting our revenge for World War II when you were all over paid, over sexed and over here... Enjoy him!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: lady penelope
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 05:39 AM

That's a heck of a long time to hold a grudge Liz.... And of such apparent magnitude....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 06:31 AM

La Cucaracha! La Cucaracha
Yo no puede caminar
Porque you tiende
Porque la falca
Dinero para gustar.

Now you know why I got a C in Spanish.

The cockroach, Thje Cockroach
I can't sing
Because I don't have the money to eat...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 04:04 PM

Giok, when I went out for breakfast the ploughed snow in the street is up to my NOSE!!!, man it is deep!! They have had about 18inches to maybe 30 in total in 6 days on top of what was already there. I was watching the forecast on TV and they said "12 degrees" and I thought "thats not too bad" then I realised they were giving it in Fahrenheit!!!! and the windchill factored in said -14!!!!! Holy S*** Batman, That is Cold!!! and it WAS!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 07:05 PM

Well, Micca, maybe next time you go flitting about the globe in the dead of winter, you ought to consider the weather....If you want warm, consider ALASKA.......a balmy 36 degrees!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:20 AM

And the horse you rode in on...
Bet him to it, KT.

We will be in the 30s today and the 40s tomorrow which mweans the snow will melt and refreeze and melt and refreeze until eventually my driveway will be a skating rink.
Sigh!
But I love Maine.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:29 AM

When does the skating party start??

Any specific requirements, like pink skating outfit or..? ;-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:06 AM

They're talking 50s by mid week...at least that will give us a chance to start from scratch where the snowbanks are concerned.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:13 AM

You scratch my bank, and I'll scratch yours Becca!

G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:22 AM

Bring salt, Bente. Lots of salt.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 12:19 PM

Crampons are good too, after the neat little Fred Astaire exhibition I executed on Sinsulls driveway the other day when I discovered the sheet of ice beneath the snow covering.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 12:42 PM

Crampons did you say Micca?
Giok

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 12:45 PM

There must be somewhere nearby where you could buy some OF THESE for your boots, Micca!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 02:12 PM

No Giok not tampons, more Like this was what I had in mind

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 02:18 PM

What planet they from then?
Well no wonder you weren't there when I rang, Micca!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 03:42 PM

You better be back soon though, I've got my first family party for 10 years that hasn't been a funeral to go to next week.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 04:40 PM

That was my first reaction to Liz (actually second after I nearly had an accident laughing) that if he hurt himself he would be here indefinitely. heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 05:59 PM

What he needs are YakTrax -- http://yaktrax.com/productspro.aspx

Part of my winter secure step arsenal (along with 2 other varieties og crampons, ski poles, hiking sticks with sharp pointy things on the bottom, etcet etcet -- unfortunately nothing that works on my KITCHEN fer-pete's-sake).

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:46 PM

Yea, Linn, sure, sure. Tell us WHY you can't use ski poles in your kitchen....(hee hee)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 02:29 AM

So that's where you are, you little fucker. In Portland & didn't even come down to the Press Room session in Portsmouth tonight. Son of a bitch. You better stay in Maine with that lot of fruit flies & hope they don't take you to the shit pile. Tom had a seat all wait'n for you to warm your ass on & folks were fighting for it too, not for your ass but for your seat. I didn't know you were in the area until tonight & here I find you, complaining about the frost & heaves & icy patches & snow banks up to your nose. Fine storm riding sailor you'll make, a little brisk & bitter wind blows up & you take cover among the skirts of the north, figures, a distasteful man with good taste. I hope that you'll be in the area for a bt longer, you must have some dirt on that crew up there worth telling.

Better make the next sessin if ya wan' ta make it till sunrise.

Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 10:19 AM

Barry, did you just call me a fruit fly? I think I'm insulted...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 10:39 AM

I think that Drosophila melanogaster, is a lovely name.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 10:40 AM

Tami, I'm more offended that he referred to us as "skirts". :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 01:43 PM

Don't worry - we can deal with Barry - in time.

Micca didn't get to the Press Room because no-one from here was driving down. I'm still trying to get over a heavyweight cold, Mary was working too late and Tami's not too well either. So don't blame Micca - if you're going to have a go it will have to be at the 'skirts'. However, it takes a very brave man to attempt that one! :0)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 02:43 PM

Or a very stupid one.. :o))

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Cats
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 03:53 PM

Of course we know where Micca is. He's at the shop taking pictures of capes for me!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 07:19 PM

Yes - I definitely think 'skirts' are (is?) more insulting than fruit flies........no one asked me (sob sob) but I couldn't have driven to the Press Room either last night - worked until 8 pm putting out a huge fire. You don't know what HELL is until you have been a realtor, covering for another realtor who is away, and you are told on the morning following a closing that the closing was not legit because no deed was signed and your friend's )for whom you are covering's) buyer is busy dewinterizing a house he does not legally own and filling the oil tank with oil priced higher than gold dust and HE DOES NOT OWN THE HOUSE....! And your husband is a lawyer and he says -- well, YOU will have to tell him and I scream - ME -- he is going to want the legal angle -- you tell him ......!!!

Oh God - it was ugly. Crisis was CA based (can I blame Amos?) so due to time differences did not get resolved finally til about 7.45 pm our time.! I faded away to nothing with anxiety......

And I am glad Micca is here but don't think I'm glad to be a skirt....perhaps a gown would be more appropriate.....??????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 07:36 PM

Micxa was trying on capes too. He found one that suited him admirably for about $300. Beautiful until he noticed the 1 in front of the 3. It was cashmere.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 07:52 PM

Well, well, the Micca is in New 'ampshire, called me he did. I hope Sinsull keeps an eye on the skamp, the snow drifts up there would be way over his head.

From all accounts he's basking in the warm light of friendship and love, and all this with no political agenda.

Lift a glass for Susette and I, Mighty Micca, and we'll see you at Heathrow on 2/6/08.

cheers and big hug for Mary.
chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 11:01 PM

Hugs and cheers accepted but we're in Maine. Wait for the pictures of Micca in a moose cap to prove it.
Happy New Year, Chance and Suzette!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 01:52 AM

Drosophila melanogaster - is that the little pest that hangs around open bottles of wine?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 04:44 AM

No Manitas, that's Micca

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 11:26 AM

ROFLMAO! Good one, Giok!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 12:54 PM

i SLEPT UNTIL NOON. mICCA THE gOOD DID NOT DISTURB ME. tHE CATS WERE NOT SO FORGIVING - dAMN cAPSLOCK! aLICE SET IT OFF!. Now I will never wake up before it's bedtime.
Tough life.

Micca is catnapping in the easy chair. Cats aref ed. I've had my coffee. Life is godd.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 01:41 PM

Obviously, not enough coffee...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 03:09 PM

Jeri, You crack me up!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 03:33 PM

cAPSALOCK POSSIBILITIES

(needed something to do while I read between the lines in the thread)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 04:15 PM

No insult or slander meant or intended to any fruit fly or skirt living in the state of Maine. Just like to get a bee buzzing up the knickers every so often & stir the nest a bit. You guys take too good care of Micca & he won't go home. Another transplanted Brit in neighborhood, pretty soon they'll want independance & go starting a revalation. Well, maybe you'll bring him south next week with the birds & he can migrate all over NH. Will he be staying longer enough to attend the next shanty session?
BTW if you think I'd ever try to take the lot of you on, NO WAY!
I like you just te way you are
Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 05:05 PM

Loving the smoke from Barry back-pedalling *G*. You guys going to be finished with him any time soon or shall I go adopt the cat?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 05:28 PM

We are sending him home on Tuesday. But only if I can pry him out of the easy chair.
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 05:54 PM

Oh Micca --- happy and safe travels.........see you at the Getaway?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Slushpuppie
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 08:27 PM

Is this about micca as in portaferry micca?? If so this is sorcha =] I got a new mudcat account because i couldnt get into my old one, forgot the password lol x

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 10:45 PM

Is that the White Tiger?, she of the chocolate wrapper purple fiddle? also of Portaferry and environs? If yes than, Hi there

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 09:53 AM

Slushpuppie and Morticia,
We will send him back but only if you promise to take care of him. Micca needs to be fed and watered. A pat on the head and a trimming now and then are in order.
SINS, who will miss the old man but be happy to have her absolute quiet back.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 10:03 AM

Any preferences as to what we pat him on the head with Sins?
Would one of these be OK maybe?
Giok

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 10:28 AM

Come closer Giok so I can smack you this side of your head.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 10:29 AM

Mary,
Oh, oh, sorry about the Maine/New Hampshire mixup. I imagine there's some small rivalry and possible low-grade competition and slight animosity? Do Mainers tell stories about New Hampshirites and vice versa?

From down here in DC where it will be near 70 degrees today and tomorrow, the states up there by the tundra are somewhat indistinct. Uh oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that.

Anyway I'm glad Micca is safe in Maine with you, Mary, and not in New Hampshire. I'm sure Hilary could hardly keep her hands off him.

(ahem...)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Slushpuppie
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 10:48 AM

haha it is me micca =]] good to hear from you it has been a while lol

sorcha

x

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 11:41 AM

Maine was once part of Massachusetts. We view that state with some contempt. NH is OK - I mean how can you fault "Live or Die Free"?


Wonder if Micca will notice an extra 20 pounds in his luggage. The hellish fountain has to go...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 11:58 AM

It's 'Live Free or Die' Mary. It was started as a campaign by our founders against restrictive underwear, which they believed caused fatal gangrene of the personal parts. Many people aren't aware of this fact, but the 'tea' thrown into Boston Harbor was actually 'T' - a load of wooden thongs. George Washington wore one, and all his teeth fell out before he had it removed by his carpenter. Boy, did the media of the day ever get THAT story wrong!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 12:34 PM

I hope Jimmy never gets to hear about this

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 12:44 PM

Didn't realise the jimmy'T' was that old, I assume the thongs were his design and manufacture, Jeri?
That explains the family dentistry business though, and the connection between the chopper and the cherry tree.
Didn't he get splinters in his bum?
Oh and incidentally, is there any tie in with the John Birch (Birch John), Society here?
I need to know, because it may even explain Forrest Gump.
Can you let me have a copy of the family tree?
Giok

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 01:22 PM

Oh...Live free or die.
Same difference if you die free, I think. But if you die in jail you get freed unless they bury you in the penitentiary. Then you're still in jail. HMMMMMM

Explain Forrest Gump? heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 07:16 AM

Today Micca will be returning to his own home after his stay amongst the ice and snow of Maine.

Last night Mary, Micca and I went out for dinner at a floating restaurant on Portland waterfront. The Cap'n was suffering with a headache brought on by his meds and didn't feel like joining us so he had to cook his own supper!

We had a great meal and a very enjoyable evening. Here's looking forward to Micca's next visit...............

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 08:27 AM

It will be nice to have my house back to myself but I am really going to miss the old bugger. wE ARE RETURNING HIM IN THE CONDITION IN WHICH HE ARRIVED - SLIGHTLY SCRUFFY AND COVERED IN CAT HAIR. dAMN cAPSLOCK!
He has a new pair of boots. Does a lovely pirouette in them, he does.
Safe trip, my friend!
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 08:34 AM

Ahem, I am perfectly capable of keeping my hands off Micca, thank you!

Safe journeys Micca Dear, hope you're wearing the kilt so Security at the airport can enjoy the Frisking experience.

Thanks to all who've looked after the hairy little fella!
Hil

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 08:36 AM

We were hoping worried he would learn to play banjo, and not come back, ever!
Giok

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 08:38 AM

The pirouette" was due to them being SNOW boots and not ICE boots, hence the "Torville and Dean "number on the driveway which was a solid sheet of ice.
I am packed and I hope, having breakfast at TJ Hookers with Tami and then taking the 12.30 coach to Logan and then my evening flight home, I will not leave the snow with any regrets at all, but the friends here in Maine, that is a different matter, Mary, and the other Maniacs, my sincere thanks to you all for the welcome and wonderful time I have had amongst you!!, You are such a bunch of Whats the word? Maineiacs!! I am already looking forward to my next visit. That is me and "the horse"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 08:46 AM

Dammit Sins... we were hoping you'd managed to clean him up a bit.

Still the hairy little fella's cat will be glad to see him and I shall be glad to relinquish responsibility.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 10:58 AM

Safe journey, Miccadarlin'.

Sins, last night Letterman said after the "boring" debates, NH had changed its slogan from "Live free or die" to "just shoot us!"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:25 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:28 PM

I will shoot them if they elect Hillary!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:43 PM

Nominate, Giok not elect. That comes later. If Hillary runs I will have gnu find me a nice little home in Canada - it will be time to go.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:56 PM

Exterminate would be preferable.
gnu is a diligent and experienced carer, you could do worse than move up there, he is also an enthusiastic cook. So if you move to Moncton, you will be nearby, and I know he delivers!
Giok
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 05:58 PM

I'll be coming with you, Mary...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:42 PM

I think we should just secede.

As for Micca, he treated me to a lovely breakfast at Uncle Andy's and then I dropped him at the bus. Fortunately, I didn't drop him very hard, so he should be all in one piece.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 09:37 PM

If Hilary getting nominated would make you leave the country, why didn't Bush? She can't be as bad as he's been!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 03:46 AM

Apparently he's home now. Can we stop asking where hi is?

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 06:06 AM

Heard somebody on the radio this morning, say that the the Republicans would be ecstatic whichever Democrat out of Obama and Clinton gets the nomination.
She said that between the misogynists and the racially prejudiced, the Republicans would be a shoo in.
Don't know how true this is, but if I were gnu, I'd be going into the real estate business, real soon!
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 08:22 AM

i don't know Liz. I will have to poll all those interested in Micca's whereabouts and get a concensus. It is an election year you know. Perhaps a caucus is in order. We will let you be a Super Delegate - you still get one vote but you don't have to be elected.

He is in a new house, What if he goes to the grocery store and gets lost? We may need to keep this thread going forever.

Secret ballot. All concerned PM me with your wishes. Or we can let Micca decide. He may be tired of being "watched'.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 08:23 AM

By the way - he PM'd me and he is home but has a cold. Maybe we should start a thread about his health...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 08:36 AM

That'll be man flu likely.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 09:45 AM

So...one vote from Giok to continue this thread. Antone else?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 10:32 AM

If ever a man needed watching .... I'd say we wait til he figures out the new computer hook ups and we can track him here again...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 10:45 AM

He does a really good line in the 'I'm only a helpless cuddly loveable wee man, please look after me' stakes, doesn't he?
Micca mate, I don't know how you get away with it, but if you're giving lessons, put my name down for a session will you?
Jealousy is a terrible thing isn't it ?
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 11:02 AM

Cuddly lessons from Micca and a coat like Kendall's and you'll be fighting 'em off with a stick, Giok. :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 11:03 AM

I'm always concerned as to his whereabouts. One never knows, he might get mistaken for the Roaming Gnome and kidnapped by some obsessed fan...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 12:04 PM

Giok on the other hand...
AHHH you're curte too sweetie. Would you like a thread of your own? The unbirthday thread seems to have disappeared. How about a thread on sheep?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 12:24 PM

Only if they're good looking Auntie Sins !

Cause I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 11:41 PM

I LOVE the thread -- I vote for keeping it going......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 06:41 AM

But going where, Deborah? Isn't tht the point? If Micca stands still, all is lost.
Today at least he is going to work - that's a start.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 08:35 AM

And he's just confirmed that he has done me a real favour since he's been back.

Tank you your Miccaness - you're definitely in my good books.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:28 AM

I rather enjoy seeing the thread pop up out of the blue. "He's on the move again, is he?" says I.

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:36 AM

HEY! You, sir, are in big trouble! Bought me a box of chocolates and he ate them. All of them! Grumble... Didn't even leave me the crappy chewy caramel. Even Jason and Tami had the decency to leave me a chewy caramel.
SINS, slinking away from the airborn S**t about to fly.



And laughing out loud.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:38 AM

Mary - he was doing you a favour and helping with your diet - taking temptation away. You know it makes sense.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:51 AM

This thread has helped homeland security immensely. Please keep it up.

Sincerely,

Dick Cheney

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: lady penelope
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 10:05 AM

Doing Mary a favour? I think not... I reckon his gnomeness is attempting to apply the well known phenomenom of "other people's chocolates have no calories" with regards to his diabetes......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 10:22 AM

That's what we used to call a 'Native American Giver' Mary.
Perhaps we should start another thread, entitled 'Where is the peripatetic diabetic?'
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 01:21 PM

Mary, it is quite simple, I ate them
A To remove temptation from your vicinity so they would not interfere wuith your efforts at dieting
B and as a preventative measure to prevent them going bad.
I therefore see my actions as both a Humanitarian issue (helping a friend with their will power, or in this case "Won't" power) and as a Humane destruction of potentially dangerous material.
Also, you will notice , I left you some Lindt Chocolates on the table in the round tin (in case you are overcome with desire..... for chocolate)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 01:31 PM

Back pedalling like mad there Micca!
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 12:58 PM

Serve you right if you got zits!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 01:01 PM

Take the puss to acne Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 10:32 AM

I need some UKers to organize a search party. Apparently the moving boxes have created a maze of such proportions that he is trapped somewhere in his own home and can't get out. I told him not to light a signal fire but I am not sure that in his panic he might not just go ahead a try.

S.O.S
S. O. S.
Dit DIT DIT DIT Dit

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 10:36 AM

Light the fire

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 04:04 PM

I'm not going back in there - the cat ate the trail of breadcrumbs I left (well, I think it was the cat) and it was traumatic to say the least.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 04:06 PM

Look, people, if you still can't find Micca after all this time...it's bloody well hopeless.

Give it up, I say! ;-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 04:54 PM

I am Right here, although it is like inhabiting a sliding block puzzle,
Never has Murphys Law been more apropos, especially part 7 and 8
7 "everything you want to do, you have to do something else first"
8 " It alwas takes longer than you think"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 06:56 PM

Sounds more like the Peter Principle to me - Rising to the level of one's incompetence.
SINS< running for cover,
Color coding, Micca. Color coding!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 07:49 PM

400! I think -- if I count right..

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 08:11 PM

NOPE!
400 and counting...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 08:12 PM

SIGH It was 401 and counting,
Now it is 402...GRRRRRRRR

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 08:14 PM

SINS, Its a bit late for colour coding!!! since ,like, I have already MOVED!!! and it had to be completed at VERY short notice on 18 Dec, and one lot of movers didnt turn up!! ,packed most of the stuff yes and then VANISHED!! had not been paid for any of the work done even (I have since received their bill, which is reasonable for the work actually done) I then had to find a second set of movers at , what I thought would be, a fairly slack time of year!!!! WRONG, I tried 12 before I found one that could do it in the time!! and then there was the problem of removing 2 dumpsters of junk from my attic, all to be done inside the same time scale... so I say again, And The Horse, with your colour codes..

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 08:23 PM

But did you find the stinky thing, or did it finally dry up completely?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 09:52 PM

Jeri- Yon Stinky Thing was found. It's best forgotten, methinks. If that's possible.

Well, did it ever return? No, it never returned,
And its fate is still unlearned.
We may ride forever through the threads of Mudcat.
It's the thing that never returned.







Unlike Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:32 AM

I found the stinky things...

Oh ye Gods did I find the stinky things.

I'm still having nightmares about the stinky things, and remember, I worked in catering for 8 years and I've changed nappies!

A PM to the Neil Young Centre for the Terminally Screwed might get you the gory details, depending on whether the therapy has worked.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:47 AM

Laa la lala lala la.
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:35 AM

heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:42 AM

Have you guys lost Micca, Again?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:48 AM

If only

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 11:32 AM

Is he roaming again?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 11:46 AM

Sins, you are an eephil woman!**BG**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 03:07 PM

Oh no, do I need to start checking bus terminals for gnomes again?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 03:19 PM

But "Did she have a Guitar?"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:03 PM

I've seen (and heard) Micca twice in the last 11 days - in Sidmouth on 23 Feb at the Middle Bar reunion, and in Pinner last Saturday for George Papavgeris's CD launch. After both occasions he claimed to have found his way back home. At least, I think it was Micca and not a hologram....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,tinker
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:37 PM

Oh dear has he caught another wanderlust ????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:44 PM

Better than some Other Things he could catch, Tink.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 09:15 PM

he has quite a good sense of direction, he has.
he finds his way to his new home and elsewhere quite easily, and its a good neighbor hood with a good pub and market, etc.

his variable whereabouts has more to do with the fact he's welcome so many places.

cheers all
chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:41 PM

I saw him in COSTCO yesterday, and he's dyed his hair!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 11:02 PM

ok -- so where the hell is he?????? Is he in Maine again -- I shall be some pissed if he does not present himself at my house.......!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 05:24 AM

But KT, a lot of his hair is already dead!

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,GnomeTracker Inc.
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 07:46 AM

Sources tell me he is in his house, last seen under a pile of shelves and a cat.

As for his roaming about the country, it seems he'd rather do anything than sort his boxes out.

GnomeTracker Inc.
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Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 08:07 AM

If he's in Maine, he's buried under a pile of snow and ice. I don't know about his neighborhood. He called me Sunday and there were cats outside his window howling so loudly that I could hear them and litle Moggsie was calling back. Quite a cacophany or is that cocaphony? Noisy anyway.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 08:10 AM

Catophany Sins?

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 08:13 AM

Maybe he should give the cat a tonic?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 11:46 AM

Took me a minute to get that one, Giok. Keep it simple, will you?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 11:52 AM

His neighbourhood is the same as mine and although it got chilly yesterday, the sleet only lasted about 20 minutes and was gone before 9.30pm . The only thing he's buried in is boxes.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 11:58 AM

Just for you Mary Sunshine :)

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 03:20 AM

I've seen him a couple of times recently too & I Know where he might be found in a couple of weeks, well at least within a 1/2 acre or so. Might have to polish up his crawling skills though *grin*

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:24 AM

"buried in his boxers"?????? Not his kilt and cape?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 05:50 PM

Ahhh Mary that was boxeS not boxeRs --- the dear man is avoiding organizing his life with a blatent disregard to his own discomfort (not to mention the inability to find anything -- even micca himself?)   

Tinker

Now what on this thread has made "Bereavement Radio-Free Listen to Cattle Decapitation Free Unlimited Listening!"   pop up as the ad of choice..???

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 05:54 PM

The Lone Ranger?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:31 PM

Does Micca wear boxers?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:10 PM

there some things that are better left alone SINSULL and the Micca's small clothes are among them, I'm sure.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:18 PM

Small clothes? Micca has small clothes?! If he does, I am sure he feels they are best left alone, too!:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 06:58 AM

Yeah, I wear Boxers wanna make something of it? I just love the freedom I have in them!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:17 AM

Too much information!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tig
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:48 AM

Now the ad is for a Choral Festival in Barcelona singing in the open air squares! Do you think they are hinting at something??

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 09:39 AM

For a man of your height, I think it's only right you should wear shorts Micca. As for the freedom they afford, is that what they mean when they say, room for improvement?
Watch this space readers !

G.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,amused observer
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 09:44 AM

Thought it was "au naturel" under the kilt!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:27 AM

If that means with a thick coat of Savlon you're right.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:45 AM

It is so easy to wind you guys up.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:49 AM

Maybe its more (after years of tight underwear(they were the "fashion" in my younger days)) of "Free at last, Free at last...."

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:59 AM

But you always gave it away free.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 03:02 PM

Giok, I've found, to my cost, that "free" can be very expensive indeed!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 03:09 PM

The penicillin worked didn't it?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:04 PM

Oh sure the penicillin works, but the "other" cure, tho' more expensive, may turn out better and more long lasting and reliable, in the long run

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:13 PM

And, I don't think he's talking about the "abstinence" cure...more of a Swinging Free, finally!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:18 PM

NO comment

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:23 PM

Is it Martin Luther King Day for some?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:44 PM

I think Miccs would balk at the suggestion that anything was worn under the Kilt I am sure he would replace the worn parts immediately!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 02:49 AM

Linda - that conjures up an image that even I, after knowing the scrofulous little git possibly for more years than anyone here (except long-suffering relatives and Manitas) find difficult to cope with.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 03:03 PM

Rumor has it that he was carried away over the rainbow by a vicious gale wind. Kilt a' flyin' Must have been something to see. Has he landed?
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 07:33 AM

Not the sort of blow he asked for, I think!

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 08:07 AM

Giok! Cellar!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 08:27 AM

PLEASE!!!

I was only just recovering from the last mind image of him..... now I'm going to need another whole bar of chocolate!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 02:12 PM

Think I'll join you Liz!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 09:17 AM

" I have in my hand a piece of paper, which, I believe, means Peace in our time
Neville Chamberlain 1938

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 09:54 AM

What have you got in the other hand?

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 09:58 AM

Please Goik - we really don't want to know the answer to that question!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:17 AM

So is it "Open Season" then?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:29 AM

The real question is why is Giok so fascinated with Micca's...hand?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:59 AM

Giok, in the other hand is a large celebratory Single Malt (18 yo Highland Park before you ask), I may not be quite Free, but I might be this weeks Special Offer!!! :o)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:16 PM

For 'Special Offer' read - bargain bucket.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:47 PM

BOGOF

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:56 PM

Bloody Old Goat of Folk is that what you mean Giok by BOGOF, there again 'What is Folk' some would say! nowt queer as 'Folk' and there's non queerer then .... ;-)


lol

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 01:10 PM

Close but no cigar Sheilagh.

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:14 PM

close yes! just having my own little joke here ;-)

lol

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:39 PM

Where'd ya go, sweetie? Oh, well, best wishes on being set free, officially, anyway!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 May 08 - 03:09 PM

So what happened to his thank you thread?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 20 May 08 - 05:32 PM

Tis gone...do we need to start a "where is Micca's thread?" thread?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 May 08 - 05:54 PM

It seems I posted "Keep out of trouble" and the Micca thanks thread disappeared... Kitty (puzzled)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tig
Date: 20 May 08 - 06:54 PM

I wanted to post to it, went shopping, and it had gorn!!!!

Maybe his fairly godmother took it since he needed her no more :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:10 PM

Just call me puzzled in Portland...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 May 08 - 02:29 AM

I heard from Micca today. He's doing fine. No, I couldn't leave the other thread up, and Micca agrees. Some personal things just can't be discussed on a public forum like this one. Feel free to contact him about it by personal message.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 May 08 - 08:22 AM

He called last night but I missed him. Presumably he is still in the UK but he will be crossing the pond soon and re-appearing in Maine with side trips elsewhere.

I love Micca dearly but I was the one who asked Joe to monitor the thread and pull it if seemed inappropriate.

When Micca arrives stateside I will start a new thread on his travels. What shall we call it? The Parapetetic Brit? The Roving Rover? Where's Micca II?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 May 08 - 10:28 AM

To affinity and beyond.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 21 May 08 - 01:11 PM

Juneau where he's off to next?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 May 08 - 01:21 PM

Maybe headed for a Rocky Mountain high?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 May 08 - 02:23 PM

And then back for the Maine event, maybe?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 21 May 08 - 10:37 PM

He has hundreds of friends, so he could be anywhere.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 May 08 - 08:25 AM

He's home. I spoke with him last night. And counting the days to his next adventure...Can Alaska handle the Mad Brit? Will he get an acceptable bacon buttie there? An epic movie in the making. I still need a new thread title.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 22 May 08 - 08:31 AM

YOu know the travelocity "roaming gnome" commercials? They always make me think of Micca....

tho' I'm not sure why!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 22 May 08 - 09:56 AM

MMario, you are in good company, ranger1 always says the same thing, I am afraid I have not seen the commercials so I dont know what you mean!!!I always thought that Leadfingers looks more Gnomelike than me and as for Dave Polshaw well I think he looks more like Captain Pugwash

The next "adventure is only 8 weeks away I will put up an itinerey (or even a cunning plan) nearer the time but this one is going to be a Marathon, including ,I hope, a couple of "lifetime ambitions" achieved

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 May 08 - 10:05 AM

Actually Micca, it's the voice of the roaming gnome that really makes us think of you. Different accent but same sort of timbre. I'll have to try and tape one of the adverts for you to watch.

We're looking forward to seeing you back in Maine before too long mate.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 22 May 08 - 11:57 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoKNKFvCBM&feature=related

I can see what you guys mean

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 May 08 - 02:29 PM

LOL Terri!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 22 May 08 - 07:09 PM

Nt just the voice -- Micca IS the gnome.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 May 08 - 08:28 PM

Not AGAIN! I thought we had sorted out where he was a long time ago.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 May 08 - 08:33 PM

You can't keep a good man down LH and Micca is one of the best. You never know where the little devil is going to turn up next.

By the way, I would say that the Roaming Gnome is a really cute character.................

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 22 May 08 - 08:59 PM

I shall be travelling under a "gnome de plume", I see what tami and you others mean about the voice, it does have a similar timber(probably ash or oak)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 May 08 - 02:40 AM

Sick o' more?

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 May 08 - 05:10 AM

Whatever tree he is, one thing is certain, he's been propagated with Dwarfing Root Stock.

G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 23 May 08 - 06:04 AM

"Dwaarf root stock" isn't that Bonsai or is that what Japanese paratroops shout before jumping out of 'planes?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 May 08 - 06:20 AM

Q Who was Chicken Sukiyaki?








































A The longest surviving kamikaze pilot.



G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 May 08 - 08:42 AM

Giok...CELLAR!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 May 08 - 01:27 PM

Just get the eyebrows under control, please. The rest is of little import to me. ;-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 May 08 - 01:31 PM

His eyebrows have an understudy

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: gnu
Date: 23 May 08 - 01:32 PM

Do you really gnome me?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 May 08 - 03:10 PM

WHOA!!!!!!!   Scary eyebrows on Mr Darling.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 23 May 08 - 08:18 PM

I'm not sure where he is, but I think he left a message on my answering machine today that sounded like he was standing next to a jet engine.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 May 08 - 02:16 AM

so, where are you today, micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 May 08 - 07:10 AM

More to the point, what are you doing and with whom?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 24 May 08 - 08:08 AM

...or what?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 24 May 08 - 08:25 AM

I am at home in sunny!! London, eating fresh raspberries and getting ready to go and buy catfood!! and some things for the planned trip, which (It is intended) will begin, once the college term ends, with a flight London > Seattle > Juneau then Juneau > Seattle > Denver then Through the Rocky Mountains (on the train!!!both ways) then back to Denver > Boston >Portland ME > Boston > London taking 3 weeks in all!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 08 - 01:07 PM

Three weeks? Don't blink!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 May 08 - 01:11 PM

LOL gnu.

We'll look forward to giving the weary traveler a little R&R when he gets to Maine.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 May 08 - 01:42 PM

Speak for yourself, Jacqui. Assuming he is planning on crashing at my house, I will keep him up and out until all hours every night (unless of course I have to work the next day.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 May 08 - 04:52 AM

When will he find time to polish his halo?

G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 May 08 - 07:11 AM

More likely his pitchfork Giok.

You know we go for the bad boys!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 25 May 08 - 07:52 AM

" and what is a halo? just another damned thing to keep clean"
Christopher Fry "The Ladys not for Burning

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 25 May 08 - 06:17 PM

You know, that a halo only has to slip a few inches to become a noose.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:14 PM

Hmm, oxygen deprivation would explain a few things... Just kidding, Micca. You know we all love you.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 May 08 - 03:45 AM

If the air gets thinner the higher you climb, then Micca should be getting more oxygen then the rest of us, down there.
Another plausible explanation Tami?


G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 May 08 - 09:37 AM

I spotted the elusive Micca in my backyard this morning at around 6 AM!

By the time I got the fowling piece loaded, though, he was gone...

That was probably the only chance I will ever have to bag a Micca. They're quite shy, you know.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 May 08 - 09:40 AM

Shy ????????????????
Must recheck the dictionary definition of that word.

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 May 08 - 09:55 AM

Hmm. Well, perhaps the local variety is different in some respects from those in the UK?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 May 08 - 10:00 AM

You have Micmacs, might that have been what you spotted?

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 May 08 - 04:58 PM

THOSE??


Jees, say it isn't so... one is more than enough.

Besides.. the only way he ever sees 6.am is if he hasn't been to bed the previous night.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 08 - 06:14 PM

Wait! Are we speaking of the Common Herbacious Micca? Or the Discreet Multifarious Micca? There's a big difference, you know. Then there's the Barred Western Micca, the Great Tufted Micca, and the Least Micca, all quite worthy of mention, I think.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 May 08 - 06:20 PM

We are talking about the lesser monobrowed patersoniensis.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Pistachio
Date: 27 May 08 - 06:51 PM

Will whoever sees him next please give him a hug on my behalf.
Many thanks, Hazel.xx

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 27 May 08 - 07:01 PM

Okay when exactly are the Maine dates.... ????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 08 - 07:30 PM

You know, I don't think that we should still be asking where Micca is at this point.

I think we should be asking why? ;-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 May 08 - 07:34 PM

I don't know the Maine dates for sure, Tink. Are you heading up this way?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 27 May 08 - 08:32 PM

Tink, I will publish the Itinary dates as soon as they are finalised, but at the moment the most likely dates arr arrive Boston>Portland ME 31 July, depart Boston >London 7August




Long ago I used to be a King upon a throne
but I met a wicked fairy and she turned me into stone
and that is why you find me in the garden all alone
oh its not much fun being a Gnome
Miles Wooton

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:20 AM

But it is SOOO much fun being a dog.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:11 AM

What? having an excuse to pee on friends?
Wheres my sou'wester? and oilskins,
is this fishing rod waterproof?
and my wellies leak

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:16 AM

The Welly Boot Song
(McEwen)

Wellies they are wonderful, oh wellies they are swell,
Cause they keep oot the water, an' they keep in the smell,
An' when yer sittin in a room, you can always tell,
When some bugger takes off his wellies.

    If it wasna for your wellies where would you be?
    You'd be in the hospital or infirmary,
    Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pluracy,
    If you didna have your feet in your wellies!

But when yer oot walking, in the country way about
An yer strolling over fields just like a fairmer's herd.
And somebody shouts "Keep aff the grass," and you think "How absurd;"
And, squelch, you find why fairmers a' wear wellies.

   Chorus

There's fishermen and firemen, there's farmers an a',
Men oot digging ditches an' working in the snaw;
This country it would grind tae a halt and no' a thing would graw
If it wasna for the workers in their wellies.

   Chorus

Noo Edward Heath and Wilson, they havna made a hit,
They're ruining this country, mair than just a bit,
If they keep on the way they are goin', we'll all be in the sh..,
So you'd be'er ge(t) your feet in your wellies.

Chorus

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:25 AM

My wellies have chocolates on them.

I love my wellies.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 May 08 - 11:38 PM

Micca - if you hit Maine during those dates you will be on my shit list as we are away from July 3 to July 8 -- so none of Tom's cooking for you...........!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 May 08 - 11:42 PM

OOps - you are off my shit list -- I mis read the dates - we'll be here then - our venture is over July 4........

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 May 08 - 04:10 AM

Is Micca allowed to be on a shit list?


G













































































































I'm down here, in the cellar

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 29 May 08 - 05:09 AM

Looking for your coat, no doubt.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 May 08 - 05:55 AM

I dont know about shit list but I seem on one or two "piss on you" lists, will that do?
Debs, I very much look forward to seeing you and Tom ( and sampling his cooking) and your herpetologist again too,

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 29 May 08 - 06:52 AM

You want to see a herpetologist? Having trouble with the old serpent again?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 May 08 - 08:19 AM

Are you asking to sample the herpetologist????? Move over, Giok. Micca is on his way down and look out. TruBrit is "helping him" down the stairs. She of the theory - you can look but you better not touch.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 May 08 - 10:12 AM

In the interests of clarity and self defence here, Trubrits daughter is an ardent herpetologist and had some of the most beautiful snakes ever on a previous visit, If she is in residence in Maine I hope to visit and handle her snakes again, They were Beautiful!!! Also a visit to Maine without visiting with Trubrit and Tom would be incomplete

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Noreen
Date: 29 May 08 - 06:56 PM

He's in Turin! (not wearing a kilt)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 May 08 - 07:11 PM

"Micca, Micca! Wherefore art thou, Micca?"

- Juliet on her balcony

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 May 08 - 08:14 PM

Damn! He shaved everything but his moustache!. Not a good look for you, Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: curmudgeon
Date: 29 May 08 - 08:23 PM

Everything?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 May 08 - 08:27 PM

TOM! Cellar! And tell Giok to get those damn sheep out of there!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 May 08 - 05:48 AM

Baaaa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a


We're three little lambs who have gone astray baa baa baa ♫♪♫
*************************************************************

Just Micca and me, and Tom he makes three
We're happy in Kendall's cellar ♫♫
*************************************************************
G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:38 AM

You lot can shut up - there's people trying to sleep up here!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Flossie the sheep
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:48 AM

Is it Baaaath time yet?

Flossie

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 May 08 - 08:17 AM

Flossie, you slut! Get back upstairs and leave the dog alone.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 May 08 - 07:19 AM

By the way Micca, when you get here again how about a reprise of the meal you cooked for Mary, but for more of us? It made my mouth water just helping him hunter gather for that one!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 May 08 - 05:11 PM

And what makes you think I am willing to share?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 06:23 AM

I believe it said on Mary's school report,'Does not play nicely with others'. *G*

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 11:40 AM

That's why she likes banjo players, they have so much in common.

G ¦¬]


Yes I know.....CELLAR :(

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 07:23 PM

Morticia, I think it also read "runs with scissors."

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 09:06 PM

And directionally challenged - even my kids knew where we were going Saturday morning - Mary managed to miss the turning for the road she lives off of.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 08:32 AM

When I took Lewis to the ballgame he was horrified that I got us lost. Even he figured out where we were before I did. I told him "I am always lost". Saturday I proved it.

Micca called last night and is planning a formal dinner for August. Wines for every course. He was actually asking me if I preferred this vegetable over that and this dessert over that. In frustration, I pointed out that it was months away and did not have to be organized today. LOL He is as bad as Jacqui trying to organize me. Is it a Brit thing?

My only request is that this time someone else cleans the salad dressing off the walls - Micca is a somewhat enthusiastic chef.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 08:56 AM

Does the invitation go out to your buddies Mary? I'll volunteer to clean up after him if I can get to eat the meal.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 09:16 AM

We will let you know. I still think it is going to be 95 degrees and humid.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:58 AM

My daughter has a sweatshirt that says "Runs with scissors!"

I've asked Micca what foods I should lay in and that he cannot count on my cooking, as I don't, and he's been telling me not to worry, etc., etc., so Mary...without getting fancy send me a grocery list will you? **BG**

He will be busy here...we have something like 35+ vineyards, one of which is literally out the door of the B&B he will be at (there are also buffalo next door!)so I figure I shall play chauffeur taking himself round to each and every one for a tasting or two. Oh, and then there's also the meadery!

kat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 11:12 AM

Yeah, don't worry about the grocery list as long as there's a wine list.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 11:12 AM

Kat - tell him to bring some samples back to Maine with him!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 12:26 PM

manitas, you know me too well!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 12:35 PM

LOL...thanks for that, Manitas!

Jacqui, I will make sure of it!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 01:15 PM

Perhaps someone should warn the buffalo herders of possible stampedes...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 05:16 PM

Manitas - why don't you join us? Liz would love a trip across the ocean and you will ove Maine.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 05:31 PM

What verb is "ove", pray tell?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 05:32 PM

It's a many splendoured thing Tami.

G

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:37 PM

Clever, Giok - very clever.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:42 PM

I thought it has something to do with ovaries or hors dee ovrrreeez?!

Fortunato...I don't think they can be "herded" we'll all just have to run like hell!**BG**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Jun 08 - 06:53 AM

have you finalised those dates, micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 03 Jun 08 - 07:08 AM

Sinsull, We honestly can't afford to come at the moment. This year we are going to visit Europe (well a small part of it (ok, a large person of it)) so taht's the limit of our budget.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jun 08 - 08:04 AM

Come over with Carole and Andrew next year. Or hi-jack an airliner and come this year.
I understand the money issue - it's a challenge to keep oil in the heating tank and gas in the car. I dread this winter.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 08 Jun 08 - 11:33 AM

ok I've lost track my hairy little chum. where is he mudcatters of the world?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Jun 08 - 04:27 PM

Well, he's supposed to be heading this way before too long but today........?

Wherever he is I hope that he's got a glass of something good in his hand and a song to sing.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jun 08 - 05:37 PM

He had a fur-filled lap when I spoke with him a little while ago. Little Mugsy, the ratbag as he calls her, had climbed up to chime in.:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:46 AM

I told him the Viagra would work eventually!


G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:53 AM

Mac Kenzie ......Cellar

Its Funny, Little Wugsie comes along as soon as I am talking on the phone, and whips oy the Cat Crampons and does a quick ascent of my right leg so she can purr and Meeeep at whoever I am talking to,( my phone seems to pick up her meeps and purr very well so the person at the other end can hear her loud and clear), so conversations are often punctuated with cries of Ouch!! and gerroff you bastard...,

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 09:12 AM

This is my final request for an arrival date, Sir Micca. Beds are at a premium and you may lose yours if I don't get a schedule FAST!


heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:24 AM

Mary, the provisional date for my arrival in Boston, and therefore in Maine is 30 July, now all I have to do is find "the woman with the guitar" so I can be met at Portland bus station( no, not THAT bus station , the other one) Do you think I should send Tami a photo so that she will recognise me? I t sounds like one of those cryptic "personals" that used to be in the papers or maybe a "Lonely Hearts" ad "Ranger seeks Gnome in bus station

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tig
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:30 PM

Would probably sound better (or cause more sly laughs) the other way round Micca. You hear about what these Gnomes get up to .......

HUGS xxx

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 07:38 AM

Oh the obfustication of it all. where is he? Not what is he, or the spirits save us, why is he.

Where is he?

LChance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 11:48 AM

My Rog was remarking the other day that he heard Santa's elves take their summer vacation in Juneau which they consider the "northern" Riviera and that gnomes would be welcome amongst them. I told him Micca might be more comfortable at the Gnome Convention in Nome. Apparently they hope to copy the same as has been held in Australia!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 12:04 PM

HMMMM That Ohm Gnome looks a hell of a lot like Peter Sousa. Maybe he has Australian relatives.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 02:24 PM

John McKenzie specifically asked for this...heh heh. The Travelocity Gnome is somewhere between Maryland and Maine. NJ, I believe. And should be arriving in Maine tonight. The fair Tami will meet him at the bus station and deliver him to my house where I expect to be sound asleep - I caught the Getaway cold and am a bit under the weather.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 03:09 PM

I'll get you Mary Sullivan.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: lady penelope
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 03:53 PM

"And your little dog Toto, too.."

Sorry, did I say that out loud...?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 03:57 PM

Have some tea and feel better, Sins...puir dear. luvya

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 03:59 PM

what's he gonna do for breakfast now that TJ Hooker's has moved up the road a piece?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 04:01 PM

Becca,
I was planning on breaking the news to him gently. Spaghetti and meatballs at Amato's (which Carole insisted on calling T'amato's.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 04:35 PM

Aw crap..hope I didn't ruin the gentle let down...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 04:40 PM

I posted him off on the 12:15 train after he single handedly tried to jump start the American economy down on Church Street. Okay note to self walking into a Wine store with Micca is done only when time is not at a premiumn.
He got to watch my dear hubby watch Obama and McCain debate. I think he was watching the watchers, more than the show....
Made for a great transition back to the real world.

But it was time for movin' on .....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 04:43 PM

Haha! Tink, that's why I took a book along when I drove him around to the different wineries out here! (Actually, I had a sore foot and could only sit and wait in the car, anyway and, he was very good about not taking too, too long. It was fun to hear his surprise each time he found a good wine.:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 05:41 PM

he's in my backyard, under a tree, wearing a red hat.. :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 06:19 PM

Mary- PLEASE have him phone me when he gets there- in the morning, I mean!!
Allison

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 06:23 PM

He isn't here.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 09:08 PM

Just dropped him off at Chez SINSULL. He is aware of the change in location of PB&J Thornberry's, but I think he may be in denial.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 09:23 PM

I am deeply shocked!! what will I do for breakfast now???
It was a feature of my visits for 6 years!! and now , "gone, gone and never called me Mother!!", I have arrived at Marys, and am being very quiet as she is not at all well,
Tink is right, I was watching Jarius watching the "debate" last night!!, his reactions told me a lot.
and the wine shop was very special!! It was like going to Thorntons ( a UK shop specialising in hand made chocolates) with Liz the Squeak!!!
as for the Getaway... well, that will have to wait for another day for a fuller report, suffice to say that it was WELL up to the high standards of previous ones!!

P.S. Allison, I will call in the morning!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 10:01 AM

Thornton's moved. It is not gone forever. And I will see to it that you get to visit the new location. But be forewarned - it is further upscale and not nearly as cozy. The wine selection seemed a bit off to me too.

Meantime, I am here at work inflicting my misery on fellow employees.
REMINDER TO MICCA: Tylenol and grits.

Dinner party Saturday night so don't make any other plans. The usual suspects will be there.

And to the top where Giok waits anxiously to catch up on Micca's latest adventure.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:05 AM

Reminder to Micca - Tylenol and grits.
He is on his way down to pORTSMOUTH THIS EVENING FOR FRIENDS AND SONG. tHEN BACK TO mAINE FOR A BELATED BIRTHDAY PARTY (dAMN cAPSLOCK) with assorted friends on Saturday PM.
Sunday with Alison possibly.
We are keeping him busy. BUT...the new Thornton's doesn't serve breakfast!!!!! What were they thinking? So Micca and Tami visited Uncle Andy's - a friendly place with a hearty breakfast.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 09:14 AM

Oops, probably now is a good time to announce my recent schedule change (as of this week).

My day off is now TUESDAY not Thursday, so I hope Micca will be with us the early part of the week. The rest of the days next week I work until 6:00 -- two days at JCPenney's Optical and 3 days at Sears Optical.

I'm now officially an optech and just got a HUGE (right) 30 cent an hour raise.

Ah well. At least I have a JOB!!!

See you tonight at The Press Room, Micca!

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:28 AM

Speaking of the press room - last saturday ran into a young gentleman at the "Run of the Mill" in Plymouth who says he "grew up on" the Press Room friday night sings. Good shanty singer - but he says he never has got to one of the monthly shanty sings!

(didn't get his name though) He is currently working at King Richard's faire in Carver.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:37 AM

600!!!!

wE MISSED YOU AT THE gETAWAY, lEO. nEXT YEAR?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:37 AM

yUP...CAPSLOCK AGAIN.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 02:01 PM

FYI sitting on his backside in the garden enjoying the sunshine of Maine!! Having much too good a time with some really lovely people!!
its a hard life but someone has to do it!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 02:38 PM

yup - next year at the Getaway. I hope. If my family doesn't decide to go on another spree of mating and/or spawning.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 02:53 PM

Copulation causes population mate.


XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 03:44 PM

Not among sharks, apparently.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 04:23 PM

Loan sharks or lone sharks?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 04:40 PM

Virgin sharks. Google it. You'll see - two virgin births.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 04:47 PM

Well no matter how horny I was, I wouldn't get close to something with teeth like that. So I can understand it happening.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 07:51 AM

Inquiring minds want to know .....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 08:11 AM

Micca is in New Hampshire returning to Maine on Thursday in time for the Richard Thompson concert, then back to NH for the shanty sing then...hell, I don't know. I do find it unsettling to find his shoes under my bed, in the living room and occasionally in the kitchen. He seems to shed debris where ever he goes.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 11:23 AM

Yeah, that sounds like him. Check the debris.. it may not be as innocuous as it seems.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 11:28 AM

Oh, she checks EVERYTHING that's been on the floor for longer than 5 minutes.
I've heard Micca's off on an adventure with Tom (curmudgeon). (I don't know if Batty's with them or if she's at work) I'll see them later today.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 11:47 AM

That's because Alice is likely to pee on anything left on the floor not because I am compulsively neat.
Doing Acorn, Jeri?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 11:51 AM

Sins or Jeri, would you ask him to call me before Thursday, please? Or, let me know where I can reach him on my dime.:-) I've something I need to let him know. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 01:33 PM

I'll tell him if he doesn't see this message before then.

Yes, SINS--Acorns, the restaurant for little nuts.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 02:50 PM

Jeri, didn't you once refer to me as a little nut? How come nobody invited me?

Oh, hey, I like these ads on the bottom of the page! Mooning Garden Gnome: Surprise guests w/ some cheeky fun. SALE now only $13.95 Same Day Ship... I think I may have to investigate further...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 03:12 PM

Thanks, Jeri. I'll be grandson-occupied from about 3p-515p my time, otherwise my time if FREE.:-)

ranger1, the only ad I see if for the Grateful Dead!*hmmmm*:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 03:59 PM

Micca's in New Hampshire right now.

Mary, have you recovered yet?

By the way, we're all a little nuts...

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 09:24 PM

We Have returned from dinner at Acorns full of good wine and food and I called katlaughing today and all is spoken of. The food was, as usual, perfect, the wine was intriguing as they had only American reds, so we tried a Washington State Cabernet Sauvignon ,predictably the 2nd bottle was different (while appearing identical) to the first, but both were good Perfect food, perfect wine and perfect company, what more could I ask for?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 08:29 AM

Today, my husband and I will scoop him up and take him to Portsmoouth, NH, where hopefully we will find some seafood and good times!

We're just going to run through our set list for Friday, Micca, and then we'll hit the road!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 07:45 PM

...And a lovely time it was, too! We found the home of Curmudgeon and Bat Goddess, wherein we found Curmudgeon and Micca himself! We had a nice visit with Curmudgeon, then took Micca to Portsmouth for lunch at the "Rusty Hammer". Strolled around the park by thr river, chatted, sang, laughed, then back to the ranch to say our goodbyes.

It's always so much fun to be with you, friend!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 08:09 PM

He will be SO pleased to be back at W*** on Monday !   Teee Heee !!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 10:15 PM

No1. Leadfingers do not use that Nasty little 4 letter word ending K to me !!!
No 2 It was a delight to meet you and Your Husband Hunt today, it was an experience I will cherish in the future, I know. It will be great to spend more time together at some future Time and to swap songs,I hope Saturday becomes feasible. It would be delightful to hear you sing together and to maybe sing for you too. You are the BEST and I wish we had more time together,
Much affection to you both, and of course my congratulations and felicitations on your Nuptials
Your friend
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 01:30 PM

Where are you now sir? And what is happening tonight? Enquiring minds need to know.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 01:54 PM

I am back in South Portland, I thought(taking into account the various Health issues (or should that be tissues)) we were dining on that boat in Portland tonight?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 02:25 PM

I thought you were hot on the trail of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Are you at my place?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 02:50 PM

Yes, Mary, and making Tea!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 04:28 PM

What, still in the states, are you? The flowers you sent Susette are still beautiful on the dining room table. You out did yourself, Micca. Stellar.

Sounds like you're being wined and dined and making music. Simply deluxe.

cheers,
chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 06:10 PM

Here he is!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 07:55 AM

Micca and I went to dinner last night in the floating restaurant in Portland Harbour. Neither Mary or Kendall was able to join us - they both still have the remnants of the Getaway bug, so it was just two Brits with good food and wine and lots of chat.

All in all a lovely evening. Thank you Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 08:15 AM

I hear you two have been banned from DeMillo's for conduct unbecoming a tourist. That's the last time you go out without a keeper.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 08:18 AM

You got it wrong Mary - they want to book us as entertainment next summer!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 09:07 AM

No comment!

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 12:41 AM

Just back from a Richard Thompson concert. Some loved it; some hated it. I thought I had died and gone to hell. Jacqui got the giggles...and I helped. We left halfway through but the rest of the crowd - Micca, Tom and Deborah, Tami and Jason stayed and enjoyed it. It looked to me like Peter Souza doing Elvis. Shenandoah was painfully priceless. "Shenando-YIP!
Not sure who I confused him with - not a folk singer. To my left was Jacqui yawning loudly; to my left Micca sound asleep. I left. I'd have gone home but I was everyone's ride.
BUT... the young fiddler who warmed up the crowd was very good. Bought her CD, Promised to send her a link to Mudcat and the Digitrad.
She introduced "The Maid On The Shore" as collected in Maine. In person, she said it was a version found in Maine. Bright, talented lady. I thoroughly enjoyed her short set.
Micca is off to brush his teeth and then to bed. He has been warned - Saturday I sleep until I wake up. No noise; no questions.
Goodnight.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 04:54 AM

I'm with you re Richard Thompson, Sins. I find his stuff too loud, too self indulgent, and totally unlovable.
He may have started off in folk music, but he's gone a long way down the road that leads to rock music.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:01 AM

to my left Micca sound asleep.

There's a surprise.... he's fallen asleep in the Royal Albert Hall you know!

Just to make sure, you're not back in the UK until Monday 20th? Having difficulty moving the bodies...

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:27 AM

Can't they just keep him?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:44 AM

I told Mary - if there is one thing worse than teenage angst it's mid-life crisis angst. Too many twiddly guitar bits, showing off his expertise and the songs were more rock than folk for me. Very disappointing.

As Mary said, the young lady who preceded him was excellent, an accomplished singer and musician. I'll be looking to get hold of her CD.

The real before the concert, chez TRUBRIT's, was excellent. Tom is a real gem who seems to be able to feed large numbers of people with no fuss whatsoever. I guess that, like the swan, all the effort goes on below the surface, but the result is always a meal that attracts the chosen like moths to a flame. Even Kendall, who has not been well this past two weeks, made the effort to come over for the meal.

Today it's the Press Room with Micca and, possibly, Mary, if she's out of bed and fit to go in time.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Cats
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 11:03 AM

But this year he isn't trying to find a cape for me!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 02:15 PM

Well, Linn won't be at The Press Room this afternoon. I'm still layed low and recovering from the Post-Getaway Crud and I wasn't even AT the Getaway! Must have picked it up at the soiree last weekend at the home of the Perle Mesta of Portland...

If I had any energy (which I haven't) I'd fantasize about shaking seven different kinds of snot out of you all -- which, considering this particular malady, might happen spontaneously.

Sorry, Alison! I was dead to the world the afternoon you and your beloved were here -- I DO look forward to meeting him someday when my head isn't full of large dry insects and my lungs and nasal passages aren't full of the above seven different varieties.

My primary manager was prescient enough yesterday to realize I'd need another day plus my Sunday day off to recover and be more or less healthy for next week and so booked someone else to cover for me today. However I just got a call from my OTHER manager (geez, this flitting between two optical shops is making me dizzy) saying she's sending the optech there home sick this afternoon -- could I possibly cover for her tomorrow? Uh uh -- not if she wants me there on Monday, which is HER day off.

Ah well, this too will pass.

I think this is the third, possibly the fourth, Press Room Shanty Sing I've missed in the past five years since it started.

Micca, take care of yourself! (Everybody else, too!)

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:16 PM

Me too, Linn. It has been almost two weeks and I am still pushing and pulling revolting crtap from my nose and throat.

Meantime, Micca (who is also sniffling) is on his way to the Press Room with Mrs. Morse.I am planted in front of the teli and computer with brain in neutral.

And who is responsible for the abundance of glow-in-the-dark religious icons, tiny penguins and teeny nuns taht are taking over my home? Where did the teeny tiny hand painted creche come from/ I am considering a new Year's bonfire with all that toxic plastic burning.

Are the glow in the dark ones radioactive?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:29 PM

Yup, tritium usually.
Never mind Mary, if ya gotta glow, ya gotta glow !

Hee hee


XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:36 PM

'On his way' ... ?! He's been there for hours. I came home early. My heat came on in the wee hours and my nose is stuffy, my throat's screwed up and my voice was fading. I also was falling asleep--don't know why. I don't have a virus though. The environment hates me. Micca was singing his heart out happily, but I think Jacqui was stoically holding on to consciousness with her teeth and fingernails.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:47 PM

His singing does that to me too, Jeri

¦¬]

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 09:26 PM

Giok, I do believe you are jealous of our travelling Brit. I hope Jacqui is conscious - she's driving. She and I misbehaved badly at the Richard Thompson concert. It suddenly dawned on me that I was expecting Richard Farina - and he has been dead for forty years.
Sigh - all that angst and claptrap. It was pure torture.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 04:54 AM

Nah mate, he has nothing I want, just winding him up, as always. Many Americans never quite get this aspect of British humour.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 09:39 AM

Yes we do...lol

Micca is currently wandering around my house picking up bits and pieces of his life that are scattered around here. So far he has managed to retrieve the critical stuff - his camera, computer, glasses, etc.
Tomorrow I will find the rest and mail it off to him.
Shall I pin a sign to his jacket:
This is Micca. If found please return him to Liz the Squeak in London?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 12:58 PM

Could you remind him I need his new address to post the jacket he left here. Bubba seems to have taken a liking to it, so I'll run it through the wash first.

Tinker

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 01:04 PM

Tink - I've PMd you the address.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 09:00 PM

I put him on the bus to Boston. Micca was looking forward to the VIP lounge at Delta Airlines, Boston. He should be mid-air now. I. as the old song says, will put his little shoes away.
Yeah - he left them behind.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,KT, visiting NY
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 11:36 PM

Hey Mary, for one of his stature, he leaves quite an empty place when he leaves, doesn't he?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Oct 08 - 03:38 AM

For pity's sake, don't label him care of me, I've just cleaned the carpets!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Oct 08 - 08:18 AM

He arrived safely home and is off to work. Hi Ho. He does leave an empty space, KT.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 07:51 AM

Anyone know where he is, for real? I Pm'd him on Tuesday but haven't heard back. My phone book has gone walkies or I would call him.

YOO HOOOOOO
MICCA?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 08:32 AM

He was at Liz and Manitas' place at the weekend.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 08:55 AM

Comfortably seated at my computer at home listening to Verdi(Triumphal March from Aida) and vieweing Dani's pix from the Getaway (surprisingly appropriate musically) I will PM my number, Sins, I KNEW I shoulda called last night for some reason!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:04 AM

No - I was watching Obama and Ghost Hunters. I wouldn't have answered. LOL
This thread is getting too long. We will have to start another when you go missing again.
M

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:32 AM

Can't happen too soon.
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Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:53 PM

Physically he's there in East London. But where is he spiritually?
I mean, where's he at as a person? Is he living a meaningful life. It's not enough to jump from continent to continent shacking up with female after female, I mean, what's it all about, Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:05 AM

Chance, I think the "Dayglo" setting on your vivid Imagination is set too high!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:18 AM

What happens when this thread reaches 666 and it's Halloween?

More pix wanted!

RtS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:21 AM

What's it all about, Alphie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about
When you sort it out Alphie?
Are we meant to get more than we give????
Or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind Alphie...



Back to work.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 11:09 AM

Word has it that Micca and at least one lady (a blonde) are winging there way to beautiful downtown Maine sometime soon. Could it be true?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 09:43 PM

Seriously????? The man seriously has waaaaaaaaay too much money -- he has been here at least ten times by my count this year........! But it would be lovely to see him.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 09:53 PM

Blonde, huh? Well that would be a change.:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:22 AM

Okay so I can't resist having the 666th post....
SINSULL, I found his jacket under a pile of books last week, he suggests I post it to your house ... parcel to follow soon.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:38 AM

That wasn't a woman, that was a wolf & she had his wallet in her mouth & she was running circles around him.

It would be nice to see him again though even with his wolf.


When???

Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 08:19 AM

Must be the pure water and sweet ocean air that brings him back - LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 08:38 AM

TruBrit -- I've told you a MILLION TIMES not to exaggerate!

(Hmmm...how many times? New Year's -- which I missed, alas, Portland festival, Getaway and subsequent trip to Maine and New Hampshire.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:19 AM

And each time he leaves we find an assortment of items - spare crystals, shoes, laundry, sleeping bags...eventually he will just have to move to Maine. Everything he owns will be here.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:20 AM

Of course it is not likely that he will leave the blonde behind. That I would notice before I let him walk out the door.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:41 PM

I shall be seeing Micca on Tuesday and getting the lowdown from him then.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:54 PM

I spokwe with him last night and he is more high up than low down.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:04 PM

Away in foreign parts again is he??? He has a date with a turkey in the Cottage on Christmas Day or has he had a better offer from someone more blonde than me?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:19 PM

Not yet. He is also waxing ecstatic about turkey on Christmas with a bit of libation.

This is for New Years Eve.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 08:08 AM

Arrives Maine December 28. He, jacqui and the blonde will meet in Boston. I would love to be on that bus.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 10:37 AM

I would NOT want to be DRIVING that bus, though... :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:28 PM

You have no idea, Becca. The drivers are all mildly insane and chatty. Jacqui and Micca always insist on sitting in the front seat. Need I say any more?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:37 PM

Where is Micca? Well, one place is on our new CD. Two of Micca's photographs were used in the graphics for the new CD. Both are photos he took of Susette and I in Gainsborough this year.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 01:52 PM

I am here in London, freezing my Butt off!!!!!, The Plan (note PLAN) is to spend Christmas in Old Keepers with MGAS and Richard and assorted other Initiates of Richards Port Drinking Club (don't ask!!)and then legging it to Maine on the 28th, for New Year with the Mainiacs!!!
I know not of Blondes or rumours of Blondes!!! (well thats my story and I'm sticking to it)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 02:33 PM

A Tim Phillips 5-stringed violin (an octave would be OK too... or anything else) in blonde wood? For MEEEE?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 03:26 PM

Micca, winging it to Maine might be a wiser plan than legging it, unless the North Atlantic has frozen over recently.

How I wish I could come, too, and give you a Yuletide hug with or without a blonde. (Hey, does Seamus count as a blonde?)

By the way, I volunteer for the California branche of that port collective...

Jeri, I hope you get that fiddle. Let me know if there's a collection plate; I'll contribute my mite! (Unfortunately, a mite is about what I've got in the coffers this Christmas.)

Love to the Maineiacs, who all seem to hang out on this thread for some peculiar reason.

Claire

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 04:28 PM

No Claire - not Seamus although I knew someone would suspect that. If you start riding the rails you can make it by New Year's, Claire. C'mon!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 04:42 PM

Bummer -- this is our 'off' year for going to Sins for New Years -- my sister is coming from England so we are having a gathering here. Micca, if you are in the area drop by for a hug.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:02 PM

I can guess who the blonde is. I'd rather it be a Tim Phillips violin--less fuzz and probably not as high strung--but I have a guess.

Looking forward to New Year's Eve. (I haven't been invited, but I know where Mary lives.)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:58 PM

Deb - I was hoping that we might arrange a small soiree at your place for the visiting Brits, maybe just after New Year. I'll check on the dates they are going back, but I know that the blonde wants lots of music while she's there.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 06:40 PM

Sorry guys. New Year's will be small and pecunious if at all. If Jacqui will take the blonde I'll keep Micca here. I do still have his shoes.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 07:38 PM

I know who that blonde is and all I can say is what the hell does she see in him? He doesn't even own a genuine New Zealand lambskin coat! She's beautiful and built like a brick shipyard!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 07:38 PM

Jacqui - I'm sure we can work something out.....let's talk....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 08:48 AM

I'm a blonde... but am I being taken?? No. I'm stuck here. I can't even plan anything yet, until someone makes up her mind what she's doing.

I'm going to sulk.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 11:38 AM

Kendall -- no, but he's got that irresistible gnomish air about him, which is almost as good as a genuine New Zealand lambskin coat.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 12:05 PM

Don't you just love the smell of leather?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 11:05 AM

Kendall - a brick shipyard???? I guess that's the Maine equivalent of a compliment. We will have to explain the Captain and the idiom before she sees that.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 02:49 PM

My polite old dad used to say "Built like a brick cathedral." When I saw Paddington Cathedral, I finally understood what he meant. Hey, Mary, can Edmund and I bring something delicious and mildly luxurious to help make a fine New Year's Eve?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 08:44 PM

As long as it's not dried camel meat from Afghanistan. Yes - that would be wonderful Charmion.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 03:20 PM

The original saying is much too crude for me to repeat. I have too much class.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 03:35 PM

I don't: he means brick shithouse folks :)
Usually cleaned up into brick outhouse, but the Cap'n has style as well as class.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 06:12 PM

Thank you, Sir.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 06:57 PM

You mean square, Chunky and Red???

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 06:58 PM

Oh, and thats 700!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 08:34 PM

Your age! LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Dec 08 - 10:01 PM

He called tonight. Lots of ladies to amuse him. He got to talk with jeri and Tami while I dealt with the pizza delivery man.

Square and chunky? Micca is skating on thin ice.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 10:41 AM

Susette and I are having a music jam/party on New Years Day on Hanlon Mt in Asheville, so if the ladies get too frisky come on down!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: goatfell
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 04:35 AM

get a life

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 08:13 AM

We all have lives, try it sometime.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 10:49 AM

Mary, about New Year's Eve --

I was thinking of making a cassoulet -- that's a French bean dish with several kinds of meat in it, enough for everyone to have some, in my big bean pot. I can cook it half-way at home, pack it in the back of the car in a nice solid box padded with a towel (refrigeration not a problem, obviously), and finish it at your house in the oven or the microwave, whichever is more convenient.

I know two versions of cassoulet: one made with salt pork, sausage (smoked and garlicky), bacon and lamb; and the other made with salt pork, sausage (garlicky, not necessarily smoked) and smoked goose. Which kind would you prefer?

We'll tote along some wine to go with it.

And I won't forget the bean pot, or indeed require you to mail it after us. (I blush for shame at the memory ...)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:31 AM

That sounds wonderful Charmion. Goose not lamb, I think.

Comfort food. Yum.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:33 AM

Micca says that the smoked goose one is serious s%*t so we reckon that should be the one, Charmion, unless you want to be really nice and do both. Micca wants to know what kind of beans you use.

MY life is very good!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:41 AM

The French recommend haricot, but I have used both pinto, and black eyed beans with equal success.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:41 AM

Oh sure! She abandons Kendall and Seamus in the midsts of an ice storm and HER life is very good.

heh heh

Goatfell, you are welcome to visit us in Maine and sample the lifestyle. Micca tried it and keeps coming back. As do a number of Welsh, Scottish, British, Norwegian, etc. 'Catters. Do you play the banjo?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 11:58 AM

Who was the Norwegian catter? Bente is Danish...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 12:30 PM

Maybe I have a secret...



and maybe I just screwed up.
I'll never tell.

12 days to Micca.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.

Alice peed on the tree and Freddie killed the bird.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me - two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

Freddie killed them too. White feathers from one end of the house to the other...

Who's next?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 01:16 PM

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me - three French hens

Ah well, Chicken al Freddie for dinner, tonight and tomorrow night and the night after that.................


On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me - four calling birds

But they were only checking to see if Micca had arrived yet.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 01:20 PM

WHo the hell gave those calling birds my cell phone number??????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 01:21 PM

The Feds?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 01:35 PM

On the Fifth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

FIVE genuine, imitation gold-tone plated metallicized polymer diecast reproduction RINGS! (featuring birds!)


On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

SIX geese a laying....(in wait to ambush Freddie)

Ever notice that this is a very fowl song?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 02:50 PM

Six geese a'laying? A'laying? As if I don't have enough crap a'laying around here already.
Hmmmm
A partridge, two hens, three doves, 4 birds, 6 geese - 16 so far and I don't have a drop cloth. Here Kitty Kitty.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 03:22 PM

You won't have to buy cat food for a year, Sins.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 03:28 PM

Yeah - that will offset the cost of the bird flu vaccines and dry cleaning bills. I really hate birds...in the house, I mean. I am actually partial to seagulls.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 06:59 PM

What's a seagull?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:40 AM

On the 7th day of Christmas my true love gave to me - sven swans a swimming.
Son of a bitch. He put them in the bathtub. Nasty things too. Even freddie is keeping his distance.

Maybe that guy "following them rabbit tracks" will happen by...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 09:29 AM

Looks like the bird count is up to 23.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 09:31 AM

What kind of beans? The French on the label is haricots blancs, and in English they are Navy beans. Also known as Great Northern beans. They're the little round white thingies one bakes with salt pork, mustard and molasses to achieve what Yankees call Boston-style and we of the Canadian persuasion call fêves au lard.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:08 AM

On the 8th day of Christmas my TL gave to me...

8 maids a milking - which presumably means they brought the cows with them, seeing as all we have here is birds...

I wonder how many of them were blonde?

And for heaven's sakes, don't let the cows eat any of that bean stew... the ozone layer is thin enough already!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:27 AM

Some people think that "8 maids a milking may be a corruption of "Eight maids a-maukin" which would be hunting hare for the Christmas feast.

Given that many dairy cattle would be "dry" at this season of the year, or giving very little milk, needing 8 maids to milk would have required a VERY large dairy herd. Thus the possibility that they were hunting small game (probably with some kind of a hawk) makes sense.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:36 AM

BTW - I myself prefer the interpretation that it was 8 maids a malkin; in other words, 8 maids using a malkin (a type of ragmop) to clean up after all those fowl!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:40 AM

Lastly - there is a possibility that it should be "eight maids a-mawkin" - or acting cattily. But I don't think so at christmastide, do you?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:51 AM

Maybe they were balking at milking or mawking or whatevering!:-)

Micca sounded pretty excited the other night, though he says he doesn't get excited!**bg**

ktkat, my Rog, Morgan, Trystan, Kipling, & Merlee who all love Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:50 AM

8 maids a merkin?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:56 AM

Mawking is right - I suspect they are disappointed 'cause there are no lords to leap on them. Bunch of sluts.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:08 PM

OK kat. I'll bite

Signed
SINSULL, Ed, Fred, Lizzie, 1 partridge, 3 french hens, 4 calling birds, 8 maids a milking (Elsie, Jane, Clara, Baruka, Flossie, Bess, Hermione and Ernestine), 7 swimming swans, 2 turtle doves, 6 laying geese - no golden eggs, and Alice.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:14 PM

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

It must be catching

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 01:01 PM

and Seamus.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 01:42 PM

Phew! GOOD thing you added that last! Puir dawg!!

ktkat, my Rog, Trystan, Kipling, Merlee, Numa, Blondie, Dizzy, Tokomo, Emily, Chi-mia, Bodgie, Cody, and Miss Ming-ming, Morticia, Grookie, and Tito! (The "Extended" family, not counting AK, CA, &CT!)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 02:10 PM

Chia-mia? Miss Ming-ming?
Are you running a whore house?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 02:41 PM

And I thought I was being foolish including Bill and Perdy along with Edmund and me in the household census. If only they brought home a wage -- or at least some free protein!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 03:27 PM

LOL...well, we do have several cat houses, Sins!**bg** BTW, it's "Chi-mia" not "Chia" and we pronounce it "Chi (long "i")-mee-ah." She is a very fluffy Himalyan, not at all shy!**bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 06:06 AM

Don't want to hijack this thread but since you are into "12 days of Xmas" and if you missed the recent rerun on BBC radio 7 of Penelope Keith's performance of Another Partridge in a Pear Tree, see writer Brian Sibley's Blog for 13th December at:http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/


RtS
(10% commisssion, please, Brian)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 09:08 AM

Nine ladies dancing...clog dancing. Great! At least they eliminating some of the avian population. Down three geese and a French hen. What's the count now, MMario?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 11:55 AM

Now they have all moved in:
12 drummers drumming, bodrhan players of course.
11 pipers piping - hookahs, nice touch.
10 lords a leaping - at least the milk maids are happy
9 ladies dancing - clogging in time to the bodrhans
8 maids a milking - that doesn't look like milking to me.
7 swans a swimming- someone has to shovel out the bathtub
6 geese a laying - actually three. The other three fell victim to the clog dancers.
5 faux golden diamonique rings (SIGH!)
4 calling birds
3 minus one french hens minus the two Freddie got
2 disemboweled turtledoves and
A partially mangled partridge in a peed-on pear tree.

Wonder if Micca and the blond are willing to do the clean up.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 12:32 PM

Here's a Direct Link to the relevant blog entry, RtS. Thanks for that, hilarious!!!

4 calling birds...watch out, Sins..that might translate to Micca being on your phone 24/7 chatting up "birds" like me!**bg**

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 12:49 PM

Playboy had a similar parody many years ago. Hilarious.
M

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 09:37 AM

Here comes Micca - I can tell - the snow is piling up in my driveway.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 09:43 AM

So I had better head for the Climbing shop and get warm clothes and Crampons?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 06:34 PM

Bring the boots I took you to Bean's last year to buy. You're gonna need 'em...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 07:28 PM

Twelve Days After Christmas

The first day after Christmas my true love and I had a fight,
And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite.
Then with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge,
My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
The second day after Christmas, I pulled on the old rubber gloves,
And very gently wrung the necks of both the turtle doves.
My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
The third day after Christmas, my mother caught the croup;
I had to use the three French hens to make some chicken soup.
The four calling birds were a big mistake,
for their language was obscene.
The five gold rings were completely fake and they turned my fingers green .
The sixth day after Christmas, the six laying geese wouldn't lay,
I gave the whole darn gaggle to the A.S.P.C.A.
On the seventh day what a mess I found,
All seven of the swimming swans had drowned.
My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
The eighth day after Christmas, before they could suspect,
I bundled up the eight maids a milking, nine pipers piping, Ten ladies dancing, 'leven lords a leaping, Twelve drummers drumming and sent them back collect.
I wrote my true love, "We are through, love",
and I said in so many words,
"Furthermore your Christmas gifts were for the birds!"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 10:10 PM

Micca, you could come up here instead....it's clear as a bell, and no snow on the ground!

Course they wouldn't let you get away with that, but you could come before or after. The swiimmers would love to see you!

KT

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jimmyt
Date: 19 Dec 08 - 10:57 PM

MIcca, I am kinda drunk and Ican't hope for a betterr companion tha you, matE! i WISH You wer her with me!   jimmyt

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 06:40 PM

Oh great! A drunken dentist in a thong! This should give FOX news fodder for at least two days.
Micca - you stay put! No need to get involved in that one.
And as for you, KT - find your own Brit! Imagine trying to lure him away to ALASKA of all places with promises of snow free streets and warmth.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charmion
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 10:31 PM

Environment Canada is promising "Snowmageddon", beginning tomorrow and going on and on and on. Misery loves company, I guess.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 07:05 AM

That's right Micca you go to Maine, I'll go to Alaska.
Maine can have it's pet Brit, and Alaska can have a pet Scot.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 09:07 AM

Well, Mary, I didn't promise warmth. Those swimmers are dry land. Ask Micca.

It HAS been very cold, though, single digits, but it's looking like a heat wave now.....23 degrees, but oh, that wind is cold...... It's looking like there's quite a storm heading your way - better find some snow shoes for your guest!
Now, you must consider sharing your Brit. You've already got a few good ones! But it'd be grand to have that Scot, too!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 10:03 AM

Giok, Hate to say the obvious but" Been there, done that, got the T shirt" and very lovely it is too, with KT, Ebbie, Terry and Sal, you would feel very at home as the climate was very much like the North of Scotland (except I understand it gets a bit colder in the winter, a bit more like the top of Cairngorm) but the company (like in Maine) is of the very best!! and they even have VERY GOOD Beer!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 10:31 AM

To say nothing of the wine in Western Colorado...?:->

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 10:41 AM

I want a picture of the topless Giok participating in dryland synchronized swimming. LOL

I forgot it's KT and Ebbie. Of course, I'll share as long as you send him back in one piece. Kat can have a nibble too. Someone will have to explain it all to Carole (the blonde). We'll leave that to Jacqui.
M

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 06:10 PM

KT, I love you, but he is OUR gnome. I am willing to share Giok with you, though

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 06:41 PM

You don't hate to say it at all Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 05:27 AM

I am sitting in the living room of a Mudcatter looking out on the garden through the French windows at 3 squirells raiding the bird feeders and posing every now and then for a "Photo opportunity" like seasoned Politicians during elections. the birdlife is wonderful goldfinches and enough tits to keep even Squeaky happy!!! a couple of Collared Doves popped in and a pair of magpies,and robins and a Nuthatch so Greetings and a Happy (insert Festival/celebration of choice here) Christmas to all our Readers

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 06:40 AM

Same to you, and Richard and Hils too.
I love their garden.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 12:16 PM

Final preparations for Micca's arrival are under way. Just spoke with Jacqui. She is warm and fuzzy with her family but "missing the Old Bugger".

See you soon, Micca!
Merry Christmas.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 01:15 PM

Merry Christmas Micca !!
Julienne just found all of your Church St shopping in a bag in her room. I'll post it tommorrow.

Well, maybe the lapis will wait til Getaway ??? Very pretty...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 02:34 PM

The night after Christmas grows rapidly nigh
No sliegh full of toys swoops through the skies
But Customer Service and "returns or exchange"
are gearing up swiftly for post christmas changes.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 04:13 PM

Well done, MMario!!

Merry Christmas/Etc., Miccadarlin'!

luvyaktkat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:05 AM

Well, I have done the "on-line check-in", I am now awaiting my "cat sitter" to arrive to get Keys so that Morgana The Flatulent also known as Little Wugsie has a comfortable time while I am Freezing my butt off in Maine ( I am still trying to work out how I agreed to exchange the freezing wet cold of London for the sub-zero temperatures of Maine)all I can do is plead" it seemed like a good idea at the time")!!!
After the journey home from "Old Keepers" yesterday after a splendid Christmas , Thank you Hils and Richard which included a 45 minute queuing in the open in freezing temps. with a 25-30 mph wind to add to the chill factor, and If that was the Gatwick Express I would hate to travel on the Slow, non-Express, transport I don't think I can be surprised by any travelling problem,, still see you Maineacs tomorrow sometime if all goes according to plan.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:38 AM

A major hiccup has manifested itself in Ottawa, and Edmund and I will probably NOT be able to make the trip this year.

Our elderly cat Perdita -- 18 and a half years old -- fell off the kitchen armchair this morning and staggered all over the floor before she could get her feet under her. This is the third time I've seen this problem, and once is happenstance, twice is circumstance, but three times is enemy action. Fortunately, the Bytown Cat Hospital is open today, and we got her in to see the vet.

Probably a potassium deficiency, said the vet, fairly common in very antique felines, but we won't know until the results of the blood tests come back from the laboratory on Tuesday. Also, we have to dose her twice a day with an appetite stimulant. Until the lab results come in, the vet will not be able to assess her as a candidate for boarding -- pilling the cat twice a day is more than I can ask of the homechecker.

On top of that, I'm still coughing badly and may not be travel-ready myself by Tuesday.

Watch and shoot ...

I'll make the cassoulet on Monday anyway, so it will be ready to go if we can come. We will keep you posted.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:42 AM

Will the cassoulet keep?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 12:19 PM

Aw, that's too bad Charmion. I hope she's OK, and I hope she's OK quickly.

Micca, I don't know about Maine, but Toronto is pretty un-cold with giant mountains of snow melting all over and a lovely London-ish fog covering the land. Tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer and I think maybe I should have packed shorts.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 03:54 PM

Charmion,
I would never leave any of my babies alone in that condition. Poor Kitty. We are flexible here. You do what you need to do.

Micca, it is in the 30s and the snow is melting. Stop whining.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 03:59 PM

It's your own fault Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 06:01 PM

This blonde is off to other places for New Years too... and I have no intention of remaining sober!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 06:11 PM

Attagal

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 06:24 PM

Mary, I will pay the five Dollars when I arrive!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: kendall
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 03:45 PM

Sub Zero? not here, it's 50 degrees.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 05:30 PM

65 F here in balmy Jersey.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 06:43 PM

An official 12 F with gusty winds in brisk Juneau. Come home, Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 08:42 PM

Well, it's only 15F here and the official thingie says it "feels like 3F!" And, we've got vineyards with cozy tasting rooms, remember?:-;

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 08:45 PM

Had to wear a long sleeved shirt today, dam & I thought summer was about to start.
Where are you now Micca & when will you be in Maine,


for the 45 degree drop in the temp?


Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 09:10 PM

He's here!
Alice is thrilled.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 09:13 PM

Just in time for the temperature to start dropping.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 09:13 PM

HMMMMM
He not only shows up with the blonde but some woman keeps calling from London demanding to know if I am the "woman in Maine" he is living with.
What the hell...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 03:08 AM

How about "wind chill to 20 below."    Just for you Micca.   
KT

tinker, 65 ???!!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 08:08 AM

Wore my light jacket to work today. Never saw Micca this AM. Snuggled in and asleep I suspect. Poor Alice is desperate to get into his room.
LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 08:11 AM

Never thought I'd hear that said

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:03 AM

Yes, yesterday hit record highs -- while today will be 20 degrees cooler and nearly that again over the next two days. The wild swings are playing havoc with my kids health....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:29 AM

Mary, I was awake at 5.45 but didnt feelready to face a "Pre-coffee Mary" I got up at about 7.30 and I am now off to sample the "New" T J Hookers aka 3 brothers They claim to be able to make Bacon Butties!!! so More later, Tink If you are about today Give me a call, Maybe over this side I wont keep missing you!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:45 AM

Oh and Mary, Dont worry about Freddie opening that door anymore! It is solved

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:52 AM

?????????????????????????????????

Did you hurt my kitty?
Or as Mrs. Slocum would say...nevermind.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:46 AM

No, I did no damage to your kitty, As if I would!!
No, I have this little squad of nuns and penguins that hold the door shut!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MMario
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:48 AM

Mrs. Slocum wasn't particularly known for saying that...It was Roseann Roseannadanna that was famed for saying "nevermind"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:59 AM

Mrs. Slocum would have asked if Micca had hurt her Pussy.
I was ttrying to avoid asking that, Leo.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 12:03 PM

I can't imagine him every doing such a thing, anyway, Sins!**bg**

Micca, if you try to call, our Vonage isn't working in a consistent manner, i.e. not for shite! I have a cellphone being delivered on Wed. SAME number as the home phone, no problem. You can try the home phone, but just in case you won't think I am being a snob for not answering. It's supposed to forward to my pre-pay cell, but who knows. My Rog says he thinks the cable company is sabotaging Vonage. I don't care...that's not MY fight, so we are dumping them!**bg** Glad you are there, safe and sound.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 01:23 PM

Bad news - Edmund and Charmion can't make the drive. Actually Charmion can't. Bronchitis. Given the last two months I aam grateful she is keeping her distance. But they will be missed.

Meantime, Micca hit Three Brothers only to discover that they are having a new gas line attached - no breakfast.

One more disappointment and he and the blonde will be on their way back to the UK.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 02:28 PM

Will we be seeing you at the Press Room on Friday Micca?

Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 04:43 PM

Barry I hope so, I am looking at the logistics as we speak, possibly train to Dover, getting back might be a bit "hilarious" but if it is AT ALL possible I will be there!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:22 PM

If he's very well behaved this week I might be prepared to drive down to the Press Room on Friday.

We'll see........................

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:30 PM

Does thast mean I have to entertain the blonde? Or will she come along? I have Friday off and plan on going down too. If I get some sleep...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:31 PM

OOPS THat was me - SINS- above. GUEST on my own computer.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 12:14 AM

Bring the blonde, leave entertaining her to the rest of us.

Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 07:10 AM

Barry, .....and the Horse.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 07:32 AM

What blond? Micca have you taken to wearing wigs and playing dressup?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 07:42 AM

" My father was a quiet man he worked in Ladies tights
I always thought that was his job, not what he did at nights,

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:32 AM

Imagine him being mistaken for Golda Meir

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:38 AM

Micca and I have a lovely quiet supper at JP Thornton's new bar & Grill. Neat little place although instead of jazz they had some crappy rock music on when we first came in. It got turned off later. Poor, sheltered man had never seen a short rib. He is still convinced it came from a brontosaurus. LOL.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 10:43 AM

Don't forget to give him his favorite breakfast:

Eggs over easy with grits. (Surprise him!)

If you can't find them in Portland I can express some in, or you might consider immigration, I hear the weather up there's a bit nippy.

cheers
chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:24 AM

Either Micca or LBJ in drag

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:38 AM

Gack.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:45 AM

(Giok, that's just mean and sexist. Golda Meir deserves better that that, imo.)

Besides, Micca and LBJ don't look a bit alike. Micca is much cuter!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:49 AM

I with katlaughing on this. I always thought of Golda as an elegant and beautiful woman.

Would you really rather converse with Britney Speers, Giok?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 09:30 AM

Micca, aka the Mudcat Travel Gnome, continues to hop continents cheek by jowl with lovely women and musicians...

Drinking wild potions and cavorting with lovely maidens...

Life is just a bowl of cheeries, once you get past the pits...

Happy New Year, Micca.

chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 09:39 AM

Except that he brought the snow, where's the tomatoes?

Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:02 PM

Micca always brings sunshine and spontaneous surprises. Last night I came home to a Christmas Dinner with Jacqui, Kendall Carole, Micca and me. Christmas Crrackers (no hats0 and pudding, turkey with all the trimmings, some drink was taken, some songs were sung.

Now we start the New Years festivities. LOL I am getting to old for this.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:23 PM

(Just checkin' in to catch up with the doin's.)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:42 PM

Me, too! I'm down with something resembling flu, but hope to get over to see you before you depart!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 02:31 PM

Happy New Year, absent friends. I shall drink a hearty toast to all of you later this evening! (Technically I suppose I am the absent friend, so I should toast you as "present friends" -- but that sounds so, errrr, transitory...)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 02:41 PM

Last night sounded as though a good time was had by all! I have internet until the next crash, so Happy New Year in case I don't get back in here later!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: CET
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 03:14 PM

This is Charmion, actually, ticking away on Edmund's new laptop --

I finally feel pretty good today, and not coughing up a lung for the first time in a fortnight. The cassoulet is in the oven and Edmund is out buying salad greens and renting movies suitable for New Year's Eve viewing -- The Titfield Thunderbolt, with Stanley Holloway, and Waterloo, with a Russian director and Rod Steiger as Napoleon.

I wish you all the best New Year ever. With any luck we'll be down Portland way some time in the spring, and I have almost convinced myself that the Mystic Seaport festival would be a good time even for people who aren't crazy about sea shanteys ...

Our fair city of Ottawa has promised fireworks at midnight, but it's rather a lot of degrees below zero Celsius and getting colder. You know you're terminally middle-aged when inclement weather can keep you away from fireworks.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 03:29 PM

Sins - you CAN"T have crackers without hats -- it's against the rules!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 05:25 PM

Have a lovely, laughing time, friends. I wish True Love and I could be there.

Happy New Year,

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 05:54 PM

Meal is almost ready; something spilled in the oven and we are hoping we don't have to call in the Fire epartment. But if we do, we have lots of NEw Years cheer to share.
I wish you all could be here or at least that we could all be together tonight. Check out Chance's thread - 8PM singing around the world of Will The Circle Be Unbroken.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 10:56 PM

Happy New Year to you all! Will be thinking of you at midnight....er......8 pm!!!

love,
KT

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 11:50 PM

Just 12 more minutes to go to 2009 at Sinsull, et al's, party. I can see all the clock watchin'. Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Should auld acquaintance be forgot...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:04 AM

HAPPY NEW YEAR

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:15 AM

Oh, missing you all and so many others tonight. Wish we were all together. Happy New Year, my Dear Ones!

luvyakat with working home phone and internet for now!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 01:55 AM

Kat and all you others we ARE and were togeter tonight, it is the wonderful thing about the Mudcat community to which we all belong, I felt the strong bond between us all and that you were all at least spiritually, here in Maine with us.
We started ,part way through dinner, with joining Chance and everyone singing " Let the circle be unbroken, then we went on to sing and enjoy the company for the rest of the evening with numerous phone calls from folks who wished they could be with us and share the New Year all in all a classic example of all belonging and all round togetherness. My profound and grateful thanks to SINSULL, Jacqui, and all the others that made this trip so wonderful and enjoyable,
My Thanks and appreciation and Happy New Year to everyone who shared it with us.
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:26 PM

What I omitted to mention in my previous post (due to being "tired and emotional") was the entertainment!! Kendall, Tom and Linn all in top form delighted us with their songs and stories, Carol and Jacqui singing as a duet was wonderful(especially on "Nancy Spain")!! and Carol has an excellent voice and was a joy to hear in several other solo songs too, all in all a real good evening of song and friendship,
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 03:16 PM

For those who wondered if my shy and retiring side was going to be formost this year. As a host site for First Night Montclair I headed over to church as a dutiful volunteer and as the New Year came close I found myself dancing with Sweet Georgia Brown -- "One of the Last Red Hot Mommas" to Roll it on the River. See I don't do things at Getaway I wouldn't do in church..... Okay I set the camera to stills so Jarius couldn't video when I went up.. but aside from that...

My unedited photos and video clips are here My New Year The Tones of Joy added some wonderful harmonies. And Searson from Ontario introduced me to a new generation of fiddlers and steppers...

Happy New Year All


PS Did I mention that the rectory kept open house to "suppliment" the festivities?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:08 AM

where himself is at today, we wonder?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 12:54 PM

Well, I believe he's headed for the Press Room this afternoon. I make no promises, but I believe my vehicle plans to point East at some time this afternoon to undertake a possible reconnaissance mission!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:00 PM

I spent the main part of the day ferrying Micca and the blonde around to do some retail therapy. They flirted so outrageously in Tim Hortons that I thought about leaving them there while I went shopping.

We're just back chez Morse, having a bit of a breather before SINSULL arrives to take us all to the Press Room.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:05 PM

If I do get there, I'll be late- save 3 seats!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SussexCarole
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:42 PM

Happy New Year to all you Maniacs...(never realised before how much Micca's name fitted into Maniacs). Sing one for us at the Press Room

Carole & Andrew x

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 08:44 AM

Sorry I had to leave the Press Room session early last night -- it had a higher proportion of Mudcatters attending than usual. And from distances, too.

Sinsull and Jacqui and Carol and Micca and Animaterra, not to mention regulars like Barry Finn, Curmudgeon and me. I think Jeri's recent travel exertions had her cocooning.

He's not a Mudcatter, but I spotted my dentist across the room -- though we've discussed folk music (with his hands and tools in my mouth) often, he's never shown up at the Press Room during a session before.

And though highly populated, it was a good session -- even got to hear some of the shyer or less muscular voices.

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:54 AM

Saturday AM. As designated driver I was on Coke and coffee and then couldn't sleep. Up until 2AM.

Great night at the Press Room - crowded and noisy. Micca offered Gladiator, The hash My Father Scored and Rolling Home. Carole and Jacqui held all spell bound with Nancy Spain (I thought she was a Swain). Carole was in on some of the celtic jamming with her guitar as well.

We were sorry to see Linn and Allison leave so early. But understood.

tonight at TRUBRIT's

We are watching one of thew worst movies ever made - Manticore with Donald Sutherland and Jamie Lee Curtiss. Laughable horror.

And Micca got his first (and I susperct last) taste of Velveeta. heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 05:04 PM

I was so sorry to leave the Press Room so soon but it was SO GOOD to see Micca, Linn, Tom, Mary, Jacqui and so many other good singers and instrumentalists! I had a nice chat with the Mysterious Blonde, and cherished my daughter's willingness to humor her mom by singing "Griselda" with me!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 08:55 AM

OK, now I'll tell.

The Mystery Blonde was my friend Carole, one of the co-founders and present organiser of the latest reincarnation of the Hertford Folk Club. She came back with me from the UK to spend New Year in Maine.

I have known Carole for nearly ten years, but it was only recently that I discovered that, not only is she able to play the guitar, but that she has a lovely singing voice. Now, I know she prefers not to use either talent at the moment as she considers that neither her voice nor her playing are good enough for public consumption but, over here, she had no choice but to sing and play, me being somewhat bossy, and her contributions to the mix were very well received.

She and Micca really hit it off, finding that they had a lot in common, and have exchanged phone numbers and email addresses with the aim of getting together when both are back in the UK. Carole has never been to Sharps and Micca has offered to remedy that before too long. Micca may make an appearance in Hertford too.

Carole went back home yesterday hopefully having enjoyed her stay in Maine, even though she doesn't 'do' cold or snow. I know that the people here would be quite happy to see her again, should she choose to make a return visit.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 09:55 AM

Carole is fun to have around...always up and always ready to party, shop, eat, or do whatever anyone suggests. She is always welcome back to Maine. And I expect she is always welcome back to the Press Room.

Micca is on my S List. I had to be up by 6AM to go to work. He wished me a good morning and crawled back into the warm bed. Bastard!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: JedMarum
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 02:28 PM

Hola Micca - Que Pasa?

Todavía utilizo la bolsa de cuero que usted me dio en Maryland en el "Getaway" acontecimiento.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 02:46 PM

Oh Dear, on Marys S list again, any room in that celler? here are just a few some Photos here

so you can get an idea of the terrible things I have to do to keep you lot amused!,a hard life but someone has to do it!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 07:53 AM

Then to add insult to injury, after sleeping away the day he sends me a frantic message that he is OUT OF TEA!
SIGH
I mumbled "Let him eat cake." and picked up some Lipton's, the only brand the local deli carries.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 08:48 AM

Mary, you do NOT want a "Tea-deprived" Micca Roaming the countryside!!!, I thank you for going out of your way to "keep the inner beast "soothed, I can manage happily with coffee during the day but first thing in the morning? NO!!!
Anyway todaythe plan is I am heading for Freeport Maine (home of LL Bean) with Tami and then who knows?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 07:29 PM

Mygawd, they all just flock to squire (what's the female equivalent of that?) him around, don't they!**BG**

Hope you had fun, dears!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 11:44 PM

Well, Tonight I went to The Irish Pub Here in Portland Maine and joined Jasons team to participate in the Pub Quiz. and WE WON!!!!!! ateam effort but it feels GOOD!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 07:13 AM

Lovely to chat with you last eve, m'dear- safe journeys (nice weather we're sending you off with!)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 01:27 PM

MiccaDear, just to let you know that I've had the OK for us to visit our mutual friend. Let me know some possible dates on your return & we'll compare diaries. Meanwhile have fun & give those Mainieacs a hug from me, I feel as if I know 'em *grin*

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 02:23 PM

A mutual friend??? The mysterious blonde?
heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 03:16 PM

We got Micca to the bus station in the snow in time to catch the 11.30 bus.

He'll have a bit of a wait at Logan, but that's better than catching a hold up on the journey down and missing his flight!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:27 AM

Jacqui, we were right, that bus that I got on left Portland an hour before my usual time but only gave me an extra 10 mins at Logan!! the weather on the journey down was awful!! snow turning to nasty cold rain by the time we reached Boston. Flight was on time and OK and the temperature here in London is probably about 1 or 2 degrees C (about 34-36 F) (official forecast says max 5C min 0C)but it feels colder than So. Portland, figure that!
My thanks to all the Maineacs and New Hantsers that made this a really good trip!! with lots of good singing and good friends,It was especially good to hear Animaterra and maggie sing together!! so its back to that Nasty little 4 letter word ending in K.....Work.
My thanks again to all who made me welcome (whose price is above Rubys!! and we all know how expensive she is!!)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:12 AM

Good to know you made it home, safe and sound. How's the moggie?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:16 AM

Glad your safely home. Jan called after you left for the bus. So make sure you call her back.

When will we see you again, Michaelene?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 01:10 PM

I called the Wandering One last night to see if the abandoned laptop was his. It's not. He and the moggie are warm(er) and happy to share a chair.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 01:18 PM

And the mystery blonde wants to know what he's done with the item of her apparel that I sent back with him for delivery.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 05:07 PM

Glad to hear you made it home! I hope the weather is better there than here!


(singing with my daughter was one of MY highlights, too!)

Allison

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 08:07 PM

He's probably keeping her garment. Our Micca has taken up kleptomania. The laptop left in my living room belongs to a local folk fiddler who had it STOLEN from him at the bus station.


ARGHHHHH!

Apparently, I have to add a new house rule - NO STEALING!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 08:24 PM

UPDATE:
The thief is...


TAMI!

And she is not going to forget this one! Park Ranger goody two shoes my butt!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 11:54 PM

I'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation.... cause it's Tami !

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 12:15 AM

Sigh. That's it. Blame it on the kid. Who took the gnome off your hands for an evening? Hmm? Why, I think it was the one being unjustly accused of laptop theft! Methinks there will soon be more glow-in-the-dark religious statuary appearing in South Portland in the near future!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 02:57 AM

So, Tami, if you are going to take up kleping, at least you are kleping good stuff!!! how did you get your hands on somones laptop?.... Oh never mind the explaination would only turn a somewhat funny leg pull opportunity into something dull....BTW there are some new pix of Wugsie on the Pix of Puddytats thread!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 08:49 AM

Meantime, I am off to SMCC to return the stolen loot and hope that this kid isn't waiting with the cops.

You guys are very high maintenance.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 05:06 PM

The only thing I walked out of that cafe with was wine, bags and bags of it. As to what the three limeys picked up, I have no idea. And could we please be careful about accusing me of theft on a public forum, even if it's in fun? I do work for a governmental organization, after all.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:38 PM

Well...where is he? Home yet or still malingering?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:39 PM

BTW, we have concluded that the Blimey Blonde was the culprit.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:57 PM

Home tomorrow, he says. We'll see.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: curmudgeon
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 10:51 AM

It's Friday afternoon in London. Micca, where art thou?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 11:26 AM

Brother, Where Art Thou?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 01:57 PM

HOME!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:25 PM

WHOO WHOO!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:22 PM

well, well. did they patch him up then?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 06:53 PM

And did he get written orders allowing him the "one" glass of wine he desired.... I was clear he would nver be served without one...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 08:19 AM

Haven't seen the old guy here recently and I know how much MacKenzie loves to see this thread at the top so...WHERE'S MICCA???????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Megan L
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 08:21 AM

MacKenzie isny the only wan talk aboot wee yellow gods

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Megan L
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 08:30 AM

And YES I am a grumpy auld wife the day so nae messin or ye'll get yer hied in yer hauns an yer bits tae play wie.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 08:48 AM

LOL Megan, you don't scare me.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 10:32 AM

Micca is making smart remarks on my pig thread.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 11:31 AM

Micca is in my dreams -- at least he was the other night, when I dreamed he and I took off in my Mini for a long weekend road trip from California to Colorado to visit with Katlaughing.

C

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: olddude
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 12:23 PM

Well from one of the recent threads he was chasing school teachers for sex !! LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: olddude
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 12:24 PM

oops
sorry that was Louie
lol

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 12:58 PM

olddude, I dont chase anyone for anything!!!! but I have worked in Education for a long time!!! but teachers are often really boring!!!!
Claire, I'm up for a road trip from Ca to Co with you, just tell me where to be and I will meet you!! I know a real nice b&b in western CO(seperate rooms, of course!)
Otherwise I am pretty good and in reasonable health, and even behaving myself!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 01:00 PM

Define "behaving yourself".

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 01:15 PM

The only problem with a carefree jaunt by Mini from California to Colorado is that to get there, you have to drive across bloomin' Nevada. Or rather, non-bloomin' Nevada; if it were bloomin', it wouldn't be so bad.

Still, it does sound fun, and Kat tells me there are wineries. Mmmmmm.

Sadly, I can't imagine my menfolk letting me go off on such an adventure without them. Or at least, I can't imagine my 8-year-old manfolk letting me go off an have fun without him, even though my other manfolk would probably be willing to stay home. And three people in a Mini for a road trip can be a bit cramped. Hmmm. I think this dream plan may require a few refinements...

C

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 01:22 PM

awww..Clairebear..you see more of Utah than Nevada on that trip, at least the way I did it last. And Capitol Reef National Park is worth the whole trip.
Not everything has to be green to be beautiful.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 01:44 PM

No complaints here about Utah...and I do know that stonescapes and desert scenery can be beautiful. But that said, I have yet to grok the beauty of Nevada.

How did you cross it, Bill? I crossed Nevada (from Wells on west, anyway) via Interstate 80 a couple of years ago when returning from The Great Montana Mini Road Trip of 2006, and I have to say it was really dreary, except for the eyesores -- oh sorry, those would be cities (Sorry, not a neon fan -- or a gambling fan, either). Perhaps 50 is less monotonous? But surely not much shorter...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:08 PM

Claire, I did the "California Zephyr" train trip from Denver to Grand Junction last time, I could be persuaded to fly to San Francisco(never been there) and do that Western leg by train, through Nevada, Utah and CO, sounds like an interesting trip. Maybe Then i could go on to Denver and on to Albuqurque to visit Art and Jen (I have been invited!!!) and maybe try and see the Grand Canyon too (I have an ex-wife in Phoenix!) sounds like an exciting and interesting trip!! I will get the Atlas out later and look at the distances!! I would understand if you cant come along, but western Colorado and meeting katlaughing is a real nice experience!! and YES!! there are some VERY NIE wineries in WCO I visited a few( purely out of a sense of duty to my friends, you understand) and had a lovely time.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:16 PM

I've been on the Zephyr -- though it was decades ago -- and to do it again would be great fun, for me and for Martin as well. Could I have been dreaming true? Interesting...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 04:22 PM

Claire...I left Los Angeles. Went thru Las Vegas, then on I-15 and 'various' roads thru the narrow part of Nevada. That way, you hit nice scenery quickly. I had relatives in Grand Junction, CO.

(Capitol Reef was still only a national monument then.)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 04:36 PM

Ah, I see. Starting from southern California makes all the difference, Nevada-wise. There's a whole lot of Nevada to go through between northern California and Colorado!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Sorch
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 08:48 PM

Er, just WHY does someone post in some incomprehensible 'fake' language?

LJC was a LOT better at it.

It's a bit patronising IMO.

Also makes it a bit difficult to get the meaning sometimes.

I gather it's called 'Erse' which I was told was a not very nice name for Gaelic. So, now it's just stage dialect?

I'm probably beyond redemption here...so you can leave off praying for me.

---

Chill out, Sorcha. Take a "nice pill," or something. Your constant unkindness is not acceptable.
-Joe Offer, Forum Moderator-

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 04:03 AM

If you're referring to Megan then please note that she actually speaks like that! It's not incomprehensible but it may take a bit of effort to understand if you haven't heard it before. It's not Erse but Scots.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 05:36 AM

There's nothing 'fake' about Megan, Sorcha, she's genuine all through. 24 karat gold.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 07:26 AM

And quite easy to understand, if you take the trouble.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 08:24 AM

Why are you all being so nice?
Because she can, Sorcha. If it's a problem, go away.
We have all moved on to Utah, Nevada and the Zephyr. SHEEEEESE!
Besides, Megan is an unofficial member of the Evil Sisterhood. Once she establishes herself as a Kendall Groupie by caressing the infamous leather jacket, she becomes official and joins us on our broomsticks - yes I have one and it works. So does Jacqui. Hers goes VROOM VROOM.
Now let's all play nice. I talk NooYawk; Jacqui talks Blimey. Kendall talks Maine. I am not sure what Micca is speaking but as with Megan, I can understand him. I can even understand your occasional barely coherent posts with undiagrammable sentence structure. Give it a rest and play nice or go away and let us enjoy ourselves.

RANT OVER.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Megan L
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 10:14 AM

Jist back frae the hospital wie Dauvitt He only went in fur his glaucomma test but they decided to send to be checked by another department because they thought the peripheral neuropathy was getting worse :) oh the joys of a tiny hospital where folk talk to each other. Micca you hid better be behaving or ah'll pit ye ower ma knee and skelp yer bahookie till yer lugs ring wan akward auld bissim in a wheelchir is enough tae deal wie.

Why would Sorcha be posting as a guest? But if it was her then all I can say is I'm sorry lassie ye feel thon wey its ma ain voice its bin mine fur 49 years and a dinny think ah'll change it noo. Thanks folks fur the nice comments tae this grumpy auld wifie.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 10:58 AM

I have seen Micca in the altogether (see the Getaway threads) and never noticed a bahookie or a lug? Grey's Anatomy is no help...have I missed something?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:01 AM

Bahookie, I think, is his backside.

Lugs? From 'Lugholes'? Ears.

Sounds good though and leaves an image in the mind that I'm not sure I wanted.......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:41 AM

I think I might've scared Micca off with all that talk of hugsbands and children, but if not, my dear hugsband thinks it's a great idea; come to California!

We must remedy your lack of San Francisco experience, show you the wine country, and introduce you to some of our craftier friends.

Come at the beginning of whatever month: There's an In Harmony's Way session (that I've never been to) in Oakland on the first Wednesday of every month, a San Jose pagansing on the first Thursday, and a chantey sing at Chanteyranger's park on the first Saturday. Then off to Colorado with us (Martin and I for a briefish visit, you for ....?). Wheee!

Claire

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:45 AM

Megan. Some Mudcatters have stated in the past that they are leaving The Café, for whatever reason, and do so. If they then decide to post, having given up their cookie and Mudcat Name, they post as "guest" and use their Mudcat Name to ID themselves. Of course, this gives them a certain amount of "play", as only the clones can determine if it's actually them posting (near as I know???).

So, it may not have been Sorcha who posted that comment regarding your "accent". Indeed, Sorcha has been a valuable contributor to this here Café for years and knows full well of your contributions, insight, good humour, common sense, sage advice and even hand. Seems almost implausible to me that it WAS her who posted. At least, not the Sorcha I used to know.

In any case, a slight abberation... a skeeter buzzing innocuosly...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:58 AM

Can you arrange an earthquake for micca as well. Ms. Bear? He'd enjoy that.

You're right, gnu. I hadn't noticed the Guest moniker.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 12:03 PM

I'll see what I can do about the earthquake, but no promises...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 12:04 PM

Claire, we are very much at the planning stage of this at the moment, but it sounds like a "possible" :o) certainly worth an " if possible, yes" one, I would LOVE to come to California and meet some local "crafters" too if they are on offer, i have met Chanteyranger briefly when he visited London and would love the opportunity to visit his "National Park" that is a Ship!!!! and did you say you are near Wine Country?!!!!(I do not know California at all)
Megan, I dont know whether to be apprehensive or excited by your offer!! but one of these days I hope to meet you and Dauvit too and even to meet again that grumpy auld git that you hang about with up there in the "frozen North" I am currently freezing my butt off waiting for the "man" to fix my heating!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 12:04 PM

Dear Megan,

I enjoy your posts, and part of my enjoyment is translating.

As to where Micca is, if you're going to spank him, we'd all love to see that. Could you come to the Getaway and spank him in a Micca spanking workshop?

Bill Day could take pictures and Sinsull could supervise.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 12:12 PM

0H and 900!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 12:13 PM

Micca,

I am not near as you might define near (about 100 miles away), but my best friends live in Sonoma County and I often go up for visits. That's where my morris team are, too. And Martin's grandparents...so yes, we'd definitely go there, should you come. I hope you can!

C

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 12:15 PM

Right that's it!! If there's to be a Micca spanking workshop at the Getaway we're just going to have to get across the pond!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 01:09 PM

Spanking? I still have the Bull Whip from the Tribute to Broke Back Mountain.
Stiletto boots in shiny black, a mask,...this could work.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 01:11 PM

Wot, no banjo?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Megan L
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 01:17 PM

And I thocht a wis scary. Sinusull we tried tae get Granny Dom tae wear those boots and a corset but she refused tae tak aff her wyncette goonie so the effect wis somewhat spoiled

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 01:54 PM

I must tell Nancy King we've a new workshop for the Getaway...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 01:58 PM

Chance, dont you BLOODY Dare, and I thought you were my friend!!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 02:57 PM

Actually, Nancy needs to know about two workshops: Flog The Micca and Bury the Man from LALA LAnd - a snow shovelling shanty workshop with Amos in the middle. I will provide the snow.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 03:05 PM

Cool chick

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 03:18 PM

I can't quite see Amos's face at the sight of all that snow looming above him. But I would love to.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 03:48 PM

A giant California ice cube - we'll ship him off to you, Ebbie, packed in dry ice. heh heh heh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 04:06 PM

Micca, I am indeed your friend, but sometimes "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one". Or is it the other way round?

Oh nevermind, we'll skip the spanking and go straight to the feathers.

cheers,
chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 04:40 PM

Feathers? Now we're getting into Bobert's department...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 04:53 PM

If an icecube will do it, Sins, perhaps I have the perfect one to hand. Not more than 10 miles from here are huge ones floating in the water. If someone will order me a tugboat I can get one headed south. Will delivery be expected before October? Travel tends to be slow.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 04:58 PM

What's an ice girl like you doing in that tugboat Ebbie?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 05:17 PM

Oh and I've been trying so hard to behave..... it's amazing how many different comments come to mind. We will definately need the cloning workshop come the fall....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 05:38 PM

According to the Health and Safety at Work Act the maximum safe loading for my ass is 1, so would the rest of you kindly get OFF it!!! purely in the interests of safety, of course. I reiterate, there will be NO, repeat NO spanking workshop involving me, I am into M&S not S&M!!!, Neither am I interested in a whipround for the sado-masochist party!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 06:14 PM

Oh, my! What have I blundered into here?! If I sneak back out very quietly, will anyone have noticed I was here?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 06:31 PM

Too slow, Tami. You've been seen. What's that you're dragging behind you?

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 07:24 PM

Micca if the rest of us get off who does that leave on your posterior?


I'll head to the cellar now...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: bfdk
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 07:51 PM

Megan with Sins's bull whip? Anyway, if you do get a workshop going, don't forget to reserve a space for Little Hawk. He seems to get all hot and bothered every time Meg threathens to skelp his bahookie..

Tami, I'm right behind you, don't slam the door!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 08:41 PM

"Neither am I interested in a whipround for the sado-masochist party!! "

Micca, do you know how to hurt a sado-masochist's feelings?

Thanks, Giok, that brought me a smile...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 08:17 AM

Methinks the gnome doth protest too much. "Please don't throw me in that briar patch, bre'r Chance"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 11:28 AM

I'm a pseudo masichist - pretend to hit me!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 12:23 PM

lol

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 01:01 PM

OK So it's black leather all 'round. Kendall will fit right in. The bullwhip is brown, though. That could be a problem. At least all these threats may convince Micca to keep hi clothes on in the public areas.

LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 01:10 PM

Once you've seen one furball, you've seen them all ;)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:54 AM

Once you've seen one furball, you seen both.

I have.

Many times...


Many, many times.....











































I recommend gin and prozac, it's helped me a lot over the years.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 08:29 AM

He just loves to share his body, Liz.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 10:42 AM

As Micca often says "The Lord issued me one regulation body. Nothing to be ashamed of here."
John,
I thought you were into sheep. When did you get to share Micca's body?

On my way to the cellar...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 11:39 AM

It is sometimes difficult to tell them apart Mary.
One of them bleats, I know that much.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:20 PM

Micca bleats?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 01:40 PM

News to me, Ebbie.
Wonder what John was up to to make Micca bleat?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 02:32 PM

Oh, dear.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 07:49 PM

Sorry, Guest, any hint of impropriety is strictly in your own mind and imagination. We stick to risibility. As does Micca. :)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 11:57 PM

Whoops ... I seem to have lost my cookie and didn't notice. The incongruity of the statement would have been much clearer if my name had been on it....

I'll go to the cellar now.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: maeve
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 12:24 AM

Seems to be quite a lot of folks heading into Jacqui's cellar these days. Do they ever escape from the cellar?

Party time!

maeve

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 12:44 AM

I pictured a guy hunched over his keyboard chiding us. (Hi Tinker!)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 06:20 AM

Tinker's a lady, not a guy, and a nice lady as well.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 08:34 AM

I got a phone call from London last night. A bleating cry from England. Very disturbing. Then Micca went into more detail about sheep and lonely men that I could ever have imagined. That will teach me! I will never look at wellies the same again.

BUT THE REAL NEWS IS...that he is planning another foray east which means that this thread will go on for at least another year.
WHOO WHOO!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 09:13 AM

EAST????????
last time I looked you were all WEST of here!!!!
Apologies for the graphic bits concerning sheep, Mary, But I will clearly state,

I do Not Bleat, I have never bleated, nor have I any intention of ever bleating, not even a belated bleat, so there.

You cannot take too much notice of the manner in which the Folks of the North of Scotland ocupy and amuse themselves during those long winter evenings. Some times "slipping into something warm and wooly" doesnt have quite the same meaning to them as it does to those of us further South

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 09:26 AM

Sorry - West. I was musing about a really bad movie called "Krakatoa, East of Java". Krakatoa is west of java but that was only the beginning of what was wrong with this movie. Anyway, according to the science channel, Krakatoa is getting ready to blow again and both east and west of it are thousands of people...

But back on topic - you lie, Micca. I answered the phone and you bleated!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 09:27 AM

That describes you to a T Micca.

Warm and wooly

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 10:13 AM

lol

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 10:53 AM

That was my question - still unanswered. Does MacKenzie have warm and wooly thoughts about our Micca?

But then I was distracted by the thought of Kendall with waist length hair tied back in a black ribbon complete with black hat and black leather jacket.

This time change really screws around with my head...full beard, of course.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 10:57 AM

Sinsull, you have a full beard? My dear, you have changed so much.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 11:01 AM

No - Kendall in my daydraems. Mine is kept under control with hot wax and tweezers.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 11:21 AM

OOOPS - we are being monitored. A post has disappeared. Time to go bid on Joe Offer again. Although it looks as though I own Spaw. SIGH.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 11:45 AM

As they say, be careful what you wish for. :)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 12:36 PM

Wooly is also an adjective, Mary.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 04:04 PM

Yes, it is as in "warm and wooly thoughts" or is it woolly?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 04:13 PM

Wooly thinking Sins

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 04:35 PM

I'm confused. I am going back to visions of Kendall with waist length hair...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 03:22 PM

In honor of John's visit to Maine I thought I would refresh his favorite thread...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 06:18 PM

Sent mesome lovely photos of some "scraps" of the Parthenon from a visit to the Museum this week. Really incredible stuff!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 06:21 PM

Sent me a set of CDs (or are they DVDs?) of the Maritime Festival of '08 and a giants festival in the uK. Still haven't had a chance to look at them. But thank you, Micca m' luv.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 08:27 PM

Well, I have been winding down after the end of term, hoping to get to Scarborough to Seafest this weekend to see Barry Finn and other Catters, but yeterday was spent at The British Museum to try out my camera Some pix here

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 04:19 AM

But, but, you aren't allowed to go to the Bristish Mousemum and not take me!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 11:24 AM

You rat fink - Limpit and I could have come too.... it's been a while since I dragged her through the mummies....

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 11:21 AM

I am home from Scarborough Seafest!! having met up with an assortment of Mudcatters, including Barry Fin and Ken Schatz qho seemed to be having a whale of a time and were in Great voice, Carol and Andrew, moorley man and a couple of strays wearing "Schooner Adventure, Gloucester MA" T shirts!!! we had a good sing and a bright sunny day ( In Yorkshire!!!), Thanks to the organisers I wish Cobble and I could have stayed longer!
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 11:42 AM

Sounds deluxe, MrMicca. do you have photographs of the seafest?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 11:48 PM

Yes luv, we want to see pictures..... please....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:47 AM

Missed you. We just didn't get to the same places.

By the way, my phone isn't working so I've lost your number. Can you PM me with your mobile # please.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tig
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 05:03 PM

Just to make sure he was in good spirits before braving the Seafest with Cobble, Mrs Cobble invited The Badger and I to there house for dinner on the Friday.

I am pleased to report it was an excellent evening. Thanks again Mrs C.

What did you sing in the end?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 07:59 PM

I sang "Channels" for the competition!! but came nowhere, but feel no shame or dissapointment in such sterling company as I found myself!
There are a few (very few) pix Here

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 08:46 PM

Good pix Micca, nice one of Carole.
John

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Cats
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 10:11 AM

He's somewhere cos he just phoned me. His banana bread is waiting ....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 08:06 AM

He is home with the sniffles, maybe the flu. Poor baby. All that facial hair and a runny nose - gross.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 11:18 AM

Swine flu?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 11:36 AM

Got a call from the dear one yesterday- not to tell any secrets, but look for North American sightings come autumn!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 12:29 PM

I see a the read in our future: "Where Will Micca Be?"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 05:50 PM

Don't know if it is swine flavoured or not , but that it IS FLU I have No doubt at all, I made the mistake of going to the shops (about 10 minutes walk away) and was so totally exhausted when I got back I had to have a nap!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 06:16 PM

Yes, but I'm sure Little Wugsie didn't mind that.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 06:47 PM

No, Your right Tami, to judge by the enthusiasm with which she jumped up and down on my chest while I was lying down

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 07:21 PM

CPR?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 08:36 PM

Cat
Personal
Resuscitation?
Quite the reverse, little bugger nearly GAVE me a heart attack

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 08:51 PM

--lol ASK jERI ABOUT THE bATTLE OF THE bED SHE HAD WITH aLICE. OOOPS Capslock

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 08:58 PM

First off, it was rather warm.
I got the futon in the back room. Moved Alice off to put the sheet on. Set the sheet down, then moved Alice off the sheet to spread it out. Then I moved Alice off the sheet to get under it, after which I gave up. Alice selected my knees to lie on. I moved them and she went 'plonk' in between like a pig in a saggy hammock. I pulled the sheet up (forcing Alice to slide back down to her valley of knees) and slept, warmly and in no danger of accidentally floating away.

She didn't pee on me though.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 10:13 PM

So Micca, was it kind of like this?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 12:55 AM

Wugsie's just making sure you get taken care of....

Now if we could just train the cat to follow a few simple directions... hmmmmmm

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 04:46 AM

Tami, very similar, except Wugsie doesnt mew but PURRRRRRSS and simon omitted the trampolining from the back of the sofa in which I play the trampoline!
I have defo got some kind of Flu asThis morning is happening very slowly and I feel ike I have participated in a very vigorous game of rugby overnight, as the ball!!!
Back to bed!
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 05:47 AM

I told you it was a fur-ball!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 04:44 AM

Micca, it sounds just like the sort of flu I had & I'm sure the pandemic helpline has it wrong that you have to have THAT symptom!! Recommend jigsaw & hot toddies *grin* Keep up the good work Wugsie, he needs looking after.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 06:51 AM

Hils, Toast at breakfast TASTED like a jigsaw! except for the marmalade, anyway I thought it was usually Strawberry jam you found on jigsaws? I am fed up with this flu' tho; I have had a whole week of No energy, hard to concentrate for any length of time (so reading and TV are difficult and the sound editing i want to so, Forget it!!!) getting very tired VERY quickly, a trip to the shops is a major expotition!! Bloody Roll On!
From a Grumpy Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 07:11 AM

I knew he was one of the seven dwarves, and I knew it wasn't Bashful.
Hope you feel better soon Grumpy.

J

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 07:55 AM

Sorry that was me. My system logged me out

J

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 09:46 AM

Hi Ho .... dear one...


Okay I figured distraction is in order os here is a photo gallery of New Jersey Wineries......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 09:51 AM

Whoops I forgot the map.... no they are not close to my house but several are reasonable rides and others on the way to or fro from Getaway....

Winery map

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 11:45 AM

Tink, you kept that very quiet!!! wineries in NJ and within visiting distance!!! I suppose after our visit to the Wine Shop on my last visit that is understandable, if not forgivable!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 11:54 AM

But you needed the distraction today .....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 12:31 PM

delawarejoe, Micca I was looking up "pufferbelly" and came across that you sailed on a ship 1/4 mile long? Could you tell me the name of the ship, and what company it belong to? I assume that this was in the 60's or 70's.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 11:27 PM

There is a picture of the 71,000 ton British Mariner (which belonged to BP That is British Petroleum)here which was well over 900 feet long and scroll down to British MarinerYeah in 1965, Milford Haven or Finnart to Banias and back (nowhere to nowhere)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 10:34 AM

Well, one supposes the eagle, or is it gnome, landed?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 11:39 AM

He WAS at Chance's place on Thursday , so now he is at Getaway

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 12:45 PM

Are we going to let him have the 1000th post as a special mudcat birthday present?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 02:24 PM

maybe...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SussexCarole
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 02:51 PM

Only three more posts left before the magic number - where are you Birthday boy? Enjoying yourself at the Getaway no doubt!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 02:53 PM

He is here at the Getaway.


We may even let him leave, sometime.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 03:10 PM

Dare I??

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 03:11 PM

I got a thousand!! I got a thousand!!!


YAY ME!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: curmudgeon
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 03:18 PM

No you didn't.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: curmudgeon
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 03:20 PM

Sorry, I guess you did! When your last post came up though, it was listed here as 998.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 12:46 PM

Micca has just called and he's at Chez Chance and Susette.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 01:42 PM

He had to call you to tell you he was in your house???? I am very confused. When will the old man arrive at Chez SINSULL?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 01:44 PM

Sinsull-

That is a good question. Is he expected?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 02:20 PM

We're hurring home to keep Micca from frightening the neighbors.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 03:19 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 04:30 PM

I am at Chance and Suzettes, we are going out to eat, the "confusion" arose from the fact that They had to Work!! and I was swanning around the DC with a very nice lady, before being delivered here. Having been hugged within an inch of my life at the Getaway, I will try and write more later but the Late nights and "another Port" and things have left me a bit.....errrm.... parson?
Oh and bullitin " I STILL" don't like Grits"!!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 06 Oct 09 - 09:15 AM

Micca's boarding his train at Union Station on his way to New Hampshire.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Oct 09 - 09:18 AM

I believe there is a Crackerbox in NH with excellent grits.
See you soon.
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Oct 09 - 09:38 AM

Is that anything like a Cracker Barrel?

Chicken fried steak! Milk gravy! Cholesterol!
(Stop it! I have a physical on Thursday. The pig-out happens AFTER that.)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Oct 09 - 01:28 PM

He should be Rolling Home
to visit his assorted New England "Family."


Tinker

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 09:42 AM

barrel box whatever.

When are you arriving in Maine, Mr. Patterson?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 10:04 AM

Update!!!
I am in the General Store in Harrisville NH using there WiFi internet connection as Animaterras house is at the moment "internet free" The plan is that Alison will drive me to Portsmouth tomorrow (Friday) so I can be at the Press Room and after that I am not sure, I would like to spend aday or 2 with Tom Nad Linn before catching the Downeaster from Dover to Portland, I understan I maybe playing on a Pub Quiz team on Tuesday(subject to confirmation) and after that No plans until Sunday 18.05 Flight from Logan Home

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 10:21 AM

Hi, Micca!

Thanks for the heads up!

The good news is that -- as of yesterday -- we can actually get INTO the guest room (where you will be staying) so I can promise clean sheets, at least. The rest of the house is a disaster, but I'm sure you'll cope.

I thought the New England Center (Acorns) was closed on Monday (the only early week evening I'm not working), but it's open and we can have dinner then. But Flag Hill Winery, alas, doesn't open their tasting room until Wednesday. I've been looking forward to tasting their recent addition -- apple brandy.

See you tomorrow!

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 01:01 PM

Jason is eagerly anticipating your addition to the team on Tuesday. The rest of the lads haven't been very reliable about showing up lately and he's been a team of one or two the last several weeks. SO you had better not disappoint him, Micca.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 01:59 PM

HMMMM What's the prize? I am very good at Trivial Pursuit. And I would love a chance to skip my exercise class on Tuesday...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 03:19 PM

Just a $50 gift card to Ri Ra and bragging rights.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 03:38 PM

$50 split four ways? An order of fries each. WHOO! WHOO!
So we will probably see you sometime on Tuesday? Let us know when and where to pick you up.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 06:49 PM

When and where is this pub quiz thingie?
Even if I can't play because Jason hates me (sniff, sniff), I can cheer. (And sit in the punter section and mutter about how I knew a furlong was an eighth of a mile and I knew what purpose a chalaza serves.

I will be at the Press Room as Tom's chauffeur (do I have to wear the outfit and open the doors and all that crap?), and then there will be wine and food and perhaps some sightseeing/peef leaping or stuff. Plus Tom tells me Acorns have blue-cheese crusted fillet Mignon again.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 08 Oct 09 - 11:54 PM

Should I just get him fitted with Sat Nav? Seems like it would save a lot of trouble.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: KT
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 01:11 AM

aw...have fun, y'all!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 09:50 AM

Shanty Sing on the 17th all?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 11:15 AM

No wonder the far right are bitching about Acorn; non-profits eating fancy-schmanzy filet whilst their clients go hungry! Or, did you mean some hoity-toity squirrels are really well-off?

LOL...have fun everyone!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,Micca
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 01:30 PM

Your hard working Gnome has arrived in Portsmouth NH as per spec and is ensconced in the Public Library. After a wonderful time at TamLin in Keene NH I have made it for the Press Room. Morty I dont think SatNav would help as I have been lost 3 times in 4 trips thanks to it!!! maybe a Radio Location Beacon would be better that would,at least give my present position!! which is Parrott ave, Portsmouth, but then you knew that!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 05:12 PM

Feline update - Morgana the Flatulent has been living up to her name, has made herself at home and even started mugging the other cats for their food...

She is well and sends a maow.

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 10:56 PM

After an amazing session at The Press room that included some Dutch folkies (including the Shanty singer that Johnny Collins used to stay with in Holland!!) I am back Chez Linn and Tom and about to join a Lying-down workshop. The hospitality and friendship here in our Mudcat community is amazing !!!, First Chance and Suzette in DC, then those wonderful FSGW folks at West River (and a special mention to Nancy King for her help getting back to Silver Spring), then Allison and Hunt in Nelson NH and now Here in Nottingham NH, it has been a kaleidoscope of lovely people and warmth, every now an then some startling thing prompts a memory.....( I have the pictures,they may have to wit till I get home to appear)
The Duet of a Ukelele and French Horn(I kid you not)
Fall colours near Tolman Pond (I am now a "Leaf peeper")
The singing of Barry Finn all weekend and tonight.
Magic all of them
the plan from here seems to be (maybe) wine tasting tomorrow?
Acorns Monday evening, (Don't know if Mary is making the trip to join us)
Train from Portsmouth to Portland Tuesday (probably arrive Marys afternoon) to join Quiz team in the evening.
After that it goes a bit fuzzy

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 11:12 PM

Leaf peeper?
If it is Tourist Season, why can't we shoot them?

We will work out a meeting. Jacqui and Kendall are suffering with what may be the flu, Seamus is with me until Monday AM, I think. Tami is having back trouble - the walking wounded here in Maine, But you will be met; you have a bed; you have a bottle or two of something worth drinking.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 03:56 AM

Can't wait for the pix!

RtS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 07:41 AM

Rog, I might be able to get something up when I get somewhere with WiFi for the laptop!! All the tales and pix you see describing the "Leaf colour" here in Autumn is short of the mark and inadequate next to the reality. It is Spectacular!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 12:30 PM

Oh, dear god no! Our roaming gnome is becoming a damned peafer!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 12:37 PM

A pee fleaper...
There's wine in my future, and a Cannon shoot-out. (His probably IS bigger than mine, but it's way older too.)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 03:48 PM

hey, at least he's peeping at leaves....could be worse.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:07 PM

Ya shoulda seen the dear little guy flashing that camera all over the place! I didn't even have time to stop the car, he'd be clicking away. Micca-me-luv, I miss your mug around here- I keep thinking I hear your voice, and more than once someone has made a remark that deserves a Micca Comeback!

...Maggie's here, to take your place upstairs, and it's lovely to have her here, but it's definitely not the same!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 10:44 PM

We went Wine tasting today!!!! and had a nice meal with Wine and some very nice Cheddar!! the Local liquor store managed to supply some LBV Port (1998 Warres) that is****Very nice*** and nicely mellowed I am off to bed, I miss TamLin too, Allison and give my best hugs to Maggie I am sorry to have missed her this time, And Happy birthday for last Friday to Dylan
Good night all
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 08:55 PM

We are the walking wounded this weekend too -- had a dinner party scheduled for yesterday and Tom woke up saying we would have to cancel. Why, I said - I'm fine. Yes, he said, but I'm not. Oh don't be silly I said -- you'll be fine. He got up and took his temperature - a rousing 103....! We canceled!..If you all go down to the Press Room on Saturday -- let me know. I'll drive Esmerelda if someone will drive back.........haven't been down there in a long time and I should at least see Micca once if we can't offer him dinner hospitality.......

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 09:35 PM

Lovely wine tasting at Flag Hill...then off to Calef's for cheese. Great dinner tonight (Micca, Jeri, Tom and I -- Tom doing the cooking, of course) -- Tom made saltembaca and then we worked through cheese, wine, port, single malt.

I REALLY have to go to bed. I have to work tomorrow (had to work today) before we have a last dinner at Acorns tomorrow evening.

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 10:16 PM

Here I am , Basking in good food and wine and a truly remarkable single malt Bunnabhain Darach=ur!!!! soft mellow and smooooooooth, and that was just me after drinking it,,, very nice!! Morty (where-ever you are) the Port was fairly special too,Actually Idris might like the Malt also it was not unlike good Ledaig!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 09:54 AM

So the itinerant Micca arrives in Maine tomorrow along with the first snow. Had to bring it with you, didn't you?
Harumph!
Hope you're wearing a kilt.
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 09:59 AM

Snow???? who ordered Snow????, Mary, I take it you are not joining us for the annual NH-UK friendship Group dinner tonight? Its the last one at Acorns!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 10:26 AM

careful you could lose him in a small drift.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 10:33 AM

Hey, Chance, Who rattled your cage??

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: gnu
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 12:45 PM

Glad he's not coming any fruther north, SINS.

Sounds like good times are being had by all.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 01:46 PM

Some of us work for a living, Micca.
Sigh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 02:28 PM

Sounds like good times indeed.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 02:42 PM

How's the collar bone, Morty?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 07:20 PM

OK, so who is fetching our Roaming Gnome from the bus and how is he getting across the bridge? His Pub Quiz team is looking forward to his arrival.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 07:29 PM

I offered but was told that he will be grabbing a cab. Offer is still open if wanted - just contact me with details of the bus time.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 10:07 PM

keep track of him for us, Jacqui, he shouldn't be off on his own, you know, who knows what he'd get up to.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 10:13 PM

Replete with good food ,wine and splendid company, I have returned to Nottingham, from the annual NH-Uk Friendship meeting at Acorns UNH, the Menu was pear salad, Filet Mignon and Creme Brulee the wines were a positive LAKE of dry sack sherry, a Californian Cb.Sauv and Grand Marnier and coffee. The company was 'Mudge and Linn and Jeri and the whole thing was "chust sublime" to quote Para Handy, for some reason I feel a bit tired and emotional and am going to lie down
"Indicate the direction to my abode
I'm fatigued and I wish to retire...."
Off to fresh foods and Pastas new tomorrow
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 09:39 AM

Door is unlocked. Your room awaits. As does Alice.
I should be home about 6:30 but expect you will be off by then. See you later.
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: curmudgeon
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 01:00 PM

The train was running a bit late when I saw him off in Dover. But he should be safe in Portland by now - Tom

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 01:23 PM

Safely at anchor Chez Mary, with the Nuns and Penguins and Cats and about to step out to El Nueovo TJ Hookers for Lunch!!! No Snow but Rain!!!!!!! Lots!!! Feels Quite like London, except I suspect it is colder here, Must call tami and see what is the score for the Quiz team!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 02:25 PM

The EAGLE has landed.
Let the games begin.
etc
etc
etc

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 02:38 PM

HMMMMMM
I called and got a busy signal. Now I call and get no answer. It's not nice to fool with Mother Mary.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 02:55 PM

Micca, I have bad manners, and I hope you forgive me. Thank you for dinner last night. The best wine, the best fillet Mignon (with blue cheese & bacon crust (it came more rare than I expected or wanted, but it was perfect), and lovely company. I still felt full when I woke up this morning!

Both I and the horse thank you.

P.S. We need to work out photo-swapping. How long before Homeland Security can relax again?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 04:02 PM

I have spoken with Mother Mary, all I need now is to figger out whats happening this evening!!
Jeri, Dont worry about it, I was charmed and delighted with your company(and the horse) the food was definately superior this time at Acorns, That Creme Brulee was something wonderful.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 04:44 PM

You had Creme Brulee? Without me??? *

MiccaDear, please give Everyone a Huge Hug from Us!

*goes to freezer & looks for ice cream

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 10:16 PM

So -- did you arrive for the quiz team?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 11:12 PM

That's what I'm wondering, too, Deb.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:35 AM

Both Micca and I called all day trying to find Jason or Tami but no answer. By 7:45 we were both hungry and went off to Amato's for pasta and wine. Found a PM from Tami this morning but it must have come in while we were off at Amato's.
I said Rira's but Micca wasn't sure.
But we had a pleasant evening - nice to have the old guy back.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 01:37 PM

Uh Oh
No answer.
Could bhe have gone down the plug? I warned him about the shower where by the way I found another nun tucked in a dish where I keep tweezers, clippers and the like.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 08:51 PM

I kidnapped him and made him carry all of my purchases while shopping like a madwoman.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:31 PM

A very successful day, managed to get some Gordon Bok CDs and have a generally pleasent time, after dinner at JP Thorntons, am now mellow as a lightly done newt and ready for a sleep

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 09:19 AM

He never ceases to amaze me - the latest craze among vinophiles is apparently a large dose of ground pepper floating on top. Not sure what it does besides float but...one man's poison...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 12:59 PM

Just put Micca on a bus to Boston. From there he flies to London and should arrive about 5 AM in time for work.
Look after him, Liz and Mortie. We have had some sad times over here and he feels it.
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 01:08 PM

yep.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Morticia
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 11:15 PM

Will do, guys, thanks.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 05:19 AM

I'm Home
Tired and saddened by the loss of a friend (I think I could call Barry a friend) the sadness in the watches of the night on the flight was almost overwhelming, it must be tiredness, I was remembering the insane car journey at 80mph up I95 with Barry driving Marys van (Mary and Tami in the back ,eyes tight shut. knuckles white) while Barry was telling me stories taking his hands off the wheel to gesture and his eye off to road to see my reactions. He was in great voice at the Getaway. I spent Friday a week ago with him at the Press Room and his last words as we left were, "See you Next week" I will(and already am) really miss that guy
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 11:27 AM

Home again. Home again. Jiggity Jig.
Get some rest.
SINS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 08:56 PM

Inch time, foot gem
this day will not come again

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 20 Oct 09 - 02:47 PM

Thanks for the phone message, Micca-me-luv- you sounded sad and exhausted. Get some rest and come back and sing with us!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 02:06 PM

More pix from the trip to Me+NH 09
in October, These qualified me as a "Leaf Peeper" but I got no badge!! Still " We dont need no steenking badges"

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 02:16 PM

OOOOPS, My mistake Try This ME an NH 09

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 06:26 PM

Ah, yes, when prim and proper, mostly white-paint and bricks New England, gets into the facepaints and goes full out with the rouge and lipstick! I LOVE it and miss it, though we do have beautiful golds out here. I still have a photo album full of leaves which I dried and put in it for my mom the first year we lived there in 1983. We were so impressed by the colours AND size of the leaves.

Lovely photos, MIcca. The gals and inmates are pretty good lookin', too!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 06:36 PM

Not one of our better foliage seasons, at least around here, Micca -- but you were here for what turned out to be peak foliage.

The last colorful holdouts were two trees on Rte. 4 just before the highway crossed the first part of Great Bay. There was a bright red maple, one of the kind whose leaves are always a shade of red, but in the fall turn a brighter red; and another maple that was bright yellow with bright red on the outer parts of the leaves. The two together were striking. Alas, they looked fine this past Thursday, not sure if I noticed on Friday (it was dark when I went past the second time), and by Saturday what leaves were still on were brown and the bi-colored tree was nearly bare.

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 09:08 AM

Micca is on the move again! I will leave it to him to provide the details.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:03 AM

We're waiting.....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 14 Nov 09 - 06:45 PM

Well, Today I took possesion of the keys to my new abode and over the next few weeks I will be moving house!!,The new place is fairly close in distance to my present abode but is much nicer, with better amenities and facilities (working shower, central heating that works, cellar(I look forward to meeting many friends there) for wine!! and is light and airy too (present abode is a bit dark and grim) and is cheaper!!! more news as we progress!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 09 - 11:31 AM

Yee-Haw!! delighted to hear it, darlin'!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 15 Nov 09 - 12:18 PM

I'll be over to inspect and report back in December melove.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 15 Nov 09 - 03:58 PM

Fantastic!!! Looking forward to being invited over....

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 Nov 09 - 08:49 AM

Hey Micca! You didn't tell me you were moving to a new place. Trying to dodge me are you? Don't telephone us in Maryland, we're down on Hanlon Mt for 2 weeks.

Send us a picture of the new digs.

cheers chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:51 AM

Micca keeps calling me but that damn MagicJack doesn't connect. I keep saying "Hello? Hello?" to emptiness. Either that or he has taken to making nuisance phone calls.
I'm here, my friend. Honest.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 05:21 AM

How's the move going Micca? Need some help with the wine?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 07:19 AM

Wish we could be there to help with the move! Or that you could be here to help today when the truck from NC comes with all of Hunt's stuff!

Moving is never fun, but having all your stuff in your new place is wondeful. Blessings on your new abode!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 11:04 AM

I'm glad I'm here and not there to help with the move.
I love you Micca but have to draw the line somewhere. I suspect he moves the way he travels and that is just too much for a relatively normal person to bear.

By the way, I found your black jacket hanging in the kitchen today. Save it 'til next time???? With the shirts, shoes, and whatever else is floating around?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 04:50 AM

The move qua move is over!! I am in the New Place, That is I am now "living" there albeit in about 300 cardboard boxes!!! but I can reach the bed the Kettle(and the Tea) and the Bathroom!! Little Wugsie has her own Playpark/adventure playground to explore, she complained ALL DAY at being shut in the bathroom at the New Place while the physical move took place but seemed to forgive quickly when let out again, Now comes the Unpacking and the "if you want anything you have to move/search at least 4 other things first" and the joy of reconnecting my TV/stereo and my computer!!! Deep Joy!! (not) Now is when I could REALLY use some help!! but Nil Desperado as a friend used to misquote,
For those that have it, my phone number is the same, but if you call remember I have to cross something like the Marine Commando Combat course to reach the phone!! Many thaks for all the support ,both in this instaance and over the years I have had here
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:00 AM

Of course if others were to help you unpack, you might have a hard time finding things again....

Congrats & welcome to your new home!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:55 AM

The big mistake was connecting up the entertainment before everything else was unpacked. It'll never get done now!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 07:09 AM

Well, Micca, I'm giving you until 2011 to get unpacked, organized and decorated. I realized it's short notice, but I'm planning a tour and you're the first stop.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 07:28 AM

Welcome home, dear friend! Take your time and soon you'll have everything where it belongs- or at least where it's going to stay for the next 30 years!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 08:33 AM

I'll be visiting in the next week or two so I hope there's enough space for me too!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 09:24 AM

Organized? Micca? LOL
Enjoy your new place, my friend.Remember: everything in its place and a place for everything.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 05:26 AM

Mary, I've (in theory)got the "place for everything" now all I have to do is shuffle the boxes until "everything is in its place" Little Wugsie is "helping"!! she topples things, Bags of clothing at 2.30 this morning, aand anything she can find, if it is soft she makes a bed of it!!. This place feels "better" already, it has A LOT more natural light and just is (or will be) more "homelike". Jacqui, No prob. mate, it may be a bit of a squeeze but we will fit you in, BTW the phone number is the same, See ya soon!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 12:12 PM

I am so proud of you, honey! Congratulations to you and Miz Wugsie! Remember most of us like a man with a slow hand, so slow and steady in all things, eh?**BG** (Take care with your back, too!:-)

luvyakateykat

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 12:31 PM

Reminds me of the joke about the guy who went to his doc, with a bad dose of the clap.
Doctor said, he should stay away from cheap whores.
Man says he doesn't go with women at all.
Doc asks him what he does to get his rocks off.
Man says, I do it myself.
Doc says, fast, or slow?
Slow said the man.
Ah, then you've got slow hand clap sir.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 06:32 PM

John, CELLAR!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 06:17 PM

Just a note to let everyone know he will be off-line for a bit longer as they sort out the DSL going to his new place. Watch this space!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 06:48 PM

OK, then.

1100, btw.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 06:56 PM

Joe Offer, shall we transfer some of this thread, it takes too long to load.

chance

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 08:02 PM

Maybe it is time to start a nwe Where's Micca thread.
Names?
Son Of Where's Micca?
Where Micca Too?
Micca: New Year/New Address

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 11:51 PM

FOUND: One Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 05:03 AM

Hi Y'all I am using the Internet at work as the ISP said it will take 5 DAYS to re-connect my service so Iprobably wont be able to set up my home computer until about Thursday, this is playing hell with communications, such as "change of addy" stuff etc. but Sailor vie as the French say.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 08:32 AM

Missed your call, Micca. Ah well.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 04:31 PM

It's Christmas Eve, 2009. Where is Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 05:44 PM

He's supposed to be back online by Monday, I think. He is visiting friends for the holiday.:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 05:41 AM

Last I heard he was orf to deepest Leatherhead.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 11:05 AM

I am here, (Chez Hils and Richard at Leatherhead) immersed with good food and wine in the booze-up of friends, drinking some strange aged Champagne that tastes and looks like Sherry!! but with excellent company!! Seasonal Greetings (such as is appropriate to your beliefs) and Tami, I am "exploring new and exciting Cities for you to visit

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 01:34 PM

Why is this thread still going?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 01:42 PM

'cause, LH, ya never know where he's going to turn up!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 04:23 PM

Micca, please give Hilary a big hug for me, and a Merry Christmas to Richard, and have a Merry Happy Ho Ho Ho.

regards, Chance and Susette

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 06:10 AM

Chance, Hils and Richard sends similar Greetings to you and Suzette (as do I), we are using a friends machine as Hils is off line until next week!!and I am here until Sunday and am off-line at home also until next week.
and a Happy c)hristmas (or whatever) to all our readers
Micca

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:31 PM

Micca-

Greetings from our part of Maine as well.

Charley Noble and JudyB

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:31 PM

New thread is here.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 04:51 PM

If you keep posting to this thread it will never go away. Follow gnu's link along the yellow brick road. Eventually you will come to the new thread.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 05:19 PM

Will we find Micca there?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 10:25 AM

CAreful, Little Hawk or I will sic the flying monkeys on you.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 12:26 PM

So we should all follow the road less travelled, now?:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 01:02 PM

Stop asking questions that require answers. Close this thread. And YES Take the road less travelled.
SHEESE.
LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 08:55 AM

Hey Sunshine! Are you and the rest of the London contingent safe?
Mary

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 11:29 AM

Safe?? a new and novel use of the word I havent used much, Yeah, I am , I suppose as safe as I can be, I went to East Ham(the local shopping street) the bus went through another shopping area, BOTH were closed, I mean 5am Sunday morning closed, steel shutters the lot, so was the indoor Fruit and Veg market!!. Curiously there were Lots of Public around as much as on a normal Tuesday, but nothing open! I don#t knowwhat these yobs are trying to achievem maybe to ensure that they have to travel a long way to the shops as no one will open business near their areas, they are certainly not helping their communities.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 12:44 PM

Shops are open in Maine...

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 10 Aug 11 - 12:52 PM

Liz is in the Ardeche at the moment and Phoebe and I have just got back from Broadstairs Festival. It all seems quite normal at the moment but we are about 20 minutes walk from the East Ham riots. Phoebe's friends says that Gregg's is burned out but around 200 Asian youths turned out to keep the rioters away from Green Street which is 5 minutes from us. Green Street is known as the Bond Street of the Indian community which lots of jewellers and posh clothes shops.
Penny has posted on Facebook about the Enfield riots so I guess she is ok.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Oct 11 - 11:20 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Oct 11 - 12:16 PM

ARGGHHH!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 03 Oct 11 - 03:53 PM

Having spent the w/e in Cardiff at a friends Birthday party I returned yesterday fully of warm feelings, good food and wine to Find a scurrilous. unfounded report here on Mudcat that purports to be a report of some recent activities of mine, I am shocked and astonished at these attacks!! I am Innocent, I tell you
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Oct 11 - 05:08 PM

Where is Micca? Reports have him walking the streets of Lunnon in his tidy whities.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Oct 11 - 05:17 PM

I may have experienced some kind of hallucination earlier today. Or perhaps it was a real psychic event. An anomaly in the space-time continuum? At any rate, there I was minding my own business, went to my closet to get a clean shirt for tonight's song circle, opened the door and...

AAARGHHH!!!

I was confronted by the shocking sight of what appeared to be Micca, clad only in a tiny black speedo. I uttered a horrified cry and jumped back about 3 feet. The apparition standing before me knitted its heavy brows, glared at me, flashed an aggressive double-fingered sign at me (the opposite to the "V" for victory symbol), and vanished in a puff of smoke!

I'm still feeling quite shaken. I may need to get an exorcism or something like that done here.

Could have been worse, though. It could have been Spaw.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: J-boy
Date: 31 May 20 - 01:53 AM

Where are you mate?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MudGuard
Date: 31 May 20 - 08:09 AM

Micca now is in a better world .

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Noreen
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 08:38 PM

Hello Andreas.

Micca certainly enjoyed his travels- and we all enjoyed them too with the help of the Mudcat and it’s lovely denizens.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: MudGuard
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 04:15 PM

Noreen, see PM.