Where is Micca?????

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.