BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...

Subject: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 07:56 AM

Hey, ya' all...

Happy Valentines day...

Now go out to yer favorite fancy resturant 'er go to the mall or just watch "the Prive is Right" reruns... Don't much matter to me as long as it makes you happy 'cause...

...Bobert loves ya...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:07 AM

& Happy Valentines to you & ths P-vine, I ho[e you both hve a wonderful day

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:41 AM

Thank you Bobert. Back at ya'.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:42 AM

Happy Valentines, Bobert! There is music and love, but the better of these is love.(Music is a close second, though!)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Amos
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:43 AM

Aw, yowzah. There's NOTHIN' in the world like a fine Mudcat lady singing!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:50 AM

We loves ya right back Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:52 AM

'n Tom 'n Amos 'n all the other guyz

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 11:14 AM

Why, thank you, Bobert dear. Happy Valentine's Day to you too.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Mickey191
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 11:21 AM

Thank you Bobert - the same to you. Hope you all hear from your "special someone."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 06:04 PM

Thank you Bobert, and back to you too - all the way from Oz!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 06:51 PM

Well, thankee to ya' all...

I waited until the P-Vine was asleep last night and then made one of my patented original cards... I don't buy cards... I make 'um and I enjoy it... Yep, I get out colored paper and sizzors and qlue and lots of pens with differnt colors and...

...so there is this blouse that I have been admiring for some time at an outfitters and so I got it fir here (30% off) and hung it on the bhood over the stove and put the card betweet buttons on the shirt and, well, another successfull V-Day...

Life is good...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 07:18 PM

Adrien beat ya to it. And you both beat me. Shit!!

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: KT
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 07:40 PM

Thanks, Bobert. You are a sweetie!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 08:15 PM

Snooze, ya' loose, Mick... lol...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Janie
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 12:42 AM

And Happy Valentine to you too, Friend. Your hellabore is sending up lovely white blooms, even though it got dug up and dumped in a pot last July, where it still resides, next to the azalea you brought me at the Getaway.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 04:48 AM

I note there have been no reciprocal sentiments from Mudwomanz, to the male members of Mudcat!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: My guru always said
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 04:58 AM

Oh John, I've got some hugs for you next time we meet!

Nicely done Bobert, impressed!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 05:14 PM

I don't do Valentines.

If I love you, I'll show/tell you any damn day I please, not just because Hallmark and Interflora want to make money.

The mere fact that you're still all breathing (well, mostly) and don't have major stab wounds should indicate my affection for you.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 05:37 PM

Wow! LTS.... So like me 20 odd years ago. But then I was married to spawn of satan, so everyday I refrained from taking a little homicidal therapy was pretty much a miracle, especially for him.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 05:42 PM

Happy post-V-day, all Mudcatter Menz! And thank you, Bobert!

I love V-day, and like Bobert don't buy into the cards, etc. My dear one and I had the best V-day ever, stopping (on our way home from Florida) at the Berkeley Springs, West-by-God-Virginia "Roman baths" and spending a lovely 30 minutes "taking the waters" in a private bath. Then we got dressed, hopped in the car, and drove another 6 hours north, for our last stop on a 3-week music tour, relaxed, refreshed, and glowing. Tonight we're home in our cozy house. It's true we don't need a special day to express our love, and we might have hit Berkeley Springs on any other day, but having it be the 14th of Feb. added a touch of romance!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 05:46 PM

Oh, wish I'd known that you were going to be in Berkey Springs... There's "The Castle" up on the mountain just west of B.S. that I'm sure you missed...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 06:11 PM

reciprocal sentiments from Mudwomanz

I did over in Beer's thread but I can slobber here just as well....

Prolly not the way you [might have] meant it tho. :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 07:53 PM

Bobert, we have every intention of returning with more time to spend in the area- we really didn't have any more time than we spent- but what a lovely brief respite.

I'll let you know when we plan to return so you can tell me all about the Castle!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM

As the Day of Hearts once again looms over the horizon like a battleship approaching a sleepy coast, let us remember the wonderful similarities and differences which make life with multiple genders SO interesting:

"In view of the celebration of Valentine's day I think we should
consider the following demonstration of the Mars/Venus problem.

======================================================================
    In case you're confused about what might have gone on last night... ]
======================================================================

CONTRARY to what many women believe, it's fairly easy to develop a long-term stable, intimate, and mutually fulfilling relationship with a guy. Of course this guy has to be a Labrador retriever. With human guys, it's extremely difficult. This is because guys don't really grasp what women mean by the term relationship.

    Let's say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a while neither one of them is seeing anybody else.

    And then, one evening when they're driving home, a thought occurs to Elaine, and, without really thinking, she says it aloud: "Do you realize that,as of tonight, we've been seeing each other for exactly six months?"

    And then there is silence in the car. To Elaine, it seems like a very loud silence. She thinks to herself: Geez, I wonder if it bothers him that I said that. Maybe he's been feeling confined by our relationship; maybe he thinks I'm trying to push him into some kind of obligation that he doesn't want, or isn't sure of.

    And Roger is thinking: Gosh. Six months.

    And Elaine is thinking: But, hey, I'm not so sure I want this kind of relationship, either. Sometimes I wish I had a little more space, so I'd have time to think about whether I really want us to keep going the way we are, moving steadily toward. . . I mean, where are we going? Are we just going to keep seeing each other at this level of intimacy? Are we heading toward marriage? Toward children? Toward a lifetime together? Am I ready for that level of commitment? Do I really even know this person?

    And Roger is thinking: . . .so that means it was. . . let's see. . .February when we started going out, which was right after I had the
car at the dealer's, which means. . . lemme check the odometer. . . Whoa! I am way overdue for an oil change here.

    And Elaine is thinking: He's upset. I can see it on his face. Maybe I'm reading this completely wrong. Maybe he wants more from our
    relationship, more intimacy, more commitment; maybe he has sensed --even before I sensed it -- that I was feeling some reservations. Yes,I bet that's it. That's why he's so reluctant to say anything about his own feelings. He's afraid of being rejected.

    And Roger is thinking: And I'm gonna have them look at the transmission again. I don't care what those morons say, it's still not shifting right. And they better not try to blame it on the cold weather this time. What cold weather? It's 87 degrees out, and this thing is shifting like a goddamn garbage truck, and I paid those incompetent thieves $600.

    COMMUNICATIONS GAP

    And Elaine is thinking: He's angry. And I don't blame him. I'd be angry, too. God, I feel so guilty, putting him through this, but I can't help the way I feel. I'm just not sure.

    And Roger is thinking: They'll probably say it's only a 90-day    warranty. That's exactly what they're gonna say, the scumballs.

    And Elaine is thinking: Maybe I'm just too idealistic, waiting for a knight to come riding up on his white horse, when I'm sitting right next to a perfectly good person, a person I enjoy being with, a person I truly do care about, a person who seems to truly care about me. A person who is in pain because of my self-centered, schoolgirl romantic fantasy.

    And Roger is thinking: Warranty? They want a warranty? I'll give
them a goddamn warranty. I'll take their warranty and stick it right up their. . .

    "Roger," Elaine says aloud.

    "What?" says Roger, startled.

    "Please don't torture yourself like this," she says, her eyes beginning to brim with tears. 'Maybe I should never have. . . Oh   God, I feel so. . . "

    (She breaks down, sobbing.)

    "What?" says Roger.

    "I'm such a fool," Elaine sobs. "I mean, I know there's no knight. I really know that. It's silly. There's no knight, and there's no horse."

    "There's no horse?" says Roger.

    "You think I'm a fool, don't you?" Elaine says.

    "No!" says Roger, glad to finally know the correct answer.

    "It's just that. . . It's that I. . . I need some time," Elaine says.

    (There is a 15-second pause while Roger, thinking as fast as he can, tries to come up with a safe response. Finally he comes up with one that he thinks might work.)

    "Yes," he says.

    A BEFUDDLED BEAU

    (Elaine, deeply moved, touches his hand.)

    "Oh, Roger, do you really feel that way?" she says.

    "What way?" says Roger.

    "That way about time," says Elaine.

    "Oh," says Roger. "Yes."

    (Elaine turns to face him and gazes deeply into his eyes, causing him to become very nervous about what she might say next, especially if it involves a horse. At last she speaks.)

    "Thank you, Roger," she says.

    "Thank you," says Roger.

    Then he takes her home, and she lies on her bed, a conflicted,    tortured soul, and weeps until dawn, whereas when Roger gets back to his place, he opens a bag of Doritos, turns on the TV, and immediately becomes deeply involved in a rerun of a tennis match between two Czechoslovakians he never heard of. A tiny voice in the far recesses of his mind tells him that something major was going on back there in the car, but he is pretty sure there is no way he would ever understand what, and so he figures it's better if he doesn't think about it. (This is also Roger's policy regarding world hunger.)

    IT'S ANALYSIS TIME

    The next day Elaine will call her closest friend, or perhaps two of them, and they will talk about this situation for six straight hours.
    In painstaking detail, they will analyze everything she said and everything he said, going over it time and time again, exploring every word, expression, and gesture for nuances of meaning, considering every possible ramification. They will continue to discuss this subject, off and on, for weeks, maybe months, never reaching any definite conclusions, but never getting bored with it, either.

    Meanwhile, Roger, while playing racquetball one day with a mutual friend of his and Elaine's, will pause just before serving, frown, and say: "Norm, did Elaine ever own a horse?"


    --
    Robert F. Dailey

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 05:56 PM

Oh my god. It's true. It's true.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:01 PM

Yes, it is true. I couldn't read the whole post. I am a man. I expected someone to get laid in at least six paragraphs, not six months of paragraphs.

I might read it sometime I have the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:08 PM

So I saw this thread and my first thought, "What sappy shmuck started this thread???" and then I opened it...

Geeze Lousie...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:14 PM

Yeah, right... talk about suckin up! Hahahahaaa.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 07:07 PM

That's hilarious and oh so true, as Ebbie says!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: kendall
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 07:23 PM

Just for he record, men are not all alike. Some are worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 07:31 PM

Ans some play Taylor geetars...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 08:38 PM

but that is not a correlated variable...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 08:43 PM

What the hail is a corragated variable, Amos??

BTW, to all you mudwomenz out there... Ol' bobert loves ya' all an' I sho nuff hope that yer Valentines Day is the best... You know, kinda like ya'll...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 08:59 PM

Thank you Bobertz....hope you have a nice day too.....Himself has his birthday (he has one each year, would you believe?) on Valentine's Day.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: kendall
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 09:19 PM

If I were to send a Valentine to every woman I am fond of, Hallmark could take the next day off.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: KT
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 10:17 PM

sigh...dontcha just love those mudcat menz?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 10:45 PM

Hapee Valentymes:

http://primepuzzle.com/kt.html

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 10:52 PM

"The high cost of living is only a joke....it's the high cost of loving that's keeping me broke"

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Genie
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 11:05 PM

Aw, Bobert! Fer li'l ol' US? You started a speshul Ballantine's Day thread a whole 10 days early?   Ya shouldn'a!

... At least that's what I thought when I saw the thread title and read the first few posts. (I could tell from the "womenz" who it wuz what started the thread.)

Then I realized this was last year's thread, so it all makes sense.


Oh, and that was pretty funny, Amos. But Kendall is right. ; )

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 11:24 PM

Valentinstag or Lupercalia?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:38 AM

Just a little note about a romantic man.

After Kendall's biopsy in September 04 I had to go back to the UK to wrap things up there before coming out to get married in October.

While I was there Kendall was busy in his front yard - he planted red and white tulips in the pattern of the cross of St George, so that I would have a surprise in the spring! Now, THAT is just about the most romantic thing I have ever known.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:59 AM

AWWWWWWWWWWWW- you are one lucky woman, jacqui!


But, then, kendall is the luckiest man alive (with one possible exception *smirk*).

This Mudcat woman sends love back to ALL Mudcat men and wimmens, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: KT
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:43 PM

Well, yeah, Animaterra, I'm with you! I love all them Mudcat wimminz too! (uh-oh- I think I'm starting to talk Bobertese!)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: KT
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:45 PM

Jacqui, yes! That was true love, for sure! Do they still come up in the cross of St. George pattern?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Amos
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:40 PM

Yeah, well, KT, you better add sompn nice to the "Valentines to Mudcat Menfolks" thread or you're gonna have some splainin' to do next Getaway!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 11:35 AM

KT - we moved, so I don't know what happened to them. Whatever, I will have that memory for the rest of my life and that's enough for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: KT
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 12:42 PM

Jacqui, love it! Amos, I'll have a look at that one - AFTER a Saturday morning walk & latte ~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: Amos
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 12:56 PM

Dang, Jacqui, you're gonna have us believing the Skipper is a softy in the middle!! 'Course we all know that can't be so, I'm just saying....



A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 01:03 PM

They do, KT. I drive by in the spring to check. The new owners haven't moved them but I bet they don't understand the pattern.The Captain is a sweetie.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:39 AM

SSSHHHH! don't spread it around.

There once was a fella named Stu
He found an elephant's dick in his stew
Said the waiter, "Don't shout and wave it about,
The others will all want one two."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:14 AM

An elephant's Dick - is that Nixon?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: topical tom
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:30 AM

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, 'CATTER GALS!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:24 AM

Valentine's Day ?? What's that then ?? Or did you mean ,perhaps,

SAINT Valentine's Day ?? Or will we all ,in future,be celebrating

David's Day, Patrick's Day and ,God forbid, George's Day ??

Sorry, forgot Andrew !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentines to da' Mudwomenz...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:11 AM

Don't be specious, bubblyrat. Valentine's Day is when Americans give the people they love valentines, which are pretty tokens of affection.

You Brits ought to try something like that.

On Andrews Day, the Scots could give little balls of haggis, dipped in treacle.