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Mudcat Pub - Round 8
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Subject: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Big Mick Date: 19 Aug 99 - 09:49 PM Ahhhh, much better. Now this is a joint!!! Everyone OK?? I know that that molecular deconstruction/reconstruction is a pain...........SHIT!!! The little fuzzy guys snuck on board...........Damn, I hope they don't hook up with Koko. Hey Leej, how about Uncle Arthurs finest for all here. And let's get the song worked out for Susan's Da. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MAG (inactive) Date: 19 Aug 99 - 11:45 PM Does he like "Yellowbird," or, (shudder) "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds?" They DO harmonize nicely. MA |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: DougR Date: 20 Aug 99 - 12:51 AM Big Mick: I'll join you for a stiff one of any kind. I lost my Velma Tuesday morning and I'm very much in need of strong drink. We had 48 wonderful years together and I miss her terribly. DougR |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Barbara Date: 20 Aug 99 - 01:46 AM Ahh, Doug, I'm so sorry. Let us set up a round around and one more glass -- at the empty place at the table next to you -- for Velma. What would she have liked? And would you like us to sing something for you or her? Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: alison Date: 20 Aug 99 - 03:05 AM Doug, I am so sorry to hear about Velma. Take comfort in knowing that you are in the thoughts and prayers of people all around the world. slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Jeri Date: 20 Aug 99 - 08:42 AM Oh God, Doug, I'm so sorry. I can't do much more than offer a huge virtual hug and a shoulder to cry on, if I can stop crying long enough to be any good. If and when you want to, please tell us about her. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: skarpi Iceland Date: 20 Aug 99 - 08:48 AM Hallo everyone, It is time for a good Guin.............? Last time I got one was three months ago. Doug , I am sorry to hear about your miss, but I hope you have some very good memorys to think off, beacouse in the memo she lives. may god be with you and be strong. all the best to you all from skarpi Iceland the land of Ice and Fire, it is getting dark again and short time to winter. so slán go foil. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 20 Aug 99 - 08:53 AM Doug - There is so little one can do or say at a time like this. Our thoughts are with you. MMario |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Aug 99 - 08:54 AM Hey group---Let's take our thoughts and prayers to the thread on "Thoughts for Doug".......it's good to have them all in one place, I know from experience. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 20 Aug 99 - 12:29 PM Doug, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss, and lift a glass in your wife's memory. Thanks Mick for getting us all out of Mudcat Tavern 7! That infernal graphic was locking my computer up every time. Hope everyone made it to the new location, as we had very little warning. LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: _gargoyle Date: 20 Aug 99 - 01:22 PM Hey Mick,
Don't bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me. RRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllanotherone |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 20 Aug 99 - 03:13 PM *softly - almost too quietly to be heard*
The day is not quite over
I've danced to fiddle music
When your're feeling lonely
Just hold me in your memory
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: DougR Date: 21 Aug 99 - 01:50 AM Thank you, all of you, for your kind wishes and your prayers. I really appreciate it and I'm sure Velma would have also. What super people you all are. DougR |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Peter T. Date: 21 Aug 99 - 11:57 AM Doug, one disadvantage of cyberspace is that while there is RealAudio, no one seems to have invented RealDrink. It has something to do with electricity and streaming technology. But I am sure that if we were a real tavern and not a virtual one, you would be subject to more hospitality than you could handle, and more good music than one can imagine. This strange medium gives us both the ability to come close to people, and to be conscious at exactly the same moment of how presumptuous it is to intrude, and how little this all is, really. It is a little like when people buy you a drink: a gesture, nothing more, that means to mean much more. And (thanks to Max, LEJ and bbc and the rest) this little convivial tavern space, which is more of a mad circus than anything else, is a bit of our gesture towards the sometime humourousness of things, and a bit of defiance in its own way, for what is drink if not defiance of sorrow (as the Irish put it). Which (to borrow a phrase from Frank Hamilton) is the milk run way of saying, if I could, I would at the least buy you a drink, and could someone out there roll out a bit of defiance in the form of a joke or a happy song? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 21 Aug 99 - 12:55 PM Stop me if you've heard this... An orchestra was putting on a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. There were two bass players who had a part in the first movement, and a part in the finale', but nothing in between. They requested permission from the conductor to leave the stage during the long period of inactivity, and were granted their request. At the end of the first movement, they exited the stage, and one said to the other "let's go across the street for a minute and grab a drink." They had one, then another, and finally one says "hadn't we better get back? They'll be getting close to the end." The other says "oh, don't worry. I've tied the last two pages of the conductor's sheet music together with string." The two bassists finally returned to the auditorium, to see the conductor conducting with one hand while frantically trying to untie the string with the other. The audience were on the edge of their seats with tension. After all, it was the bottom of the Ninth, the score was tied, and the bassists were loaded. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 21 Aug 99 - 09:17 PM Glad you are here, Doug. Peter is right. You'd have lots of hugs and music:-) LEeJ, I am LOL. After a Saharian dry spell, I am ready for an amaretto sour. Oh, and LEeJ, would you make sure you lay on some martini fixin's? Please? MY EDDIE, the REAL one, made it by and will try to stop by the Tavern tomorrow for a couple of dry ones. First one is on me, okay? Now, how about a tune? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: _gargoyle Date: 22 Aug 99 - 12:32 AM Undoubtably, "your Eddie" will be singin' The Old Grey Mare - She Ain't What She Used to Be
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Margo Date: 22 Aug 99 - 12:40 AM Lej, that is a crack up! I love that kind of humor- can you tell I 've already had a few tonight? I so seldom drink, and tonight I had two of these things they call Long Island Iced Tea. I'm pretty toasty from whatever is in them. Life is funny and then you end up in the mudcat tavern! M |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: _gargoyle Date: 22 Aug 99 - 12:47 AM Long Island Ice Tea
Vodka
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MAG (inactive) Date: 22 Aug 99 - 03:34 PM I'm sticking to the diet coke until after some storytelling I promised to do this coming weekend; but I stopped by bo be social; I need to get out now and then. Hi LEJ; hi Kat, you beautiful thing. I love to waltz and forgive a lot in a man who dances well; any of you gentlemen care to waltz?? 'spaw? Bert? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 22 Aug 99 - 03:40 PM Hi, there, MAG, nice to see you and thanks! Diet coke is abot my speed today, too. Just got done mucking out my office and moving my jewelry making table and supplies into the same room, so now everything is at my fingertips, at the swivel of my chair! Lot of damn paper to go through! Can't believe how it accumulates! So who is dancing? Rog and I had a nice waltz around the kitchen this morning to a new waltz written by a professor at UW, who plays bluegrass. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: j0_77 Date: 22 Aug 99 - 03:56 PM Hi kat, Big Mick, Gargoyle, Mag and every one..... I wuz on the wagon but - enough already - Lej gimme a Bottle of Locke's Tullamore Dew (Irish Nectar) and a case of Dr Pepper. Geez......................alll day yesterday slavin away over the darned puter...for 3 web pages supposed to help Muddie ....(glug glug) ahhhhh dats butter oooopzzzz |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Llanfair Date: 22 Aug 99 - 05:15 PM Hi, folks, a half of Murphy's please, landlord, how is everyone? Gargoyle, I see you're back with a little extra dash!!! Can anyone else smell autumn in the air?, or fall, as most of you call it? I love the autumn. "When the marigolds no longer bloom When summer sun is turned to gloom See the forecast winter snow See the evergreen that lonely grows......................".Hwyl, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MAG (inactive) Date: 22 Aug 99 - 06:00 PM Hey Jo, Can you waltz?? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: j0_77 Date: 22 Aug 99 - 08:34 PM hiccup ...geez whieeeyz evrythang movin---i aint movin --oooopzzz hic... oma darnin ohmah darn onion oh miss barman will ya pleeeze, fill the glaas up wi nails an coffee so ican go...the way i pleease ...clementine clementwang ....hic .. sure i can walls whi ...mitas well move wif da motion--- looove the movin tables an walls ouuu..pleas ..ur Miss MAG.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Rick Fielding Date: 22 Aug 99 - 09:50 PM Jeezus Jo. Get up! You've got 10 more hours of chord charts to do! Waitress, cut him off! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Margo Date: 23 Aug 99 - 12:02 AM Hey Garg, considering I had no idea what was in the drinks, I'd say the alcohol was anonymous! Haha! Margarita |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: j0_77 Date: 23 Aug 99 - 12:17 AM more caaawwwfeee - I gotter sober up ... see yall later..thanks guys ..later Rick .. :) gotta make some bucks - moh money wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee----------> |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 23 Aug 99 - 04:56 AM It's been a strange weekend in the Neil Young Centre. There's a mysterious stranger in a private ward with a security guard outside. Rumour has it that it is Elvis. I went past singing "Blue Suede Shoes" and heard moaning from inside, but the other inmates pointed out everyone moans when I sing so perhaps....could it be Invisible Eddie? You might only be a painted crow, full of possum shit but you could at least look at me when I'm rambling. Only three weeks to go before I go to Greece again so I better get in practice.A couple of cold Amstels, a large Metaxas chaser and a couple of bottles of Naoussa Boutari to go please. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 23 Aug 99 - 10:41 AM There's a green clicky thing attached to my last post saying "Sue": is it advice to Lieber & Stoller's lawyers having heard me sing? Is it my new name? Have I changed sex while I was asleep? I know Catspaw likes a joke but he wouldn't have operated on me with two bricks while I was snoozing would he? I didn't mention the word so where did it come from? [Yes, I know it picked it up from suede, but don't let boring facts get in the way of a good ramble: "Oh, didn't he ramble?"] Confused & Puzzled of the Neil Young Center Where's my cab back to the center? When I first came to this town I only had one clog. Now I travel everywhere in taxis. I have to, I've only got one clog. (Joke stolen from Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse)
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 23 Aug 99 - 11:34 AM ...isn't it strange, most regulars don't come in till I've gone back to the Center. Is it the personal hygiene, the jokes, the kazoo playing or the singing? Well you don't know what you're missing. Me, Elvis, Invisible Eddie and Hiroshi have just formed a self-kelp group. We've been flailing each other with wet seaweed while singing:Freight Train. Before they ran out the others said something about cutting their throats (this was right after my solo) so perhaps we are a barber shop quartet Damn, what's that painted crow done on my head? Who phoned the Center,? I'm not ready to go back yet. It's stone soup tonight, I always get the lumpy bits....[voice trails off into the distance, possums, roaches and regulars look carefully round the door and then come in... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 23 Aug 99 - 11:53 AM RogZ - it isn't your presence, it's the fact that the VAN was parked across the entrance and no one could get around it!!! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 23 Aug 99 - 04:33 PM Hmmmm, saw a friend of mine over in another thread...wonder how long it will take him to end up at the tavern. If anyone sees a rabbi carrying Mjolnir and having viking horns on his yamulka, buy him a round on me, will you? Don't worry, he's harmless, but if the rabbit comes with him, watch out for her! MMario |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 24 Aug 99 - 04:33 AM grumble, grumble, just 'cos I'm on day release from the NYCFTTS, I don't see why I should come in and feed the possums and the painted crow. LEJ & bbc must be off on the 'bus with the Kesey crowd. Not many glasses to pick up, MMario must have been the only customer yesterday and Eddie, Hiroshi and Elvis must have washed theirs up. They weren't at the Center when I got back yesterday, so maybe it was their van outside and they've gone off to join the Merry Pranksters...grumble,grumble (and now some idiot says alcoholics are depressed, sigh, grumble, NONSENSE, sigh). |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 24 Aug 99 - 09:07 AM Okay, I think I've figured out the problem. It's that big "Closed due to Death in family" sign someone forgot to take down..... I've removed it. Also cleared the jello pit, it's empty and waiting for a new delivery. Polished the magic caffiene machine, changed the clothes on the tables, shined the footrail at the bar. I'm NOT changing the paper under the crow, thankyouverymuch! So I'll just settle down now, have myself an anniset and some brisadella, listen to that music....from God knows where.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: bbc Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:27 AM Hey, Roger & MM, are you the only two around, anymore? Gotta get my bearings. Now that we've got a Pub rather than a Tavern, is Leej still the bartender? Whatever happened w/ Mona? Was it really the alien 'possums that chased everybody out? (I think I could have taken them, if I'd been in town!) Well, I have good news & bad news. I am back, but I think I'd better give me two weeks' notice. School starts for me Sept. 7th & I am really going to have to hustle to be ready! Best intentions--I planned to spend all summer working on my lesson plans &, instead (surprise, surprise!), it's been a summer full of folk music-related events. It's been wonderful! Hope I can keep my job! I did bring in bear claws & jelly crullers for today & will stop in, from time to time, but I may not be a *regular* anymore. It's been wonderful & I couldn't serve a nicer group of folks! Hugs all around & that's on me! bbc (back from Missouri) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Peter T. Date: 24 Aug 99 - 02:52 PM All still here, bbc, just a little quiet. Summer is a goin' out, along with all those intentions. We will all need this tavern (and it is still that too) come the day after Labour Day in North A. So even if you can't waitress, how about resident tavern archivess? You seem to be handling that for the greater Mudcat universe swimmingly enough (together with your silent partner). A gin and tonic, if you have a minute. Twist of lemming. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 24 Aug 99 - 03:06 PM Twist a lemming? PT, you should be ashamed of yourself! That could leave bruises! Not to mention the fact that if the 'possums decide to rally round (and they might); we could get into trouble with the Small Animal Defense League! oh - and if anyone sees LEEJ.....I heard that there's been a request to use only vegetarian gelatin in the pit. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Jeri Date: 24 Aug 99 - 03:12 PM Oh good - tofu wrestling... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Aug 99 - 05:05 PM Hey group....Been a rough couple of days....Fast Eddie appearing kinda' put me in a funk, but thanks to Cleigh and the power of my seaweed shaker....Freud's Marracas...I'm doing better...........Also those dipsticks...Paw,Cletus,and the Reg boys ain't hangin' round since I came out of my "stupor"....Paw lit a fart in my backyard and set the grass on fire, Buford and the Reg boys cost me a C-note apiece to bail them out after they were arrested for indecent exposure and rampant stupidity for trying to piss up a slack rope in my front yard. They take everything so literal.........So what's with the crow?........Peter, I really don't care what happens to the critter, but you're foulin' up a perfectly good drink man!!!!!!!.......Thanks for the clean-up Mario.....place was gettin' a bit stale...........Hey Beebs, since you just returned from Missouri why don't you "Show Me" a Jack and coke, hold the coke........I was thinking of bringing Freud's Marracas down here and hanging them on the wall, but I fear a deleterious effect on Jeri might result....ya' oughta' see this damn thing, looks like a BIG "three piece set"............damn these Bearclaws are good...Was that the last one? Sorry.....Now I'm hungrier than ever. Guess I'll run on home for supper and see if I can get back later.......And Zim.........Really man, DON'T BRING TOFU!!!!......see y'all later..........and WELCOME BACK Beebs! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Big Mick Date: 24 Aug 99 - 09:49 PM Ahh Mary, Jazus and St. Joseph, but didn't we miss ya, woman. I am glad you are back to get the service back in order. It is a Pub because I created this edition. Whoever does the next one can make it devolve back into a Tavern if they would like. How do you like my Possum Board............Yeah, really. Those wee possums are really darts. Look closely and you will see they have dart tips coming out of their noses.........Hell, it's a Pub, it has to have darts.....but the only problem is to get 'Spaw to quit blowin' up their arses. The lad learns hard but I keep telling him he doesn't have to blow up the arse of every possum he sees.........He keeps muttering sumpin about upholding tradition....Anyone seen THE FAIR ONE? Ah well, then I will just have to drink a proper of Uncle Arthur's vile black stuff and wait for her........Damn, but I am glad you are back, Beebs, I missed you........... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 24 Aug 99 - 10:06 PM Ya don't hafta bring tofu, but Marion and me don't fancy wallowing around in any gelatinous cow hooves! Something more kindly to the critters, if ya please, in that pool this time. Welcome back, bbc, and good times in school this year. I guess I could try a pint of that ole' Uncle Arthur's Mick keeps raving about, though I expect it'll taste like what I think the piss of a horse tastes like, like all the others I've tried.**BG** Now, 'Spaw, I was quite worried after hearing from Cletus. Glad to see ya are in one piece. Can you make any music with the suggestive looking seaweed?
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Big Mick Date: 24 Aug 99 - 10:31 PM Now Katlaughingwhohasnotastebudsinherentirebody, you have mistaken Uncle Arthurs for Murphy's which indeed does taste like horsep**s. In fact, a friend of mine from Boston carries a cartoon around in his wallet that shows a horse drinking out of a bucket labelled "Guinness" and simultaneously p**sing into a bucket labelled "Murphy's". At the world famous Fenians Irish Pub in the wee village of Conklin, Michigan, USA, we refer to Murphy's as Guinness Lite. Now, there ya go, .................no, no, you canna drink it yet, it has to sit and boil. When the bubbles have all disappeared and you are left with the black stuff and a nice "Roman Collar" for the head, THEN you can drink it. And you must take your time and enjoy the stuff..................Ahhhhhhhh. Now isn't dat just brilliant............. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Aug 99 - 10:46 PM Hi Mick...just hangin' out huh? Yeah, I know, the possum thing has gotten to be a real fetish. I was driving along the other day and passed a recently deceased marsupial and Cleigh insisted I stop so he could mourn a bit for his lost relative. So I did.........and to kill a little time while waiting, I took a picture. I've started an album for him............I'll bring it to DC........Ah Kat, just saw you on the "May I ask" thread waxing poetic on the pipes............and now YOU'RE complaining about JELLO?...(sighs).....Oh dear...........Well, in any case, Freud's Marracas really rattles...no foolin'!.....She molds the seaweed wet and the "beads" inside are the seeds that have come loose after it dries......it's far out............Say, now that I'm over the initial shock, where's Fast Eddie?.......Got a few more words for the boy...........Geez, can I get a drink around here?????? .......Did Leej get in any Ale-8-One? Great pop.....and I don't need anything stronger tonight.........I just offered Max $20. for a picture of him huffin' on Cleigh...........Musta' been the Jack talkin' from earlier.........Lemme throw some of them "Possum Darts" Mick.........What the hell is on the triple 20???...a steamroller, huh.......I won't be tellin' Cleigh about this!!!.........Hey, I bet one of these would puncture a bagpipe bladder.........Does Knockers ever show up here?..........Alright, a quick game and then I'll just sit around a bit......who's up for a "quickie"?????? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Jeri Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:00 PM Kat, I kinda liked the hot fudge, but it was awful hard to get out of my hair. Catspaw, I'm glad to hear you're felling better after playing with your maracas. I'm sure no one will give you a hard time if you want to mount them on the wall. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Susan A-R Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:26 PM How about coconut pudding in that pit?? Nice oil, good for hair, skin, etc. and kinda tastey too. I could do with a glass of red wine (Let's keep on as we began the evening) Dad's home from the hospital, probably driving Mom nuts, but relatively lucid. I wonder if I could set up a dart board for him?? We don't have possums in Vermont, but perhaps skunkdarts or woodchuckers would work. S'paw! If yoou can't aim better'n that, we're gonna be in trouble. Koko doesn't look too pleased with that little possum danglin' off her . . . I think I'll leave now.
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:26 PM .....Oh that's cute Jeri...real cute. Tell you what, I'll bring my marracas to DC and you can play to your heart's content..........Think I'll skip the wall mount...might do some damage..........How about some darts???? Just a quickie though....school starts this week and I need to get some sleep........gettin' everybody on a new schedule, 3 different schools.........all that stuff........here you go, three "Possum Darts"........you're first.. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:45 PM Aw sweet Jesus!!!!!!!!No Koko....just ease off......c'mon now....get back Koko........It's not one of mine!!!!! Honest..........LOOK Koko...LOOK.........Big Mick's got the one's with the pink snout over there.......See????...Go check it out for yourself Koko.........I wouldn't lie about it........Looks like it hurts too..........That's it, right over to Mick's table...............'night all, I'm outta' here. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Cap't Bob Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:47 PM Hay.....who put the little brown olives in my drink? Me thinks they are spoiled..they taste just like Possum Shi......twooy...those aren't olives.....they are Possum shit....Where the devil is that painted crow er....ah... I mean parrot of mine. Gotta get outta here.....sailing tomarrow morning with the tide. CAW~~CAW ~ CAW Hope to hell that Roger didn't split the crow....er...parrots tongue try'en to get him to talk.... 'he's look'en sorta ruff....better give him a new paint job' |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Jeri Date: 24 Aug 99 - 11:58 PM (wiping saliva off the flights) OK, here goes...oops. Sorry Mick, but I think you'll probably look good with a nose ring. Y'know, it just dawned on me - we're dangerous enough with blunt objects like banjos. Who the hell let us have things with pointy ends? Well, at least I got one in the target, even if it did bounce off the ceiling to get there... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Rick Fielding Date: 25 Aug 99 - 12:28 AM I THOUGHT I'D FIND YOU ALL IN HERE! Is Catspaw waving his "Dried Dork Shaker" at you Jeri? Oh Pat, I guess I forgot to tell you about the curse on it. Whatever you do Capt. Bob, Mick, Kat, Susan, Jer, don't let him get close to you with that thing. The only way to break the curse of "Rasputin's Shaker" (that's it's real name, so I don't have to see him mis-spell maracca anymore) Oh where was I ...oh yes, once you've seen it or heard about it, the only way to break the curse is to sleep with it's current owner! See, over the years, well...I just got plumb warn out! Rick (not cursed anymore) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 25 Aug 99 - 12:48 AM Aw, Mick, darlin', you'll never convince me of the tastiness o the vile black stuff, Roman collar or no! Tho I am LOL at the thought of that cartoon! Jeri, I know the fudge was great, but Susan's idea with the coconut would be a lot easier to wash off! Where's LeeJ? And, who was delivering stuff for the pool...MMario? Nice rattly sound there, 'Spaw. Sleep tight....and good first day at school for the boyz and all. Oh, and you can just forget about that curse thing Fielding mentioned! Nothing compels ME, except well...let me see the size of your hands,there....tch! Have you heard about the Mudcat Fertility Rites, lately??? Another round fer us all! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Jeri Date: 25 Aug 99 - 12:58 AM Er, Rick...Catspaw's the owner, and you got over the curse? Nah, never mind. Don't worry, I've always been wary of men who offer to let me play their 'shakers.' We probably won't have much to worry about anyway - it looks like Koko's presently got ahold of it. Catspaw, just say you're sorry and buy her a banana daquiri! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 25 Aug 99 - 03:59 AM Just when I lost the jello delivery job, you all come back. However, all is not lost, my group at the Neil Young Center (Elvis, Invisible Eddie and Hiroshi) have started making our own batch in handicraft sessions. No gelatin, only kelp-derived product. The first batch is lime and tequila flavour so... enjoy. Sorry we've had to use a handcart, they won't let us use the Center's padded van. What the ***** was that that just missed me? Possum darts yet! No, thanks, I don't need my ears pierced. Who's dropped some money on the floor? I'll just bend down to...AAAARGH! Who shouted "bullseye" ?NOT funny Tara a bit. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: alison Date: 25 Aug 99 - 04:40 AM Lime and tequila flavour eh? I think it's time for the rematch Harpy? ...(remember we whupped Big Mick and Art, back a few taverns ago!!) Come on guys who's going to challenge the reigning champions? oh... and seeing it's tequila... do we get bonus prizes for finding the worm???? *grin*
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Llanfair Date: 25 Aug 99 - 04:46 AM "Sigh" Half a pint of horse-pee and a packet of crisps, please. Bron. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 25 Aug 99 - 05:22 PM HA! I'm BACK. Somebody sweep up the floor in this joint, for cryin' out loud, y'slobs! I had a little jaunt to Reno to take care of some bidness, y'know. But I'm back, and I'm whippin' up a pitcher of Claymore Mines- that's Ale-8-one and Everclear for the unenlightened. I've installed seat belts on the bar stools for any who want to partake. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: jon a Date: 25 Aug 99 - 08:03 PM Hi guys! Just got back from 10 days in Ireland and not one drop of Guiness! it's just not for me! To paraphrase one of their advert's "Guinless is good for you!". Found a nice Irish mead though. I missed popping in here and I'm well behind on Gossip. Sorry for your loss Doug, remember the good times- no one can take away memories. I think I would like a mead and an Irish Coffee please landlord and maybe some nuts to go with. let,s see if I can remember a song to murder, maybe Ellen Vannen perhaps! Jon |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Susan A-R Date: 25 Aug 99 - 10:21 PM Say, here's a peace offering for Koko, nice bananna lassi, about the only thing that was left in the Kitchen today when I closed. Say, I think tha tI could even throw those darts as accurately as S'paw and Jeri. Say, Mick, give me some of those pink nosed ones before you go off to tequila wrestle with the FAIR ONE (How do you get those lovely colored letters??)
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 26 Aug 99 - 04:07 AM ...quick dash in with the coconut pudding, sorry if there are stones in it, the cook at the NYCFTTS is not cordon bleu , more "Gordon Bennett!". Just time to go to the Mudcat Anonymous meeting before I pick up my 82 year old father from the station. No John Lee Hooker but he sings better than me, only 1940s pops tho', not to mention "Bless 'em all"! Enjoy:it's got to last till Monday Tara a bit. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Director, Neil Young Center Date: 26 Aug 99 - 10:53 AM You can't believe anything that Roger tells you, we've no Elvis, Eddie or Hiroshi here, and he doesn't use a zimmer. We're increasing his medication (you should see what he's been getting up to in the kitchem, jello, coconut pie!) so don't expect to see him till at least Wednesday. I'm not sure he should be drinking at all with his personality problem. (He should get one!) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 26 Aug 99 - 11:12 AM I missed out on Lime & Tequila? Shoot! Not to keen on the banana. Say! Somebody DID frame the "Nursery Rhyme" thread....but that's the first time I've ever seen a frame that was 8 inches wide and almost 16 feet long! intersting how it bends at the bottem and continues out across the dance floor. That's not going to make the dancing any easier! Got a new tape recorder last night, the old one decided that it was going to record the sound of the tape turning louder then anything else....makes it kinda hard to hear the music... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Aug 99 - 11:23 AM Before you you go Hugo.....uh,...er, ...Dr. Quackenbush....We've got another of our compatriots in need of treatment. Nice fellow, environmentalist....seems to have gone over the edge. He is now dressing up herons to look like Waylon Jennings.....No Shit Doc....He gives them little cowboy hats, vests, boots, and a Telecaster or a Guild if they want, then plunks them back down in the marsh. Got a tiple for him right here if you've got a room....Yeah, that's OK....put him next to Zim...........thanks Doc. Hey Beebs, get me a coffee with a splash of rum.......big splash...........All the kids are in school today so it's time I get my Fall routine going.............Sounds like your job at school may be jeopardized by your association with possum blowers, wacky delivery men, Jello wrestlers, hokey pokey dancers, heron dressers, and all those tiple players from the "Neil Young Center fo the Terminally Screwed."...........Not to mention Duane's recent arrest for "perverted acts with a telescope"..............Is he back from the Center yet?........Peter T. and Zimmy are both checking in today..............Got anymore Bearclaws?........Damn they were GREAT!!!...........Whaddaya' mean?.......Cleigh ate them???.....What a pisser........well just the coffee I guess........... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 26 Aug 99 - 11:56 AM y'know, it seems people on the 'Cat have more interesting wildlife living around their places then I do.... 'Spaw has a 'possum who travels and communicates on the web; there are herons out there dressing as Waylon Jennings,(none of the Blue Herons around MY pond have ever done that!) and all I got around my place are a bunch of gold fish and frogs that can't tell spring from fall and a couple of horses that think they are guard dogs. The dog is too busy shedding to do anything, and the cats are being....well, cats. And the stupid geese fly east and west instead of north and south! coffee...I need coffee... 11 days until it's "ohmygodfortysevenschooldistrictsandtheyareallbackatworkandnoonecanremembertheirpassword"week |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: DougR Date: 27 Aug 99 - 12:02 PM JonA Ten days in Ireland and not a drop of Guinness! Howdjadoit? Did you find some good Pubs featuring traditional Irish music, though? Good to have you back. DougR |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 27 Aug 99 - 02:26 PM *whew!* okay - I have GOT to be crazy! Found a textfile copy of Child's ballads...but it's formatted for a database...lots of scummy extraneous stuff in it... only 1694 pages left to edit! Hope the wonder caffiene machine can stand up to the use I'll be giving it for awhile! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MAG (inactive) Date: 27 Aug 99 - 04:13 PM Ta for a few dyas, guys; I've got to get some work done. MAG |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: jon a Date: 27 Aug 99 - 07:42 PM Thanks Doug, good to be back! No pubs! too busy "doing" museum, but did have a few very good camp fires, a couple indoors even, I managed to share in some wonderful traditional Irish music along with modern songs from all around, and a few traditional songs from elsewhere as well. While I,m here I think a glass or two of white wine please landlord, and a toast to all here, "to good company," Think I will find a cat to sit on my lap, give it a nice gentle stroke, and relax in this fine atmosphere. It is great to listen to music in pleasant surroundings, any suggestions anyone! Jon |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 31 Aug 99 - 03:49 PM Wonder if we can import Taydo Snacks here? Would go nice with the coffee.... Just goin' inta the corner there and relax a bit for going home. The thought for the day was a little emotional.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 31 Aug 99 - 06:32 PM MMario: what are Taydo Snacks??? And....I agree, the thought for the day was intense and, as ever, really important. Feeling a little under, today, maybe some sort of hot toddy, actually just herbal tea sounds really good. Do we have any really good ceramic teapots in this place? I'd like to smell some mint or chamomile tea steeping and cup my hands around the pot; such a simple thing can bring such comfort of association and healing. Sorry....don't mean to get all maudlin. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: alison Date: 01 Sep 99 - 02:19 AM Think (and hope) he means Tayto... best cheese and onion crisps ... I left a link in the "boys of Tandragee" thread. slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 01 Sep 99 - 02:27 AM The bartender swabs the bar top one more time, surveying the clientele. "Yep," he says," this used to be the spot. They were all here: Fielding, Spaw, Art. Hell, Big Mick swam in Guiness jello in that very spot where you're standing." He smiles wistfully. "Now most nights it's just me and the beatnick spooks over in the corner. Oh, sure, they still stop in.. usually for a coffee nowadays. But all the hard-drinking patrons have headed off to other threads. You'll find em talking about Woody, or stupid questions, or who discovered Iceland...." He begins to stack the wooden chairs upside down on the tables. "Eight threads, though. Quite a mile stone." He turns the "OPEN" sign around. The glow of the neon Mudcat Tavern sign makes a pool of blue light on the old wooden floor. "I guess it's enough to know that it will always be here, a place where the Mudcatter's soul can find kinship and sustenance, a quiet port in stormy seas." The bartender slides the brass key slowly from the ring, and slides it across the bar." Here," he says, "you lock up after you finish your drink. I'm going to walk home." Humming a tune that sounds like The Streets of Laredo , the bartender closes the door behind him and fades into the darkness of Tiple Street.
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 01 Sep 99 - 05:33 AM "Woke up this morning..." Elvis, Invisible Eddie and Hiroshi have gone. The staff at the Center say they were never here. Must be the new medication they gave me, the weekend is a blur. The new medication tasted of absinthe...I do miss them. Perhaps it is true that absinthe makes the heart grow fonder... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: DougR Date: 01 Sep 99 - 03:29 PM Geeze! Ain't nobody behind the bar? I just learned from DR. Rick Fielding that I may have caught acousticitis which is a forerunner of becoming a acoustiholic. I thought maybe a jugger of Bushmills would help me ward it off. Alright, I'll go back behind the bar and pour it myself. While I'm there, anybody else want anything? DougR |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Uilleand Date: 01 Sep 99 - 04:01 PM Yeah, I'll have some. Has been one hell of a day at work. Looks like we're the only ones in here. Wonder where everyone went? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 01 Sep 99 - 04:11 PM Count me in, DougeR....I'm ready for something stronger than tea now! That was a hell of an exit for a barkeep, LeeJ! Guess this might become the wave of the future, eh, self-serve taverns???
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 01 Sep 99 - 04:19 PM absinthe, everclear, whatever. Make mine a triple. I can't WAIT for "crazy week" to be over. And it hasn't even STARTED yet!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: jon a Date: 01 Sep 99 - 06:54 PM Seems like it,s one of those days all week this week, and it don't seem to matter who you are or where you live; a 'catter thing maybe? I'll take a drink with you please Doug! Good times to us all! Jon |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 01 Sep 99 - 11:51 PM I can't help grinning seeing Doug with that ol' Mudcat Tavern apron on. And come to think of it, I WILL have a drink barkeep. Make it a Four Roses rocks while I mull over the outline of the plot for True Detective Stories The Return of Blake Madison . Set in New Orleans, murder of a famous Bluesman... pass me a pen and a couple napkins, Doug! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: WyoWoman Date: 02 Sep 99 - 01:12 AM Ok, Ok. Everyone make way. We've got a delivery here for the Smoothie Pit. Gallons and gallons of bananas, strawberries, cherries (!), and watermelon all whirrred up with a bit of ice. A refreshing replacement for that goopy ol', tired ol' Jello pit. And not a calorie to show for it if you choose to lick it off a compatriot. Kat, does that make you happy? AND -- a watermelon seed-spitting contest when we finally get to the bottom of the pit! A perfect end to a perfect summer!
WyoWoman
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: katlaughing Date: 02 Sep 99 - 01:21 AM WW, sure, except it's FULL of carbos, doncha know? But, oh, heck, lickin' it off...sounds enticing! Add a little tequila and we sould have a LOT of fun! There, Max, now you're not having that black & tan alone. Here we come, to the Mudcat! TaRa! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: WyoWoman Date: 02 Sep 99 - 01:25 AM Yessss. Black and Tan, my fave. Who's bartending this round? Set me up, see voo play... ww |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Max Date: 02 Sep 99 - 01:35 AM One for the road please, good night all, had a great day, found a new hobby. Love you all. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: DougR Date: 02 Sep 99 - 02:30 AM Lonsome EJ: Glad you like my apron. Got it at Wal-Mart on sale. WyoWoman, I like your spirit. I'm in to losing weight so if lickin' will do it, I'm for it. Just don't point me toward Bid Mick. I like girls. I'll do one more round and then I'm going to the other side of the bar where old folks belong. DougR |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Roger the zimmer Date: 02 Sep 99 - 05:00 AM A large Greek please, thanks. Melon spitting, ah, a hobby at last! I'll practice here then take on a few bets back at the Neal Young Center. Better than making raffia tiples and jello possums. Ya Mas. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Neil Lowe Date: 02 Sep 99 - 08:31 AM Leej: you suppose Neal ever found his father?...and did Jack ever find the meaning of the belly button lint he was forever searching for (and wouldn't it have been a shameful waste of time to have slogged completely through On The Road only to have come to that conclusion?...better to have reached that summation early on, so as to move on to bigger and better things, after the first forty pages or so...)...and do you suppose old Bill Lee ever stops looking for shotgun shells and .44 magnum rounds (I hope so)?...you think Kesey ever found Merlin?....did Baba Ram Dass find spiritual enlightenment?...and did Tim Leary find Owsley or Dr. Albert Hoffman waiting for him upon his 'going over' from one illusory and superficial reality to the ultimate and final 'trip' at the end of that hallucinatory rainbow? Just curious.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: WyoWoman Date: 02 Sep 99 - 10:12 AM Neil, the answer to all your questions is "a qualified yes." Doug -- yes, but it takes a lot a' lickin' to lose a pound or two. I fear if it's weight loss you're looking for you'll just have to head back to Velcro wall. Now THAT takes some large muscle movement. Kat, I'm thinking we should throw a few kiwis in the mix. What do you say? ww |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Uilleand Date: 02 Sep 99 - 11:27 AM I'm all for some kiwis and some mangoes while you are at it. Watch out I'm diving in! Anyone for some jello pit polo? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: MMario Date: 02 Sep 99 - 11:48 AM Watch the splash factor! It's a lot higher with smoothies then with jello! *grabs towel, wipes face, counter* Anyone got a mop? Wyo - thanks for asking about the tune for "Silently" - hope you manage to hear it. Listening to RickF (via the mudcat radio archive) at the moment - don't know WHY RA is working at the moment, but I'm taking advantage of it before the shut it off at the firewall on me.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Uilleand Date: 02 Sep 99 - 11:57 AM Oops---sorry about the mess. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Neil Lowe Date: 02 Sep 99 - 12:36 PM Wyowoman....whew! Thanks. That takes a load off....Now I can devote my time to more intrinsic pursuits, like figuring out where all the billions of pounds of rubber that's worn off automobile tires every year goes to.... Regards, Neil (who in no way intends to offend or impugn anyone's beliefs: philosophical, spiritual, or otherwise; but who, by way of explanation to anyone that actually gives a damn, finds himself in yet another characteristically sarcastic, cynical and crappy mood; and admonishes those who might be so inclined to aforementioned offense to not pay any attention whatsoever. Offer void where the endless void exists. See store for details. Soon [hopefully] the medication will work its wondrous magic.) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: DougR Date: 02 Sep 99 - 03:03 PM WyoWoman: I suppose one could lose the outer layer of skin on one's tongue should one lick fast enough to lose ten pounds in a week, es so? I guess I'll just have to take up jogging. I guess I could go on a solid diet of jello, but after everbody has been swimming in it, I don't know. If the velcro wall was back up Big Mick could throw me up against it, but then it would be him getting the exercise instead of me! I guess I'll just have to think on it. Since I am now on the other side of the bar, bbc, would you draw me a Black and Tan? I say bbc, because you've spent enough time getting back to the old school routine. Time to get back to important things ... like pouring! DougR |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: Bert Date: 02 Sep 99 - 03:52 PM Now you've got the Everclear out - gimme a Sid and tonic. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: alison Date: 02 Sep 99 - 09:29 PM OK.... I'm sensing a desire for people to get fit here......... Dump that sand in the corner thanks.......... Indoor beach volley ball starts just as soon as I can connect the other end of this net to that banjo up on the wall.... The rest of you can start picking teams...... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Pub - Round 8 From: alison Date: 02 Sep 99 - 09:39 PM Well, while the boys are flattening the sand I thought we should all hold hands and walk through the magic portal to Mudcat Tavern - round 9 |
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