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MudCat Tavern - Round 12
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Don from Georgia Date: 27 Sep 99 - 10:45 AM I had a cat named Great Balls of Fire but he was such a rounder that I had to have him fixed{kept coming home broke}so changed his name to No Balls Atall |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Mían Date: 27 Sep 99 - 01:57 PM Heya, Seed, nice ta meetcha. No, don't know Barney Brown, nor yet had the pleasure of browsing Copperfield's Books. The session tent is a feature of the annual Celtic music festival in Sebastopol. A concertina player and some very fine fiddlers & guitar & bodhrans were jamming when I came to from my Tavern stupor. I was too shy to ask who they were... There are workshop tents, too & an outdoor stage, an indoor stage & a dance tent, yeeha. At play were Duck Baker & Kieran Fahy, Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott, Maura O'Connell, John Cunningham, Susan McKeown & Aidan Brennan, & a host of others, some local, some from the auld sod. Tim & Darrell opened up a Saturday night concert. They had folk wandering in & out of their set - Sharon Shannon,Paddy Keenan, Sean Smyth, Maura O'Connell. And that was the first set - the second set was Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill who come every year and put their particular spell on us. The festival goes all weekend (from Friday night thru Sunday night) and all the hotels, motels, bed & breakfast places, etc. are usually all sold out for it, so if you want to go next year, plan early. Makes a lovely weekend up on the Russian River and then all that wonderful music and then go eat like small barnyard animals at Negri's. oh, there are vendors and crafts at the festival, too. And food. Douglas (mine) was gnawing on what I thought was a turkey leg, but now that I think about it, it did look awfully pink... my best eats vote goes to something called "Death & Taxes" - a reasonable substitute for The Black which is my favorite food and is very very good for you. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Peter T. Date: 27 Sep 99 - 02:29 PM Wyowoman, I would sit in the dark with you and complain about lack of progress in guitar playing any day -- why we could compare slow fingers, wandering brains and distant frets and everything -- not that we would get much guitar playing done, but you can't have everything in this life -- yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 27 Sep 99 - 02:31 PM Hey Catspaw, buy the old Gargoyle a drink. Nobody in this joint is beyond the Holy Redemption of whiskey and fellowship, and we can all be thankful for that. LEJ |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: bbc Date: 27 Sep 99 - 05:06 PM I'll serve your drink, gargoyle, but don't sit in the corner alone; come over & join us. bbc |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Big Mick Date: 27 Sep 99 - 08:37 PM Yeah, Garg, time to cut out this Prince of Darkness bit you have been on and get back in the fray. In other words, git off yer royal arse and have a drink with the rest of us. Just leave the personal stuff in the corner and bring you and your ascerbic (where the fock did that come from??????????) wit back over here with the rest of us. And see if you can find that damn Shambles and tell him to cut the whining bit and get back to the bar. And where the hell is 'Spaw?????? Jazus, but I am going to have to go gorilla on this bunch..........mumble, grumble, sputter.......I need a good mud wrasslin match.......any takers??............... |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: annamill Date: 27 Sep 99 - 08:58 PM Hello everyone! I'm all sappy. I was just at bbc resources gazing at your beautiful faces wondering who I was going to meet at FSGW. Sooo..I decided to come over and visit. I don't get much time to visit the Tavern, to my regret. bbc, please make me a Tanqueray and Tonic, no lime, please. I would also like to buy _gargoyle a drink if he will allow me to. I wish there was a picture of you at the resources, _gargoyle. I stopped trying to learn to play guitar for a while, but I'm back at it. The chording's going well, but I have trouble with the strumming. I'm afraid to try picking yet. It's going to be awhile I'm afraid. It's so good to see you all. Soo. what trouble are we getting into tonight. You can count me in. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Ferret Date: 27 Sep 99 - 09:41 PM Hi all |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Big Mick Date: 27 Sep 99 - 09:46 PM Transferred from the "hummers" thread......cuz I thought I was in the Tavern when I wrote it......got to quit shooting those damn Jamesons..... It is addressed to "Spaw" Geez........I don't know what to say except...................... I LOVE YOU, MAN Now sit down, shut up, and buy me a feckin' Guinness...........there's a good lad..........we all fock up once in a while.......barkeep, set one back for me on my cute little buddy in the hair shirt and ashes for me..........Now, where is Father Joebro when you need him...........HEY, ANY TAKERS AMONG THE WOMEN FOR A MUD WRASSLIN' MATCH??? Oh be still my quivering heart and other body parts.....I t'ink I see THE FAIR ONE coming across the floor......Yeah, I love ya, 'Spaw, but get lost................... |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Dave Swan Date: 27 Sep 99 - 10:26 PM Right Mick, down this pint in a hurry, you'll need it. Recent intelligence reports indicate that Alison has been working on her patented uillean squeeze hold in which she stuffs you under her arm and applies steady rhythmic pressure until you submit and sigh like a well tempered drone. It's a dangerous mission pal, but I think you're the man for the job. I'll be right here in your corner guarding your drink. In fact, perhaps I'll have one to keep yours from getting lonely. If we don't hear from Catspaw soon I'm for sending out the possum patrol. E.S. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Big Mick Date: 27 Sep 99 - 10:33 PM The Uillean Pipe squeeze.......Oh would that it could be so........I really am Irish, ya bowzie.........The Uillean Pipe squeeze performed by an Irish woman under full sail is in the McKama O'Sutra as the all time favorite position.........I hope my dear aul Gram is not watching this......her little Mick is going to be naughty this evening.............AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO............ |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Sep 99 - 12:45 AM Thank you for your commiseration and/or encouragement. I am trying to give me guitar at least a few minutes of my time each day (doesn't work out quite that way, but it's a goal...), so I AM seeing progress. Just sort of plodding along, though, and being the impatient sort, I want to see RESULTS!!!!! Oh, my. Look at that Mick guy. Talk about seeing results. He must be really excited about this mud wrassling with the Fair One. Has anyone had the nerve to tell him they've replaced the mud with cement to fill in the pool? Something about liability concerns... Oh, goodness. I think he's gotten himself a wee bit stuck. Anyone got a jack hammer we could borrow before the cement sets up too well? WW |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: alison Date: 28 Sep 99 - 02:59 AM Well I've got the squeezing bit sorted out.... now what bits do I have to twiddle to get this Big Mick to play in tune????? *grin* |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Peter T. Date: 28 Sep 99 - 11:14 AM Wyowoman, you know those theories of education training, that says that you have fast quick learning, and then you hit a plateau before then next rise. Well, since you live in the West, think about the beauty of plateaus. (cf. Ballad of a Runaway Horse) yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: DougR Date: 28 Sep 99 - 01:16 PM Big Mick: You are a fickle soul. First you court Spaw (a questionable move in my mind by the way) then Alison shows up and you dismiss Spaw like he wasn't there! I thought you were beginning to learn some manners from me, but geeze, you are a challenge. :) bbc, I need sustenance! A Black and Tan if you please! And by the way, bbc, have you recovered from the first few weeks of school? |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Jeeb Date: 28 Sep 99 - 01:32 PM Hey guys, I just became a member of mudcat's and i'm still a little confused. Been looking for a nice forum and the name was definitely appealing. Can anybody fill me in on things? |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Roger the skiffler Date: 28 Sep 99 - 02:36 PM Phew, the new location took a bit of finding, it's further than ever from the Neil Young Center. I was a bit wobbly from my flight home from Greece (watching the plane I was to return on make 4 attempts at landing on a short runway hemmed in by sea, mountain and Turkish airspace!), trying not to spill my hand luggage. When I got to the Mudcat Village the village idiot (or one of them) told me to turn left at the boarded up "Kazoos-R-Us" and then the Psudonym Pedlar took the Zimmer off me and my magic beans in part exchange for the Skiffler. So here we are, help yourselves to the Samos Ouzo and the assorted excellent Samian wines, I gave them serious attention in the cause of research. Stin Y Yassas. What's been going on while I've been away? Were those flamingoes? Is that concrete in the jello pool? Ti Krima! Po Po Po! |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: poet Date: 28 Sep 99 - 02:58 PM Oh excuse me everybody but I appear to be a little lost and I've been driving for simply Hours! I wonder If I might just borrow your Toilet, and NOW WOULD BE REALLY SPLENDID. Graham |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Roger the skiffler Date: 28 Sep 99 - 03:27 PM Only if you promise to bring it right back, poet! I notice I spend 2 weeks in the sun and I forget to close off my italics!Malakka! |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: MMario Date: 28 Sep 99 - 03:33 PM poet - men's room is to the right, ladies to the left and the "little possums room" is the second bush to the left out the back door. Jeeb - this is the "social thread" for the Mudcat Forum. You can see some of the previous madness if you use the links so nicely posted in the box above. url:http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm welcome. the mystical-magical-anything-with-caffiene-in-it machine is that bright shiny brass thingie with all the buttons and levers at the end of the bar. It's self serve. I think the bar itself is on the honor system at the moment. Food appears on occasion, and the barbecue pit is out THAT door, the time-travel wish fullfilment center is through THAT door. Music welcome anytime. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Peter T. Date: 28 Sep 99 - 05:31 PM Jeeb, there are any number of threads that explain what goes on here, but as a long time regular it is worth saying that no one really knows what goes on here. You sort of need to go with the drunkenness, especially in this virtual tavern. There are all sorts of personal references that go back a long time. One solution which you might try is to put in all kinds of obscure references yourself, and everyone will think that it is about them, and that there was a thread about it some time ago, and so on. You will be already part of the madness. Catspaw (for example) makes up all these people who are supposedly interested in him, so that many threads will be about him; I generate obscure quotations and stuff to cover my tracks; bbc works for the FBI 10 Most Wanted List; Rick Fielding is obsessed with the proper fingering of the G chord; Joe Offer is trying to put katlaughing back behind the mystic veil, and so on and so on. It changes every day, except for Big Mick's obsession with the fair alison. That remains constant. It makes for a long, but very fulfilling day. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: poet Date: 28 Sep 99 - 05:39 PM Oh god thats better. Thank you but tell me who put all that Graffitti on the wall. Graham |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Mían Date: 28 Sep 99 - 07:25 PM It's not graffitti - it's the marks left when I spit out what I was chewing after someone told me it was flamingo. Sorry about that (blush). |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: bbc Date: 28 Sep 99 - 07:51 PM Psssst...Peter T., you weren't s'posed to tell about my FBI connection!!! I'm just a humble barmaid (wink)--part-time now, at that! Doug, here's your Black & Tan. How 'bout a hug? Mick, I was almost in a mood to mud wrestle, but I'm curious to see what kind of musical tones alison can get. bbc |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: jon a Date: 28 Sep 99 - 08:45 PM Good day all! Just thought I might pop in for a drink or two, a large rum pleas bartender! Jeeb, this is a place where you can meet old friends, and get to know new ones, in a warm, friendly, and totally lunatic atmosphere. I recommend you don't ask how it works, just enjoy the fact that it does, somethings are best not studied to close, as often, when examined they loose their magic. At the mudcat you will find some very careing and helpful people, this is where some let down their hair. Welcome to the tavern Jeeb and join us for a drink.
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Sep 99 - 09:20 PM BEEBS!!!!!......So how's tricks?.Been missing you.....I see the Zim has now become a Skif.........If you think that'll keep you out of the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed, you're wrong man. Just grab the tiple that says Ziff when you arrive....Cletus and Paw are out there now...They were here playing sink the Cheerios and lighting farts when I came in the other night. I was truly pissed and suggested they both cut the shit...and wouldn't you know it, they were arrested an hour later about a mile out of town while in a dairy barn slicing up cowpies.........oh well.........I'll go a round for everyone on the "PC" and "Hummer" threads today........Leej, crack out that last gallon of Shine...not the crap from the Peterbilt radiator that Paw and Clete brewed........say, How's Bert...anybody heard? He dropped like a sack of spuds after he drank that swill....and those stomach pumps take it out of you..........say, Cleigh went to a picnic with us the other day...big foster family outing.......little beggar ate my plate of food too...got pictures to prove it............So where's Jeri? New job slowing her down?.........Keep Mian away from the flamingos........Let's get the wrasslin' started........Send kat over to my table in case she comes in......had a tough day.................I need to take her back to our litterbox, out in the garden for some faerie communing............Damn but this is pure smoothness.........thanks Beebs.................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Sep 99 - 10:10 PM And Jeeb was hoping to make some sense of it all... I think the only way to make sense of the Tavern thread, among many others, is just to practice a Zen-like surrender. Let waves of silliness wash over you, breathe in through your nose (trying to ignore the half-ignited flatulence of which Catspaw spake), out through your mouth, and just become one with it all. Or run like the wind and thank your licky stars you escaped.... ww |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Sep 99 - 10:11 PM Lucky. I mean lucky. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: katlaughing Date: 28 Sep 99 - 11:13 PM Sure and where's your tongue been lately, WW?*BG* I'm here 'Spaw and your sensitivity is appreciated. Man! I Do need a trip out to the fairie communing litterbox glade. Pullleeezzzee. That mystic veil was a hard one to keep off! Look, I've even got tattered remnants hanging in m'hair! Oh, hell, just give a strong amaretto sour, yea the sweet thing, and then we'll go 'Spaw.....mmmmm, thanks whoever is tending bar these days. That just hits the spot. Ah.........wait for me, 'Spaw! |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Jeri Date: 28 Sep 99 - 11:29 PM Aaargh - new job. First time in about 9 or 10 years I haven't had a computer at work. No Mudcat all day. May I please have a pint of shine and a bag of chips, please. And perhaps someone to lean on - or to fall on after I finish my drink... |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Roger the skiffler Date: 29 Sep 99 - 04:40 AM Now, 'Spaw, you know I'm interested in tippling not tipling (yes, just a small one, 3-star, thanks)! and they've kept my bed for me at the Center with the Lonnie Donegan duvet cover and framed photo of Louis Armstrong on the bedside table. There is a new notice on the board: "Doctor don't allow no kazoo playin' in here" so I may have to hum in the Tavern (why are they all laughing, what have I said?). Tara a bit. RtS |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Peter T. Date: 29 Sep 99 - 09:10 AM Wyowoman -- always profreed. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. yours, Peter T. (Don't you hate the fact that with all this nonsense about ephemeral cyberspace, after you have posted you can't change anything. IT is there forever!!!!What can it be? Do we just not see these things until after they are in hard cold cyberprint? |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: MMario Date: 29 Sep 99 - 09:19 AM well----it ain't there forever if you know someone with "god rights" or a magic "edit" button. Or you could always leave a bowl of guiness out for the MudCat elves. *grin* |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Larry B. Date: 29 Sep 99 - 09:59 AM Hi! I'll just get myself a cup of coffe and a seat, thanks. Can't stay long; I was hoping to see Rick in here to thank him for the warm welcome over on the "PC" thread....What's that? Oh yeah, I started using the database to look up the words to some songs I half-remembered, then started reading the threads, found the directions to the Tavern, and here I am....Thanks for the invite, but I don't play an instrument. Oh, of course I sing, mostly Karaoke of late, and I sing my daughter to sleep at night. Never been to any of the gatherings I have heard about here and in the Cafe; last time I was at something similar was an SCA convention in Germany mumbleteen years ago. Good coffee! I like this place; I'll have to come in for something stronger after work. LB |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Mían Date: 29 Sep 99 - 11:11 AM Guinness for the MudCat elves,eh? What'll Max have? Perhaps we should all get Max toasted and see what ensues... |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Ferret Date: 29 Sep 99 - 11:12 AM jon i think that Lorriy may be up soon with a joke or two for you so i'll have a swift mead be for he gets here and run. ferret. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Mían Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:11 PM Mían (that's me) wrote earlier that "A concertina player and some very fine fiddlers & guitar & bodhrans were jamming when I came to from my Tavern stupor. I was too shy to ask who they were..." Also still too toasted to tell the difference between squeeze box and accordian. i think i sall shally -er- shall sally furth. forth. firth of forth. erk she falls into the mudpit... |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: annamill Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:41 PM Hi all...lunch break...quick, bbc, white wine, please? What was that about licking, WW? Max plays and sings some fine blues when he's under. One of my favorite times at my first gathering. On the water, one in the mornin', Max singing..it was nice. oops! gotta go. Welcome Larry B. Let us know where you're from. I'll get that drink later,'spaw. Thanks. Bye everyone. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Larry B. Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:04 PM Where I am from is a long and complicated story, parts of which a certain government will not acknowledge. Where I am now is Oklahoma City, having a slow day on the job that allows me to drop in occasionally for a virtual cup of coffee. Tchuss, mein Fruenden! LB |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: gint Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:41 PM I failed to notice the landlords name above the door as I entered so 'ere landlord a bottle of mead an' a straw where's the none joking section |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: MMario Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:47 PM NON-joking section? I don't think we have one....maybe that will be an addition the next time we translocate... Though the Tavern without humour....*shudder* horrid thought. Still - to each his own, and if anywhere, this should be an inclusive spot....maybe we could just offer "joke filters"? Though we weren't able to fit a content filter over "the door", so perhaps it isn't possible. MMario |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: bbc Date: 29 Sep 99 - 04:19 PM Welcome, Larry. Some nice features of this tavern are that you can get anything to eat or drink that you can think of, it's non-fattening, & is only paid for w/ virtual money. Also, the company is good, though somewhat bizarre & we are open in every time zone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Jeri, congrats on starting that new job! This one's on me! bbc |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Peter T. Date: 29 Sep 99 - 05:47 PM Hi, Larry! Reminder to all: two days till the Mudcat Third Birthday on Friday!!!! yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Jeeb Date: 29 Sep 99 - 06:18 PM Hey guys, been drinkin' at home and it ain't fun at all. Decided to drop by and see what's happening. By the way, let me introduce myself: Former biologist, journalist, graphics designer, waiter, and shepperd for a herd of strip dancers in Portugal. (quite an interesting life!!!) Right now I'm a (bad) webdesigner. Mind too much if I buy a round? |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Ferret Date: 29 Sep 99 - 06:58 PM Mario with gint's humour a none joking section is a necessity. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: bobby's girl Date: 29 Sep 99 - 07:07 PM I'd be very happy to have a drink with you Jeeb, as I've just wandered into the tavern, and although I recognise the names I don't know the faces. I think I might just sit here in the corner (though not the same one as Gargoyle) and watch the world go by for a while. I'm not sure I really understand what's going on - but I'd like to meet some of the famous names like 'Spaw and Katlaughing. |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: Gint Date: 29 Sep 99 - 07:20 PM O.K. so most pubs/bars (including the one I run)ban me from telling jokes, satires .... for instance a man walkes into a bar with a duck on his head the barman said "what can I get you" the duck says "something to get this man off my bottom |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: poet Date: 29 Sep 99 - 07:28 PM Ive just come from seeing Vin Garbutt at our local club and he gets better every time I see him (green eyed god)somebody buy me a large scotch, if have any good stuff over there. Graham (Guernsey) |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: jon a Date: 29 Sep 99 - 07:36 PM Gint!!! with jokes!!! well so called jokes, this is no laughing matter. Somebody gag him or ban him from joke telling...PLEASE PLEASE IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY,...mummy please don't let him hurt me .. I'll be a good boy... no! no! not the comfy chair............ Little men in white coats arrive to remove Jon a, a muffled voice warns the rest of you will soon follow! |
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Subject: RE: MudCat Tavern - Round 12 From: gint Date: 29 Sep 99 - 07:50 PM jon glad to see you're back from your holl's, I have tried to email you a few times. all I can say is don't get addresses from dyslexic ferret's There's something scary on t.v. "Gary Busy" as buddy holly anyway you can't pick on me and my humour. I am a man of culture and if you don't believe me just look in my fridge mine's a a glass of moniack nahhh make that maniack |
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