Get well soon Big Mick

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Wolfgang
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 03:09 PM

couple of days away, and there's no word left for me that hasn't already been said. MIck, let the music keep your spirit high.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 02:55 PM

Now, Mick. You've not been well. I am counting on you to show restraint in your consumption of the vile black stuff when you meet with Spaw. It would be a damn fine example for him as well. If you just can't restrain yourself.. well then have one or two for LEJ!

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Bert
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 02:52 PM

I'm glad I asked now. I've learned something.

A friend of mine once said that "a day that goes by without you learning something new is a day that you've wasted".

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 02:45 PM

Barry, don't read this. I know you meant it the way Bert explained it. I never knew about that meaning before, so thanks, Bert, for the info.

A 'yobo' (pronounced yoe-boe) in Korea, at least as the term is used by American GIs, refers to a 'live-in girlfriend.' It was never very clear to me whether this was a relationship or a profession. I've heard married partners refer to each other by that term, to them it probably means 'honey' or 'darling-dumpling-sugar-plum.' I don't know which usage came first. A bit of totally uncalled-for information: Koreans don't call each other by their names, but rather by their positions/titles. A man would normally call his wife by the Korean word for wife. Men in general are called 'adashi,' which as near as I can tell is a word that means 'man' respectfully, like 'sir.'

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: bbc
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 11:30 AM

Yes, Bert. Jeri knows something you don't know & so do I. Hint--it's Korean.

love,

bbc

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Bert
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 08:42 AM

Jeri, do you know something about 'yobo' that I don't? Where I come from, yob is backslang for boy. The final o in yobo (more often spelled yobbo) is added 'cos it sounds better.

Backslang is used in England by shop keepers, especially butchers and to a lesser extent grocers. It is used so that the customers don't know what they are saying. Because of supermarkets, butchers and grocers are dying out, and backslang is dying with them.

The term yobbo is derogatory and most often used to mean layabout. Except of course when it is used as a term of endearment by the likes of Barry.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: alison
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 02:47 AM

speaking as your personal nurse from way over in Australia...........shouldn't you be asleep??? It's 2.25 am......... you're meant to be resting.... hahaha...

typical Irishman... won't listen to Dr's orders

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 02:25 AM

My God, but how I love you folks. I have been trying to rest, and work and this illness is driving me nuts. And tomorrow I do indeed have a 6 hour drive to a place that I am going to meet up with 'Spaw for dinner. Would you folks call the Municipal Authorities and have them put on an extra cruiser tomorrow?? Thanks.

I am trying to get better, and I will get caught up on my 'Cat duties this weekend, I promise......And Susan, would you mind icing those shrimp down real well?? thanks.

Your good wishes are making me feel very good. I really do love you all.

Mick

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 11:56 PM

Word is he's meeting with Catspaw tomorrow. It's no use, *sigh* the man just continues to live dangerously.

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: lamarca
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 11:42 PM

Not to mention is Really, really, really, really worried about Possums in the Shrimp - and wouldn't THAT be a good name for a rock band?

Have we talked you into feeling better, yet, Mick? Or should we send you some oysters?

LOL, Mary

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 11:34 PM

Gee Mick, ain't it good to know somebody really really really really wants you to get well.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:44 PM

Guess I made my point. I have NO idea what happened. couldn't get back to the main page and I was lost and it was awful, I thought I'd lost the MUDCAT!! and in my panic I guess I sent four messages. Well, at least it's emphatic.

GET well!! (or else)

Susan A-R (again)

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:34 PM

I too am glad that I found out that you were getting well before I found out that you were not. Keep up the improving trend (usually that does involve rest) and get back to the tavern before they do something rash about the dress code. You just sit back and give me instructions and I'll do the seafood. POSSUMS IN THE SHRIMP!!!!

Get well soon.

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:33 PM

I too am glad that I found out that you were getting well before I found out that you were not. Keep up the improving trend (usually that does involve rest) and get back to the tavern before they do something rash about the dress code. You just sit back and give me instructions and I'll do the seafood. POSSUMS IN THE SHRIMP!!!!

Get well soon.

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:31 PM

I too am glad that I found out that you were getting well before I found out that you were not. Keep up the improving trend (usually that does involve rest) and get back to the tavern before they do something rash about the dress code. You just sit back and give me instructions and I'll do the seafood. POSSUMS IN THE SHRIMP!!!!

Get well soon.

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:31 PM

I too am glad that I found out that you were getting well before I found out that you were not. Keep up the improving trend (usually that does involve rest) and get back to the tavern before they do something rash about the dress code. You just sit back and give me instructions and I'll do the seafood. POSSUMS IN THE SHRIMP!!!!

Get well soon.

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 04:27 PM

Micheal Mhor Go Bragh!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: paddymac
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 03:21 PM

jaysus, Big Guy, hurry up and get over the crud. I've been vicariously medicating for you and don't know how much longer my liver can hold out. Tried to do the "seven nights drunk" therapeutic regimen, but had to give up after only four. Maybe there's some other catters than can do the full week for you. A pint and a jimmy, that's the ticket.

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Barry Finn
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:52 AM

Jeri, I thought so but the way you ask I think not. Don't explain, Mick may have a stroke yet. Barry

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 08:57 AM

Mick, I still liked the hugs, even the damp ones. I'm sending mental hugs your way, and a big bowl of virtual chicken soup. Please devote yourself to yourself with the same passion you devote to your job and your music.

Barry, do you know what a 'yobo' is? Did something happen at the Getaway you're not talking about? I knew you guys liked each other, but I never suspected...

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From:
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 04:58 AM

I just read this thread. I am glad you are on the mend Mick. If the world ever needed good Union blokes it is now! Take care of yourself and don't overdo it until you are better.

Murray

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: thosp
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 01:57 AM

ORACLE-- BERKLEY BARB-- ORACLE-- BERKLEY BARB--
gee seed sweet memories of selling the papers on Haight St.----
peace

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 01:45 AM

Mick, I think I read this in the Berkeley Barb, a Vietnam Era underground newspaper: it's the hippy's cure for the flu: Toke up, crawl into a sleeping bag with your girlfriend, make love, go to sleep; when you wake up, start the whole process over and over and over. In three days your flu will be gone (of course it's usually gone in three days, anyway, but you don't usually enjoy it). I suppose the original also said something about replenishing body fluids as needed, and I don't recommend peeing in your sleeping bag, not if you're going to stay in it for three days...

--seed

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: thosp
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 12:42 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
opppps that's wrong----ahhhhhh ohhhhhhh yea ahh
GET WELL SOON

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: WyoWoman
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 12:36 AM

Well, fer heaven's sake. I leave town for a few days and his Royal Mickness gets all poopy. Or snotty, as the case might be.

Get well, honey bunny. (And how yucky rotten to have to be in a motel room when you're sick. I did that last year -- strep and bronchitis in Washington D.C., then taking the airplane back looking obviously sick. Nothing like that to make you feel like a complete pariah....)

I hope you're all mended up by now and feeling sassy again.

best, ww

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Escamillo
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 12:25 AM

Very glad to see that you are now OK, Big Mick.
Andrés Magré

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Barry Finn
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 12:06 AM

Gee Mick, I'm glad I found out you were doing well before I found out that you weren't, can't handle the shock that well myself at OUR age. Well yobo, you can go ahead & fall down now that you're been knocked out for so long,,, then you can get back up & sing. All that sweating & I thought you were doing the pig thing again & here I was teasing you about whimping out, ya know I didn't think you looked so hot the first time I laid eyes on ya but that was before I knew ya, then I thought he probably never looked so good, go figure. Well I'm about 2,000 east of you & you're really gonna have to make a full recovery to come this far to kick my butt. So I'll being seeing ya soon? Best of health & luck & lots of love. Barry

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Dani
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 08:36 PM

I thought that sweating WAS all the good feelings. Sorry it was illness. Love, lust, life-threatening illness - sometimes they're damn hard to tell apart!

Keep 'em draining.

Dani

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 08:27 PM

Once you get to feeling better Mick be sure to clean the flem out of your low "D" pennywhistle er else you will reinfect yourself.

By the way, you were right about my loss of Mudcat ~ I got ahold of my ISP and they were able to clear up the problem. Thanks for the advice.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: bbc
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 08:19 PM

I was so sorry to hear you've been sick. I know sinus & sinus is no friend of mine (as I'm sure it's not yours, either!!!). Missing those hugs & wanting you up & around sooner than soon.

with love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Brakn
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 08:10 PM

Glad you're recovering Mick.

Mick Bracken

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Helen
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 07:56 PM

Hi Mick,

I hope you are getting better & better. I don't have time for more than a flying visit to the 'Cat today so I have jsut skimmed through this to make sure yuo are okay. I'll check in tonight or tomorrow for a proper visit.

Helen

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: TheMuse
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 07:02 PM

The tavern has been way too quiet and now we know why . . .sorry to hear you've been under the weather. We'll keep the place going and "leave the light on for you". The Muse

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Lorraine
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 06:55 PM

Oh Mick-Sorry to hear you haven't shook the dreaded sinus affliction. Meeting you at the Getaway was special although brief- Get well and give em hell. Love- Lorraine

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Kernow John
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 06:38 PM

Hey Big Mick
Just heard you aint been well.
Take care, your a guy that's needed by lot's of folks not just us here on the 'Cat.
But most important see if you can fit in some time and space for yourself.
You are in our prayers,
Baz and Marion

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Dave Swan
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 04:35 PM

Mick, here are my good wishes from home and Dave's from on the road. We'll be glad to hear from you soon!

PJ (La Swanna)

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Judy Cook
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 04:13 PM

Hi Big Mick,

sorry you've been ill. add my warm wishes to the long list for a speedy & complete recovery.

-- Judy Cook

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: KathWestra
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 03:16 PM

Hey Big Mick. Big Hugs! I've been missing you around these parts. Take very good, tender care of yourself (just pretend you're one of your best friends kinda like Spaw). As so many of our buddies have said earlier in this thread, when you're sick is no time to be a hero. Whimper a lot and get people to take care of you. Wallow in being coddled by anyone willing to coddle you. (No, not cuddle, although now that I mention it...) Get well soon, my friend. (And you'd better be ALL better by the first weekend in December, when I intend to traipse down to Conklin to hear you and the fellas hold forth at Fenian's and collect on that brew you promised.) Kath

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 02:39 PM

So, Mick, you should take better care of yourself. As Catspaw intimated, it's time to throw that macho stuff out the window. I know that that big heart shines on these threads, but let it shine on you sometime.

So you're sick and you think you're strokin' out. Yeah, that's what ambulances are for. I'm sure Dave would have picked you up if you had only called down to 'Spaw's place. And now, you're headed for Cincinnati and you not only want to work, but you want to go out to the music while you are there.

Modern medecine works miracles, but you don't have to force them to be miracle workers. Slow down a bit! Come to the important realization that you can't do it all. You will live longer and less stressfully.

Seriously, Mick. I'm sorry you had that scare. I don't do sick very well either. I'll put you in my prayers.

Love,

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Cara
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 12:54 PM

Oooh, those sinus deals are brutal. Sorry to hear it. If you don't get better soon, cut off your nose and learn to breathe through your mouth. It's a quick fix (*BG*)

I hear that alcohol kills germs in your bloodstream. I've replaced my former regimen of echinacea and zinc with a steady diet of beer and wine, and I've never felt better (except for the mornings but I've never liked those much anyway).

Seriously, breathe well and feel better.

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Penny S.
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 12:36 PM

Get better fast. (Try inhaling steam)

Penny

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Den
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 12:26 PM

Sorry to hear you were poorly Mick but glad to know you are on the mend. There will be a few parish priests downed in a toast to your health over at the tavern. No there will not be an indesciminate attack on the catholic clergy, parish priests are another name for Mick nad my favourite tiple the glorious cure for what ails you. The wonderful pint of Guinness sccchtout. Den (I know waffeling a bit)

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Peter T.
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 12:21 PM

Mick, do the words "take a break" mean anything to you? Sheesh. Seriously, get well soon. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 12:08 PM

liam, if ya'da stayed out of the jello pit at the Tavern and not taken that nose dive after THE FAIR ONE when Mick wasn't lookin', you wouldn't have that nose break! I suppose the doc fixing it means another break? Come on over ta the Tavern and we'll help ya out!

katLAUGHING

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: lamarca
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 12:03 PM

We might have known that those empty spaces in your head would start giving you trouble one of these days, Mick! Seriously, sinus infections and how they affect musicians and our hearing, thinking and balance are no joke. Glad you're on the mend...

LOL, your sweet little transvestite

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: bill\sables
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 11:40 AM

Hi Big Mick, you'd better be better for Jan I'll bring you some grapes and sit by your bedside and eat them myself if you're not. See You Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Bert
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 11:29 AM

Get well soon or I'll tell you how I cured my sinus problems.

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Alice
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 10:27 AM

Hey, big guy, you're not supposed to get sinus infections.. that's my department!! I still have the effects of a year-long sinus infection that came from letting what I thought was a "cold" go too far without going to a doctor. So much for saving money on medical bills. It took a year of heavy duty antibiotics, so, man, I hope this doesn't happen to you. Now I will live with the tendency to get them forever. As you know, it hurts your brain and makes thinking very fuzzy, as well as general body weakness. No fair, man, you were supposed to be the big strong guy all of us ladies could lean on!

Well, enough of that mutual misery mumbling... get better, and email me privately for advice on the home remedies and preventions I've discovered.

love,
alice

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: Bill Cameron
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 10:17 AM

Wit fails me, Mick.

Just get better, eh.

Bill

Subject: RE: Get well soon Big Mick
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 10:12 AM

Keep mending, dear Mick.