BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 05:36 PM

giant wombat in La La Land

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 08:47 PM

Well, I'm not sure it's exactly *skinny* dipping....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 08:57 PM

keberoxu, Ebbie isn't quite sure why she is sulking but AH! she is quite all right now since Froggie has arrived. Surely he hasn't used only his own legs? She will run to the stables forthwith.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Severn
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 09:30 PM

The alligator reaches down under the bat in a special place among the Cajun spices he brings up every year from Chef Michael Rodebodecheaux for some of the secret ingredients obtained from a local conjure man he saves for an emergency and mixes up a unique drink containing some Hoodoo charms and powders that are not to be revealed to all but the initiated and says lapsing into more of a Louisiana accent then he had been speaking in previously, "Bring the Fish Lady ovuh heah now. I have just de stuff. You come swallah some uh dis now, Ma'am."

She takes the glass of a purlple potion fizzing strangely, closes her eyes and downs most of it in one swallow and loudly yells "HOOOOO WHEEEEE!" She starts singing a bit of "Some Enchanted Evening" to test her voice out and exclaims, "I can SI-I-I-ING again!" and gives the alligator a great big wet sloppy kiss.

"Now y'all keep quiet 'bout dis." says the gator.......

The curious Giant Wombat, who up until now had uttered noises only intelligible to other Wombats picks up the glass, swallows what little is left, and breaks out into a lovely rendition of "Waltzing Matilda".......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 16 - 02:24 AM

a much better version than that our illustrious ex-Prime Minister Bob Hawke did at the Woodford Folk Festival yesterday

But the wombat would not be at the Tavern unless it was musical

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Dec 16 - 02:48 PM

Does one shuck layers back on? I wonder, heading back in for some squiddly squishy hugs, with whiskies, um, whiskers...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 16 - 02:56 PM

tHE WOMBAT SANG THE bass ostinato in the Beethoven symphony.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 16 - 11:59 AM

Time for the toasts! Cries Mrrzy, hoisting another hot whiskey, moustachioed with cream. Here's to what we ditched on purpose this year, in contrast to all we lost in our despite!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 17 - 11:33 AM

Okay, he thinks. Everyone is sleeping it off. Oh, look a Squiddy and the kids, cuddling up to everyone and leaving hickies! That's going to make for some who-did-what-to-whom conversations when they wake up.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jan 17 - 02:56 PM

Jocularity, jocularity! mumbles the Joxter, there for no good reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 17 - 02:00 PM

As he stands holding his joxter strap.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 17 - 03:11 PM

(I couldn't remember the name of the sad one, the Eeyore of the valley.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 17 - 03:45 PM

Having not sung the whole time donuel sucked in a breath sufficient for a 700 hp Mustang



"Here they come to save the day
Someone else is on the way

By night or by day It means that
someone else is here to stay

Mr. Online never hangs around,
when he hears this scary sound,

Here I come to save the day!
That means that someone else is on the way!

Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right,
Some one will join the fight!

On the sea or on the land,
They have the situation well in hand!

We know that when there's danger, we'll never despair;
Because we know despite danger someone is there...
On the land on the sea in the air.

We're not worrying at all
We just listen for their call
"Here we come to save the day!"
That means that someone else is on the way.

When there is a wrong to right,
someone else will join the fight
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Someone else is on the way! "



Despite embarrassed at the counter tenor operatic delivery, donuel slunk back to sitting against the wall.


Someone else started the song "you gotta down and join the Union, Ya gotta go down all by yourself...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 01:19 PM

bye bye, 2016 Christmas installment of the Mudcat Tavern.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 03:26 PM

(shuffling off in all my layers) toodles, a l'an prochain!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 05:22 PM

And so, as the sun slowly fades in the west, we bid farewell to the denizens of the Tavern for another turn of the sun.

Better shut the door quickly, I hear a squidlet stirring......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 06:49 PM

sandra & the wombat resume their travels ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 07:24 PM

Quietly he walks out, turns, surveys the not inconsiderable damage, sighs, and closes the door. "Until next time," he thinks.

Entering the stable he saddles his rusty tweed...er, trusty steed...and like all great heroes, gallops off into the sunset.

Back in the jello pit, Squiddy hears a faint "Hi-Ho, Gadolinium, AWAY!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Severn
Date: 03 Jan 17 - 07:36 PM

Until next holiday! It was nice meeting a real Giant Wombat and meeting up with Ethel again.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 17 - 04:07 AM

when I said sandra & the wombat resume their travels, I didn't mean they would necessarily travel together.

sandra was looking for cooler weather than currently found in hot humid summery sydney, the wombat is a traveller from another time, & their paths crossed somewhere in that strange space-time outside The Tavern ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Christmas Tavern 2016
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 17 - 06:30 PM

YAAAAAWWWWNNN. Mmmph. What? Did I miss it? Oh well, maybe next year. 16 wasn't a good year for me. Hope you guys had a good party. Catch ya on the flip side, eh?