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I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat!
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Easy Rider Date: 22 Dec 99 - 12:51 PM I'm standing under it now. Hugs and kisses to all my mudcat friends, in far flung places. Happy New Year. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: TerriM Date: 22 Dec 99 - 01:40 PM You can get little mulled wine sachets that do all the hard work for you but, if you can't find them we just simmer wine ( not boil) with a cinnamon stick, some fresh grated nutmeg, a few cloves, orange and lemon peel and 2 tablespoons of demerara sugar( or to taste). If you are feeling really adventurous, you could add a tot of rum or brandy as well. I would advise wrapping presents before, not during :)! |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 22 Dec 99 - 02:01 PM And to simmer the wine use (with care) a microwave oven, it heats without alcohol loss due to boiling. It is the 4th reason for having a microwave , for things that are difficult or impossible to do otherwise. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: SingsIrish Songs Date: 22 Dec 99 - 03:25 PM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! I'll have to try the mulled wine--from scratch seeing as I have all the ingredients! And the touch of rum or brandy sounds marvelous! Thanks Terri! And that's a great hint re the microwave, Micca! With all the toys I have to wrap, I'll definitely need a "nip" afterwards! LOL Again, Best wishes to one and all! Mary |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: emily rain Date: 22 Dec 99 - 07:56 PM seed -- please tell me it wasn't mint chocolate chip. terri -- what's the best kinda wine to use for mulling? i've tried many times with everything from port to bow-zhe-lay (fill in the french yourself), and i haven't found anything i really love. but it always sounds so delicious.... |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Magpie Date: 22 Dec 99 - 08:12 PM It has taken me a while to get around to reading this thread, but here I am! All puckered and ready for the big smooch. Mustaches or not, I'm not choosy! And Okiemockbird - HANDSHAKES??!!!??? Puhleeze! How romantic! Shaking hands under the mistletoe? C'mon Okie, here's a big one for you: SSSSSSSSMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOCCCCCCHHHHHH(Hope I don't have to redefine my sexual orientation now!?) Lots of all kinds of nice things for you all, and merry Christmas from Magpie |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 22 Dec 99 - 08:16 PM Emily Rain, one of the problems with mulling wine is that the heating of the red wine accentuates the tannin in the wine, (thats the stuff that makes your teeth feel furry), the way to offset this is to add sugar(or the sweetner of your choice) and spices and use a microwave to warm as mentioned, this reduces the "cooking time". If you are in the UK a reasonable Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon would do and about 2 ounces of spirit of choice, zest of orange or lemon and, cinnamon and ground cloves and spices of choice, go easy on the nutmeg as too much is hallucinogenic and Myristica poisoning is distinctly unpleasant, being drunk or worse, hung over with Hallucinations, no thanks. Ideally your local Health food shop will do sort of mulling "Bouquet Garni" and dark beer and cider can mull really well, too. Go for the sweeter end of the range tho' Guiness mulled is HORRIBLE. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Little Neophyte Date: 22 Dec 99 - 08:35 PM Emily think more on the lines of vanilla. Does anyone have change for the laundry mat? Charles, we can not leave the bed like this. That would be disgusting. BB |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Dec 99 - 08:45 PM Geeziz what a thread........Basically I just came by to let Cleigh off to spend some time under the mistletoe. He wants to fulfill Mian's request and has been bugging me for days!!! Any of the rest of you who feel the spirit of the season....PLEASE, give him a little one on that sweet little face of his. The rump thing is kinda' embarassing to him. Be kind. SSSSSHHHHHH......Don't say I told you anything..................Hey little guy, How ya' doin' now? Feel better after brushing your teeth? Well the gangs around and I told them you were staying for awhile..........Me? No, I'll just slip home to Karen......and besides, only Aine would kiss me after I was slobbered on by that camel in the "My Theory" thread...But she did give me one on Mudcat Radio tonight...that was neat, a three way call with a kiss!!!! ........Have a good time Cleigh.....I'll pick you up later. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Magpie Date: 22 Dec 99 - 09:08 PM Oh, Cleigh, it's so nice of you to come! I'm Magpie. Welcome, welcome to the "smooching-under-the-mistletoe fair"! Let me have a nice big one! -Oh no, Cleigh! Right smack on the mouth, if you please! Yes, that's better! Now, come with me and I'll show you around the fair and introduce you to all the merry smoochers. Hello everyone! This is our latest arrival, Cleigh. Say "Welcome Cleigh" everyone!
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: emily rain Date: 22 Dec 99 - 09:50 PM BB -- thank god. i didn't know if i should be worried about our dear friend... Micca -- so noted! thank you. i'm in the us, but we get cabernet sauvignon here, too. : ) may i presume you mean two oz. of spirit per bottle, not per serving? aw yeah, i'm doin' mulled wine shots tonight...
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Jon Freeman Date: 23 Dec 99 - 01:41 AM Thanks Mary, I have finally wandered into this thread. As for me, kisses to all female 'catters and hugs to all the males. Jon |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Dec 99 - 02:36 AM Banjo Bonnie - DON'T WASH THE BED!!!!! Someone in the UK has just won a stupid amount of cash for exhibiting hers in the Tate Gallery, as an exhibit in the Turner Prize competition! You could display it as an original, or frame it, just think how lovely those grapes will look squished against the glass in the frame. And the rubber chicken will add that hint of mystery. I'd take the celery out though, it will only go rotten and smell..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Mían Date: 23 Dec 99 - 01:00 PM o boyo boyo, c'mere, cleigh, let me pour this champagne all over you and... happy holidays to all of yeesh |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: TerriM Date: 23 Dec 99 - 01:43 PM Leave the celery, just varnish it. Emily, don't listen to Micca, he's a fearful wine snob! (oh, yes you are!)We use whatever is cheap and just add more sugar if it's a little tannic. And he probably did mean a tot per serving, he usually does. I've been stood hopefully under this misletoe for days now, not that I'm hinting or anything you understand... |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 23 Dec 99 - 01:48 PM Emily rain mentioned that one because its available for about $5-7 dollars a bottle here, which is cheap for the quality.Of course any goodish red would do but avoid the very expensive or the Wine Fairy will come and bash you on the bonce with her wand!!! |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: SingsIrish Songs Date: 23 Dec 99 - 03:13 PM Here's an idea so no-one is missed.... All the "gents" in one line and all the "ladies" in another....now let's move the lines in opposite directions under the mistletoe (in the way sports teams do after a game....) Now how's 'bout some "line dance music"......just kidding... Boy is the mulled wine potent! Mary |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Mbo Date: 23 Dec 99 - 03:24 PM Whoa! A kissing assembly line! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Magpie Date: 23 Dec 99 - 08:14 PM Lord Henry Ford, what have you done! Magpie |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 23 Dec 99 - 08:31 PM NB any parts left sticking out at the end will be sawn off and recycled to the line!!!! Jaysus who put the Wray and Nephews. or was it Stroh in the mulled w i n e crash |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Dec 99 - 02:18 AM No, you didn't!! Stroh is for external application only, didn't you know that? Mind you, I once made chocolate mousse, with three layers. Top layer was white chocolate with Bacardi rum, second was milk chocolate with stroh and the bottom was dark chocolate with Woods 100proof...... LTSH |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Skipjack Date: 24 Dec 99 - 05:02 AM I haven't seen your CV yet, Liz. The position of foredeck hand on the good ship Skipjack remains vacant. One of the few fringe benefits is the bottle of Woods 100 lashed to the mast. We set sail for the azur waters of the North Sea in January, now the nights are drawing out nicely. Skipjack PS Bring the chocolate moose. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 24 Dec 99 - 11:57 AM to return to the tree climbing cats please feel free to add to this Chorus Cats on christmas trees Cats on tiles Cats with fur balls that go on for miles Cats with there faces wreathed in smiles As they decimate the Christmas decorations
The moggy is a lonely bloke |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 24 Dec 99 - 12:35 PM they eat the tinsel and the mistletoe the chew the Christmas lamps until thy blow then they swallow one and watch the glow as it travels through their stomach and intestines
a cat with food you can not trust
A Mogs your friend except at christmas time
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: SingsIrish Songs Date: 24 Dec 99 - 01:20 PM Okay, I'll be heading out to start the Holidays with family....see ya'll next year! Mary |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: TerriM Date: 24 Dec 99 - 08:16 PM Micca, I have to admit to complete adoration of your parody...... Oh, no, sorry, don't. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: TerriM Date: 24 Dec 99 - 08:24 PM Micca, I have to admit to complete adoration of your parody...... Oh, no, sorry, don't. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: DonMeixner Date: 24 Dec 99 - 08:51 PM There is no end of attention I'd love to give and recieve to all the fair ones in the forum. I'd send an intracontinental one to Katey, fellow jewelry maker and gentle soul. A transpacific one to Alison who must wonder what is wrong with a man who can't master the ICQ. And to Liz and Bonnie and Vixen and even to Muse who can grab my beard and get my attention anytime. Don |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Little Neophyte Date: 24 Dec 99 - 09:33 PM Don, do I really have to grab your beard to get your attention? Are you ticklish? That should wake you up real quick. BB |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: _gargoyle Date: 24 Dec 99 - 09:50 PM Here pussy, pussy, pussy....
Kitty doesn't work. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Jon Freeman Date: 24 Dec 99 - 10:04 PM Miaow, Are your going to kiss me now? Jon |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: catspaw49 Date: 25 Dec 99 - 03:02 AM WELL MERRY CHRISTMAS JON.......If you're at all depressed today, know that you have cracked Spaw up completely. LMAWROTF........GREAT line....PERFECT delivery!!!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS my friend and thanks for a great laugh!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Jon Freeman Date: 25 Dec 99 - 03:10 AM Spaw, surely you meant to say purrfect Jon |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Jon Freeman Date: 25 Dec 99 - 03:12 AM Spaw, surely you meant to say purrfect Jon |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Dec 99 - 07:29 PM Don, I've got to put the cat out (!) and I'll be right over....... it's been one of those days, anyone know a good smoke alarm make??? Jon, thank you for your comments personally earlier this month, got me through a bad bout of homesickness and made today a bit more special, thank you.... Hope you got the warm fuzzy feeling around about 11.00am. The cat got his at 5.00pm, see the tyger thread for reason..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: DonMeixner Date: 25 Dec 99 - 11:22 PM Bonnie, sorry my dear, not ticklish. Its the beard or nothing. Liz, I have First Alerts all over the house. Lived through a fire once so I know the need for a good alarm. As far as your cat making an ash of his(her)self. What do you expect dear, its just a cat. Besides, The Muse is the only one close enough to actually have a chance at my beard. I'd better be more careful what I say on the forum. :-))) Don |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Date: 26 Dec 99 - 08:50 PM re:14 dec 99, 2155hrs (09:55pm) and here's a kiss for the homely maiden too |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Dec 99 - 02:51 AM Well I hope everyone here gets the 'flu!!!' I've just spent a miserable Boxing Day and two bank holidays in bed with 'flu' (not good for us asthmatics), I now have a throat like I've gargled with razor blades and no voice at all... Who was it gave me that long frenchie with the aftertaste of taramasalata???? Come on, I know it was one of you gave me this 'flu'...... LTS |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Skipjack Date: 30 Dec 99 - 08:12 AM Sorry, Lizzie. It was me! It wasn't deliberate, but does bring to mind New Year '84, when I was sludge-gulped at midnight by the village femme fatale, and I contracted a rampant dose of glandular fever, which I have never fully recovered from. Dangerous thing, snogging, even if it is virtual, it seems! Sorry you had such a crap time of it, and hope yer back on yer pins for New Years Eve. I'm playing an all night session down on Mendip, and will probably end up getting me kit off with the druids, downwind of the beacon on Maesbury Hill. Can't wait!!!! |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Micca Date: 30 Dec 99 - 08:25 AM If your out with the Druids, watch those potions the brew, and lag the old wedding tackle or you may add a new dimension the "Snap on Tools"* concept as LtS once said "I didn't know you could snap them off" * its some kind of a maintenance company country-wide here inthe UK, its logo on its vans says Snap-on Tools. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Dec 99 - 01:07 PM Said that to the photocopier engineer last week, he had to be helped out of the bowels of the machine he was trying to fix..... Skyclad may be a tad damper than you desire, make sure it doesn't shrink in the wash....! LTS |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) Date: 30 Dec 99 - 02:11 PM Liz the Squeak, I hope you get better soon. Maybe you should mosey over to the tavern and have LonesomeEJ fix you up a phlegm-cutting drink of some sort. Why do you call yourself "the Squeak" ? T. |
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Subject: RE: I've just hung the Mistletoe at Mudcat! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 31 Dec 99 - 04:04 AM I was called the squeak for the very simple reason, I do. Listen if you can to a Les Barker CD, called 'A Cardi and Bloke', the noise like a demented bat that stops the show frequently is me. I giggle. I giggle dreadfully..... That is all you need to know, so there is no need for TerriM, Spawn of TerriM or Micca to elucidate is there..... LTS |
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