BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!

Subject: Mudcat Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 11:51 PM

I just came back from a wonderful fancy dinner in the shaded arched passages of the old Balboa Park in San Diego, a lovely ancient restaurant known as Casa de Prado, newly restored and reopend. We were meeting old shipmates and friends--the publisher of a major alternative health magazine, and a columnist for the local paper who plays the best blues harp in town(husband and wife).

Well, I had gotten all excited about finding the Mudcat and had told them about it a few weeks ago; and then I told them about Åine's wonderful challenge with the news story about the incensed cuckoldee, whose errant husband ended up hanging out on a drain pipe at a motel; and how I had written a song for AIne's Challenge and gotten a prize and yadayadayada. You know how it is with old friends -- you babble all your news over wine, and this was my news.

Well, much to my surprise, as the dinner drew to a close, the waitress was seen to draw near bearing a flaming platter with a fancy triple-layered Mousse (down, 'Spaw!) and candles, and the word "Congratulations!" spelled out in chocolate around the base.

The waitresses knew the whole story and the celebration had Mudcat resonating all through it. Got to blow out the candle and all that in the middle of this real fancy restaurant; so shucks, Aine, you started a major marketing campaign and none of us even knew it!

WHo else has tales to tell of the creeping, seeping fame of the Mudcat around the world!

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Áine
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:09 AM

Dearest Amos,

It's your own fame spreading out before you in chocolate mousse . . . as long as you saved me a virtual piece, I'm a very happy girl!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:11 AM

Geeziz Amos...You're pathetic!!! I am incensed beyond all comprehension. You and your friends are base and loathful. You write a couple of great songs, but then to celebrate you incinerate a mouse??? A poor defenseless mouse? Covered in chocolate with a candle up it ass? Have you no shame man???

Kat will have something to say about this I'm sure.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:16 AM

Well, 'Spaw, it was a Microsoft Mousse.

And the candle seemed appropriate!!

But, I am ashamed, now that you have read me the riot act; I should never have taken matters into muh own hands; but the rope wuz right there and justice was clear, so I did what I did, an' Ah'll take thuh consequences.

But next time Ah'm turning it over to the Department of Justice!!:>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Áine
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:17 AM

For shame on yourself, Spaw! Don't you know that in LaFrance they eat mouse on a regular basis, as well as racing them for fun and profit? Geez, how bourgeoise can you get!

Amos, do you hear the strains of a song . . . something like 'The Mad Mudcat Mousse Massacre' coming on . . .?

-- Áine

P.S. And Amos, I'll have a little bit more off the hinder, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:22 AM

Guess I just got them 'Booshwah Blues'.........

BTW...Been to Croce's??

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:23 AM

Dang, not yet. But I congratulate you on pronouncing the name of that song right, the way Hetty did! :>)

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:38 AM

Dear Mr. Infamous Amos,

This is to inform you that formal charges are being brought against you for the cruel and unusual demise of one said chocolate mousse for the purposes of your gustatory satisfaction.

Had you secured the proper forms for such sacrifice, which also required a guideline for proper tithing to the kat who is to share in all mice and to the Keeper of the Songbook, both of whom readily accept chocolate in payment, you could have avoided this unfortunate action.

As it is, we have no choice to but to issue this summons to you. To avoid any further action, you must reply in written form with a pledge to follow guidelines in future and to pay restitution in whatever chocolate forms the maligned parties agree to.

Should you choose to ignore this, you will be contacted by an enforcement officer of one of the following protection units: SPECIMEN or, Society for the Prevention Entirely of the Chocolate Indulgeds' Mice Encased Network; the EURDOML or, Enforcement Unit of the Regional Director's Office for Mice Liberation; and/or, the Mice Organisation United Society & State Electorate, or MOUSSE.

We can only conclude by saying, "Disregard this missive at your peril, sir!"

Sincerely,

K.M.Katamousse & H.E. Moggy, Agents

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 01:09 AM

Agents Katamousse and Moggy:

It was a multilayered mousse -- the middle layer was vanilla -- and that's why I thought it would be okay to eat it, ya see. Any mousse that was reckless enough to get itself multilayered is just asking to be eaten, sez I. And the same rationale means that the putative offense is in fact beyond the scope of SPECIMEN (and it is too late for SPECIMEN in any case unless you provide me with one of them kits).

As for EURDOML, whose concern appears to be Mousse liberation, please rest assured that the mousse in question has in fact, in front of numerous witnesses, been reassociated with purely natural processes is a wholly organic matrix of proceses, as a result of which voluntary action on my part the subject mousse will be completely liberated in the normal course of things.

I have contacted key executives of the Mousse's Organisation United Society & State Electorate, or MOUSSE, and their consensus appears to be that the mousse in question was of problematic character (see comments on multi-layering above) and that it appears its purposes have been fulfilled in what may in fact have been the best possible way.

In any case, no offense was meant, and as the affair was entirely between consenting adults (myself and an adult Mousse) we would submit that no further threats, whines, arguments, motions, actions, propositions, persuasions, propositions, bullying or mollycoddling should be untertaken in the present case.

However in recognition of your valid concern for the well being and equitable distribution of all chocolate everywhere, including that used in the development of Meeses, we ar eprepared to provide your office with a settlement of three thousand pounds virtual in exchange for a complete release of all issues relating to your concerns about this Mousse Almost Passé.

Sincerely yours,

Hobson, Jobson, Gobbem And Howe, Advocates for

Amos

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Barbara
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 01:26 AM

It's always fun to see who all actually comes here and reads 'em and weeps. Over NYs I went to the SF folkies outing in the woods and had the opportunity to introduce Joe Offer to a number of my friends (first time he'd gone to the gathering).
They would either say something like, "Oh, pleased to meecha, I'm sure you'll enjoy this" or else, if they were Mudcatters, they would say something like "Joe Offer? THE Joe Offer? You're real???"
I've got another question for you. When you meet a Mudcatter whose picture isn't in bbc's rogue's gallery, do they look like you expect?
I discovered at this same camp that someone I'd known for years was here under the pseudonym Radriano, and I'd been talking with him without knowing it.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 04:20 AM

I dunno, Barbara. I saw your picture before I saw you, and I still didn't recognize you, even though I had met you before (in less-than-normal lighting). I washed dishes four nights with this really great guy named Richard, and didn't find out until three weeks later that it was Radriano. Good guy. Sings well, too.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: kendall
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 07:07 AM

Typical defense..blame the victim. The mousse asked for it..yeah, right. If you believe that, youll believe there is going to be a Richard Simmons Junior.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: InOBU
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 08:29 AM

I read the preceeding to Bongo Knock (Broken Nose, in Romaness [Gypsy]), the Mouse who lives in a multi-room multi level plastic Scandinavian house which is a sub-unit of the house my wife and I live in...
His responce, somewhat predicable was
Next time, eat a cat.
He then burrowed into his bedding cotten, whistling, The Mice are At It Again...
Well the world is a complex place.
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 10:19 AM

Any 'Cats out there volunteering for a Consenting Adult relationship as described by Larry? In a restaurant?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 11:27 AM

Only trouble with eating a mousse for dessert is picking the durn antlers out of your teeth afterward!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:14 PM

Didn't we do that spreading chocolate mousse thing over in the Mudcat Tavern once upon a time? In the chocolate mousse pit? Nekkid mousse wrasslin,' as I recall...

Mudcat uber alles. Or is it Mousse uber alles? Or Mouse's Uppers? All Us...

I just can't remember... But congrats, Famos Amos ...

Keep Spreadin' the News, la-la-la-la-la...

WyoWoman

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 06:44 PM

Mssrs. Hobson, Jobson, Gobbem And Howe

Dear Sirs,

Your offer of three thousand (3,000) pounds virtual has been duly noted and our client organisations informed. While they consider it to be a generous offer, there is some concern about the apparent misconceptions of one Mr. Infamous Amos.

We would ask you to advise your client that the choice of a mousse to be "multi-layered", thus achieving an wholly integrated existence, as in "all one colour-blind mousseman race", is to be commended and not to be used an an excuse to devour said multi-race mousse.

As to your client's assertion to the perceived age of the mousse in question, we would request a culinary test to be administered under strictly controlled conditions, to establish the efficacy of your client's knowledge as to the apparent age of said mousse. A pre-condition of such test shall be a thorough examination and evaluation of you client's refrigerator contents by an independent agent agreed upon by all parties.

We regret to inform you that the executives who recently held positions at Mousse Organisation United Society & State Electorate, or MOUSSE, have all been fired amidst a scandal involving nefarious activities, including operating a black market in fresh meeses.

In view of your further assertion of the demise and natural process which has released the previously oppressed mousse, we agree to your offer, with one exception: in those venues so noted (Mudcat Cafe & all its realms), there shall be no restrictions made upon our client or anyone else connected to this affair, as to their right to express their "concerns about this Mousse Almost Passé."

Most Sincerely Yours,

K.M. Katamousse & H. E. Moggy

Amos

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcate Fame Seeps Wider!
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 06:59 PM

(OH! Fawk! That's what I get for cutting and pasting and not cutting again! Please ignore the last signature on the above "letter".**BG**) Tks, kat