TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Amos
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 10:11 AM

I cannot leave this incredible idyll without saying thank you to you amazing, powerful, inspired Mudcatters. LEJ, Peter T., Spaw, Caitrin, Jen, Barky, Mbo, DTAM, katLady, MMario...all of you...this has been a really wonderful journey. Forgive me my anachronistic clippages and my typos, and my blundering into your finespun visions; and thank you for the warmth, wit, craft, brilliant creativity and power of your many many words. Thanks, pals -- it's been Real.

Charles Stonewall Delacroix
Gambler

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: GUEST,THE RED HERON
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 10:48 AM

FOOLS!!!!YOU THINK THIS IS THE END?
Maximilian XV!!! And that dolt de Mornay? Deluded, all deluded charlatans!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAA!!!!! (Enjoy this brief absurd interlude, insignificant bewhiskered bottomdwellers!!!!!). We meet again!!!!!!!!!!

cordially yours, THE RED HERON

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Amos
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 11:02 AM

"HE sure talks funny for a stick-legged bird, don't he? Say, Jim, I reckon we could have a fine dinner tonight iffen you hand me that heaving line...see, this here monkey fist at one end's gotta lead weight in it. I think if I heave it jes' right -- get that Barlow knife ready -- gotta git his ankles, see, steady now....GOT 'IM!!!! DANG!! We gonna eat high on the hawg tonight Jim! jes' cut his throat there real quick ... thassit. BIle'em up and pluck them feathers, now Jim, an we'll have us a feast!...."

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: GUEST,THE RED HERON
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 11:12 AM

MOCKERS! I bathe in the refreshing pool of anticipating what will be done with you when our paths cross again. I note in passing that for such self-righteous beings, your treatment of wading birds is somewhat suspect. But I digress -- YOU ARE DOOMED!!!!!HAHAHAHAHA!! DESTINY IS NOT MOCKED!
Cordially yours, THE RED HERON

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Amos
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 11:28 AM

Dear Red:

Destiny, as you say, is not mocked. But in your case, it mocks itself. See you on the next thread, jerk!! This one is completed.

Delacroix

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: GUEST,THE RED HERON
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 11:38 AM

After you....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Maximilian XV, what a boob.....(sorry, where was I....)
cordially yours, THE RED HERON

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Caitrin
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 11:48 AM

Now, Amos. Let him have his "echo of mocking, evil laughter, fading in the distance." Every villain gets his or her opportunity for a good "mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Amos
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 11:52 AM

Aw, shucks, C....okay. Mwhahaha it is, then. Back to Cosmology 101...

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: GUEST,JenEllen
Date: 18 Apr 00 - 12:46 PM

Under the broad branches of an ancient maple tree in the garden of the NYC, there stirs a slight form wrapped in a frayed blanket. Her nap in the morning sun peppered with dreams, and her blanket peppered with droppings from the crow that sat on her shoulder.
She dreamily pulls the blanket up a little tighter around her shoulders, sips a cooling au lait, and begins to sing to herself "California here I come...."
~Mojo

WONDERFUL FOLKS! Thanks to all for the creation.~Elle

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Dec 15 - 10:27 AM

But where's the song that pulls this wonderful thread(s) together?

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 May 19 - 03:30 PM

Damn! I've lost track of where I harvested this fragment:

Like a steamboat on the river,
Running through the moonlight on the water,
The image is all shattered into a thousand shards;
So I sit here with three aces, and I raise the bid again,
And there's a shadow of a smile as I draw another card.

Is this familiar to anyone?

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 19 - 05:38 PM

The waters high and runnin fast. Sand bars are moving and buildin just as fast. Its 17 feet over flood stage and the Albert Hansell's whistle sounds crazed .

Subject: RE: TAVERN STEAMBOAT Albert Hansell - Part 4
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 May 19 - 09:03 AM

I hugely enjoyed (and contributed to the nonsense) of the old Tavern threads but somehow I missed this spinoff. Great to see the names of some much-missed Mudcatters, gone before or just dropped out.
RtS