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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Robby Date: 20 Sep 00 - 03:46 PM Well, just let me let Spaw know that I did indeed get my cookie fixed, and while I'm not Sam Spade, I'm not Terrible Tom either. Thanks for the laugh. For our Guest, Mbo at ECU. I am not able to get you a copy of the video tape I made of the Corrs. I originally thought is was a group of brothers in the Pittsburgh who perform, interestingly enough as the Corrs Brothers, and two of whom, I think, own a nice little watering hole in Pittsburgh called the Harp and Fiddle. If the copy I accidently made wasn't on a tape of other things, the Irish Tenors is one I think, I'd send it to you. However, I have made an audio cassette copy from the video, in pseudo-stereo. If you would like a copy of the audio, send an e-mail to me at Meehan@puc.state.pa.us and give me your regular mailing address and I'll send you a copy. Fill 'er up again lads and lasses In the Year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and six we set sail from the cold quay of Cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks for the grand City Hall in New York. We'd an elegant craft; she was rigged fore and aft And how the trade winds drove her. She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts, And they called her The Irish Rover. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Noreen Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:35 PM Sorry, mousethief, I wasn't casting aspersions on your typing skills -or anything else! I've just been watching MMario sidling up to you in this 'ere tavern, with a glint in his eye, and was trying to warn you to hide that copy of Child's Ballads that you're waving about....... oops, too late!!!! Double brandy over here, please, bartender- we have a mouse in shock! Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: mousethief Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:54 PM Ack! TYPE IN ALL THE COMMENTS?! Barkeep, make it a double! Followed by a Rusty Nail with a Glenlivet chaser! Question (sorry for the thread creep!): I'm writing a dark and fairly graphic song about domestic violence. Should I post it to a thread, or send it PM to people who want to see it? (I have several good friends, as well as my mother and grandmother, who were victims of domestic violence, and wanted to do a waker-upper song that raises the issue and speaks out for the victims. (The chorus starts, "This is your mother, this is your sister, this is your daughter, who will mourn? Who will grieve?")) Thanks everyone who has been so wonderful to me my first fortnight here at the 'Cat. (And to those who have flamed me, pbbbbbbth!)
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: MMario Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:56 PM Bendteerer, anouble dother scogtch fer mind fryed here kept...crapto...mouseklep..moosetheft...uhmmm
him. the book with the ballad in hand his.
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: MMario Date: 20 Sep 00 - 04:59 PM MT - this is a tavern thread...by definition it consists of thread creep. Here would be one spot, or a seperate thread, or PM. But PM would deprive the rest of us from seeing it and kibitzing. That might be a plus. Or "additions to mudcat songbook" thread - though if a work in progress you might not want to do that..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: mousethief Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:07 PM Can anybody start an "additions to mudcat songbook" thread, or is that Aine's provenance? Fortunately I can hold my scotch better than Mmario. I use my left front paw, usually. To hold my scotch. That's a joke, son, a joke. Right now what I could REALLY use, even more than a Scotch (though I wouldn't say no to two fingers of an old single malt, neat) is a nap. Are there any comfy sofas (davenports, couches, whatever) in quiet corners in this-here bar?
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: MMario Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:17 PM MT - here is the current additions thread Usually Aine starts a new one when it starts getting too long to load. I think she has it traced - so though she probably wouldn't object to anyone starting one, using the sorta-semi-hemi-demi-psuedo-unofficial-official one is probably better, as if you start one on your own no telling if the keeper of the book might ever see it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Lonesome EJ Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:23 PM Well,I'm back after helping LilNeo in the lavatory,and I'm still a bit..er...bummed out.Gimmee a double shot Maker's Mark,two cubes,and just enough water to wet the ice. Glad to see all the new Mudcatters in the old joint.Let's see,last time I was here I stashed a half-bag of pistachios over here behind the Monsters of Folk pinball machine (yeah,it's the one with the big plastic picture of a muscular Pete Seeger dressed in Neo-Barbarian attire,a buxom Joan Baez lying at his feet and clutching his powerful thighs,and Pete is holding his banjo aloft where it catches a bolt of lightning from a gathering storm).Yep...pistachios are still here! Man. I love this place. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Sep 00 - 05:28 PM You need a couch? Hey....There's one over in that corner. Be careful that that tiple on the wall doesn't fall and whack you. Tavern threads have been running for well over a year now I guess and each one has a different theme. And even if it doesn't there are things in each that make them unique, many of which have become part of the lore and iconology of Mudcat. Some have become "writer's workshops" of sorts like the Steamboat Tavern that became so bizarre it just petered out. Some have a pretyy distinct end, some are just fun, some have lime jello wwrestling, flamingos, time warps............Here was one that a lot of people enjoyed reading or participating in: Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: SDShad Date: 20 Sep 00 - 06:07 PM But if you lie down on the couch.... Harpgirl will analyze you. Shad |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Lepus Rex Date: 20 Sep 00 - 06:21 PM Night of the Lepus is COMING, and it ain't gonna be no movie! Muahahahaha! And if, for any reason, anyone wants to see what the lagomorphs of the world call their king, I've got my picture on the mudcat photo page. >:OB ---Lepus Rex Oh, cool, SDShad---You come from one of the prettiest parts of the state. And you leave it for SD?! My grandpa's family left their land way down near Austin, MN, which is a BEAUTIFUL area, for SD around 1900, I think. Then most of us came back to MN. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: mousethief Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:08 PM I knew this everybody-being-nice-to-me thing couldn't last forever. Barkeep, another Glenlivet please. Neat.
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: death by whisky Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:31 PM Bushmills please,and we,ll put some more turf on the hearth. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Bradypus Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:47 PM Hello, everyone. I'm Bradypus. I've been here for quite a few months now - you'll usually find me in the Song Challenge threads. (well worth checking if you haven't found them already) I play piano accordion and autoharp, just for fun usually. Did I hear that someone wanted a song about Cluny? Try this, and if you like it, I'll have a Talisker
Cluny the Scourge
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Burke Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:55 PM Well I joined up sometime this summer & also never did an I'm new here message. Just back in rural New York from 10 days in England. Did they stage the fuel crisis just for me? Abbot's Bromley was cool, though. What I'd really like is a pint of that lovely ale whose name I can't remember that I tried in the pub I can't remember either. Oh well. It's not that I had too much, just that I tried too many beers in too many different places. So a black & tan, room temperature, thanks, for me. Mostly I sing & I love a-capella harmony singing. My idea of a good time is singing Chester or Liberty at the UK Sacred Harp Convention :-) I own a tin whistle & practice every once in a while. I'm no good at Irish on it, but it comes in handy for working out simple tunes from notation. My cat hates it. What kind of card game is going on here? Anyone for Hearts? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Naemanson Date: 20 Sep 00 - 09:04 PM SSSNNNaaaarrrkk Gugk shash snooOOOORRESS... Huh! What? Oh, did I fall asleep in the middle of my song? Where, what, how,.. Did I drink a whole half a glass of pale ale? NO WONDER! Let's see, what did I miss. Oh! Alice was talking about a feminine version of South Australia. That's good. Actually I'll be doing that song at a concert for kids at the Maine Children's Museum this weekend. I ought to write an Olympics verse. Any suggestons? I haven't been paying attention to them, never do, so I'm a little ignorant of what's going on. Oh, and Carlin, I've only heard the Pogues once many years ago. I was interested but not enough to become a fan. Sorry.
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Alice Date: 20 Sep 00 - 09:20 PM Bradypus, wow! Thanks for the Cluny song! My son says that's REALLY cool. I like it, I like it.
Lepus, sorry about that wolfy "u" that I typed.
My great grandparents left Leitrim Ireland and brought their kids over to Minnesota to homestead at Tintah. I still have some relatives living there, and the old house they owned is still in the family, I think. I've never been there, but I have old photos of the place. My grandfather was a teenager at the time they left Ireland to homestead in the US. I have the memoirs of my great aunt Alice. She wrote about her parents, their life in Ireland, her father's decision to leave for America, and their journey overland from landing at Castle Garden. Alice in Montana |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Mbo Date: 20 Sep 00 - 09:26 PM ALRIGHT! Who wants hugs? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Alice Date: 20 Sep 00 - 09:51 PM Mbo, I'd take a hug from you any day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Peter Kasin Date: 20 Sep 00 - 10:09 PM Well, I'm somewhere in between a newcomer and a middle-timer, having been here nine months now. First time at the tavern, though. Nice folks here. It has to be lemonade for me. Sssssip....um...glurp, glurp, glurp,...ahhhhh.....oh, wait a minute..I grabbed somebody's Coors Light. Sorry. I could have sworn it was...oh, well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Mbo Date: 20 Sep 00 - 10:13 PM ALice--SQUEEEEEEEEEZE! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Alice Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:09 PM -time for the rose in the teeth, the lights dim, spotlight on Mbo and Alice, a Piazzola song begins ... The Tango! (where is Andr‚s?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Alice Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:11 PM ooops, spelled Piazzolla wrong. - but it doesn't stop the dance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jolly Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:21 PM Wow! I fell asleep over in that other tavern (must have been the roses), woke up and found myself mysteriously drawn down the road...over here! I'm Kim, been "in town" about two weeks now. Someone warned me I might get addicted... Het, Mbo, you sure like to hug!!!! When you're done, I'm up for one. In the meantime, if anyone could point me towards the beer. Do they have McSorley's in here?
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Mbo Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:24 PM I sure do like to hug! After 8 hours at school and 6 of them spent alone in the wood shop, I need to feel some sort of contact with another human being. Especially if they're a good hugger too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Alice Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:25 PM Nice to meet you, Jolly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jolly Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:43 PM Nice to meet you, too, Alice, and all the rest of you as well. Nice place you got here. Kim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Sailor Dan Date: 21 Sep 00 - 12:02 AM Miss ALICE -- I should take offense at you remarks way up the line about not trusting a sailor man, BUT instead I'll just join ya'll by having a Guinness and buying the next round for all of you nice people. Great thread Sailor DAn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Carlin Date: 21 Sep 00 - 12:02 AM Gadzooks.....the Crown is gone already.....hmmmmmmm
oh, there is another bottle....Bona Fortuna loves me...
Naemanson, I mentioned the Pogues because they did a pretty kick-ass version of South Australia.
Robby, Matt, nice to know there are a couple of more fans....Shaney Mac is just too cool.
Speaking of South Australia...
As we wallop round Cape Horn! Heave away! Haul Away! You'll wish to God you'd never been born! We're bound for South Australia!
How did everyone get interested in folk music? Was it someting you grew up with? or a taste that you developed?
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 12:12 AM It was all The Thistle & Shamrock, Riverdance, and them Clancy Boys what done it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jolly Date: 21 Sep 00 - 12:21 AM I grew up with it, I guess. But I'm hearing a lot more music here than I knew before- it's great! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Mbo Date: 21 Sep 00 - 12:27 AM BTW that all happened when I was 19 years old. January '98. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Carlin Date: 21 Sep 00 - 12:33 AM I discovered Thistle and Shamrock a couple of years ago....Fiona is my regularly scheduled Sunday night date...*G*
I used to be quite the little headbanger...started out playing bass in a garage band, playing Zeppelin and AC/DC..
But I always liked acoustic blues and drinking songs...my dad taught me a bunch of them when I was a little kid ('go sing that for your mother'....'EEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!!!'')
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 21 Sep 00 - 01:39 AM OK, I know it's late but I just got here and I'm thinking if we move those couches out of the way we could probably make room for 2 sets to dance plus room for musicians, maybe even 2 sets plus a half set. I was out of the rotation to play our weekly pick-up céilí and would love to play for dancers tonight. Maybe the High Cauled Cap to start off? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Lepus Rex Date: 21 Sep 00 - 02:05 AM Yeah, off the couches... I wanna lay down. Zzzzzz...... ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jock Morris Date: 21 Sep 00 - 03:57 AM Did someone mention a ceilidh? Woohoo!! Always up for a bit of dancing. I blame (thank) my parents for my love of folk music; they used to drag me and my siblings along to concerts by the Corries in Ayr town hall. I also remember at the age of five being taken to a ceilidh in a tin shack on Skye; hardly saw a soul during the week, but come the Saturday night hundreds of folk arrived out of nowhere and crammed into this tiny hall. Magic!! Good news, the barman's just found a bottle of 25 year old Ardbeg. Jock |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Tony in Sweden Date: 21 Sep 00 - 05:04 AM Jock, I'm sorry I missed the Lagavulin, although a wee tot of Ardbeg will do the trick. I'm sort of new here. I've been lurkin' about for 4-5 weeks now and wishing that I had found the site earlier (found it searching for the Northwest Passage Lyrics). Born and bred in Stra'ven, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Dragged to various folk clubs by older (10 yrs older) sister, as she was the folkie in the family. Lapped it up, but now that I'm living in Sweden I'm missing the folk scene very badly. Thank God for Mudcat! Just like to say thanks for having me, and barman, do you have any Bruichladdich 21 year old? T.C
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Airto Date: 21 Sep 00 - 05:36 AM That sounds like excellent news, Jock. And please let me congratulate you as well (about the Ardbeg, of course, not your engagement!). Robby, my recall of Dublin is starting to go a little hazy at times. I can't think of a Meehan's bar off hand, but there are several pharmacies that go by the name of Meehan. As you say yourself, it's quite a common surname. Thanks for reminding me of McMoo, Spaw, I'll give him a shout. Excuse me a minute while I slip out to the gents, it's time to heave and haul. Can you start another pint for me there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Fin Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:06 AM I'm afraid I'm so new here, I don't what to do, (where am I now when I need me?)My niece invited me to visit, telling me it was a great place, and I'm sure it will be when I figure out what to do. In this time zone I'm eleven hours behind everyone else so by the time I get here today , you're already in tomorrow. Makes for an interesting experience. I'd like to say Aloha to everyone and wish them a good night. I'll come back another time. I'd like to say a pecial Aloha to Morticia. Fin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Noreen Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:14 AM High Caul Cap over here, Rich- just enough space, and everyone knows what they're doing! That music's great. We'll get some of the newbies up for a set in a while if you've got enough polkas and slides (and I think bert wants to join in but he's a bit shy). Best exercise there is! Who's brave enough to ask 'Spaw up to dance? Maybe there's not enough space after all..... Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Noreen Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:26 AM Want to dance, Fin? Oh No- a friend of Morticia's! Never mind... 24hr Tavern here, you can't be eleven hours behind everyone else 'cos some of us are 5 hours ahead! Just drop in when you feel like, there's always someone around, but you can avoid them if you're careful. :0) Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Robby Date: 21 Sep 00 - 07:40 AM Faith and Begorrah!! It's almost 8:00 a.m. Have I spent the whole night here? Oh, but there'll be the divil to pay for this one. Still it was grand. I'll have to stop by again sometime. Speed bonny boat like a bird on the wing. Onward the sailors cry. Carry a lad born to be king Over the sea to Skye. HHHMMM. HhhMmm hmmmm.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: guinnesschik Date: 21 Sep 00 - 09:08 AM Who's cookin' breakfast? It's great with Guinness...(you won't have to eat again 'til dinner!) No takers? I think I'll step back into th' kitchen and see what we've got. Hey! Looks like toast and honey for all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jock Morris Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:05 AM Sorry, not that keen on honey. But I'm sure I spotted a jar of homemade raspberry jam in the cupboard. I'll help by cooking up some bacon butties for anyone who's feeling peckish. Reckon I could do with a strong black coffee as well after all that whisky:-) Jock |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:20 AM Spaw, "Get off your christly ass and...." Thank you SO MUCH, I'd forgot the way offa the damn pedestal again! LOL!!!!!!! The staff here at the Red Cross think I've gone bonkers at last, I am LOL so hard!!!! (wiping tears, adjusting clothing)... When I left work after creating this thread the other day, it had gotten zero posts... come on today and find 93!!!! Good Lord! Sorry not to have been here sooner! (I took yesterday off from work to sit on my c. a. and rest up for today, which promises to be a tough work day, and long.) I will be back with praisepoems as soon as I can. Party on, all! ~Susan PS, ALL my Taverns have RECLINERS!
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:20 AM Generally I just wolf down bacon at an alarming rate and I ain't never been one to "peck" at it. I also like my bacon from the belly, not the buttie.(:<)) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jon Freeman Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:32 AM I don't normally stop by the tavern but someone asked about craic in another thread and I thought I would just pop in and see what is was like here. It seems like I have missed out on some Guinness and my favourite scotch. Not to worry though - anyone care to join me in a glasss of Jamesons before I go on my way? Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:35 AM I will Jon....if you're buying. Come to think of it since we're both broke most of the time, I'll buy my own and you can save yours for the new folks. I'll buy a round too. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Jon Freeman Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:44 AM I'm never broke in cyberland so I will treat you. I am on my way now but I have left the landlord with enough money to pay for all the new folks and old folks to have a quadruple Jamesons on me. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Newcomers' Tavern From: Robby Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:44 AM Jon, I started that other thread. That said, I'd be happy to join you in a glass. Then fill [our] glasses high, Let's not part with lips a-dry, Though the lark now proclaims that it is dawn; And since we can't remain [but I'd like to] May we shortly meet again To fill another cruiscin lan. |