BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 07:09 PM

Kendall isn't a burnt lemon....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MMario
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 04:46 PM

Someone's toasting kendall? It that what's making the burnt lemon smell?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MAG
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 04:42 PM

That is SUCH good news, Jacqui. Let me propose a toast to himself's good health.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 02:20 PM

Champagne all round please - on Bert's card, and even for the cats. Kendall got the results of his CAT scan and the cancer hasn't grown or spread. Now it looks like laser treatment will deal with the problem. This is one very relieved bunny, believe me!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MAG
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 01:23 PM

The silver haired information maven sidles in from the Northwest, tired of the thankless battle with weeds in the rose garden. She has brought a pound of ctnip, the kind you buy in bulk at the bag-it-yourself   market. Over her, she lays out lots of newspaper and sets out several little piles of it so that each kitty can have its own pile and not hog them all. There! that will mellow them out plenty.

Here is a sack of these roma tomatoes, which were SUPPOSED to be early cascades. (snarl! snarl! no more buying tomato starts from Freddie's.)

Now that the visit back East to see the aged parents is over, things are on the up.

Anybody want a TON of evening primrose seed? or newly divided irises?

Oh yeah, the guiness will be just fine. I have to sip it slowly.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 09:52 PM

Yes, I think BBB has retired.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 09:43 PM

Thanks, Susan. It was a day for soul-searching. It's amazing what makes it onto search engines, and how intent can be trumped by circumstance.

I'm glad the thread hasn't vanished--some of those ketchup recipes look mighty tempting!

The lady with the tray will have to chill out for a while, I think. I introduced her, independent of the name thing, because I was being silly and looking for someone we could send back behind the bar to help out on occasion to rattle MMario's cage (or to extricate people from the fixes we sometimes generate in cyberspace). Who knew the fix she'd be in.

Live and learn.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:17 PM

Thanks, Joe. I did not want to post and bring the thread back to the top until you had taken some action but this has been in my thoughts all day, since opening SRS's PM telling me what had happened, and how she was addressing it.

I deeply regret my complete thoughtlessness in this matter, and I appreciate that SRS was on hand to address it promptly and tactfully.

I'd also like to emphasize that it is not SRS's fault she was drawn into this. In my thoughtlessness, I had confused one deceased person with another I had just read about, and I "reassured" SRS that what we were doing was all right. It wasn't-- no matter who Bonka was or what the circumstances of her passing were, or whether she had family or not. It was just wrong, and again, I apologize.

Anyone wishing to communicate with me privately about this can email me at [e-mail].

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 06:57 PM

I altered Bonka's surname so she can sleep in peace.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Bonka B. Bonka
From: GUEST,A Family Member
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 09:10 PM

In response to recent posts on this website making light of a very real tragedy, I ask that you please refrain from carrying on with the use of Bonka's name for pleasure.

Bonka was a professional and part of my family. Not only will she be missed by students, colleagues, and friends but forever by her family.

As you can imagine when the family was made aware that this website and those who post on it were creating her into a "character" not only did it anger us, but made us feel as if you were using her name in vain.

PLEASE, PLEASE stop as we continue to mourn her loss.

KIND REGARDS,
her family.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 07:23 PM

He stretches, yawns, and awakens. Hmmm...someone was sharing the quilts and there is an awful odor of burnt lemon.

They'll never get that odor out of here!

"A fogcutter, please" he calls to the barwench, "I think I'm still asleep. There simply can't be a gorgeous,leggy blond in a skimpy Santa outfit sitting there watching over me."

At least, he thinks, I wasn't robbed of my Virtue or Pearl of Great Price or my Innocence whilst I was snoozing. I don't mind sharing my quilt, but I'll be damned if I'll share more than that without my consent!

"Is it possible to get some breakfast, too? Perhaps an omelet?" he asks hesitantly.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 08:51 PM

Oh dear! Killed another thread...sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 02:24 PM

Why is MMario snuggled up tight to Rapaire? Doesn't he have ketchup simmering on the stove? If that lemon mess boils over and burns we'll never get the smell out of here.

Think I'll just sit here with a glass of champagne by the West door and see what happens when Rapaire wakes up.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 09:05 AM

Ah, he dreams, the gentle rain of Talisker from heaven. Delivered by a scantily clad, leggy blond in boots and furs, fortunately unlike those fantasized by Sacher-Masoch. Such a wonderful place. He dreams up a warm quilt in which to wrap himself, the pattern a combination of Pine Trees, Drunkard's Path, and a large and small Log Cabin (with the Mudcat logo in the center of the larger one) and realizes that it is called "Little Mudcat Tavern In The Big Woods (With The Little House Outback)."

Curled up, Taliskered, nourished in body and soul, wrapped in a warm quilt, cared for by beautiful women, he sleeps on, dreaming of riposte and remise and victories yet to come on the piste.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 08:13 AM

MBSLynne yawns and looks at her watch "Good grief! I've been in this Tavern for THREE WEEKS!!! Time I went home and got on with some work. Besides, that Bonka B. Bonka is just too much competition!. Might look in later guys...." She weaves her way, somewhat unsteadily to the door. But which door is it? What will she find on the other side????.........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:03 PM

Jacqui, here's your soup! I think Bonka is pouring the drinks this evening.

Bonka, a champagne punch for Jacqui, here, please! Thank you so much!.

Bonka delivers the drinks quickly and very cheerfully with her silver salver, sharing a wink and a nod with the women (interpreted one way) and a wink and a nod for the men (perhaps interpreted somewhat differently). To save time, she has tucked Bert's credit card into the top of her black boot, since it won't fit into the bodice of her form-fitting red outfit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 08:34 PM

A blonde in festive, skimpy Christmas garb saunters over to the recliner, and with one long black boot tips the occupant full back.

His jaw drops open as the visual and kinetic impact land simultaneously.

She whips an open bottle of Talisker off her silver salver, upturning it in one smooth movement above his gaping maw. The sound of gurgling is heard.... and then humming emanates from the kitchen.

"Ketchup chaser, dope!" says the blonde, and yes, it is our own Bonka B. Bonka, having her way with another man as is her wont.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:48 PM

He stumbles in, way short on sleep and way behind in his work after two weeks on a cruise.

"Please, please," he begs, "Talisker. A lot of Talisker. Without ketchup or catsup."

Then, to no one in particular, he says, "Water, water, everywhere and all the boats did stop. I'm one of very few people who ever went on a cruise that came to an end because there was too much water around the boat."

And he weaves his weary way to chair and collapses into it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:05 PM

ANYTHING with champagne in it gets my vote Tinker. And I'll definitely take some of the chicken soup please SRS. What a lovely place!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,mmARIO
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:32 PM

This looks tangy

Lemon Catchup

15 large lemons (cut in 1/4's; remove visible seeds)
4 tbsp. mustard seed
2 tsp. turmeric
1 tbsp. white pepper
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 cups sugar
2 tbsp. prepared grated horseradish
2 cups chopped onion
2 tbsp. salt

Grind all ingredients together.
let sit, covered 3 hours in a cool place
bring to a boil, simmmer 30 minutes. cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:18 PM

Check out the new thread I just started about that, T....

BLICK!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Teresa
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:14 PM

As long as it contains alcohol ...

T

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Teresa
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:12 PM

Well, that depends, Susan. :)

er, um, er, I mean, no, I think not. It's just that there's no other way to go.

:)

T

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:11 PM

We need cantaloupe catsup too-- soon they'll be practically giving them away..... wonderful cut up and forzen for winter fruit, but maybe good for catsup too..... for chicken...

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMmmmmmario
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:08 PM

hmmm - just found this recipe...

Blueberry Catsup

5 c Fresh Blueberries
1 c Sugar
1 tb Fresh Lemon Juice
1 ts Ground Cinnamon
1/2 ts Ground Cloves
1 ts Fresh Ground Black Pepper
1/2 ts Salt -- Or To Taste
3/4 c Vinegar

combine and simmer until thick.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:06 PM

you may reach the end of the Internet and wind up ...back here.

That's a bad thing?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Teresa
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:50 AM

Was it in one of those other tavern threads that I discovered that the end of the Internet was in newfoundland? Darn, that particular site is gone, and now there seem to be many portals to the end. I googled them. Ok, so I have a lot of time on my hands. So be careful; it's possible you may reach the end of the Internet and wind up ...

...

back here.

shades of Douglas Adams.

T

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:46 AM

I'm just babeling - no response necessary.

BTW - don't disturb those kegs in the pantry. I'm making Walnut Catsup, Mushroom ketchup, and grape katsup. And some pickled green tomatoes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:32 AM

Mmario, how can anyone reply to that without looking at the old Taverns????? I was IN some of them and I'm still not sure how to respond to yor post :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Tinker
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:18 AM

Jacqui, go check out the table near the bar. I'm experimenting with champagne punch receipes. You can try them out and decide which you like best. Since it's still morning here, I figured we'd start with one that added orange juice to revitalize you after your long week. MMario sent it to me and I figure we'll finish it off here. Of course we could simply get the good stuff and drink it straight....

tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:12 AM

I still maintain that it isn't so much that the Tavern itself travels - but that ACCESS to it travels - though the point does seem moot. The Tavern Proper seems to exist in a multidimensional sub-space warp between universes.

The front door certainly appears to exist in multiple locations - though some of the other doors seem relatively stable. (Except the one labeled "Do Not Open" - that one opens onto 'Spaw's worst nightmares)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:00 AM

SRS, yes, I HIGHLY recommend reading some of the old Tavern threads before we launch a new one, especially the ones I gave links to, at the start of this one.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Teresa
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 10:42 AM

squeaaaaaak!!! :D

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 10:12 AM

Jacqui I have some friends who retired and are moving to Wales from Texas. They sold a lot of stuff and are moving select belongings over now. I don't envy you the task--they worked on this whole process for months! Kick back for a few minutes and I'll take a little of my special home-made chicken soup stock out of the freezer back here. Let's see if MMario can whip up something real special for you. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:53 AM

I'm back in again - the last week has been a little traumatic, topped off by it taking 22 hours airport to airport to get back from Maine at the weekend.

I need a little time for R & R before I start on the major task of taking my home apart and working out what stuff will be taken with me when I move.

A nice bottle of Chardonay and some chicken soup is on order today - the bat can stay - I think it's cute.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:55 PM

Things seem to be winding down again. But the setup is pretty good--the patio has the jello pit and the shower, the recovery ward is reachable through that coat closet down the hall (I'm sure there are external heaters for winter users), the trap door in the ceiling was noticed and the rafters are all ready for a very tall christmas/yule tree. I'm sure MMario left a lot of good food in the freezer back there. Maybe we can do a Halloween shindig? I should have a batch of smoked salmon to bring over by then. And Susan tells us that the Tavern used to travel. Hmmmm. . . great potential here!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:20 AM

MBS Lynne staggers in, weighed down by a large load of elderberry wine.
"Everyone have a glass or two, or more, of this...it's the best thing to ward off cold germs, and even if it doesn't work, you won't notice the cold until it's gone!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 08:48 PM

AAAAACHOOOO!!!!!!! Sorry - caught a cold. Maybe the Jello Pit should be off limits until the alcohol kills off the germs. Really sorry...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Teresa
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 12:39 AM

eeeee-aaaa-aaaa-yyyiiii, don't scare me like that ... hey!!!!

A bat's gotta keep busy doing something up here ... can't always fly to get out of a scrape.

ah well, it was time for me to look alert anyway ... what was all that about pirates?

T

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 12:33 AM

On the tag end of "talk like a pirate day," that pirate ought to get the attention of anyone within 100 yards of the jello pit. (It looks like you found a lot at that site!)

Quick--someone do the Tarzan yell as she swings in from the rafters (funny, I never saw that little trap door in the ceiling before!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 10:55 PM

Don't bite it THIS HARD!

Or I'll have to call MAX and ask him to send over Nurse Ratched!

Better yet, use
THIS on it and get back to SWINGIN' in and out of the jello pit!

Oh-- BTW-- I found out why the BARTENDER's been so quiet-- I sure hope he recovers before Halloween!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 10:34 PM

I'm biting my tongue. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 10:22 PM

I went back to see Bonka one more time before bed and realized-- hey.... that gaslight she's curled around looks JUST LIKE the gaslights on WELLSBORO's main drag-- and Bonka does indeed spring from the pages of the WELLSBORO GAZETTE!!!

Now, a big, BIG thing here is GOLF PACKAGES, where we bring in tourists with big bucks to fill up the local HOTELs with high rollers from the flatlands.

So I took another look to see Bonka's new neighborhood, and-- Oh no! Tomorrow is Talk Like a Golfer Day!

I bet our Bonka invited all those golfing boyfriends here to the Tavern. Oh well! Let's not tell 'em Bert's buying-- we can soak 'em for a wad for the Mudcat.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 10:05 PM

Naw, Silly, that's Bonka's Black Book. Uh-oh-- I'm gonna have to give her an entire brain wipe once this Tavern closes! Say, she's a bonnie babe, isn't she? And brawny, too. I suspect she waxes that face every now and then.

As for the wine, I didn't see it, but is that a baritone burp coming from the bunker?!

I also didn't see her bloomers, but then that's what the barberpole's for.

Mmario! Got a bawdy barbershop ballad for Bonka?   Quick! Before the pirates try to bundle her off!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 09:38 PM

What's that Bonka has in her other hand, a book? Perhaps it's an old edition of Sing Out or a classic collection of folk song words? And the wine she's balancing--I bet it's that nice bottle of Riesling-Qualitätswein behind the bar earlier.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 09:20 PM

Ohhhhhh. I am tired, Spent last night babysitting twin infant boys who took turns staying awake all night. I think I got three hours sleep total. Bottles and diapers, diapers and bottles. And one had to be held or he MWAHH MWAHHED. My back is about to give out. Hmm - Jello Shot pit is empty. Maybe I will slog around in there for a while. When the bartender gets his eyes back in his head, have him deliver a bottle of JD and a glass full of ice to the pit but only when he's finished drooling. So Banka's in the Bunker...how fitting.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 08:38 PM

The bartender might know--who's working back there tonight?

A splashing sound is heard as the inhabitants of the jello pit slog slowly out of the green goo and stand under the shower. They're about to enter, stage left. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:39 PM

I was wondering that myself. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:10 PM

Oh, okay! Say, that's not Bonka over there with the Silver Salver, is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 03:50 PM

An attractive blond in a skimpy red dress walks tentatively into the tavern. The bartender's head pops up and the room silences as she speaks: I'm looking for the 2004 Secret Santa thread, and I need a bottle of wine to put on my silver salver. Can you help me, please?