BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:37 PM

The spirit speaks truly....

remember when the tavern went to sea?

and the cruise down the mississippi?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:38 PM

bad echo in here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:38 PM

Splash some water from the hot tub on anyone who needs cleaning up, don't poke them back in the padded room! Whew! Leo, I hope you're feeling better now.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:45 PM

I'm heading off for Toronto for the weekend in the morning - I'se happy as a pig in clover!

shall we just say it was not the best week in the world. things crappy at home, at work AND on the 'cat. I coulda used NYCFTTS. I almost signed up for a correspondence course from the WSSOBA++

*shudder*

something I would never even contemplate under normal circumstances.

++ William Shatner School Of Bad Acting

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:49 PM

The Spirit is reeling weirdly, now, with memories. He almost drops to the floor under the weight of JenEllen's Christmas Tavern '02. "Damn thing was still open for business in March '03! Hm, that one had a Stray Cat, too........ better polish a few bowls, too"

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:53 PM

Hey, Leo, I won't be hanging around after this evening either-- if I sober up enough to Saturday church and/or The Sugar Dog leads me there. She HATES to do duty as a guide dog, but whaddayagonnado? So who will you leave in charge? And psssssssssst-- don'tcha think Bert dear would want Naemanson to have his credit card????

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:54 PM

I believe I am confused. MMario is the two guests in the padded room and WYSIWYG wants me to relax so much that she keeps repeating herself into a nervous fit. Relax? OK anudder jd and holed theyice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:05 PM

I am all FOUR guests from the padded room. (There's enough of me to make four guests,*sigh*)

I am NOT the guest from the privy source.

I strongly believe in the "self serve buffet" style of management - I Know it's not in the best tradition of mudcat Tavern barkeeping - but since the patrons usually manage to trash the place sooner or later it helps deny responsibility. (something else I'm big on.)

So - is it the hot tub on the left and the jello pit on the right or vice versa?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:13 PM

Naemanson could borrow the card, but it must live here at the tavern or we'd all have to start paying for our own drinks and food! Shudder at that thought!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:16 PM

God help us if Bert ever cancels the card! or remembers where he left it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 04:04 PM

Four play in the padded cell eh!
Hey Leadfingers when you going to stop playing that frying pan? I'm starving. Barkeep can I have a bag of pork scratchings, and a packet of hedgehog crisps till my fry up arrives?
Unnoticed in the background Nurse Ratched slips in with her Tasmanian Devil.
Giok

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

SINSULL is seeing double-- I only double-posted once (I think).... I say she qualifies to mind the joint in our absence then! I'm all for guests in the padded room, too, or loose for that matter, loose guests are a GOOD idea......

And WHERE are things-- sillies! Can't you remember ANYthing? That's an easy one. Whoever goes there first describes where it IS! Duh! Describe yourself there if you care where it is! :~)

Here, I have hold of a bottle of the vile black stuff-- hold your glasses steady enough to catch a bit....

Let's see (rummaging in fridge, ew, lots of moldy bits), it's Friday late afternoon, so now we need bar snacks and appetizers. What shall we make? (I think I made a crockpot once.) Hardi says the Brie I served him a few nights ago is actually Camembert so that's off... Caitrin's not here to make brownies...

SRS, here, sprinkle a little sage on the moldy bits to purify them there, that's nice....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Don Firth
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:25 PM

He steps in quietly, unnoticed, and looks about him. He wears a long black cloak with a hood, which he removes and hangs on the a peg on the wall beside the door, revealing that he is dressed in doublet and hose, also black. Around his neck is a simple silver chain with a small pendant. Engraved thereon are the two classic masks: comedy and tragedy. Cleverly intertwined in the engraving is the lyre of Orpheus.

His jaw is firm and his nose is aquiline, but the upper part of his face is obscured by a black domino mask. His eyes, visible through the eye-holes in the mask, are dark, sharp, and ever searching. A slender but deadly-looking small-sword hangs at his side. The hilts of such swords, as worn by nobles and aristocrats, are often gold-bedecked and ornately jeweled, but the grip of this one is unadorned and obviously functional. Nevertheless, he does carry himself with an aristocratic bearing.

Slung across his back is a small guitar. Because of this, some might think that he is Figaro, but they would be mistaken. He is, however, closely related in spirit.

He swings the guitar off his back, sits down.   Reaching into the pouch at his belt, he removes his Intellitouch electronic tuner, clips it to the headstock of the guitar, and turns it on. Others are playing and he does not wish to disturb them, so he plays harmonics very softly and lightly, checks the tuner, makes a few adjustments. Satisfied, he turns the tuner off and returns it to his belt.

He quietly indicates his desire for a glass of red wine. He sits, observes, listens, and waits. Around his lips, a smile plays.

He was born with a gift for laughter and a sense that the world is mad.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:35 PM

Wafting up from between two loose floorboards, a tawny creature materializes and takes solid form. With a low, throaty giggle, The Sugar Dog (for she it is) slinks behind the TWEED'S-NOT-A-WEENIE JUKEBOX in the corner. It lights up, sparkling and showing a series of Donuel's painting on it's view-screen. She gives it a quick flick and it begins to play.

Moving to the timeless beat, she sits at the feet of the mysterious man with the Intellitouch Tuner, and looks up expectantly with a slight shimmy threatening to wag her tail. She's seen him before, tho not in this garb. "But," she's thinkin', "yuh knows cain't hardly fool a sugar dog, nohow."

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:39 PM

Hey, Bill, that's OK-- in fact that reminds me, hm, 'people leaving.....'

Let's toast those who have left. I'll start-- (pouring) "May we meet again, and may your way be always clear-- To Rick Fielding!"

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:45 PM

"yeehah!" he quietly screams. "To Rick Fielding and to all the others! Ya know they got a helluva band."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:04 PM

In a normal voice, a well-modulated, sexy baritone that made the women swoon and the men jealous, he said, "A toast. A toast to bread. Pita, challah, yeast, quick, Irish soda, zuccini, raisin, sourdought, whole wheat, bagels, biscuits, fococcia, chop block, cheese, potato, salt rising, hardtack, pilot biscuits, beaten biscuits, sally lunn, Parkerhouse rolls, dinner rolls, kaiser rolls, baguettes, and all the rest! The staff and stuff of life! A toast to toast!"

And he raised his glass.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:08 PM

Then off he went, with a thunder of hooves, and a loud Hi-yo Silver.
A bystander said 'Who was that masked man'?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern,Grill and Flame Bunker
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:24 PM

Well, that took a while to sort out - wait 'til I get hold of that Ellenpoly - it'll be the jello pit for her for sure.

Those pork scratchings look good - if I can't have my lobster I'll have a pack of those please, another glass of wine and some alcohol for the gouges on my leg - EP - you're in REAL trouble this time! I think Seamus may be doing the job for me, last seen chasing Ellenpoly way down the road.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:28 PM

A hot tub?? There's a hot tub in here?? Stand back, everybody- disgression is the better part of boredom- I'm diving in! (after carefully placing the 'tina back in its case and hiding it behind the bar in a faint fond hope that it will be safe there)

Somebody hand me a Virgin Strawberry Frozen Daiquiri, stat!

O Masked Man, it's nice in here... care to join me? Just keep the animals out of it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:30 PM

And a nearby woman states in wonder "I don't know. But he left behind a silver plectrum." And I hear him in the distance shouting "Diddly diddly diddly"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:48 PM

Animaterra, Wait! It's too hot to use as a hot tub yet! We cooked a few lobsters out there and are letting it cool before letting folks soak. . .what? You don't believe me? (Just kidding--Mmario set up a pot to cook a lobster for Jacqui--he was muttering something about her sudden bizarre preference for crusty things from Maine. . . )

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 08:25 PM

Oh Alison, red is definitely not your color. Hop out and we will cool you off in the Jello pit. Green and red! Very festive. The Masked Man is gone. The Jello is spiked with vodka. Have a little snack and I will fetch some salve.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 08:50 PM

*staggering in after 8 hours getting "the kid" into a college dorm room and buying books..*shudder*....it's a good thing Bert's credit card is still working. Did you know that one math book can cost $112? At just under $400, I gather we got off easy.

*Reaching behind the bar and helping myself to a nice Redhook ESB Ale, and settling back in the promised recliner*....Ok, Susan, I'll be around, slightly potted, but available..*grin* (I suppose you WILL be busy till late tomorrow)....

I was reminded of a song today, as I meandered around a college campus for the first time in ages..."Silver in the Stubble"

    "For the leaves are getting greener,
    And spring is on the way;
    Girls are getting prettier
    And younger every day."

...'nuff said

mercy...here I am--in a recliner, and not even WANTING to take a VT trip to the jello pit with 3 or 4 cute coeds. But I will take one more ESB while I contemplate the aging process...

(oh, Susan! Thanks for that link to the radio station!...I have Media Player Classic soothing me with blues and gospel...etc...as I type)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: artbrooks
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 09:50 PM

Guiness in a tanker, eh? Must be that vile stuff they import for us Yanks. Could I have an Arrogant Bastard Ale, please? About a quart would be ok for starters. Hey Rapaire...got any more of those peanuts? And is the lime jello set in the pool yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 10:48 PM

(hi Bill)

Gotta go now!

:~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MAG
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 12:58 AM

Ah, a Tavern: good.

Bad week all around? I realized I just got in from my THIRD movie this week. and had to leave an open mike last night; too sick to sing. I know I'm having a bad week when all that happens. Being a Virgo, however, I don't go for this retrograde Mercury stuff.

Lessee, I've got a   sack of homegrown tomatoes, homegrown basil to put on 'em, (regular, not that vile lemon basil) -- here is fresh mozzarella to slice and olive oil to dribble.

A BIG glassa water, ah, I see the cooler is over here.

I've got my new Sing Out! with the CD sampler here, and a new CD was in my PO Box today: *You Can't Save Everybody" -- and here are the 2 I got last Monday and haven't played yet. (and I wonder why I resort to plastic a week before payday.)

Yep, I've been better, and I've been worse ... this place is a comfort, though ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 02:40 AM

After having finally given Seamus the slip, by presenting him with a tantalizing bone, still covered in meat (so sorry, but another 'catter who seemed to be wearing some kind of mask-walked out of the tavern at an opportune time and Ellenpoly just yelled-"that varmint sings off key-SIC EM"), and then ducked back into the tavern.

Uh oh, there's jacqui mighty cross with the look of "jello pit for you, gal" in her eyes. Ellenpoly wipes the last vestages of melted butter and lobster claw from her chin, makes a dash for the bar, and orders a drink for everyone in the house.

How she'll pay for it, she doesn't know. Can she do a trade?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 07:16 AM

Not to worry, Sins, I like it lobster-hot! But the jello pit will feel mighty soothing in a few minutes...

MAG, your fixings sound pretty tempting. Barkeep, can we hot up the grill and rustle up some flatbread to go with it?

I'm feeling relaxed and MUCH better now- I feel like a song- join me on the chorus to The Chocolate song
When you're feeling down, the best way up is chocolate...

Hey, where'd that masked man go? He was kinda cute!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 10:33 AM

Dozed off in the booth (NO! I do not snore!) and woke up in bed with a big yellow lab sound asleep on the floor. Wonder what he's been up to? At least he's back. I'd be in big trouble if I lost him. He has what appears to be a T-Rex thigh bone. Nasty thing. I'll toss it when his back is turned.

Someone frying bacon? It smells wonderful. I'll scramble some eggs - a dozen or two. Still some fresh tomatoes and basil on the bar. This will be nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 04:23 PM

Ellenpoly, put the drinks on Bert's credit card.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MaineDog
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 07:33 PM

The Dog slinks in, unsure of his new environment, following a scent that is getting old, but is still strong. He sits in the back and orders an ale while he considers the situation. Are the trad police here, or the PC police, or the hair trigger flame throwers? No? Does he dare reach into his sleeve for his instrument? Does it have too many holes, or too few octaves, or too true a scale? Would a few times thru Margaret's Waltz, or Juice of Barley, be received or rejected? What about the Braes of Mar, or maybe Big John? The ale arrives, and the mood improves. I try a few tunes, and the reception is mixed: Who are you, what are you, do you have consistent liberal opinions? Well, no. -- That will not do. -- My opinions do not need to be consistent to be valid. Another ale, another tune, may fix things up. I cannot tell where the scent leads from here-- I'll have to come back another time, its now time to go dancing. ( Dog slinks out )

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 10:09 PM

Was that Seamus? Kendall will have a fit if he finds out I have been giving him ale.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 10:21 PM

Got lots of peanuts. Need 'em for reloading. Never kin tell when some baddy is gonna draw down on ya and you have ta whip out yer shootin' iron and offer him a peanut.

Real hard to keep mad iffen yer sharin' peanuts together.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 12:11 AM

A goober by any other name would sound like something that didn't come out of yer nose.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 04:09 AM

The tune has changed, it is now more up tempo, and somewhere in the background MMario can be heard singing, 'Goodness how delicious, eating Goober Peas'. Okay folks at the end of this, segue into 'When Johnny Comes marching Home' Nothing like a few marching songs to get your thirst up.
Don't put your drinks on the floor beside your chair, that cat's back again, and you know she likes drinking. Before you know it she'll be climbing the curtains.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 04:16 AM

Mmmmm Scrambled egg and bacon. Lovely stuff. Now let me get back to that comfy chair - oh, Ellenpoly's got it, out you go, find a bit of floor and just be grateful that's all I do after your disgraceful behaviour earlier.

Where have all these peanuts come from? Ah well, useful ammunition in case that dratted cat tries anything again.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 10:40 AM

Place is damn quiet for a Sunday morning. Folks sure left a helluva MESS, though-- never saw so many loose ends! People coming but not going, people answering people who've left, people writing dialog for characters they didn't create.... tsk tsk!

Dunno whether to clean it up or FUGGeddabouddit!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: GUEST,GUEST, Licentious Lurker
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 07:37 PM

I have one importatn thing to add here.

WILLIA---(Urk! Gahk! Mmmmf!!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MMario
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 09:18 AM

good lord - no wonder I was hoarse this weekend - I was sleep singing!!!!!

Wonderful weekend spent in 1565 or so....hobnobbing with royals - Eric from Sweden, the Dauphin, Ivan in from Russia - all panting after Good Queen Bess -

I'm glad I'm a peasant - they all huddled under rooves in the rain - while I enjoyed a nice soft rain

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 09:45 AM

Poteen, please, barkeep. Or white lightnin'. Whichever you have handy.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:19 AM

Bartender, turn up the lights please--I know you're all here, I can hear you breathing, but I can't see your faces. It's like we're all suddenly anonymous. . . (someone give Max a nudge and a nice cuppa coffee there in the back office--I bet he fell asleep over the keyboard).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: MMario
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:28 AM

The lights are burning brightly sir and everything is well

but...

There are none so blind as those who will not see

*grin* Not that I think that normally applies to Stilly.

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:34 AM

Ooooooo--okay, you can turn them back down now. Maybe we all wandered into the coat closet for a few minutes. Thanks, Mmario!

Nice day, good one to do a big roast and have a fine meal, don't you think? Want to try another of your famous aurochs, MMario? I thought the velociraptor was a bit too stringy, even after you marinated it. Any thoughts?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 12:12 PM

Southern fried archeopteryx! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, yummy! With steamed and buttered fiddleheads (the plant, not the instrument part).

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 04:38 PM

How about devilled cat to start? I know where we can find one, and it's full of lobster.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 11:09 PM

Ooooo--you reminded me---I have to run home for a few minutes and make some deviled eggs for Moonglow. These were one of her birthday requests (16 today!). But NO DEVILLED CATS, PLEASE!!! You'll never get the hair out of the filling and it does not go well with mustard, no matter how much paprika you sprinkle on top.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 11:14 PM

BTW--don't try to eat the ducks around here, either. It becomes colossally messy any time someone tries it.

Time for a rousing chorus of "The Cat Came Back"?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Matt_R
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 12:43 AM

MY CHAIR JUST BROKE!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern, Grill and Flame Bunker
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 12:50 AM

Matt, I'm sorry about that. Remember last year when the velociraptors got in here (before they tragically became roadkill down the road a little way from the Mudcat Tavern)? They swished those claws and tails and gnashed a few chairs--I'm afraid yours might have been one of those. Rest assured we don't let velociraptors in any more, and there has been a strong movement to ban anything with a prehensile tail as well. Anyway. Find yourself a seat over on the lounge chairs near Jacqui and WYSIWYG (but maybe you want to go rinse your food off of the front of your shirt and pants first?). Whoa---wait--that crazy cat is back. She'll have you cleaned up in no time. . .