BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:30 PM

Yes, I am singing. Oh wait, you meant Elvis. Yes, the autographed painting of Elvis on black velvet, the one done in fluorescent paints and with the blacklight shining on it, is singing too.

I just kinda thought it was time for the blues in the night....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 06:54 PM

Oh dear...the autographed Elvis picture...is it the King himself singing? ...Blue veeeellllvet...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 06:40 PM

She peed bluuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeee urine,
Bluer urine was the night....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Tootler
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 05:29 PM

Blue urine is a symptom of porphyria wot George III had and wot sent him bonkers.

Anyone brought an instrument? we can have a session

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 05:23 PM

I'll contribute a batch of my famous blueberry muffins, keeping with this developing story line.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Amos
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:49 PM

Urine is blue, dilly dilly.
Urine is green.
Urine hot water, dilly dilly,
So says the Queen.
Trouble for you dilly dilly,
Trouble all through,
Urine trouble deep, little buddy,
For making things blue.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:18 PM

oh, sorry, that was me. . . a dyslexic, signing the blues. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:17 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 03:51 PM

Well I got up this morning.... Saw my piddle had turned blue.
Got up this morning.... saw my piddle had turned blue.
Got up at seven, but it was Six when I went to the loo...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:14 AM

Quietly, stealthily, Ninja-like, he puts methylene blue in all the liquor, beer, wine, water, and other liquids -- except the bottle he carries clutched to his bosom.

"This is time for the blues," he thinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:30 AM

In fact I do have some salmon, but it's in aspic-- well, I'll just lay it out on the buffet.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:12 AM

Fortunately for Mudcatters wandering in from the surrounding autumnal countryside, that jello won't do any harm, only turn the bath green for a little while in the warm water until it filters out of the hot tub's circulating water.

The aquarium, now moved out back behind the bar, await's the arrival of it's squid guest. Hopefully that is the last appearance of jello for a while. . .

Anyone have any salmon?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: leeneia
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:56 AM

To the festivities i contribute the only cheerful song about autumn that I know:

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Goldenrod and asters, all your hands can hold!
September wears a party dress of lavender and gold.

(I learned it at age 6.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:29 AM

Of course, if it's a festival, there won't be need for so many recliners to clutter up the place-- because with the crisp, cool weather, we'll be dancing instead. [sets out chair for anticipated short breaks]

Sloe dancing, for me-- let's go, Mmario!

It's also that time of year when aqua-jogging moves indoors. I believe I hear a couple of earth-movers coming, and the builders behind them. I've said for years I needed an indoor pool on the preimses-- it took Liz's excellent thread to see it could be right here! [waterproofing the break-chair]

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:20 AM

...one bottle of pop, two bottles of pop....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:10 AM

Hey, as we say back home, you buy a round, I'll buy a round.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,MAG at public terminal
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:04 AM

She slinks in, duct-taped song books in hand, and quietly polls the singers to see who is up for some rounds ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:51 AM

Us fellers from The West don't drink slo. We jist pour it on down! Gimme a Tom & Jerry, barkeep -- it's cold out here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Morticia
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:23 AM

It was a particularly fine crop of sloes this year. Anyone want any of last year's before I start on the next batch?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:07 AM

......and the squid sneaks in, puts nine packages of lime jello into the sunken bath, and slinks back out again......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 07:55 AM

Is it Sloe Crop Monday? already! How time flies! Seems it was just last week when I was bottling last years....ah well , time to haul out the ought-five Sloe Gin.

Subject: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:59 AM

Bert's card is still holding good, there's a tinge of Autumn in the air and I'm bored rigid already today... so let's open up this tavern again and celebrate the Equinox - Vernal or Autumnal, depending on your hemisphere - Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, 82 days til Christmas, Sloe crop or harvest festival....

The Tavern has been refitted since that terrible accident over Bank Holiday.... you'd think the clientele here would know not to do that with the squid..... the jello pit has been remodelled into a classy sunken bath, complete with jacuzzi fittings again, bubble bath on tap and muscle rub lotion on the side. There's a comfy little nook by the fireplace, just right for Seamus and the Captain (chains provided) and a lovely selection of rustic tables and comfy chairs for the singers. Thanks to the explosion, there's a new roof with better accoustics over the players area, and just behind the settle there is the storage unit for banjos. It leads directly round to the fireplace so they'll be kept nice and warm for you.....

There's an improvement in the bathrooms too.... The stalls are that little bit wider so you don't bang your elbows, they're made of that write on/wipe off stuff so the grafitti won't get stale (please use pens provided) and the fire extinguishers now work. I did try and get some of those scent squirters that make it smell nice in there, but it seems that urinals come with that 'cowpat fresh' smell already built in. Ah well, at least the HazMat team survived. Mostly...

So... pull yourself a beer, settle in a chair and get ready to celebrate Michaelmas.

Cheers!

LTS