BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:21 AM

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No gnus is good news.










I'll get me coat.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:20 AM

They are doing a special sweep, bedecked with flowers...


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GNUs and ROSES

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:12 AM

I don't care.. I'm just sitting here chuggling to myself (that's sort of a giggly chuckle or a chuckly snigger....) because I know who's got which Santa... hee hee hur hur!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 06 - 01:32 PM

Wildebeest? We're having swarms of wildebeest?

That's gnus to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 04:01 PM

I've got Wildebeest down for 10.45 on my programme, that is, if the puffins have finished their "Puffin Pyramid" routine on time.
By the way, it might be a good idea to get the bunting inside before they sweep them down.

Oh, and put a pint in the pump for Giok.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 03:48 PM

Baaasiiiil!......... And when can we expect the herds of wildebeasts sweeping majestically across the plain?

Speaking of wildebeasts, having watched "The Wild" yesterday, I'll never look at William Schatner the same way again.......

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 03:46 PM

Fill another flagon! And give ten to that guy over in the corner!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 03:11 PM

Happy St Basil's day!

Or was that Dennis?


Ah what the hell....

Happy Gioks' Birthday!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 06:05 AM

Not forgetting Trafalgar Day of course. My Spanish cousin El Squiddo still speaks of it in hushed tones, but then he does have laryngitis.
No need for the green paint art, I have my own, but I prefer lemon to pine in the disinfectant stakes.

Now, there's a man's drink - Pusser's Rum with a dash of Dettol!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 04:28 AM

No Christmas stuff until after Samhain.... this is an Equinoctal tavern, not a Solstice one....

Besides, there's Hunters Moon (the next full moon), Hallowe'en and the Battle of Hastings to go yet!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:31 PM

O Architeuthis, O Architeuthis, wie grün sind dei-ne Blätter.
O Architeuthis, O Architeuthis, wie grün sind dei-ne Blätter....

I dunno....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 07:30 PM

I thought we were going to spray the squid with green paint and pinesol?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 07:22 PM

When are we going to open the presents and decorate the tree and stuff?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:25 PM

No.. but I've had rather a lot of red wine and I have to work tomorrow!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:21 PM

A glass of water, Liz? You sick?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:03 PM

Wanna bet? I have the directional talents of a stunned weasel... besides, I'm sitting here in the chair with a long glass of water....

Not iced water, seems the radiator didn't like being flushed.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 05:04 PM

Well, I learned to call the folks who live here neither "Spud Duds" nor "Idahoers."

And this place is not really secret: it's between Utah and Alberta and Wyoming and Montana and Oregon and Washington, with a tad of Nevada peeking in from the South. Actually, if you head straight West from Butte, Montana you can't miss it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 04:45 PM

Would that be a 'secret Idaho'?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 03:31 PM

'Cause he lives there?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:35 AM

Why Eydahoo?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 09:53 AM

Pooh, Squiddy. Take a tip from the whales: flip the boats over! But do watch out for the marine biologists, as they are simply odd and absent-minded sorts.

Me, I'm going to go home today and have some Redbreast ("The Priest's Whisky") or, perhaps, some Moose Drool. Or both. I call it "A Drooling Priest" or maybe "A Holy Moose." ("Holy Moose, Batman! Did you see what the Pope is wearing instead of his usual hat?")

My work here in SLC is done for the moment. So I will bid Auf Wiedersein to the city by the lake and head North to Idaho.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 09:20 AM

Wow.... I got 100 and I didn't even notice!!

Shows my mind was busy elsewhere.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:19 AM

Hope you were all out celebrating the Harvest Moon last night... didn't see much of it here, it was pissing down. Still.... the corn is in the barns, the hay is in the loft, the sloes are in the gin and the cat is on the dryer.

We're spending the day in an industrial fashion, preparing our radiators for use - so hopefully tomorrow night we'll be warm. In the meantime, there's the last of the 2yr old sloe gin to be ingested, so save me a chair by the fire, I've got some pine cones to sling on it - that'll clear the sinuses, and the moths!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

hook me up an IV please. I wanna get drunk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:17 PM

Garlic gibsons.....? Mmmm, very interesting idea........ Specially as I've run out of cocktail onions....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 10:11 AM

I thought the whole point of scrumpy was that it *isn't* "decent"?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 10:08 AM

I'll stick to olives thanks.... although Olive might not approve!

Or a pint of scrumpy.... been years since I had a decent pint of scrumpy...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 09:12 PM

A garlic martini...I'll call Jenn! Meanwhile, could I have an Arrogant Bastard ale, please? And a dish of fried calamari on the side.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 07:21 PM

Penny - As I understand it a Gibson is a martini with an onion in it?
One year out on the canals with Bargecade we got into Garlic Gibsons (hand mixed) - somewhere near Bosworth Field on the Ashby Canal
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:56 AM

Pure heresy MMario, we are a pure breed and have nothing to do with fancy, colour changing beasties. What did Darwin know anyway, he had to write a book just so he could learn things from it himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:12 AM

hey squidie! Is it true Squid are descended from Cuttlefish? Or is that just a heresy of Darwin-fish?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:05 AM

Ah, Rapaire, yes I've heard of this calamari business from my Italian and Greek cousins. Barbaric I call it. In fact Great Uncle Sid was talking about getting some of his North Pacific mates together to go round and scare the shit out of some of these calamari peddlers. You know the score, appear suddenly from the deep waving tentacles about and rocking a few boats. Have to watch out for these marine scientist types though because all they can think about is size, as if that matters, and those tape measures they use are bloody cold on wet appendages.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 10:00 AM

Right now I'm sitting in my room at the Little American Hotel drinking...COFFEE!! Straight up!! Black!! Caffienated!!

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Coffee!

Squiddy, do you know that they serve your relatives here? They call them "calamari" so that nobody knows that they're really squids. Octopodi (which is what they call octopuses), I mean, they're just dumb animals, right? But I do think that this "calamari" thing has got to stop. Before you know it people will be squid-baiting, bringing in Sperm Whales to watch the fights and all. It's brutal and neither humane nor squidane and I for one refuse to be a party to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 07:47 AM

The surprise is that it tastes almost entirely unlike tea.

Don't try squeezing the lime into it either.. that's the sea slug.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:50 AM

You humans are a funny lot, fancy making cocktails from guitars.

Down here in the deep the drink of choice for the discerning alky is Sea Slug Surprise, shaken not stirred of course otherwise the sand settles at the bottom. Served with a sprig of kelp and a slice of sea cucumber.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: lady penelope
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:00 PM

Just some that should come with a very big warning label.......

I believe that to cope with a hard day of playing team leader to the hard of thinking (at work) I need a very large gibson.....

Aaah, gibson martinis, the choice of drink for the woman that knows her own mind.......

And wants to get out of it........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 03:45 PM

There ARE no verboten drinks!!!

Liz De Squeak

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 01:08 PM

Polygamy Porter and Evolution Amber are proof that you can make good beer and still stay within Utah's archaic 3.2% limit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 10:08 AM

?!?! Have the LDS changed their minds about verboten drinks?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 09:59 AM

I think that I shall today go to Salt Lake City.

Phone rings.
"Hi. Vatican City here, Pope's Right Hand Man speaking....WHAT!? (Puts hand over mouthpeice.) Your Emininent and Really Great Holiness, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that Jesus is on the phone. He's come again. The bad news is that he's calling from Salt Lake City."

SLC -- where they have just opened a boutique DISTILLERY!!! Yes! And they have several breweries that make decent beers, too! Like Polygamy Porter ("Bring Some Home To The Wives." "When one is not enough!")

It's for a meeting, actually. I'll still be a the Tavern. You can't get rid of me that easily.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:32 AM

Ah well, at least they grow back. Ties torniquet around severed leg and hobbles to the recovery room avoiding elephants. One good thing, at least that duck's proved he's a sucker!!

Laughs at own pun. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha.............

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:07 AM

Burp.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:01 AM

Mmwffmenwlllfmmmph... (brushing chocolate crumbs from chesticles)

Mmphwhat cakeffff?

No cakemmmphmnn here, mmmmmmmphlenumph.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:59 AM

Can someone just pass me that Bowie knife off the back of the bar?

Thanks!

Sounds of hacking and sawing.........

Right! That's better!

Flies across to the bar counter to return the knife.


Maybe if you lot have finished speculating, one of you might try actually cutting the cake?

Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:21 AM

Oh Squiddy... I object in the strongest terms possible to your comments about my person... I'm not that well known.

And just be grateful that you ARE attached to the duck.. it could have been the elephant!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:01 AM

What has this thread come to? Ileave you alone to play for 5 minutes and you have to bring it all down to your pathetic scatalogical level.MMario I'm surprised at you joining that well known harridan and person of extremely low moral standards (yes LtS you know who you are)in discussing the merits or otherwise of elephants bums.

Why am I still attached to a duck???????

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:31 PM

See? international hands across the sea cooperative songwriting.

or maybe knot.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:20 PM

When the pie is opened,
The air will start to hum
'Cos five and forty pachyderms
smell just like CatSpaw's bum!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:16 AM

Sing a song of credit cards, we're drinking all the rye
Five and forty pachyderms, baked in a pie

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Equinoctal Festival
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:13 AM

Mayhap a female giant squid is encased therein, ready to spread joy and ink everywhere.

Or a sperm whale, ready for a night of jello-rasslin'.

Or it could be a pack of pachydermal piccolos, with the pachyderms on the way if they didn't get lost.