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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 31 Dec 06 - 08:34 PM Bente, My cell phone is missing. Spoke with Micca, Dani, Sussex Carole and Andrew. The crowd is sated and well lubricated. Happy New Year all. SINS |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: katlaughing Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:46 PM Happy New Year! Love and Hugs to you all, even the Lobster! |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SussexCarole Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:43 PM Great to speak with you all, Happy New Year! Wish we were with you tonight. Andrew & Carole xxxx |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: bfdk Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:04 PM Hmmmm just tried to call you to wish you all a Happy New Year, and I get a metallic voice saying "On Ignore"?? Is that a way to treat foreign callers? :o)) Anyroads, have a great time and a safe entry into the new year! Wish I could join you... Best wishes, Bente |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SussexCarole Date: 31 Dec 06 - 06:39 PM Heck..the flight left without us...now we are trying to gatecrash this party with a telephone call.....can someone pm us Sins' phone number please |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Susan A-R Date: 31 Dec 06 - 05:33 PM Hmmm, My brother was making me jealous by talking about his quiet christmas with just his wife and daughters, then let slip that 11 roosters were meeting their demise and getting plucked that day. If I'd only known I'd have saved one out special for Kendall. Have a blast!! I'll expect a report from Charmion and Edmund tomorrow, although they should watch the weather, sounds like mixed precip early, should be ok later though. Susan |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: jacqui.c Date: 31 Dec 06 - 05:26 PM I'm just waiting for Kendall to complete his titivating and then we're on our way. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Jeri Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:50 PM I'm probably going to be a bit late, which I'm blaming on Mick and NOT the fact that In thought it wqs 6:30, not 6 - just like I did last year. I'm on my way, though, and I expect something will be left to eat when I get there. See you soon - Jeri |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:30 PM AHHHHHHH Susan. You will be missed. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: maeve Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:19 PM Happiest New Year to Mary, Jacqui, Kendall, & all birds of a feather at the song circle tonight, as well as those who'd like to be there! I'll be hunting haggis from home. maeve |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: TRUBRIT Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:06 PM Thanks for the explanation of 'two bits'--I didn't know that. BTW our next TruBrit Newsletter is going to be about old English money so there'll be some explanations of the 'bobs, half crowns, tanners etc.....' Jeri - I know what you mean about time differences and their challenges. In another life when I worked for corporate America, I managed a group of people who supported the sales office in Hawaii. There seemed to be a window of about 10 seconds a day when we could actually communicate with them...... Have a wonderful party at Mary's....... |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Fortunato Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:39 PM Sing one for me chums and lift a glass for our departed friends when the new year tolls. cheers and all the best. chance |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:39 PM Chicken and Poutine? Not long now Portland Folkies, hope y'all have a great time. Giok |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: maeve Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:34 PM Well, Mr. Noble, sir, By February the chickens will start laying eggs like crazy. No comment on the toast, although I can't resist, "Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning, oh, what a terrible sight to see!" |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Sorcha Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:28 PM Toast poo????? Oh dear...oh dear.... |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:57 PM Spar- By February the chickens will be coming home to roost! For the party I'm bringing along a couple of bottles of "Seriously Bad Elf Ale" and we'll be sure to toast pou as well. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Dec 06 - 12:45 PM Hadn't checked this thread in 24 hours but I believe that at this point in time, and with time running out on the year, I am submitting this thread for the yearly awards in the category "Most Bizarre Thread Drift." Good luck to you all and we'll see you at the awards banquet in February. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: kendall Date: 31 Dec 06 - 12:27 PM Frighten the rooster? Naw, it wouldn't live that long. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Susan A-R Date: 31 Dec 06 - 12:05 PM Won't make it this time Got in at 3 a.m. (thanks to Delta, and having slept in about 6 different beds in 10 days (alas, not as much fun as it sounds)with WAY too many Reids (lots of fun, but exhausting.) I'm curling up with the cat. May sneak out and see the Woodchucks though. I did come home to find Edmund and Charmion pretty comfortably ensconced with the cat on the futon (although somewhat concerned about my whereabouts) and have sent them on their way after a lovely breakfast. I'll be thinking of you all tonight. (I think there'll be a song challenge soon re. the "Delta Blues" ) Susan |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: maeve Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:24 AM Oooh! What fun that would be! However, I would rather like to remain welcome to stay with Jacqui and Himself when I do get down your way. Besides, it would frighten the rooster! With regrets, maeve |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: JudyB Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:18 AM We can bring 3 folding chairs. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:13 AM If you are willing to put a chicken in Kendall's house, I am willing to aid and abet. heh heh |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: maeve Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:10 AM Dear Honored Hostess: If we could come we could bring folding chairs. I'll keep it in mind for the time when we are able to make the trip. (Humble return to topic at hand, having protected the honor of her banties.) maeve |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: maeve Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:07 AM Humph. These chickens are bantams (half size chickens) and mostly free-range; hardly worth the effort to pluck, there would be so little meat. Having said that, anyone who takes the extra 4 really handsome roosters is the new owner and free to make that decision. I call dibs on the best feathers! The alpha rooster Airlie and the heir apparent Calico will remain here, along with Lil' Bit the mille fleur dowager queen, her two daughters Spice and Hawk, and three young granddaughters, who provide eggs and garden insect control. By the bye: Truly free-range chickens can be quite tough due to superior muscle development. We haven't tried any of ours for meat. Zucchini might find its way into Kendall's and Jacqui's house without warning. :) Remember, Kendall thinks I'm timid. Don't frighten me off. ;) |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:05 AM If I might interrupt your digression for just one moment - we need chairs. folding chairs not deluxe leather club chairs. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:02 AM Maybe if there are enough chickens we could have a game of Battledore and Shuttlecock. But maybe we shouldn't count 'em before they appear. However, I understand that the weather is turning fowl Monday! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Micca Date: 31 Dec 06 - 09:58 AM all I can say is "Courgette Mon Brave" |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: curmudgeon Date: 31 Dec 06 - 09:47 AM Chicken Friggazee ? |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Jeri Date: 31 Dec 06 - 09:25 AM Kendall, I suspect these chickens are egg-layin' chickens, although they may be chicken-dinner chickens, not "friggin'" chickens. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: kendall Date: 31 Dec 06 - 09:07 AM Abandon all zucchinni ye who enter here. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: jacqui.c Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:49 AM Are we talking about LIVE roosters here, or those already gutted and plucked and ready for the pot? We've been looking for free range chicken to try for a while now...... Not so sure about the zucchini though! |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: kendall Date: 30 Dec 06 - 06:56 PM Hruumph...friggin' chickens...Bah |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:51 PM maeve- Pieces o' eight from the Spanish dollars was my best guess above. But I didn't know anyone referred to the "pieces" as "bits." "Quarters, oh, quarters!" those saucy pirates cried, But the quarters that we gave 'em was to sink them in the tide..." Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: maeve Date: 30 Dec 06 - 01:33 PM Two Bits: (from answers.com) United States "... a holdover from colonial America, when Spanish dollars ... were deemed equivalent in value to a U.S. dollar. To provide smaller denominations, they were cut into eighths, or "bits". Thus, twenty-five cents was dubbed "two bits," as it was a quarter of a Spanish dollar. Correspondingly, the terms "four bits" and "six bits" referred to fifty and seventy-five cents, respectively. Because there was no one-bit coin, a dime (10 ¢) was sometimes called a short bit and 15c a long bit. For example, "Six-Bits Blues" by Langston Hughes included the following couplet: Gimme six bits' worth o'ticket/On a train that runs somewhere…." By the way, Kendall, it's cold and slippery and snowing steadily here. The chickens refuse to have anything to do with their chickensitter, Mrs. W. Coyote, or her good friends young Ms Weasel and Mr. Jeremy Fisher. And they thought they'd enjoy the ride to S. Portland, but when I read them the post about chicken recipes, that was the end of that! So we'll be staying here for New Year's. However, if we drive down during August, fellow mudcatters in attendance might return to their cars the next morning to find 'em filled with zucchinis and our extra roosters. Be afraid. Be very afraid...ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Yours truly, meek maeve |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: JennyO Date: 30 Dec 06 - 09:06 AM Geeze, and all I've got is a blow-up reindeer and a whole mess of lights. Anyway - |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 30 Dec 06 - 08:29 AM JeenyO, My neighbors turned off the snowman and turned on a huge plastic creche on Christmas. I was hoping for a mass viewing but it doesn't look good. On a better note, the whale tambourine turned up in a piole of blow up costumes. SINS |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: kendall Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:47 AM True Brit, OUR lingo is complicated? You use such non words as, Bob, Quid,Dosh,Tanner,1/2 a crown, and you wonder about "two bits"? We don't know what it means either, we just accept it, something you Brits should understand. Mustn't grumble. LOL |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Midchuck Date: 29 Dec 06 - 10:45 PM If I remember correctly, we're bringing Susan A-R with us from Montpelier... What a shame! Us Woodchucks can't go because we're going to Montpelier, to play at First Night there. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: JennyO Date: 29 Dec 06 - 09:42 PM Well, here in Oz, we are actually 16 hours ahead of Mudcat time, which means that midnight here will be 8am Mudcat on THE DAY BEFORE - the 31st. I'd ring somebody at 8am on the 31st if I knew any phone numbers - probably just as well I don't ;-) On the other hand if anyone from the US were to ring me at midnight their time, I would have moved on to 4pm the next day, and there's an outside chance I might be up by then - well I do like to party! We're 11 hours ahead of the UK, so our midnight will be their 1pm on the 31st, and their midnight will be our 11am on the 1st. Good chance I'll still be in bed then. Actually we're going out to a friends' place and we're going to get a tram in to somewhere near the city where we can see the fireworks. I was looking at a preview last night where they were trying out some of the lighting they always do on the Harbour Bridge. It's affectionately known as "the coathanger", and I saw a lit-up coathanger on the side of it. They've forecast rain but we won't let a little bit of that slow us down. Wish I could be a fly on the wall at your party, Mary! So - DID you let the snowman in? |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Jeri Date: 29 Dec 06 - 07:50 PM TRU-B, MMario is only right about the time difference if we're being serious. Since it would be rude to call Micca at 5 AM, and Mary is not rude, so it's not 5 AM. I'm actually quite good at time zones. I once tried to make a work-related phone call to Hawaii from Korea on a Monday. They're an hour behind... not really. Hawaii is actually 25 hours behind S. Korea, and no one's there to answer the phone on Sunday. And then there's the complicated task of asking an Air Force pilot what time it is. Preliminary answer: "Do you want Eastern Standard, local or Zulu (GMT)?" ...but I digress. Maybe you could mess with your clocks, convince your guests it's later than they think, and when they go to bed, sneak over to Mary's? |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 29 Dec 06 - 07:46 PM There will be space, I promise. So, UK time is 5 hours behind us and if I call Micca at 12 midnight, he will be happy to hear from me. HEH HEH |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: CET Date: 29 Dec 06 - 07:05 PM Susan made some mention of other commitments, so her attendance is not a done deal. However, I will pass on your kind comments and urge her to make the trip. We will be staying with her in Montpelier on the way down. Edmund |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: Jeri Date: 29 Dec 06 - 04:32 PM Ooh - Susan A-R too!? I must remember my fiddle. You gonna have enough crash space? |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: TRUBRIT Date: 29 Dec 06 - 04:26 PM Well - I was regretting missing the party before I read this thread.....now I KNOW I should be there.........but probably not unless for an hour at the end after dinner. Jeri, MMmario is right -- UK is five hours AHEAD. MMario - good thing someone gets the time difference between here and the UK ..... it is a bit shocking to hear the phone ring at some wierd time (= in my imagination, SOMEBODY DIED OR WHY ARE YOU CALLING SO LATE.....!!!!!!!????)... I have never understood how two bits could be a quarter -- two bits of what I ask myself? This country can be very complicated! Mary - did you let the snowman in? Everyone make a mental note not to sit too near to Mr. Finn when he is singing shanties or if so, vet the choice of song very very carefully ...............'next to and below him??' - the mind boggles. Happy New Year everyone from TRUBRIT who is still officially on holiday until January 2 (British visitors still here til the first) but missing the mudcat so stole a minute to check in ...... think of what I might have missed if I hadn't done so!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: SINSULL Date: 29 Dec 06 - 04:18 PM Susan A-R is coming? WHEEEEEEE! Great News |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: jacqui.c Date: 29 Dec 06 - 03:34 PM I'll drink to that! |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: GUEST,Charmion Date: 29 Dec 06 - 03:33 PM If I remember correctly, we're bringing Susan A-R with us from Montpelier. And some wine from Ontair-i-air-i-airio to oil various vocal cords. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: MMario Date: 29 Dec 06 - 02:05 PM nah, she's the piece of eight that keepeth all standing. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 Dec 06 - 01:58 PM Are you the piece of eight that passeth all understanding Mary? G. |
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Subject: RE: New Year's Eve Song Circle at SINSULL's From: jacqui.c Date: 29 Dec 06 - 01:56 PM Micca - it's quite possible with this lot that some of them will still be up and doing! |
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