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21 Dec 07 - 10:46 PM (#2220688) Subject: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage The knob turns, the door slowly opens into a pitch dark room. Not even the beer lights are on behind the bar. A hand reaches in and gropes the wall, discovering and flipping on the switch. The tavern is washed with mellow indirect lighting. Dust motes drift in the air and the stools are all neatly tucked under the bar, with chairs turned up on the tables. The weekend is here, along with the long holiday break. Too much money has been spent, as usual. Sage is bushed, and there is way too much to do. She has to put have a dinner party tomorrow night that she learned about last night. It will be held in her messy house. One of her best friends just wrote and sent a photo of the beach near his new retreat in Puerto Rico. She isn't near anyplace that looks as cool as this. She's stuck in a prairie in the winter. She needs a drink. And a nice dinner. And to stay up all night cleaning house and cooking. So of course, she needed to stop by the Mudcat Tavern to fortify herself, and see what's cooking out back. "Anybody here?" |
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22 Dec 07 - 03:33 AM (#2220738) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage The Mudcat Tavern is unusually, absolutely eerily, quiet, for a change. . . A few covered dishes were neatly arranged in the refrigerator, rendering a splendid meal of a rich and savory stew accompanied by a crisp salad of romaine and blue cheese dressing, washed down by a splendid red wine. A very fat calico cat creeps in the not-quite-closed door and hops up into the lap of the lone individual who is relaxing in an overstuffed recliner near the fireplace. A shadow in the rafters might be a duck getting a little more comfortable on the broad beam. A thick rope extends from an unusual winch and a harness, resting on one end of the beam, forlorn without the excitement of a tree to suspend and support during the usual tavern excitement. A warm, saltwater breeze gusts through the southern door. |
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22 Dec 07 - 03:42 AM (#2220742) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Oh bugger... who left the tap running in the Ladies? And why are there sucker marks across the wall up there? I thought this was going to be a quiet place to relax and gird my loins for the fray that is 'tidy the dining room or we'll be eating in the bathroom'. Looks like I'm going to have to get that extra bucket after all... LTS |
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22 Dec 07 - 04:00 AM (#2220747) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Megan L Truck pulls up at the door a couple of handsome young men with dark hair and big brown eyes begin unloadingit. There are boxes of oatcakes and boxes of cheese, shortbread and flaky Westray bicuts oh and of course some boxes contain the fine islan malts Scapa and Highland park along with fruit wines and Skull splitter beer. I am only afraid that Thorfinn and Magnus will stop the truck at the nearest beach don their skins and swim home Selkies are fine as deliverymen just as long as they dont see water. |
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22 Dec 07 - 04:17 AM (#2220754) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu I'll partake of some the cheese and shortbread cookies, please. And hot water for my tea as I brought my own, thanks. |
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22 Dec 07 - 04:28 AM (#2220760) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak What, no tablet?!!! I've got tablet... my Secret Santa gang of 3 gave me tablet! (for those who don't have Scottish Phrase book - tablet is a big piece of toffee fudge) There's a knock at the side door, the one to the north. Mack and Jean-Claude-Paul-Francoise have got us a little something in their truck. Just hope it's not polar bear poo for the roses again... it was ages before anyone realised where the smell was coming from - we all thought it was Bert! What is Mack doing with that hoist?? Ooooohhh!!! It looks like the tree has arrived. LTS |
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22 Dec 07 - 04:37 AM (#2220765) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Megan L oh oh 15 foot ceiling 20 foot tree quick liz dig a hole in the floor i'm sure no one will notice. |
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22 Dec 07 - 09:58 AM (#2220880) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: ranger1 Have no fear, ranger1 and her trusty shovel and ice chopper thingie have arrived from the snowy reaches of southern Maine! One sip of some nice single malt and wow! That hole got dug quick! Bandit! Quit sniffing the kitty's butt! |
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22 Dec 07 - 10:05 AM (#2220883) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Megan L Bandit be careful if the kitty doesnt have long lags its my missing selkie I sent it towards a lighthouse but it hasnt been seen since so he might not take to kindly to cold noses . |
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22 Dec 07 - 10:23 AM (#2220895) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: wysiwyg 2007 Holiday escape Good idea! Hardi and I escaped our usual smalltown area yesterday to do some NONCHRISTMAS SHOPPING and discovered a wonderful Indian restaurant that we had not known was only an hour away. !!! Actual walking down pretty sidewalks and aimless browsing in stores! We decided this MUST become an annual mid-Advent "leave-Advent-behind" tradtion, which we will repeat in Lent as well! ~Susan |
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22 Dec 07 - 10:53 AM (#2220905) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL HELLOOOOO??????? I knew I would find someone in here. Hey Bandit! Alice would like a cold-nose butt nuzzle. But wash your nose before you come near me. I will start with a nice cup of oolong. Any sign of Micca or Jacqui? I hoped to wish them both a Merry Christmas and share a glass of something good, maybe hot cider with a splash of rum. Any chance we can keep this year's festivities under some kind of control? No Jell-O pit; no cranky squid; no scratching cats; no Liz getting stuck in the Ladies...which reminds me. Did Liz spend the year in the Ladies? That's where she emerged from... |
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22 Dec 07 - 11:23 AM (#2220924) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Oh LOOK! A magic wand! A wave and...everything is neat and clean and smells like peppermint and pine. There's a blazing fire in the hearth. The glasses are clean; the tables shining and set and waiting for MMario to fill them. The bar is stocked. There is fresh ice, egg nog, mulled wine. even the bathrooms are sparkling clean. Look - real towels! And little blue blocks in the urinals. (Someday someone will have to explain to me why there are little blus blocks in the urinals...targets?) Think I'll slip this little gadget into my pocket. My house could use a wave. |
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22 Dec 07 - 01:12 PM (#2220969) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee The horse gallops up the ribbon of moonlight across the purple moor and the highwayman comes riding, riding up Ye Olde Inne doore. "Whoa, Trigger...er, Silver...er, Tony...ah, Champ...STOP GODDAMMIT!" he yells. And the horse does stop. Suddenly and completely, throwing the highwayman over his head, his rapier flipping neatly from its scabbard and burying itself point first in the crest of the new-fallen snow. The rider strikes his dismount, give himself a "10" and the horse a dirty look. His mount looks innocently away; the highwayman re-sheaths his sword and walks to The Olde Inne doore. |
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22 Dec 07 - 02:45 PM (#2221019) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Micca ah, it is cold enough for the almost Legendary ginger wine and Cider "winter warmer" (you know, who put the "interr"in the winter warmer?) Take a Uk 1/2 pint of (hard) Cider (the closer you can get to Scrumpy the better) and take a good swig, then top up (replace) the removed volume with Stones Green Ginger Wine, It tastes WONDERFUL and is warming as drinking a paraffin Lamp, only problem is they taste of MORE and after a few (some times as few as 3) you pass out fairly abruptly . So I'll have one of those please, and have a Large Highland Park handy should I start to snore!! |
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22 Dec 07 - 02:47 PM (#2221021) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL and the horse you rode in on, Rapaire. Had to say it before Micca arrived. Sit down and mind yer scabbard. Just polished the floors and tables, you know. What would you like to drink? And shall I fetch some hay and water for that horse? He really ought not to be in the Jell-O Pit, you know. |
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22 Dec 07 - 03:09 PM (#2221037) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: ranger1 Bandit! Put down the squid! It is not a squeaky toy! Nor is Auntie Liz, for that matter, even if she does sound like one! Go sit down by Uncle Micca and behave yourself! Micca, pour me one of those concoctions, will you? |
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22 Dec 07 - 07:19 PM (#2221144) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Raven kitty has reverted to type and is playing with the balls on the Christmas tree... having pried them from his needle-like clasp, he's now on my lap, wondering a)why he's in the Ladies and b) why there's a cold nose up his butt. I think he likes the latter though... LTS |
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22 Dec 07 - 08:46 PM (#2221167) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: curmudgeon I'll be having a rum and shrub, if you please. Thanks be to Micca that I learned of the medicinal properties of thi concoction, especially when it's cold and damp. Just the one though as I must stuff the stove with wood still, and retire at a decent hour - Tom |
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23 Dec 07 - 02:08 AM (#2221231) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage I've finished cooking and cleaning after the rushed dinner party. Had a nice hot mug of mulled cider--I'll go curl up for a nap in the coat closet. Don't worry about me; I'll be right as rain in a couple of hours. |
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23 Dec 07 - 02:48 AM (#2221237) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Micca Tom, Rum and Shrub!! perfect, we made it with Wm Hicks 125 proof (7 years in sherry casks) rum once, it was absolute NECTAR, made your hat damp tho' (it was the steam shooting out of my ears!) Tami, I would seriously reconsider you brash acceptance of a glass of the "winter warmer" If I was you, it is reminiscent of being embalmed |
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23 Dec 07 - 03:00 AM (#2221238) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Says he who smells like one embalmed several centuries ago.... Someone relight the Solstice bonfire, the world has gone blurry again. Either it's the foggy doos or my glasses need cleaning. LTS |
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23 Dec 07 - 07:12 AM (#2221282) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu May I have some more hot water for my tea bag, please? Someone knocked my cup over with thier wand. No... no need for a wipe. Someone cleaned it up already. |
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23 Dec 07 - 09:08 AM (#2221312) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Linda Goodman Zebooker I'd love a concoction of organic tea flowers. You place a dried flower in a glass teapot, add boiling water, and it opens up to a full bloom. Very delicately scented. The fog is creeping in all right; I can barely see the squid. A mouse has just run in and scurried up the wall. It's hiding behind the brass plaque with the picture of William Shakespeare. All the cats are riveted with attention on it. |
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23 Dec 07 - 11:55 AM (#2221378) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage From beside the heap of Sage's winter coat in the corner, the sleek brown and white athletic pit bull terrier Cinnamon leaps for the plaque and the mouse. Deftly catching the mouse in her big mouth, she bounces to the floor, and after getting a warning glare from the cats that she's intruding in their game (and knowing what a cat bite on the noggin feels like*) spits it out onto the floor. The cat and mouse chase begins. Sage awakens from a long nap buried in the coats in the tavern's hall closet. The door to the recovery ward is open a crack, but none of the beds appear to be in use. She pushes her way back into the tavern. "A cup of strong Yorkshire Gold tea, please. And ibuprophen." *Clementine deftly delivered a bite on the top of Cinnamon's bony nose when the pit caught her by the leg two years ago at christmas. The bite was so hard the cat broke her own jaw, but she was otherwise uninjured. The vet bills broke my holiday budget. |
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23 Dec 07 - 02:27 PM (#2221457) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Alice Faintly the sound of Tango music comes from a dark corner, the door opens and Alice slowly enters, takes the rose from her teeth and says, " |
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23 Dec 07 - 02:28 PM (#2221459) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Alice Eight years have gone by and I am still searching for a Tango partner..." |
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23 Dec 07 - 04:32 PM (#2221519) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Tripping merrily over his scabbard, the highwayman makes his way to the bar and sings out, "Good barkeep, good friend! A mug of flip if it be not too much trouble...and if it is, mulled wine. And a Double-Stuffed Oreo cookie for my rusty teed, er, trusty steed. Gracias a Usted." |
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23 Dec 07 - 07:59 PM (#2221608) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario A top hatted, mutton chopped gentleman(?) in an extremly soggy greatcoat enters via the side door marked "Do not open". Tossing the soddon wool over the nearest coathook he goes to the bar and hooks up an intevenous caffiene shunt; and sighs blissfully. 1842 sure is WET this Christmas! |
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23 Dec 07 - 08:46 PM (#2221626) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: curmudgeon I'm back, and I need another rum and shrub, but less shrub please. The 50/50 mix is just too sweet. The highwayman should really doff that rapier in favour of a basket hilt backsword. The rapier is all fine and good on foot, but on horseback? This tavern , with all creatures great and small, puts me in mind of the Sunday afternoon hoots at the Stone Church back in the '70s. It was a real familyy folk beeer allhall where folk would come with kids, dogs, and even cats. Have to drink up now. the stove needs tendingg, and herself will be needing medicating. Wassail - Tom |
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23 Dec 07 - 09:21 PM (#2221644) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,Rapaire The highwayman uses a schiavona for fighting on horseback. But that's second choice to this. |
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23 Dec 07 - 09:55 PM (#2221652) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Brrr! It's cold outside. Is anyone cooking anything big outback? Aurock, bison, blue whale, whatever? |
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23 Dec 07 - 10:01 PM (#2221655) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Bee "Haven't visited this tavern before." Bee steps inside, one brown tabby slinking around in front, scared loking white fluffball peeking out from behind her snowcovered boots. "Been by before, but the place sorta fades in and out of a thick fog..." She drops in a chair with a groan. "I'm so tired I could just fall asleep right now, but there's more housecleaning awaiting - somebody please hand me an Irish coffee - heavy on the Irish, please. And... why is there a squid here?" |
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23 Dec 07 - 10:12 PM (#2221659) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Because the jello pit got too cold for him to hang out in. Someone cleared out the jello and turned it into a hot tub this fall, and that was too hot for him. He's probably a candidate for the recovery ward. The guy just can't get comfortable. There is an unusual haze drifting off of the hot tub--time to lower the heat to simmer is my guess. I wonder if MMario has been poaching salmon in it again? |
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23 Dec 07 - 10:14 PM (#2221661) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Charley Noble It's not just any squid, Bee. This is the Christmas season, and I'm sure you've heard of the Three Wisemen. Well, this is the Wise Kraken! click at Your Own Risk! I'd like a rusty nail, please, and spare me any conversation. Charley Noble |
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24 Dec 07 - 03:11 AM (#2221739) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Somehow I've missed the term "kraken" or "wise kraken" over all of these years. Learn something new every day. I'll skip the calamari snack. Instead, I'd like a plate of hot open face turkey sandwich, please. Don't scrimp on the gravy. |
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24 Dec 07 - 03:30 AM (#2221741) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,Giant Squid You skip the calimari jokes and I'll skip eating cats as a snack. |
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24 Dec 07 - 03:31 AM (#2221742) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: My guru always said The old stray Tabby slid through the cat-flap that had been installed at her request since the Tavern was last open and heaving with Once inside she paused to look around and washed her tail thoughtfully. 'Well, my ears & whiskers, there do seem to be a lot of other cats in here this year. Nice to see the youngsters keeping up the tradition of chasing mice but I'm feeling a bit too weary to join them just now. Let's see, who's looking friendly and has a nice lap?' Sidling over to the fireplace she delicately deposits herself on the cosy lap already occupied by a very contented calico cat. 'Would you mind me joining you my dear? It's been a long year and I'm in need of some peace and comfort.' With just the right amount of sniffing, purring and the occasional tongue-wash, the two cats settle down contentedly for a cat-nap, twitching occasionally as they dreamt of roast auroch, salmon and bowls of baileys. The lone individual at the fire slowly stroked the cats, sipped from his glass of Port & Brandy and started to hum a gentle song... |
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24 Dec 07 - 06:35 AM (#2221797) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,RaVen kittie Pushing his Egyptian nose in through the cat flap... "Mmmm... where did that cold nose get to? What's this??? Who is this 'Bandit' creature? Was it his nose?? Hmmmmmmm.. I like this place. " "Can I curl up here for a bit? I've been poorly this morning... I think it was the cheap biscuits I stole from the house over the back." RaVen snuggles up to the other cats. He's sociable like that. Until he yaks on the stairs. |
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24 Dec 07 - 06:44 AM (#2221803) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu I say. Some hot water for my tea and I'll share Aunt Charmaine's date filled sugar cookies. Best cookies I ever had. |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:17 AM (#2221829) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Another wave and the cat yak is gone but so is gnu's tea. Sorry about that. Harry Potter makes it look so easy. Dare I try to fix the BatGoddess's arm? HMMMMMM Bippity Boppity Boo Boo Gone! Uh Oh... |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:32 AM (#2221837) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,RaVen Kittie "Hey!!! What happened to my lovely tail? It's my pride and joy, like a fluffy black snake that I hold proudly over my back, and now look at it...." Raven looks round at his bottom. "It looks like a flippin' pompom!!! What have you done to my lovely tail?? Ooohh... hair scrunchies... KILL!!!" |
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24 Dec 07 - 12:38 PM (#2221961) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Over in the corner he nurses his shandy, plotting small deeds and great trivialities. |
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24 Dec 07 - 01:12 PM (#2221979) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage The tree begins to tilt. Several customers look up to see the upper branches filled with ducks. |
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24 Dec 07 - 01:21 PM (#2221985) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL And one little duck is wearing a giant plume - oh no! It's the cat's tail. |
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24 Dec 07 - 01:58 PM (#2222008) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: ranger1 Bandit quickly sits on his own fluffy plume of a tail, looking at Auntie SINS in alarm and wondering how quickly he could chew the wand into toothpicks. |
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24 Dec 07 - 05:02 PM (#2222088) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope "Christmas is coming The goose is getting fat If you haven't got a goose Then you'll have to eat the cat...." Ho bleedin' ho.... Right, a pint of glayva please and NOBODY offer me bleedin' ice to go in it..... Hah bum hug.... |
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24 Dec 07 - 05:16 PM (#2222091) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Christmas is coming The goose is getting fat - YIKES! That's one cold goose, Bandit. Go warm your nose in the fire or I will be forced to wave my wand at you...and your little girl too (shades of Oz) |
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24 Dec 07 - 05:51 PM (#2222113) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario Who accused me of paching salmon in the hot tub!?! I'll have you know I would *never* poach salmon in the hot tub. But it *was* the only place big enough to make the court buillion for the poached Nile crocodile. |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:04 PM (#2222160) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Tinker Ahhh, Time to put the feet up.... Nibbles are all out for the kids, small gifts and new pajamas have been given out, We made it through yesterday's Christmas padgaent with 30 kids(most under 6) But I need one of those hot cider drinks before I start wrapping presents. I could use a few of gnu's cookies for Santa tonight. |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:22 PM (#2222164) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Has anyone wandered out to that Puerto Rican beach? How's the water? |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:28 PM (#2222166) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Feet up. Big sigh! Tummy full. Lobsters and steaks and salads and champagne and large dogs all gone...except for Seamus who decided to have a pajama party with Freddie. Kendall went home to watch Law & Order. Tami and Jason went home to sleep. I put the dishes in the dishwasher and will sit for a few minutes before nodding off. Bente called at the exact moment that the lobster tray hit the table. I mumbled an un- Holiday grreting and answered the phone. All shouted Merry Christmas and we hung up. Sorry Bente. Never get between a Mainer and his lobsta. Merry Christmas all. Many thanks for the roof over my head, the food on my table and the good friends to share it. SINS |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:54 PM (#2222174) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: ranger1 Just popping in after wrapping (some) prezzies for tomorrow AM. Sleep, Mary? What is this sleep thing of which you speak? And barkeep, I'll have a dram of Laphroaig, neat, thank you. |
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24 Dec 07 - 09:08 PM (#2222183) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Charley Noble No, I don't think we need any more chardonay this evening, or we'll run the risk of bumping our heads on the floor joists above. Why did they design this tavern with such a low ceiling? Or is the ceiling slowly sinking? I don't think I'm getting any taller. This is very puzzling. Maybe I better lie down a while and meditate, but not shut my eyes! Merry Christmas, Ramadan, Hannaka, kwanzaa, and whatever! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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24 Dec 07 - 09:09 PM (#2222184) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Sorcha OK, set em up, bartender. This is on Berts tab, OK? I've had it, just fookin' HAD it with Holidays! What in all goodness is HOLIDAYS all about anyway? I need a few shots of the Good Stuff. I've shopped, I've wrapped, I've prepped nibbles, I've cooked...and what do I get outta this deal? So far, not a damn thing. Screw the wine, set me up with some Yukon Jack shots. Piss on em all, I say. They can't be bothered to be here, I can't be bothered to be 'here' either. I may sleep all day tomorrow. Well, I'll get up to let the dogs inoutinoutinoutinout. |
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25 Dec 07 - 12:35 AM (#2222233) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Tinker Ahhh, last present is wrapped and under the tree.... Something warm and smooth please... |
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25 Dec 07 - 05:04 AM (#2222278) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Micca Tinker. Wellllll Helllooooo There, (is that warm and Smooth enough?) |
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25 Dec 07 - 09:34 AM (#2222339) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Tinker And now all the lovely wrappings are tattered and torn. The children are scattered across the house. And I think I'm going to get a nap... |
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25 Dec 07 - 11:55 AM (#2222378) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Phot Fiona is napping, the cats are playing merry hell with the left over wrapping paper and ribbon. I think a lage glass of wine is needed! Drinks on me guys! Wassail!! Chris |
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25 Dec 07 - 01:51 PM (#2222419) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope Ah, have spent the day dossing... er I mean relaxing with Parker, bacon sarnie for breakfast, smoked salmon, bruscetta, rockett salad, cheese and cava for lunch and shortly we'll be tucking into roast duck and rice for din dins.... 'Ere I got a bottle of a limited edition Glenmorangie for crimbo. It's called Lasanta! Apparently it's gaelic for "Warm & Passionate..." TTFN |
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25 Dec 07 - 04:22 PM (#2222459) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Here are some game sausage samples if anyone wants to try them. Perhaps a strong German beer or a robust and complex red wine would be good accompaniment. Pheasant, duck, antelope, bison, boar, elk, caribou, and something else--enjoy! |
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25 Dec 07 - 04:34 PM (#2222465) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn My daughter might have a a strep throat, so I couldn't go eat dinner where I was supposed to. I'm taking meds that forbid me to have alchohol. Bring me a cuppa and a dinner menu. Judas' Carryout might be open for Easter, but it's closed for Christmas, so I'll try the First Supper Special here this time out. If he clears off the crust from his station, I'll eat with my good friend The Giant Squid--No, wait! It looks like his date, some sort of she-cephalopod, with whom he's looking to get all warm and cuttly just emerged from the Ladies Room.. Be careful, my friend, she may not be as naughty-less as she looks. Hey! He's presented her with one of the original 45rpm single versions of the Beatle's "Help!" with the original inscription "from the upcoming Motion Picture "Eight Arms To Hold You"! What poor sucker did he get to let loose of one of those?........ Hmmmmm......So where shall I sit, then?....... |
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25 Dec 07 - 04:48 PM (#2222469) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage In the dog house, I would imagine, after that string of awful puns! |
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25 Dec 07 - 04:48 PM (#2222470) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn "Milk! Just milk?".... "That WAS the First Supper!", the waitress retorts. "Been that way since Mother Mary first said, 'Let It Be!' "!. "A lot to pay for a serving of milk........", mutters Severn, alone in a booth waiting to see who'll show up.... |
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25 Dec 07 - 05:43 PM (#2222489) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Ingrates! I serve lobster and filet mignon and put out a pound of chocolates. And what do they leave me?????? A Roman Nougat and two Molasses Chews! What the hell is aRoman Nougat? JD om de wocks and mhurrthy up! SINS, grumbling with a mouth full of Molasses Chew |
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26 Dec 07 - 08:05 AM (#2222653) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Roast beef dinner taken to Mother in Law's house, cooked, eaten and washed up... sitting here waiting for traffic to clear so we can go back for Part 3 - the Return of the Kin. I'm driving later so I'll just have a fizzy grape juice please. AAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhhh... now all I need is a large hairy thing to rest my feet on. LTS |
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26 Dec 07 - 10:36 AM (#2222701) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Charley Noble Here's a bag of leftover TimTams. The rest were all greedily consumed but the gift recipients all turned a ghastly green and yeller, and imploded. Strange, that never happened before. Any takers? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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26 Dec 07 - 10:37 AM (#2222702) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL And what to her wondering eyes should appear But a dozen cats, warm and fuzzy and near To her cold tired tootsies To raise them up high With a mew and a purr and a satisfied sigh. |
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26 Dec 07 - 12:06 PM (#2222742) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escapade From: Severn Everybody still stealing furtive glances at Giant Squid's girlfriend..... "I can't seem to recall ever seeing her ever go INTO the Ladies' Room.", murmurs Liz, who'd know such things..... "Well, 'eight armed is forewarned' (or however that goes)", whispers Severn..... "I think he said she was a "CPA" or something", said Charley in a low tone. Meanwhile, GS gazes dreamily upon a set of limbs that seems to go on forever..... |
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26 Dec 07 - 12:29 PM (#2222751) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL HMMMMMMM Don't squids have ten arms? She's certainly not an octopus...What the hell is that?????? |
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26 Dec 07 - 12:33 PM (#2222754) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Wait a minute! The Hookah! The Hookah! It's the caterpiller from Wonderland. How did that get in here? Big though, isn't he (Sorry Suid, it is a "He). How big a butterfly will emerge once he starts spinning a coc.................. |
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26 Dec 07 - 12:52 PM (#2222763) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario I thought it was the result of last year's date between the Squid and that set of bagpipes he wandered out the door with. |
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26 Dec 07 - 01:05 PM (#2222768) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Is that why he's wearing a bagwig? |
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26 Dec 07 - 01:58 PM (#2222788) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu I say, Severn, good man, join me in a cup of tea, and leave the strong drink for the rest. Someone will have to carry them out and drive them home. Many hands make light work. |
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26 Dec 07 - 08:39 PM (#2222966) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Charley Noble Sinsull- What's a tentacle or two, more or less, between friends? C'me 'ere, Squid, pull up some stools and 'ave a drink on the house. What will it be, absolute alcohol or something more wimpy? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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26 Dec 07 - 09:13 PM (#2222977) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Now that is just plain nasty! Whose stools did he just pull out of the Ladies??? Damn it's the caterpiller's. I am out of here! Someone else man the magic wand. And for heaven's sake, wash your hands. |
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26 Dec 07 - 10:36 PM (#2223003) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn According to Richard Ellis' "The Search For The Giant Squid": "The cuttlefishes and squids have two additional tentacles they can shoot out to capture prey....which classifies them as decapods." Ellis may be no Ick-Theologian, but on the basis of this book and "Men And Whales", I'll take his word on sea creatures for gospel. And he's written for AUDUBON, so he's familliar with the German Highway System, as well..... And the term "Squids" IS acceptable for describing a grouping of species. In everyday language and usages,"Squid" is used for both singular and plural. |
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26 Dec 07 - 10:51 PM (#2223006) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn How do we work this, gnu? I hitch them to the wagon and you drive them home, or the other way round? It seems we're both on the wagon tonight...... I'll be the designated deriver if need be...... And are you saying The Giant Squid picked up some male hookah not named John Lee? Or that he's a caterpillar attracter? And that supposed "bagwig" is really a cocoon-skin cap? |
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27 Dec 07 - 03:57 AM (#2223057) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu No need now, Severn. You just use SINS magic wand to clean them up and they can fend for themselves, as long as they don't get the wagon bogged down. Where is my tea bag? SINS musta waved that wand again. I could have gotten at least another cup out of that tea bag. |
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27 Dec 07 - 05:30 AM (#2223086) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,RaVen Kittie Don't you come near me with that wand matey.. I'll yak in your cup if you do. |
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27 Dec 07 - 07:46 AM (#2223120) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday wander From: Severn How good is that wand, gnu? Could it turn an uppity back cat with a 'tude into, say, a black lab retriver? NO, gnu! Not an African American NIH intern gofer in a white lab smock! There you go! A Labrador dog! Now, GO FETCH, RaVen!....... Uh, oh!.....Hi, Geoff The Duck (complete with napkin and utensils in his hand! You're probably wondering how you got here.....Errrrrr.......How's Jane and the kids?......How WAS Christmas dinner?...... (Bad dog, Bad dog!) RaVen smirks. Never seen a Lab smirk before.... (Is there an instruction book with that thing, gnu?) |
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27 Dec 07 - 07:53 AM (#2223122) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Great. How am I going to explain a flippin' DOG to Manitas now?! And will you stop it doing that to the table leg please?.... Oh ye Gods and little fishbits. Give me that wand right now!!! *POOF*... Oh dear. Err..... Nurse, the screens and a mop please! LTS |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:11 AM (#2223128) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu I dunno. It's SINS' wand. All I want is a cup of tea. |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:15 AM (#2223130) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, someone has struck up a band (No, not Leadfingers & Maryrrf, a/k/a SilverSmith, who are supposed to be playing here, but some other one I don't recognize), and the lovely Alice and the Giant Caterpillar are dancing a mad tango....... |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:15 AM (#2223131) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work You got tea... but a bit more than a cup, why do you think I need the mop? LTS |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:17 AM (#2223132) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn Never ask a sorcerer's apprentice to bring you tea refills......... |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:23 AM (#2223135) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Micca thats the first time I've seen a 50 gallon(uk)tea cup!!! |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:49 AM (#2223147) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu Terry is on a jet plane over the North Atlantic at the moment. Mary is probably going nuts. Liz has a netness fetish and prefers a mop to a wand. And, yes, Micca, that's the reson I keep running out of tea... cup's too small. |
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27 Dec 07 - 09:14 AM (#2223159) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn How can gnu be a tea-totaller and still be in his cups? Say, who IS that band? The special tango arrangement of "Larva, Come Back To Me" plays on and the dancing gets ever more intricate. QUICK! They're dancing unawares towards the wand, which somebody had carelessly left on the floor! Somebody save it! Good! RaVen scooped it up and is carrying it between the teeth. Now bring it over here..... A shake of the head and a "MY Turn!" look in the eye tells me that that's not going to happen any time soon....... UHHHHHHHHH.........OH!......... |
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27 Dec 07 - 10:12 AM (#2223186) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Well, he still has that poodle tail to return to normal... LTS |
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27 Dec 07 - 11:53 AM (#2223247) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Sage slips out the south door to hang out on the Puerto Rican beach, Dukas-ing for cover. It's getting a little too Goethe-ish in here for the moment. |
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27 Dec 07 - 09:52 PM (#2223512) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee The highwayman simply sips his schooner of sewer sludge (with a wedge of lime) and takes it all in, wondering if it would be worthwhile to attempt to play upon his last loot, a lute. It would, he reflects, sound pretty good if he could only tune it to match the crotales , the carnyx, and the and the crwth -- all of which seem to be played in the key of P#. |
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28 Dec 07 - 05:59 AM (#2223596) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Pee sharp? I'd get some yoghurt on that if I were you.. or cranberry juice. LTS |
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28 Dec 07 - 09:34 AM (#2223664) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Chaps in the Army who peed sharp generally visited the medics. The P# usually came after a visit with the village business girls. |
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28 Dec 07 - 10:18 AM (#2223682) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,RaVen Kittie You want sharp pee? Come with me to the litter tray. /\__/\ |o o | \_X_ / |
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28 Dec 07 - 11:20 AM (#2223709) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL What is that Lab doing in the litter tray? Not helping himself to a snack, I hope. I knew I should have stayed gone. |
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28 Dec 07 - 11:25 AM (#2223711) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: gnu Thanks goodness you came back! Nobody knows how to work the magic wand. What should we do with it? |
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28 Dec 07 - 12:44 PM (#2223763) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Hold it gently in your right hand, wave it in a counter clockwise fugure eight motion... |
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28 Dec 07 - 12:46 PM (#2223764) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL And kiss that squid goodbye! OOPS I think you got Bert's card too. That's unfortunate. Give me that wand. A little to the left, a swirl to the right and the card is back. But now Liz has the cat's tail and the squid...oh dear! |
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28 Dec 07 - 12:53 PM (#2223768) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario swish and *flick*! swish and *flick*! |
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28 Dec 07 - 12:57 PM (#2223774) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: maeve swish and flick...and in tumble 100 Golden Haggis headed straight for MMario! |
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28 Dec 07 - 01:01 PM (#2223778) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario hey Look! SNITCHES! With Bumbledore wings! |
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28 Dec 07 - 01:21 PM (#2223790) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Deep fry them, Leo. QUICK!!!! It's like a plague. How did this degenerate into a Harry Potter Christmas? And where is the Cloak of Invisibility? I am going to creep off unseen into a corner and start my new diet of Jack Daniel's and pineapple. |
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28 Dec 07 - 03:50 PM (#2223896) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee This ain't a Hairy Potter Christmas...Bee-Dubya-Ell ain't here. |
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29 Dec 07 - 05:00 AM (#2224173) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Would someone NOT filled with JD, BWL, LSD, WKD or STD please, PLEASE tell me how the hell I got this cat tail? The squid is fine, I can cope with the squid, so long as he doesn't mind when I fart, but how the HELL am I going to explain the cat's tail THERE!!! I'll never be able to wear a skirt again. LTS |
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29 Dec 07 - 10:14 AM (#2224286) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee I've heard of getting a little tail.... |
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29 Dec 07 - 11:06 AM (#2224327) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn A Tail Of Two Kitties? ....So Liz goes to the South door that leads out to the Puerto Rican Beach and calls out, "MANITAS!" and Catters start emptying the water, thinking there are sharks about. Now the lady with the tail has even more " 'slpainin' to do". Meanwhile, in the Tavern, The Giant Squid is rolling on the floor with insane laughter at the beach scene as seen through the bay window, while Alice and the Caterpillar tango on around the flailing tentacles without missing a step. DAMN, they're good! Who knows where the wand had wandered...... |
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29 Dec 07 - 11:42 AM (#2224349) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL I've got it. But do I dare wave it again? OUCH!!! Damn caterpiller stepped on my toe! OH NO! Now look what you made me do! RaVen Kitty/Rapaire clone looks like Puss'n Boots. Kinda cute, I think but the horse isn't amused. At least the kitty has his tail back. Wonder what Liz has stuck up her butt now? I really think I have to read the book of directions that came with this thing. It's worse than a digital camera to figure out. Think I 'll leave now and let you all sort this out. And out the North door she goes (wandless) with Book of Directions in hand. A Nor'Easter blows through the tavern as the door shuts behind her. And... |
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30 Dec 07 - 11:11 AM (#2224906) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage A day later the sun is shining, the air is dry and still and cool, and the dogs are out sleeping in sunny spots in the yard. There are people huddled in corners and booths in the Tavern and a few more alert souls have trekked from the Tavern around back to the shower by the disused sauna. (Everyone forgot about that simple pleasure when the over-the-top jello pit was installed.) Clean and wrapped in fluffy robes as their clothes run through a quick laundering to wash out the smell of spilled booze, food, and tentacle prints, they sit on a bench on the sunny side of the building, watching the dogs sleep. It isn't even New Year's Eve yet. Will this hearty crew make it through to the New Year here at the Tavern, or will they drift down that nice sunny Puerto Rican beach or find themselves awash on the banks of the Salmon River in Idaho, stuck with the Legion guys as they pick their fishy crop*. Someone begins strumming a guitar. (*Ask Mom MOAB about that.) |
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30 Dec 07 - 11:29 AM (#2224911) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Comfortable, a tall cup of Jamaica Blue Mountain steaming nearby, he reaches around and from a sack of dark blue velvet pulls out a trumpet. Not just any trumpet, but one of dark, dark midnight blue from which tiny stars twinkle as if they were part of the metal. A trumpet whose bell seems to draw anyone who looks closely at it into it, into an unheard music which may or may not End Everything. He got it from old Gabe, who gave it to him years ago. And the highwayman has been afraid to blow it, remembering the old coot's statement that "You'll NEVER blow anything as cool as this again, man." He inserts the silver mouthpiece and raises the horn to his lips, then lowers it and takes another sip of coffee. He removes the mouthpiece and decides to warm up a bit. Placing the mouthpiece to his lips, he "buzzes" and the Christmas tree sways and the roof and floor creak ominously. Hmmm.... |
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30 Dec 07 - 01:31 PM (#2224988) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak How much fricking conditioner does this freaking tail NEED!!!! It's bad enough having uncontrollable head hair.... LTS |
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30 Dec 07 - 01:53 PM (#2225000) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope Just make sure your head hair and the tail don't get into cahoots Liz... that way lies disaster.... *G* Now, I finally have decent cider and Crabbies Green Ginger Wine in the same place, I think I shall make myself some anastheatic for work tomorrow.... |
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30 Dec 07 - 02:00 PM (#2225002) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,RaVen Kittie Ever tried CatLick Conditioner? Gives my ass that soft, silky feel the laaaydeees luuuuuuuuuurve.... I'm off now to do something disgusting behind the cabbages. Give me a few minutes and I'll be back to condition my ass for you. ___ / __\ | | | | | | / * \ | | | | | | \ | / | | | | | | | | | |_|_| |
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30 Dec 07 - 02:01 PM (#2225003) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,RaVen Kittie Wow... that was a biggie! I'd give it ten minutes if I were you. ___ / __\ | | | | | | / * \ | | | | | | \ | / | | | | | | | | | |_|_| |
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30 Dec 07 - 10:31 PM (#2225250) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Maybe, he thinks, I can aim this thing. And pointing it at a stainless steel bottle on the bar, he "buzzes" gently into the mouthpiece. The bottle explodes into dust. He smiles. This has possibilities. Lots of them. He returns the horn to the bag, and cups the mouthpiece in his hand. |
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30 Dec 07 - 10:53 PM (#2225260) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Out of the Ladies comes SINS. Strange....how did I get in the Ladies? Strange that Rapaire and the kitty are unaware that they have been combined into some strange version of Puss 'n Boots and Liz thinks she still has a cat's tail up her butt. HMMMM - I believe it is actually that rusty old sword. No wonder she thinks it needs conditioning. Stranger still that Rapaire was not the least bit embarrassed to uh relieve himself behind the cabbages. Hope he washed his hands before he started playing with that noisemaker. I do believe that they are posting without reading. Anyway, I have read the manual from beginning to end and know enough to fill the Tavern with joy and love and peace for the New year. I will throw in a bottle of single malt for good measure. POOF! OH CRAP! |
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31 Dec 07 - 12:42 AM (#2225303) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Ewwwwww. That had to hurt. Here, SINS, let me help roll this giant bottle off of the top of you. Good thing the bar was there to save you from being crushed. Rap, stop pointing that horn thing, you could drown someone if this bottle broke right now. . . |
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31 Dec 07 - 03:56 AM (#2225340) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak The cat tail is on the cat.. I've got the poodle tail, which is why it's so hard to explain it away! LTS |
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31 Dec 07 - 09:52 AM (#2225494) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL What poodle? I'm confused. What bottle? Is this Kansas? |
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31 Dec 07 - 09:58 AM (#2225498) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario SINSULL - we haven't been in Kansa in a *long* time.... And Glinda wants to know when she is getting an invite to a lobster boil. |
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31 Dec 07 - 10:27 AM (#2225520) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Charley Noble I would note that our friends "downunder" have already celebrated New Year's, while we here in Midcoast Maine remain mired in 2007, watching another foot of snow pile up! I could use another virtual rusty nail. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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31 Dec 07 - 11:38 AM (#2225570) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL About time you showed up, MMario. What's on the barbie? Glinda arriving at a Lobster Boil in her globe - that's a thought. The neighbors have been past shocking for a while now. We do have to work harder. |
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31 Dec 07 - 11:43 AM (#2225573) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario I've been hiding in the shadows. Kitty illnesses got me down. Bacon wrapped diver scallops on the barbie - sorry I couldn't get anything special. |
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31 Dec 07 - 01:04 PM (#2225636) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Point at the door and buzz: door's gone. Fortunate that it was the one that opens on Tahiti, so the cold and snow stays outside. Hmmm...a tail. Point at the tail and buzz. HOLY #!!$%@!! BUT THAT HURT!! Ouchy Ouchy Ouchy! |
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31 Dec 07 - 01:30 PM (#2225653) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak There were a couple of lobster on the road around the corner for the last two nights... looks like the bag fell out of someone's grip. The local foxes seem at a loss to know what to do with non-native crustatcea but there were a couple of cats fighting over one last night. The other had become roadkill. How the hell does a boiled lobster become roadkill you ask? I can't answer that, but there it was, squished, mushy and with a tyre tread right through the middle of it. LTS |
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31 Dec 07 - 01:33 PM (#2225658) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario You would think the local council would do something about that! I mean, it's a driving hazard, isn't it? boiled lobsters wandering into the right of way? Dreadful state of affairs! |
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31 Dec 07 - 01:39 PM (#2225663) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Maybe they were only steamed, not boiled. |
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31 Dec 07 - 01:48 PM (#2225669) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: MMario Even worse! Angry lobsters attacking traffic! |
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31 Dec 07 - 04:36 PM (#2225751) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Perhaps they were dancing, tripped, and fell: "Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle—will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? "You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!" But the snail replied, "Too far, too far!" and gave a look askance— Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. "What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied. "There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?" Or, perhaps more to the point, 'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.' As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the shark; But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. |
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31 Dec 07 - 08:57 PM (#2225898) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Just the one left tonight... the other appears to have been ingested by the local fauna. LTS |
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01 Jan 08 - 02:29 AM (#2226000) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Eww. That second one might as well get ingested rather than go to waste. Good things my pooches aren't there or they'd take a mouthful. |
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01 Jan 08 - 03:47 AM (#2226009) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Right... set 'em up.... pints of water all round please, and move the remains of the stew down to the other end of the bar if you'd be so kind. I looked at it for 4 hours yesterday whilst it was cooking, I'm really not that keen to see it again for a while. Happy New Year everyone! I'll quietly get me coat. LTS |
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01 Jan 08 - 11:03 AM (#2226155) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee There are now several holes in the walls, ceiling and floor from pointing and buzzing. He's discovered that the higher the note the smaller the hole and G above the staff will make one about the diameter of a cigarette. C below the staff makes a hole about the width of a good-sized snow shovel. He points the mouthpiece at the bottle behind the bar, and buzzes in high G, swinging the mouthpiece as he does so. The bottles explode in order, and he has a hard time keeping from laughing and continuing to buzz. |
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01 Jan 08 - 05:10 PM (#2226367) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Line me up a tanker of Brennevin, or Jaegermeister, or toilet cleaner... I've had a bad experience and I need to be cleansed... Oh ye Gods, do I ever need to be cleansed!!!! LTS |
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01 Jan 08 - 07:59 PM (#2226447) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee One high colonic, comin' right up! |
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01 Jan 08 - 09:30 PM (#2226495) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Did you find the source of the stench at Micca's? Ready to share? |
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02 Jan 08 - 05:47 AM (#2226573) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope She did indeed Sinsull....but we may have to wait a while before the trauma subsides... Another pint of sloe brennevin Liz? |
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02 Jan 08 - 05:50 AM (#2226575) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: GUEST,GUEST The squid? |
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02 Jan 08 - 08:33 AM (#2226634) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Micca Given it is my house we are talking of here, it is unlikely in the extreme to be anything fishy or fish product related, or of any kind of creature that lives in or under the sea, I am glad you found "it" Liz, PM me if you need to communicate. |
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02 Jan 08 - 09:37 AM (#2226667) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee I've got the hose ready for the high colonic. Just let me know when to let 'er rip. |
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02 Jan 08 - 09:49 AM (#2226678) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL Liz has never been shy before about sharing graphic details. What the hell was it, Liz? The suspense is killing me. SINS |
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03 Jan 08 - 01:54 AM (#2227198) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Considering all of the details that usually make it into the tavern threads, you're being awfully close-mouthed! Be careful or we'll begin to speculate. . . did Rap point that trumpet thing toward Micca's house, for starters? What did he hit? |
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03 Jan 08 - 05:00 AM (#2227247) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Wugsie cat slinks out from her hiding space in the bedroom... all eyes and tail fluff... 'What is all the fuss about? I'm perfectly happy here, winding round people's feet and tripping them into the bath...' RaVen kitty looks up at the new voice and twirls his whiskers in a cavalier fashion... LTS |
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03 Jan 08 - 07:47 AM (#2227325) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Catherine Jayne I've popped in for a large hot chocolate with a drop of Baileys in it, please. It seems Merlyn the Mogificent is curled up infront of the fire. Harry is playing with his 'noisey' toys and I would like to know how in what ever deity's name you like, the spider in my bathroom has managed to survive this cold weather?!! |
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03 Jan 08 - 07:49 AM (#2227326) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope That'd be the sloe brennevin..... |
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03 Jan 08 - 07:52 AM (#2227328) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Catherine Jayne Mmmmm sloe brennevin, t'was very nice indeed! Spider has now 'gone' |
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03 Jan 08 - 08:50 AM (#2227347) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee No high colonic? |
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03 Jan 08 - 09:29 AM (#2227375) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope I don't think the spider needed one Rapaire.... |
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03 Jan 08 - 09:30 AM (#2227377) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee Well, in that case I'll have a Talisker. |
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03 Jan 08 - 09:33 AM (#2227382) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Catherine Jayne (_) here you go! |
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03 Jan 08 - 10:27 AM (#2227436) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL I am back for the magic wand. Liz has need of it back in the real world. WHish! Or should I say "Wash!"? |
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18 Jan 08 - 10:30 AM (#2239242) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage Sage takes a few minutes before heading to work to sweep out the tavern and run a damp cloth over the bar. Leaving the windows ajar for ventilation, she pulls the front door closed behind her. The kitchen door is open a few inches so cats can come and go to keep the mice out. |
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18 Jan 08 - 10:51 AM (#2239258) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak What bloody fool locked me in the Ladies again? I wish people would check before they close up for the season.... Ho hum. Good job I've got Berts card and a cat to keep me company.... If only the door opened from the inside. LTS |
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18 Jan 08 - 11:48 AM (#2239301) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL "What fools" says the wand. "I clean and even do windows. Shall I open the door or leave that one to hang around until Bert shows up for his card?" |
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18 Jan 08 - 12:32 PM (#2239324) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn Just change the sign on the door to "Pre-0ccupied" and leave her there til the Martin Luther King Day Holiday crowd comes back in on Monday. You ARE all coming back, aren't you? |
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19 Jan 08 - 01:01 PM (#2240056) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Can someone put the video recorder on for CSI:NY please? If I'm going to be here til Monday then I'd appreciate it if someone could do that for me. Otherwise, it's quite restful in here... it's been a while since I had any good long quality time to myself and the cat. How much craft stuff can I order online with Bert's card before his bank start to get suspicious? LTS |
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19 Jan 08 - 06:04 PM (#2240228) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope CSI : Abergavenny do you? |
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19 Jan 08 - 08:11 PM (#2240308) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Better that CSI:Sketty which was my cousin's contribution last week.... LTS |
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20 Jan 08 - 05:27 PM (#2240851) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Oh dear, what can the matter be, Liz the Squeak is stuck in the Lavatory, She's been there a fortnight on Saturday, Nobody knows that she's there. (whistles mournfully.....) LTS |
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21 Jan 08 - 07:26 AM (#2241163) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak Hellooooooooooooo? Anybody out there?????????? LTS |
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21 Jan 08 - 11:57 AM (#2241348) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: SINSULL SINS enters from the Northern door, looks around and sees no one. "I thought we were celebrating MLK day" she muses. Ah well. A JD on the rocks and back to work. Door closes quietly behind her. |
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21 Jan 08 - 04:40 PM (#2241560) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope Don't worry Liz. I'll pop round Friday and slip some malt whiskey and haggis under the door..... |
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21 Jan 08 - 04:45 PM (#2241563) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Not malt whiskey!!!! LTS |
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21 Jan 08 - 05:08 PM (#2241580) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Stilly River Sage With a sneaking suspicion that she forgot something, Sage walks back to the Tavern despite the cold and drizzly weather. Tiptoeing to the lavatory door, it is as she feared. She hears breathing, muttering, and snatches of a song coming from the room. Pushing the door gently open, she reaches over with a long Philips head screwdriver and tightens that darned latch that tends to trap people when it becomes loose. Letting the loo door close noiselessly behind her, she stops at the bar for a sip of a smooth amaretto, then lets herself out of the Tavern again and heads for home. |
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21 Jan 08 - 06:57 PM (#2241658) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Severn I was gonna show up, but Crane Driver & Sussex Carole are playing here in Maryland tonight. I hope someone comes in!...... I'll be in for the "C.F. Martin, Luthier King" holiday picking session, though. No matter what SRS tightens up, it'll always be thought of as "The Squeaky Door" from here on in. Not everyone gets one named after them. An honor that comes with time on the throne, I guess..... |
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21 Jan 08 - 07:22 PM (#2241676) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Liz the Squeak I could cope with time 'on the throne' if it didn't leave such a big red ring on my ass.... Thank the deities that door got unlocked... now I can get out of here and back to the chocolate shop. Here Kitty, come and help with these bits of ham.... LTS |
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22 Jan 08 - 09:26 AM (#2241934) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: Rapparee I wish, he thinks, I could carve better. But the bar does look kind of nice, carved as the "Beast With Two Backs." They'll be surprised next holiday...I'll carve the letters "LtS" on it so they know who did it. So he sheathes his dagger, picks up his rapier and trumpet, and walks off whistling through the Western non-door. |
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22 Jan 08 - 04:28 PM (#2242314) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern 2007 Holiday escape From: lady penelope What, not even with large amounts of green ginger wine, Liz???? |
