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Apology from a 'wet blanket'.

23 Mar 00 - 11:04 AM (#199888)
Subject: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: The Shambles

These seem to be all the rage, So I will have a go.

I am sorry if I am considered by some, to be a 'wet blanket' and spoil the fun.

I have to some extent been playing 'The Devil's Advocate' and will now stop and allow him/her to do there own work.

23 Mar 00 - 11:07 AM (#199893)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Bert

Shuddup, don't be such a wet blanket.

Gotcha Sham;~)

Bert.

23 Mar 00 - 11:09 AM (#199897)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Sorcha

You don't have to play devil's advocate, because he is already in your computer!! :)

23 Mar 00 - 11:13 AM (#199903)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Amos

Oh, come on, Sham -- what is this, Hair Shirt Week at the Mudcat Cafe??? Speak your mind, lad -- you're among friends.



Maybe it's an Ash Wednesday thing?

Me too, me too -- I have been rambunctious, irreverent, and have posted too much to BS threads and I am so sorry that it has offended people. I have told poeple they were flaming yak-bottoms and been rude to the community Elders. I have introduced heretical metaphysical notions into this staid community which has disrupted the quiet and scholarly ambience. I have made Bert feel bad and Max feels threatened by my stupid ponderous and unwelcome ego. I am really a secret bore who is overcompensating. And I APOLOGIZE!!! There...I feel much better..

It must be Free Time at the Neil Young Center or something...

Affectionately,

A

23 Mar 00 - 11:20 AM (#199911)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: The Shambles

Bert your reply was pretty damn quick, it must be a record? Or is it a tape? (smoles)

Have you people nothing better to do? I went to reply to Bert and there were 2 more posts here.

Amos you don't sound really sorry. Ash Wednesday also happened to be National No Smoking Day here.

23 Mar 00 - 11:26 AM (#199919)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Wolfgang

Bert's personal record is THE Mudcat record:
a zero minutes response delay in the 'shot in the dark' thread.

Wolfgang

23 Mar 00 - 12:01 PM (#199939)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Willie-O

Well, if you spend enough time around here, you can figure out what someone's going to say BEFORE they post it, (have two copies of your browser open, one for reading the thread and one for posting) compose an appropriate response, and have your clicking finger hovering over "submit message".

Right Bert?

Willie-O
who would like to apologize for overboiling syrup late last night...there's a rather enormous chunk of maple sugar in my kitchen that was supposed to be syrup if anyone would care to drop by for a cheap thrill...

23 Mar 00 - 12:20 PM (#199949)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Bert

Wolfgang, that was TWO minutes on the 'shot in the dark' thread. Hasn't anyone beaten that yet?

Amos, you didn't make me feel bad. I was just raggin' on you because you write better songs than I do. But then again, so does Sham, the rotten sod;-)

Bert.

23 Mar 00 - 12:28 PM (#199955)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Amos

LOL! You're right, I'm NOT sorry. There. I said it. And I'm GLAD, you hear me? GLAAAAD!!!

Seriously, Willie, hand over that maple syrup candy. Shades of my Vermont childhood! Fond memories of sliding around the hills slipping on the spring snow, on the back of a tank tractor, banging into the maples, picking up those lovely early spring buckets...loved it inn spite of the wet and cold. But I don't do it fer a livin', either! :>).

You guys are a real kick!

A

23 Mar 00 - 12:30 PM (#199960)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Escamillo

I apologize for having drunk too much in the Tavern the last time and left a mess in the site and for insisting in that boring vocal training when my mouth was busy with mugs and mugs of Guinness and for wearing that ridiculous suit of lights (all off) and posting the BS of the BS threads.
Un abrazo - Andrés

23 Mar 00 - 12:31 PM (#199961)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: wysiwyg

But if The Shambles ambles into the Tavern, let's NOT FUG him, OK?

23 Mar 00 - 12:36 PM (#199964)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Wolfgang

Bert,
you're right, your zero minutes performance was on the What does BS stand for? thread.
And this time has not been beaten yet.

Wolfgang

23 Mar 00 - 01:14 PM (#200001)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: TerriM

Does the Devil need an avocado and, if so, what for? What is going on with apologies around here, anyway? I miss a couple of nights and everyone is in sack cloth and ashes....what gives? (Personally, sack cloth just isn't my tailoring preference and ashes are something I leave trails of around the house when I'm searching for something with a cigarette in my hand)

23 Mar 00 - 01:48 PM (#200015)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama

I, too, am puzzled, Terri miseryfest. Lots of group hugs and encounter sessions.

23 Mar 00 - 02:05 PM (#200026)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Amos

It was staff development day at the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed, and the inmate collective had to find something to keep their souls stirred up in proper inmate form, so they ran over here...and started apologizing like mad!

23 Mar 00 - 05:45 PM (#200164)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Mbo

Amos, you sound like me! The Mudcat ain't big enough for both our ego!

--Mbo

23 Mar 00 - 06:03 PM (#200177)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Lady McMoo

You share an ego with Amos Mbo...?

mcmoo

23 Mar 00 - 06:06 PM (#200181)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Mbo

When the too shall be as one
The spirit's journey will be done...

--Mbo

24 Mar 00 - 10:39 AM (#200681)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

Namesake, you don't need to apologise for a wet blanket,it's a perfectly natural phenomenon if you've been dreaming about [insert own choice of fantasy here]. Baden Powell used to recommend cold showers and violent exercise if you're really worried. We've a heavy duty laundry at the Neil Young Center to cope with all those people dreaming of 1950s Martin and 1920s National guitars...
RtS

24 Mar 00 - 10:49 AM (#200688)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Áine

Dear Lodger,

Let me tell you what my grandmother used to do with 'wet blankets.' First, she'd scrub 'em on the washboard, then she'd scrub 'em again, just 'cuz. Then she'd wring 'em out with her really strong hands, squeezing 'em so tight, they'd be almost dry by the time she got through. Then they'd be slapped up over the clothes line in the back yard to hang high and blow in the wind. After a few hours, Grandma would come back with a four-foot wire rug beater and beat the livin' daylights out of 'em to make sure they good 'n clean . . .

So, if that sounds like your kind of a good time, go on and keep bein' a wet blanket -- Otherwise, put a smole on yer face and go write one of yer beautiful songs, dang it!

And I'm not apologizing fer nuthin'! Dang it!

Smoles to all, Áine

24 Mar 00 - 11:29 AM (#200725)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Amos

Wel Áine, you could apologize for getting all them poets all hotted up and berling over!


I
IA

24 Mar 00 - 11:38 AM (#200728)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Mbo

Aine, why didn't she just FUG 'em?

--Mbo

24 Mar 00 - 11:47 AM (#200734)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Áine

Amos -- Nope! Ain't gonna do it -- wouldn't be prudent.

Mbo -- My grandmother was a proper Southern lady and would never have FUGged anything in her life!

-- Áine

25 Mar 00 - 12:04 AM (#201143)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: WyoWoman

You know, Amos, I've always had a sort of soft spot for men who called otehrs flaming yak-bottoms and been rude to community Elders, particularly those who introduced heretical metaphysical notions into staid communities.

OK, OK, I've been an impertinent wench who often strayed off-topic into the Miasma of Malapropism and didn't even leave bread crumbs to guide her rescuers. For this, I am, to quote Monica Lewinsky, truly, deeply, like, you know.

There, I certianly feel better, and it beats hanging around the Mudcat Tavern, where, fer fock's sake, they're CLEANING! What has this place come to?

WW

25 Mar 00 - 12:16 AM (#201148)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: catspaw49

Yeah WW, but we're getting ready for a prom too!

Spaw

25 Mar 00 - 12:26 AM (#201154)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: WyoWoman

Can I wear my bubblewrap gown?

Do we stuff colored Kleenex into chicken wire at the front of the stage for decoration? (no, you may not use toilet paper...)

25 Mar 00 - 12:47 AM (#201160)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Amos

Hmm, GG -- apolgizing wouldn't be prudent because ... choose one:

1. It would expose a game you have been playing unrevealed to others....

2. It would attract all kinds of attention from wannabe hotted up poets that you don't need...3. DH soesn't hafta know everything.

4. None of your damn business snoophead....

5. All of the above.

6. None of the above.

DIscuss your selection.

25 Mar 00 - 12:51 AM (#201161)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: WyoWoman

I feel as though I've just strayed into a showdown at the Non Sequitur Corral...

25 Mar 00 - 12:56 AM (#201162)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: wysiwyg

That's OK, WW.

~Susan~

25 Mar 00 - 03:54 AM (#201193)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: The Shambles

MMMM That sounds quite good. maybe there is something in being a wet blanket, after all. A four foot wire beater eh?

When can you send grandma over?

25 Mar 00 - 08:24 AM (#201225)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: TerriM

someone book me a bed over at the NYC, I feel one of my headaches coming on!

25 Mar 00 - 08:28 AM (#201229)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: JedMarum

Oh, I thought it said "Apology for a wet blanket!"

25 Mar 00 - 09:16 AM (#201232)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Áine

Amos -- Interesting set of choices, there. My selection is: 1. It would expose a game you have been playing unrevealed to others.... . . . Except I always reveal myself when I play with others -- the only problem being that they usually scream and run away . . . sigh.

And dearest Lodger -- I'm sad to say that Grandma passed on to that great rugbeating heaven in the sky years ago. However, she did bequeath her four-foot rug beater to me -- How's about I let WyoWoman borrow it and she can come over to your house dressed in her bubble-wrap prom dress and you two can party to your little hearts' content? The only caveat being -- WE WANT PICTURES!!!

-- Áine

25 Mar 00 - 06:38 PM (#201418)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: Ali_UK

Just thought I'd apologise here for everything that I'm going to say over the next year ( that is if it offends anyone...ahhh what the heck ! Do I really care?). Just to get it over and done with from the beginning. So...erm...well...sorry sort of. Hmph!

25 Mar 00 - 11:11 PM (#201551)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: WyoWoman

I think the rug beater might play hell with my bubblewrap, and you know what they always say, "Once the bubbles are popped, it's just another Baggie..."

WW

25 Mar 00 - 11:56 PM (#201568)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: MK

No Wyo.

Then, you are just gift-wrapped. &nsp  8-)

26 Mar 00 - 12:02 AM (#201571)
Subject: RE: Apology from a 'wet blanket'.
From: WyoWoman

wicked boy. You should be disciplined.