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Night before MudCatChristmas 2001

27 Nov 01 - 07:58 AM (#598395)
Subject: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: InOBU

It was the night before Christmas and all through the net,
Most of the Mudcats were snoozing, or passed out and wet,
Next to the tree, a ticking was clear,
As Spaw lay dreaming of beans cooked in beer...

line breaks added by mudelf ;-)

27 Nov 01 - 08:00 AM (#598396)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: GUEST

ROFLMAO InOBU!

You're the funniest!

27 Nov 01 - 08:03 AM (#598398)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: InOBU

HEY GUEST! ADD A VERSE! Cheers Larry

27 Nov 01 - 08:15 AM (#598400)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: Morticia

The catters were settled, all snug on their site
With visions of the calendar for extra delight
The tavern was open, the lights they were bright
And all little mud-elves were drinking Bud-light

line breaks (burp...) added by mudelf ;-)

27 Nov 01 - 08:21 AM (#598401)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: Amos

When from out on the porch, there arose such a ruckus,
That I sprang from my sleep to find out "Whattus Fuckus?!"
The noise was tremendous!! And what did I see
But sixteen little folkies, all tuned DADGAD!!!!

27 Nov 01 - 08:45 AM (#598412)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: GUEST,P. Mitchell @ work

There was a melodeon, banjos and bodrhan's, quite a few,
But there were also acceptable instruments too.
An hour then passed with a terrible noise
'Till the shout did go up "We're all in tune boys!"
(errr... and girls)

lbabme ;-)

27 Nov 01 - 08:59 AM (#598417)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: Dead Horse

Out in the annex, a tapping was heard
Bashing his keyboard, the computer nerd
Was he posting to this thread from night until morn
Or was he downloading another load of porn?

lbabme ;-)

27 Nov 01 - 09:47 AM (#598450)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: Amos

With a twinkling Webmeister so jivey and regal,
I knew in a moment it must be Max Spiegel!
More rapid than eagles his folkies all picked,
And he whistled, and shouted, and made them look slick;
"Now, Catspaw!! now, Fielding! now, Big Mick and Kendall!
On, Áine! on Amos! on, Peter and Jendle!!
To the top of the range! til your vocal cords haul!
Now capo up, capo up, capo up all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So over the chord-change transitions they flew,
With the air full of tenor, and Maxie sang too!
And then, in a twinkling, I heard from old Loki
Three thousand new thread-thoughts, half sober, half joking.
As I turned toward my Puter making all this commotion,
On the screen came old Maxie, with a bag full of notions!
There were song threads and lyrics, and a Challenge or two
And a pack of obscure queries that nobody knew!
There was history, discussion, Pete, Huddie and Woodie,
And he looked like a peddler with a bag full of goodies.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the skin of his chin was as white as the snow;
He smoked unfiltered Camels from butt-end to start
And he didn't much care what it meant to his heart,
He had five quarts of lager, laid out in a row,
He was suave, he was slick, a Dude in the know.

He was lean and amusing, a right Meister of blues,
All covered with songs, and web-posts and news;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And rebooted the servers, while cursing some jerk
Who had hung up Cold Fusion; but he got it all right,
And giving a nod, he displayed the whole site!
Then he sprang to the microphone, gave his folkies a roar,
And called "Stagger Lee, Version 20! On four!"
And I heard him exclaim, as the song rang out bright,
"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A
GOOD-NIGHT."                                                                                  

27 Nov 01 - 10:00 AM (#598460)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: MMario

WOBH

27 Nov 01 - 10:53 AM (#598488)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: SharonA

Bravo, bravo!

27 Nov 01 - 12:45 PM (#598553)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: Morticia

Pure genius, Amos.....either this stuff comes easily to you or you have WAY too much time on your hands *BG*.

27 Nov 01 - 02:16 PM (#598612)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: artbrooks

{abashed, he creeps quietly away, blown out of the water before he could even think of versifying}

27 Nov 01 - 02:27 PM (#598627)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: MMario

of course Amos does have the wee problem of stopping...but we love 'm anyways!

27 Nov 01 - 02:42 PM (#598641)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: SINSULL

And here I was torturing over a witty verse containing a stirring mouse (computer mouse...get it?)

27 Nov 01 - 05:01 PM (#598768)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: lady penelope

Knicker wetting stuff, the lot of you! Excellent! How do you do wolf whistles on the net? Applause, applause, stamping of feet!!!!

WOO HOO!

TTFN M'Lady P.

27 Nov 01 - 05:25 PM (#598790)
Subject: RE: Night before MudCatChristmas 2001
From: death by whisky

All round the world,the catters were drinking,
party never stopped as the globe kept on turning,
together in music ,the common strand.
To live in peace,t'would be just grand.

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