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I think we all need a nice cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down.

Here is a refuge from the mania and hilarity, we have sofas, proper cucumber sandwiches, three kinds of cake, palm trees, a chamber orchestra, and a nice ceiling fan.

The summer breezes are drifting through the open casements, there is croquet on the lawn, and genteel conversation.

Milk or lemon? One lump or two?

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I will not swallow anything that comes from a member of this site.

Actually, I want nothing to do with any member of this site....

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(Oh...the gin's in the SILVER teapot and the tonic in the willow jug........)

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DrewDad wrote:

I will not swallow anything that comes from a member of this site.

Actually, I want nothing to do with any member of this site....

Goodness, Drewdad, you seem ruffled....

Here....have a cuppa and tell me all about it.

Would you like a touch of cologne to your forehead? It will cool you down.

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No sammiches with meat in 'em?

I'm outta here . . . goofy wabbit . . .

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Bex? What's a bex?

Instead of cucumbers might I have some tasty carrots? Raw? Sliced and made into nifty carrot sticks the way my father used to make them? Or are you one of those selfish wabbits I've hear tell of who won't share their stash?

And I'll have my tea with milk...and 2 of those cakes had better be chocolate.

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I'll take the part of genteel conversation...

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Setanta wrote:

No sammiches with meat in 'em?

I'm outta here . . . goofy wabbit . . .

We have ham "sammiches" my dear.....and cook is in the kitchen should you desire the muscle tissue of other prey animals.

Sturgis wrote:

Bex? What's a bex?

Instead of cucumbers might I have some tasty carrots? Raw? Sliced and made into nifty carrot sticks the way my father used to make them? Or are you one of those selfish wabbits I've hear tell of who won't share their stash?

And I'll have my tea with milk...and 2 of those cakes had better be chocolate.

Bex is an old form of aspirin once beloved of stressed Australian housewives. It came in powder form, with doses wrapped in little individual packets.

My mother preferred a brandy and a cigarette.

You may have whatever carrots you desire....and there is a plenitude of chocolate cakes.

So.....DO tell me about your day...

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Setanta wrote:

No sammiches with meat in 'em?

I'm outta here . . . goofy wabbit . . .

Drop by my regal locale...roast beef, pastrami, and a deli near by in case we're missing something.

The music is a little more refined...a little bluegrass and a little of that Van Ronk stuff and even Missippi John Hurt and the occasional Joplin and Zeppelin mixed in as well (if necessary I can put on the Nazareth albums or even Sinatra). No ceiling fans however.

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Francis wrote:

I'll take the part of genteel conversation...

Certainly, my dear Francis...(kisses him fondly)...and about which genteel do you wish to converse?

Tea or gin, dear?

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hmmmm.....

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<eats a cucumber sandwich>

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<eats some cake>

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<mmmmm, good cucumber sandwiches, bunny... wonders if there's any more>

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<what, no white wine?>

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dlowan wrote:

My mother preferred a brandy and a cigarette.

You may have whatever carrots you desire....and there is a plenitude of chocolate cakes.

So.....DO tell me about your day...

Your mother was a smart woman...few things are as relaxing as a good cigarette in times of stress.

Seeing as how I can have the carrots I will be canceling my shindig...Set will have to manage there on his own.

As for me I awoke early and headed out the door to a slushy mess of what was being passed off as snow... and what of you? Catch any kangaroos in your parlor lately?

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Tea, please.

Do you have any idea about the scale to measure egos?

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Please pass the gin and it.

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Francis wrote:

Tea, please.

Do you have any idea about the scale to measure egos?

Kelvin, darling.

JPB wrote:

hmmmm.....

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<eats a cucumber sandwich>

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<eats some cake>

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<mmmmm, good cucumber sandwiches, bunny... wonders if there's any more>

gin & tonic or tea with lemon?

<what, no white wine?>

I'd have both, dearest.

Of COURSE we have white wine, and the supply of cucumber sandwiches is inexhaustible.

So, how are YOU?

Sturgis wrote:

dlowan wrote:

My mother preferred a brandy and a cigarette.

You may have whatever carrots you desire....and there is a plenitude of chocolate cakes.

So.....DO tell me about your day...

Your mother was a smart woman...few things are as relaxing as a good cigarette in times of stress.

Seeing as how I can have the carrots I will be canceling my shindig...Set will have to manage there on his own.

As for me I awoke early and headed out the door to a slushy mess of what was being passed off as snow... and what of you? Catch any kangaroos in your parlor lately?

No kangaroos...and now I must go to work.

Here's the key to the liquor cabinet dearie.

Noddy24 wrote:

Please pass the gin and it.

Certainly...now, tell me, how is your dominion doing?

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My dominion?

Snow and testosterone. Snow and testosterone.

Twenty-three more days of winter--but then you're on the other side of the equinox.

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wabbit sounds like she just got electro shock therapy. She kinda has that zoned out zombified aura.

Very Happy

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which genteel would you like to discuss?

Or else shes a little predatory wabbit out to have her way with unsuspecting tourists.

Gimme the Hare clippers

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dlowan wrote:

Bex is an old form of aspirin once beloved of stressed Australian housewives. It came in powder form, with doses wrapped in little individual packets.

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Looks like Lydia Pinkham has gone modern on us.

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Anybody remember the words to the Lydia Pinkham song?

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I found it!

CHORUS
We'll drink a drink adrink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink,
The savior of
The human ra-a-ace!
She invented
Medicinal Compound
Most efficacious
In every case.

Now here's a story
A little bit gory,
A little bit happy,
A little bit sa-a-ad,
Of Lily the Pink and
Her Medicinal Compound
And how it drove
Her to the bad.

Oh, Ebeneezer thought <- weird scansion, I know
He was Julius Caesar,
And so they put him in a ho-ho-home.
Till they gave him
Medicinal Compound,
And now he's Em-
Peror of Rome.

CHORUS

Oh, Domingo,
The opera singer,
Could break glasses with his voice, they said.
He rubbed his tonsils
With Medicinal Compound,
And now they break glass-
Es over his head.

Uncle Paul, he
Was very small, he
Was the shortest man in tow-ow-own.
He rubbed his body
With Medicinal Compound,
And now he weighs just
Half a pound.

CHORUS

Jimmy Hammer
Had a t-t-t-terrible st-stammer,
He c-could hardly s-s-say a w-wo- a wo- a wo-o-ord.
Till he took some
Medicinal C-c-c-compound,
And now he's seen,
But never heard.

Lily died,
Went up to Heaven,
All the church bells they did ri-i-ing.
She took with her
Medicinal Compound:
Hark, the Herald
Angels sing!

CHORUS

For the record, Lydia Pinkham's Medicinal Compound
was a concoction sold in drugstores some years ago
which was about 97% alcohol and advertized itself
as being able to cure practically anything. I believe
this song was written by Shel Silverstein

Funny............I remember singing "slightly" different words to that song!

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