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Callahan's September 2001 Bar Rag!"To Callahan's Warmth
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To Gathering 2001 and our official hosts, Peter and Sandra! May we all have a safe and wonderful time together in Boston! *** Smash *** - Lou Hi all.. Gathering 2001 has begun! 24 Callahanians are here in Boston now - and we have a few more yet to arrive..:) Stories and photos will be available later in the month and will be highlighted here. But for now: Look out Boston! We mark another milestone in Callahans this month.. On August 21, 1999 Elizabeth Kate, noticing that Chad (kestrel) had been absent for some time, started a thread entitled "kestrel" On August 19th last month, not quite two years later, the 3000th post was added to the longest running continuous thread in Callahans. What makes it even more spectacular is that the original post was a haiku - and nearly all posts since are also haikus.. Further - and astoundingly - the first line in each haiku is the last line of the one preceding it! Can you imagine? Drop in and have a look..:) From Silky: Cloud chair races? Where? In chat?! Yes indeedy, we had cloud chair races with a twist the other night in chat. Where it's usually Carol or Silky who start the silliness, this time Cstar was the culprit, er, instigator? Um... Well, she started it anyhow! The twist was... the gals gave over control of their precious cloud chairs to some of the guys! Silky snagged Powhatan and hopped off and let him drive. Brig handed her controls over to Bill (BigFurryGuy) and Carol shanghaied Lou and left him trying to figure out how to work the darned thing. (Cstar cheated. She put hers on autopilot and took a nap.) THEN the gals decided that hiding, watching and giggling was the order of the day. I mean, drivin 'em isn't *that* difficult! Somehow the guys took quite a while getting the hang of it. There were several near misses... other chairs, patrons, and the rafters... sudden screeching (ever heard a cloud chair screech to a halt? <shudder>) halts and mad scrambles to escape the chain saw peripherals that Cstar's chair suddenly sprouted. Brig spent most of the time peeking through her fingers, afraid that her chair was going to need a trip to the shop to be air-worthy again. I pleaded with Powhatan to *please* not get sick all over my chair and Carol had to look for Lou. He got lost. Cstar? She napped through the whole thing... or at least that's what she wanted us to think she was doing. <g> Everything ended well though... or almost. Powhatan took Silky's cloud chair thru the nearest chair wash and brought it back bright and shiny. Bill graciously had Brig's repainted in Chromillusion. We finally found Carol's chair squished waaaaay up in the rafters... without Lou! Before panic could take over completely, Cstar woke up from her nap and called Carol's chair over for a 'quiet word'. Poor chair was completely embarrassed. Seems it 'lost' Lou... somewhere... It did promise to go look for him just as soon as it calmed down enough to think. Just before I left for the evening, I *think* I saw Lou re-entering the bar... a portion of his body at a time... through what looked suspiciously like a temporal vortex. From Cane and Silky: Punday night was held during a hot August evening in Callahan. The room was filled and peanuts were flying. Several new visitors arrived this month including Tklmeange who was dragged in by Bill (BIGFURRYGUY.) Topic 1 was "Back to School" and a Dishonorable Mention went to QRS for his *Bacteria behind the cafeteria* and using a notebook for music class. Geoff (Goatboy) told a real stinker too, about the high school teachers not being aware of the high incidence of teen pregnancy until they noticed so many of the pupils were dilated. Ouch! The round, however, was won by Shane... Topic 2 was "Mathematics.." Dishonorable mention to Shane for a long, complex story about him and his ex, loaded with math puns...some of which were real groaners.... Clurichaun also got a dishonorable mention for one about 'the squaw of the hippopotamus', which Geoff followed with ... 'being equal to the squaw on the other two hides...' Geoff (Goatboy) was declared winner because of one about a mathematical hooker... she turned trigs. (Guess I was as warped as you last night sis!) August was back-to-school month at Callahan's. bits asked, "Which teacher or teachers do you remember most clearly? What made them memorable? and it seemed that *everyone* had a memory they wanted to share. We have several teachers in our midst, Lizkat (ELIZABETHKAT) and David (DGBREWER), and Bright (ALBRIGHT) and several who have always wanted to be teachers. To that end, Brigitte (SPROCKIES) has recently gone back to school to get her teacher's certificate, and Walt (WWW3) has some teaching plans of his own for when he retires. Good luck to both of you! Every one of those folks will be remembered in the future by their students, when someone asks the very same questions that bits asked. Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:
Calliversaries Last Month Chad (SHEAR2) continues to Calliversaries! If you'd like to find out the date you first came to Callahan's, just post here, and we'll be wishing you a "Happy Calliversary" some time in the next year!
A note from Chad: *Most* of the Calliversary dates appear to be correct, but if you see one that isn't, please let us know. A man was driving along a rural road one day when he saw a three legged chicken. He was amused enough to drive along side it for a while, as he was driving he noticed the chicken was running 30 mph. Pretty fast chicken, he thought, I wonder just how fast it can run. So he sped up and the chicken did too! They were now moving along the road at 45 mph! The man in the car sped up again, to his surprise the chicken was still running ahead of him at 60 mph!!! Suddenly the chicken turned off the road and ran down a long driveway leading to a farmhouse. The man followed the chicken to the house and saw a man in the yard and dozens of three legged chickens. The man in the car called out to the farmer, "How did you get all these three legged chickens?" The farmer replied, "I breed 'em. Ya see it's me, my wife and my son living here and we all like to eat the chicken leg. Since a chicken only has two legs, I started breeding this three legged variety so we could all eat our favorite piece." "That's amazing!" said the driver, "How do they taste?" "Don't rightly know, can't catch 'em." Poem of the Month - "hand in hand"
the innocent glances
hand in hand, we promised, for better or worse
together we laughed
hand in hand, we promised, for better or worse
lay a flower, name in stone
hand in hand, we promised, for better or worse - 99TACX (99TACX) August 12, 2001 "When we lose our power to laugh, we lose our power to think straight." - Queen Victoria Please send us a note if you wish to receive the Bar Rag each month via email. Your email address will not be made visible to others who receive the Bar Rag. We will, of course, continue to post the Rag on our Web site..:) We hope you find the Bar Rag entertaining and informative. We can always use good pieces and writers here. If you have something you would like to submit, or have a comment, good or bad, about the newsletter, or if you wish to be added to or removed from our Bar Rag mailing list, simply send us a note. |