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Callahan's December 2005 Bar Rag!

"To Callahan's Warmth
Wherever You May Be!"

In this issue:

Opening Toast -
Conference News - Board News
Birthdays/Calliversaries
Joke - Pun - Poem - Pun
Closing Quote - Editor's Note


To fulfilling the dream,
hanging in there and never giving up...
to tall boys, pointy elbows and basketball..
and to the opportunity to remember the young man
and the ideals that stole my heart so many years ago....

*** Smash! ***

- Sandra (MISSS) (About Joe, her husband) November, 2005


Conference News

A Conference/Chat report from Jennie:

The following is the list of suspects, er, cast of characters on hand for the first Wednesday Crayon-Fest. Fuzzy, LeAnne, Amber, RoadWitch, Ssarge, SillyLilFilly, MagiCoon, JayJ, Sandy, jalex, Ace, GreyLensman, Ewob, Carrieo, Niitaki, Paulette_Norton, Windswept, KaptnKate, 4-sight, Cortland, Vickie, Pascal, rlhartman, Bones, Jallenecs, Da51d. The Coonies and Mr. Meow-ghi climbed about in the rafters all night..:)

What a Crayon-Fest! There were crayons for coloring, for nibbling and for garnish. There was coloring on the walls, outside the lines, off the edges of the tablecloths and on the table tops. The crayons in the hot tub did not fare so well, though. I think the appropriate term for the result is crayon juice. At various times, I did have to turn on the automatic crayon dispensers in the ceiling. Hmm, if I turned them on maybe they are not so automatic? Well this is Cal’s, anything is possible.

For instance when the dog shook himself off after climbing out of the hot tub the paisley steam puffing off LeAnne’s dragon picture was pretty amazing. Carrie’s search for her spiked heels resulted in many found shoes, quite a few of them in the rafters. KaptnKate performed her chicken dance in her sexy chicken outfit. Now if a chicken outfit can be sexy (and oh boy it was!) you KNOW anything is possible. Remember a CalBabe with a feather is MORE than trouble, JayJ proved it! We all came to the consensus that men do have useful parts and somehow after that conversation rolled around to pigs - and goats, worms, ducks, motorcycles, turkeys, flies..

There were lots of flying peanuts for bad puns and we wound up back again to pigs again. Windswept has an incredible amount of pig trivia. Grey and MagiCoon each have their own stash of crayons that they think I don’t know about. ::giggle::

You really should join us on Wednesdays at 9:00pm est. Crayon eating is not necessary … the fewer you eat the more I can ::wink:: Come visit!!


Message Board News

From JayJ:

This months creative writing folder started with an interesting question from Bits. Of the things that haunt you, How would they sign your guest book? It brought comments regarding an Ex, blindness, and haunted frogs. From there we found ourselves enjoying a story written by Bones, The bad day - Ch 4, a mystery worth reading.

Jen took us on a journey of lifes changes entitled "Windows" followed by an interesting writing by AlexWriter entitled Cat Kite Flying.

Being the month of Thanksgiving, JayJ entered a humorous writing entitled It isn't easy being a Turkey and our final November entry was a Contribute story, led by Jen with each person adding the next chapter. Great fun, great story.



Birthdays Last Month

Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:

Ron   SOUTHRON2   November 5
Rich   SEAMUSTHEDOG   November 9
Jim   CROWLEY47   November 16
Storm   TSTORM   November 21
Angel   ARCHANGEL   November 27
Drummer   DFRNTDRUMMER   November 28
Bob   GREYLENSMAN   November 30

Calliversaries Last Month

Andrea   HIANDREA   November 10, 2002
Ostinato   OSTINATO   November 11, 1999
Cy   CYCLOPSGIRL   November 13, 2001
David   DA51D   November 13, 2003
Shane   SHANE   November 14, 1996
Snow   THESNOWPEA   November 16, 2001
Devil   DEVILSGIRL   November 19, 2002
Cortland   KA5S   November 19, 1994
Dark   PRETTYDARK   November 19, 2000
Pye   PYEWACKET   November 22, 1997
Laura   LGANDY   November 28, 2002

Joke of The Month

A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral. A huge heart covered in flowers stood behind the casket during the service. Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the casket rolled inside. The heart then closed, sealing the doctor in the beautiful heart forever.

At that point, one of the mourners burst into laughter.

When all eyes stared at him, he said, "I'm sorry, I was just thinking of my own funeral........ I'm a gynecologist."

That's when the proctologist fainted.

- Dave (FLATBUSHSKP) November, 2005


Pun of the Month

A tourist in Vienna was walking through a graveyard and all of a suddenly he heard music. No one was around, so he started searching for the source. He finally located the origin. It was coming from a grave with a headstone that read: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827.

Then he realized that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he left the graveyard and persuaded a friend to return with him. By the time they arrived back at the grave, the music had changed. Now it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward.

Curious, the men agreed to consult a music scholar. When they returned with the expert, the Fifth Symphony was playing, again backward. The expert noticed that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.

By the next day word has spread and a throng gathered around the grave. They were all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambled up to the group. Someone in the group asked him if he has an explanation for the music.

"Don't you get it?" the caretaker said incredulously.

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"He's decomposing."

- November, 2005


Poem of the Month -
"11/11"

On the eleventh day of the eleventh month
When the guns fall silent
When the war to end war ends
When survivors
Climb from trenches wondering
How they are still alive

When the nation once one minute waited
While the ranks of dead marched by in their minds
High price to pay for peace
They lived
To see how long
The promises would last

On the eleventh day of the eleventh month
Rush hour’s a mess and 101
Is blocked at Tamalpais; avoid
The off ramp,
There’s no room at all
For dreams long dead.

                -- Cortland (KA5S) November 11, 2005


Closing Quote

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer."

- Brendan Behan
- courtesy Carol (LADYLAUGHING) November, 2005


Editor's Note

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, simply send us a note.

And a reminder: we urge everyone to use our website as your gateway into Callahans on Delphi Forums. You will find prominent links to our Message Board and Conference rooms there but also if we ever have technical trouble at Delphi, we can easily let you know and redirect you to a backup site if the trouble is truly serious.

And besides - our website itself is special..:)

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