Big Top by Rob Harrell for December 24, 2009

Good Morning All

Christmas Eve Breakfast Menu:

1) Eggs, your choice. 2) Buttermilk pancakes w/choice of syrup 3) Hash brown cassarole 4) Grits 5) Eggs benedict 6) Smoked Bacon, Ham or sausage patties/links. 7) Texas toast/English muffins 8) Asst flavored teas 9) Asst fruit juice 10) Pudding, Asst flavors. 11) Regular, decaf, Doc’s or Pirate coffee 12) Johanan’s CocoMocha

Enjoy All

Spike of the Day: Peppermint

‘Morning Terry and Rakkav! I’ll have two eggs over easy on top of two pancakes with maple syrup, and Irish breakfast tea.

Good Morning Marg & Johanan

Your order is coming up Marg. Enjoy!

HI, MARG!!!

Hello JFried

Hi, Terry.

HI, JFRIED SANTA!. I been good this year…

Good night, sleep well.

Good Night MerryMarg

You sleep well, too, dear!

Uh, the reason it’s a graveyeard is because its denizens are dead.

LONEWOLF _ Unfamiliar with Pirate coffee (hope it doesn’t make me say, “ARRR!”) so I’ll have some, please

Eight more eating days til my diet!

Morning TRIBE. Have a happy and safe

Lewreader, you need to ask our “resident Pirate” about the Pirate Coffee. He knows the ins and out better than I.

But your order is upcoming. Enjoy!

I just wanted to thank the Breakfast Crew here for helping start my day off happy every morning, and wish you all a very merry, healthy, happy holiday!

-from a grateful lurker

I’ll have 100 eggs, scrambled for easy serving, 200 pancakes, hashbrowns for 50, grits, bacon and ham for 75, and juice for 100. I’ll be serving them at the halfway house, should anyone want to come along and help out. Let me know the total and I’ll hit the ATM and pay it all up. Oh, and coffee too, thanks :-) Merry Christmas all.

Good Morning MoPar!

Quite an breakfast order there MisngNOLA, but this is not a catering service. Your welcome to a breakfast for yourself though. And Merry Christmas to you!

Hi!

Bye!

The church secretary (squared) has a huge day ahead of her.

Maybe I’ll BBL.

Merry Christnmas Eve.

Dr Toon, I think Santa will think it’s a bust! Merry Christmas ya’ll. And God Bless You MisngNOLA.

Good Morning Doc, Celecca & Goodquestmas

Doc, I would think most of The Tribe will be non-existent tomorrow.

Doc, I don’t know what Santa will think, but I’d have to grade that toon at least a D……………………………

Doc, I’m not replying to that one on a forum!

But have I got some comebacks…………………………………….

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE ALL!

Morning all! Doc - it could be they’re all brothers - we never did learn the Prince’s first name(s)

merry Christmas all. going get a move on. bbml

Good morning Tribe ((((((TRIBE)))))

4 day weekend! Whoo Hoo!! Cleaning the apartment! Bleeeccccchhhh!!!! At least my son’s coming over to help. Or at least he said he would…..

Been a busy week getting ready for the 11pm service tonight. It should be great, though. Our associate pastor is preaching tonight, and he’s very animated and good. And he also has a voice you can hear in our choir area, it can get hard to hear the senior pastor.

Anyway, I’ll be popping in and out. Ya’ll have a great Christmas!!!!!!

Good Morning Joy

I hope your Season is Peaceful & Joyous!

Love back at you, dear lady!!

Good Morning Dry, DMistletoad, Quaby & Tabby

So good to see you, JOY! I return your wishes in kind.

A very merry Christmas to all!

Mopar, bless you!

Doc, enjoy your very happy Christmas!

Good Morning Dear Marg

May YOU have a very Merry Christmas!

Good Night Doc

Enjoy

MERRY CHRISTMAS MARG AND JOY!

MERRY CHRISTMAS RAD!

AND CARMY, WHEREEVER YOU ARE GIRL!

*Yes Rad, Merry Christmas! And Owlsley and Hy!

Since we’ve run out of princes,

Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Knight!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the tribe. Hope you all have a great year, And thanks for hanging out with the Big Top crew!

ps - Dusty says hello.

WOW ROB! THANK YOU! HOPE YOU SEE THIS! I LOVE THE BIG TOP, AND YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB ON ADAM @ HOME! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TOO! FROM ALL THE TRIBE

Don’t worry, DMistletoad, I was assured by Kodak: some day your prince will come!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Now, if the wind will just hold off a ‘nother day or so…

A most merry Christmas to you, bmonk. I’m listening to the history of Christmas on the radio, and it is fascinating. May you and all the brothers have a good holy day.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, DRY!!!

Thank you Rob Harrell!

I read Adam @ Home everyday! Love it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!

MERRY CHRISTMAS MARG!

Merry Chirstmas BMonk and Terry!

Merry Christmas Eve, tribe.

And a very Merry Christmas to you Dry!

Be safe dear lady!

Merry Christmas Saucy, Bmonk, DigitalMisteltoad, MoPar

Merry Christmas Marg!!!

I am getting ready for tonight and won’t make it back until well after midnight so…………………………….

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

AND PLEASE BE SAFE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

YO HO HO!!! I be wishin’ all ye scurvy Tribesters a very Merry Christmas!! Joy, me love, I be pickin’ ye up fer a Christmas cruise of the Caribbean!!! Th’ galley be fully stocked an’ ready!! An’ I be fully loaded wi’ RUM!!

PIRATE!! It’s about time you put in an appearance. Did you ever tell us the name of your good ship?

Merry Christmas,TERRY! Be safe driving around Chicagoland.

Yes, it’s about time! Merry Christmas Pirate!

Thank you Marg! You are a very special person!

Adios everybody!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!! :)

Aye, Marg, I have! ‘Tis th’ Black Raven!! Thar be room aboard fer ye, too, if ye can drink yer fair share o’ RUM!!

*MERRY CHRISTMAS PIRATE! YOU TAKE CARE OF JOY! AND I HOPE YOU GOT HER A DECENT CHRISTMAS PRESENT THIS YEAR! *

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRR, whar be ye, Joy? ‘Tis th’ time ye make th’ final rounds an’ I be waitin’ on ye at yon dock!!

Merry Christmas ta ye, Dry!! Aye, I did! Don’t let her know but I got her a bonnie fine pearl necklace! All she needs ta do is shuck them thar oysters, pick out th’ pearls an’ string ‘em together!! An’ she can use the shells fer a string bikini!! AAAAARRRRRRRRR!!

I knew you would cheap out! For Shame! Why can’t you shuck the oysters?

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!! Now why didn’t I think o’ that!! Now I be up late tonight!!

Well you’d be up late anyway, until the RUM kicks in!:-)

Aye!! An wi’ th’ preparation fer th’ cannon serenade I be plannin’ it be a late night fer sure!!

I hope the cannon seranade isn’t a rendition of 12 days of Christmas!

An’ why the blazes NOT, lassie??

Only if it’s the funny version about the lights!

AAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!! Ye didn’t expect the ol’ pirate ta be SERIOUS, did ye?

I guess that would be a stretch of the imagination!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsvY8PbhZi0

Merry Christmas to all the Tribe! Rob, please give Dusty and the others a big huggie for me!

Merry Christmas, Carmy!!!!!

(sweep, sweep)

(dust, scrub)

Look…if you’re not going to eat the candy canes, at least put them in a designated refuse bin. They’re a bleeep to get out of shag carpet….

(shampoo, vacuum)

HI Hy, Hi Carmy, Hi JFri! I keep checking in as I pass this room! Can’t help it! Check out today’s Lio! Meant a lot to me, double, though I didn’t post!

Peace be unto you, and throw your Dorito bags into the readily available cans I’ve set about the conclave. I have an account with U-Line now, so there’s no excuse for the untidiness.

(polish, wipe)

Hy, what am I supposed to do with the shrimp shells?

Do NOT place them down the disposal….trash them, if they’re not for a nice sauce.

Shrimp shells, celery strings, and other fibrous materials should go in the “dry” garbage.

Where do all these empty Bookers bottles and messed up “paint supplies” go? CLEO IS GONNA BE SOOOOOO SURPRISED WHEN HE GETS HOME

SNERK!!

This assumes you’re not planning a lovely stock…in which case you can keep the celery strings and shrimp shells.

Well he’ll be even MORE SURPRISED if he finds all the SHRIMP SHELLS AND CELERY STRINGS in the middle of his living room!

Of course, I could make a lovely soup stock as HY suggested, but hey, I have enough work cut out for me tmr. Do I really want to make a soup stock? It would be easier to just dump them somewhere, like Cleo’s living room and let him make the soup stock! :-)

No….don’t waste them. Add them to a stock pot…I have a young nephew here which, cleaned properly, would add a savory undertaste…

who, HY, your nephew? Oh please!

Do you have a house full of relatives you’d rather not have there? I’ve had that before! Especially one of my aunts! LOL!

Someone left a child here…he knows no poetry, nor can he do math. He cannot determine the difference between metric and standard sockets….I say we eat him.

The cats like him, though…

Ah…apparently Wifey Bits has agreed to watch him while his parent refeules her automobile. My neice, it seems. I hope she gets here before the cats decide to make a meal of him…

Hey if the cats like him, he must be okay! Most cats are pretty persnickity, you know!

and how old is this child, about 2 or 3? LOL!

I can’t tell…the child is pre-verbal…I keep asking it questions, and it either farts or slobbers….

Oh HY, have you never had an experience with a baby? I thought you had kids of your own, if I remember. ROFLMAO!

No, I tend to avoid small children, and others without control of their bowels.

Oh HY, you are a hoot!

BTW, you were once one of those creatures!

True enough. And I probably shall be again.

Yes, I suppose we all will be, unless we get real lucky!

The alternatives are not particularly appealing…perhaps we have only the circumstances from which to choose.

I’m watching ”White Christmas”….do you suppose Danny Kaye was gay? I’d never noticed it before….not that there’s anything WRONG with that.

Neice has returned for the small creature.

My stock pot is diminished.

(rinse, load)

(wipe, dust)

going fall asleep watching a movie. had a LONG day today but it was okay.

merry Christmas tribe love you guys

peace and love all

Hey, TL.

School going well?

Hokay…

(sweep, sweep)

hymenoxis, so good to see you again! Loved the bit about your nephew.