open letter to momminpappa

[7river]

Hey momminpappa!

hope the studing is going well? try to let us know when the big exam is so we can send some energy your way.

your wit and charm is surly missed so do remember the door is open

(even though you have the will power not to post, we all know you sneek a peek now and then:))

[HoneySuckleBlue]

What is he studying?

[7river]

he is keeping it a secret

[mariecstasy]

aw............you can have energy from me anyway. if its negative, wrestle with it, make it positive and send it back my way!!


good luck buddy

[HoneySuckleBlue]

He's so mysterious...and clever. I'm glad he's on our side.

[moominmamma]

Not clever,not wise, and aided in my ability not to come on the forums by a combination of getting my registration stuck halfway, early misgivings about the way the new forum was working, and entrusting the building of a home network to our 20 year old son who's just home from University. He cleverly managed to lose us our broadband connection whilst installing a router, and a week and a half later of being shunted backwards and forwards between the router manufacturer, the computer manufacturer and the ISP, we still ain't any closer to getting it back- although mysteriously tonight the dial-up connection is working,(previously it had said that the password had expired!)

I've taken a break from studying tonight and tried to sort the internet connection out for moominmamma - she's really missed the forums and also needs any treat going. Last week she had blood-poisoning and was very unwell, and as soon as she gets well, wee Hamish goes down with suspected measles, (seriously bad news for autistic kids). She's not sure if she's being driven mad by sleep deprivation or by watching back to back videos at funny hours of the night.

I'll blow what little street cred I have by saying I'm training to be an accountant. In my defense, I must say that it's probably about the only grown up decision I've made in my life. I started about five years ago and I'm now at the final stage, and it makes my brain hurt.

And I'm kinda lazy, and it's difficult going back to college in your early 40's, but it means that I can get my eldest son through University and that the Moominfamily has finally got a place they can call their own. But sometimes when theres salt on the night air and I can hear the distant warning klaxon from the lighthouse I hankers for my days before the mast on the old HMS Hipforum.

Ah well, I'm off for a taste of the cat.......

Thanks for the vibes and positive energy, I'm treating them as a charitable donation and therefore tax-deductible grossed up at marginal tax rates,etc,etc - the accountants equivalent of techno-babble.

There is only one word for what I feel for you guys....

Love,
Moominpappa

[nirgal]

Ahoy MMP, glad you are still with us :) We miss your wit and wisdom here. I'll send some energy to MMM and Hamish, (wow autism and measles), hang on, the sea touches all shores.
Love to you and all, Greg

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Woohoo!The mystery is revealed and He liiives!!

Sorry to hear about the recent illnesses though, I hope wee hamish recovers quickly. You guys will be in my thoughts!

[moominmamma]

Woohoo!The mystery is revealed and He liiives!!


Yespth,

The mistressth had me thrapped to the roof latht night in the thummer thunderthorm. I'm to have a new brain ath well........

[luvndrumn]

MMP, echoing the thoughts and vibes of those that posted before. Glad you found the field, even though you're incognito.

Tell your 20 year old that he is not a credit to his generation. They are supposed to blow our generation away with their mage-like comprehension of things electronic. *finger waggling and tongue clicking*






Question: What does one call a CPA without a sense of humor? An Actuary.:D

Do hope Master Hamish recovers quickly.

[moominmamma]

MMP, echoing the thoughts and vibes of those that posted before. Glad you found the field, even though you're incognito.
I will get myself sorted out and become the Moominpappa we all know and ignore. Still can't help thinking the grass in the other field was a bit greener!
And I don't see no water feature yet!


Tell your 20 year old that he is not a credit to his generation. They are supposed to blow our generation away with their mage-like comprehension of things electronic. *finger waggling and tongue clicking*

Yes he's run away to his girlfriends to escape the "frosty" atmosphere at home, and he's been telling everyone how no-one appreciates him at home. I think I'll try finger clicking and tongue waggling just for a bit of variety


Question: What does one call a CPA without a sense of humor? An Actuary.:D
Answer, (obviously) - Moominpappa - I have a non-sense of humour

Do hope Master Hamish recovers quickly.
Thanks Luvndrumm, and all you guys (and dolls!) for your best wishes for Hamish.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

No water feature, aye...but we do have a creamed corn lagoon, which IMHO is waaay more flavorful.

[luvndrumn]

Question: What does one call a CPA without a sense of humor? An Actuary.:D
Answer, (obviously) - Moominpappa - I have a non-sense of humour.

*affecting his best barrister's voice*

Thou must realise, Moominpapa, that these new fora doth have new features, one being the ability of altering the colour of the font. Therefore, Moominpapa, thou must, when confronted by significant areas of space followed by a smilie face, investigate the aforementioned space by hi-liting said space to ascertain whether characters are present in a nearly undetectable font colour. Harrrrumph.

[nirgal]

I've got a pump that can pump a couple thousand gallons of creamed corn an hour....... a corn Fall into the Lagoon !!?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Oh man i knew that it could be highlighted and I still missed it...doh *smacks head*


The sound of creamed corn gently cascading down in a falling matter would add much to the fields ambiance, I could fashion some driftwood salmon jumping up the falls...

[luvndrumn]

The sound of creamed corn gently cascading down in a falling matter
PLOP!









hee hee heeeee

[HoneySuckleBlue]

plop~splat

[nirgal]

Roflmao :D

With Lily pads and frogs and back lighting

Imagine the ambiance after a few days in the sun......

[HoneySuckleBlue]

...and the gentle buzz of black flies.

*sigh* ...such tranquility will be un paralleled

[nirgal]

nature in harmonious balance
We're all compost in the making....

[HoneySuckleBlue]

...I was wondering what that smell was.

[nirgal]

The whole planet is made of dirt.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

...nuh~unh!!! *shove*

(sorry hav'nt had dinner yet:p )

[nirgal]

Oh no, I'm not going in there alone
~grabs her ankle and they both fall into the fermenting goo....

I think there is something besides corn in here......

[HoneySuckleBlue]

*has star wars~esk flash back to the garbage compactor scene*

S~S~s~sumpthin' just touched my...*large tentacle reaches outta the creamed corn pit and wrapes around HSB's neck, then draggs her under*

[nirgal]

Oh sheet here we go again, dives after Honey.....Flashing between Humphry Bogart and Harrison Ford...... light saber in one hand groping blindly with the other....

[luvndrumn]

*luvndrumn, seeing the unexplained highjinks, flips through a chemistry book searching for the psychotropic properties of fermenting creamed corn goo*:confused:



"Hmmmmmmm! No foolin'?":eek:




*dives in*:D

[HoneySuckleBlue]

http://www.eugene.com/entertainment/duck_images/Psychedelic-Duck.jpg

*pops up outta the goo*
Woah...man, did you see the sizeofthat chicken ??!!

[nirgal]

Discovers that the bottom of the pond of steaming goo is really another surface.....
Emerges under different stars and wades to a beach of pearl and purple.....

[luvndrumn]

Now that's a party!:D

[nirgal]

Wonder if I should get the others, or just wait and see if they find their own way, he wonders.....
~ picks up a handfull of magic stones and skips the across the creaming wave tops.............

[moominmamma]

Oh, that hurt.


I was just moominbasking on the empty vastness between realities when someone goes and hits me on the side of the head with a small stone.

Have a care sir, the sky may be a lovely colour, and I certainly would not feel so all alone, but I can't see why everybody has to get stoned!

MMP

[nirgal]

What just happened...??!! So I see all is not as it appears to be. My apologies dear sir, objects in the mirror are closer than the eye would say.

[nirgal]

Powerful objects, these, distorting space and time.....

[moominmamma]

Still call it deja vu, but haven't I met you somewhere before or am I going to meet you somewhere again.

Wait a moment, didn't I dance the trebuchet with you in Port-au-Prince the night we sailed in under the cover of darkness and seized the treasure-ship Hispaniola, beat up the Dons, and rescued the Honourable Lady Honeysuckle FitzBlue from the clutches of the leery Spanish Governor, (and her french maid, the not-so honourable Marie D'esctasi)

Or is my memory playing tricks - didn't you have a wooden leg then, or were you just happy to see me. I was sailing as bilge rat on the good ship Rose, responsible for sailors comforts, replenishing sick bags and weighing the anchor. (!7 stone 6lbs if my memory serves me right). First mate was Johnny Sevenriver sailing out of New York, Nantucket trained and a decent cove for a Yankee. The crew worked to the beat of a drum, with extended tom-tom solo's to set the scene for somewhere exotic and South American - oh, I loved them drums. And the watchman calling out, "Eight bells and weareallalone"

Oh well, if you sure it wasn't you - guess it was the lack of stars that confused me on this forum.

[nirgal]

It may have been, or will be, or even is. I seem to remember the future but without a timeline, sometimes it is the past, and it all fuzzes together around the edges anyway. In the last (next episode) 7river and I had requesitioned a rather tippy canoe and were in persuit of our Honey and here randy sister Buk (who is documenting various timelines)through a stagnet stream in the Maryland county of Calvert, while Extatic Marie tended to the needs of impish Arianna. The hope is to reach the port of Baltimore and help re-rig the Corvette Uss Constellation. We hope to "borrow" her when she sets out on er fall cruise down the coast to Annapolis.....
Then to England To pick up Our Moommin and off to the Spice Islands!!!

[moominmamma]

Mister Nirgal...


What have I told you before about disguising young lasses as likely young sailor lads in order to sneak aboard to be with their true loves.

And this talk of signing on as honest sea-farer, and then borrowing the ship midst-cruise - why sir, this is mutinous talk I'm hearing.

I'll see you dance the Lambada for this, Sir

(PS nearest ports are Lowestoft and Gt.Yarmouth, both have good anchorages, and have hosted the North Sea Tall Ships race. Of the two go for Lowestoft - Scroby Sands of Gt Yarmouth tend to shift on a regular basis and if the captain has burnt the charts before you can batter down the door, you could be in trouble, unless you kidnap the pilot's beautiful but feisty young daughter to force him to lead you safely in. Had to say the other bit in case anyone was listening. You can count me in - although I'm not up for slitting the throat of innocent sailormen who've had the misfortune to draw the graveyard watch, I do know 27 ways to disable a man with a Tickle me Elmo)

Back to talking loudly,

So you've signed on for the Anapolis run, and the Anapolis run you will do, or I'll flay the skin from your back, have you keel-hauled and then make you walk the plank...... (What do you mean it's a training ship and I can't talk to the customer's like that. No flayin.....No keel-haulin.......No plank-walkin... How do I punish the scurvy knaves. Oh, I see, I don't punish them. What about discipline then.... No, no discipline either. I telle, tweren't like this when I shipped aboard the Love Boat)...I'll tell the chef not to give you seconds of Cream Corn!!
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Meanwhile our intrepid hero's are up a creek in Maryland, for neither has remembered to bring a paddle, and a canoe is always a boat that knows a good metaphor when it see's one. As time snorts another line, and wonders if they are still Baltimore Bound, we cut to a New Orleans house of pleasure where the flower of Southern womanhood, Honey Suckle DuBleu has been lured by her evil doppleganger, Uncle Buck, (sorry, wrong relative, that was either High Chapparral or John Candy), her randy sister Buk. If Nirgal and 7River don't get a move-on, it isn't just the kindness of strangers that Ms DuBleu will be feeling, you can depend on it.

Whilst in far off England Moominpappa is strapped across the mouth of a potato cannon, and the air-hose is attached. Is he about to get his chips!

Stay tuned for the next gripping instalment

MMP

[nirgal]

Clear , wind Nw 3, ....quiet night .....in the distance, just at the edge of hearing, but slowly growing like the waxing moon as it moves to it's sleep.... voices raised in song....

Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish Ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain;
For we've received orders for to sail for ole England,
But we hope in a short time to see you again.
We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea.
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England;
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

We hove our ship to with the wind from sou'west, boys
We hove our ship to, deep soundings to take;
'Twas forty-five fathoms, with a white sandy bottom,
So we squared our main yard and up channel did make.
We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea.
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England;
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

Liberation is in the offing....!
Moominpappa can not be served out as pommes frites....

[HoneySuckleBlue]

When will yeh be gettin to the port of New orleans, I've been deflowered a few times and I am ready to save papas fritas from his explosive fate!!

Arrr...I hope you know how to drive this thing Nirgal...where's the rear view mirror, and the brakes??

[nirgal]

I can give orders and walk the Quarter Deck :) We need a good crew of salty Seamen and Seawomen, may have to send out the pressgangs or stop some of those penis boats off the coast.... I believe she has functional cannon aboard.......

[HoneySuckleBlue]

penis boats...Baaahaaa...ow.