Wait, whut wus teh second thing u said?

JCH4K,

Dat is da bestest danz I ebber herd of.

Rweady when uz R!

Wud bee eezier if we just meets up at the lettuce???

If we has meets and lettuce, then why not just get some bunz and some cheezes too and has teh cheezburgers?

Yet anudder grate idea!!! yoo ar awn FYRE!!!!

And since yoo ar awn fire, ai’ve alreddy got teh furst burgerz (almoast sayd burglars) sizzling away awn yoo. an teh peepl hoo went to the left ar arriving wif the bunz an pikkles an onyuns - an heer com the peepl awn teh rite wif the cheezes.

PARTEE TIEM!!!!

I don’t knoes if I will burns very well. I is still teh soggy from mah advenchure yesterday in teh wishing well.

But I will burn asbestos I cans.

O lcb, yoo shud noe ai wud nawt REEELEEE burn yoo!!! Wuz just a virchual fyre wif virshual burgers.

But - they ar dun nao - an ai wud liek the furst buerger to go to Felix&Oscar’s Mom, hoo hedded up teh cart lion so byootifully. An teh next to paws4thot, hoo suggexted teh poyntless beeg mewsikal number, an teh third deeeeeelishus burger goes to yoo, fur the brillyunt idea ov teh supermarket setting.

an mai ai just say yoo awl luk too KYOOT fur werdz in yur liddle lettuce hatz!

WaHOO dis iz won grate danse!

I hope u doan mind, i used a liddle creative lisense and wen we krisscrossed our liones, I put teh handle ov mah cart on mah hips and didz a Supakitteh move…Weeeeeee! To sirkle round teh end ov teh isle, I did

Teh soopermarkit setting was paws’ idear. I commed up wif the cart/trolley precision drill teem angle. But paws already has a burger so i’ll take teh third one anyhow. kthxnom

Ur lettis hat is divoon as well. I like teh way u used teh sallid tongs for a hat pin. And that raddish rose bookay on teh side rivals any found on a rubber swim cap!

WoHoo! Dis iz teh bestest danse eber!

I hope u doan mind, I tuk a liddle creatibe lisense wen we krisskrossed owr lions. I jumped up an put teh handle ov mah cart on mah hips and didz a Supakitteh move! Wheeeeee! To sirkle mah cart at teh end of the isle, I stretched one paw wai owt fur a one handed Supakitteh, and turned mah cart in sink wif eberybuddeh else! Teh lettuce hat reely inspired meh.

Wile u waz piking up teh cheezburger nesessities, I swung around and grabbed the choklit, graham quakers, and mashedmallows fur Smores! I frot as long as we had teh fire, we shud hab dezert, too.

Sowy bout teh haff double post. I didn’t send it, it juss went away and disappeared. Then, heer’s teh furst haff again. Stoopy WP - it recked mah kool move.

Nebber mind stoopee WP - yur kool move wuz spektaular. Nobuddee cudda dun it haf as well!!! Dint oo see haw ebbreewun waz luking at yoo wif teh grate beeg smilez ov pure wonderment an delite!!!!!

Iz amaizing what yoo can doo wehn yoo are waring a lettuce hat!!!

An suppliez fur summoars!!!!! Ar liddle burgerroast iz nao complete!!!

Ai also went off an cut the willow stikz fur teh marshy mello toasting.

Fanks JCH4K. U puts teh wind bak into mah sails.
And, Fank YEW fur teh grate koreeografy!

I’ll juss set up teh choklit on teh quakers ober heer. U wanted double choklit, didn’t u? Wen we r dun nawt burning teh mashedmallows, we can quickly slyde them onto the set ups, to let awl the heet meltify the choklit. I hab Lindt Milk Choklit or Catbury awl reddy to go.

*readjusts lettuce hat*

And fank YEW, Romeow, fur the deeeeeeelishus meltee summoar - an teh complimint.

Ai’m so glad yoo liked it. Choreograffee iz nawt reelee mai thing, nermallee - but ai did mai best. But it was yur improv maneurver wuz waht gave it teh reel pop - liek turning awn the chaser lites wehn teh beek kik lion starts awn the frunt of the stage. downstage - bringz down teh house ebbree teim!!!

*whispurrs* hao did yoo noe ai laik duble choklit???i

Whhhooooopseeee - “downstage” iz nawt supposed to bee there.

Oh - an this is sorta gonna bee mai farewell partee fur a wile. Ai’m going awn vacashun awn Sunday an won’t be bak until layte awn the 17th. Ai’ve got SOOO much to do to get reddee to go - an tehn -wehn yur visiting frenz - yoo can’t eggsactlee bee at ICHC awl day!!!!

Furst trip iz to Naples in Florida - tehn bak to O’Hare to ketch a flite to Ireland fur a wedding. It wil awll be grate fun, becuz ai will bee seeing menee gud IRL frenz - but - ai will miss ebreewun heer sumthing feerce!!!

Ai hoep to pop in nao an then - but won’t bee heer much.

That’s ok, J4K. We’ll edit that out before teh broadcast.

I is teh jeluss. I was in teh Dublin long time ago for a few days. I had been libbing in teh France as a stoodent and for some reason, even after visiting other anglophone places like TeenyTiny Ingerland and Skawtland, I finded Dublin teh closest thing to teh ‘merica. Not that that’s what I was looking 4, but it says something about how much Irish heritage is wrapped up with ours.

We sing u off to teh areports wif this traditional song. I leave lyrics alone, no lol-ing them up this time. I copied it from teh interwebs so teh spellings is whut it was:

Marie’s Wedding

Step we gaely, on we go, heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm and arm and on we go, all for Marie’s wedding

Step we gaely, on we go, heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm and arm and on we go, all for Marie’s wedding

Wot a shaem - ai missed teh danssing an only arrived in times for teh eats. Stil wiv mai coordinashun, that’s prolly juss as well…

JCH4K, ai hoep joo reely enjoy joor trip. Joo did ask wot to ware at wun point an ai did sai
“Prepare 4 teh rayn”. Ai think, in Eirland,ifn joor ware joor Florida cloes INSIDE an joor Mishigun cloes OWTSIED, all shood be well!

Lcb - grate sawng, I emember from mai kittenhood - ai will be heering it for Daies (Grr still no italiliks)

Nevvah mind - weer all Celts togedder!

*heddesk*

Ai misted awl teh fun too. Drats. Wud luv to hab seened dat soopermarkits paraid!

JCH4K, ai hoap yoo has a wunnerful trip. (An not too mush rain.) We’ll bee hear wen yoo gets back.

anny LOLZ thankz again fur yur sage advice. An wai teh *heddesk* ??? What hav ai missed. An - akshullee - it mite bee rite as a Kawtish sawng - becuz teh brydez last nayme is Campbell - an teh groom is jerman!!!

Wai iz teh wedding in Dublin, yoo say??? Ai do nawt noe, except taht teh brydes muther haz cuzins tehre. Purrhaps her heritage iz Irish in part??? Ai alwayz thot she wuz frum TeenieTinee Ingerland.

An tahnkz, Cassidy! Ebreewun says it will fur shur bee raining in Dublin - so ai will let an umbrella bee mai umbrella this tiem!!!

Ur rite, anny, bout teh Skottish part. But teh vershun of this that I has is by Teh Cheeftans wif teh Van Morrison on a CD called “Irish Hartbeet” so it seemed propriate.

Let’s get jiggy wif it no matter whare it comes from!

ldb - how did yoo com to bee living in Frawnce as a student??? Waht were yoo studying? An wehn? An where? An did yoo travel mutch while yoo were there? an how long?

Ai hav nawt spent NEERLEE as mutch tiem in Frawnce as ai wished ai cud hav, Tho we went to Strasbourg a lot - but taht onlee counts a liddle.

Is longer story than I has time to tell, J4K, but i studied French in Tours, France in late 1981 as a undergrad then in Paris for a month and Tours for teh rest of teh time as a gradyooate stoodent in ‘85-’86. I visited a lot of parts of France at one time or anudder, but I never gots to teh Côte d’Azur or to Strasbourg.

I tells peepuls now that I has a Masters degree in French so naturally I work wif teh compewters.

Oooh yess! Teh avvenshures of locatburglar in the land of the Franks - drifting romanntikally thru’ the grouns ov teh Lawre Chattoos; kurled up in teh sun on teh Frensh Rivvyera; belleh danssing wiv teh Nawf Affrikan peeps in teh Parris subburbs and moas ov awl KEEPIN AWAI from teh Eiffel Towr and teh Tawp ov Notre Dame!

lcb - Tanks 4 teh naem chek on teh moosik; ai havvent herd as much ov Teh Cheeftens as ai shud hav - but ai did akknolledge our shared Keltic hairytage - an ai enjoy teh jiggyness
werever it comes from an teh Eirish du teh jiggyness liek noboddee ellss.

Too lates: I dids go up in teh Eyeful Towers, but without insident. I also climed up to teh very top of teh dome of St. Paul’s in I-See-London. On teh inside, not teh outside. I was alreddy committed to teh clime when the wide staircase changed into a narrow ladder right up in teh middle of teh dome. I was moar skeered of teh peepls in line behind me than of teh clime at that point, so I continued. I don’t rember how I gotted back down.

But I think that might have been teh beginning of mah trubbles wif hites.

an now we noes - teh REST ov teh storee!

*watchiz teh elligent kor…kohrr…um cart-dansin frum teh sekyooritty offis*
*getz on PA sistum*
hay, did u guyz pay fr alla doze bunzanmeetzanchoklits? o wayt, u haz choklits?
*turnz off sekyooritty kamraz*
O hai, iz Ai 2 layt fr teh cheezburger en smorez partee? donut werree, Ai can has uhthoritee 2 rite off lotsa stuf fr ‘traynin purpissiz’. oo, did Ai just say donut? brb! *runz off 2 baykt goodz dpartmint*

summoars teh merreier, deer teenie!!! Whilst yoo were bak there, yoo did remember to get yur lettuce hat, yes???

*whispurrs* tahnkz fur awl the partee suppliez!!

HELLOOOOOOOOOO DAAAAK!!!! Did yoo get bak frum skool in teim to see the cart capers in yur honeur?? Eneway - heer’s yur cheezburger. an we browt sum lettuce bak fur yoo, too.

An wehn yur dun, yoo can toast yur marshy mello awn this willow stik an Romeow will maek yur summoar fur yoo. An then we’ve got teenie’s donuts, too. An sum ar choklit covered caek donuts!!!

Wow!! Bestestestest nawt sekond dans ebir!! Kongrachewlayshons to wun and awl!

JCH4K - missin U awlredee!

And BTW I’ze onlee ebir heered Skawtish singurs singin “Marie’s Wedding”.

In Ireland dey’ll sing ENNYFING. Ai noes, ai has sung to taxi drivers in Dublin an Belfast before now. An I wasn’t even drunk!! JCH4K, plz to has a most wondruss hollyday an remememember to change ur clothin from Florida before you gets to Ireland, wehr it is winter. An it WILL rain. But doesn’t madder as u will be inside wiv a drink in ur hand at awl times. At least, that’s wut always seems to happen to me.

oooh. Wudda dance!!1! Wudda par-TEE!!1!! Wut nom nom nom and singin !!1!

Onlee 2 things to remind yew of, JCH4K. Remembers taht yew is representating the ICHC cow-munity out dere. Doan do nuffin that we wouldsn’t do. (’course, that leabes you lots an lots of options :): An remembers taht we esspects stories wen yew cums back.

Iz I right, peeps?

Has teh fun!

Ai thank yoo awl fur teh kind travel wishes. Mai last trip enewhere wuz in August - an ai had awnlee just barelee begun commenting then - so ai didn’t reelee noe enebuddy laik ai doo nau. Ai am - wumwhat - surprized at hau much ai will miss nawt being heer wif yoo. Ai had red about peepe meeting peepl aawn lion an reelee lieking tehm, but ai alwazy sort ov pooh-pooh teh idea - sorta ov like - don’t they hav ene reel frenz????

But nau ai noe tath it iz nawt liek that at all - that yoo ARE reel frenz - just - diffrenet reel frenz.

An thank yoo, pawr4thot - ai missed yoo a lot too wehn yoo were goen,

An nao - yoo may bee muttereing - “she sayed she waz going - wai duzn’t she go?” (Taht’s a lion frum a play ai tthink, but ai can’t remember which one!). Ai’m TRYING to go - ai’ll be taeking emtee sootcases prettee soon if ai dont go -

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye . . .

Ai’ll bee laik teh comic stayj daying purrson - just keep popping up!

*pop* ai’m bak!!!

But pb’s commint was nawt heer when ai did mine an nau ai am snerting mai coffee ebreewaht.

Don’t doo enething we wudn’t doo!!!!????? We - hoo just finsihed (sorta just) racing throo teh suupermarket wif lettuce hats awn, steeling awl the groceries - an tehn using lcb fur a grill? Nawt to menshun SJ’s most recent “eskapade” wif Danyul Craig!!!! An Romeow doing the Suprakitteh maneuver awn teh kart??? So - just whut IZZIT taht we wudn’t doo??

But nawt to wurree - ai wil trai mai best to behave an be a gud representaif ov ar liddle cow-mewnitee. (an ai will rememburz what Yoda says.)

JCH4K–teh lion iz frum Pyratz uv Penzanse. teh poleesmanz r goin 2 fyte teh pyratz en sayin “yes, forwerd on teh foe, we go, we go” but dey stayz dere dansin, so teh mayjr gennrul sez “yes, but u DON’T go!” en den teh girlz say “they go, they go, yes, forward on teh foe” but teh poleesmanz keep dansin en teh mayjr gennrul getz mad en sez “but, damme, you DON’T go!” en teh girlz say “at last they go, at last they go, at last they reelee reelee go” den teh poleesmanz march off inna rong direkshun en teh sarjint blowz his wissul en teh poleesmanz turn arownd en march off inna ryte direkshun en teh girlz al wayv bai-bai 2 teh pore doom-ed poleesmanz.

Yur rite - an heer ai am, marching in frum teh rong exit!!!! So glad yoo came along an told me - taht wud hav been tikling around in mai hed fur days!!!

How iz “Gondoliers’ coming along? I’m still hopeing to be able to come wif mai sister Pyzi? Do we haf to get ar ticketz soon? Or will it be sold out?