The dinner party continues...

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:15:50 +0000, Rebecca wrote:

Dat wud be furry nice, M. Lenoir. I shud tell yoo dat itz Mlle. Rebecca,
not Mme.

Rebecca, wondering why she felt she needed to clarify that

Oh, I beg your pardon! Either way, I am delighted to me yourownself.
Please, call me Hercule.

Lenoir... err, Hercule

Mr. Lenoir, please allow us to introduce ourselves: I am Cousin Rosco
P. Catrane, Grocery & Laundry Inspector, and this is my friend,
Stormmee, Kitten In Residence. We are pleased to make your
acquaintance. [extends snoot as a gesture of friendship and good
intentions]

May we join you if we promise to behave ourselves?

Cousin Rosco

Bonsoir, Cousin Roscoe et Stormee. I am Hercule. Pleeez, do join us.

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:00:52 +0000, Rebecca wrote:

[Rebecca is speechless for a moment]

My gunness, I had no ideer yoo had similer challinjiz like I haz! I, too,
had a aksident sum yeerz ago, and losted my right eye, and got my sholder
hurtid so dat mine right frunt leg is shorter dan da utherz an makez me
limp.

Non! Zees is incredible! I had not noticed zat you were also challenged.
You are so elegant and graceful, I had certainly not expected zat.

[Rebecca thinks about this.]

Yoo know, da kitteez heer in da kommyunitee haz hewped me feel bedderer
bowt myownself, an evin teeched me how to danse! If yoo wud like to gib
it a try, I wud be happee to be yur partner, but if yoo preferz to stay
at da table I wud also be happee to keep yoo kumpannee. Purrhapz we kud
tawk abowt yourown travvelz.

I would be delighted to talk of mine travels, and I would love to hear of
your own (I hear zat ze Community has many aventures). But first, if you
are willing to try a danz, I belief I would most certainly appreciate
yourz company. Since I'z been dealin wif mine injured leg I haf not been
danzing at all. If you fink we could actually do zees, zen I would be
delighted to finally be able to danz again.

Hercule

Well, M. Inspektor iz purrhapz overstating fingz, but I duz enjoy singin
sumtimes. Will yoo be wif us when we arribe at da kowntess's kassel? She
iz goin to arrange to hab a groop uv trabbelin opurra kitteez I haz herd
purrform fur ussez. Yoo mite enjoy dat.

I fink zat will depend on mine progress. If I am able to work past zees
writer's block, zen I shall be delighted to join you.

Why dont yoo spend sum time wif us kommyoonitee kitteez? Purrhapz bein
arown diffurint kitteez will gib yoo a diffurent vyoopoint.

Rebecca, starting to have a bit of a different viewpoint herself

Yez, zat might be a good idea. It certainly could not hurt...

Hercule

Gud effinink Cleopatra & TV, Anais & Tiger, Trudi, BK, Rebecca and Monsieur
Lenoir,
Sooo sorry tu be layte. Sundance and I were hewlping Unka Serge get
betterer.
So glad we can joyne yu awl neow.

Pit2nya AKA Sweetee


[The dance band begins playing a variety of tunes as the serving staff
continues carrying wonderous gourmet dishes out of the kitchen and
delivering them to the dining kitties.]

Tiger and the other boykittiez shake pawz and TV sayz, whut cuuld we get
yourownsef ta drink? TV, being az socakal az he can
Her Royal Highness Cleopatra Silvercat wrote in
message news
[The dance band begins playing a variety of tunes as the serving staff
continues carrying wonderous gourmet dishes out of the kitchen and
delivering them to the dining kitties.]

Mine handsome winkwink, please keep the cushion warm. I need to run
belowdecks for a minute.

[With that Cleo stands and heads for the stairs. She disappears, then
reappears a minute or two later. She is accompanied by the Havana Brown
kitty, who looks around nervously.]

Monsieur Lenoir, please allow me to introduce you to the others at this
table. This is my handsome wink, Sir TV. These are Mme. Anais and her wink
Tiger. This is Trudi, and this is BK. And this is Rebecca. There is a
space at the table beside Rebecca, so why don't you make yourself
comfortable there?

[M Lenoir]: Merci, Mme Cleopatra. Greetings to all ov you. Mine name is
Lenoir. Greetings, Mmme Rebecca. I would be honored to join you.

it iz a wonnerful band, anna ani girlcat wuuld be flattered dat you asked,
Trudi, admirin diz new maturemancat
RPCC Adventure cats wrote in message
news
Ahhh, M. Lenoir - the famous feline composer and violinist! Enchante!
I'm so glad that you could join us. The fuds heer are wunderful, and
the Inspektor, who has a nose for the finer things has been
choreographing a wonderful meal. Tis shud be a wunnerful efeenink!

Indeed, Mme Anais! Ze foods all smell wonderful. And I see some eggzelent
wines on ze table - mine compliments to you, M. Inspector! It's always a
pleasure to meet a true gourmand.

Sigh

I hear the band playing some egzellent dance music. That makes me remember
many years ago, when I was still young. I used to really enjoy danzing,
but a few years back I was infolfed in an accident, and lost ze sight in
mine right eye. And in ze same accident I lost most of ze use of mine
right hind leg, but I've learned to walk smoothly wifout ze use of all
mine legs. But I hafen't asked any girlcats to danze wif me, because I'd
be ashamed to ask zem to danze wif mineself.

But ze band is indeed eggzelent, aren't they?

M. Lenoir

Juz relax wif uses and don't think 'bowt it fur a while, diz mite hep you,
TV, sympatheticalli
RPCC Adventure cats wrote in message
news
Why zank yew, M. Lenoir - or may I cawl you Hercule? Zees eez my
wink, Bridget! Here are sum amuse-gueule provided by zee Chef while
we wait fur zee offur kitties to come up. Zey are liddle bokses ov
egg-pastry - sum are filled wif wild mushroomz, offurs wif shrimpees
and scallops offurs yet wid zee escargot - and awl are swimmink in
butter an truffles! Do try sum!

[He deftly slips one in his mouth as he pulls a corkscrew from an
inner pocket, and ceremoniously removes the cork from a bottle of
wine]

Ahhh zees eez a Chateaneuf de Pape from my own cellar [pours wine for
all, and munches yet another pastry]

Mine goodness, what egzellent food, and wunnerful wine! I have not eaten
and drank zis well in years. Perhaps mine reclusive lifestyle has cost me
more than I knew...

I see zat you are sittink nekst to Mlle. Rebecca - she eez an opear
buff, and seengs kwite well, you know...

Non - eez zees true? I am quite impressed! I haf found furry few kitties
truly interested in ze opera, and fewer still who sing opera.

Ahh. M'sieu! Zee tings are irrelefant in zees life - eet eez zee
inner kitty zat eez important, non?

So do tell us: are you working on sumfink new. or just heer to relaks
wif usses?

I came along on zees voyage in ze hope of breaking through a bad case of
le composer's block. Zere is a furry large piece I am working on, and I
haf it almost complete. But - as strange as zis sounds - I am stuck on ze
*beginning*. I haf written ze three final movements, but ze first movement
eludes me still. I haf ze first dozen or so bars, but zen I lose mine
thread...

[M. Lenoir begins to hum his composition, but stops after only a few bars.
He tries again, with a slight change near the middle, but again stops
short. A third try results in no better luck.]

You see? I am not able to break past zat point. I am doomed! I had hoped
to complete zis work in the next few weeks, but it now appears zat I won't
be able to do so. I can't even find ze orchestra to perform mine work
until it is complete!

stormmee courtese, and looks pleadingly at tiger, trudi and TV for her
howzes purmission...
ChildFree23 wrote in message
...
[M Lenoir]: Merci, Mme Cleopatra. Greetings to all ov you. Mine name is
Lenoir. Greetings, Mmme Rebecca. I would be honored to join you.

Ahhh, M. Lenoir - the famous feline composer and violinist! Enchante!
I'm so glad that you could join us. The fuds heer are wunderful, and
the Inspektor, who has a nose for the finer things has been
choreographing a wonderful meal. Tis shud be a wunnerful efeenink!

Mr. Lenoir, please allow us to introduce ourselves: I am Cousin Rosco
P. Catrane, Grocery & Laundry Inspector, and this is my friend,
Stormmee, Kitten In Residence. We are pleased to make your
acquaintance. [extends snoot as a gesture of friendship and good
intentions]

May we join you if we promise to behave ourselves?

Cousin Rosco

stormmee stays on her bezt behafur and sits down quietli and politely and
waitz until fud iz pazzed instead of grabbin... she admires rosco's brafury
atta azkin
RPCC Kitties wrote in message
news
Mr. Lenoir, please allow us to introduce ourselves: I am Cousin Rosco
P. Catrane, Grocery & Laundry Inspector, and this is my friend,
Stormmee, Kitten In Residence. We are pleased to make your
acquaintance. [extends snoot as a gesture of friendship and good
intentions]

May we join you if we promise to behave ourselves?

Cousin Rosco

Bonsoir, Cousin Roscoe et Stormee. I am Hercule. Pleeez, do join us.