to be most aggrieved that I did not get married off in the last IPOAT thread? Won't someone think of Nigel?

[BeribbonedGibbon]

Well, am I?

My dears! What a marvellous Xmas I have had! Time with ds, absolutely wonderful, no work, barely any cooking...

Mimi, how lovely to see you darlink! We miss you most sore. Glad to hear you had a jolly festive season - I trust your stocking runneth over?

Hello ladies; how lovely to see you all assembled here. (And I don't mean in the manner of a Meccano kit ... )

Goodness me, Jins, how, ermm, forthright your friend Mr Jackman is.

Gibbon, what a delightful Goth you are were. And it's great to hear that DD1 enjoyed Christmas and that DD2 is doing well too!

Mimi, glad you had a good Xmas with DS. How is the Chatsworth?

Pag, sorry about DS1 if he is disappointed. Oxford can be stupendously seductive, but I think your boy sounds as if he has his head the right way round/his feet on the ground and can look forward to having a great time at either Exeter or Warwick.

Hully, sorry you were ill over Xmas/New Year, but you sound in fab form now. And your hair is lovely!

Riven, really sorry that DD1 has met wankers an unpleasant person or three at Cambridge, and hope things get better for her. She does enjoy her course, though, I think you said, so hope that helps?

Jamie, Minimammoth, Camel, and all others - hi!

Oh - PS - May I pass on my bit of IPOAT lore?

(Well, I will anyway, whether or not you want me to ...)

The term IPOAT was coined by HeQet/Hecate/whatever similar name she's using now.

She stumbled upon the end of a thread where much frivolity - maybe even dancing! - was occurring amongst Hully, Pag, Gibbon, Mimi, Umami, etc. (possibly even including myself ), and asked what we were all up to. Hers was the last post on that particular thread (i.e. she killed it ).

Naturally, Hec/Heq immediately started another thread apologising for this. In this she referred to us all as Insane People On A Thread.

Oh dancing......

we don't dance anymore

Lady Riven, I am assured by all who meet me that I am the most honourable of the ladies here

Hully is known for stealing husbands to be, widow murders people and mimi uses whips and suchlike and there is much talk of her magnificent thighs at the gentleman's club

Princessa is an upstanding sort as I recall but there has been so much subterfuge and cunning I must confess to having no real clue as to who can be trusted.....

Bravo Hully! what wonderful dancing!

PS - so glad you had such a lovely Christmas Mimi

Sniggers a bit behind fan, as read Hully's post as 'two steps,leaps and piles'. Well thats what you get for dancing too vigorously.
Am fond of the odd gavotte meself. A bit heavy on the bloomers though.

Gibbon is a slut.

There is NOTHING wrong with my foot, it's the Princessa's what's malformed.

Why Hully, I am much aggrieved by your accusation. Tis you my dear that is well versed in the way of the slattern.

Come now, sit. I shall ask a servant to bring a stool for your foot. We shall make peace over some tea.

Tea? Tea?

I spit on and out your namby tea and call for stronger vittals more suited to a woman with my vital constitution. I Need Estro Gin or even a soupcon of Maiden Juice.

Drinking Maiden Juice!

someone bring the smelling salts, I fear I may never recover from witnessing such debauched and devilish ways....

Alas I must swoon, I will use the time to recover fully

I may need a hand to steady me.....

Is this some new definition of the word 'maiden' prithee?

I make Maiden Juice from my strong womanly innards, Mini. It has astonishing powers much called upon when we engage in battles and duels.

Ah. Is it available in homeopathic doses? Looks innocent.

I have created a cocktail. I shall call it, perhaps, a Flaming IPOAT. Take a tot of MAIDEN JUICE and shake it over ice with a gill of Oestro Gin. Muddle with a soupçon of umami paste, add a dash of DENTINOX et voila! With this we will take over the world!

I had quite forgot DENTINOX

Wearing scrubs and mixing potions madly in the mammoth laboratory, practicing wild giggling. DENTINOX?? please explain this magic ingredient Umami.