The Bluestocking Women’s Pub - The Return of Salad and the Lion

[MyrtleLion]

It’s been a while since I last saw everyone!

Welcome to everyone, regulars, lurkers, newly ventured in.

A place for women to discuss whatever takes their fancy, where the bar staff are attentive gerbils, Rosy the Red Panda is available for cuddles and all sweet things have no calories and all alcohol leaves the drinker slightly merry and hangover-free.

Previous thread is here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5326705-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-where-brains-can-exist-in-a-single-state

In the navy -
we don’t want to see your knees
you must keep your pants on, please
you must always wear un-dees
wear more than a chemise
going pant-less will displease
wear pants, the Cap’n decrees

Ughhh, I'm knackered. I've been standing in for Olive all day doing her back to back massage appointments. (She had a appointment to get tentacle number 5 seen to)

I don't think anyone realised I wasn't an actual octopus, but god the costume was a nightmare. Soooo many tentacles!

Oh come on mnhq it's a picture of a beetle holding an octopus costume with a feather on her head! Why aren't you letting it publish it?

Finally it appears!

Boily my beloved, have you forgotten my 7pm with you in Massage Room 10?

Wear the giant squid costume. I've filled the spa bath with Tunnocks marshmallow foam.

Thank you for taking over the massage appointments, Boily.

Could you kindly explain the six feathers on the floor and the one on your head? That one has survived very well after a day crushed inside a purple octopus outfit.

@ifIwerenotanandroid
Wear the giant squid costume. I've filled the spa bath with Tunnocks marshmallow foam

I don’t think your appointment is in The Bluestocking. Perhaps it’s in Gruber’s basement dungeon, or upstairs in Rene’s cafe
Knock twice when you arrive. The password is ‘Allo ‘Allo.

I imagine the feathers are probably mine.

I promise you, it's all good, clean, therapeutic fun. And Boily & I used to be married, so it's fiiiiiiiiine.

@Boiledbeetle How does octopus tentacle numbering work? How do you decide which is the Prime Tentacle, and do you then count clockwise or widdershins? Or is it a more fluid arrangement which changes every time?

I tried post it notes.

I was unsuccessful.

They are indeed, they kept sticking themselves to the tentacles!

Sorry for the delay. The spa filling took longer than expected

There's something faintly obscene disturbing about that image.

Rather a vigorous massage, then?

Sticking to tentacles notwithstanding. Or is our beloved Boily offering Cupping Massage? Perhaps after training

Unnecessary link edited away.

Quite vigorous, yes. And I've been so stressed I might be moulting slightly, but I don't like to mention it in polite company.

When the Bluestocking has a score composed I'm not sure whether @SionnachRuadh 's theme should be or, if that's too full of over-excited dogs, https://=the+minstrel+boy+to+the+war+has+gone&t=newext&atb=v378-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0ssHxZABrpE

Mine is

There'll be time enough for counting . . .

Bonus points for anyone who knows not only which Star Trek DS9 character had Foxy's second option as his theme, but also which TNG character was the first one to have it played at a crucial moment in his development.

I would find it hard to settle on a theme long term, but I suppose this will do as well as anything!

"That puts the tin lid on it" is certainly in my consciousness/memory too. More often used than "the last straw", perhaps

My dad used to sing that. A little more nostalgically.

I like a bit of nostalgia, but there are other options for that.

Dolly is wonderful

Not in Star Trek - it's gone off a bit in its recent incarnations. Hooray for The Orville.

Exactly my thoughts.

It looks as if the squid is, er, doing something to the beetle.

This is my theme. I should probably be a different corvid to carry it off properly but I think I do it justice.

Lower Decks is by far the best of the recent ones.