<p>Sorry I was late with best wishes for the Big 50! </p>
<p>I shall picture you drifting on a lake in the Sierras, fingers trailing through the water, having a Viking funeral for the Prettiness fairy…do keep a tight grip on your Braininess Fairy, I’ve lost both and it really sucks (However my Funny Fairy is still with me, she weighs about 300 lbs, festooned in lime green and pink, and sits on my head burping and farting…)</p>
<p>Cookie dough, Hell’s Angels, Soldering Irons, Illegal Substances, Wayward Youth…We are not Hallmark Hoydens!!</p>
<p>Happy happy birthday…it all really does get better with age! :)</p>
<p>Hey mootie-
We’re closing in on post # 4000. Lets pull out our beer hats and tiaras that we got for post #2000 to celebrate. You also had post # 1000. Double kudos for you.</p>
<p>jmmom-
What honor did we bestow upon you for post #3000? Was it also lovely head apparel? Please pull it out and don your chapeau. Meet you in the back booth where they’re still celebrating alu’s birthday. Drinks all around, please.</p>
<p>I am relatively new to CC but have been laughing my ass off reading Sinner’s Alley. One question: Is this a private club or can anyone belly up to the bar? After sending DD off to college, moping around for a few weeks, stuggling with Mrdudefish (9th grade son, just starting high school and truly an annoying teenager…destined for trade school, if he is lucky), I could use a few stiff drinks!</p>
<p>Welcome, blucroo. You have found your people. However, we do request that any newcomer buy a round for all of use laying back here on the orange naugahyde benches (jk) .Welcome. Just don’t snare post # 4000 unless you have the appropriate head attire.</p>
<p>Welcome blucroo. Sinner’s Alley is completely open to anyone with a belly they want to put up against the bar. And, since you have a son, you get grandfathered in as Parent of Son. It may sound like a bunch of insiders but that’s only because of so many cybernights together and so much cyberalcohol:). But you will have to watch out for BHappy’s Funny Fairy. Her manners are not quite the thing…Welcome again. Just let us know your favorite drink - which of course can change whenever you like.</p>
<p>Ha ha ha. SB, jym and I all posted at the same time. We picked our heads up off the table when we heard you come in, raised our empty glasses in a toast, and now will go back to snoring.</p>
<p>bluecroo, sistah, sit right down here next to me! (And if I’m wrong and you’re a brothuh, well, that’s fine too, the seat’s gender-neutral!) From the looks of my HS senior S, whose moniker changed from last year’s TJFH (The Junior From H…) to this year’s TSFH, he might be looking to shrug off that affectionate term and we might just have to hold a contest here in the Alley to hand over his crown. Think your S might be interested?</p>
<p>HA I’m a little late at the welcome, but that’s 'cause I was busy putting together my wardrobe in early celebration of Post #4000. Or is that Hallowe’en? I’m never quite sure anymore.</p>
<p>Hey, you can’t fool me: you’re just making extra posts to push SA past the 4000 mark before I leave for work this morning, right? (I think I’m gonna miss the big party, though, since I have to get in the car any minute now and <em>go</em>. Right about the time the SA odometer turns the 4K mark, I’ll likely be cruising south on Highway 85, solo in the carpool lane in my hybrid, listening to either some really obscure techno or Bollywood hits on the local college alternative radio station or bopping to whatever CD is now in the player. (I think it’s Nick Lowe’s “Labour of Lust”, anyone else remember that one? Talk about a good CD soundtrack to exercise to!)</p>
<p>My outfit is not fully formed, but it does include an orange knit top and matching orange socks, so that should count for something, right? My headgear is my hands-free mobile phone headset, but I’ll pop something more festive on top for the big celebration. </p>
<p>Which, as I might have mentioned, I expect to find happened while I was driving. </p>
<p>So whadya think of the idea of a contest or ceremony to hand down TSFH’s crown to an upcoming generation? It could become an annual tradition at College Confidential U…</p>
Before??? You are on the opposite coast!! Its noontime here!! And if I <strong><em>really</em></strong> wanted to push to get the 4k post, I’d have done so silently… sneaking my way there… then CELEBRATING when I hit the big 40…00!! But to be honest, I do need a reason to pull out the beer hat.</p>
<p>We can certainly hold a contest for TJFH and TSFH labels. Does age come beore beauty?? Some of us have been struggling here with these kiddos for a loooong time.</p>
<p>Blu, our manners are a little slack in here (just like our sons), and if a wookie growls at you, be sure to give up your seat. With the exception of pi**ed off wookies, we bow to no one in here. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, COMPADRES?! </p>
<p>:::::::a lone tumbleweed rolls through the open door and more dust blows in from the parking lot::::::zzzzzzzzzz…</p>
<p>Be sure to tip our resident waitress, Francine. She gets cranky when we tip her in ABC gum and wadded up cocktail napkins. She won’t spill your drink in your lap if you compliment her Earth shoes. </p>
<p>Welcome, blu, to the wrong side of the CC tracks. :D</p>
<p>From the far side I raise a shandie 1/2 7up 1/2 beer or wine to my British lady friends. Sounds awful but is refreshing…pushing the numbers closer to 4000.</p>
<p>Oh and blu if you are deeply, desperately in need of libations, we do have a handy IV that we can get out of the back room. It fits perfectly up against the edge of the hot tub, too.</p>
<p>Sluggie-
I thought Francine was in rehab right now. Or was it that she was having the hairy mole removed from her chin? I forget. The waitress introduced herself as Martha. She’ll be a little …shall we say… “heavy handed” with the bottle, and lets it keep pouring above and beyond the norm if you bring her pistachio nuts. The nuts are also good for feeding the marmots.</p>
<p>And mootie-
I couldnt resist any longer. I put a computer with dsl access on my desk at work. I’ll never get anything done now. Good thing I work for myself! I’ll try to hit 4000 for the both of us, with you in virtual carpool land. Pour a hot toddy in your thermal coffee mug to drink while you wait… and wait… and wait in the carpool line. I am so glad carpools are behind me…</p>
<p>I’ve been out feeding the marmots . . . happy birthday to everyone who’s had one, congratulations to all the children who’ve gotten great acceptances, and drinks all around! I’ve also been listening to Pink Martini’s CD, “Hang On Little Tomato”, a great album, sort of retro lounge music. I’ll mix up a pitcher of pink martinis in their honor, and start pouring.</p>
<p>oooh mootie. I misread. You are in the carpool LANE, not line. You should be zipping off to work in that snappy hybrid in no time flat. But…
the suspense is killing me… who will hit 4000…
Should we just get it over with so we can celebrate and break open a few more cases?</p>
<p>AAHHHH!! Lookie there. I didnt do it on purpose. Really! But thanks moominmama for posting while I was typing so that the last post hit paydirt! Start pouring those pink martinis!!!</p>
(However my Funny Fairy is still with me, she weighs about 300 lbs, festooned in lime green and pink, and sits on my head burping and farting…)</p>
(jk) .Welcome. Just don’t snare post # 4000 unless you have the appropriate head attire.</p>