<p>jym, you deserve the 4000 crown! I’ll make yours a double, garnished with marischino cherries. Can you tie the stem into a knot using only your tongue? I saw someone do that once.</p>
<p>:::confetti:::confetti:::confetti:::confetti:::confetti:::confetti:::confetti:::</p>
<p>And the popcorn pigeons break into a cancan. For the reference, seach on sluggbugg, Las Vegas, pigeons, popcorn:).</p>
<p>stem, knot? yep, that would be me.</p>
<p>::curtsies::</p>
<p>Jym- congrats :::: Do have appropriate head gear? You may borrow, beg or steal my Funny Faerie…she does make it difficult for me to hold my head up in Polite Society sometimes… :D</p>
<p>Welcome Blucru, Sinners Alley is the best hang-out in cyberspace, Bottoms Up</p>
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Slugg, have I ever shown you a picture of my 6’9" tall husband? </p>
<p>CONGRATS jym, slide that crown over at a jaunty angle and guzzle that pink drink!</p>
<p>(For the record, I was in fact on the highway when you flipped the digit. Listening to the radio. “Kiss From a Rose,” by Seal. It made me cry. My older S used to listen to that song over and over again when he was a sweet younger boy. It made me full of wist.)</p>
<p>“Can you tie the stem into a knot using only your tongue?”</p>
<p>My 18 year old D can do this. Gives me the heebee jeebees just thinking about it.</p>
<p>I was stuck in a heavy downpour in downtown Pittsburgh at the time of 4k.</p>
<p>Was thinking of stuffing the ballot box to get to 4000, but, as I was taught, Ladies before Gentlemen.</p>
<p>I do have a lovely ballcap with moose antlers for just such an occasion.</p>
<p>Overseas, I have never heard of a shandy with wine. I moved here from the UK when I was six. A treasured family story: when one of our prim and proper aunts asked my 3 year old sister what she wanted to drink, she replied “Babycham.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babycham[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babycham</a></p>
<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone<<courtsies and=“” beer=“” hat=“” falls=“” off=“”>>. I would love to alternate head gear. Do I need to change outfits accordingly to match the crown and the Funny Faerie?? Please join me for a pink martini and shandy. And anyone boohooing over (1) absence of child off at college or (2) presence of slacker child at home (or both) gets a double. Thats about everyone in here, I do believe :D</courtsies></p>
<p>In post #4000, jym626 said:
Don’t you just love self-referential posts? 
That’s our jym, ever the mentalist!</p>
<p>And for the record, I really like shandy, but have always had it made with beer. Where can I get some of that Babycham, m&s?? (Haven’t heard the new Nick Lowe yet, will have to get busy!)</p>
<p>Anybody else besides me like a nice Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray, poured over ice? Almost nothing more thirst-quenching for me… but yeah, celery soda is kind of… odd at first. I think I’ll invent the Cel-Ray Shandy! :D</p>
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ooooooooooh, oooooooooh, MEEEE TOOOO!!! I used to bartend many years ago, so I had HOURS of practice! 
I can STILL do it! Wonder if it’s a marketable skill somewhere?? 
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<p>Oh, and moominmama, I can’t tie stems with my tongue like m&sdad’s d can <shutter> but I can fold my tongue into a weird shape- kinda like a four cornered hat or a clover or something. Maybe we can start a SA talent show??</shutter></p>
<p>My h. told me that he saw women in the phillipines open beer bottles with their… shall we say …kegel muscles?? That was waaaay before my time, and I don’t want any details ;)</p>
<p>*** EDIT***
Berurah- you can start the talent show-- lets see how many stems you can tie in a minute. Ready… GO!</p>
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awwwwwwwwwwwwwww…{{{{{GENTLE HUGS, honey!}}}}} I <em>SO</em> get that way too! I can remember my youngest D, now 11, belting out Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” in her CARSEAT when I was preggo with my youngest son. <em>w-i-s-t-f-u-l sigh</em> And my baby boy used to be HOOKED on Rod Stewarts greatest hits when he was about 2. He’d pick out a phrase from the song and use it as the song’s title. For example, he’d call “Rhythm of my Heart” “Flames Gettin’ Higher” Damn, I’m getting SERIOUSLY nostalgic here. <em>sniff</em></p>
<p>Had to check it out, and Babycham is definately an appropriate drink here! If you go to their website, not only do you have to be over 18 to click further, but, and I quote, “Babycham, the original girlie drink, is ready to party.”</p>
<p>I don’t have any extraordinary beer bottle opening skills, but I can flare my nostrils and wiggle my ears, although not at the same time.</p>
<p>Late to the party here… but I see it’s still going strong.</p>
<p>jym, I don’t believe I got a hat for #3000, but rather a limbo pole. However, per Alu, I think the Designated Dance for #4000 is the can-can. So, I personally will be costumed in a little french maid outfit with skirt at the mini-level and twelve mini-crinolines. The fish-net stockings will make the high kicks more photogenic :D.</p>
<p>Applications now being accepted for TJFH designation. That post has been unfilled since June 2006. I believe we have openings for TFFH and TSFH, as well, never having filled those positions. Seems blucroo S has the inside chance on TFFH. TSFH possibly also up for bids: Known candidates for the S and J level awards: Aluson, SBson…</p>
<p>But we need those applications. Free-form. No SATs required; they are optional. High scores help you only if accompanied by low GPA to document true slackerhood. Low scores helpful as evidence of the underachiever profile so coveted for its ability to send hand-wringing parents bursting thru Sinners Alley doors. I have already designated myself an adcom, as I have no high school sons left so no conflict of interest*. Anyone?</p>
<p>*doesn’t mean I can’t compete for TCSFH (the college student from hell) - chief attribute: communicates with parents solely by means of AIM Away messages</p>
<p>And in this case, and this case only, applications written entirely by a parent are not only acceptable but preferred. Having had years of experience in the PoTFH hot-seat (Parent of Teen From H…), I assign myself to the adcom also. Ya wanna make somethin’ of it?</p>
<p>Not so fast on giving away the TSFH title, though… </p>
<p>Ms. English Teacher just sent me a lovely email filled with comments like, “strong contributor in discussions” and “does very well on quizzes” and “brings so much to the class”… aaaaaand… “currently has two homework assignments outstanding (the only two I’ve collected, actually)”, and “pleased with his performance in every regard (except that pesky little homework problem)”. Heh. We knew it was too good to last, right? I think he’ll be keeping the TSFH title for a few more months anyway.</p>
<p>Applications solicited for the other 4 titles (unless jmmom wants to claim TCSFH: given that mine doesn’t even bother to change the text of his AIM Away message anymore, I’m not even submitting an application)</p>
<p>welcome blucroo!!! Contgrats jym on hitting 4000, that’s nto even close to the number of dirty glasses round the back door or peanut shells on the floor but hey excess can be a good thing.</p>
<p>Bhappymom, I can’t beleive that you made reference to polite society in this joint. Oh, that thud you heard, was me falling off my stool on to the floor. but hey, it could have been your funny fairy trying to know my hat off.</p>
<p>Hey, I’ve got a junior, can I put her up for the award???</p>
<p>Plenty of awards to go around, sybbie. Just send us her “stats.” Free estimate of her chances available from the barfly on the next stool. You want a professional opinion? mootie and I charge $59.99 for our Official-From-He11-Actual Adcoms-Stats-Eval. You can pull some money out of the chicken-bucket, if it’s not too greasy.</p>
<p>As one of the newest members to SA, let me buy drinks all the way around in honor of #4000! Y’all can have whatever you like; I am in a generous mood as I seem to have found a new place to hang out. As for me, being a gal for CA, I like a good hearty Zin, usually straight from the bottle, no glass needed. And…please accept my nomination for my S as the new FSFH. When jym hit 4000, I was on the phone with high school counsellor relaying my S’s latest “attitude problem.” I think I’ll have another bottle, please.</p>
<p>oops, got the title wrong…TFFH?</p>