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mootie, does this qualify as an application? Do we need some supplementary materials, quantifiable qualifications? Or do we just send blucroo the Suitable For Framing parchment-quality paper award?</p>
<p>I think we should ship over a gen-yoo-wine TFFH certificate, toot sweet. Welcome to the Alley, blu.</p>
<p>Mmm… wine. What a good idea.</p>
<p>Thanks, all, for the warm and fuzzy welcome (or is that blurrrrrry???) I will try not to spill any of the good red stuff on the certificate when it arrives via cybermail. We will treasure this certificate, as he has earned so few others. Cheers!</p>
<p>blucroo, You’re in! This year, we had many qualified applicants for so few positions. We had to reject many well-qualified individuals, but your credentials stood out. </p>
<p>Somebody slide a napkin down this way. And a pencil. Oh, okay, a tube of lipstick will do. I got a certificate I gotta create. Sheesh, I thought somebody else did this clerical nonsense. I just signed up for the ADcom From On High position, where I get to accept and reject people. Anybody got any marginally qualified applicants I can defer? <em>haven’t got the heart to actually reject anyone</em></p>
<p>Perhaps blucrooS, who I think already had his title as Mrdudefish, is channeling SluggS the Highschooler, now that SluggS the College Guy has risen from the ashes. Does Mrdudefish, or MDF for short, play an instrument by any chance? Does he have a unique relationship with ATMs? Does he emerge from closets where he has fallen asleep while sleepwalking? If yes, let us know and we will proceed to spread Internet rumors of the possibility of reincarnation right away.</p>
<p>Slugg. Do tell. Do ya hear anything from the College Guy? And jmmom, does your guy like JHU so far? Of course, now that you are the transfer expert you don’t care if he doesn’t right:? Just kidding. Just kidding.</p>
<p>Alu: A belated 50th hurrah! I too have crossed the half century mark and am searching for my fairies…</p>
<p>MDF plays percussion…attempts at keyboards. I won’t let him near an ATM;
He sleepwalks, but have yet to see him in or out of a closet, he could not get to the closet as the clothing is piled up on the drumset in front of the closet door…</p>
<p>PERCUSSION: PERFECT!!</p>
<p>blu, you may not have read all 269 pages of this thing (and why the heck not, I ask?), but interestingly enough, most of our guys do, in fact, play percussion!! (Although there are a couple guitarists in our midst, too…) I think maybe percussion is a pre-req. I guess we need a space for that on our app?</p>
<p>(on the turntable we keep on that pile of boxes under the pool table out back).</p>
<p>This certificate confers upon its recipient
blucroo
the title
Proud Parent of the Freshman from H-E-double hockey sticks</p>
<p>and all the honors, rights and privileges pertaining thereto. Witnessed and signed this 29th day of September in the year 2006 by doddsdad, Our Founder</p>
<p>For print-quality version: Make your own</p>
<p>Alu, there are very few things that are not funny here in SA. The prospect of a third application season for my DDS is one of them :eek:. I am happy to peddle my transfer app expertise on the Transfer Forum, thank you very much ;). </p>
<p>He likes it, he really likes it :). Or so I’m told. You can’t fit too much information on an Away message. But DH spent a day with him last weekend and reports that the suitemate is a good match, the food is good and he is settling in. What more is there? Oh, the academics? jmson had already told me that the workload is “manageable.” I am in heaven.</p>
<p>nice job, jmmom. You’re hired. Can you make us all pretty certificates?</p>
<p>And wow! I actually had to get some work done today and when I got back to SA… you guys have sure been busy!</p>
<p>alu- confetti and pidgeons. Sounds dangerous. I’ll try to watch where I fall…</p>
<p>Bhappymom- The funny faerie is a little tight. It seems a tad small. No wait, it must be my big swelled head from achieving the 4k mark.</p>
<p>mootie- gee thanks- self referential??? I was doing it for us.To recapture the thrill of 2k. See, I was waxing nostalgis too. Really. Honest. (and it was moominmammas post that made me self reflect. She helped. Lets get her a beerhat too.) Cel-Ray?? Don’t know about that… Try their cream soda. My dad swears by it.</p>
<p>jmmom- a limbo pole? I’m in trouble. can I hold one end of the pole whist you cancan in your crinoline. Maybe SA should be renamed Petticoat Junction ;)</p>
<p>berurah and SBmom- when does the stem tongue-tying talent show start? (boy, say THAT three times fast!)</p>
<p>sybbie- GLASSES??? we have GLASSES in SA?? All this time I’ve been drinking out of my shoe :eek:</p>
<p>I hope I didn’t leave anyone out. Sorry if I did. I am beginning to see double.</p>
<p>bluecroo- another oenophile! Yay! Lets break out a Matanzas Creek Zin! What year do we have stored in the back, under the maraschino cherries? (or whats left of them… berurah and sbmom have been rehearsing for the show…)</p>
<p>Who are the o-ficial judges for TJFH contest. I have an entry, but will send it in a separate post. This is getting tooo long.</p>
<p>Hi all–just want to reserve the right to complain here if/when I see my son’s first quarter grades. I get all sorts of news on the extracurriculars, the food, etc., but mysterious silence on classes. He’s been in school a month–when should I start worrying?</p>
<p>Not that I WANT to be in the running for any awards like TFFH… :D</p>
<p>Mommusic,</p>
<p>If you didn’t start worrying when he was 10 years old you are probably OK.</p>
<p>Alu</p>
<p>Alu,</p>
<p>That’s just it–I worried all through HS and did a lot of pushing. He was immature and there were days when he would have slept in if I didn’t throw him out of bed. Smart, but a slacker. I figured when he got to college he would either buckle down or flunk out–it wasn’t under my control anymore. Easy to say, but deep down…I worry!</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll call him and try to get some answers. And if I don’t like the answers I’ll be back here for a drink.</p>
<p>mommusic, you can always try to get him to sign one of those permissions to know his grades… if you’re really worried… I told my D she’d need to produce decent grades in order to get the following semester’s tuition sent in; I won’t micro manage but neither will I pay through the nose for a crappy performance. I don’t expect straight A’s but I like know that she isn’t tanking.</p>
<p>Ditto SBmom. I told the dear darling that his Privacy Rights meant we didn’t get to see his grades unless he agreed. Of course, if we didn’t get to see his grades, we wouldn’t be forking over any $$ for tuition, room, board, allowance… ;). </p>
<p>I think we all worry what college will bring academically, mommusic. Here’s hoping your worries were unfounded and those extra grey hairs were for naught.</p>
<p>Can y’all teach me to tie stems into knots with my tongue??? I want to learn!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Knot-in-a-Cherry-Stem-Using-Your-Tongue[/url]”>http://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Knot-in-a-Cherry-Stem-Using-Your-Tongue</a></p>
<p>I can touch my tongue to my nose - does that count??</p>
<p>I dated a girl in HS who could do that. Not touch her nose, but tie stems. I remember the first tie she did that I as amazed. But it is one of those things like memorizing the Budweiser lable, that is only amusing once or twice.</p>
<p>Well, I am with Aries…I can touch my nose with my tongue but haven’t learned the knot tieing trick. Please teach me, too! One can never have too many “tongue talents” when hanging out with a bunch of drinkers! I’ll have a marachino cherry in my cabernet please.</p>
<p>…and I almost forgot…THANKS for the great certificate!!! It is now proudly and prominently displayed on the refrigerator, attached by a few of those cute little refrigerator magnets advertising Princeton Review SAT study courses and ITT Tech College. I am humbled and just a bit horrified to be the recipient of such an honor.</p>
<p>First spend a minute;get it nice and bendy and curved. (You don’t want it to fold sharply, you want it to curve.) Then you anchor one end of the stem and use your tongue to bend the other end into a loop. The end with the smaller dimension is the one to anchor. Then you push the fat end through the loop with your tongue, and as you pull it out of your mouth grasp that fat end and pull the knot a little tighter. Really very simple.</p>
<p>Tune in tomorrow and I will go over hanging a spoon from your nose.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>For a bright spot in your day watch this and pass it on.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4</a></p>