<p>On the third day of Christmas my good friend gave to me:</p>
<p>three French men
two Italian soccer players
and a set of Naked Guy Playing Cards</p>
<p>^^^^^ yes, sooooo much better than hens! Well done NYMOM!</p>
<p><em>bustles in and puts up the ratty standing three fold screen, covered in old Life Magazine covers, to hide the card games and the rapidly building list of the 12 days of Kinky Friedman…</em></p>
<p>OK you guys. I just invited all stressed parents waiting for EA/ED decisions to come in and visit.</p>
<p>Clean up. Look sharp. Get the marmots out of their tunnels and put their little caps on. </p>
<p>Hello all parents with kids applying to college. Welcome to Sinner’s Alley. We are very harmless and welcome all visitors. </p>
<p>Yellowtail anyone? </p>
<p><em>That’s what they were saying they needed. I don’t know what it is if it’s not sushi…:eek:</em></p>
<p>Too bad they are coming in right in the middle of <em>very debauched</em> singalong, but it may be good comic relief for them.</p>
<p>Welcome o stressed out ED/EA peeps! We are gambling, drinking, and being inappropriate. It ought to take your mind off things if you don’t run screaming.</p>
<p>But since it’s all virtual, it doesn’t count against us.</p>
<p>Except the marmots. Those are very real. We have proof.</p>
<p>Somebody better 'splain to those new SOED/EA peeps about the marmots.
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They might need them.</p>
<p>I, for one, can attest that they work.</p>
<p>…it appears that either noone came, or they ran screaming.</p>
<p>Oh well. </p>
<p>At ease everyone! And now back to your regularly scheduled programming of sin, sin, sin.</p>
<p>Agreed.</p>
<p>We put out the mat.</p>
<p>We sweep the dust under the bar.</p>
<p>We sweep the deeply intoxicated under the naugahyde tables.</p>
<p>And when noone shows up then…we carry on as always.</p>
<p>Day 5 of Christmas?</p>
<p>We still need day 4… not to be persnickety…</p>
<p>I confess I’ll have to look up the <em>original</em> words in order to attempt a rewrite. And now I have to go to a rehearsal, so you all carry on. Think we can have this done by midnight?</p>
<p>I’m trying to think of Day 4, but 3 French men is a tough act to follow!</p>
<p>My bad.</p>
<p>Four. Four. Calling birds…
Five gold ri-i-i-i-i-ings…</p>
<p>OK-----some help for you witty types (or the ones who’ve been hanging around SA a bit longer today…)</p>
<p>On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!</p>
<p>Well, we already have the twelve drummers. They’re part of the (almost) all-percussion-sons-of-SA-moms-and-dads-band. Not quite sure how we’ll work that into the song, though.</p>
<p>Won’t worry. There’s plenty of time. And plenty of cleverer SA denizens.</p>
<p>four wily marmots?</p>
<p>& I have one for when we get up to seven!!!</p>
<p>SBmom–
in keeping, tangentially, with the CC theme, I was thinking of “4 stalling nerds” for 4</p>
<p>… but I wasnt sure it would fly…</p>
<p>very good!!!</p>
<p>LOL on the four stalling nerds!</p>
<p>On board with that 100%.</p>
<p>Wasn’t sure it would fly. Har har har.</p>
<p>Five old things?</p>
<p>Five rolled flings?</p>
<p>Five foaled pings?</p>
<p>Five bold kings?</p>
<p>Five cold wings?</p>