<p>You're taking <em>what</em> off as we speak?! :eek:</p>
<p>oh moot...
why, the beer helmet <a href="http://www.drinkingstuff.com/displaypage/store/basepage.php?path=1,7,73&prodid=1358&ref=plpi%5B/url%5D">http://www.drinkingstuff.com/displaypage/store/basepage.php?path=1,7,73&prodid=1358&ref=plpi</a> ...err.. the tiara I mean..., of course</p>
<p>Homage to tsdad - pictures?</p>
<p>I luv you gize, <em>hiccup</em></p>
<p>Sinner's Alley Gone WILD. HOooo boy. Time for a night cap for me. A real one. Not a cyber one. The 12 year old brought her baritone home (first time in months) and is at this very moment practicing "Phantom of the Opera" on it. Here's to you!</p>
<p>Joining the party late (a little side trip to New Orleans) and planning to join in the debauchery, but first.....</p>
<p>Wondering if I can't get <em>a little respect</em> here. All this mumbo jumbo about a chicken bucket collection for financial aid. Just who was the first to come up with this idea?? I give you jmmom: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=1683569&postcount=530%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=1683569&postcount=530</a> I guess I can't blame doddsdad for failing to give me the proper citation. He's under great stress and tired from roaming around the desert looking under bushes and rocks with the curmudge.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think the Take A Penny, Leave $30K sign will yield faster results than the chicken bucket.</p>
<p>Jmmom, you're absolutely right! I failed to properly cite you as a source for the idea. :o My abject apologies, and I appreciate that you understand the strain I'm under. I can tell you, it's nerve racking looking under rocks in the desert when you don't have any rattlesnake-stomping boots. :eek: C-mudge says he only has one pair and he's not sharing. I want to stay on your good side because we'll need help for all the planning and preparation coming soon (Twin sheets XL right?)</p>
<p>While I'm throwing around my vast knowledge of Latin, :cool: I thought I'd share a new phrase I learned recently, which has special meaning around our house, and is related to previous (very previous) posts in the Alley.</p>
<p>Carpe Ductum!</p>
<p>Seize the Tape!</p>
<p>Oh, I'm getting excited now! Such great ideas you guys have. I can take my D to the BART station with her baritone, and have her blast away with her "Phantom of the Opera" there, with her baritone case open next to her for collecting donations for her college fund. What do you think? Or would a chicken bucket be better?</p>
<p>^^^ And that would save you the cost of noise-reducing ear phones, as she will be doing all her practicing underground in the subway. Toss the savings into the sax case and that will start people out with the right denominations ($20's and $100's, no point in the quarters, nickels and dimes ). Good plan :D!</p>
<p>I need a drink in the middle of the day! I have been looking for a long-lost friend for almost 20 years. She divorced the husband I knew years ago and I didn't even know what last name she was using, if she had remarried, etc. And she's from California! Can you say "a gob of people with a very common name in California?" Anyway, I finally found someone I thought was a very slight possibility and sent an email last night. God bless the internet - I found her. </p>
<p>Mstee, she can play the baritone, but I think she should collect her tips in the chicken bucket. That's just classy! And she must wear a tiara.</p>
<p>Doddsdad, we can definitely carpe ductum. We have duct tape in every room of the house and all vehicles. I used some today to fix the stove vent. And you don't need boots if you have one of those forked sticks! (Notice I said stick, not tongue.)</p>
<p>Mootmom, you and I could sell tickets for the streaking show. Maybe we could earn enough to pay 1 day's tuition. Can we borrow the bucket?</p>
<p>Believe it or not, my H, who plays an exquisite classical guitar, sat down in an airport baggage claim area one evening while we were awaiting our checked luggage and took out his guitar to play a little. It wasn't 5 minutes before someone came by and threw change into his guitar case.</p>
<p>I recommend setting your D up with that baritone, mstee.</p>
<p>Combining the love of duct tape....</p>
<p>and the need for funds, </p>
<p>I give you this: <a href="http://www.stuckatprom.com/contests/prom/%5B/url%5D">http://www.stuckatprom.com/contests/prom/</a></p>
<p>Helps to have a vis arts D to know of these things...</p>
<p>At H's high school graduation in 1974, two of my intrepid Junior classmates decided to streak the football field. Off they went, galloping down the field, while parents and students cheered them on (remember, this was Nevada), until they got past the end zone and had to scale a 6-ft Cyclone fence. </p>
<p>Then, it became a different kind of scene, and the stadium full of half-baked and curious onlookers waited in suspense to see if they'd be trapped like rats and have to face our scary Vice-Principal/Boys' Dean, who looked like George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke, or do the heroic thing and fling themselves and their male body parts over the fence. Not only was the pride of the Junior Class at stake, but this would probably go on their permanent records, if they got caught. Well, one of these guys was a disciple of Metal God, Ozzy Osbourne, and the other one was his sidekick. The "permanent record" threat really wasn't much of a deterrent. :p </p>
<p>Up they went, and a few screams later, down they came on the other side of the fence, spread-eagle in the dirt like a couple of filleted trouts. The spectators erupted in shouts to, "GET UP!" as the principal's Ninja-like janitors spilled out of the nearby auto shop. We all suspected that stoners could run if they had a good enough reason, and so they did, down the Senior parking lot and off the school grounds. Not only weren't they suspended, they became high school legends, gods really. :D </p>
<p>Children, stay away from beer bongs and don't streak. It's bad for you, and it may go on your :::: permanent record! ::::</p>
<p>...And, for gawdsake, don't climb Cyclone fences while naked! It's anatomically unsafe. :p</p>
<p>I see that many people are interested in borrowing the bucket, but I must point out that Sybbie hasn't agreed to give it up. I think she may have become very attached to her basket shoes and bucket hat, or it could be the other way around. Maybe she would trade for a tiara or a beer bong hat, assuming those aren't the same things.... </p>
<p>I need some help here, would the proper Latin phrase for "Seize the bucket" be Carpe Bucktum or Carpe Pailtum?</p>
<p>Dodds,</p>
<p>You know that bucket hat looks so good on me and you also must admit those painted feathers (not chicken, than you very much) does lend a certain bit of character to it. </p>
<p>It is just too fabulous to fill with mere change (it will put dents in the bucket) so only soft money will do (and not that kind they talk about in DC as we *do * have standards ;) ). </p>
<p>I only reason I did not want to wear the tiara is that slugg told me that if I gave in to my inner princess and started the hand waving thing, she would wave me right out of the door :eek:</p>
<p>Hey I am one to help out for a good cause, so not only will I give up the bucket, I will walk around with my milk carton saying for pennies a day....</p>
<p>Anything to keep the free drinks coming</p>
<p>Well, since we're shooting for at least 30 Grand, I'd say it's cashier's checks, only. Btw, does anybody in here have any money? Not me, I just paid my son's outstanding fees so he can take his finals. I hate the school. ;) </p>
<p>::::crickets chirping:::</p>
<p>Okay, since all of the rich people wouldn't be caught dead in Sinner's Alley, and none of us want to leave because of the free booze, it looks like we're going to have to have a telethon. Anybody got a cell phone?</p>
<p>Sluggbugg: All this talk of money! I'm busy chewing the coins off my belly dancing costume....;0, I don't have a cell phone...would two tin cans and string do?</p>
<p>OMG and now we are going to have invite all the tatooees from the tatoo thread to come on down and join our circus...</p>
<p>Oh wait. Mootie is already here:)</p>
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<p>Slugg, I understand your point, but you might not want to interfere. From a Darwinian perspective there may be some natural selection at work here, since guys who climb cyclone fences while naked are unlikely to reproduce. Of course, they could take solace in their Darwin Award. ;)</p>