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Fantastic word game

The annual Christmas parade was a huge success last year and the kids really enjoyed it however we did have a few comments from some parents who thought the guy who played Santa was too skinny and let's face it, no one likes a skinny Santa.

That clue is actually a quote from a classic Christmas TV special. Anyone remember which one?
 
No one likes a skinny Santa, but then again whoever heard of a skinny Santa?

[size=8pt]Eat! EAT!!

And that's the correct quote. I know because my little cousin was over last night and he insisted on viewing the laserdisc of it.....three months ahead of time. It just comes earlier and earlier every year, doesn't it?
 
Motor vehicle laws generally applied only to road hogs, such as the type poor Mr. Magoo always had to deal with in the opening number of his show, which should really not be construed to mean anything, since everything else in between is what we have been focused on after the fact.
 
After the fact, we realized we should not have allowed Mr. Magoo to operate the band camp train even though it runs on tracks and Mr. Magoo wouldn't have really had to do anything but pretend to steer but, still, somehow, he managed to derail the thing.
 
What they are these days is just one big commercial, but at least it wasn't always as bad as it's become in the last decade and a half.

[size=8pt]For one thing, you could distribute files (and ideas) more-or-less freely without some giant faceless, soulless corporation squashing you dead. Oh yeah, there were no Quitter, F*kbook, Fraudspace, *oogle etc. around to squash you dead. Matter of fact, anything of a graphical nature was made out of text characters. Spyware was there, but you'd have to do something pretty daft or have a pretty crappy system to become infected by it. "Friends" were people we knew personally, in the real world, often in our very hometowns; not words and pixels on a CRT or cell phone screen like they seem to be these days. "Texts" were what we called the user manuals that came with our software or equipment. There was no (or actually very little) SPAM activity polluting Usenet!

And did you know that in the early days (meaning: ARPANET's last dying gasps/NSFNET's coming of age) commercial use of the "Internets" (yes, that actually was a real term years ago!) was severely frowned upon? That's right, Amazon Network and E-Bay only came about as a result of the Gorefication of the networks.

I was fortunate enough to have had cut my teeth on this "proto-Internet" and even "proto-World-Wide-Web" just before the World Wide Web in its current form reared its ugly commercialised head (circa 1994-5.)

But all good things have to end at some point and this is the result. Show me one site these days that doesn't have the Quitter or F*kbook logo on it at some point, or that doesn't include Google Analytics javascript in its source code. Go ahead, I challenge you.

(Say, this is my 1024th post. Now there's a nice round binary number! ;o)
 
It wasn't always as bad as it's become in the last decade and a half but we've definitely seen an increase in late night shenanigans perpetrated by drunken hooligans making their way home after closing time at Illusions.
 
For a song I'll see your treble clef and raise you a bass clef.

And speaking of the bottom line, the FWG casino ante pot needs to be watched more closely, given the competition that has been sneaking around here for the past six years or so. When they aren't going for the whole pot to run off with, they act like it's okay to just take a little cut. That is the band camp charity fund, not their little slushy pond. Restitution by making them work it off is an option, but the charity fund is needed before they stop piddling around with it. So, please keep closer watch, so that we can throw them out more easily in the future.
 
On a tv show I watched on Saturday mornings as a kid there was a young boy who for some reason or another became shipwrecked in a strange land where he met a dragon named H.R. Pufnstuf.
 
H.R. Pufnstuf was the mayor of Living Island, after which our own little band camp fun island is fashioned, although ours has lasted more than about 17 episodes.
 
17 episodes of our show would probably seem alot like Gilligan's Island because you always see the same cast stuck together with the occasional guest star (DToTheJ, Kenny, crainbebo) suddenly appearing and getting stranded on the island for about 22 minutes.


And what about that legendary question: Anyacat (Ginger) or Miss Silkie (MaryAnn)?? ;D
 
A Karaoke-oriented musical interlude was a plot device the writers felt compelled to use just a little too often and so after a while it lost it's effectiveness and became more of a distraction.
 
Distraction is quite often a marker for attraction when some performers are better suited to subtraction by extraction.

BTW, I notice at the bottom of our little pages we have click on options: Download, Play Online and Sign Up for Free Trial. Now, while I recognize this applies to the banner at the top of our page, what an appropriate and fun little notion for our Fantastic Word Game. We can participate in game design, don'tcha know.
 
Subtraction by extraction hasn't been used here since SKenJenningsSummers (who still posts on R-I I believe) dropped in for one of the few short unremarkable periods of our existence.
 


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