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About to Rejoin the Fray

May 24, 2009 bigun89 link
I've been sitting around for a few days thinking about the days of old, came here and re-read some of my old posts.... I'm going to break down and pay for a month here and play for a bit to see if it's really what it's cracked up to be.

It's going to be a bit before I do, due to a family member running for a political position and I will be helping with his site.. and the next few weeks will be critical.

So look out for Boing! in the coming months.
May 24, 2009 Sraer link
/me is ready to welcome Boing!

Can't wait to fly with you, and good luck to your family member!
May 24, 2009 LeberMac link
Is your family member an aspiring American politician? If so, for what? I love politics.
May 28, 2009 bigun89 link
He's running for Sheriff. He's just decided on a theme and slogan. I'm going to be scarce for a while. Wish me luck!
May 28, 2009 Shadoen link
John Elmer Pettibone Cajee
(I write of him with little glee)
Was just as bad as he could be.

'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon!
The sun has never looked upon
So bad a man as Neighbor John."

A sinner through and through, he had
This added fault: it made him mad
To know another man was bad.

In such a case he thought it right
To rise at any hour of night
And quench that wicked person's light.

Despite the town's entreaties, he
Would hale him to the nearest tree
And leave him swinging wide and free.

Or sometimes, if the humor came,
A luckless wight's reluctant frame
Was given to the cheerful flame.

While it was turning nice and brown,
All unconcerned John met the frown
Of that austere and righteous town.

"How sad," his neighbors said, "that he
So scornful of the law should be --
An anar c, h, i, s, t."

(That is the way that they preferred
To utter the abhorrent word,
So strong the aversion that it stirred.)

"Resolved," they said, continuing,
"That Badman John must cease this thing
Of having his unlawful fling.

"Now, by these sacred relics" -- here
Each man had out a souvenir
Got at a lynching yesteryear --

"By these we swear he shall forsake
His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache
By sins of rope and torch and stake.

"We'll tie his red right hand until
He'll have small freedom to fulfil
The mandates of his lawless will."

So, in convention then and there,
They named him Sheriff. The affair
Was opened, it is said, with prayer.

J. Milton Sloluck

There ya go, hope that helps, gl :)