What are you doing this coming weekend?
07-30-2012, 03:05 PM
#2291
07-30-2012, 03:20 PM
#2292
07-30-2012, 05:54 PM
#2294
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just pulling your chain..... you better be driving it or I'll think you've turned into strictly a gold chain person. 
07-30-2012, 07:11 PM
#2295
Thanks, Patty. Enjoy your trip!
07-30-2012, 10:00 PM
#2296
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just pulling your chain..... you better be driving it or I'll think you've turned into strictly a gold chain person. [/quote]
Honda owners aren't gold chain people. You know that.
(topdown, twohatson!) 
07-31-2012, 02:20 AM
#2298
Another quiet weekend here. We are going to a wetting down ceremony tomorrow. The +1's "boss" is making Captain.
"The wetting-down celebration is always paid for and hosted by the newly promoted officer, who invites his or her friends, which usually includes several officers of the same rank at which he or she has most recently served.
The "wet" part of the wetting-down is at the new officer's option, and must always be directly confirmed with the new officer before the party. His or her jocular friends should under no circumstances be relied on for this important point of protocol. Although permission is always required, the new officer is expected to react more or less as if it were a surprise.
Being located in a bar, there is typically a great deal of drinking of alcohol. There must always be at least one ceremonial toast. Friends present several rowdy speeches expressing their appreciation of the new officer's good comradeship and copious faults. Often one of the speeches describes an embarrassing event in the new officer's career which occurred under the old rank, although this latter variety of speech is sometimes discouraged in order to avoid providing evidence pertinent to a disciplinary hearing.
The final speech must always be entirely complimentary. Ideally, there should be no dry eyes after the final speech, particularly if the speaker is the new officer's father. During the final speech it is considered honourable and complimentary to discreetly wipe one's eyes, if needed.
In its most exuberant (and most traditional) form, the wetting-down ceremony ends with the former peers of the new officer as a group carrying him or her out to the ocean, and tossing him or her in. Having previously approved, the new officer is expected to cheerfully submit."
No ocean here, so I guess the "wet" part will be dispensed with.
"The wetting-down celebration is always paid for and hosted by the newly promoted officer, who invites his or her friends, which usually includes several officers of the same rank at which he or she has most recently served.
The "wet" part of the wetting-down is at the new officer's option, and must always be directly confirmed with the new officer before the party. His or her jocular friends should under no circumstances be relied on for this important point of protocol. Although permission is always required, the new officer is expected to react more or less as if it were a surprise.
Being located in a bar, there is typically a great deal of drinking of alcohol. There must always be at least one ceremonial toast. Friends present several rowdy speeches expressing their appreciation of the new officer's good comradeship and copious faults. Often one of the speeches describes an embarrassing event in the new officer's career which occurred under the old rank, although this latter variety of speech is sometimes discouraged in order to avoid providing evidence pertinent to a disciplinary hearing.
The final speech must always be entirely complimentary. Ideally, there should be no dry eyes after the final speech, particularly if the speaker is the new officer's father. During the final speech it is considered honourable and complimentary to discreetly wipe one's eyes, if needed.
In its most exuberant (and most traditional) form, the wetting-down ceremony ends with the former peers of the new officer as a group carrying him or her out to the ocean, and tossing him or her in. Having previously approved, the new officer is expected to cheerfully submit."
No ocean here, so I guess the "wet" part will be dispensed with.
07-31-2012, 05:27 AM
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I have a big family reunion shindig to attend. I have an aunt, uncle, and cousins I haven't seen in nearly forty years. I usually don't like these things, but I'm looking forward to this one.