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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

It's This Saturday!


This day is called the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is named,
And rouse him at the name of Gator.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars
And say 'These wounds I had at the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: blacked out neath a Buick
After Beer Pong; flattened as his mouth ran with
Budweiser, Miller, Michelob,
Liberty Ale, High Rollers Wheat Beer, Bud Ice, Bud Light;
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Bulldog fan shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in Georgia now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That lay with us on the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party day.