Happy 4th to all! I hope that wherever you are you are enjoying the day with good food and relaxing times. I wasn’t in town last summer for the holiday so all the patriotism here is a nice surprise. Last night a neighboring town held their fireworks and I sat outside with a handful of stranger-neighbors and watched what we could over the trees. And in just the last 10 minutes I passed a pick-up truck with a person-sized Statue of Liberty tied to the front bumper, as well as what I think was a turf war over prime parade viewing spots near campus, complete with wild gesticulating. Ah, summer. I am skipping the parade in favor of a nap, but plan to enjoy a lovely barbecue and hopefully up-close fireworks later in the day. I really relish these kinds of holidays because for about 10 years I had jobs that required me to work on the 4th. So enjoy the day, whatever your plans!
ALSO, special birthday wishes to my darling sister! Firecracker, firecracker, boom boom boom!
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July 7, 2007 at 8:19 am
Kilikena
Thanks!
OK, so now I’m trying to think of the rest of the “firecracker firecracker boom boom boom” cheer. Is there some section about boy parts v. girl parts? If so, kids are weird. If not, I am weird.
July 7, 2007 at 8:50 am
keem
Oh yeah! Something about… girls having sexy legs? Again, maybe we just made that up and are exposing too much of our warped childhood.
July 9, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Tony
I would like to preface this by saying that I had 2 sisters and I remember this cheer and that is why I remember this cheer. Because I have sisters, okay? I think it’s something like “The girls have the legs, the boys got the muscles….. then comes the baby in the baby carriage!” I don’t know what rhymes with muscles. Tussles? Chocolate truffles? Truffle shuffle? Or maybe I made this whole thing up in my brain right now. You tell me.
July 11, 2007 at 12:24 pm
keem
So this dispatch comes overseas from Tiffaroni:
“I can no longer comment on your blog since i can only access it via proxy server, which lets me look, but not touch.
But here is the cheer from what I remember:…
Firecracker Firecracker
Boom boom boom
(repeat)
The boys have the muscles,
The teachers have the brains,
The girls have the sexy legs,
and WE WON THE GAME!
another one for your cheering pleasure:
Soda Pop
Big Banana
We’re the team from Indiana
That’s a lie,
That’s a lie,
We’re the team from Junior High!
Cheers are so dumb…i kind of hate myself for remembering them.”