Billy and Billy

Billy reads the Gazette...mostly the funnies. Sometimes he reads the classifieds and tries to figure out the Puzzler's Wuzzles. Today he saw that Bill Clinton was going to be in Amana and he called me to see if I would take him to the event. He loves Bill Clinton...he is his hero....ever since that episode with Monica. We were all set to go when the regulator on the the lung blew a seal and it was just too risky to take him in view of the -8 degrees wind chill. Billy was heartbroken.

We went without him and somehow lucked out to get 3rd row seats. No metal detectors, no wanding...just walk right in with your bulky winter coat and get within 15 feet of the former President. I thought the security was way lax.

Mr. C arrived by driving his GMC SUV right into the building. A young lady came through the curtains first. She looked a lot like Chelsea and the guy sitting next to me asked if it was Chelsea...I told him it was Monica...in just a loud enough voice to raise a chuckle amongst the throngs of liberals that I was surrounded by. Notables in the crowd were BS, who was copiously taking mental notes about her new health insurance and wondering what that electronic health card would look like. Some Obama spies were spied as well. Absent was RC, who usually gets there early for a front row seat. Dixie, Billy's landlady, was no where to be seen, she probably was at home re-writing the von Crippe lease.

The secret service was focused on the crowd and had probably heard the story before anyway. I now know for sure how he got the name "Slick Willie".

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2007 That was the Year that WAS

Billy loves New Years Eve because he gets to stay up late and watch Dick Clark. He also found this on the interenet and wanted to share it with his friends.
This will be my last post for 2007.....but rest assured there will be a few more in 2008. Thanks to all my friends for making this the most watched blog in Amana. Billy appreciates your support and looks forward to meeting you in person someday.

Boxing Day

December 26th is Boxing Day. Its primarily a British Holiday. Its the day you give your servants a box in gratitude for their services through out the year. Well I am not British, nor do I have any servants, so the day is celebrated differently.

Here is what Wikipedia says:

Origins

Boxing Day is a traditional celebration dating back to the Middle Ages, of which the primary practice is the giving of gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has

numerous folk etymologies^[3].

Christmas box

A Christmas box is, in English tradition, a clay box used in artisan shops. Apprentices, masters, visitors, customers, and others would put donations of money into the box, like a piggy bank, and then, after Christmas, the box would be shattered and all the contents shared among the workers of the shop. Thus, masters and customers could donate bonuses to the workers without anything direct, and the employees could av

erage their wages. The habit of breaking the Christmas box lent its name to Boxing Day. The term "Christmas box" now refers generally to a gift

or pay bonus given to workers.^[4]

The Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); hence the term boxing-day." Outside the Commonwealth, the holiday is sometimes called "St. Stephen's Day".

• It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas box to those who had worke d for them throughout the year.
• In England many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas

  
  

  bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.

And you thought this blog was just full of tripe. Hell you learned something from it for a change.

Happy Hanukkah !

Billy's dad Otto Von Crippe reminds me that he is Jewish and was a little bit offended by the recent Christmas Greeting and asked for equal time. Priscilla got in the act, too.

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