Christmas carol

[David Baxter PhD]

I was the quiet one trying to read a book.

 

[Domo]

:rofl:

Oh god my face hurts from laughing

 

[Banned]

I'm not sure I believe that.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

It's true. I had 8 sisters. I had to be quiet. :read2:

 

[Banned]

Eight? Wow. I hope you made it out of adolescence relatively unscathed.

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But I still don't believe you :teehee: I bet you were the loudest and proudest in the whole family.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Eight? Wow. I hope you made it out of adolescence relatively unscathed.

Oh, hell no... I was totally scathed by the time I was 3.

But I still don't believe you :teehee: I bet you were the loudest and proudest in the whole family.

No, I was the quiet obedient kid. My mom said so.

 

[Banned]

Ok so you were the youngest. That makes things even worse. I'm starting to develop some sympathy for you.

I'm still not sold on the "quiet, obedient" part...keep trying though...

 

[David Baxter PhD]

No. I was the second oldest, the oldest boy, and I had five sisters before my first brother came along.

 

[Banned]

Hmmmm. Well then, there's no way you were scathed by the age of three. Unless that one older sister was a doozy. I suppose that's possible. :lol:

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Well, yes, she was at that time. Later we were buddies.

But it was 3... by then I also had 2 younger sisters: one was 11 months younger and one 2 years younger. So actually, I guess I was scathed by 2. :lol:

 

[Banned]

This is getting awfully complicated at this hour.

Can we go with a chain of events -> "Sally scathed me and I scathed Debbie and then Debbie and Sally scathed me, so I scathed Jill and then all three of them scathed me. Eventually I could only scathe the newest ones to come along, and only when I wasn't reading my book, of course. Academics always came first, being the studious child I was."

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With all this scathing going on at your house, it's really no wonder that Santa didn't get any Brandy with his home-made peanut butter cookies.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

It's really simpler than that. There was always so much commotion that I just tried to stay the heck out of the way.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Santa was another scather, not a scathee. Verily.

 

[Banned]

Oh. So now you're playing the "woe is me" card.

Well, with eight sisters and a Santa, I'm sure you needed to have a few of those up your sleeve. And if you've managed to make them last that long, good for you.

I still have this picture of innocence that for some reason, just don't jive with what I'm getting here. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Absolutely.

Let me guess. You also sang in the church choir on Sundays and carried your sisters' books to school for them?

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Hell, no.

Well, I did sing in the choir for a while.

But it's not the woe-is-me card... it's the Christmas card, remember? Woe is me isn't until January.

And besides, I haven't lived with any of them for years.

And with that... to all a good night... Elvis is leaving the building.

 

[Banned]

Um, wow....I hate having to have these difficult talks with people.

I need you to understand that actually, Elvis is dead. He has been for a very long time.

But this Elvis is beat as well. Morning comes far too early.