{"id":2279,"date":"2004-07-04T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:45:57","slug":"day-31-of-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"Day 31 of 62"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shelley’s family has an interesting tradition for these Fourth of July weekend gatherings (one of several traditions.) A number of quizzes are created on posterboard and people submit answers to be reviewed later in the weekend. One quiz was a series of pictures of famous people cut from magazines for you to identify. One was a series of American history questions. And one was a list of descriptive statements each person contributed about themself, so you could try to match a person with a statement. An example statement was “I have always wanted to work in an airport.” (Which everyone was surprised to learn came from Shelley’s aunt Mary Ellen.)<\/p>\n

I delayed providing a sentence for myself, and when the deadline approached, I volunteered, “I know all the words to the Swedish Chef’s Song from the Muppet Show”. This turned out to be a great clue, because everyone assumed it came from one of the kids and so no one guessed it correctly. Great, huh?<\/p>\n

Well, except when it came time to reveal the answers. Sure, I surprised everyone. But then they all insisted that I sing the song for them. Great. Nothing like performing a thoroughly silly act in front of nearly 30 of your girlfriend’s relatives. Yep, I’m sure I’ll live that down. In about 50 years.<\/p>\n

And the next day, they made me do it again.<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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