SUMMERTIME ROLLS! Wildclickers Thread #79

perfect day for a summer wedding - sunny, with a high of 21 celsius forecast
acres

Thur., June 21, 2007 ca. 12:55 midnightish in California

Okay, yes, I was lured and misled by an antipodean will o' the wisp to try this game. I gave it a go X 3, and my highest score was in
the single digits. Decided that my time would be more productively spent doing anything else than propelling that poor wretch into
the descenders of roman characters. However, I've been enjoying the laments and torments of all you team players.

Meanwhile, I trust all of you are preparing to be jumping over bonfires tomorrow, or spinning firewheels down the nearest hill. Or
if you are inclined toward the more historically recent forms of celebration, you may be participating in some kind of St. John's Day
celebration. When I lived in El Cerrito (just north of Berkeley), there was a Portuguese-culture parade on my street every year.
There would always be little girls and teenage girls dressed up as queens holding crowns on small pillows, and little boys wearing
"wild animal skin" costumes intended to make them look like St. John in the wilderness. Proud parents would walk alongside these
children, and at least one Portuguese band would merrily and musically contribute to the atmosphere.

All that was in years of yore. If there are any Portuguese in Calaveras County, they keep very quiet about it. I wish that were not so;
when I was in Portugal some years ago, I came to like the Portuguese. It was wonderful to see them in the setting of their own
country, not just one of many cultures in a multicultural setting, the San Francisco Bay Area.

To give the all-purpose holiday greeting in phonetic Yiddish -- "Good Yontiff!"

Aa