Moll wrote:

""Thought you 'Catters would appreciate the song we whipped up at our traditional Christmas Eve bar carol last night.

On the first day of Christmas, Alex (proprietor) gave to me,

One very tall Long Island iced tea;

Two pints of beer,

Three mai tais,

Four salty dogs,

Five shots of rum!

Six scotch and sodas,

Seven whiskey sours,

Eight Bloody Marys,

Nine Fuzzy Navels,

Ten Margaritas,

Eleven Margaritas,

Twelve Margaritas... "

... which reminds me of the T-shirt I saw:

One tequila, Two tequila, Three tequila, Floor!

I got only one bottle of booze (maybe I'm less type-cast than I used to be; I used to get at bottles from at least four different friends, and sometimes more), three CDs or four, some shirts and socks, and permission to buy myself a National steel guitar clone from Ebay. It came a week ago, and sat around till Christmas when I could finally open it and see if it was any good. And it was. Plain metal (not etched or engraved) but decent sound, no dents or dings, hard case, etc.

Bob Clayton