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[pargoletta]

Very musically crowded weekend, covering styles ranging from Java to Scotland to Alabama.

I attended the Chicago New Year's Ball on Saturday night, which is always a fun event. How many people can realistically say, "oh, I have to go get dressed now, I'm going to the Ball," and mean it? Gowns/cocktail dresses, gentlemen in kilts and Bonnie

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[valmora]

very few Scottish balls to feature borscht
I love the idea of mixing cultures all together, just because I approve of good food in general. It sounds yummy. =D

very thoroughly danced with,
Hee! Sounds lovely.
(one of the dance moms has a pacemaker implanted in her heart, and at one point her doctor said to her, "Your readout said you got your heart rate up to [very high number] on January 21st. Were you doing something exciting, or do I not want to know?"
To which the mom replied: "I was dancing!")

Pulled it right out of his buttonhole
You are clearly a dangerous woman, and a menace to the flowering of gentlemen everywhere. I shall instruct my completely-fictional sons to be wary of your wiles! XD

[pargoletta]

"Your readout said you got your heart rate up to [very high number] on January 21st. Were you doing something exciting, or do I not want to know?"
To which the mom replied: "I was dancing!"

Snerk! Welcome to the George and Gracie show.

You are clearly a dangerous woman

That I am.

and a menace to the flowering of gentlemen everywhere.

Bear in mind that, the first time I attended the New Year's Ball, this particular gentleman was wearing a novelty sporran made all of fur with a flap in the shape of a cat's head. He said he liked to wear it so that he could be the only man in the room who would ask people to pet his pussy.

I shall instruct my completely-fictional sons to be wary of your wiles!

What wiles? I have no wiles. All the de-flowering trick takes is fast hands . . .

[valmora]

George and Gracie show.
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the only man in the room who would ask people to pet his pussy.
I....see. How unusual.

All the de-flowering trick takes is fast hands
Clearly a dangerous woman. And he clearly deserved it!

[pargoletta]

George Burns and Gracie Allen were a comedy team, first on the radio and later on television. George was the straight man and Gracie was the comic. Their most famous riff was the one they used to end their shows:

George: Say goodnight, Gracie.
Gracie: Goodnight, Gracie.

the only man in the room who would ask people to pet his pussy.
I....see. How unusual.

Oh, you'd definitely like this guy. He's a total hoot. And there was another girl at the ball who also had a similar sense of humor, and during the Dance of De-flowering, we were not only all three of us in the same set, she was his partner! She thought the de-flowering was hysterical.