<html><head><base href="x-msg://129/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Steve,<div><br></div><div>How about making a compilation of your geyser carols for the next Transactions? Or if it's not serious enough for that, maybe for an issue of the SPUT? I bet I could get my family to sing them around the Christmas tree!</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Christmas and Holidays to all!</div><div><br></div><div>Janet Chapple</div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Dec 22, 2009, at 3:21 PM, <<a href="mailto:sgryc@comcast.net">sgryc@comcast.net</a>> <<a href="mailto:sgryc@comcast.net">sgryc@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Dear All,<br><br>I apologize to all who have been anxiously awaiting this year's geyser carol. I don't know where the time has flown since my first such effort in 1997 (i.e.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; ">I'm Dreaming of a Mastiff Function</span>). This year's carol is a touching anthem of regret titled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; ">Away In Back Basin.</span> So drink a hot toddy to loosen your vocal chords and dull your aesthetic senses and then sing out as you would at a Giant Geyser start.<br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Away In Back Basin<br></span></span>(to the tune of "Away in a Manger")<br><br>Away in Back Basin<br>No gazers do tread.<br>Echinus is silent,<br>The Monarch is dead.<br><br>No Steamboat eruptions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Now mount to the sky.<br>The tourists still go there,<br>But gazers ask, "Why?"<br><br>Destroyed is the geyser<br>That we called Pork Chop,<br>And years ago vandals<br>Caused Minute to stop.<br><br>Where Son of Green Dragon's<br>The best you can do,<br>Back Basin is no place<br>You want to go to.<br><br><br>Well, that's a bit of a downer, isn't it? I think we need to reprise a more uplifting carol from 1999. Remember this?<br><br style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; ">Let us gaze! Let us gaze! Let us gaze!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>(posted 1999)<br>(to the tune of "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!")<br><br>Oh the weather outside is frightful<br>But the Beehive's so delightful,<br>And since we're here just three days,<br>Let us gaze! Let us gaze! Let us gaze!<br><br>Both Anemone's vents are popping,<br>And they show no signs of stopping,<br>And Lion is in steam phase,<br>Let us gaze! Let us gaze! Let us gaze!<br><br>When it's quarter past ten at night,<br>How I hate sitting out in the storm!<br>But if Giantess goes tonight<br>All the spray will keep me warm.<br><br>The Giant Geyser is steaming,<br>And its viewing platform's teeming,<br>So if they’re no Grotto delays,<br>Let us gaze! Let us gaze! Let us gaze!<br><br>Seasonal greetings to all with the hope of great gazing in 2010!<br>Steve Gryc<br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><br><br></span></span></div>_______________________________________________<br>Geysers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>