When a girl casts her bread upon the waters, she expects it to come back in the shape of a wedding cake.

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One of the season’s popular football rooters’ song is that old familiar ballad “After the Ball.”

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The Hootch Hound’s Lament

It’s easy to stay two-thirds pickled all day,

Get drunk and sleep out in the yard,

But to put in a night without one drink in sight;

It’s the getting back sober that’s hard.

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