HoHo, IC, and All -

The "rules" of Jamboree seem to hold that Pghportager, Hex, Pennpaddler, & the boys get to name the time & place of the next bad-ass bushwhack experience.  I couldn't agree more with those terms.  They have earned the right.  Who knows, when I see their Jamboree proposal, I might take a serious whack at it myself.

Of course, there never were any "rules" for Jimboree.  Jimboree MAY or MAY NOT correlate to Jamboree.  This year, wherever I decided to set the birds was going to be where Jimboree took place.  That pitiful wet island on Cairn just seemed to be the right place & the right time.  

For that matter, I'm not sure whether Jimboree has to follow ME around everytime OR if any old somebody can call for the next "Jimboree"??  Why can't it follow somebody else?

Should it even get called "Jimboree"?  Let's explore this idea further....

On one hand, I suppose someone could argue that, depending on the originator, it might as well be called a "db-oree", a "HoHo-oree" (doesn't that one SOUND good?), an "Old Saltoree", or even a "Kawishiwayoree".  Agree?

On the other hand, the exotic handles of some of our potential member/originators make such nomenclature somewhat aesthetically challenging for marketing purposes.  For instance, "Mk631-oree" or "PaddlerActuary-oree" just don't roll off the tongue so well.  Remember all that publicity that preceded this year's event?  Finding "rhyming" words for all that prerequisite "Bushwhacker Balladeering" could get to become a real mind-bender for me (and yes, PJ, I know... I don't have all that much more mind left to bend!).

As THIS year's originator of Jimboree (a.k.a. "The Park Pink Flamingo Festival"), I toss these (pointless) questions, as well as any others that I might dream up later, to the QJ public for their ideas, responses, ridicule, & possible resolution.

I DO have ONE request, however, re: future "Jimborees"....

EVEN if I am NOT personally in attendance at the next auspicious occasion, I hope we can insist that at least ONE honored tradition be followed: "Pinkus Flamingus Jimboreeus" (OR "Pinkus Flamingus Jamboreeus") MUST be present & prominently displayed.  Mount it high & proud!  Just like the Statue of Liberty, it can fetch in your cold, your wet, your weary, your hungry, your homeless, & your OTHER very bizarre Park personalities who just happen to be in the vicinity.

Just my 2 cents....

Jimbo  8)