Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:38:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Eikel 
Subject: The Fortieth of July.

When was the last time you went to a good party? I mean, a really, really
good party? A party with bottomless supplies of beef, beer, rock and roll,
good times, beef, American freedom, beef, and lighter fluid? A party that
lasts at least twelve hours and puts at least one foreigner into alcohol
shock? A party where dousing oneself in malt liquor is considered a
perfectly valid (in fact, irrefutable) debating tactic?

If you answered "gee, that doesn't sound like a good party to me - I'd
rather drink in careful moderation and get home to bed at a reasonable
hour", then you probably should find something else to do on the 11th of
August. But if you answered "gosh, that sounds like last year's Fortieth
of July", then you're on the right track.

Yes, it's Fortieth time again. But this year's Fortieth will be different
from the previous eleven. Just as, four hundred years ago, a small plucky
band of colonists left England to seek their fortune in the American
wilderness, the Fortieth has taken leave of its Massachusetts home and
migrated to the milder climate and tobacco-rich plains of the Tidewater.
This year, the Commonwealth of Virginia -- mother of Presidents, beacon of
liberty, cradle of revolution -- will host the annual festivities.

Indeed, it is Fortieth time. It is time to forget our troubles, to
celebrate America, to mock Canada, to barbecue like our lives depended on
it - and they do - and above all, to drink. And then to drink even more.

The pleasure of your company is graciously requested.

What: The Twelfth Annual Fortieth of July
When: Saturday, August 11, 2007
      From 3:00pm until whenever
      No RSVP, just show up.
Where: 3222 First Place North, Arlington, VA
       http://tinyurl.com/2clhzk
       "Sic semper tyrannis"
Web: http://reikel.org/40th

P.S. There are plenty of folks who didn't get this message but who
desperately need what the Fortieth has to offer, so just pass it on.