[Crazy Bacon Legs]

Hopefully I can get people on board this time.

devo22 was on my list. The other two were not.

We now have a list of six people who have voted all three times to lynch a townsperson:

starseed
devo22
Rathji
flameswin
Baxter Renegade
Hockeyguy15

devo22 is dead now, obviously, so I have five prime suspects. They needed votes for the last hammer, so I am going with one of the above.

I sincerely hope my fellow townspeople listen to this logic now. I would have had no issue voting for devo22, but I wanted nothing to do with the vote that ended up killing activeStick.

I must say that this reminds me of the time my neighbour rented a live hippo for his birthday party. The company said you could ride the hippo, but it would only remain calm if everyone around it wore a tutu. For some reason, this soothed the savage beast. If anyone was not wearing a tutu, it was tusks and stomping time. Several birthday parties had been somewhat ruined as a result.

So I went over there around 10:00, clad in a baby blue tutu, which was the only manly option when you think about it. Everyone was standing around, eating Cheezies and drinking punch. The host had opted for elevator music covers of 50's hits for some reason. But there, in the middle of the living room, resplendent in its glory, was a full-sized live hippopotamus. It just stood there, people in tutus awkwardly standing about with orange dust and orange drink staining their mouths and hands.

I started to get really antsy, because there was an actual hippo in the room, and nobody was making a move to ride it. At first I just sort of hopped from foot to foot, trying to get someone to make a move. I mean, it wasn't my party, I was just a guest. I made a few hinting comments like, "So, what you guys think about the hippo?" and, "I heard riding hippos is fun. Anyone here ever done that?"

Finally, a few of the guests wandered off and left the party. They weren't coming back, either. Finally, I just couldn't take it any more and I blurted out the obvious fact that NOBODY was riding the hippo and if they weren't going to, I sure as hell would. The host seemed relieved, because six hours had passed and the party was really lame.

So I hopped on the hippo, it reared its majestic frame, and I rode that sucker all over hell's half acre. The people of the city were gawking openly at me as I charged down the street, screaming ancient Viking battle cries. I rode for well over two hours, and finally returned to thunderous applause from the party-goers. Then others took their turns, albeit not as majestically. Bikini-clad women appeared and sprayed beer all over the place while fireworks exploded in the background. The party turned out to be a rousing success.

But there's a lesson to be learned here. I will remind you that I rode a hippo, but in a frickin' tutu. So the moral here is that sometimes, even if you do something amazing and 100% right, you still end up looking like a bloody idiot.

I hope you get my point.

The list is where I take my stand, and I am comfortable voting for any of the people on it. I have grave suspicions about people I thought I could trust, and yes they appear on this list. The upshot is that at this point in the game, I will not vote for anyone who is not on it.