Hot Summer Shtupping

August vacation. Picture it: You're away with the family. It's day 3, 4, 5... You're feeling unplugged, relaxed, human again. You send the kids out for ice cream or mini-golf or a long hike in the abandoned mine shaft, And then you and your mate...um, get busy? Knock boots? Rock the casbah? Vulcanize the whoopee stick in the ham wallet? Marinate the nether rod in the squish mitten?

Yes - you do the horizontal mambo. And that, my loyal readers, is how 4 Lemmings and 1 Lem-Friend were born this very week, exactly 9 months after August. Chico (5/23), Mark (5/25), Paul, (5/27), Al (5/27), and Chuck (5/29). Your parents all had summertime weenie roasts. Battey and Wendy apparently did, too, because Jackson's birthday is also this week! TMI?

So in honor of all this ancestral humping, I give you three "gifts". The first is a quiz. See if you can match each birthday boy to his accomplishments and/or exploits. 2 per celebrant. Again, the answers will be Chico, Mark, Paul, Al, or Chuck.

1) Which one had a portrait of his "father" hanging in the bar at the Williams Inn?

2) Which one is known for loving "fine brandy"?

3) Which one sang a duet with Harry Chapin at Williams?
4) Which one was nicknamed "the semi colon" after a medical procedure?
5) Which one does a thing known as the "weedis face"?
6) Which one was caught naked on the john by his parents' party guest who calmly said "That's okay. Don't get up"?
7) Which one used to fax pornographic cartoons to Chuck at the Pentagon?
8) Which one managed a David's Cookies, waited tables at a Mexican restaurant, temped for a women's plus size store, sold barge tours in wine country for a French travel agent, and sold vacuum cleaners door to door?
9 Which one wore a spiked dog collar onstage at Williams and secretly liked it?
10) Which one most often asks the question: "Can I ask a question"?

I will post the answers in the comments section below.

Now, what song to play? Well, it wasn't easy, but I found a video with all 5 honorees in it. Mark, Chuck, and Paul are singing; Chico's standing behind (wha-hut?); and I'm pretty sure Al is lurking somewhere close by. I started with a summer theme today, but now we're switching back to the current season: Spring. The solo, appropriately, goes to the birthday boy who holds the Lemmings record for "Most Solos Killed at the Last Minute". Not this time. Here's Chuck with "It Might As Well Be Spring".

Creamy. Finally, this week in 1997 we all got together at Chico's house on the Cape to rehearse for Wayne and Kate's wedding. In the middle of the usual mayhem, we sorta kinda sang happy birthday to this same birthday brigade. A tape was rolling. Here it is: the LEMMINGS BIRTHDAY MEDLEY.

Annnnnnnnnnd... Tup.