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Twas the Night Before Christmas,
And all through the forums,
No one was posting!
Nor were they playing their games!
The Mods had prepared their Ban Guns with Care,
Ready to tackle any problem that might arise there.

But alas, what is a good mod to do,
When all the forumers have gone to Timbuktu?
With no one to post,
And no one to spam,
This little disaster,
Was to be worse than ruining the Holiday Ham!
So a plot was made,
A plan was hatched,
A sleigh ride was to be planned,
With staff attached!

Out of the thickness of night,
One could hear the coming fright!
It was, in fact,
A sleigh full of Mods,
Ready for action,
Glances meeting with nods.
Rich was there, toting a new holiday hat,
Which said, “Everyone’s Favorite Mod…Beat that!”
Alcar was practicing his brand new dance,
But this new jig left them all in a trance.
For you see no matter how the man stepped,
Control of the sleigh was harder to be kept.
As the sleigh fell rapidly to the ground,
The fall was quickly stopped, and all looked around.
It was Searex, the global mod, whichever you like,
Using his powers easy as a bike!
Quickly he carried the staff to a safe location,
Where they took off, on their staff transportation.

Now during all of this fuss,
One staffer never did start to cuss,
It was Xavier, who calmly began to say,
“Alcar, do that again, and I’ll knock you off this sleigh.”
Alcar looked sad, But Xavier quickly grinned.
“Just kidding old pal, friends to the end!”

After the two heartwarmingly embraced,
They got back to the mission; there were still forumers to trace!
Al the Vykker soon said, while leading the sleigh,
“One question is puzzling me this day,
Where oh where could those forumers have gone?
No one should be gone this long!”
“Wait I have an Idea!”
Said a voice in the sleigh’s toy rack,
It was AbeBabe, and by odd, she had come back!
For you see a long time, deep in the past,
AbeBabe had left us, though not quite the last.
This sudden bit of exciting news,
Left everyone ready to begin the task anew!
Of course AbeBabe’s idea was never really told,
But, who cares? AbeBabe’s ideas tend to get old.

It was then that Alpha had something to say,
“Folks, I have a plan to get some forumers today.
You see, we’ve been forgetting forumers of old,
They were great, and now they come with mold!”
So off the team went, across the USA,
Getting the first round of the oldies,
That would help them this day.
The first stop was obvious,
No one would ever compare,
To what they found in some state or other,
For, ParamiteAbe is there!
So he was picked up,
Placed in Santa SeaRex’s Toy Sack,
And told to keep patient,
Soon his oldie friends would be back!
The next stop was to a strange lay-by,
To pick up Mr. Oddguy;
First caught in a net,
Then placed in a cage,
He was finally corralled,
By the whole staff’s rage.
Once under control he was quite friendly,
He even sang them a song, a beautiful medley.
Then the group traveled to the far Pole,
(Quite a chilly place, chilly and cold!)
To a land far away from the Oddworld ensemble,
To capture and tame the one called Disgruntled.
But one must pose this simple question:
As to its answer, we are all open to suggestion.
“As for the arctic being so cold and such,
How can a cold Intern flame so much?”

Yet, while they were up at the pole they saw another sleigh passing by.
It held a man in a red suit… Oh well, SeaRex shot it out of the sky!
His new and improved Ban Gun, as an admin member,
Lets him ban things, and make you remember!
So maybe shooting down Saint Nick wasn’t the best possible move,
But, hey, Father Christmas was foiling Alcar’s new groove.
While Alcar tried this new and improved dance,
Which involved some odd removal of his pants,

The rest of the gang moved on from town to town,
Gathering oldies from all around!
Soon they had a massive troop,
To unleash on the forum, to end its droop!
Yet, they had one slight flaw in their plan:
None of them were willing to spam.
And to make matters worse there was but one slot left in the sleigh!
This could ruin the events of the whole day!

How on earth could one forumer gather enough posts?
To revive the forum, to save its ghost?!
Then, another idea came to AbeBabe,
But this time, everyone stopped their charade.
“I have a plan for this evening you see,
Let’s go get the hobo, he’ll post times three!”
So off they went, to retake this one,
Who had left for two weeks, but remained quite quite the Fonz.
So they brought him back, and with the help of the oldies.
The forums were saved! No help from their ‘moldies’

To celebrate, they all shared some Christmas Cheer,
Or Hanukah, Or Kwanzaa, or Ramadan, whichever you celebrate this year.
But this little party quickly became unruly,
When they had some eggnog, provided by one duly.
And so ended this round of holiday fun,
Surely a blast for everyone.

Yet, there is something we all should remember:
A memory to store in your heart this December.
Whenever you are flying around in your sleigh,
(Especially if it is prior to Christmas day),
You should look around, go ahead, and take a glance,
And make sure to remind the Alcar not to dance.