# An oldie but a goodie.

**URL:** <https://forum.nachi.org/t/an-oldie-but-a-goodie/112237>\
**Category:** Misc. Discussion\
**Created:** [December 17, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.nachi.org/t/an-oldie-but-a-goodie/112237 "2016-12-17T04:17:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![sstanczyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/internachi/user_avatar/forum.nachi.org/sstanczyk/32/175851_2.png) [@sstanczyk](https://forum.nachi.org/u/sstanczyk)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.nachi.org/t/an-oldie-but-a-goodie/112237/1 "2016-12-17T04:17:53Z")

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I wrote this for the online Christmas giveaway in 2008. The names may have changed, but you get the gist… Have a great Christmas everyone.

\*\*Twas the Thursday before Christmas, and all through the site  
Not a person was posting, the time was not right  
The computers were humming on the desk, I could hear  
In hopes that Old Nicky, soon would be here.

The inspectors were huddled by their keyboards with care  
With gifts on the line, they were pulling their hair  
With mamma in her ‘kerchief, I sent her to bed  
There’s no time tonight dear, I want an IR Camera instead

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,  
I just stared at the screen, other things didn’t matter.\*\*  
**Then there was a post, then another like a flash,  
I reached for my keyboard and made a mad dash**

**That little old poster, so lively and quick,**  
**I knew in a moment, it must have been Nick**  
**More rapid than gunfire, the posts they just flew**  
**Which one to answer, Oh what will I do?**

**I typed and I typed till my fingers grew weak**  
**And I saw these great gifts for all members to seek**  
**But Alas I type slow and the winners they came**  
**And Nick he kept posting, and called winners by name**

**Now Bushart, Now Larson, Now Duffy and Kelly (that’s Kelly1….sorry Brian)**  
\*\* On Beaumont, On Doane, On Pope and Valley\*\*  
**The prizes kept coming, they just didn’t stop**  
**And I still kept on typing but didn’t get to the top**

**The post it was hidden, “not for everybody” the thread**  
**Another political post? Or is God really dead?**  
**And then, in a twinkling, I watch with great glee**  
**The IR Camera I had dreamed of, now belonged to me**

**It was the last of the prizes, the last of the posts**  
**And all the Inspectors, they all made their toasts**  
**But Nick’s was the last, and it seemed only right,**  
**"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"**

🙂

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**Author:** ![maltizer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/internachi/user_avatar/forum.nachi.org/maltizer/32/407089_2.png) [@maltizer](https://forum.nachi.org/u/maltizer)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.nachi.org/t/an-oldie-but-a-goodie/112237/2 "2016-12-17T04:22:14Z")

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Awesome

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**Author:** ![sstaggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/internachi/user_avatar/forum.nachi.org/sstaggs/32/1777_2.png) [@sstaggs](https://forum.nachi.org/u/sstaggs)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.nachi.org/t/an-oldie-but-a-goodie/112237/3 "2016-12-17T04:23:38Z")

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Nice!