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Twas The Knight Before Christmas
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‘Twas The Knight Before Christmas, EzineArticles Style
By EzineArticles Managing Editor, Wally
‘Twas the night before Christmas, at EzineArticles.com,
Not an Expert Author was submitting, the servers were calm;
The bandwidth was ready, should an article appear,
Perhaps from an International Author, perhaps from Tangier.
The editors were nestled all snug by their desks,
While the dev team was sleeping, algorithms in their heads;
And Chris in his office and I in mine,
were doing year end reports and reviews to sign.
When out in the lobby there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my office to see what was the matter;
Opening the door I flew like a flash;
Right down the hallway length did I dash.
The lights in the lobby on an EzineArticle Mug,
Something…er…something, anyone know a Doug?;
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a BMW tricked out with a lot of gear.
When the driver hopped out, it was such a site,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Knight!
More rapid than a fast web page load his team out came,
And he whistled and shouted and called them by name;
“Now Tammy! Now Abby, Now Rick, Chad and Tracy,
On Jason, On Kiyohe, On Holly, Kirk and Casey!
From the Start of the Blog, To the End of the Forum,
Let’s go approve those articles, with lots of decorum!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
That EzineArticles.com Team, jumped to their PCs with a cry.
Affiliate links, PLR and bad articles away they did blew,
Creating more support and contact us emails, for me later to do.
And then, in a keystroke, I heard an editor call,
“We have another affiliate link”, I heard them all bawl.
As I drew in my head, affiliate marketers I did curse,
Down the hallway St. Knight came looking no worse.
He was dressed all in Nike, and shorts did he wear,
Rather odd I thought, for Wisconsin December air.
A bundle of Dell notebooks he had flung on his back,
Luckily for his cardio, he gave not a hack.
His eyes how they twinkled, as he removed the PLR,
Those promotional articles, they couldn’t reach the bar;
His droll little smirk, making bad articles decline,
Approving the good ones, even with an ascending hairline.
He turned to his notebook and opened the lid,
Making sure to use a Firefox browser as he did;
A blog post he set about to all EzineArticles authors,
Saying thank you for 2006 and many more years to follow.
“The articles you’ve sent, have helped grow this community,
They bring joy, information, answers and unity.
As we end 2006, 300,000 plus articles approved;
I look forward to next year so this community can improve.”
And thanks to our editors and our development team,
This great group of people I hold in esteem.”
He finished his blog post and then he hit send;
Double checking his spelling, so as not to amend.
He sprang to his beemer, the door unlock engaging,
and away he did flew like a beeper a paging.
But I heard him exclaim ‘ere he drove out of site;
“Happy Holidays to all, and your article submissions I invite!“
Hope you enjoyed this parody!
To fill in the blanks for those we may have lost in this little story, when Wally mentioned “Chris”, he meant the other Chris who leads our dev team and not myself…herein referred to as “St. Knight”… as if, but I digress. Also not included in the story (not on purpose, but we couldn’t figure out an easy way to work everyone in) but I did want to give a mention that Rick and Chad are in the dev team and April is our Accounting Manager. As small as our team is, everyone’s role is critical to the success of the project.
 Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 23, 2006 at 8:00 pm | 1,967 views |
29 Comments »
Thank you for your wonderful original holiday message. What a pleasant and JOYous surprise.
Please know I am thrilled to be part of ezinearticles.com. May I take this opportunity to thank you also for my ezinezinearticles.com MUG! I am so proud of it, I may string a rope through the handle and wear it as a necklace–After I remove it as decoration on my tree.
I feel so special!
Happy Healthy Holiday to you and your great staff. And Happy New Year!
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Wally, you’re multi-talented! This is awesome. My favorite, laugh out loud lines:
“The editors were nestled all snug by their desks,
While the dev team was sleeping, algorithms in their heads;”
“And then, in a keystroke, I heard an editor call,
‘We have another affiliate link’, I heard them all bawl.”
“He was dressed all in Nike, and shorts did he wear,
Rather odd I thought, for Wisconsin December air.
A bundle of Dell notebooks he had flung on his back,
Luckily for his cardio, he gave not a hack.”
“As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly…”
*OK so that one was part of the original but I really just love the imagery/motion
Merry Christmas and thanks for the laughs!
Dina
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Great job, Wally!
Merry Christimas and Happy New Year to Chris, Wally and everyone at EzineArticles.com. And many thanks for your hard work all through the year.
Now on to those New Year’s resolutions about writing and submitting more articles . . .
Cathy
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Outstanding! Gave me much-needed joy. This is
the first Christmas without my dear mother. Thank
you!
To everyone at EzineArticles, I wish the happiest of Holidays. To be accepted at THE top of the line home for articles gives me much pleasure.
To all the article writers out there…Merry Christmas!
Hugs to all,
Karen Cook
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Very cute Chris. You hooked me with the
title (a trick I think you’ve taught us) because
I’m looking for the poem for tonight with
my kids.
I keep reading because it was so cute and
clever.
That’s why you’re staying on Santa’s
nice list for a message with no hype!
Thanks for the Merry Christmas delivered with class
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That was great! I love creativity like that. It’s also nice to showcase the people behind the scenes too.
I also wrote a ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas parody on my Work At Home site. Just click where it says Work At Home above to check it out.
Happy Holidays to all!
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I would have commented earlier, but I was busy making some new friends. I plan to submit an article about our “Christmas Eve Chimney Fire Adventure”, although I need a better title. I intend to include a checklist for readers both to prevent a chimney fire and also to provide steps to take in the event they experience one.
Yep, we had been burning a fire all afternoon into the evening when the chimney decided to light off with a roar and illunimate the backyard from the glow…thought Santa was arriving early in a jet-powered Sleigh…you should have seen the flames shooting out the top…even the neighbors came over to let us know it was on fire….made some new friends from the fire department and met some nice police officers, too…nice trucks…lots of lights, cool sounding sirens, the whole works…our tax dollars at work.
Back on topic, I have always loved poetry…especially since MISS Sabre Parsons introduced me to it in 10th grade, primarily Shakespeare, and I even wrote a poem. You can read it on my website if you ever visit. Just click on my photo.
I loved this poem, and it just proves what we already knew: The staff and management at EzineArticles.com take a back seat to NOBODY!
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year from the “Yule Log Capitol of Kansas”……to be continued…..
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Okay – so SHOOT me! I took Christmas off, and just saw this today…
Wally, that was the utmost. I rewrote this story myself for writer’s group, sent a copy to a good friend who rewrote it for me… I wonder, is it possible that “Twas the Night Before Christmas” is the most rewritten poem?
I have to admit, I like your version bestest!!! ;)
Merry Christmas!!! Happy Holidays – And I just want to wish you all a wonderfully BUSY week before the New Year.
I love Planning Week!!!
Jan
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When I got to the part about the Dell notebooks, I thought they were Xmas gifts for the staff. :)
Nice poem.
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