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ultimate in parodied version of da cranky grammar-lesson term dat we all hated dealing wif in
middle school; da teacher would probably have a major uptight hissy-fit (i.e., she would get really "tense") if any of her students made such a mockery of said word-type label. Here, it refers to a gala outdoor get-together whereby everyone hangs out in crappy camping-enclosures dat most folks would just walk right by (i.e., dey would have just "passed by these tents" to look for better-designed models to purchase) at da sporting-goods store, and where dey politely drink from
containers wif straws or dispensing-spouts instead of just guzzlingly chugging said beverage-containers' contents in huge noisy messy gulps.
Da "Bionic Woman" star Jaime Sommers was known for being very easy-going and creatively "thinking outside da box" when it came to her teaching job (for example, she would often have her students arrange their desks in a circle to represent a cell or molecule), so if her pupils gigglingly asked to play a "visual pun" joke on her for
April Fools Day to break up da monotany of
English class, she'd likely be good-natured enough to allow dem to do so. I can imagine her astonishment, though, when --- after an extended "close you eyes and don't look" period while her mischievous "
little rascals" were preparing said uproarious prank for her, she saw dat dey had fully transformed her classroom into a "passed-tents party-sipple" scene, complete wif an entire "community" of surplus-merchandise-level fabric-walled sleeping-structures and toddler-type enclosed drinking-glasses dat da students would all be imbibing water or juice from.