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Season's greetings to all HalfBakery patrons wherever you are and of course to the bakesperson herself, Jutta.
Halfbakers' Christmas trees
http://www.savingad...as-tree-photos.html
[hippo, Dec 22 2007]
PNC CHRISTMAS PRICE INDEX JUMPS 8.1 PERCENT IN 2008
http://www.pncchris...Press%20Release.pdf
The PNC Christmas Price Index increased by a lavish 8.1 percent over last year, the second biggest leap in the history of the whimsical economic analysis by PNC Wealth Management based on the cost of gifts in the holiday classic, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” According to the 24th annual survey, the cost of the PNC CPI is $21,080 in 2008, $1,573 more than last year. [hippo, Dec 18 2008]
Gort
http://www.robothal...rg/06inductees.html
[Ian Tindale, Dec 20 2008]
Australian Star Pine
http://www.thevilla....php?story_id=27198
A pleasant holiday tree. [csea, Dec 21 2008]
[link]
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Seconded. And to you and yours, hippo. |
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Happy Hanukah :)
Happy Yule Festival :)
Happy Druid Tree Festival (I think that's about right) :) |
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What's the farmer's celebration? |
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And how long until this becomes a huge debate on what Christmas has become? It's one I'm not starting... |
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Happy Satunalia. Happy Agnostica. |
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Enjoy (or not) this season that you may (or may not) celebrate in a manner that befits your customs and beliefs (if any). |
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Mercy to you, mercy oh me, my it's getting late. Throw that in the fire and let's go!!!! |
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<half_wit> Falling snow
on holiday streets
joy to all</half_wit> |
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"Happy *REAL* New Millenium"? |
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anyway, right. right on. happiness. and stuff. =D |
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Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the
religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. |
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..and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2001, but not without due respect for the calendars of
choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "AMERICA" in the western
hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age,
physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee. |
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(By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This
greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies
no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good
tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a
subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the
sole discretion of the wisher.) |
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You beat me to it, hippo! So I'll just vote for and annotate
your posting instead. Merry Christmas, happy holidays,
peace and blessings to all bakerspeople! |
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Friend of mine just had a "Non-denominational winter-related festivity." It was an interesting party.. everything from Christmas decorations to "virgin sacrifices." |
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I think I hit critical *mass*; time for that New Year diet resolution. |
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Ok, Uncle Nutsy, now you've got to poetry-fy those sentiments(?) and you'll really have something... |
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Happy holidays to you all! |
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<blows dust & cobwebs off last year's idea> |
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Don't take it wrong that I said "I hate xmas', hippo...the thought is appreciated, I just hate the season. |
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<python> ow! lay off! We haven't started yet!</python>
Looking out of my window, I can see some bloke's already got his house totally covered in Christmas lights. Now where are my wire cutters... |
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I wish a lot of things, but mainly just for whirled peas. I'm getting Christmassy feelings... but I think it's mainly due to the frosty cold and that it's getting dark at 3.45pm these days. And the best excuse of all the seasons of the year to go shopping *every day*!!! |
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- but you *do* complement the old-timers. |
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On the first day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
An Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the second day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the third day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the fourth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the fifth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the sixth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Geese farting custard,
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the seventh day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Treadmill swimming, Geese farting custard,
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the eighth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Mobile cows a-milking, Treadmill swimming, Geese farting custard,
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the ninth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
blissmiss dancing,
Mobile cows a-milking, Treadmill swimming, Geese farting custard,
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the tenth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Top ten ideas ever, blissmiss dancing,
Mobile cows a-milking, Treadmill swimming, Geese farting custard,
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the eleventh day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
Robot Marching Band, Top ten ideas ever, blissmiss dancing,
Mobile cows a-milking, Treadmill swimming, Geese farting custard,
Cream Cheese Rings!
Stoicism Parrot, 3 Team Hockey, Two Cats Mad
And an Anti-Pollution Tree |
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On the twelfth day of Christmas the bakery gave to me
A link to a page of drummer jokes,
"Robot Marching Band",
Top ten ideas ever,
nine blissmisses dancing,
"Mobile cows" a-milking,
"Treadmill swimming",
'Geese farting custard',
"Cream Cheese Rings"!
"Stoicism Parrot",
"3 Team Hockey",
"Two Cats Mad"
And an "Anti-Pollution Tree".
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Eight made Sam ill, King. |
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Nigh on laid.. he's Dancin'! |
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And a paltry gin, a pet free. |
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Tan pee perspiring
Merry Chrimbo everyone. |
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I don't hate Christmas. I just hate the fact that there are still fools out there who believe it means something, in the face of massive evidence to the contrary. |
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I hope that 30 Million years from now some earnest student digs up some crappy plastic trinket in the shape of a reindeer or the fat dickhead in the red suit (as popularised by Coca-Cola) and assumes they were some sort of ancient lifeforms. |
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You're all doomed, doomed, I say.... |
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Who cares about all the mumbo jumbo and commercial bollocks? It's just an excuse to get totally blattered and then get fed by the relatives. The party starts now! Merry whatever, to anyone who's still here! |
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StarChaser: "Hi, this is StarChaser, can I have your problem number please?" |
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Santa: "This is SANTA CLAUS and I'm in Bermuda, and I need help dialing in." |
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StarChaser: "Um, okay, can I have your problem number, please, Santa?" |
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Santa: "I don't know about any proble . . . Hey! This is SANTA and it's CHRISTMAS EVE and THIS IS IMPORTANT and I'M IMPORTANT. Are you planning on helping me? I want to talk to someone who is able to help me. . . ." |
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<grin> You either remember or have recently reread my page...I just added a new loser...Not Santy, though. |
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Another year goes by on the HalfBakery. I must go and buy a tree today. |
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I am eating xmas lunch with the nursery class today - Isay that like its a good thing :) |
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Young master Silly's school Christmas play in about, oo, 90 minutes. Apparently he's a cowboy - how things change... |
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grits & beans for baby Jesus? |
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... and next week Miss Silly is one of the three queens! |
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happy christmas to all and let's pray for a peaceful new year. |
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So there I was, looking for geese in the 'bakery while merrily crafting a Twelve Days tune, and found lewisgirls lovely song already 'baked. ...Geese farting custard, Cream Cheese Rings... to one and all |
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Another year goes by on
the HalfBakery. Merry Christmas
everyone! |
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a peaceful christmas to one and all. |
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merry christmas to all, along with a happy hannukah, merry kwanza, eid mubarak for our muslim friends (a little belated)...er...um...well how about a peaceful, joyful season and new year for everyone? |
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Happy holidays and keep safe.. |
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I think it's the fact that four people have 'boned this idea that makes me love this place so much! Merry Christmas, everyone. God bless us all, and God bless Tiny Tim. |
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Wow, and this year Miss Silly stole the show as an enthusiastic Mary. Those drama lessons are paying off :) Enjoy the season. |
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What did she say afterwards, "Oh my God!"? Happy holidays nice bakers and naughty bakers. |
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Silly, was she in a play, or was this just around the house? |
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[waugs] - The school nativity, two matinee performances and two evening performances. We were trying to coach her to do the realistic birth scene, followed by "it's a girl", a la Mr Kipling adverts. |
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Well, churning this idea once a year
beats sending Christmas cards. Merry
Christmas! |
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he means happy christmas! |
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and a big thank you to jutta for an hb new year! |
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It was the best of times...(Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight). |
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Happy Christmahakawanzika all!
(or whatever it is) |
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May your Kwanzaa be filled with Kwassants! Thank you for a year full of laughs! --Phun |
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Only 19 hours 10 minutes of work to go until the holidays! |
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You do work? I thought you just sat in a corner reading books all day.
Merry Whatever to Whomever! |
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Merry Christmas! (ALMOST, 2 DAYS TO GO!) |
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Note to self: Buy [DesertFox] calender for Christmas. |
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Ideas like this just show the great history of the halfbakery. I'm glad that it was [hippo] that made it.
And Merry Christmas to all. |
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Just about time to resurface this idea again. Merry Christmas! |
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Merry Christmas, one and all. |
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Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year |
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May we all pray for peace, and may someone, for god's sake, listen to our prayers and lift the life of those in Africa, and everywhere else in the world, where there is pain, and suffering, hunger and war. |
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The best of all to all of you. |
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Merry Christmas and a happy Perihelion everyone. |
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Have a Happy Solstice, everyone!
May the next revolution be more peaceful!
I tried, but form letters, you know. |
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Happy days to all of you! Thank goodness for a few days off. Too bad it has to be used for inlaws.. |
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Nah, just kidding. Merry christmas to the lot of you! |
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Christmas didn't come for me this year... |
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Scream ! It's myrrh. Anagram |
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Happy Dies Natalis Solis Invicti! |
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I bought my tree at the weekend so it must be time to churn this idea. Merry Christmas! |
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You've just caught me in mid-erection. Give me a few more seconds. There, that's it, standing up for the next few weeks, tall and proud. And green. With decorations on. |
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I do hope there's medication for that. |
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Does yours hang down, or stand up, [IT]? |
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Depends on which attachment he uses. Merry Christmas folks! |
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Is 7 years to go 2.5 croissants some sort of record? Does anyone know? |
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Merry Xmas ...credit card. |
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My God. Ian's woman must be very proud of his display!!! |
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A very, very, very cold and merry Christmas to all... |
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"Cold? Cold? It's the middle'er bloody summer, ya dopey sheila!" |
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<Oops, quietly slips Aussie accent back into the strongbox it's usually kept in> |
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[skinflaps'] anno reminded me of a ditty I wrote a while back, enjoy!
(to the tune of G.F.Handel's Sarabande) [link]
Remember ... this Christmas,
December ... means business.
While merchants may vary,
Each loves Virgin Mary (and Jesus.)
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I'm pleased by the season,
My Visa's the reason,
My Plastic's elastic,
I'm sure to pay it off by September!
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I boned you.... mwahahahaha! Although, I am happy about the winter solstice and the fact that winter is half over. Oh and Go Commercialism!!!! |
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Next year I'm decorating a 2x4; fewer lights and more floor space for gifts! Merry Christmas, y'all. |
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Those Christmas trees were awesome! |
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Compliments of the season. |
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To all bakers young and old, seasoned and newbie, lurkers and posters, left and returned, good and evil, conservative and liberal, bright and dim... may you all have the very best Christmas! |
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happy christmas to hbers big and small and due thanks to jutta as always... |
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Merry Christmas to all, and to those that don't celebrate, Happy December 25th. |
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What a wonderful christmas day we've had. Very enjoyable. Hope yours was the same*. |
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*To all those that don't like christmas, hope it wasn't too enjoyable. |
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My daughter is enjoying her new toys, my wife is taking a nap, and I'm on the Halfbakery. It is a good day. Happy Yule. |
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I bought my son a remote control helicopter for about 30 bucks. It's the neatest bit of engineering I've seen. It even recharges from the batteries in the controller. So far I've only had to get up on the roof once to retrieve it. |
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All the boys, big ones and medium ones are out seeing Alien vs Predator. I was in the basement painting. |
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Strictly speaking, we halfbakers should celebrate the six days of christmas - the second half, not the first. |
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So, to follow Ian's train of thought, I hope everyone has a Spiffy Seventh Day of Christmas tomorrow, and may your seven swans swim soberly and serenely, at least until it's time to party! |
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Best wishes to all for "aught-eight". |
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In these times of economic gloom, there's nothing like reusing last year's Christmas Card. Merry Christmas to All! |
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Happy Christmas, h'bakers & Jutta! |
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Merry Christmas to all who want it to be. |
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Oh, yes please - and I wish a peaceful and merry Christmas to all of you lovely people too.
x |
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Oh *alright* then...
Happy holidays! |
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Is it Christmas again already? |
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Mele Kalikimaka to you all. |
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Halfy Holidays, everyone :) |
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But I'm not going on holiday. I'm staying here. |
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Well, Happy Staying Here! |
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{There's always some <ahem> individual that we have to take into account, isn't there?! <insert smiley here> } |
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so proud of [hippo] for recycling!!
Merry, Merry, quite contrary...oops, love you all. |
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I want to give you
a big snowball for christmas
in your face
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hug bumhah! WELL you little twit, who you calling a bumhah??? (Merry Christmas to all, and to all a happy new year). |
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Why would this idea have 9 bones? |
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<almost totally off-topic> |
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There's a funny double-incongruity about Christmas trees in Australia. |
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First, in Europe, we transfer some mid-winter tree-worship into the commemoration of a birth. |
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Then, in Australia, we transfer the whole package into the middle of summer. |
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Now, the incarnation part is dated pretty arbitrarily anyway, but the pagan parts are much more context-specific (it's cold and dark: put the lights on, eat and drink heavily, huddle together for warmth, etc.). So it's the pagan parts, including the tree, that sustain a much greater delta of silliness (leaving aside debate on the base quantum of silliness in any case) in transit to the southern hemisphere, and mid-summer. |
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Anyhow, in helpless thrall to this twice-displaced meme, I was in the car bringing home a small, truncated evergreen tree the other day, when I thought I felt one of my children playfully poking a spray of needles into the back of my head. |
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It turned out, however, to be a stick-insect slightly longer than my middle finger. Being straw-coloured, it had decided that my hair would make a good, discreet place to hide. Better than a now-horizontal dark green tree, anyway. |
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Why was a straw-coloured stick insect in a dark green tree anyway? Partly because that particular Yule-ish shade characteristic of holly and fir (and, oddly, British Racing Green) doesn't seem to exist in any native Australian vegetation that I've seen... so, there'd be no current Australian stick insect better fitted to that tree than the lost one in my car. I have no theory about why the insect wasn't in some straw. |
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Now, I believe colouration change in insects is one of those things which can evolve relatively fast. So, how long after the introduction of Christmas-tree plantations into Australia do we expect to see the emergence of waxy dark-green stick insects? |
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Once those emerge, watch out for the stick insects resembling six-inch gauze angels. Now *that* will be worth looking at. |
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Anyhow, God rest ye merry. |
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//the base quantum of silliness// [marked-for-tagline] |
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Regarding Xmas trees and Oz - Some years ago, in the sleepy beach town of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA, I purchased a potted tree called an "Australian Star Pine" as the Solstice icon. But in googling this today, I find no evidence of such a tree. Was it the figment of some marketeer's fertile imagination? |
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Happy Winter Solstice, etc! |
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a serendipitous solstice to you all! |
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I watched the solstice dawn from inside Newgrange this morning by webcast - there were 34,000 people after 20 places so I wasn't very likely to get there in person. Glad I wasn't there actually - it was overcast and rainy so the light didn't really make it down the passage. Instead we got to watch the lovely 2007 soltice in its orangey glory whilst drinking tea in bed. |
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Anyway - Joyful Solstice, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. It's looking like 2009 will be a disasterous year financially, so I'm going to spend most of it here, where fun is free and there aren't aren't news bulletins. |
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There's no tree called Star Pine, as far as I know. Australia has about 7 genera of conifers, most of them endemic. |
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What did the tree look like? I might be able to identify it if you can give me enough info. |
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[UB], I have this feeling that no-one can ever give you enough info. Keep up the learning. |
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I'm trying out a new modem, after a month or so with only occasional library time. Came here first to wish everyone a Happy Solstice. |
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[UB] I did some searching, and it looks like Araucaria excelsa [link]. Said to be from "exotic places like the high mountains of Chile, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and the Queensland coast of Australia." |
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I didn't mean to hijack the seasonal hoopla for some horticultural trivia, but it brought back frond^h^h^h^hond memories. |
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The ground is frozen and covered in snow, the roads out of this hellhole are impassible, everyone is sick and it's not just cabin fever. |
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With that said, Merry Christmas, Chappy Chanukah, etc, etc. |
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There was me imagining they were introduced. Thank you for putting me straight. That stick insect must have been stupider than I thought. |
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Spacecoyote, it sounds like you might be in Seatle, or Hartford, or Chicago, or uhm...wait is there any place it didn't snow over the last week? |
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Sorry bout the sickies too. |
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Southern Oregon, actually. No point in mentioning the town's name, it's not on the map. |
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Merry Christmas, me old chaps. |
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Hey, has anyone posted the silly predictions idea for 2009 yet? If so I missed it. It's one of my favorite traditions here. |
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And Happy Boxing Day everyone. |
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