Christmas Thread: Santa, Reindeer, Elves & Yule Goats

[GleefulNihilism]

So people who constantly attack religion (aka Atheists) can choose which religious traditions they attack while others they celebrate? That is hypocrisy in its purest form.



Fine, I won't spoil the thread. I am done now.

Athiests could be celebrating holidays because their families do, and they want to spend time with and bond with their families. Ever think of that?

And people like you are the reason I gave up on organized christianity and the reason atheism is sky-rocketing. You can't be a representative of a religion that espouces love and brotherhood and spread hate and prejudice without coming off as a huge hypocrite. Isn't pushing people away from God one of those Instantly-Hell-Worthy sins? Because spreading those kind of attitudes around is exactly what you are doing. I gave up on organized christianity because of people like you, because I felt and still feel I can't be associated with christianity without pushing people away from God. Disorganized religion has nowhere near the same level of discriminiation and out-right contempt for their fellow man. Not to mention greed and hypocrisy.



But this is a christmas thread, so it's time for an attempt at a happy message.

Puppies are yay! Some are very ugly, like Boston Terriers. I seem to be alone in that opinion however so knock yourself out.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Do they come in any smaller sizes than what you already have?

Their smallest dog weighs less than what one of our cats eats every day. What they need now is a 90 pounder that will play in the house with the rest.

 

[turbo]

Years back when my wife and I were operating an ad-hoc ferret rescue, we placed a pair of inseparable females with a family that had a fairly good-sized dog. It was around Christmas, and I know Christmas pet adoptions are discouraged, but their son loved those ferrets, and we knew they would be in good hands. Those girls drove poor Gollum to distraction. The house had cast-iron radiators that they could fit under very easily, and they would taunt him, nip him, and urge him to play, then one would hide under a radiator and bait him while the other would stage commando attacks on his back legs and tail. If he decide to go after the one that was nipping him, she'd head for a radiator, and the other girl would tease him for a while. Poor Gollum! He had had the house to himself for years (except for a rat named Al) only to be saddled with two VERY active little buddies who could out-maneuver him.

In fairness, I should mention that the girls loved him and curled up with him to sleep every night. Bill put up a barrier at the bottom of the stairs to the 2nd story, so if the girls wanted to play in the middle of the night (part of the ferret schedule) Gollum could go upstairs and get some sleep.

 

[Integral]

A puppy!

:!)

A gift card sounds real good.

No more puppies, Please.

 

[turbo]

:!)

A gift card sounds real good.

No more puppies, Please.

How about a gift card to a pet shop that cannot be used for food, bedding, toys, etc? Don't you need a nice conure, ferret, or some other critter?

 

[Evo]

I just made the Hidden Valley Ranch Oyster crackers. I do make one slight change, I mix half the vegetable oil with half extra virgin olive oil.

 

[Andre]

Oyster crackers?

These guys?

http://www.scottsbt.com/fishids/idcom/phoysta1.gif

Oyster cracker

 

[Evo]

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer is on tonight! I know the Fruit Bat, Dr foofer and I will be sipping eggnog and watching with my Abominable Snowman live action figure the girls bought me. It's over a foot tall with shaggy white fur.

http://www.scifi-toyz.com/abominable.jpg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer is on tonight! I know the Fruit Bat, Dr foofer and I will be sipping eggnog and watching with my Abominable Snowman live action figure the girls bought me. It's over a foot tall with shaggy white fur.

http://www.scifi-toyz.com/abominable.jpg

Heh, I always loved Rudolf.

 

[Astronuc]

I just made the Hidden Valley Ranch Oyster crackers. I do make one slight change, I mix half the vegetable oil with half extra virgin olive oil.

I forgot to mention earlier, that when I visited my sister's family at Thanksgiving, the day before, we had Ninfa's fajitas - with the green tomatillo sauce/dressing. Mmmm, Mmmm!

I thought Evo might appreciate that.

http://www.ninfas.com/default.asp?ID=74

 

[Moonbear]

Oyster crackers?

These guys?

http://www.scottsbt.com/fishids/idcom/phoysta1.gif

Oyster cracker

We always called those oyster crunchers. So ugly they're just fascinating.

These are what I call oyster crackers:
http://www.sbamerica.com/OTC/otc.htm
Horrid, rock-like tasteless things you MUST drown in soup to make edible.

Now I see things labeled oyster crackers that look more like a Ritz cracker or Saltine someone cut into tiny hexagons. They aren't so bland as the originals, and definitely not so hard, so you could actually eat them on their own if you really wanted to.

 

[Evo]

Now I see things labeled oyster crackers that look more like a Ritz cracker or Saltine someone cut into tiny hexagons. They aren't so bland as the originals, and definitely not so hard, so you could actually eat them on their own if you really wanted to.

I used Saltine oyster crackers, very yummy.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21MBE4AS2EL._AA160_.jpg

 

[Evo]

I forgot to mention earlier, that when I visited my sister's family at Thanksgiving, the day before, we had Ninfa's fajitas - with the green Tomatia sauce/dressing. Mmmm, Mmmm!

I thought Evo might appreciate that.

http://www.ninfas.com/default.asp?ID=74

I love their tomatillo guacamole.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer is on tonight! I know the Fruit Bat, Dr foofer and I will be sipping eggnog and watching with my Abominable Snowman live action figure the girls bought me. It's over a foot tall with shaggy white fur.

http://www.scifi-toyz.com/abominable.jpg

That's so COOL!

WANT!

 

[Integral]

Heh, I always loved Rudolf.

Yet another one of those ancient religious Christmas time traditions.

Yeah I have always been partial to Rudolf, sorry I am going to miss it.

 

[Integral]

Oyster crackers?

These guys?

http://www.scottsbt.com/fishids/idcom/phoysta1.gif

Oyster cracker

I am sorry, when I first saw that I it reminded me of something my dog did this morning.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Yet another one of those ancient religious Christmas time traditions.

As a kid this all seemed very simple. We are Borg: You have been assimilated. Any previous meaning is now redefined for our purposes.

I am quite certain that Rudolf is Catholic.

 

[Integral]

As a kid this all seemed very simple. We are Borg: You have been assimilated. Any previous meaning is now redefined for our purposes.

I am quite certain that Rudolf is Catholic.

I thought that was the red nosed Irish priest!

 

[turbo]

That's so COOL!

WANT!

We have slipped a generation, here. I loved cartoons as a kid, but had no patience for marionettes, stop-action animation, etc. Can't tell you why. By the time the Rudolph animation came out, I was a bit old for that kind of thing anyway, and never warmed up to it. No Bah, Humbug! implied or intended. I just never warmed up to that adaptation of the story.

I remember very fondly listening to Gene Autry singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on a 78rpm record on our crank-powered table-top Victrola. I'm really not that old, but we were not well-to-do, and most of our stuff was hand-me-downs, sometimes for more than a generation. I probably drove my parents nuts listening to that song, and the few other Christmas songs we had on 78s, but they never chided me. When I was about 8-9 or so, my great-uncle sold his house and moved into an apartment he had built in that same house. He had no room for his console record-player/radio, so he gave it to my mother along with a little collection of LPs - Ink Spots, Mills Brothers, Johnny Cash, etc. I was in heaven!

 

[Astronuc]

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer-Burl Ives-Christmas Music Vid




Christmas Lights - Holly Jolly Christmas (Burl Ives)



This one has pretty impressive lights
Christmas Lights - Christmas Shoes

 

[Moridin]

House with some...interesting Christmas lights:

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/just_plain_stupid/house_lights/#1559

 

[Evo]

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town is on tonight!

 

[hypatia]

A friend of my fathers, was very good friends with Burl Ives. We were invited several times to holiday partys, where he would sing. Those are some great memories.

 

[Andre]

A friend of my fathers, was very good friends with Burl Ives. We were invited several times to holiday partys, where he would sing. Those are some great memories.

Okay, one more then, "A Holly Jolly Christmas", Burl Ives

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A friend of my fathers, was very good friends with Burl Ives. We were invited several times to holiday partys, where he would sing. Those are some great memories.

How cool! How old were you at the time; an adult or very young? Did you ever get to spend time with him and get to know him?

 

[hypatia]

I was around 12 years old, and I thought he and his wife{Dorothy} were the sweetest people in the world. He had the most enchanting smile. He showed me my first guitar chords, and my sisters and I got to sing a few songs with him. Eddie Arnold was often there too.
I never got to know him well, mostly because when he came to Fla. he came to sail. I recall he had a beautiful sail boat. He would get up a regatta, and they would sail from Cape Canaveral to Key West. The wifes and kids would drive down and meet them and have a beach party.

 

[turbo]

Here's a shot of our first snowy December since we moved here. The last couple of years, we've had bare ground right through Christmas. My gardening neighbor's wife made and decorated that huge wreath.

 

[Evo]

It's snowing, I'm not sure how much we're supposed to get. Our third snow storm since November.

 

[turbo]

I hate shoveling snow and snow-blowing, especially in gusty winds, but I hope this snow stays and we get plenty more, so the snowmobilers and skiers will come and spend their money. With little or no snow the past few winters, lots of people have been hurt bad, and they are people who don't show up in the employment figures because typically they can't claim unemployment because they are seasonal/part-time employees. Chambermaids, wait staff, kitchen staff, bartenders, guides, chair-lift attendants, ski patrol members, snow-makers and groomers, etc. Some of the bigger rafting companies have branched out into all-season lodging and snowmobile rentals, just in time to endure several un-snowy winters in a row. They're sitting on fleets of lightly-used snowmobiles that still have to be paid for, and they are operating with skeleton crews. This snow may give them all a merrier Christmas.

 

[Evo]

Had a nice surprise when I got to work (after having driven through the snow. I had 3 cookies with chocolate kisses on them, a beautiful christmas mug, stuffed with packets of hot choclate, candy canes and chocolate dipped peppermint sticks.