Christmas Thread: Santa, Reindeer, Elves & Yule Goats

[Moonbear]

I'd say count sheep, but your more than likely immune to that
Have a safe and fun vacation!

Yeah, I think counting sheep would keep me awake. That's too much like work.

Thanks, I'm definitely planning on fun.

Everyone have a very Merry Christmas! (Except JimmySnyder who is obliged by Judaic law to spend December 25th at the movie theater. Enjoy the movies!) And if any of you have left on your own vacations by the time I return, also have a Happy New Year!

 

[Math Is Hard]

This is quite an amazing rendition of "partridge in a pear tree" especially the last part of it:

 

[hypatia]

ohh and cute too!

 

[Kurdt]

This is quite an amazing rendition of "partridge in a pear tree" especially the last part of it:

The http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0OLKAXw3I" did a version of that for the exceptionally nerdy Christmas.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_kFAa9LFY" (or sometimes purple).

 

[J77]

The seems to be the only part of Christmas on PF -- other than the bah-humbug thread

Anyway, I'm shutting down for the hols.

Happy Christmas Everyone![/color][/size]

 

[Evo]

Merry Christmas J77!

 

[BobG]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_kFAa9LFY" (or sometimes purple).

That pretty captures my emotions about Christmas - at least until the last few days before. I think anyone who made a post about Christmas more than a week before should be slapped -- ooowww! what was that for . It's not that I don't like Christmas, but it's way too big of a hassle and way too long.

Everyone ought to be subjected to only one Christmas play the entire season and holiday parties ought to be held only between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. It's getting to the point that the Christmas season is amost as long as the College Football Bowl Season.

Anyway, it is close to Christmas, and the last few days before Christmas are almost always nice. We even have snow.

Here's an old Christmas photo.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1971/cci00005tc1.png

Man, that TV didn't even have a remote. We had to walk all the way to the TV and back to change the channel, in the winter, no less!

 

[turbo]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1971/cci00005tc1.png

Man, that TV didn't even have a remote. We had to walk all the way to the TV and back to change the channel, in the winter, no less!

And uphill both ways!

 

[Astronuc]

And a turntable too!

Cute couple!

 

[Kurdt]

Looks like that mustache was gone just after that photo was taken.

 

[wolram]

Do not forget the elves at Christmas.

http://www.didyouknow.cd/xmas/xmaselves.htm

 

[Andre]

So watched Christmas TV tonite, a goose bumps generating show of http://www.andrerieu.com/site/index.php?id=1&L=1` in Schönbrunn, Vienna. Absolutely the best attainable ever on classical music. The interaction with the public and the show element is fabulously amazing. Sorry, answering two questions: he is married to Majorie.

Anyway, a very special Christmas performance was given of "an der Schönen Blauen Donau"



Real Christmas music to me.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A new husband was perplexed while watching wife prepare a large ham for Christmas dinner. Before putting the ham in the cooking pan, she cut off the ends. "Why did you cut off the ends of the ham?", he asked. "I don't know replied his young bride; that's how my mother taught me to do it". So when her mother arrived for dinner, the young man asked her why she had taught her daughter to cut the ends off of a ham before cooking it. "Does this make it tasted better?" he asked. "I don't really know she replied; that's just how my mother taught me to do it".

Finally the grandmother arrived dinner, at which time she was asked the reason for this mysterious technique, to which she replied, "well now let's see... hmmmm...as near as I can remember, I didn't have a pan large enough for a full-sized ham, so I had to cut the ends off so that it would fit in the pan".

 

[Moonbear]

Man, that TV didn't even have a remote. We had to walk all the way to the TV and back to change the channel, in the winter, no less!

We had some rather young folks stop by my sister's place for dessert on Christmas, and somehow the topic of TV came up. My brother-in-law was sort of bragging to them about how easy they have it (oh, I think this started with one of their cell phones ringing), and started talking about the old cable boxes with only 20-some channels on them. I just kind of looked at him funny (this happens often when he opens his mouth to say things), and pointed out that many of us didn't actually have cable or cable boxes, and actually had to get up to change the dial on the TV to watch the whole 6 or so channels that we got.

One of the "kids" remarked that if they didn't have a remote, they didn't think they'd want to get up every time they had to change channels. I just had to laugh, and told them that yes, we were much more content to just stick to watching one channel back then. Nobody just flipped through channels for an hour watching nothing.