X-mas Thread

[Graybeard]

I don't really like or approve of X-mas ...... but WTF .... Merry Xmas to everybody on Robert's New Forum ... lol

And my apologies to all whom I upset this past year .....

HavAGoodOne ... greg

[austintorn@aol.com]

All is forgiven, Graybeard, and so you may start again from zero.

[Graybeard]

All is forgiven, Graybeard, and so you may start again from zero.

Do you promise .... thats as good as getting all my demerit points back after I've lost my licence .... a constant problem for me .. !!

cool bananas ... greg

[austintorn@aol.com]

Yes, Greg, for I borrowed it from a religion like the Catholics: murder someone and then say you are sorry and get your slate wiped clean. This, of course, is not Robert speaking.

Enjoy the exhilarating thrill of speeding in you car! Plus then you will not be too late to moderate before someone gets killed on ToeQuest.

And Happy Saturnalian Pagan Festival to you and all!

[Graybeard]

YES .... Thats a good idea .... A saturnalia. Just looked it up ... lol

Seneca the Younger wrote about Rome during Saturnalia around AD 50:

It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city is in a bustle. Loose reins are given to public dissipation; everywhere you may hear the sound of great preparations, as if there were some real difference between the days devoted to Saturn and those for transacting business....Were you here, I would willingly confer with you as to the plan of our conduct; whether we should eve in our usual way, or, to avoid singularity, both take a better supper and throw off the toga.

Sounds like a great idea .... But how could we have a virtual Saturnalia, and where will we get the 'virtual' slave-girls so necessary for the Saturnalia .... rotflmao

cool bananas ... greg

[austintorn@aol.com]

We have to wait for better slave girl holograms than CNN used when reporting the recent election here, for she was like the one in Star Wars calling for "Obi-wan" to save her.

Darn Christians converted Saturnalia to Christmas, as well as some other great pagan festival in the spring becoming Easter or some such.

Some casinos now have almost virtual girls dealing blackjack.

[leskey]

A Christmas Story (for Dave)

When four of Santa's elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.

Then Mrs Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.

When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.

Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.

Frustrated, Santa went in the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drank all the cider and hidden the liquor. In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor.

He went to get the broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom. Just then the doorbell rang, and irritated Santa marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree.

The angel said very cheefully, 'Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn't this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to put it?'

...And so began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.


PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL...
(Saturnalians: may your holograms be many...and easy on the accelerator...)

[austintorn@aol.com]

…and then we wanted to save the trees and so Christmas was canceled… no, not really, for we love some of this made up stuff.

Santa Claus later went to a counselor and learned not to get so irritated since one still had to pick up the broken pieces and sweep the floor, angry or not (and the "not" felt much better).

Dave will be a new man, maybe even an angel, after reading your story, Leskey.

Have a wonderful summertime Christmas down under!

[Mikal]

I don't really like or approve of X-mas ...... but WTF .... Merry Xmas to everybody on Robert's New Forum ... lol

And my apologies to all whom I upset this past year .....

HavAGoodOne ... greg

Hey Gregster....love the pic..lol...what happened to Santa?? Isn't this the spirit of evolution carrying away the skulls of all those who did not survive...lol....

Merry Xmas to an evolutionary kind of guy...smiles....

For the coming year I wish you niceness in your posts...lol...


The best of the season....Mikal (The Ancient One)

Let us not forget....(*) ()...agent peepers....smiles...

[leskey]

Darn Christians converted Saturnalia to Christmas, as well as some other great pagan festival in the spring becoming Easter or some such..

So true, Austin. But it was the Romans, in their agility to adapt to "the next big thing," who absconded with Christianity: same day, different circus...

Dave will be a new man, maybe even an angel, after reading your story...

LOL! Maybe...uncomfortably so....

Have a wonderful summertime Christmas down under!

Thank you...wishing you a white one!