Happy Holidays

[Diomedes]

Well of course it's a PC tool in the culture war...it's all about making white people conform, so that the next stage of their eradication can commence.  Arm yourselves, Christmas Warriors!

[Geowhizzer]

I threw this on the random musings board, but it seems to fit better here:

NORAD tracks Santa

[Geowhizzer]

Well of course it's a PC tool in the culture war...it's all about making white people conform, so that the next stage of their eradication can commence.  Arm yourselves, Christmas Warriors!

Sigh... just shut up and enjoy your day off from errands. 

[Diomedes]

You shut up, magic worshiper.

I like Christmas just fine and wish everyone everywhere the best.  Except your sanctimonious ass, and anyone like Bill O'Reilly who takes offense to "happy holidays."  farg them.

[Geowhizzer]

You shut up, magic worshiper.

I like Christmas just fine and wish everyone everywhere the best.  Except your sanctimonious ass, and anyone like Bill O'Reilly who takes offense to "happy holidays."  farg them.

For crying out loud, I made a light-hearted joke.  If anyone is sanctimonious around here, it's you.  You preach your faith (and yes, atheism is your faith) louder than any pentacostal faith-healer I've ever heard.

Take a chill and enjoy the holiday.  Try to take a break from your usual sourpuss, self-loathing ranting.

[SD_Eagle5]

Greatest Christmas scene ever. I'm already half in the tank. Merry Christmas.

[Diomedes]

Take a chill and enjoy the holiday.  Try to take a break from your usual sourpuss, self-loathing ranting.

Merry Christmas!

[Geowhizzer]

Take a chill and enjoy the holiday.  Try to take a break from your usual sourpuss, self-loathing ranting.

Merry Christmas!

And Happy New Year!

[Diomedes]

Let's not get carried away, my mormon friend.

[SunMo]

everybody is missing the most important message in this thread

farg the holidays happy birthday yesterday to sunny sun sun

the big guy remembered...

[MadMarchHare]

Take a chill and enjoy the holiday.  Try to take a break from your usual sourpuss, self-loathing ranting.

Merry Christmas!

And Happy New Year!

You forget, he's now married.  And not long enough to get used to it.  Bitchiness is sure to ensue in the short term.  He'll get over it.

[General_Failure]

My first Christmas not at home, too.  And also on account of a war...a war called marriage.

Second year in a row for me, and it hardly feels like its been that long. Hard to get in the holiday spirit here when its 90 farging degrees out. Soon I'll be heading out to a Christmas cookout. We're making cookies, since there isn't enough time for pumpkin cheesecake.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I feel the Christmas spirit here, and it warms my heart.

[Diomedes]

I love Christmas.  Watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas tonight on ABC.  That was great.

[Geowhizzer]

As a history teacher, and a somewhat sentimental fool, I think about people in my life during the Christmas holidays, especially my grandparents.  Even though my grandparents have been gone for many years now, the memories are as fresh as they were on the day they died.

One of my hobbies is to write bad poetry.  Mostly it's used to get "in like flint" with Mrs. Geowhizzer, but I like to write poems for other occasions as well.  Below is one I wrote two years ago for the Christmas holiday.

The Old Photograph

I pick up an old, graying photograph
Taken so many years ago
You were still young
Looked forward to life
That Christmastime of '41

The world had changed just weeks before
The country had gone to war
You did your job
And served your nation
Like your parents had done before

The war now done, you settled down
Never lived in luxury
You went to work
And kept up your house
While raising your new family

The years rushed past like summer storms
Grandkids now part of your life
Spoiled us rotten
You were there for us
Like that Christmas so long ago

Too soon, you were taken from us
Called home, for you work was done
To see friends gone
Now rejoined in death
We'll see you one Christmas to come

One more look at that old picture
Antiqued youth and faded smiles
I can't but think
Seeing your faces
You were loving me all the while.

RJS 12-24-2005