Please everyone-join in!!! The countdown

[justanothercowgirl]

As of 9:05am EST Christmas 2005 is coming in just 4 days, 14 hours,54 Minutes and 28 Seconds or five more sleeps!!!!!!!!

What Child is This

What child is this, who, laid to rest

On Mary's lap, is sleeping?

Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,

While shepherds watch are keeping?

This, this is Christ the King,

Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:

Haste, haste to bring him laud,

The Babe, the Son of Mary!

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh,

Come peasant king to own Him,

The King of kings, salvation brings,

Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

Raise, raise the song on high,

The Virgin sings her lullaby:

Joy, joy, for Christ is born,

The Babe, the Son of Mary!

What Child is This

What child is this, who, laid to rest

On Mary's lap, is sleeping?

Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,

While shepherds watch are keeping?

This, this is Christ the King,

Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:

Haste, haste to bring him laud,

The Babe, the Son of Mary!

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh,

Come peasant king to own Him,

The King of kings, salvation brings,

Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

Raise, raise the song on high,

The Virgin sings her lullaby:

Joy, joy, for Christ is born,

The Babe, the Son of Mary!

 

[whiskeyranch]

Ok, I will start counting down the days now, I just got word this morning that my husband will get to come home for the holidays. Flying in tomorrow!

I'm getting a new dishwasher! Whoooo HOOOOO. gotta love appliances.

 

[minimomNC]

Santa Works Hard!!

It's that time of year again. You know, all full of holly, HO HO HO and snow. In fact I've just cleared the desktop in preparation for the celebration. Accountants are never too slow in doing their calculations, and this time of year is no exception.

A mystery "chain fax" that submits that the Father Christmas myth to scientific analysis has popped up in the City, much to the amusement of money men, who are chuckling at the sight of the bearded old fraud being ruthlessly audited. The analysis calculates that there are possibly 378 million children in the Christian world; at just over 4.1 per household, that's 98.1 million homes. "One presumes that there's at least one good child in each".

Time zones give Santa 31 hours of Christmas to work with, which means 822.6 visits per second. "This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of his sleigh, fill the stockings ... [and] get back into

the sleigh."

The sleigh itself would have to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound, 650 miles per second. "[The] fastest man made vehicle ... the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey

27.4 miles per second." The sleigh's payload - assuming nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set, weighing 2 lbs, is 321,300 tons and, even if flying reindeer have 10 times the

pulling power of an ordinary reindeer, he will need 214,000 of the beasts.

Finally, "353,000 tons, travelling at 650 miles per second, creates enormous air resistance ... the lead pair of reindeer (you know, Rudolph and chum) will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules

of energy ... per second ... each. In short, they will burst into flames almost instantaneously". Santa's whole flying circus, the fax claims, would burn up, like a spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere.

"In conclusion: If Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve .. he's dead now!!"

The above may be used in Christmas 2005 as a cost saving exercise, and copies distributed

in lieu of presents to children/grandchildren.

Rebuttal To Santa Works Hard, But He's Not Real "Facts"

Come on, ya gotta believe! I mean, if you can handle flying furry animals,

then it's only a small step to the rest.

For example;

1) As admitted, it is possible that a flying reindeer can be found. I would

agree that it would be quite an unusual find, but they might exist.

2) You've relied on cascading assumptions. For example, you have assumed a

uniform distribution of children across homes. Toronto/Yorkville, or

Toronto/Cabbagetown, or other yuppie neighborhoods, have probably less than

the average (and don't forget the DINK and SINK homes (Double Income No Kids,

Single Income No Kids)), while the families with 748 starving children that

they keep showing on Vision TV while trying to pick my pocket would skew that

15% of homes down a few percent.

3) You've also assumed that each home that has kids would have at least one

good kid. What if anti-selection applies, and homes with good kids tend to

have more than their share of good kids, and other homes have nothing except

terrorists in diapers? Let's drop that number of homes down a few more

percent.

4) Santa would have to Fedex a number of packages ahead of time, since he

would not be able to fly into Air Force Bases, or into tower-controlled

areas near airports. He's get shot at over certain sections of the Middle

East, and the no-fly zones in Iraq, so he'd probably use DHL there.

Subtract some more homes.

5) I just barely passed Physics and only read Stephen Hawking's book once, but

I recall that there is some Einsteinian Theory that says time does strange

things as you move faster. In fact, when you go faster than the speed of

light time runs backward, if you do a straight line projection, connect the

dots and just ignore any singularity you might find right at the speed of

light. And don't say you can't go faster than the speed of light because

I've seen it done on TV. Jean-Luc doesn't have reindeer but he does have

matter-antimatter warp engines and a holodeck and that's good enough for me.

So Santa could go faster than light, visit all the good children which are

not uniformly distributed by either concentration in each home or by number

of children per household, and get home before he left so he can digest all

those stale cookies and warm milk yech.

6) Aha, you say, Jean-Luc has matter-antimatter warp engines, Santa only has

reindeer, where does he get the power to move that fast! You calculated the

answer! The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of

energy. Per second. Each. This is an ample supply of energy for the

maneuvering, acceleration, etc, that would be required of the loaded sleigh.

The reindeer don't evaporate or incinerate because of this energy, they

accelerate. What do you think they have antlers for, fighting over females?

Think of antlers as furry solar array panels.

7. If that's not enough, watch the news on the 24th at 11 o'clock. NORAD (which

may be one of the few government agencies with more than 3 initials in it's

name and therefore it must be more trustworthy than the rest) tracks Santa

every year and I've seen the radar shots of him approaching my house from

the direction of the North Pole. They haven't bomarck'd him yet, so they

must believe too, right?

 

[shane]

 

[Farmhand]

Hummmm......Running out of Idea's, will join in later................

 

[justaboutgeese]

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause. He lives in the hearts and minds of all the forum members. As for me I know there is a Santa Clause and her name is Spotted Pony Girl.

 

[tifflunn]

This should help!

Ran across these:

How to say Merry Christmas in several different languages

How to Say Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Afrikaner [Afrikaans] "Geseënde Kersfees"

Amharic "Enkwan laberhana ledat abaqqawot"

OR "Melkam amat ba`al yehunellachihu"

Arabic "Milad Majid" OR "Milad Saeed"

Argentine "Feliz Navidad"

Armenian "Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand"

Bohemian "Vesele Vanoce"

Brazilian Portuguese "Feliz Natal"

Briton "Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat"

Bulgarian "Tchestita Koleda" OR "Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo"

Cambodian "Soursdey Noel"

Chinese [Mandarin] "Sheng Dankuai Le"

Chinese [Cantonese] "Sing Daan Faai Lok"

Cornish "Nadelik Lowen"

Croatian "Sretan Bozic"

Czech "Velike Vanoce"

Danish "Glædelig Jul"

Dutch "Vrolijk Kerstfeest"

English [American] "Merry Christmas"

English [Australian] "'Ave a bonza Chrissy, Mate"

English [uK] "Happy Christmas"

Esperanto "Gojan Kristnaskon"

Estonian "Roomsaid Joulu Puhi"

Farsi "Christmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad"

Faroese "Gleðilig Jól"

Filipino "Maligayang Pasko"

Finnish "Hauskaa Joulua"

French "Joyeux Noël"

Frisian "Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier"

Gaelic "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"

German "Froehliche Weihnachten"

Greek "Kala Christouyenna"

Hawaiian "Mele Kalikimaka"

Hebrew "Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova"

Hindi "Shub Badadin"

Hungarian "Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket"

Icelandic "Gledileg Jol"

India "Tamil Nadu - Christmas Vaazthukkal "

Indonesian "Selamat Hari Natal"

Iraqi "Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah"

Irish "Nollaig Shona Duit"

Italian "Buon Natale"

Japanese "Meri Kurisumasu"

Klingon "QISmaS Quch Daghajjaj"

Korean "Sung Tan Jul Chuk Ha"

Latvian "Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu"

Lithuanian "Linksmu Kaledu"

Malay "Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru"

Maltese "Il-Milied it-tajjeb"

Maori "Meri Kirihimete"

Navajo "Ya'at'eeh Keshmish"

New Guinea Pidgin "Meri Christmas"

New Zealand "Happy Christmas"

Norwegian "Gledelig Jul"

Pennsylvania German "En frehlicher Grischtdaag"

Peru "Felices Fiestas" OR "Feliz Navidad"

Polish "Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia"

Portuguese "Feliz Natal"

Punjabi "Hacahi Ke Eide"

Rumanian "Sarbatori Fericite"

Russian "S Rozhdestvom Kristovym"

Serbian "Hristos se rodi"

Slovakian "Sretan Bozic" OR "Vesele vianoce"

Samoan "Manuea le Karisimasi"

Scots Gaelic "Nollaig chridheil huibh"

Slovak "Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok"

Slovene "Srecen Bozic"

Spanish "Feliz Navidad"

Swahili "Heri ya Krismasi"

Swedish "God Jul"

Tagalog [Philippines] "Maligayang Pasko"

Tahitian "Ia ora'na no te noere"

Telugu "Santhasa Krismas"

Thai "Suksan Christmas"

Turkish "Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun"

Ukrainian "Z Rizdvom Krystovym" OR "Veselogo Rizdva""

Urdu [Pakistan] "Shadae Christmas"

Uzbek "Yangi Yiligiz Mubarak Bolsun"

Vietnamese "Chuc Mung Giang Sinh"

Welsh "Nadolig Llawen"

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

 

[Farmhand]

Neat, only problem there isn't one for "Horse talk"

 

[Equuisize]

This is what my son sang on the phone this morning, from the airport

in San Jose, Costa Rica.........not in dreams, though, he'll really be here.

"I'll Be Home For Christmas"

I'm dreaming tonight

Of a place I love

Even more than I usually do.

And although I know

It's a long road back

I promise you

I'll be home for Christmas.

You can count on me.

Please have snow and mistletoe

And presents under the tree.

Christmas Eve will find me

Where the love-light gleams.

I'll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams.

Oh oh ah I'll be home for Christmas.

You can count on me.

Please have snow and mistletoe

And presents under the tree.

Oh Christmas Eve will find me

Where the love-light gleams.

I'll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams.

If only yeah

Well now, if only, only, only, only

If only in my dreams.

If only

Well, well, well Lord

If only oh

If only in my dreams

 

[runamuk]

BAH HUMBUG

give me a few hours maybe it will go away

 

[justanothercowgirl]

Mukky!!! Whate happened??? Fizzy has corrupted you!!!

 

[runamuk]

Oh the weather outside is frightful

sitting at my desk is so NOT delightful

I have many better places to go

I hate snow I hate snow I hate snow

 

[justanothercowgirl]

hee hee oh, okay I guess you will feel better when you aren't at the desk anymore!!

I have to make a last minute stop at Walmart!!

I thought we were all done!!

 

[Farmhand]

Not sure if this was posted before or not, but here it is. Takes a while to load.

http://www.toonedin.com/movies/WhiteTrashXmas.html

.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you

are not. ~Andre Gide

 

[runamuk]

Almost time to get off work....then just the nasty drive home

I wish I worked from home

I wish I worked from home

I wish I worked from home

and made lots of moneyyyyyyyy

no more commuting

no more commuting

no more commuting

and cut back on pollluting while driving my car

WOOOHOOO I think it is the longest night of the year tonite...isn't it

 

[Sun Runner Stables]

I loved the above post barnbum!

What a neat-o tradition, and a great way to avoid the credit card bah humbugs!

BTW I think Geese just called me fat, and that I follow a terrible fashion flaw of velvet and fur...

 

[Farmhand]

This is a Christmas tree.

It is not a Hanukkah bush,

it is not an Allah plant,

it is not a Holiday hedge.

It is a Christmas tree.

Say it... CHRISTmas , CHRISTmas , CHRISTmas

Yes. CHRISTmas - celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ!!!

 

[runamuk]

HAPPY SOLSTICE EVERYONE

after a lousy drive into work...ahh the joys of sheet ice and a lousy drive home...ahhh the further joys of fog and jack axx up my butt the whole way.....I am home and toasting the solstice

not to mention came home to a card from some good friends in WA.........

Deck the bough with halls of folly ha lalalal lala la la

nonono

Jingle balls jingle balls

thats not right either........ah heck

cheers I'm having another glass of wine....good thing we don't own any lampshades

 

[runamuk]

This is a Christmas tree.

It is not a Hanukkah bush,

it is not an Allah plant,

it is not a Holiday hedge.

It is a Christmas tree.

Say it... CHRISTmas , CHRISTmas , CHRISTmas

Yes. CHRISTmas - celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ!!!

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well you missed an excellent special last night on pbs late about the Christmas tree interestingly they explained the pagan tradition behind it and how it was used by christianity to convert those pagans....anyhoo not trying to dampen the spirit....wanna know something interesting.........wayy back when the christians first started the tradition...they hung the tree upside down from the ceiling

because the shape then resembled a cross

and actually the christmas tree tradition in the US is only about 500 yr's old and it only happened because of queen elizabeth I believe......it actually was accepted and became trational in relation to christmas in germany ...then worked its way to england then to the US

christmas tree 101 courtesy of a sorta sober elf

 

[Farmhand]

This is a Christmas tree.

It is not a Hanukkah bush,

it is not an Allah plant,

it is not a Holiday hedge.

It is a Christmas tree.

Say it... CHRISTmas , CHRISTmas , CHRISTmas

Yes. CHRISTmas - celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ!!!

525872[/snapback]

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well you missed an excellent special last night on pbs late about the Christmas tree interestingly they explained the pagan tradition behind it and how it was used by christianity to convert those pagans....anyhoo not trying to dampen the spirit....wanna know something interesting.........wayy back when the christians first started the tradition...they hung the tree upside down from the ceiling

because the shape then resembled a cross

and actually the christmas tree tradition in the US is only about 500 yr's old and it only happened because of queen elizabeth I believe......it actually was accepted and became trational in relation to christmas in germany ...then worked its way to england then to the US

christmas tree 101 courtesy of a sorta sober elf

525883[/snapback]

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Independence Day celebrates the birthday of the United States of America. Founded July 4th 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, America is celebrating it's 230th birthday this year (2006)

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