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genesis · #1 Post by **genesis** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:36 pm

Merry Christmas and a Geas-full + Happy New Year 2006!

Naga · #2 Post by **Naga** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:45 pm

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Kwazy Kwanzaa (for Europeans who likely don't know, Kwanzaa is an exclusively black holiday invented to replace the religious Christmas, constructed out of a myth of all-African unity and neo-Marxism)! Super Saturnalia! Terrific Tet!

Isn't multiculturalism snazzy? Whenever I go to a place of business these days, I am always wished "Have a nice holiday!" So utterly generic it can mean anything you want it to mean. I, of course, am so bitter that I give them an evil sneer, which usually gives them a heart attack and kills them on the spot.

Anyway, it's the Christmas season. A time to reflect on the life of Santa Claus and honor our debt to Him by maxxing out our credit cards.

tessa · #3 Post by **tessa** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:11 pm

Happy Chrismahannakwanzika.

#4 Post by **Abharsair** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:08 pm

Naga wrote:I am always wished "Have a nice holiday!"

Ah, political correctness (also known as the scourge of the 21st century) strikes again.

Naga wrote:Anyway, it's the Christmas season. A time to reflect on the life of Santa Claus...

I have to admit I do not really know a whole lot about the life of the Coca Cola corporation's inofficial spokesman. I suppose it involves a penthouse, cocain and hookers?

tessa · #5 Post by **tessa** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:29 pm

He's based off of a Russian priest of the Catholic Orthodox Church or something, in the early/mid AD times. I think. I don't pay attention to history class. Europe is such a boring continent.

nogem · #6 Post by **nogem** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:13 pm

Sinter Klaus - brought to us by Dutch or Swiss settlers, the mispronounced into Santa Claus.

Then bitten by Mrs. Claus and tried to suck the blood out of that little elf that wanted to be a dentist.

tessa · #7 Post by **tessa** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:04 pm

nogem wrote:Sinter Klaus - brought to us by Dutch or Swiss settlers, the mispronounced into Santa Claus.

Yea, I remember that. He was originally St. Nicolas. I think.

stilgar · #8 Post by **stilgar** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:55 pm

Hmm.. I thought christmas was about a guy who resurrected. That weird guy in the red clothes was inveted by merchants

So theycan sell out their useles junk to all those fools who think money can buy love

#9 Post by **Abharsair** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:07 am

I am aware of the life of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (due to Political Correctness I won't say of which religion... haha), but in regards to Santa:

In 1931, the Coca-Cola Company commissioned Chicago illustrator Haddon Sundblom to develop the image of a human-like Santa Claus, based on the positive public response to a magazine advertisement for Coca-Cola depicting such a character that appeared in late 1930. Prior to Sundblom's first rendition in 1931, people envisioned Santa Claus as leprechaun-like, or as a queer mixture of a gnome and a bishop. Over the next third of a century, Sundblom's Santa would be embraced by the public worldwide, and become a holiday tradition.

#10 Post by **Abharsair** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:49 am

tessa wrote:I don't pay attention to history class. Europe is such a boring continent.

At least Europe has a history.

Or to quote Chara: "Grrr. Everyone here tells me that even their chair is older than my country."

nogem · #11 Post by **nogem** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:03 pm

Abharsair wrote: At least Europe has a history. Or to quote Chara: "Grrr. Everyone here tells me that even their chair is older than my country."

A chair exposed to 200+ years of gas, sweat, and other things not mentioned..... you can keep that chair. Call it our present to you - Merry Christmas!

Looking forward to plenty of play time through the holidays.

tessa · #12 Post by **tessa** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:57 pm

Abharsair wrote:
tessa wrote:I don't pay attention to history class. Europe is such a boring continent.
At least Europe has a history. Or to quote Chara: "Grrr. Everyone here tells me that even their chair is older than my country."

Hey, we'd have a longer history, but it was Europe's fault for not discovering the continent faster.

stilgar · #13 Post by **stilgar** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:45 am

Hey, we'd have a longer history, but it was Europe's fault for not discovering the continent faster.

Ever heard about Eric the Red?

#14 Post by **Abharsair** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:11 pm

nogem wrote:A chair exposed to [...] gas, sweat, and other things not mentioned.....

Is that what you people do with chairs?

Oh well, back to the original topic: Merry Christmas to y'all!

tessa · #15 Post by **tessa** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:18 pm

We learned from the professionals.

Professionals = Europe, to avoid my words somehow being twisted and used against me.

#16 Post by **Abharsair** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:46 pm

tessa wrote:Professionals = Europe

While it is arguable in this context, I couldn't agree with it more on a general basis.

tessa wrote:...to avoid my words somehow being twisted and used against me.

Futile attempt.

tessa · #17 Post by **tessa** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:58 pm

....

*snap*

I'll win next time.