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Totally OFF-Topic and OOC
Merry Christmas and a Geas-full + Happy New Year 2006!
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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.
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.
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Ah, political correctness (also known as the scourge of the 21st century) strikes again.Naga wrote:I am always wished "Have a nice holiday!"
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?Naga wrote:Anyway, it's the Christmas season. A time to reflect on the life of Santa Claus...
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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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.
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.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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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!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."
Looking forward to plenty of play time through the holidays.
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Hey, we'd have a longer history, but it was Europe's fault for not discovering the continent faster.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."tessa wrote:I don't pay attention to history class. Europe is such a boring continent.
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