Merry...Whatever

I just wanted all of you to know what a great joy I've had shooting the
breeze with you, agreeing with you, disagreeing with you, being
killfiled by you, and writing down the names of those who I thought
might have killfiled me in the "List Of Doom" during the past year.
I don't know half of you half as well as I'd like, and like less than
half as well as you deser...
Well, that sounds like an incipient lawsuit, doesn't it?
Okay... let's see what I really can write.
May every moment of every day of each of your lives hold within it a
challenge, promise, joy, and possibility that even you yourself never
dreamed of, until it comes upon you like a rainbow after a storm, or the
first robin's call in a new spring's dawn. :-)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
I just wanted all of you to know what a great joy I've had shooting the
breeze with you, agreeing with you, disagreeing with you, being
killfiled by you, and writing down the names of those who I thought
might have killfiled me in the "List Of Doom" during the past year.
I don't know half of you half as well as I'd like, and like less than
half as well as you deser...
Well, that sounds like an incipient lawsuit, doesn't it?
Okay... let's see what I really can write.
May every moment of every day of each of your lives hold within it a
challenge, promise, joy, and possibility that even you yourself never
dreamed of, until it comes upon you like a rainbow after a storm, or the
first robin's call in a new spring's dawn. :-)

Pat

Hoisting one to you too, man.

....I was just about to make a post commenting on how the number of
posts that got through the Killfile Hell screeners was all of a sudden
drastically lower than the total number of new posts, when Pat posted
this:

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:35:52 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I just wanted all of you to know what a great joy I've had shooting the
breeze with you, agreeing with you, disagreeing with you, being
killfiled by you, and writing down the names of those who I thought
might have killfiled me in the "List Of Doom" during the past year.

....So *THAT'S* it. A quick check of the Killfile Census, and -somehow-
Patrick got tossed in there. That's been corrected, and the guilty
parties responsible have been sacked.

....Now, with -that- out of the way, here's wishing a Merry Chrisnukkah
to all of you out there. I've got quite a few pages up on Chrisnukkah
stuff and nonsense on OMBlog, so feel free to drop by and check out
the goodies. Highlights include:

* OM's Top Ten Chrisnukkah Specials Plus Two - Includes online
streaming links to most of them, even though ABC Family Channel
appears to be trying to cram in all of them before they run the 666
Club.

* Links to parody videos, including A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa!

* OM's Chrisnukkah Gift List, including tons of gift ideas for
everyone to look for when the bargains start on Tuesday!

* OM's Chrisnukkah wishes for Cindy Sheehan and her ilk!

....And more! Bring the egg nog when you drop by, eh?


OM
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"OM" wrote in message
...
...So *THAT'S* it. A quick check of the Killfile Census, and -somehow-
Patrick got tossed in there. That's been corrected, and the guilty
parties responsible have been sacked.

Considering who else is in there, Pat should be having a problem sitting for
a while :P

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:11:47 -0500, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote:


"OM" wrote in message
.. .
...So *THAT'S* it. A quick check of the Killfile Census, and -somehow-
Patrick got tossed in there. That's been corrected, and the guilty
parties responsible have been sacked.

Considering who else is in there, Pat should be having a problem sitting for
a while :P

....I got to him just before the warden threw him into general
population. The bad news is that apparently he hooked up with Andre.

OM
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Pat Flannery wrote:
I just wanted all of you to know what a great joy I've had shooting the
breeze with you, agreeing with you, disagreeing with you, being
killfiled by you, and writing down the names of those who I thought
might have killfiled me in the "List Of Doom" during the past year.
I don't know half of you half as well as I'd like, and like less than
half as well as you deser...
Well, that sounds like an incipient lawsuit, doesn't it?
Okay... let's see what I really can write.
May every moment of every day of each of your lives hold within it a
challenge, promise, joy, and possibility that even you yourself never
dreamed of, until it comes upon you like a rainbow after a storm, or the
first robin's call in a new spring's dawn. :-)

Pat


Happy Holidays To All!
Here's a Santa PDF.

http://papertoys.com/images/santa-c.pdf

http://papertoys.com/santa.htm


Rusty

Rusty wrote:

Happy Holidays To All!
Here's a Santa PDF.

http://papertoys.com/images/santa-c.pdf

http://papertoys.com/santa.htm




It's fun to know where our modern conception of Santa came from:
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refnast.html

"Thomas Nast is best known for his Christmas drawings. His first
appeared in Harper's Weekly for Christmas of 1862. His Christmas
drawings mark the first appearance of Santa Claus as we know him today.
Prior to this, Santa had passed through a series of stages beginning
with a more religious-type figure.

The inspiration for how Nast's Santa should look came from Clement
Moore's poem 'Twas a Night Before Christmas. Still lacking reading
skills, he had his wife read to him while he prepared his drawings and
engravings. On one occasion, Mrs. Nast read Clement Moore's poem to
Thomas. That was all it took for inspiration.

The next 24 years saw Nast produce 76 Christmas engravings that were
signed and published. Nast used Moore's poem to put it all together in
visual form; a sleigh, reindeer, jolly old elf, filling the stockings
hung by the chimney, and so forth.

In addition, Nast used his own imagination to expand upon the theme. He
was the first to establish that Santa's home was in the North Pole. In
this way, Santa didn't belong to any one country -- he became a citizen
of the world. The concept of Santa having a workshop and elves to help
him were also Nast's idea. Prior to his engravings, all children
received gifts from Santa. Nast conceived the idea that bad children
didn't get gifts from Santa. The custom of sending Santa a letter is
also due to Thomas Nast. Although the custom of kissing under mistletoe
was known in Europe prior to Nast's engravings, it was through his
engravings in America that the custom caught on there.

Thomas Nast brought Christmas to a large audience through his
engravings. The result of the impact that these drawings had on
American's is astronomical. In Europe, Christmas was observed for
centuries on December 6. By the late 1800's when Nast's Santa Claus
gained popularity, Christmas Day was legally established as December 25
in all states and territories in the United States. In addition, an
extended school vacation during this period became a custom. (A brief
pause while all students write a thank you note to the Nast estate.)

From this seed, Christmas began the move to commercial and economic
interests. Stores began including drawings of Santa (though not
necessarily done by Nast) in their ads and tying it in with Christmas
sales and promotions. Soon to follow was the custom of sending Christmas
cards. Without Nast and his Christmas drawings he brought to the masses,
it is hard to tell what Christmas and the customs that go with it would
be like today."

This guy pretty much invented Christmas as we know it in America.
And here's the classic Nast Santa:
http://www.wepsite.de/Santa_Claus_Thomas_Nast400pix.jpg
(Nobody is ever going to beat Edmund Gwenn at portraying him in "Miracle
On 34th Street" IMHO. That guy _is_ Santa.
http://www.criterionpicusa.com/cplus...n34thStold.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/classicmoviestar/miracle1.jpg ...what a
wonderful face, and what a wondeful movie.)
Anybody who makes school Christmas vacations and kissing under the
mistletoe American ideas is 110% okay in my book.
Here's One To You, Mr. Nast, And To You, Mr. Gwenn!

Pat

On 24 Dec 2006 18:21:28 -0800, "Rusty"
wrote:

Happy Holidays To All!
Here's a Santa PDF.

http://papertoys.com/images/santa-c.pdf

http://papertoys.com/santa.htm

http://www.delta7studios.com/images/santa%20x-25.pdf

Merry xmas!

Pat Flannery wrote:
I just wanted all of you to know what a great joy I've had shooting the
breeze with you, agreeing with you, disagreeing with you, being
killfiled by you, and writing down the names of those who I thought
might have killfiled me in the "List Of Doom" during the past year.
I don't know half of you half as well as I'd like, and like less than
half as well as you deser...
Well, that sounds like an incipient lawsuit, doesn't it?
Okay... let's see what I really can write.
May every moment of every day of each of your lives hold within it a
challenge, promise, joy, and possibility that even you yourself never
dreamed of, until it comes upon you like a rainbow after a storm, or the
first robin's call in a new spring's dawn. :-)

Pat



I think it's important that we stop for a moment and reflect on our
lives. Sometimes in our haste we often forget about certain truths. We
forget what we're doing here. We get caught up in the bustle, the
Christmas music, the gift-giving, the celebrations.

Most importantly, we should remember whose birthday this is we're
celebrating. If it wasn't for him, our lives would be less rich, less
fulfilling. I think it's time to honor him and give the respect that is
due on this important day. So, happy birthday Rod Serling.

;-)

Rusty

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Rusty wrote:

Most importantly, we should remember whose birthday this is we're
celebrating. If it wasn't for him, our lives would be less rich, less
fulfilling. I think it's time to honor him and give the respect that is
due on this important day. So, happy birthday Rod Serling.

Hm. That's ample reason for Uncle Scrooge and all his mega-rich CEO
underling stooges to celebrate the birth the little boy who makes them not
less rich. I suggest you embellish your theme to 'would be more rich' to
have full appeal to all, rich and poor alike.