#12976
12/16/2000 3:26 PM
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We are close to Christmas and to the end of the year.
I want to express to everyone how much I am grateful to Anu and to each one of you all, for giving - every day - something new: a word, a play on words, a new idea to think at...
So I would like to say to everyone
BUON NATALE E FELICE ANNO NUOVO = (Have a ) good Christmas and a happy new year
Emanuela
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#12977
12/17/2000 12:09 AM
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Many happy returns to you too, emanuela. How very nice of you to think of us all.
If you have a minute on Christmas eve do not forget poor lukaszd who is obliged to work that night. I must calculate what his time is (Poland) relative to mine (Canada) as I don’t want to be logging on to AWAD to wish him good cheer, only to find that it is way past Christmas eve on his side and he has passed it all alone.
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#12978
12/17/2000 11:02 AM
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Grazie [sp?] Emanuela, and Christmas Greetings to you too and to all A Word A Dayers and, especially, Anu. Hasn't this been a wonderful year for us all -- finding friendship and fun with words.
I'll be away from my computer for a week over Christmas but will be keen to return to a board full of posts and Christmas cheer.
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#12979
12/17/2000 5:49 PM
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I'll be away from my computer for a week over Christmas but will be keen to return to a board full of posts and Christmas cheer.
I'm hoping that enough of us are busy during Christmas that there won't be a copious amount of posts when we come back.
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#12980
12/18/2000 1:13 PM
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To all of you who have helped to make my life richer and sligtly more bearable; for all of the posts, public and private, that have brightened the day; for all of you who have been tolerant of my rants and rages: A VERY BIG THANK YOUespecially to Anu, and all the best to you all for this merry season of Yuletide, when the Earth and all things on it renew themselves. May the coming year bring all of you and all of yours happiness and fulfilment - and may the inventiveness and drollery that illuminates this board continue to enrich the English language, whatever version you use!  RhubarbCommando
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#12981
12/19/2000 7:55 AM
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Bless your sweet heart, Emanuela, for wishing us all a "buon Natale" and a "felice Anno Nuovo." You took a little risk in doing so. In the United States, there is a sense that it is no longer politically correct to wish anyone a "Merry Christmas" for fear that the person addressed may be Jewish or Muslim or Druid and find the distinctly Christian greeting grounds for offense. I have never known a Jew or Muslim or Druid who actually was offended by being wished a "Merry Christmas" but the mere hypothetical possibility that some Jew or Muslim or Druid exists somewhere who might be offended is enough to move the forces of political correctness into high gear. Thus there is a deluge of "new" Christmas cards which contain expressions like "Happy Holidays" or "Best of the Season."
I join Emanuela in wishing you all (Jews, Muslims and Druids included) a happy Christmastide.
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#12982
12/19/2000 1:04 PM
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Father Steve says:I join Emanuela in wishing you all (Jews, Muslims and Druids included) a happy Christmastide.
As a non-liturgical Pagan I would like to thank Father Steve for his kind wishes but I can't resist reminding him that the holiday is, despite its Christian name, Pagan in origin. (We got back with Easter, which has Christian and Pagan roots and, in English speaking countries at least, a Pagan name.)
That irregardless, I wish to extend my greetings to all for a joyous Yule.
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#12983
12/19/2000 1:30 PM
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I'm an atheist and independently of that I despise Christmas, but I always say "Merry Christmas" to Americans out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
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#12985
12/19/2000 4:17 PM
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Cyfarchion y Nadolig a Dymuniadau Gorau am y Flwyddyn Newydd, pobl!and as I shall be taking off for a couple of weeks, I suspect I shall be forced to miss nearly 2,000 posts of combined wisdom and inanity at today's extraordinary rate! Have a wonderful time with whomever and however suits your style. Because irrespective (  tsuwm) of the trappings, this time of year is surely about the fundamentals of animal and plant life on this planet - it is about renewal. Look forward to talking to all of you next year in friendly discourse.
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#12986
12/19/2000 5:29 PM
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Cyfarchion y Nadolig a Dymuniadau Gorau am y Flwyddyn Newydd, pobl!
I am working on my English, BUT you are asking TOOOOOO much!
I guess ?? that it is something from Wales?
Can anyone - please - give a translation ?
Emanuela
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#12987
12/19/2000 5:48 PM
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translation
Sorry, emanuela! Yes, it is Welsh (which, the Welsh will tell anyone who stands still for long enough, is "one of the oldest languages currently in use in the world", etc, etc).
It renders:
Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
With that to work towards, despite the oddness of the look, you may be able to see some connections with Romanace languages - for example, Nadolig?
I wish you all peace, and love of friends and family.
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#12988
12/19/2000 5:58 PM
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Teacher: TEd, can you make a sentence with meretricious in it?
TEd: Yes, teacher. Have a meretricious and a happy new year!
Teacher: TEd, you are going to receive a VERY long sentence someday. Probably from (gosh who was it, Bingley??)
TEd
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#12989
12/19/2000 7:15 PM
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Merries and happies to all of you. Though I've been a week away from this illustrious group, and face nearly a thousand unread posts, coming here kinda feels like coming home (y'all will excuse this rare departure into sentimentalism).
So off to start combing threads.
P.S. The solstice is nigh and I for one will be glad to have it arrive.
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12/19/2000 8:32 PM
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The solstice is nigh and I for one will be glad to have it arriveAuntie, never was a truer word spake!  Hey folks, I can't be around even a tiny percentage as much as I'd like to be at the moment, but here's an appallingly long, ungrammatical sentence that contains oodles of good wishes for the festive season and beyond. So get to it! Words are great, but booze/food/good company/bad company* is best.  Fisk (* delete as appropriate) (* insert as appropriate) P.S. Thanks emanuela for starting this thread - just what we all needed.
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#12991
12/19/2000 8:37 PM
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In reply to:
I'm an atheist and independently of that I despise Christmas,
I guess that makes you Old Nick rather than Saint Nick then? Just kidding. I'm not an atheist, but it is nice to hear from someone else who despises Christmas. That said, I hope everybody enjoys their holiday season. Noho ora mai, ka kite ano
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#12992
12/19/2000 9:02 PM
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> I despise Christmas<
And greet Americans with Merry Christmas? I love to quote Dickens--"Bah, humbug"
I don't quite hate christmas, but its not one of favorite times of the year.
I hope you get what you desire for christmas--
Shona's idea of good food/good company/ good booze sound about right-- (only i think i fall into the category of bad company--you know what they say
Good girls get to go to heaven,
and bad girls get to go everywhere else!)
but a happy new year to all!
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#12993
12/20/2000 8:12 AM
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Not wanting to be politically, religiously or anything elsely incorrect, I'll confine myself to "Season's Greetings" to you all. I haven't been around long, but I love it!
Ah well, off to throw another raw prawn on the barbie. Any Oz volunteers paulb? Either or both of the Waughs, for instance ...
CK
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#12994
12/20/2000 9:44 AM
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Best to all. shanks (atheist and dislikes turkey, but thoroughly enjoys the James Bond movie on ITV - and anyway thinks he might get Turkey Tikka Masala for Christmas lunch this time. Hooray!)
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12/20/2000 2:54 PM
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>Good girls get to go to heaven,
and bad girls get to go everywhere else!)
So what are you doing New Years Eve?
TEd
ThE dirty old man of the board :)
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12/20/2000 3:14 PM
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Aren't you married?-- or is Peggy into threesomes? nevermind--don't answer that! Denver is to far away, anyway.
Not sure about this year--I usually spend New Year's with friends.. One year on top of Empire State building-- so much better than times square. Last year at friends place--in Queens-- he had view of East river fireworks, and one of the old worlds fair ground--more fireworks.(Flushing Meadows Park)
Had some nice champaine--popped the cork just as the ball fell. (and some cheap stuff for mimosa's at brunch) Pretty low key-- just four of us-- we had gone out to dinner earlier in the evening..
It might be my place this year-- and i'll burn the last of my good oak-- once its gone, i will only have maple, unless some one in the neighborhood cuts down an oak-- and it will still be years before it dries out enough for me to split.
Its nice to be all cozy around a fire, drink in hand.. (and to avoid all the crazies on the road.)
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12/21/2000 7:10 PM
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This got sent to me, and i thought some, if not all of you might enjoy.... NORAD Tracking Santa on Christmas EveNORAD is preparing to launch its 46th annual "NORAD Tracks Santa" program this week to aid Santa-watchers around the globe. Air Force Print News reports that the program features a six-language, live- tracking Web site which will present visual and audio updates hourly from midnight EST, Dec. 23 to 5 a.m. EST, Dec. 25. NORAD will track Santa using digital animation, satellite/cockpit images, and audio reports from the NORAD command center. All Web site material, including the live-tracking event, will be available in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. The Santa telephone hotline at (719) 474-3980 will also be available to Santa enthusiasts after 4p.m. Dec. 24. NORAD is the bi-national United States/Canadian organization charged with maintaining aerospace warning and control for North America. The organizations and volunteers who help make this global Christmas project possible do so at no cost to the taxpayer. The 2000 NORAD Tracking Santa Web site is at http://
<http://www.noradsanta.org/> http://www.noradsanta.org/ . Last year, the Web site took 52 million hits on Christmas Eve alone, peaking at 250,000 hits per minute.
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12/22/2000 5:01 AM
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In case I don't see you all again before the big days:
Selamat Hari Natal 2000
Selamat Idul Fitri 1421H
Selamat Tahun Baru 2001
Also Mohon maaf lahir batin
which is an Indonesian expression meaning I beg your forgiveness body and soul (for all the wrong I have done you or offence I have caused you over the last year).
Bingley
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12/22/2000 12:32 PM
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I have been trying and trying to think what to say here.
I know some people have already begun their break in routine and won't be able to get on-line until after New
Year's--sorry I took so long--hope you know I'm wishing you well.
There doesn't seem to be anywhere in the modernized world that Christmas doesn't have a large impact. I notice that several non-Christians have special plans at this time--
traveling to be with family, notably.
I hope that everyone has a great week, wherever they are
and however they are affected by Christmas. I do feel free
to wish every one of you a Happy New Year. There is so
much love here--to copy Jo, I love ya all! And, to copy Bingley (t.k.), Mohon maaf lahir batin .
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12/23/2000 10:30 PM
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It would appear, from the lack of postings to this board, that the atheists, the non-liturgical pagans and even the bloody-minded are all about something other than this pursuit. May they find it enjoyable and fulfilling, while the rest of us celebrate Christmas.
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12/24/2000 12:14 AM
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It would appear, from the lack of postings to this board, that the atheists, the non-liturgical pagans and even the bloody-minded are all about something other than this pursuit. May they find it enjoyable and fulfilling, while the rest of us celebrate Christmas.
Christmas, in some form or another, seems to be celebrated everywhere, Father Steve. One of the most enthusiastic countries I've ever seen is Thailand, not notable for its large base of Christian believers. Anyway, have a good one.
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12/24/2000 1:13 AM
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Season's greetings to you all from me.
(and seasonable greetings to you all from 'nigma)
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12/24/2000 3:23 AM
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merry christmas, from all the gang
tsuwm
joe friday
ron obvious
and michael
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12/24/2000 4:24 AM
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One who was to me as dead, has come back to "life".
Hallelujah! Rejoice!
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12/24/2000 3:50 PM
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Hi all,
Christmas in my family is a time to celebrate love, family and friends. I did not want to miss out on celebrating those whose friendship I have come to appreciate and enjoy so I decided to take a little break from the preparations for my réveillon and wish you all the very best, with wishes of happiness for all.
I'll be raising a toast to you all tonight.
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12/24/2000 7:38 PM
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Réveillon
"This nocturnal meal, eaten after the Midnight Mass in France and Canada, originally consisted of a simple snack of biscuits or a piece of tourtière, along with a hot drink. With the years, this snack has been transformed little by little into a more lavish and elaborate meal. The same dishes that are served at Christmas dinner are also served at réveillon, which is essentially limited to family.
In Canada, the custom of Christmas réveillon varies depending on the family, the period and the cultural context.
For Francophones living largely in rural areas, Christmas réveillon was not known until the 1930s when family festivities began to take shape with the commercialization of the holiday season.
For Anglophones and city dwellers, on the other hand, Christmas réveillon began to be part of family celebrations much earlier, around 1875. The tendency to feast on Christmas Eve became more and more pronounced with the custom of the decorated tree and the exchange of presents."
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12/24/2000 11:47 PM
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Fascinating, Father Steve. While Brazilians, like their French cousins, celebrate Christmas with a feast on the eve, the word "réveillon" to them means New Year's Eve.
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12/25/2000 2:48 PM
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Well, here you all are! I wanted to send a bit of cheer and parent-ly advice and so my note is in miscellany! But good wishes can never be sent too often. So here they are with a special wish for a happy day to emanuella. Ramadan just ended, Hanukkah is in progress, the winter solstice is being celebrated and we start the 12 days of Christmas today. Surely there must be some wonderfulness going on in Asian countries, too! So one way or another, I wish you all peace and joy and the love of friends and family. To all AWADtalk members, especially, a heartfelt Thank You from me for your kindness, patience and genial collegiality in accepting my posts. Oh, and I really really really do thank you for the laughs along the way. There is a special place in heaven for those who make others laugh and see the absurdity in life. I'm getting too too sentimental. For all those "bah humbug" folk ... have a great day if for no other reason than that you have a paid day off! Merry Christmastide wow
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12/27/2000 3:26 PM
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As the old pagan holiday season churns ever onward.
Yes, I celebrate, as do many non-liturgical Christians and Jews, the major holidays. Mostly it's the cross-quarter days, GroundFrog Day, May Day, NoName Day and Hollow(sic)een, but Easter (named after the German Goddess) and Yule are up there.
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12/28/2000 6:57 PM
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After six months AWOL I come here late to wish you all a merry Christmas, anyway, I can wish you a happy new year in time. At least to those who use the Gregorian calendar. To the rest, congratulations for you have been spared of the new millennium hype.
This year has been a great one for me and I would like to thank everyone on this forum. Without you it wouldn’t have been the same!.
Juan Maria.
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12/28/2000 7:01 PM
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Thirty years ago -so old am I?- “reveillón” was a common word in Spain and, as in Brazil, we used it for the new year eve celebrations.
Nowadays we have substituted “reveillón” by “cotillón” which is of French origin too.
Juan Maria.
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12/28/2000 7:58 PM
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It strikes me that, in the United States, the secular holidays are those created, endorsed and promoted by such enterprises as Hallmark Greeting Cards, which market moves are promptly seconded by florists, retailers, candy makers and the like. At one time, Holy Mother Church thought herself to have the power to create and declare holidays. Later, here in the Colonies, at least, the Congress thought itself to have this power. Now, the source of true power is disclosed.
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12/29/2000 6:36 AM
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Hallmark! At last, the true culprit is exposed. I've always rather fancied the World Congress of Hungry Retailers myself, but it's natural that there'd be a ringleader. Thanks, Dad.
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12/29/2000 2:56 PM
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Hallmark and its incubi and succubi
Of course, where Hallmark leads, the retailers are not slow to follow. In the contemporary U.S., Halloween is fast becoming more and more a major holiday. People put strings of orange lights on their houses, along with lighted life-size decorations on their lawns the way they do Christmas creches. If there were a modern Clement Clark Moore to invent a personification for Halloween, it would soon rival Christmas as a popular holiday and a retailer's bonanza.
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12/29/2000 4:57 PM
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