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Happy CHRISTMAS, heathen.
Happy Saturnalia feckin heathens.
Jack
Puer natus est nobis, et filius datus est nobis, cujus imperium super humerum ejus et vocabitur nomen ejus, magni consilii Angelus.
Dominus vobiscum!
Hope everyone has a fantastic time.
Facta est cum angelo multitudo coelestis exercitus laudantium et dicentium: Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis, Alleluia!
Happy “Holidays” irks even this firm atheist.
Given “Holidays” is a contraction of “Holy days”, it’s still arguably offensive to those of us for whom Christmas is a completely secular celebration. And even Kwanzaa is not, as far as I can tell, actually a religious celebretaion, so again, technically not a “holy day”.
If we really wanted something completely neutral, why not “Happy December”?
(Completely neutral, that is, to those of us who observe the Gregorian calendar.)
Sheesh! I was trying to be as neutral as possible, wizofaus!
Io Saturnalia!
Merry Christmas all. Drive safe.
Anyone still in need of appropriate music for wrapping etc, I have a couple of 8tracks mixes. One a mostly country one and the other with a mix of funk, jazz, rock, soul etc Christmas songs.
U2 Bros
Merry Christmas to all of you (except Stephen Conroy)!
Merry Christmas to all, especially Theo Theophanous.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/703645/vic-mp-theophanous-charged-with-rape
December 23 must be one of the worst possible days of the year to have a flat tyre.
Pressies all organized, and happened upon an unforgettable Christmas song today.
My personal favorite Xmas lyric, though, is “We Wish You A Merry Christmas, So Bring Us More Gin” (although I’d settle for a beer).
Merry Christmas everyone, stay safe.
Time to don my gay apparel and make the yuletide gay.
My Bonzo Xmas find -
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PEhU0PvVY&NR=1
“Happy Holidays?” This is the first time I have heard an Australian use this horrible Americanism. Can we please devote 2009 to stopping this American cultural imperialism?
The magical elves that constitute my staff have demonstrated their lack of respect in either not showing up for work at all, and those that have all seem a little worse for wear, if you catch my drift. All they seem to do is sit around smoking cigarettes that, quite frankly, smell funny. And they play cards and tell dirty jokes rather than do their jobs! Consequently, the reindeer are all filthy and out of shape. And you know, the two rabbits, one wallaby and three wombats I’ve drafted in just don’t cut it as replacements.
Anyway, on behalf of myself, as well as Henry and Ezra, have a Merry Christmas/Winter Solstice/Hanukkah/December/Holidays/Festivus and a happy New Year!
I hope that all of your holiday photos turn out to be triumphs, your stocking is stuffed full of lots of tasty treats and not coal and that all your prawns/puddings/pumpkin pies are all as sweet just the way that you like them.
May everybody’s Festivus pole have a very high strength-to-weight ratio.
Yom Tov for Hannukah, now on its fourth day, and on the eve of the first day of Christmas – Feliz Navidad/Selamat Hari Natal/Joyeaux Noel/Kala Christouyenna/Maligayang Pasko/S Roždestvom Khristovym/Merry Christmas
You can find more such non-English Christmas greetings here http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/christmas.htm or here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061128013809AA67BXz
And bah humbug for ‘happy holidays’
And totally agree with Jacques de Mollay at 11 on Conroy – can we add Philip Ruddock too?
Hey guys jump in the bus, Cliff is the driver….
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJCtqegd8A
@16 and 19 – duly chastised!
I substitute – Buono Natale!
Paperback Believer
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EJpUKEPYI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdWrfDX2pQ
Joyeux noël, y’all, and may all your family train wrecks tomorrow be little ones.
Onya Mark for going Italian — such a nice greeting. Best to you and yours, and may Australia come back from the dead in the Boxing Day Test!
skepticlawyer, wouldn’t that make it the Easter Test if Australia “came back from the dead”?
Maybe, but we need the bloody miracle now!
Best wishes to you all at Christmas!
Happy whatever is appropriate to all your religious and non-religious beliefs. Thanks to all LP-ers for a wonderfully entertaining and educative year.
But I’m still a Xmas Grinch.
The wish I give to all and sundry at this time of year is “Happy Barbecue Season”. So, happy barbecue season to ye. May your plate be hot, your mangoes plentiful, and your crack free of sand.
Buono Natale to everyone at LP, and to my sister Jo, who just gave birth to a healthy baby girl, 1pm Brissie time!
Duddums Diddums & Natalies Buono update…
‘Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has admitted he still hasn’t done all his Christmas shopping.’
Hold the pudding, stop the prezzies…err presses…
Bolt & Rudd spot Rudolph eating carrot…more to come…with pickies…& DS op ed…
SA to win…
It will be Suzette given the barbecue implements I received today as presents. Hope everyone had a great Christmas Day and that Boxing Day is free from guilt and associated pains of overindulging.
Boxing Day so far is free from guilt etc because I didn’t abuse the neighbours or tell anyone to piss off – yet. Give it time.
Congratulations to Nick’s sister Jo.
Joy to the world!
Christmass Day was a day of excess, excess I atoned for early this morning:
http://jovialmonk.com.au/images/TLP/TLP2.htm
Paul Burns, consider yourself SPRUNG. On your own admission, by 8.32am you hadn’t yet abused a neighbour or told anyone to piss off. Sounds as if, like it or not, you have been affected by the seasonal goodwill.
Blessings be upon you.
Well, sort of, Ambigulous. I did ring up a Xtan friend on Boxing Day and wish them a happy (gulp) Xmas. To everybody else I regularly communicate with by e-mail I sent Ahmerbinijad’s (sp.) Xmas message – which was pretty pointless as I discovered soon after that BBC World cut it off after about 5 seconds; and wished them all a happy Summer Solstice and happy Saturnalia.
Also told the kids from next door I was too busy to let them in about 5.30 pm yesterday. (Which I was.)But nicely, sort of, even though they’re beginning to annoy me with their constant interruptions. But I’ve only got myself to blame, because I can’t keep up the cranky old man shit for more than five minutes and they always talk me round. Trouble is, they know that I’m a bit of a softy underneath, and take advantage of it.
Anyway,
Happy New Year to all LP-ers. Once again, thanks for the fun. And may you cause heaps of international offence in 2008.
It is gratifying to read that the overwhelming majority of the population of those parts of the world formerly called Christendom managed to mark Yuletide without dressing up as Santa, shooting dead most of his/her ex-spouse’s extended family and setting fire to the party venue.
All-in-all, Xmas seems to have augmented the quantum of world happiness, even if only marginally.
Well done, merrymakers.
Katz,
I think that particular Santa might well come under trhe category of only in America. Though there was a nasty Xmas Eve brawl with knives and golf clubs, with one bloke half-dead in hospital as a result, somewhere in Oz that I read about somewhere in my Xmas net-surfing.
Merry Merries, all. Sorry to be in absentia lately, plan to be around more in the New Year. Hope everybody had a good one.
I reckon we had a good one, tigtog: see Katz at 39 for a reminder of a festive event we all missed (I assume).
Yes, I heard about that event elsewhere. Words fail.
Sorry to be a pedant but it’s Buon Natale. Don’t know why the final ‘o’ is not included but it is….as Christmas is past I wish all
Felice anno nuovo.
Something to do with the two ‘n’s’ flowing together. The ‘o’ sounds clumsy between them, so its sacrificed for a more melodic flow.
Oopsy!
I hadn’t seen it written down – just heard it spoken… anyway, my flatmate and I went to a very spiffy Italian midnight mass @ Holy Trinity on Villiers Street – cheesy pageant with dudes dressed up in campy robes as the Three Wise Men, and Mary and her crib. And lots of hymns in Italian with a tenor, and the priest playing conductor. And pannetone and sparkling wine on the church steps aferwards – the Italians certainly do religion with verve and gusto!
Yes, that’s the kind of Mass of which even I approve. Blood of Christ, etc.