Comments on: Happy Holidays Buon Natale from LP!

By: The Devil Drink

The Devil Drink — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:46:17 +0000

Yes, that’s the kind of Mass of which even I approve. Blood of Christ, etc.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:53:12 +0000

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!

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:40:31 +0000

Something to do with the two ‘n’s’ flowing together. The ‘o’ sounds clumsy between them, so its sacrificed for a more melodic flow.

By: Guido

Guido — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:19:35 +0000

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.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:08:19 +0000

Yes, I heard about that event elsewhere. Words fail.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:25:48 +0000

I reckon we had a good one, tigtog: see Katz at 39 for a reminder of a festive event we all missed (I assume).

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:45:21 +0000

Merry Merries, all. Sorry to be in absentia lately, plan to be around more in the New Year. Hope everybody had a good one.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:18:02 +0000

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.

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:37:59 +0000

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.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:08:06 +0000

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.