Don't know if this is allowed 'cos it's not actually a discussion?

May I take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and peaceful Chrismas and a wonderful New Year.

Thank you for the interaction and stimulation you have provided and I look forward more in '09.

(Does it make a discussion if I add "Please discuss"?)

Thank you spindoc.

I hope your Christmas and those of other OLOers is happy and full of family festivities no matter what sort of family shapes and sizes you come in.

The discussions are always interesting and thought provoking. I will be away for a bit so until then auf widersehen, ariverderci, adieu, and bon appetit (or something like that).

Peace to all.

Pelican

I like the concept, spindoc.

"Have a very enjoyable Christmas, and best wishes for the New Year: discuss"

No discussion needed. Passed unanimously.

Ditto to others spindoc

"Thank you for the interaction and stimulation you have provided and I look forward more in '09."

'10 perhaps?

cheers

Thanks spindoc,

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas.

Joyeux Noél

Good one, spindoc.

Happy Saturnalia to you and yours too :)

Merry Christmas to all ... yes ... even our Atheist brethren. ;o)

Keep safe.

Dear spindoc,

I also would like to take this opportunity
to wish everyone on OLO all the Joys of
this Festive Season and a Safe, Healthy,
and Happy New Year 2010.

I've enjoyed our banter this year and look
forward to more in the New Year.

Merry Christmas!

Froehliche Weihnachten!

Feliz Navidad!

Joyeux Noel!

Buone Feste Natalizie!

Linksmu Sv. Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu!

Prieci'gus Ziemsue'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!

Peace at least this once a year!

Here's wishin yuz all a not too messy Crassmess and a very happy new year.

Hey Ludwig, for the purpose of discussion - looks like you're already consuming a few pre-Christmas beverages ... medicinal purposes only, of course :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all posters and Graham and Staff.

Oh, this seems a good spot to ask Yabby, or anyone else if they know.

I notice in South West WA there is a heap of places, 20-30, with names all ending in UP.

Can you tell me why this is and how it came about? Just curious.

Spindoc,
I wish you and everyone else on OLO a Great and safe festive season.

Ps. I've just come back from watching Avatar in 3D.

*I'm not the movie type*, the last one I went to was 5 years ago, but this was an experience and then some.
Possibly the best conceived and executed movie thus far. The peak of the art so to speak it isn't hard to see how they spent $400 million making it. It's really worth the money. There's something in it for everybody . On so many levels. As an allegory of today, colonialism its almost a truism.

Cheers folks

Indeed, a Merry Christmas, Happy Saturnalia, Sol Invictus and Yule to all.

Happy Birthday also to Jesus, Mithras, Osiris, Buddha, Adonis, Dyonisis, Quetzalcoatl, Hercules, Perseus, Beddou (Fot), Tammus, Zoroaster, Horus, Attus, Romulus and Remus, Korybas plus anyone else I missed.

Meanwhile, thanks and best wishes to everybody here for all the stimulating, if not frustrating, discussion over the last 12 months.

Take care everybody.

Thanks for the opportunity spin doc.
To the OLO family from top to bottom every one.
please have a great one
Belly

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

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BAH...humbugg...a god replacement scam...we have this jolly old satan clause...who acts..like the god of the old testiment..watching if we been good or bad..sitting on his thone..despoiling the holy of holies

on the day jesus was born..neatly hiding our saviours birth...and the esta bunny...neatly covering over his death...celibrating a pagan ritual...its insane/crass..commercialism..fantasy

create your fictions..that are proved a lie..as kids grow up...knowing..they will reject..even those stories..likely to be true..thus rejecting god..[who is all loving...and dont judge us...at all]

this farce..where people..pretend to be nice/to each other...[for 1 day]..getting merry/drunk..glutony...based on deception's

yeah merry xmass indeed..based on a fiction..
neatly/..covering over the birth of christ...

how far..from god shall you lead us?..oh jolly..mr satan clause..saint nick...another name for satan..yes..lets have peace on the earth..being blown to pieces..

..for a day..then back to murder..and mayhem..

hypocrits..comes to mind...but then thats only my opinion...you are welcome to yours...you see the good..on one day a year...and then you grow up..and realise its all a sham...

im not after..one day of peace..but an eternity of peace..
but dont go reacting..to my sarcasm....

remember je-ruse-salum...has its own wall arround it..now
..while others murder..in the holy lands..

yet you fail to see..the beast..deficating/in the holy of holies

but you have your fun...once a year..
here is one day...to piece it all together

then next day..lets get back to reality..
we got some towel-heads..need more vile war..done to them

dont mind me...

i too will smile..and say merry xmass...
and accept your anger..at my opinion/..my truth
whatever..your means of merriment may be...

get into your spirits...
may the spirit..not give you a hang-over..ho ho ho

where was your goodwill..to all men..the rest of the year...hyprocrits

bah hum bug..its so easy for you..to accept the lies..
fed to you..as children...and feed them to your kids..
to be..just like you..for one day

jesus's mum..will be pleased

Er, yeayus Q&A, strictly medicinal beverages were consumed last evening!

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DEVK2AAB. What’s that about Bazz?

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Examinator, good to hear your opinion of Avatar. I’m looking forward to seeing it.

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Banjo, ‘up’ means place in the Nyoongar language.

Thus in WA we have…

Dwellingup – place of water

Nannup – place of parrots

Gnowangerup – place of the malleefowl

etc

Ludwig, Just a msg for Belly.

Ludwig,
selly season, now thats an appropriate one !

& the best of the season to all of you, from me, too.

Go & have fun, it's OK to be careful, & have lots of great gifts, & all that, but mostly remember to have the simple fun. Like throwing a ball, or a frisbee, with the kids. That's what they'll remember next month, so don't forget.

Oh, & you're not too old to play hide & seek, with the littlies, so have a merry christmas.

No matter what your religion,Christmas is a time that we celebrate the family,and the values that make our society functional and pleasurable.

It is not a matter of what we believe,but how we treat our fellow man.
Merry Christmas to all.

Don't forget the women and kids, Arjay.

Happy holidays to you too.

My favourite time of year.

Very best wishes to everyone for a blessed and happy
Christmas.

http://janezlifeandtimes.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/christimas-ditto-competition-house.jpg

pynch

Bazz de vk2bel!
Now we do have him confused.

Best wishes to all for the season.

It looks like being relatively cool here in Brissie for a change. I intend to do as little as humanly possible today: the kids are off to Mum's later this morning and will be away for a few days before coming back to spend New Year with Dad. I've studiously avoided invitations to family gatherings, etc and will be settling in to do some reading. The book is "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" by Iain Banks, who I regard as among the very best writers in english today. This is his first "general" fiction novel for some time, as he concentrated on his "Culture" series of science fiction.

I'm looking forward to some cooling Crownies this arvo to accompany the barbied steak and a generally peaceful day.

What more could a man ask for in Godzone?

I think a great number of us got our Christmas wish, rain.
In my case the inland rain for farmers is every bit as good as that running in to my water tank, and watering my fruit trees.
Let it rain for a week please.