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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Jackalope on December 24, 2024, 05:53:36 PM

Title: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Jackalope on December 24, 2024, 05:53:36 PM
I?d like to wish everyone a safe and merry Christmas!   :dancingBanana:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: DMCakhunter on December 24, 2024, 07:38:40 PM
Thank you.
Merry Christmas to all,
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Felix on December 25, 2024, 09:46:51 AM
Merry Christmas to all as we celebrate the "Reason for the Season".

(and dispensation is hereby granted for dietary slippages -however brief!)
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: zanedclark on December 25, 2024, 10:16:05 AM
Yes, Merry Christmas. 

zane
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: grizz on December 25, 2024, 12:59:29 PM
Merry Christmas
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: CJS06 on December 25, 2024, 02:24:04 PM
Merry Christmas to all.  I hope that you all have a wonderful day together with family!
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: JohnyMac on December 25, 2024, 04:48:18 PM
Yes, thank you Jackalope for starting this thread.  :thumbsUp:

It has been a busy last couple of days here at the redoubt. I thought I would make it easier this year and buy a store bought Christmas tree rather then trek out into the woods, however every Christmas tree farm was closed. No trees at stores either. So yesterday with saw in hand went out to our woods and cut one down.

We have about 8" of snow so I fell down twice. Once going to a tree and then once dragging one back. I am sore as all heck today. Well, I keep telling myself it is a a good sore.  :facepalm:

We just had some 80+-YO friends leave after a nice Christmas dinner of rib roast, Yorkshire pudding, sweet potato casserole, and rutabagas. I made a pumpkin pie for desert too but they had to leave before the sun set. I guess MrsMac and I will feast on the pie and some freshly brewed coffee later on.

Tomorrow, boxing day, is mine. I will lock myself up in the radio shack and finally use my new amplifier. 10-meters is open and my friends are hitting all over Asia, Alaska, Russia, S. Africa, etc. Basically global. So I will try to make some DX (Long Distance) contacts.

Well now, there you go. Wishing all a good Christmas and looking forward a healthy & profitable 2025.

73 & God Bless
JohnyMac
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Hope on December 26, 2024, 07:03:13 AM
A little late to the thread, Merry Christmas. Thankful that it has been quiet and uneventful for false flags.
God bless.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Sir John Honeybucket on December 26, 2024, 08:20:11 AM
Oh Myyyyy  "...roast, Yorkshire pudding".  I haven't had Yorkshire in ages! Just remember the English rule:
"If you're not certain what it is, but it is delicious, you can't go far wrong calling it 'pudding'.  ha ha
Merry Christmas and back to me book.

- Sir John Honeybucket
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: JohnyMac on December 26, 2024, 10:50:57 AM
Like blood pudding Sir John?
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Nemo on December 26, 2024, 02:23:54 PM
Yorkshire pudding

- Sir John Honeybucket


But think of the poor little doggies!


And hope all had the good returns on the day, but let us keep a weather eye out for anything but a Happy New Year.

Nemo
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Felix on December 26, 2024, 06:01:40 PM
In a breakfast fry up, blood pudding is no slouch.   Combine with eggs and a broiled tomato... well... you can always cleanse your palate with pints of "room temperature" hand-pumped ale, later in the morning...   ;-)
Merry Christmas and a Happy, survivable, New Year!
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: JohnyMac on December 26, 2024, 08:15:59 PM
 Felix, you know how to live. :lmfao: :dancingBanana: :cheers:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Sir John Honeybucket on December 27, 2024, 11:03:26 AM
Well, well ,well,  now I am well & truly hungry for a proper English breakfast and dark ale.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Felix on December 27, 2024, 08:13:31 PM
Next Christmas is calendrically far off.   Which is OK, gives time to prepare.
Set aside and devote a smallish cannister of tannerite along with a roll of duct tape.
When it comes time to harvest a yule tree, choose the suitable tree and tape the smallish cannister to the trunk with the duct tape where you would like to make "the cut" and stand off (30/40 yards is more than enough) and hit it with a round from your suppressed 5.56/.223.
Which would you rather?
Stumble around in the woods with some Twinkie saw or a commonly held rifle?
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: pkveazey on December 28, 2024, 04:54:19 PM
Oh, Hell no!! I don't care if I completely understood the word. You just can't get away with "calendrically".  :facepalm: :lmfao:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Felix on December 28, 2024, 08:19:03 PM
"calendrically"
 ... just as English as one can possibly get.

Our Mother Tongue and it's global variants celebrate the Thief of Thieves.   (with an almost strangulating dose of "invention" tossed in for good measure).     Just tally the latest jargon of American youth, generations X thru Z (or whatever).
In truth, modern Americans are speaking a mixture of French, Viking, Latin, German/Dutch and Gaelic half the time, yet think nothing of it.  Swahili might be a bit thin on the board here right now, but you get the gist.

An interesting exercise (for those times between reloading ammunition and rotation of hoarded supplies) is to see how far back in old texts one can go and figure out how much still makes sense.   Tracing back over two, three hundred years and... good luck with cookbooks!
Calendrically.    Speaking.    And yes, I'll have another dram.   Thank you very much.   ;-)


Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Nemo on December 29, 2024, 11:06:58 AM
Oh, Hell no!! I don't care if I completely understood the word. You just can't get away with "calendrically".  :facepalm: :lmfao:

PK is correct. 

That word is the most excessive bastardization of any written or spoken or work I have ever seen.

Pray it be stricken from the language and memory of all mankind.

Nemo*

*but it is easily DDGable and noted in many dictionarys.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=calendrically&ia=web
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Felix on December 29, 2024, 04:29:47 PM
Well, thank you, Nemo.

(Psssst... don't ever tell him "it's the most bastardized... ever seen"... it'll only encourage him)

Happy New year and best wishes for health, good drink and fine comestibles for ALL!


(PS: I spelled New Year "correctly" just to prove I could do it)
:-)
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Nemo on December 29, 2024, 06:45:45 PM
(Psssst... don't ever tell him "it's the most bastardized... ever seen"... it'll only encourage him)

Note the seriousness of that too.  I have read a big bunch of code books, case law, legal briefs,  heard arguments and lots of that that kind of stuff.

His post still wins.  But I didn't let him see this!  It's hidden from him.

Nemo