tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post2236180249771191452..comments2024-03-13T07:52:13.478-04:00Comments on THE SWASH ZONE: Happy Holidays, y'all!(O)CT(O)PUShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-64441015666795897332013-12-10T18:39:19.962-05:002013-12-10T18:39:19.962-05:00As for me I simply always drank mucho H2O and wall...As for me I simply always drank mucho H2O and walla, no hangover after the New Years Eve festivities.<br /><br />Dehydration is the revelers worst enemy.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-79226588953124628532013-12-10T17:35:43.642-05:002013-12-10T17:35:43.642-05:00hmmmmm.... I was always more of a pepto boy on the...hmmmmm.... I was always more of a pepto boy on the first..... something about the pink, I guess....but that is illogical too.okjimmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11013002335848390765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-9733118511662589162013-12-10T13:28:02.683-05:002013-12-10T13:28:02.683-05:00In a logical world, shouldn't "National B...In a logical world, shouldn't "National Bicarbonate of Soda Day" be January 1 instead of December 30?Nameless Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17963921060024737712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-40236511903884954142013-12-10T12:49:48.493-05:002013-12-10T12:49:48.493-05:00Shaw...I thought Happy Card Day was a celebration ...Shaw...I thought Happy Card Day was a celebration of those who tell bad jokes. Like....<br /> What nationality is Santa Claus?<br /> North Polish.<br /><br />oh Namelss One.... my favorite holiday is still Zappadan ... http://www.thepaltrysapien.com/2013/12/the-true-meaning-of-zappadan/<br /><br />I can't wait for the Annual St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast<br /><br />Happy Ollie Dayzokjimmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11013002335848390765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-76354970371494637122013-12-10T11:24:26.071-05:002013-12-10T11:24:26.071-05:00Happy Human Rights Day! May everyone remember the ...Happy Human Rights Day! May everyone remember the smallest minority in the world is the individual and the profound implications that carries with it.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-67600986603132114372013-12-09T23:18:01.643-05:002013-12-09T23:18:01.643-05:00Now, reread your list, Jimmbo - I got more than a ...Now, reread your list, Jimmbo - I got more than a few of those. <br /><br />Just for my own peace of mind, though, I'm going to skip "Take it in the Ear Day" again this year.Nameless Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17963921060024737712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-89895613450317255952013-12-09T17:52:36.202-05:002013-12-09T17:52:36.202-05:00okjimm, I hope it's not too late to wish you a...okjimm, I hope it's not too late to wish you and your family a very Happy Pastry Day, today, December 9th. And may all your pastries be flakey! Oh, and Happy Card Day as well. Does that include Social Security Card?Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-55647938162102017782013-12-09T14:19:34.000-05:002013-12-09T14:19:34.000-05:00ok... you missed a whole big bucket bunch of neato...ok... you missed a whole big bucket bunch of neato days in Decemberish....<br /><br />December, 2013 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days: <br /><br />1 Eat a Red Apple Day <br /><br />1 World Aids Awareness Day <br /><br />2 National Fritters Day <br /><br />3 National Roof over Your Head Day <br /><br />4 Santas' List Day - we hope you are on the "Nice" list <br /><br />4 Wear Brown Shoes Day <br /><br />5 Bathtub Party Day <br /><br />5 Repeal Day - The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition. I'll drink to that! <br /><br />6 St. Nicholas Day <br /><br />6 Mitten Tree Day <br /><br />6 Put on your own Shoes Day <br /><br />7 International Civil Aviation Day <br /><br />7 Letter Writing Day <br /><br />7 National Cotton Candy Day - would you like some fairy floss? <br /><br />7 Pearl Harbor Day <br /><br />8 International Children's Day - Second Sunday in December <br /><br />8 National Brownie Day <br /><br />8 Take it in the Ear Day <br /><br />9 Christmas Card Day <br /><br />9 National Pastry Day <br /><br />10 Human Rights Day <br /><br />11 National Noodle Ring Day <br /><br />12 National Ding-a-Ling Day <br /><br />12 Poinsettia Day <br /><br />13 Ice Cream Day <br /><br />13 Violin Day <br /><br />14 National Bouillabaisse Day <br /><br />15 Bill of Rights Day <br /><br />15 National Lemon Cupcake Day <br /><br />16 National Chocolate Covered Anything Day <br /><br />17 National Maple Syrup Day <br /><br />18 Bake Cookies Day <br /><br />18 National Roast Suckling Pig Day <br /><br />19 Look for an Evergreen Day <br /><br />19 Oatmeal Muffin Day <br /><br />20 Go Caroling Day <br /><br />21 Forefather's Day <br /><br />21 Humbug Day <br /><br />21 National Flashlight Day <br /><br />21 Look on the Bright Side Day <br /><br />22 National Date Nut Bread Day - or September 8!? <br /><br />23 Festivus - for the rest of us <br /><br />23 Roots Day <br /><br />24 National Chocolate Day <br /><br />24 National Egg Nog Day <br /><br />25 Christmas Day <br /><br />25 National Pumpkin Pie Day for recipes see Pumpkin Nook 's Cookbook <br /><br />26 Boxing Day <br /><br />27 Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day <br /><br />27 National Fruitcake Day <br /><br />28 Card Playing Day <br /><br />29 Pepper Pot Day <br /><br />30 National Bicarbonate of Soda Day <br /><br />31 Make Up Your Mind Day <br /><br />31 New Year's Eve <br /><br />31 Unlucky Day <br /><br />... boy...you just can't make this stuff up, see, so..... Happy Oh Ollie days!okjimmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11013002335848390765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-641998259642823092013-12-09T12:04:27.790-05:002013-12-09T12:04:27.790-05:00See there Nameless? I got you to share something ...See there Nameless? I got you to share something about yourself. I guess I just get a little touchy sometimes around this season. Last night's Christmas concert was to a full house. Everybody singing carols. Beautiful choirs, children, a flute, bells, my own poor imitation of a string quartet on my Alesis synthesizer, lots of piano and organ.<br /><br />You see two years ago, I invited my grandkids to come to the same concert. I called their dad personally. I thought it would be a fun way for them to see a more traditional way of celebrating the season, meet some other children and perhaps share the joy. They were four and a half and seven years old. My son-in-law made it very clear to me in no uncertain terms. His children would not be entering any church even for a Christmas concert. He happens to be a rabid atheist. Considers the church to be something from which he must protect his children. I'm sure I don't love him any the less for it. He's the finest husband and father that I know today. A good friend and a hard-working man. I consider him a wonderful asset to our family.<br /><br />I think I get what you mean. It is rude to say "Merry Christmas" to a complete stranger or someone at Trader Joe's or at the park. I usually just say, "Have a nice holiday." I think I communicated in my comment that I don't obsess about keeping Christmas all about Christ and christianity.<br /><br />I think you have a very intelligent and engaging style of writing. I'll be careful to winnow out the rants from the greetings next time.Flying Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098313953658606206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-14078563672533151682013-12-09T11:37:07.754-05:002013-12-09T11:37:07.754-05:00Insh Allah.
Angels selling ham on rye
from a pu...Insh Allah. <br /><br />Angels selling ham on rye<br />from a push cart in the sky<br />Hold the mustard<br />hold the mayo<br />Gloria in excelses deo.<br /><br />Angels we have heard on high<br />Tell us to go out and buy! Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-50568325618914208172013-12-09T11:01:15.176-05:002013-12-09T11:01:15.176-05:00Ad men are the biggest offenders against our langu...Ad men are the biggest offenders against our language. Remember the soup that eats like a meal? Do we want to be around a soup that eats? But really, the English of 1950 is barely understandable to the generation that just knows a cloud is a web server and can say "crowdsourcing" with a straight face.<br /><br />So you can't expect anyone to understand what it used to mean or be intelligent to know the difference between this morning's usage and that of long, long ago when cell phones were bigger. So adiós you gay caballero and so long to those Kentucky farm workers. Fa la la la la.<br /><br />Just don't spell it wrong. Meaning lasts only moments but spelling is forever.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-25217039373442311352013-12-08T20:57:00.435-05:002013-12-08T20:57:00.435-05:00Dammit! Hallmark has taken the "gay apparel&...Dammit! <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-18-2013/11-18-13-in--60-seconds" rel="nofollow">Hallmark has taken the "gay apparel" out of "don we now" and substituted it with "fun apparel?"</a><br /><br />Why? Why? Why?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mLjKI968g" rel="nofollow">I don't want to..."</a><br /><br />Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-77943262204872586772013-12-08T19:53:07.525-05:002013-12-08T19:53:07.525-05:00Gee whiz, folks. In the spirit of the season, why ...Gee whiz, folks. In the spirit of the season, why don’t we just Baruch Atah and annoy each other.(O)CT(O)PUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-20037231588847452152013-12-08T12:37:33.603-05:002013-12-08T12:37:33.603-05:00I'd rather laugh than cry and our seasonal hyp...I'd rather laugh than cry and our seasonal hypocrisy glows like the nose on a plastic caribou. Perhaps it's that Puritan heritage we talk about although I've always laughed at it. They were the only croup in the western world that has ever banned it, both in England and in America because they knew the shaky and pagan ground it grew out of. I like Christmas for my own reasons. It's time America learned to laugh at Americans.<br /><br />If one is, and I am, an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, one is supposed to maintain that all days are holy -- and I do. They are all precious and irreplaceable and god knows they are numbered. My family celebrated it, atheists that they were and I also put up a tree and gave presents to my children because it's a national holiday and whether one is silly enough to insist that all the supporting folk tales made up over thousands of years, from Magi and Mangers to Rudolph and Reindeer are truth, or if one simply loves the colored lights in the palm trees and the idea of benevolence toward children, toward people in or not in our chosen tribe, it brings out the best in us - or at least I thought so as a child and in those Fox-free times. <br /><br />It's fun to give presents. It makes you feel good to be charitable and <i>IS</i> good and would be if Jesus were never born or born in in a different year or in the Galilee and to a mother with 6 kids and no husband. Charity, compassion, benevolence and the absence of tribal enmity are good things and sufficient reason for the season.<br /><br />So yes, it's a good holiday on its own and maybe especially on its own because when you let gods in the door many decent things jump out the window and run for their lives and history speaks for itself on that matter. <br /><br />Should we laugh about how Americans use it to snicker and snark and berate and condemn and curse each other while mumbling about sacred babies born to sinless virgins yet not actually human? Why the hell not, because it's as hilarious and hypocritical as it is disgusting and an insult to the values we attribute in our dishonesty to our traditions.<br /><br />So I'll be having Christmas dinner with my godless family this year and if anyone thinks I spent too much or too little -- if anyone wants to spoil it with their myths and mysteries and covert Mithraism, let me remind you that all nights are sacred, all dinners and all that eat them and that the bickering and snickering and bigotry is dishonest and disgusting -- and would be on any night.<br /><br />It's a Jewish tradition on the Passover for the youngest male present to ask מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילות. Ma nishtana halaila hazeh mikol haleilot? Why is this night different from all other nights? Contrary to the litany, I have to insist it isn't and whether you insist there was a Moses or a Jesus or that Enlil was born on Wednesday and Ninhursag was his mother, -- if you're so full of self righteousness that you can dictate to others, may Bill O'Reilly puke under your tree. Otherwise lets pretend we can have peace on earth or at least to men of good will and if we can on December 25, why the hell not on all other nights?Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-59985234914023240152013-12-08T04:23:18.698-05:002013-12-08T04:23:18.698-05:00Well, gee, Flyboy. I don't know what to say. O...Well, gee, Flyboy. I don't know what to say. Other than you apparently haven't figured me out just yet.<br /><br />"You seem more bitter than happy." Wow. You say "bitter" like it's a bad thing. Like watching the hopes and dreams of a million children getting crushed by the slowly-grinding wheel of bureaucracy, and then giggling quietly, isn't a life-affirming hobby. <br /><br />I love Christmas. I love everything about it. I love the food that nobody makes until this time of year. I love the lights, and the decorations, and the mistletoe. I love the fact that everybody has to pretend to be happy and joyous, or take crap from people like you.<br /><br />I love the ceremony. I love the tradition. I love the elves, and the tree, and the Yule log. I love standing off about 1500 meters in an unoccupied office window and watching Santa going into the mall, and slo-oo-owly squeezing the trigger... if I can do that just before a busload of kids from the orphanage goes in, that's just a bonus.<br /><br />I don't really care about Kwanzaa (that's how it's spelled, if you're curious). But that's because I'm white. I'm guessing you are too, based on your pig-ignorant statement there. But I don't begrudge other people the chance to celebrate their heritage. After all, I like to celebrate mine, I just accept that my heritage is full of murderers, criminals and people who needed a good flogging (and sometimes got one. And sometimes enjoyed it).<br /><br />Just out of curiosity (and, to be honest, I don't REALLY care), where did you get the idea that I don't celebrate Christmas, based on a post where I pointed out that there are more holidays in heaven or earth, Flying Jr., than are dreamed of in your philosophy?Nameless Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17963921060024737712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-15504879735173006352013-12-08T04:11:02.522-05:002013-12-08T04:11:02.522-05:00Merry Christmas and or Happy Holiday to all! Or, ...Merry Christmas and or Happy Holiday to all! Or, just have a rip roaring helluva fine month.<br /><br />The grandkids will be carrying on the tradition. Pretty much as they experience it as kids.<br /><br />Now, back to Santa's workshopp. After a quick stop at The Spirit Shop of course!Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-24127867608755533802013-12-08T00:55:56.372-05:002013-12-08T00:55:56.372-05:00Happy Holidays Nameless.
You seem more bitter tha...Happy Holidays Nameless.<br /><br />You seem more bitter than happy. Why post about Christmas at all? I have very close friends both Jewish and atheist who celebrate Christmas. Mostly because of their children. But also because it's a kick-ass holiday that's hard to top. Judeo-Christian? Yes, there is a connection. Most Jews and Christians who have befriended each other don't see it as a big problem. Same God. Jews are constantly waiting for a Messiah who will never come. They don't hate Jesus. He was a good Jew. We're all part of a family. Atheists like Christmas. Informed Christians and Jews see this as a positive thing. Why listen to dickheads?<br /><br />The commercialization of Christmas is not really important. It is less important to listen to right-wing points of view. I'm mostly just guessing. But why anybody would care a hoot about Kwaanza is beyond me. You don't want to celebrate Christmas because of some problem you have with organized Christianity?<br /><br />Okay. Not much to talk about there.Flying Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098313953658606206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-48550554034605529982013-12-07T22:32:38.346-05:002013-12-07T22:32:38.346-05:00In my post below on the subject of people getting ...In my post below on the subject of people getting offended by others wishing them "Happy Holidays," I pointed out that the word "holiday" is derived from "holy day." So when you wish someone "Happy Holiday," you're actually giving them a religious greeting. But don't tell the lunkhead O'Reilly, or any other troubleo-making malcontent. <br /><br />The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as you correctly pointed out, celebrates Mary's conception, which, IIRC, meant that she was born without Original Sin. The only human being, I think, who was given that special designation.<br /><br />So Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever your persuasion.<br /><br />And Festivus for the rest of us!<br /><br />Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.com