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Topic: Ah! Christmas! |
Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 05:16 PM
 
Ah, Christmas. My favourite
pagan-festival-converted-to-sub-christian-consumer-fest-let's-spoil-the-kids-pretend-we're-enjoying-ourselves-meeting-familial-obligations-and-give-our-parents-a-coronary-from-stre
ss-guilt-trip-tacky-shit-TV event!
How is everyone here spending christmas? This year my family's
going to barbecue the turkey...
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 07:01 PM
Ho , fuckin' Ho.
Id hate Christmas if it wasnt for the fact that people give me
stuff for free.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 02, 1999 07:13 PM
No turkey this year, so I'll just have to choke the chicken
instead...
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 07:39 PM
This was the year I found paganism and guess what?
For family reasons my parents cancelled Xmas this year! (no, not
like the Grinch. More like my Dad's going in for chemotherapy in the
middle of December). Now I'm just looking forward to Yule.
There are no fucking coincidences.
Sure is annoying listening to all those carols, though.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 12:11 AM
Christmas is fucking great. I'll get up at the crack of dawn, slap
on my Frank Sidebottom Christmas album, rip open my pressies, go to
my mum and dad's, listen to the ramblings of my grannies, eat loads
of food, watch the Queen's speech and then fall asleep in front of
the Bond movie. I'm all for a revolution, but it ain't taking that
from me.
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Imp0zz!bL
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 08:26 AM
yeah, well ... you people just don't know how to enjoy
yourselves.
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Cochese
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 10:44 AM
What what??? The food! The booze!! Pressies!!! Family! yeah, so it's
not all good, but Christmas is topped. And then of course New Year.
Groovy!
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Mystery Gypt
Initiate |
posted December 05, 1999 03:13 AM
i'm "giving up" xmas for the first time this year. mom&dad r a
little sad. instead i'm going to drive out to new mexico and hang
out in the desert.
all probably hang out long enough to go check out Roswell for New
years -- here comes the mothership!
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 10:40 AM
Cochese, looks like us hard Northern types are the only ones who
enjoy Christmas.
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look!NickWaddam!
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 12:45 PM
No, I enjoy Xmas!
My friends gather together; I get really pissed and buggered for
roughly 3 weeks; I eat a lot; I watch films; I get presents; I buy
presents; I go out on new years eve...
I am not ashamed of being a priveliged bastard.
Some of my friends used to hate Xmas because it meant spending
time with their family, which they didn't like, but they fucking
love it by the time they get to my house.
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted December 05, 1999 01:01 PM
It's cool to be home with small children. It's a good time to spend
quality time with them and help them understand the difference
between bogus materialism and having a laugh. I used to think my
children would get turned into greed monsters by crap TV, but it
hasn't happened.
And if they're is one thing church is good for its singing at
Christmas.
When the kids are older we'll go back to interesting christmas,
occupying remote farmhouses with finely attuned friends. But right
now I'm looking forward to introducing my 10 year to the invisibles.
Over the last three years we've read animal man and doom patrol
several times.
Last Xmas we read all of Sandman: so this year its the big one.
I'm thinking of keeping a diary on line of her responses. Is this a
good idea?
[This message has been edited by ianjones (edited December 05,
1999).]
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 02:12 PM
yes, christmas is best enjoyed by reflecting on it's pagan
origins.
Guess what though... Going to Vegas this year...
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grant
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 06:59 PM
Is 10 too young for all that sex'n'drugs and throbbing uterus
dissection table stuff?
That being said, the reactions would be a lot of fun.
I'm gearing my plans more for New Years than Christmas. Christmas
takes care of itself.
New Years will take planning.
My past
social center for that holiday was a married couple who divorced
this year.
Chaos in 2000.
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Geist
Initiate |
posted December 05, 1999 09:52 PM
I agree with cochese and smith:
Fortunately my family ordeal
usually only lasts until 9:00 max..
So at 10:00 I am going to
meet some old buddies in our old pub. Usually we don't leave before
dawn...
It's fun!
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 10:06 PM
One thing we maybe should do is reclaim the old Father Christmas in
his green suit before Coca Cola hijacked him.
And do you think we could get Grant Morrison to do an Invisibles
Christmas special?
I'm thinking maybe "Santastorm"
Ho, ho, ho.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 11:06 AM
It would be great to have a REALLY CHEESY invisibles christmas
special with some half-arsed scooby doo style plot about Sir miles
dressing as santa and stealing presents off little kids or
something. And it would end with all the characters having a jolly
singalong in Snow covered victorian london and then hanging up their
(supergroovy invisibles style) stockings in front of the fire place
and going to bed.
Think of the possibilities..
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Chip
Myrmidon |
posted December 06, 1999 03:13 PM
Much as I hate to do this, since I'm greatly amused by this thread,
I'm shunting it over to the Core. See you over there!
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 04:30 PM
Ah! The Core!
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Nick
Myrmidon |
posted December 06, 1999 06:05 PM
on Christmas Day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must
adore,
There's time to rob him all the more...
The other three
hundred and sixty four!
Relations, sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old
utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil
(Just the thing I need,
how nice).
It doesn't matter how sincere it is,
Nor how heartfelt the
spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is The
Price....
(Thank you, Tom Leherer)
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 06:30 PM
That poem was extremely nice
and also contained good
advice.
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 12:00 AM
The only part of Christmas I'm really going to miss this year (it
got called off in my neck of the woods, remember?) is the music--not
that I can avoid it but in public all you hear is the annoying
sugary-sweet renditions of songs that ought to be done passionate
and huge. Still, we Pagans still get to keep Greensleeves--no matter
how much you Xians butcher it and change the lyrics, it's still
Greensleeves and it's still magic.
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 12:38 AM
I spent last Christmas in Birmingham (uk) where it was officially
cancelled by the city council in favour of celebrating something
called 'Winterval'. Brummies are a strange lot.
The best thing about Christmas for me is John Peel's Festive
Fifty.
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Jack Fear
Myrmidon |
posted December 07, 1999 12:41 AM
Thank you, Naroia, for the word on Christmas music. I actually
direct my church choir, and yes, "passionate and huge" is
exactly what I'm trying for. I've been planning this year's
Christmas program since the moment we played the final note of
last year's.
So how will I be spending Christmas? In church all afternoon and
evening Christmas Eve, til noon Christmas Day, come home with vocal
cords tattered and bloody, take a quick nap, open presents, try to
squeeze in some cheer and glee, and then--agk!--back to church the
next day, cos it's Sunday!!!
[This message has been edited by Jack Fear (edited December 07,
1999).]
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levon
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 01:37 AM
My birthday is on christmas eve. I use it as an excuse not to buy
anyone presents. I'll be too happy to be out of school to notice
Christmas, but New Years should be a blast. I plan on looting an
electronics store or something equally as destructive.
Destroy.
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[wisp]
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 07:34 PM
christmas usually means freedom from academia land, but this new
years i will focus on exiting the city(nyc). The scene at times
square this year will be spookier than it ever was. all sorts of
rumours are floating around(ever see Strange Days?).
d.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 08, 1999 08:42 PM
This is my first non-working Christmas for three years, so I'll go
out with the boyf on Christmas Eve (he lives in a little village in
the wilds of West Lothian) and twiddle my thumbs while he and his
family attend midnight mass in the little church. While I'm not
averse to the idea, I have no Christian leanings whatsoever and
would feel rather hypocritical if I visited God's supposed 'house'
again, after all these years...
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 10:59 PM
Yeah, Christmas has never been about God for me. Last year a few of
us piled into a church for midnight mass (which was actually at 7pm
- bummer) after a few ales, in a bid to get some good old-fashioned
Christmas spirit. I'm afraid I just sat there dying for a slash
while all these old biddies did dead arcane things, all the while
desperately wanting to get back into the pub.
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Topper
Operative |
posted December 09, 1999 05:45 PM
I'm the same way. Once when I had minor surgery a sister came 'round
the next morning, a Sunday, and offered me communion. Surprised I
flustered and she said "It says Catholic on your chart." Which of
course I'd told the receptionist out of habit. I declined: I hadn't
been to church in years and it didn't seem right. On the plus side
if I have to go into the hospital again I'll know to say Discordian.
So xmas for me is friends, family, good cheer, Guiness, an Eve of
passion, and a special treat for the clubs that night. If people
want to celebrate for another reason, that's fine. I don't mind
co-opting their holiday for my own (Invisible?) purpose.
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 09, 1999 06:43 PM
Hey [wisp], what kind of rumors? Are they going to kill the sun
king? Maybe it's where you line up to get your electronic tag? Or
maybe they just plan on everyone holding hands and singing "We are
the World"?
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Nick
Myrmidon |
posted December 10, 1999 06:25 PM
Topper, has it occurred to you that if you say 'Discordian', you
will wake up to the tender feeling of being covered in hot dog buns
and paraded naked and anaesthetised through the streets of
Colchester with a tattoo of Monica Lewinksi on your backside?
Just a thought. Registered Discordian priests have bedisde
manners which can be a little...humour-based. And yes, there really
are registered Discordians.
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 10, 1999 07:16 PM
I thought you just became a Dischordian by wishing very hard with
your eyes shut--or maybe by carrying around one of those POPE cards.
How do you register?
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Nick
Myrmidon |
posted December 11, 1999 10:04 AM
With the State of California, thereby making it legal for you to
perform marriages, funerals, and other clerical functions. Those
pronouncements are then legal across the U.S., and by implication in
any legally aligned country.
Naturally, if you put Discordian on your entry form when being
admitted to Hospital, they will check the register of religions and
come up with the kind of person who could be bothered to do that...a
hard-core mindfuck artist.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 11, 1999 05:01 PM
good goddess , who'd of thought it?
An Official Discordian
funeral..
my parents don't know what they're in for!
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Geist
Initiate |
posted December 11, 1999 05:18 PM
Now that's an idea!
Yeah, I'm gonna help my mum decorating the
tree this year, and I 'll use lots of golden apples!
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 11, 1999 06:24 PM
Do they have Discordian baptisms? Maybe in apple sauce? What about
Discordian circumcisions? I'd like to see a Discordian choir,
everyone singing in a different key.
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Topper
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 04:56 PM
Nick, maybe you aren't familiar with the US health care system. I'd
be getting off light.
70sman said "my parents don't know what they're in for!"
Now, would they be surprised at your own zany funeral or would
you have clowns and accordion players at *their* funeral, the poor
souls?
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[wisp]
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 08:58 PM
Naraoia: it was rather vague, but it had something to do with some
sort of pirate video that has been going around having to do with
chaos in Times Square. If i remember the exact 'source', i will let
you know.
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grant
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 09:38 PM
I think I mentioned the Y2K panic video in the Exploratory.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 14, 1999 08:55 AM
I was thinking more : acrobatic dwarfs performing on the coffin , an
improvised firework display , the MC5 playing "Going Underground"
and free kool aid for everybody.
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 14, 1999 06:22 PM
I want a burning wicker man full of high school cheerleaders and
prom queens in the middle of Times Square and a danse macabre out in
front of that big cathedral and all the trees in Central Park cut
down to make makeshift pulpits for all the wide-eyed prophets and...
oh, dang. Nobody really cares, do they? People burned out on the
millenial fever about a year and a half ago. That's what we get for
going post-ironic.
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