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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: MrNubbz on December 22, 2021, 08:30:33 AM
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Feliz Navidad/Festivus for the rest of us
May the Spirit of the Season be yours now and through out the coming New Year.Safe Travels and I hope you get Snow even you sunny saps below the Mason/Dixon
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Merry Christmas.
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too soon
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too soon
lol
i likely won't be on much after today for several weeks. merry christmas and happy holidays to each of you.
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Mary Crimmus.
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too soon
Tell that to my neighbors who put their lights up November 1
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putting lights up in good weather is smart
just don't turn them on until after Thanksgiving
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Happy Festivus for the rest of us
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Merry Fish-mas to all.
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.
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The day I had to learn Santa doesn't exist was hard. My parents & siblings sat me on the couch, explaining the impossible logic of a 285lb man funneling down so many chimneys in one night, before offering I go take my Mazda for a contemplative drive. Found myself in a sports bar later, but not too late. Had to work early the next day.
Merry Christmas to all!
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If you see a sixer of Shiner Holiday Cheer on the Grocer's - grab it.I usually don't touch Holiday Ale's with their coriander/cinnamon and assorted spices.The Shiner's was brewed with peaches/pecans kind of unique.And as you all well know if you value your life - leave the IPA's for the ne'er do wells
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Merry Fish-mas to all.
You eating Washoku/Sushi ?
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If you see a sixer of Shiner Holiday Cheer on the Grocer's - grab it.I usually don't touch Holiday Ale's with their coriander/cinnamon and assorted spices.The Shiner's was brewed with peaches/pecans kind of unique.And as you all well know if you value your life - leave the IPA's for the ne'er do wells
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that stuff is turrible
both a 6er last season and drank one bottle, the rest went to visitors
hopefully, they changed the recipe this year, but I'm not trying it
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The day I had to learn Santa doesn't exist was hard. My parents & siblings sat me on the couch, explaining the impossible logic of a 285lb man funneling down so many chimneys in one night, before offering I go take my Mazda for a contemplative drive. Found myself in a sports bar later, but not too late. Had to work early the next day.
Merry Christmas to all!
LOL!
When I met my wife, my son was just turning 9. He already knew that Santa wasn't real, and I knew he knew, and she knew he knew (because I told her), but he didn't know she knew. So he was trying to act like he believed in front of her, until she had to tell him "Wyatt, I know that you know."
Now my 9 year old daughter, we think, still believes. But she's at about the age where she might have heard from kids at school, and is just pretending for us to believe because she's worried she won't get Santa presents.
I'm really hoping she figures it out before 10. She's already probably not in "Doctor" territory, but if it's after she turns 10 that might not even be in "Registered Nurse" territory. If it's not until 11, her ceiling might be "Medical Assistant"...
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that stuff is turrible
both a 6er last season and drank one bottle, the rest went to visitors
hopefully, they changed the recipe this year, but I'm not trying it
You drink saki,Ill wait for more discriminating tastes to weigh in
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The day I had to learn Santa doesn't exist was hard. My parents & siblings sat me on the couch, explaining the impossible logic of a 285lb man funneling down so many chimneys in one night, before offering I go take my Mazda for a contemplative drive. Found myself in a sports bar later, but not too late. Had to work early the next day.
Merry Christmas to all!
Dang. My folks made us continue to play along, or else we wouldn't get any presents.
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Happy Solstice through New Years, with a little Christmas in between.
Like a holiday hoagie.
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On a serious note, I wish you all the best of the season regardless of how you like to live it- and hope you get quality time with those who mean the most to you.
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Dang. My folks made us continue to play along, or else we wouldn't get any presents.
Same here, and that's what my kids must endure as well. But we all have some fun with it now. At least I don't have to set an alarm to wake up and put out presents, I just tell the kids, "Go to your room and don't come out until morning,"
The elf on the shelf, on the other hand, is a hellish punishment no mere mortal should have to bear. My MIL gave us one for the kids, about 12 years ago, and my i s c & a aggie wife thought it would be a lot of fun. But let me tell ya, moving that little bastard around every night for a decade was a complete freaking beating. 10 years X 25 nights = 250 times I've had to remember to get it done, sometimes even waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat trying to remember if I'd already moved it or not.
I'll be honest, there's been a time or two we had to explain to the kids that "Sparkles" didn't switch places overnight because the air traffic at the North Pole was too congested and she just stayed at our place overnight.
But now we have some fun with that, too. These days the kids might find passed out on the counter after an all-night bender of pounding chocolate chips, marshmallows, and coca cola. Or tied up and hanging upside down, with a couple of Imperial Stormtroopers marking her position with their basters. Or in the mouth of the big dinosaur my son still loves so much. Fun stuff.
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Wait!!!
Are you saying theres no Santa Claus?
The media never said a word
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You drink saki,Ill wait for more discriminating tastes to weigh in
yup, that's the stuff, found a bottle cap stuck to my fridge from last year
Shiner Holiday Cheer
I'm sure someone thinks its good swill
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Same here, and that's what my kids must endure as well. But we all have some fun with it now. At least I don't have to set an alarm to wake up and put out presents, I just tell the kids, "Go to your room and don't come out until morning,"
The rule in my house, going all the way back to when I was a kid and it was my parent's rule, is that nothing happens before coffee. I don't care how excited you are to have a giant pile of presents under the tree, you're gonna sit and wait until the grownups get some coffee in their system.
My parents also always just wrapped the presents from Santa and wrote the name of the child on the paper in Sharpie. No bows, no ribbon, no fancy name tags. They said it was because in the sleight the bows would get all messed up anyway, but it was just because it's a hell of a lot easier on them... So I've picked up that little trick too.
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yup, that's the stuff, found a bottle cap stuck to my fridge from last year
Shiner Holiday Cheer
I'm sure someone thinks its good swill
Well it tasted better than all the other bilge with cinnamon/coriander and anything else yanked off of the spice rack........and Saki :111:
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We didn't wrap presents at all back when the kids believed. We always told them that Santa didn't have time to wrap anything.
Now.. we wrap. Well, not we...
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My dad had some trick where he would hold your letter to Santa in a certain spot in the fireplace, and it would get sucked right up the chimney. Really made a believer of ya.
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We didn't wrap presents at all back when the kids believed. We always told them that Santa didn't have time to wrap anything.
Now.. we wrap. Well, not we...
I was going to say… What is this “we” shit? You got a mouse in your pocket?😂😂
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I only wrap for Mrs. 847. And I'm not good at it.
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Anything wrapped is from us. Anything Santa brings in unwrapped. Santa pulls the stockings off the mantle, fills them, and sets them on the couch. Then anything else that's from Santa, sits around the stocking or on the floor in front of it. In the past this has included trikes, bikes, scooters, skateboards, etc.
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I only wrap for Mrs. 847. And I'm not good at it.
Christmas we both wrap together. For other times (birthdays, etc) I end up with wrapping duties. Being the OCD meticulous engineer that I am, I'm an excellent driver wrapper.
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When I was a kid, as part of non-Christendom, I had to be instructed by parents to no ruin if for younger Christian relatives. For the most part, I did a good job. The memories of the family Christmas party is a bit sepia toned. It was always warm, so many people, me just eating and eating, then hanging with cousins.
I think some of the shine started coming off when I was closing in on awkward teens, less able to interact well. I wonder what they would've been like as an adult. But alas, that tradition faded in some ways. Parents got older, kids moved away, some other family dynamics shifted.
On another note, there's almost a part of me that wants to talk about the nomenclature that makes the thread title, but that's a last week thing. No sense digging in this close to the holiday.
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I only wrap for Mrs. 847. And I'm not good at it.
This is why it's good you shun social media.
A friend got playfully exposed for his poor, poor wrapping skills by an in-law, for the damn world to see! Can his shame not be private?!?
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Santa doesn't wrap presents, but I need to get that started.
I'll put some Christmas music on pamdora this afternoon and at least get my daughters gifts wrapped and under the tree.
I usually have a few drinks while wrapping, but the Budweiser flowed pretty well last night. Don't feel much like a drink at the moment.
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Santa doesn't wrap presents, but I need to get that started.
I'll put some Christmas music on pamdora this afternoon and at least get my daughters gifts wrapped and under the tree.
I usually have a few drinks while wrapping, but the Budweiser flowed pretty well last night. Don't feel much like a drink at the moment.
Pertaining to that last part, there’s always a wonderful moment in the late afternoon early evening when you say to yourself, “I did feel bad, but a beer would be pretty solid right now”
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Santa doesn't wrap presents, but I need to get that started.
I'll put some Christmas music on pamdora this afternoon and at least get my daughters gifts wrapped and under the tree.
I usually have a few drinks while wrapping, but the Budweiser flowed pretty well last night. Don't feel much like a drink at the moment.
Wrapping my wife's gifts now since she's at work. Also not drinking... Because it's 10 AM.
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10am? you can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning
a bloody Mary doesn't sound too bad, might help
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Also not drinking... Because it's 10 AM.
Good because we usually don't start down the hall until noon
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just mixed a Bloody
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FF you seem to be reaching for the Oh Be Joyful quite a bit :singing:. Idle hands....something-something
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I try to be joyful year around
it's been tough the past decade or so during football season, but... I'm not a quitter
It's a way of life
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The first time my parents seated me atop the lap of a Mall Santa my six-year-old self mistook the merry ordeal for a Catholic confessional:
Mall Santa looking like Phil Fulmer with a white beard: “And have you been a good boy this year?”
My 6 yr old self looking like the kid from Home Alone: “I got detention for sniffing dry erase markers!”
My parents had me wait more than a few years before ushering me atop the lap of another Mall Santa, making sure I knew the moment was for photos and making my Christmas wishes: "Santy, I wish for a new JUUL vape pen!"
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Has anyone here ever prepared or been served a Christmas Goose?
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Has anyone here ever prepared or been served a Christmas Goose?
Never eaten goose, personally.
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Suppose you could use a duck recipe?
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I never told my kids about Santa anything at all, I didn't think lying to them was a thing. They picked it up, I just never commented.
I probably did lie about some things though, like how good an athlete I was in high school.
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I had goose once, I don't recall much about it except that it was stringy and tasted sorta like chicken.
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I probably did lie about some things though, like how good an athlete I was in high school.
Did you tell them you played with/when Al Bundy scored 4 TDs for the Polk High Panthers?
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I probably did lie about some things though, like how good an athlete I was in high school.
If Coach would have put you in during the 4th quarter, would you have won state?
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https://youtu.be/ULNbSU9GXoo
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Kidding aside, merry Christmas, y'all.
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
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Well Jesus slept in the manger with animals so we have that going for us
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
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Sounds like one of your hazards
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Seven fishes . Sister in law's World Class cioppino. Merry Christmas folks.
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Spent most of the day weathering a violent hangover, rounded into shape by joining a friend‘s family dinner, seeing someone I don’t get to see often. Ultimately feeling pretty OK about it. A happy holiday to all.
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Merry Christmas everybody. Kids ain't even awake yet - kids these days...
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Merry Christmas everybody. Kids ain't even awake yet - kids these days...
thats because the snuck in during the night and opened then rewrapped all their presents
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https://youtu.be/xzrZtrVXpEw
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Merry Christmas!
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thats because the snuck in during the night and opened then rewrapped all their presents
Nope. It is because Santa‘s gift to the parents was a high-grade sedative applied without the child‘s knowledge
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Nope. It is because Santa‘s gift to the parents was a high-grade sedative applied without the child‘s knowledge
Gotta love Benadryl.
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Lol
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https://youtu.be/xzrZtrVXpEw
I was wondering why they were repeating that .Now I'll have to find the movie on Netflix/Prime
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Sorry. Shitter's full.
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Our work here is done.
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My little brother would start waking me up at 3am and every hour after that to ask if we could see our presents from Santa each Christmas. I did my parents a solid by holding him off until 7:00 without bothering them. He's 4 years younger than me.