What meteorological phenomenon (phenomena) affects you this day ?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I'm a vegetarian now, but I use to love chicken, especially their crisp skin. My family always gave me their chicken-skin.

That's probably enough to get you on "the list."

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by kennyc

That's probably enough to get you on "the list."

eh.....I take it back; didn't say a thing.
Think. ' vegetables, potatoes, cranberries, Christmasspirit (glühwein).

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by desertblues

eh.....I take it back; didn't say a thing.
Think. ' vegetables, potatoes, cranberries, Christmasspirit (glühwein).

Let the Gluhwein flow!

[poohbear_nc]

[making a list ... checking it twice ... getting longer with each post here ....]

[SneakySnake]

Is this the list that you exclude people from receiving a gift wrapped in split, wrinkled, torn paper taped up with hairy tape, because they happen to eat some chook?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Or here

On the morning of 21 December, a select group of people made their way through a dark, narrow passage and gathered in a small cross-shaped chamber at Newgrange in Co Meath, Irish Republic, to celebrate the winter solstice.

Newgrange, located 40km north of Dublin and perched high above a bend of the River Boyne, is a prehistoric passage tomb, covered on the outside by a large grassy mound.

At over 5,000 years old it is the older cousin of Stonehenge and it predates the pyramids by about 500 years.

Carving the cave so that the light struck the rear wall only on the day of the Winter Solstice was a major engineering and scientific feat. Kudos to the ancients who built it!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Plus I've got these holes drilled in my bedroom and kitchen where the sunlight aligns and hits a photoelectric cell and starts the Christmas feast cooking on the first day of Winter.....

What a man!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Whaaaa????

I thought I was pretty much up on Jewish customs until I saw that.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

Is this the list that you exclude people from receiving a gift wrapped in split, wrinkled, torn paper taped up with hairy tape, because they happen to eat some chook?

eating chook will automatically place you on this list - which means not only do you NOT receive a gift wrapped in split, wrinkled, torn paper taped up with hairy tape, but you will also have your other gifts removed on Xmas eve and donated to a needy chook.

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

eating chook will automatically place you on this list - which means not only do you NOT receive a gift wrapped in split, wrinkled, torn paper taped up with hairy tape, but you will also have your other gifts removed on Xmas eve and donated to a needy chook.

That may work for other members. But because I don't do xmas, there are no gifts for me to be removed and donated to a needy chook.

maybe I could donate something else to a tasty needy chook? Like a BBQ?

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

That may work for other members. But because I don't do xmas, there are no gifts for me to be removed and donated to a needy chook.

maybe I could donate something else to a tasty needy chook? Like a BBQ?

maybe a suit of armor?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I thought I was pretty much up on Jewish customs until I saw that.

There's always something new under the sun.

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

maybe a suit of armor?

with a gas burner inbuilt!

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by kennyc

There's always something new under the sun.

Are you talking about this book?...

new under the sun

Or am I so completely out of touch I don't get anything anymore?

[Sweetpea]

Ok, no chicken this year but we do have snow!


*does a happy dance*




Hmm, but chicken wings for Old Year sounds very good!