12/23/11 @ 4:42pm
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Location: forgotten backroad standing still in time
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Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.
(~Morse)
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love. Quote
12/23/11 @ 4:56pm
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Location: floating just beneath the surfaces
Posts: 5,122
1/2/12 @ 1:10pm
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Location: forgotten backroad standing still in time
Posts: 761
every creature was sleeping, even the mouse.
The toys were all broken, their batteries dead,
Santa passed out with some ice on his head.
Wrapping and ribbons covered the floor,
while upstairs the family continued to snore.
And I in my T-shirt, new Reeboks and jeans,
went into the kitchen and started to clean.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the sink to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
tore open the curtains and threw up the sash.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a little white truck with an oversize mirror.
The driver was smiling, so lively and grand,
the patch on his jacket said US POST-MAN.
With a handful of bills, he grinned like a fox,
then quickly stuffed them into our box.
Bill after bill and still they all came,
whistling and counting he called them by name.
Now Dillards, now Broadway, now Pennys and Sears,
heres Levitz and Target and Mervyns.all here.
To the top of your limit, every store, every mall,
now chargeaway, chargeaway, chargeaway all!!
He chuckled and whistled as he finished his work,
he filled up the box, then turned with a jerk.
He sprang to his truck and he drove down the road,
driving much faster with just half of a load.
Then I heard him exclaim with great holiday cheer,
ENJOY WHAT YOU GOT.YOULL BE PAYING ALL YEAR!!
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1/3/12 @ 1:31am
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Location: the Noosphere...and I'm nonlocal and atemporal
Posts: 28
every creature was sleeping, even the mouse.
The toys were all broken, their batteries dead,
Santa passed out with some ice on his head.
Wrapping and ribbons covered the floor,
while upstairs the family continued to snore.
And I in my T-shirt, new Reeboks and jeans,
went into the kitchen and started to clean.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the sink to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
tore open the curtains and threw up the sash.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a little white truck with an oversize mirror.
The driver was smiling, so lively and grand,
the patch on his jacket said US POST-MAN.
With a handful of bills, he grinned like a fox,
then quickly stuffed them into our box.
Bill after bill and still they all came,
whistling and counting he called them by name.
Now Dillards, now Broadway, now Pennys and Sears,
heres Levitz and Target and Mervyns.all here.
To the top of your limit, every store, every mall,
now chargeaway, chargeaway, chargeaway all!!
He chuckled and whistled as he finished his work,
he filled up the box, then turned with a jerk.
He sprang to his truck and he drove down the road,
driving much faster with just half of a load.
Then I heard him exclaim with great holiday cheer,
ENJOY WHAT YOU GOT.YOULL BE PAYING ALL YEAR!!
Haha!
By the way, I'm currently involved in a ritual aimed at exorcising that noisome Christmas spirit.
Begone, corpulent elf!
{shakes aspergillum at the desiccated Christmas tree and throws Christmas stockings into raging fireplace} Quote
1/6/12 @ 9:21pm
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Location: hain't Pochipsie son
Posts: 3,267
Christmas ?!?!?!!!???
omg... that's sooooooooooooooooo last year!*
* we note that in some regions, planets, galaxies Christmas is celebrated a bit later so the point has to be deferred until another year at which time the issue is confused by the Christmas celebrated in December for that same following year and those places going by different clocks and / or calendars.
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