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Post by mari on Sept 17, 2006 10:34:51 GMT -5
Ohhkaay, I won’t even try to understand what you are talking about (might result in me loosing my sanity… what’s left of it ) but am grateful for every opportunity to laugh ;D. Does this ‘talk like a pirate’ also involve walking around like Johnny Depp in “Pirates of the Caribian”? ;D
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Post by dzero on Sept 17, 2006 12:08:17 GMT -5
Pirates are cool. Ninjas are cooler .
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Post by Reilynn on Sept 17, 2006 16:37:21 GMT -5
Ninja's involve being quiet (except for that podcast). Must be a guy thing.
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Post by dzero on Sept 18, 2006 0:18:41 GMT -5
Ninja's involve being quiet (except for that podcast). Must be a guy thing. ;D I just noticed your "I'm trying......very trying" quote. ;D ;D ;D I like it.
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Post by Tweed Pants on Sept 18, 2006 11:38:56 GMT -5
Why is it whenever i try to do a pirate impression i just end up sounding like a West Country farmer 'oooo arrrr'
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Post by shywriter on Sept 19, 2006 22:31:47 GMT -5
Why is it whenever i try to do a pirate impression i just end up sounding like a West Country farmer 'oooo arrrr'*snicker* don't suppose John Cleese & the boys have anything to do with that?? And speaking of music (well, I was in another thread) here's a little shanty in honor of the day... tinyurl.com/m2ybj
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Post by Reilynn on Oct 23, 2006 22:08:41 GMT -5
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Post by Tweed Pants on Dec 1, 2006 12:06:15 GMT -5
Not necessarily a holiday, but today is World AIDS Day. So, here is a picture of one of the UNAIDS representatives....
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Post by mari on Dec 6, 2006 8:22:56 GMT -5
Happy Nikolaus! (Is this celebrated in the US or UK?Wikipedia seems to indicate no) My mother (aka Nikolaus ;D) filled my Nikolaus-boot with a chocolate Christmas-star and marzipan-eggs tonight and there was no Knecht Ruprecht to beat me up which must mean I’ve been good kid ;D
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Post by dzero on Dec 6, 2006 17:00:25 GMT -5
^^^ Never heard of it . Want to tell us about it? especially the chocolate
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Post by Mia22 on Dec 6, 2006 18:31:57 GMT -5
Yea I'm trying to figure out how my mom's been gypping me out of a holiday that requires candy.
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Post by mari on Dec 6, 2006 19:30:17 GMT -5
Yea I'm trying to figure out how my mom's been gypping me out of a holiday that requires candy. So you don’t have chocolat-Nikoläuse either? Poor people, missing an excellent opportunity for chocolate ;D The 6th December is celebrated here as the day of death of Saint-Nikolaus, Bishop of Myra (was told all the miracle-stories about him in kindergarten : who I think is at the origin of the Santa Claus figure. Nikolaus, with traditional bishop’s hat and baton and his slightly evil helper Knecht Ruprecht, an invented figure as far as I know. Kids (or overgrown kids like me ;D) put a boot (or two ;D) in front of the door at the evening of the 5th to be filled, or Nikolaus comes visiting in person, asks if you’ve been good and checks his behaviour-book (all-knowing, the old guy ;D). If you’ve been good you get nuts, fruits, a dough-Nikolaus (chreppimaa) and nowadays chocolate … if you’ve been bad you are punished by Knecht Ruprecht (which by the way is the German name of the Simpson’s dog). The latter formerly was an excuse to scare and harass kids, I’ve heard stories from both my mum and my grandma being chased and beaten up (grandma) by a horde of Knecht Ruprechts… Luckily not in use anymore that part of the custom ;D
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Post by Mia22 on Dec 6, 2006 20:21:54 GMT -5
So you don’t have chocolat-Nikoläuse either? Poor people, missing an excellent opportunity for chocolate ;D Okay well technically I did just get chocolate for Thanksgiving though I did make a fuss about JUST getting chocolate. I think I should get a cornucopia of candy on Thanksgiving. Come on, makes sense...Stocking on Xmas, basket on Easter, pumpkin head/bag on Halloween (okay well not anymore, but actually now it's one better since I get to eat the candy beforehand and whatever's leftover at the end of the night). And then again the week before that it was an all day chocolate event, in which many different companies proved to me, you CAN make chocolate nasty in MANY different ways. Maybe I could use a few weeks off in between my binges. Yea, he's scary. He might work better than the naughty list. So are these faux boots, like our stockings on Christmas Eve? As in you don't wear them and they could probably fit a giant? So is this like a donut or a cookie? Or what? Yup much happier with the coal in the stocking on Christmas morning. Did they get to hit back at least? Or would that just guarantee them a beatdown the following year as well? And yes I must harass for all the details before I go suggesting a new holiday in my family.
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Post by shywriter on Dec 6, 2006 22:14:25 GMT -5
If you’ve been good you get nuts, fruits, a dough-Nikolaus (chreppimaa) and nowadays chocolate … I'm glad Saint N. got over his misguided health food hang up and stepped to the real!! What's a holiday without chocolate, I ask you??? Hope your Nikolas was a good one! ;D
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Post by dzero on Dec 7, 2006 13:17:25 GMT -5
Hope your Nikolas was a good one! ;D
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