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- VouvrayHead - 12-17-2006
Anyone else M.O.T.?
Happy holiday season to everyone, anyway!
- Innkeeper - 12-17-2006
And a very Happy Hannukah to you. Have a very enjoyable holiday.
- winoweenie - 12-17-2006
Happy Holidays to one and all. My season starts today with lunch at one of my daughters home. MERRY,MERRY! WW
- Bucko - 12-17-2006
"Anyone else M.O.T.?"
Museum of Transportation? [img]http://wines.com/ubb/confused.gif[/img]
Happy Hannukah, Merry Xmas, _____ (fill in the blank) to everyone.
And here's a little holiday humor for one and all:
POLITICALLY CORRECT SANTA
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Twas the night before Christmas and Santa was a wreck ...
How to live in a world that's politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to "Elves",
"Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the North Pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety,
Released to the wilds by the Humane Society.
And equal employment had made it quite clear
That Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid,
Were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!
The runners had been removed from his sleigh;
The ruts were termed dangerous by the E.P.A.
And people had started to call for the cops
When they heard sled noises on their roof-tops.
Second-hand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite frightened.
His fur trimmed red suit was called "Unenlightened."
And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows,
Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose
And had gone on The Rosie Show, in front of the nation,
Demanding millions in over-due compensation.
So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife,
Who suddenly said she'd enough of this life,
Joined a self-help group, packed, and left in a whiz,
Demanding from now on her title was Ms.
And as for the gifts, why, he'd ne'er had a notion
That making a choice could cause so much commotion.
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur,
Which meant nothing for him. And nothing for her.
Nothing that might be construed to pollute.
Nothing to aim. Nothing to shoot.
Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise.
Nothing for just girls. Or just for the boys.
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific.
Nothing that's warlike or non-pacific.
No candy or sweets...they were bad for the tooth.
Nothing that seemed to embellish a truth.
And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden,
Were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden.
For they raised the hackles of those psychological
Who claimed the only good gift was one ecological.
No baseball, no football...someone could get hurt;
Besides, playing sports exposed kids to dirt.
Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be passé;
And Nintendo would rot your entire brain away.
So Santa just stood there, disheveled, perplexed;
He just could not figure out what to do next.
He tried to be merry, tried to be gay,
But you've got to be careful with that word these days.
His sack was quite empty, limp to the ground;
Nothing fully acceptable was to be found.
Something special was needed, a gift that he might
Give to all without angering the left or the right.
A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision,
Each group of people, every religion;
Every ethnicity, every hue,
Everyone, everywhere...even you.
So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth...
"May you and your loved ones enjoy Peace On Earth."
- Thraz - 12-18-2006
Married and father to members, so the candles are lit in my house too. Happy Hanukkah.
- brappy - 12-18-2006
That's good Bucko. Kinda' sappy, but good...
Merry Christmas everyone!
mark
- wondersofwine - 12-18-2006
My nephew's wife is Jewish and they are raising their children in the Jewish faith. I sent Meredith a pop-up book about Hannukah but she is also getting Christmas presents from me and her other Christian relatives. We will be seeing them on Christmas Day so it will be a bit different celebrating that day in a Jewish home. It's too bad that Hannukah wraps up before Christmas this year so we will miss the Hannukah ceremony at their home. They took Meredith to a family-oriented Yom Kippur service (time of atonement). Afterwards her Christian grandmother asked her what she learned from the service and she said "Everybody sorry--everybody say they sorry" (so I guess she did grasp some of the meaning of the service.) They had to take her home early. The little children were allowed to go up front with the puppets and talk to them but when it was time to go back to their seats, Meredith didn't want to leave the stage!
- VouvrayHead - 12-18-2006
That's wonderful!
Next time someone asks me why I fast on Yom Kippur i'll just say "everyone sorry."
She really does get it!
[img]http://wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
Growing up my whole family had a Christmas tradition-- we'd go to a movie in the afternoon, then go out to eat Chinese or Thai food, then drive around and look at all of the lights. My parents must have worried that my brother and I felt left out on Christmas, but we always considered ourselves lucky to have 8 days of the holiday!
Last night I had a couple of gentile friends over. They were curious about Hannukah, so they joined in the lights and prayers and gifts. We played some Dreidel and made vegan gluten-free pizza (turned out great!).
Drank '01 Anne Gros white Burg before dinner and while playing dreidel. Terrific stuff I got on closeout for $16 or so.
Had '00 Casa Lapostolle Cuvee Alexander (reserve) Cab Sauv. Was pretty good, but not as exciting as I'd hoped.
We cracked and roasted the mixed nuts we were playing Dreidel for and drank a bottle of Alvear's Amontillado (Montilla) with. Fabulous sherry for $12. Highly recommended if you can find it. It's imported by a small local importer here, so I'm not sure what its distribution is like.
These are obviously not good notes. Too much wine and not enough wine snob attention last night to give anything more than impressions! [img]http://wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
All in all a lovely evening!
- wondersofwine - 12-18-2006
We will probably dine out on Christmas night also. About the only place open near my nephew's is a Japanese grill but that may be fun. More choice for dining out December 26th.
- winoweenie - 12-18-2006
VH the post is perfect. My type of attention to the juice. WW