The war on Christmas??

[DONNIEP]

Christmas...


when I was little it was magic....pure magic.

Mom would get us to help in making ornaments, making cookies, decorating the tree, listening to old Christmas albums. And Christmas eve we would go to Grandparents house for such a terrific meal and get to open the gifts from them. Then the drive home Dad would always point out Santas sleigh with Rudolphs red nose out front so we had to hurry home to bed. I didn't realize until later that the San Diego airport flightpath was on our way home & those rudolph noses were incoming flights.

When I got a little older it became a time when everything changed and I was the one who enjoyed giving one great gift to each person. Something that when they'd open it they would grin ear to ear, laugh out loud, maybe tear up...something that they would remember as the best gift that year from anyone. I put a lot of effort into it and would really get some great gifts for people that meant alot to them.

Now I'm much older, don't have friends around, grandparents & mom are gone, no dogs to stick reindeer ears on, no family worth a phone call, and no huge meal to look forward to. With those gone all I see is the commercialism, politics, and fighting between religious & non religious types over a time of year that used to be special. No reason to play along any more for me. Makes me sad when I hear of people spending more time in line before a store opens up than at home gathered on the couch watching Charlie Brown. Sad indeed.

Dude - I just don't know what to say. Make a trip to the South and enjoy Christmas the way the good lord intended!

[sadaist]

Black Velvet. We used to drive by this big billboard when I was a kid and it had those sexy classy Black Velvet women on it. It remained a Black Velvet billboard for years but the women on it would change. All I knew is I wanted a Black Velvet woman when I grew up.

HAHA! Totally man. Get out of my brain. I bet those hot chicks smoked Virginia Slims too!

[vandeleur]

Wow sadaist , kinda wants to make me shut up biging up my Xmas . Hope your ok man

[vandeleur]

Donniep your selling them black velvets real good ...
How do you guts make them ? We go cider and Guinness . Do you do the champagne and Guinness ?

[Nitro Express]

Now I'm much older, don't have friends around, grandparents & mom are gone, no dogs to stick reindeer ears on, no family worth a phone call, and no huge meal to look forward to. With those gone all I see is the commercialism, politics, and fighting between religious & non religious types over a time of year that used to be special. No reason to play along any more for me. Makes me sad when I hear of people spending more time in line before a store opens up than at home gathered on the couch watching Charlie Brown. Sad indeed.

It's what you want to see in it. Christmas is a family holiday and over the years families have fallen apart and that reflects in the disfunction of society. Christmas is also a charitable holiday where a lot of people do a lot of good helping others. If anything, just trying to be a better person over the holiday season and going out of your way to help someone makes you feel better than the commercialized bit of it.

[DONNIEP]

Nitro - this is the Black Velvet you remember



My Black Velvet is Guiness and Champagne. Good stuff, really good stuff

[Nitro Express]

HAHA! Totally man. Get out of my brain. I bet those hot chicks smoked Virginia Slims too!

Virginia Slims were sexy.

[Hardrock69]

Hey, watching Charlie Brown at Christmas is as traditional now as it was back in Metallica's day!

[Nitro Express]

Nitro - this is the Black Velvet you remember



My Black Velvet is Guiness and Champagne. Good stuff, really good stuff

Yup. I'm still a sucker for a beautiful woman in a black dress.

[DONNIEP]

Donniep your selling them black velvets real good ...
How do you guts make them ? We go cider and Guinness . Do you do the champagne and Guinness ?

Champagne and Guinness, mate. The only way to make them. Eight or nine of them and you blitz right thru Christmas and wind up two days after New Years, and you have to make up the lie about your grammy getting hit by a bus

[vandeleur]

In the pub we drink them with cider , not sure I have had the proper version . Will give it a try this year and blame you when I sleep most of Boxing Day

[DONNIEP]

Yup. I'm still a sucker for a beautiful woman in a black dress.

And how can anyone deny the beauty of big blonde hair?? The only thing missing is a smoke in her left hand! That is poontang on the most holy level. Amen, pass the plate, I'm in love!!

[Nitro Express]

I was skiing with a guy that was an ER nurse. New Years was coming up and I said I bet you are going to be busy. He said actually Christmas was busier than New Years. He said people beat the shit out of each other and even kill each other over Christmas. LOL! He said one woman stabbed her husband because he bought her a cheaper ring than she wanted. He said Christmas could be a real blood bath.

[DONNIEP]

In the pub we drink them with cider , not sure I have had the proper version . Will give it a try this year and blame you when I sleep most of Boxing Day

Can somebody explain Boxing Day to me while I'm still half way sober? I think it originated with the upper class re-gifting their presents to the servants back in the day. But all I know about Boxing Day is that Killer Queen has a proper piss up and posts it online. What is Boxing Day???

[Nitro Express]

And how can anyone deny the beauty of big blonde hair?? The only thing missing is a smoke in her left hand! That is poontang on the most holy level. Amen, pass the plate, I'm in love!!

I had that all figured out when I was four years old. Some things are just instinctive. You know you want it but might not know exactly why or what to do if you got it.