[Cid_Yama]

Just thought it would be nice to have a place to share the holidays.

Jazz Lounge Christmas

Christmas Time Blues

Swingin' Christmas

[dorlomin]

Dear Pandora Visitor,

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[Cid_Yama]

Sorry to hear that, Dor. Happy Holidays anyway. To all please feel free to share photos, music, art, thoughts and wishes or whatever comes to mind.

[Shaved Monkey]

Dear Pandora Visitor,

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

Its working here
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http://hola.org/

[Keith_McClary]

Just thought it would be nice to have a place to share the holidays.

Jazz Lounge Christmas

Christmas Time Blues

Swingin' Christmas

We get 50 audio music channels with our cable TV. The 3 jazz channels (and probably others, I don't listen to them) play nothing but Xmas music from now into January. I get more than enough from my minimal exposure to radio, TV and retail store Muzak.

[onlooker]

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/122863896058945605/
Thought i would post this link in keeping up the "Christmas spirit" which to me is what Christmas is all about. To all a joyous Christmas and Happy New Year. A little early but so what

[Cid_Yama]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Cid_Yama]

It's that time of year again.

[Pops]

Happy Holiday Cid.

I'm surprised to not have posted my family's holiday theme song here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg

Changing my location to "the Quickpak Store"

[Newfie]

The holidays, starting with Halloween, are somewhat bitter sweet this year.

Because this is our last "season" in the house before moving full time onto the boat, We use the decorations, then pitch them.

Halloween has been my favorite holiday for a long time, the one chance to really mingle. And at this house we have hundreds of kids come by.

Next year it will all be very different. We may spend the holidays at our hunting cabin.

Happy holidays.

[Cog]

First Collector: At this festive time of year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute.

Ebenezer: Are there no prisons?

First Collector: Plenty of prisons.

Ebenezer: And the union workhouses - are they still in operation?

First Collector: They are. I wish I could say they were not.

Ebenezer: Oh, from what you said at first I was afraid that something had happened to stop them in their useful course. I'm very glad to hear it.

First Collector: I don't think you quite understand us, sir. A few of us are endeavoring to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.

Ebenezer: Why?

First Collector: Because it is at Christmastime that want is most keenly felt, and abundance rejoices. Now what can I put you down for?

Ebenezer: Huh! Nothing!

Second Collector: You wish to be anonymous?

Ebenezer: I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish sir, that is my answer. I help to support the establishments I have named; those who are badly off must go there.

Second Collector: "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."

Ebenezer:" If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

Have a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas

[Newfie]

Unfortunately too true, even then. Can't wait for Dohboi's response.

Cheers none the less.

[Cid_Yama]

Cog, let us hope you meet your Jacob Marley.

[onlooker]

Maybe the elite and oligarchs of the world need to meet their Jacob Marleys.

[onlooker]

The most wonderful of all Christmas poems:
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,
With a little old driver so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the housetop the coursers they flew
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

[Plantagenet]

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
----George Carlin


Merry Christmas!

[Shaved Monkey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh79619xxk8

[onlooker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1fA59oH7Q
The classic "Little Drummer boy"

[onlooker]

Just to say Cid, thanks for starting this thread. We all here can use some cheer.

[Ibon]

These holidays pay homage to our families and friends and cut through all the digital junk and worries. We need more rituals like this that really forms the bedrock of what holds us all together as a society. On a daily basis we are bombarded with far too much information that is divisive and threatening. We are capable of self sacrifice and reverence toward each other and toward a kinship with all life. We just don't have enough rituals and reminders to nourish this.