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Merry Christmas
Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. Alan |
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Merry Christmas
On 12/24/2013 7:16 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. Alan Thank you, Alan. I echo your wishes. -- PeterN |
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Merry Christmas
On 2013-12-25 01:24:33 +0000, PeterN said:
On 12/24/2013 7:16 PM, Alan Browne wrote: Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. Alan Thank you, Alan. I echo your wishes. Here are two options: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...e/badsanta.jpg ....and to cover all eventualities: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...everything.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Merry Christmas
On 12/24/2013 8:35 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2013-12-25 01:24:33 +0000, PeterN said: On 12/24/2013 7:16 PM, Alan Browne wrote: Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. Alan Thank you, Alan. I echo your wishes. Here are two options: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...e/badsanta.jpg ...and to cover all eventualities: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...everything.jpg You and I have different beliefs. You will be much better off if I am wrong, than if you are wrong. Safe holidays, whatever you believe. -- PeterN |
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Merry Christmas
On 2013-12-25 01:58:55 +0000, PeterN said:
On 12/24/2013 8:35 PM, Savageduck wrote: On 2013-12-25 01:24:33 +0000, PeterN said: On 12/24/2013 7:16 PM, Alan Browne wrote: Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. Alan Thank you, Alan. I echo your wishes. Here are two options: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...e/badsanta.jpg ...and to cover all eventualities: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...everything.jpg You and I have different beliefs. You will be much better off if I am wrong, than if you are wrong. Safe holidays, whatever you believe. I don't play the fire insurance game. Just chill and enjoy the show. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Merry Christmas
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:52:45 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote:
: In article 2013122418340062173-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, : says... : : On 2013-12-25 01:58:55 +0000, PeterN said: : : On 12/24/2013 8:35 PM, Savageduck wrote: : On 2013-12-25 01:24:33 +0000, PeterN said: : : On 12/24/2013 7:16 PM, Alan Browne wrote: : : Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. : : Alan : : Thank you, Alan. : I echo your wishes. : : Here are two options: : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...e/badsanta.jpg : : ...and to cover all eventualities: : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...everything.jpg : : You and I have different beliefs. You will be much better off if I am : wrong, than if you are wrong. : Safe holidays, whatever you believe. : : I don't play the fire insurance game. : Just chill and enjoy the show. : : Personally I don't believe in much of anything, but this is something : I'll never forget: : : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFUx_KC1bHQ Neither will I, and neither, I suppose, will anyone old enough to remember that event. The Flat-Earthers tried to claim that it was all a fake - that what NASA was feeding the networks was a video of one of the mockups of the Moon's surface that they used for astronaut training. But a few years later I spent several months in Huntsville working for a software developer on a NASA contract, and I spent a lot of time hanging out in the very room with one of those mockups. Believe me, it wasn't convincing enough to have fooled anybody with a moderately decent knowledge of planetary astronomy. Possibly the next international event with as great an emotional impact also happened shortly before Christmas: the fall of the Berlin Wall. We watched on TV as young Germans armed with pickaxes and bottles of wine swarmed onto the wall and began to chisel it into rubble. Earlier in the day, during a session of the West German parliament, a messenger had walked to the podium and handed the speaker a note. He stopped to read it and then told the hall that the East German Government had announced that it would no longer enforce the border between East and West Berlin. After a few seconds of stunned silence, one of the parliamentarians rose to his feet and began to sing the (West) German national anthem. Immediately everyone in the hall was on their feet and singing. I wish I'd been in that hall with a camera in my hand. :^) Bob |
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Merry Christmas
On 25/12/2013 00:16, Alan Browne wrote:
Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. Alan ... and to you and yours, Alan, and thanks for your helpful contributions to the group To everyone, Happy Holidays! -- Cheers, David Web: http://www.satsignal.eu |
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Merry Christmas
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says... On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:52:45 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: : In article 2013122418340062173-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, : says... : : On 2013-12-25 01:58:55 +0000, PeterN said: : : On 12/24/2013 8:35 PM, Savageduck wrote: : On 2013-12-25 01:24:33 +0000, PeterN said: : : On 12/24/2013 7:16 PM, Alan Browne wrote: : : Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. : : Alan : : Thank you, Alan. : I echo your wishes. : : Here are two options: : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...e/badsanta.jpg : : ...and to cover all eventualities: : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...everything.jpg : : You and I have different beliefs. You will be much better off if I am : wrong, than if you are wrong. : Safe holidays, whatever you believe. : : I don't play the fire insurance game. : Just chill and enjoy the show. : : Personally I don't believe in much of anything, but this is something : I'll never forget: : : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFUx_KC1bHQ Neither will I, and neither, I suppose, will anyone old enough to remember that event. The Flat-Earthers tried to claim that it was all a fake - that what NASA was feeding the networks was a video of one of the mockups of the Moon's surface that they used for astronaut training. But a few years later I spent several months in Huntsville working for a software developer on a NASA contract, and I spent a lot of time hanging out in the very room with one of those mockups. Believe me, it wasn't convincing enough to have fooled anybody with a moderately decent knowledge of planetary astronomy. Possibly the next international event with as great an emotional impact also happened shortly before Christmas: the fall of the Berlin Wall. We watched on TV as young Germans armed with pickaxes and bottles of wine swarmed onto the wall and began to chisel it into rubble. Earlier in the day, during a session of the West German parliament, a messenger had walked to the podium and handed the speaker a note. He stopped to read it and then told the hall that the East German Government had announced that it would no longer enforce the border between East and West Berlin. After a few seconds of stunned silence, one of the parliamentarians rose to his feet and began to sing the (West) German national anthem. Immediately everyone in the hall was on their feet and singing. I wish I'd been in that hall with a camera in my hand. :^) Yep. |
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Merry Christmas
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 11:08:44 +0000, David Taylor
wrote: : On 25/12/2013 00:16, Alan Browne wrote: : : Cheers all! Safe and Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2014. : : Alan : : .. and to you and yours, Alan, and thanks for your helpful contributions : to the group To everyone, Happy Holidays! This year it's pretty much just "Merry Christmas". We usually say "Happy Holidays", so as to include our Jewish friends, whose observance of Hanukkah often falls in the Christmas season. But this year Hanukkah came so early that it coincided with the U.S. "Thanksgiving" celebration, resulting in that rarest of holidays, "Thanksgivukkah". :^) Bob |
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