Re: HAPPY EASTER/PASSOVER Happy Easter/Passover to everyone! I hope you get to eat lots of good food!
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays It's that time of year to wish Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to people. Since Hanukkah starts tonight I'd like to wish those that are celebrating it a Happy Hanukkah
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Well, I have to start with wishing Happy Hanukkah And now: Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year too Simply said: Happy holidays.
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays I thought I'd share this funny and Politically Correct Christmas/Holiday greeting that was posted on a message board that my husband frequents. The author of this is unknown. I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues. But it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my solicitors yesterday, and on their advice I wish to say the following: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and / or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted Gregorian calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wisher. By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms: 1. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. 2. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. 3. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her / himself or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual: Application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher. No trees were harmed in the sending of this message.
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Yes....me too Happy Holidays and may next year bring you joy and happiness. AJ
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays I put together some webpages of holiday related links: Chanukah http://members.citynet.net/dpaleg/Chanukah.html Christmas http://members.citynet.net/dpaleg/Xmas.html Kwanzaa http://members.citynet.net/dpaleg/kwanzaa.html Some have recipes, fonts, history, humor, clipart, and more.
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Thanks for these links. It was actually the first time I ever had heard of Kwanzaa. By the way, I just have to say that I really enjoyed the whole text about holiday greetings, the one Jacquie posted earlier. It was well written, and I would never be able to write something like that. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Hey everyone. Just want to wish you all a happy holiday season and a happy New Year
Re: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Thank's everyone for the great thoughts and kindness and to you Dynamo1 the 3 different celebrations, awesome:bolian: and here's the old standard poem TWAS' THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS always so wonderful~and to all you CSI fans MERRY CHRISTMAS 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 wwere nestled all snug in thier beds While visions of sugar-plums danced in thier heads And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap Had just settled down for a long winter's nap Then out on the lawn there arose such a clatter I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter Away to the window I flew like a flash Tore open the shutters and threw up the slash The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow Gave lustre of mid-day to objects below When what to my wondering eyes should appear But a minature sleigh, and wight tiny reindeer With a little old driver, so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick More rapid then 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 dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky So up to the house top the coursers they flew With a 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 peddler, 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 whilte as the snow A 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 An 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"~
Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Same in my native language: Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista uutta vuotta kaikille!