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In Reply to: Hey! There hasn't been a new thread started for 2 days now. posted by psgary on December 17, 2002 at 19:13:41:
Damn, I hate the money this time of the year represents...I love giving things to people, I really do, but not just because I'm "supposed to."I've been suffering from a general malaise...tired, washed out feeling, head-achy, but nothing that's drastic enough to put a "name" to it. I get on the 'puter and almost fall asleep...I'm yawning now and I slept the entire day!
Yesterday, I got 1 thing done, ONE! I packed up some tubes for some people that I'd promised to send in November!!!! I have LP's to clean and package up for folks here, and I'm draggin' butt on that.
My son's girlfriend and her mother are visiting from Oheeho...I forget what town they live in, one of those tire-towns. The place is a mess, LP's laying around literally everywhere!!! I keep looking at them and telling myself to organize them and at least get them to their "sections," but then lard-butt-itis sets in. I'm listening to a Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie CD right now that was given to me Thanksgiving...this is the first time it has been in the player!
I did get the two amplifiers that need some doctoring into my car (my old Van Alstines**...suffering from "Mike tweaked, but can't solder to save his ass-itis (lots of itis going on around here!). I didn't, however, get them to Gregg's shop (a local guy who's a really great electronics repairman) because of the general malaise I spoke of. I'll try to get them there tomorrow. I want to get them up and running because I'm going to unbox two CD players that I reviewed and the company and the guy (Brad Alexander of the never published Attainable Audio) who sent them to me haven't replied to about 6 e-mails each asking what I should do with them, it's been close to a year...I think I've given them enough time!!! 2 free CD players!!! My sons are using some early 80's 2nd generation plastic jobbies, now they'll have something decent, all because whoever owns the damn things refused to get in touch with me!!!???
Whaddayathink, the day I take them out of the boxes they've been in for almost a year, I'll get a call or an e-mail??? Should we have a poll to see if everyone thinks that will happen?
**I'd send them both to Frank van Alstine, but he'd go ballistic. I called him when I put Cardas posts and RCA's on the first amp I owned and he screamed at me for a 1/2 hour, telling me I was going to electrocute my cats and my kids! Gregg did the first amp...if he saw the soldering job on the second amp it might kill him...he'd die laughing!
Christmas break is almost here! The time when teachers begin to think that ten (or so) days only equals 1!!! We're off....oh, gee, we're back! It gets shorter every year!
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I hardly know where to start. I could start with a whine about those of you who get "Christmas breaks," but hell, wouldn't do me any good.More to the point, Mike, ahh...now this is a bit delicate. I don't wanna be politically incorrect or anything...have you been over to Music Lane lately? Don't you mean to say. "Xmas Break is almost here?"
See, you have been open enough with us in the past to reveal that you are, oh...shall we say, of the Jewish persuasion. NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT!!! But imagine my surprise to learn that there is an INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST CONSPIRACY spearheaded by jewish financiers and audiophiles to rob good Christians of the word "Christmas!"
Now, speaking as a very lapsed Catholic and current agnostic who really doesn't give a damn, and as one for whom Christmas just means one hell of a lot of work, I personally don't care if you Jews want to steal Christmas. But for the sake of the good Christian bigots who just want to celebrate the birth of their Savior (whom you people murdered, by the way), in Peace and Love and Joy and rampant intolerance of everyone else, well, I would be very disappointed to learn that YOU, Mike, might be a part of this Evil Cabal out to steal the birthday of The Messiah.
By the way, in the spirit of the season, in Love and Peace and stuff like that, I would like to point out that you will burn in Hell forever because you do not worship the loving Christian God properly.
But I'll be there too, and we can combine record collections and we'll be very popular. Hope the LPs don't warp from the heat..."
bbwwwwaaaahhhhh, sorry...I'm in the mood for evil :o(mp
must've been a good crop.
THIS Jew did! I was there, as were a few other Jewish folks I know...we plotted, stole his matzoh balls out of his chicken soup, and THEN things went awry.All we wanted were those damn matzoh balls, little did we know there was some Roman (or was he GrecoRoman) that wanted those matzoh balls too and was willing to go to great lengths to get them! How did we know that he had a seperate plot going on? Sure, those matzoh balls were great, light as a lead feather, floating in that delicious chicken soup...made with schmaltz as I remember, not margarine! And the Mogen David wine...mmmm! That was why we didn't get the matzoh balls, we were too drunk on the wine...then, the next day...oy! People throwing stones (some were quite nice, I used them to build my house in Leipzig and lived there comfortably for quite a while) and empty Mogen David bottles...What a waste! They didn't know that Mogen David bottles are used as candle holders...dummies!
So, here I am, admitting I was at the party, admitting that we had a part in that last seder, trying to steal food off good ol' Jessee's plate (that's what we called him back then, before everyone got all huffy about the things he'd done).
Repent!
As a selling point, that one wins hands down!I'm not religious, but christianity did offer the world a benevolent god who would forgive you, no matter what, just ask...and go to heaven and eat sweet cakes and live in eternal bliss...previous gods were much more pragmatic and harsh...to fit a harsh time. That is why it became a predominant religion.
Remember the Romans had Shades, shadows of former life that walked the earth at night/dusk looking for blood ( a precursor to vampires I wonder?) Yikes! Let me see, which one shall I choose? OK, your pulling my arm, I'll take eternal bliss. Is that better than sex..I just wanna know what you mean by "bliss," a gauge,....you know one man's bliss is another mans hell...:o)
mp
I do that every morning! I get up, walk over to the dresser and re-pent...my wife says she's always washing my pents, I tell her at least I don't shit in them!
As most educated folks know (and we're all educated here, right?) virtually every society has some kind of major festival right near the Winter Solstice. In some cultures, the beginning of a new year is celebrated at the Solstice. (Others mark it at the Spring Equinox.)Christianity borrows much of its lore from the ancient Roman religion of Mithraism (link below) and conveniently places the birth of Christ at the Winter Solstice. The custom of lighting lamps and/or candles around this time of year arises from the fact that -- duh! -- it's dark now in the Northern Hemisphere.
As a non-religious person myself, I attach no particular significance to December 25th, but it's hard to escape the fact that the days are shortest right about now -- unless you're Timbo in Oz -- and that soon they'll be getting longer. So ... Happy Winter Solstice to All!
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PS: I've always thought that Christmas should be celebrated on the 4th Sunday in December, rather than arbitrarily stuck on the 25th. I mean, Easter "floats" ... so why not Christmas? Having Christmas always fall on a Sunday would emphasize its religious aspect, which should please all the Christians. So why is Christmas NOT always observed on a Sunday? Anyone here have an answer?
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