Merry "Insert Word Here" and a Happy New Year

[bdoughty]

May you and your families have a safe, healthy, and joyous holidays!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA

[JBHuskers]

MERRY CHRISTMAS lol the PC crap is so annoying.

[SmoothPancakes]

MERRY CHRISTMAS lol the PC crap is so annoying.

:+1:

I say Merry Christmas, the PC douchebags can shove it up their ass. I don't care if they don't like hearing Merry Christmas, I'm gonna say it anyway. The PC whiners can kiss my fat, white ass if they don't like it.

[CLW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUCNAnp2QAI

[JBHuskers]

:+1:

I say Merry Christmas, the PC douchebags can shove it up their ass. I don't care if they don't like hearing Merry Christmas, I'm gonna say it anyway. The PC whiners can kiss my fat, white ass if they don't like it.

I'm not religious at all. It's just stupid to not say it. THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!

[CLW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oof6ReINho8

[JBHuskers]

My typical Christmas Eve viewing (from favorite to most favorite):

1. Frosty The Snowman
2. Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas
3. A Garfield Christmas
4. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
5. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. A Charlie Brown Christmas

[SmoothPancakes]

I've already gotten all of my Christmas movie viewing done this year over the last couple weeks. Watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street and all the other Christmas classics. My Christmas Eve watching this year, watching Boise State and Oregon State tangle in the Hawaii Bowl, then settling into the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story.

[morsdraconis]

Best Christmas movies are Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. All those other pussy Christmas movies can go to hell.

[JBHuskers]

Best Christmas card EVAR!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s159/jbennett98/BestXmasCardEvar_zps56f406cd.jpg

[ram29jackson]

Merry Christmas

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[bdoughty]

My typical Christmas Eve viewing (from favorite to most favorite):

1. Frosty The Snowman
2. Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas
3. A Garfield Christmas
4. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
5. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. A Charlie Brown Christmas


I have to watch It's a Wonderful Life every year. My family loves a Christmas Story but they watch it so much I can't enjoy it anymore. They are also big on Christmas Vacation, which was great the first few times but Chevy Chase wears on me. Eddie on the other hand, should have had his own movie.


As for the title, feel free to change it. It's not that I did not want to offend, I just wanted to be snarky to those spoil sports who get their panties in a bunch about the word "Christmas."

[ram29jackson]

as every time EA ncaa came out


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bdqgc59jrc

[jaymo76]

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

ps... can't believe you left "A Very Brady Bunch Xmas" off the list... lol. Seriously though, I watch it every xas eve. It's become tradition now Yes I own it on dvd...)

[dhook27]

Best Christmas movies are Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. All those other pussy Christmas movies can go to hell.

Lol if you think Die Hard is a real christmas movie

[JBHuskers]

Lol if you think Die Hard is a real christmas movie

It is.

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[bdoughty]

Lol if you think Die Hard is a real christmas movie

Argyle says, "What you talking about dhook?"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ5yuu7JiI

[Rudy]

Merry Christmas!!

We've seen Elf a million times already this year. I love the movie but it's on every day lol. I like Miracle on 34th Street too but not the new remake. They changed some of the key things I liked best.

[dhook27]

How is it? The only time is that stupid ass party at the start of the movie and even that wasn't even on Christmas.

[GatorfanStovy]

Merry Christmas guys. What did everyone get? Had a super late Fucking night. After the family dinner gf and I decided to get out and meet her cousins at a bar leave at 3am so then stay up till 5 wow long night. So now I'm just getting up wait for rest of family to get up and open gifts.. I'm hoping for an Xbox one. But I don't see a big box under the tree darn it..

Who all got what? Oh and die hard is the best Christmas movie ever! Yep pie Ki yeah mother fucker as McClain would say.

[dhook27]

Meh got some nice clothes and headphones. Got a $150 gift card to Gamestop

[SmoothPancakes]

Haven't done anything yet with the family, but I know what I'll be getting. A bunch of blu-rays and some new dress shirts, which I have been needing for a while. You can never have enough dress shirts, especially when you wear them every day to work, practically seven days a week.

[CLW]

Posting this from my kindle fire HDX 8.9

Also got clothes

Autographed Duke team poster

Nice poster of "the shot" which is a copy of a painting

Ps camera

Pens for the office

[SmoothPancakes]

Yep, I guessed it. Just blu-rays and dress shirts. :D

Got four new dress shirts (tan, slate grey, lavender and an aqua greenish sort of color).

And got a bunch of blu-rays. Batman/Dark Knight trilogy, Daniel Craig James Bond trilogy, Homeland season 2, Hell on Wheels season 2, Walking Dead season 3, Defiance season 1, The League season 4 and the "surprise" of the year, The Newsroom season 1.

A good year. New dress shirts which I really needed, and a lot of blu-rays, updating the seasons of shows that I have by one new year, as well as some good movie trilogies.

Next year will be much the same. I'm very easy when it comes to Christmas. Get the newest possible season on blu-ray of Homeland, Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels, The League, Defiance and The Newsroom, maybe a movie or two, maybe a book or two, and I'm good to go.

If I don't buy it myself first, I'll probably try to get the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (or whatever the newest edition is that they've come out with since then) for my birthday or Christmas next year. Other than that, more blu-rays and books, maybe a couple more dress shirts (again, you can NEVER have too many dress shirts) and all good to go!

[CLW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbleFqoCBDg

[CLW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVAnEtQtvds

[GatorfanStovy]

got ncaa 14! then other small stuff . 16 oz of jerky, some pub mix snacks a movie gift card... gf got the fun stuff she a new laptop and tackle box .. was a good x mas .

[souljahbill]

I got Super Mario 3D World and a $50 Nintendo eShop card (Best Buy was selling them for 20% off so my wife spent $40 for it).

[CLW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYCVxtqyVOk

[GatorfanStovy]

Again wish I had the extra money for the wii u and xbox one. The new mario's look super fun and good for co op play.

[jaymo76]

Posting this from my kindle fire HDX 8.9

Also got clothes

Autographed Duke team poster

Nice poster of "the shot" which is a copy of a painting

Ps camera

Pens for the office

What no republican party yearly membership? lol :D Just joking brother. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[jaymo76]

PS4 camera and a 2nd controller. The wife even picked up Marvel Superheroes. Sony has really profited from my family this fall/winter.

[ram29jackson]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Santa-Letter-Red-Balloon-San-Diego-Mystery-School-Girl-Christmas-Wish-237063001.html


A little girl's letter to Santa launched by a red balloon was found miles away by a stranger who, sensing a connection with its author, wanted to find her and make her Christmas wish come true.

Joie, 5, had written the letter, tied it to a balloon and set it free last week along with the rest of her kindergarten class in Chula Vista, just south of San Diego.

“Dear Santa, I would like to have a mermaid doll with a bow for Christmas. Thank you, Love, Joie,” the letter read.

Defense contract negotiator Terry Hardin was leaving work on Dec. 17 when he noticed a red balloon with something tied to it floating down from the sky.

He watched it travel to the ground and into the parking lot. It took three to five minutes, he said.

“I walked over, so interested and intrigued as to what it was,” he recalled.

He said when he noticed the name of the child at the end of the letter, he paused. His mother, Joie Britt, had passed away in August 2012.

“It put a chill up my spine,” Hardin said.

He and his mother weren’t on the best of terms at the time of her death. He now admits he was very angry with her.

Now, he believes that in some way the kindergartner’s letter was meant for him.

“This literally came from Heaven to make things right,” he said.

Hardin’s wife, Angel, went to work trying to track down the little girl so the couple could fulfill the wish.

She sent emails to news organizations, including NBC 7 San Diego, asking for help.

“We don't know who this girl is or how this balloon got to be over downtown, but somehow I feel like I really want this girl to get her doll,” she wrote.

San Diego-area talk show host Mike Slater enlisted the help of his listeners and soon, the author of the letter was found.

On Thursday, Hardin met Joie face to face in her classroom at St. Rose of Lima.

He handed her the gift – a "Little Mermaid" doll complete with bow. Joie was shy, but with encouragement from her classmates, she quickly unwrapped the gift.

She and her family later posed for a picture with Hardin, who said he is enjoying the enthusiasm the story has generated around the U.S. and even overseas.

He appreciates the nice comments he’s seeing posted beneath the news articles online.

Watch the video of the classroom receiving gifts below:


Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Santa-Letter-Red-Balloon-San-Diego-Mystery-School-Girl-Christmas-Wish-237063001.html#ixzz2oXBCj18a




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw9G-12Kvqw

[bdoughty]

How is it? The only time is that stupid ass party at the start of the movie and even that wasn't even on Christmas.

It was all done on Christmas Eve. You could also say the same thing about "It's A Wonderful Life." The last part of the movie is set on Christmas Eve but it never rolls over to Christmas Day. The first 2/3rd's of the movie has nothing to so with Christmas as best I can recall, outside some winter scenes. It was all about the message, it was released around Christmas time and by golly it is a Christmas movie. Also Donna Redd was smoking hot.

[SmoothPancakes]

It was all done on Christmas Eve. You could also say the same thing about "It's A Wonderful Life." The last part of the movie is set on Christmas Eve but it never rolls over to Christmas Day. The first 2/3rd's of the movie has nothing to so with Christmas as best I can recall, outside some winter scenes. It was all about the message, it was released around Christmas time and by golly it is a Christmas movie. Also Donna Redd was smoking hot.

Same thing with White Christmas. 95% of the movie is following Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye from Miami to Vermont, doing all this different stuff through the course of the movie. Christmas anything doesn't make an appearance except for the very first couple minutes (Christmas eve during World War II) clear through until the final big performance of the movie right at the end (on Christmas eve) and you don't even see a single flake of snow in the movie until the final 3 minutes or so. With the amount of days that passes, the movie starts probably early to mid-December, and ends during the evening of Christmas eve and largely revolves around nothing Christmas except for the first couple minutes and last couple minutes.

And same thing, the entire mid-section of the movie (outside of the Christmas eve during WWII start and the Christmas eve post-WWII ending) is nothing about Christmas. It's about their big production doing rehearsals, Bing and Danny trying to woo the girls and them trying to do something for the General to save his inn.

There are loads of movies that fall into that same sequence, especially with stuff not happening ON Christmas.

[steelerfan]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Santa-Letter-Red-Balloon-San-Diego-Mystery-School-Girl-Christmas-Wish-237063001.html

:up:

[morsdraconis]

:up:

Agreed. Great story.

[Rudy]

We weren't going to spend much on each other but the wife got me the LOTR Blu Ray Trilogy, Assassin's Creed 4 and an Asus Memo 7" HD tablet. The only question is I have been really thinking of getting a dedicated ereader and may bring that back for a Kindle Paperwhite. I think the Asus has better value and can do a lot more than the Paperwhite but I'd mainly want the second tablet to be for reading and the eink, ability to read in sunlight, easier on the eyes and longer battery life is pushing me to it.

[JBHuskers]

Merry Christmas everyone! I got some cool stuff like Injustice for the PS4, some movies, and jeans. Definitely needed jeans :D

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[CLW]

What no republican party yearly membership? lol :D Just joking brother. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Dr. CLW and I do not donate to any political parties and/or candidates in order to stay fair and balanced. :nod: Moreover, I'd ditch the GOP in a heartbeat if there was a viable real conservative party in the U.S.

[JBHuskers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYCVxtqyVOk

:D :D

I love how he puts the used candy cane in his shirt pocket.

[JBHuskers]

Santa is an abusive asshole (while he throws the games at her :D) that was a good one.

[SmoothPancakes]

Sigh, the day after Christmas sucks so bad. Especially when it's in the middle of the week.

Pretty much all of December, you got the build up to Christmas, the anticipation of Christmas day, all the holiday stuff going on, good movies on TV, good food being made, spending time with a bunch of family and friends, just a different couple days and weeks leading up to Christmas. Come the day after, it's instantly shoved right back into the same old shit as the other 11 months. Back to work, back to crappy stuff on TV, back to slogging through day after day of the week, the holiday spirit gone, the fun with family and friends gone, back to the same old same old for lunch and dinner, back to the same old tired shit.

Gotta go into work later today and tomorrow, already have another Saturday morning approaching that I have to drag my ass out of bed at 2:30am (didn't even get to relax, sit back and enjoy my entire week between Saturdays this week like normal) and the return of HS basketball Saturday night. I'd almost say the day after Christmas is the most depressing day of the entire year.

[JBHuskers]

Yeah work is dragging ass today, but my 5-day weekend is in sight from 1/1-1/5.

[SmoothPancakes]

Yeah work is dragging ass today, but my 5-day weekend is in sight from 1/1-1/5.

Yeah, I'm actually thinking of saying screw it and just not going in today.

It's not really anything that has to be done today. It's nothing but programming that airs during the morning hours on Saturday and Sunday, as well as church programs that air Sunday morning. As long as the shows are loaded up and ready to go by 6am Saturday (for the Saturday morning programs) and 6am Sunday (from the Sunday morning programs) every week, I'm good to go.

Even though it will mean that tomorrow will be a bit longer than it would otherwise be, I think I'm gonna say screw it and stay home today. I just really don't feel like throwing on work clothes and heading in this evening. College football's coming on at 6pm, I'm rather comfortable sitting here on the couch in front of the TV right now, to hell with it. I'll just head in an hour or two earlier tomorrow.

[JBHuskers]

I gotta sit here tomorrow too :D so it won't make me any difference, I just have 45 minutes left off for the rest of the year.

[steelerfan]

Wow. I can't imagine caring less about the "build up" to any holiday. Glad for you guys it is fun.

My Christmas is actually today. Got my daughter today and have her for the next ten days. :up:

As for work, I put in a good twenty minutes today filing a suit to evict some motherfuckers. Merry Christmas, asshole!

[SmoothPancakes]

Wow. I can't imagine caring less about the "build up" to any holiday. Glad for you guys it is fun.

My Christmas is actually today. Got my daughter today and have her for the next ten days. :up:

As for work, I put in a good twenty minutes today filing a suit to evict some motherfuckers. Merry Christmas, asshole!

Well, it's probably not the build up like the "Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, lets go caroling and singing and drink some eggnog" whackjobs out there in this country. But, I actually have something to look forward to for a change unlike the other 50 some weeks of the year. Better movies on TV, some damn good food that only ever gets made on Thanksgiving or Christmas (the only two holidays of the year that my family goes all out on making a big and good meal for dinner), seeing some friends and family that I haven't seen in a while.

Plus then there's the fact that I get a couple days off of work. After I got done with my morning stuff and then HS basketball Saturday, I was essentially done with work until after Christmas. Only thing that I had to go into work for at all was just a quick three hours Monday night for a HS basketball game. Other than that, I didn't have to go in like normal on Monday and had Christmas eve and day off.

So that's my "build up" to Christmas. The whole holiday spirit crap, I really don't get into. I don't have enough time to. I'm usually working right up until a few days before Christmas (depending on when it falls) and can't simply take vacation days or something to get out of it. So I'm busy working and sleeping, sleeping and working during the days and weeks leading up Christmas to really give a hoot about the holiday spirit. For me, it's more for personal and selfish reasons. Better movies, better food for three days (Thanksgiving, Christmas eve and day) than the typical shit I eat day in and day out the other 362 days of the year, and seeing a couple friends or family that I don't otherwise see the rest of the year, so at least its a minor change in the typical faces I see every day.

Other than that, it's just business as usual for me, dragging the ass into work into work or home from work.

[bdoughty]

As for work, I put in a good twenty minutes today filing a suit to evict some motherfuckers. Merry Christmas, asshole!

http://i.imgur.com/JyeLXbv.jpg

[JBHuskers]

I get to whip out my Dick.....Clark tomorrow and DJ my first New Year's Eve.