> I don't enjoy the holidays at all.
Many years ago I came to realize xmas was nothing more than an excuse to get
a financial bump into the hands of merchants. And in the more recent decade
it is an excuse to get new computers and electronic games for the family.
There is absolutely religous basis for xmas, other than what the "early
church" interjected in their own effort to get folks to come to cherch at
least one (more) time each end of year for their own financial bump. One of
the more itneresting videos I picked up is "Unwrapping Christmas", from the
History Channel. As I see it xmas and easter are both gross manipulations
of the early church (historical fact, by the way) to merge church teachings
with pagan beliefs to help the pagans feel better about their (sometimes
forced) transition to christianity. And xmas is a fairly recent
(re)introduction of a Norse belief/fable with a commercial twist, whereby
consumers rush out to buy things while driven by guilt in doing so.
Amazing.
For my part, Lynda and I like to send out End Of Year "Season's Greetings"
cards with pictures of our Siberian Huskies on them, just to stay in touch
with friends, family and business associates. Other than that we do not
partake in the insantiy of the "xmas spirit". What I enjoy doing is watch
this annual lemming race to the stores. Such strange creatures we are. I
hope in my lifetime Is ee consumers wake up and revolt against the guilt
driven push from the merchants who perpetuate this craziness. But as long
as we have children, and parents need some way to help control them ("santa
'claws' is watching you..."), there will be xmas in our society.
The only worthwhile gift I can see exchanging with someone is a legal copy
of Visual FoxPro v-9, a copy of Dabo with 20 hours of tutorial time, a PC,
or a recent copy of any Linux distro (there, this now qualifies as [NF] at
the least <g>).
Gil
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Dibble
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [NF] How the Gates Stole Leopard
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> > > http://joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1026.html'
>
> He's a mean one, Mr. Gates.
>
> Actually, the most credit for that made-for-TV special (after the
> incomparable Ted Geisel ("Dr. Suess") of course) is Thurl Ravenscroft,
> better known to an entire US Boomer generation as Tony the Tiger.
>
> I don't enjoy the holidays at all. But I do love many of its
> icons (any of
> our US friends recall the classic "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", with
> Burl Ives, the Isle of Misfit Toys, and the "'Bominible"?), and that
> includes this Suess classic, along with "A Charlie Brown Christmas",
> including the incomparable, immortal Vince Guaraldi score).
>
> All right, so I'm getting kind of misty now. And it's waaaaaaayyyyy too
> early to be thinking about thi stuff.
>
> Ken Dibble
> www.stic-cil.org
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>
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