Season's Greetings

apparently this is the PC term nowadays

[claus]

I just want to extend a Season's Greetings to everyone on this board regardless if your're celebrating Christmas or not - and regardless of the starting date for your new year. Right here it's the shortest day of the year, so it's getting brighter from now on.

These boards are a nice place with lots of nice people, i've been glad about being here sofar, "meeting" you all, and exchanging (sometimes opposite) views. Best wishes to all.

/claus

[Tor]

Greetings to you as well Claus. ;)

[jbinbpt]

My best wishes to all as well.

I am approaching my 1 year anniversary here, and I want all to know that this has been a bright spot for me. I wish the rest of the universe behaved and communicated as well as the community here at Webmaster World.

Thanks to all

[volatilegx]

Happy Winter Solstice!

[macrost]

Happy Holidays from the US, and Happy Solstice to everyone!

Mac

[bill]

Happy Birthday Emperor Akihito.

[sidyadav]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too Santa claus ;)

Sid

[troels nybo nielsen]

In Denmark we call it jul. You have that same word in English too: yule. AFAIK it is actually the same word as hjul ( = wheel) and Juhl (a Danish surname).

We do have the word kristmesse, but I doubt that it ever had a place in common vocabulary. The old pre-christian name of the solstice feast has survived.

Father Christmas or Santa Claus is called julemanden (literally the yule man) and it is common Danish knowledge that he lives in Greenland.

Happy holidays.

[Kwix]

Neilsen,

Thank you for the enlightenment.

[satanclaus]

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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 3:26 pm (utc) on Dec. 24, 2003]
[edit reason] not at all in keeping with WebmasterWorld spirit... tis the season dude [/edit]

[iamlost]

>> satanclaus >>

now, now ... that would just melt all the snow and make a muddy mess ... let's put that off until spring and let the winter sports fanatics chill out there for a while longer ... :)

All I want for Christmas is my lemon computer with ie6 back from the shop so I can see what the vast majority see ... or perhaps not ...

I use a pc, I am not pc ... so Happy Whatever and a Merry Bah Humbug to all us little boys and girls that refuse to grow up and get a "real" job ...

[Marcia]

>>Father Christmas or Santa Claus is called julemanden (literally the yule man) and it is common Danish knowledge that he lives in Greenland.

No Troels, he lives in Stockholm and I know for a fact that he serves his guests lobster for New Years dinner. He used to be a Moderator here and he told us.

[sidyadav]

>He used to be a Moderator here and he told us.

which forum? ;)

Sid

[troels nybo nielsen]

Marcia, Marcia, always be very cautious with "facts" that you learn from a Swede. Every Dane could tell you this.

"There goes a stream of beer through Danish history." I don't think that these immortal words by Johs. V. Jensen were what caused The Swedish Academy to give him the Nobel Prize, but he was right. There also goes a stream of beer through Danish present, especially in December when many a Dane gets fuld som en svensker ( = drunk as a Swede).

A newer Danish tradition is to go to Norway in the weeks after Christmas and show the amused Norwegians what danskerbremsen ( = The Danish Brake) is.

[claus]

>> a stream of beer through Danish present.

With a stemming technology update this piece of seasonally relevant advice might emerge in stead:

stream beers through Danish presents
The following words are very common and were not included in your search: a of

So, it's like... everyone gets glasses and mugs for Christmas, and then we pour some beer into them so that we can Drikke Jul * just like our ancestors did. Just kidding, of course... people normally put a tree inside their home and presents underneath, and then on the evening of the 24th they walk around it and sing silly songs (completely sober, even). After that they distribute the presents, the kids get happy, and then they eat the tree, or at least they used to in recent history (all the stuff you would hang on the tree had to be edible some hundred years ago or so)

(*) Note: "Drikke Jul" means "Drink Yule" - afaik, this was how Danes, or Scandinavians (or "vikings", even) celebrated the return of daylight before the bible and the tree happened to pass our way - it was apparently a week-long feast.

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Btw: I don't do skiing, but i suspect the Danish brake technique is not exactly graceful. I do know about "Svenskerknappen" (= The swede button) though, it's the big one on the computer, usually marked (i) and used when everything else fails. As for Greenland, i believe we have sold that island to the US Army, i don't suppose they have much use for christmas spirit, reindeer, or toy factories, so these are probably gone by now - the "relocated to Stockholm" theory sounds fair to me, and the Swedes do have this thing about shellfish. Btw., being Grønlænderstiv (= Drunk as a Greenlander) is several orders of magnitude worse than being drunk as a Swede, as it borders on comatozed only with added bodily movement as well as speech.

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Disclaimer: All of the above is known as "Danish humor" - it's not intended to be taken seriously nor recommended in large doses... troels started this weird introduction to Danish sayings and customs, it was not me!

[BlobFisk]

All the best for the holiday season to one and all from little old Ireland!

I'm on holidays already and have been since Dec 12th - thought I deserved the break after such a tough year!

See you all in 2004!

[mipapage]

Hope you all have a great holiday!

[George]

Just popped in to foo to Wish All and Sundry a Cool Yule, (to discover I was not first, as usual round here :) )whether you celebrate it or not.
If you don't, can I put it forward as a good excuse for a Party?

Only recently discovered that Father Christmas was an invention of Coca-Cola. (that is the colours, chimney stories etc). I was devastated, Having believed he was real for years.

...Oh well, at least Fairies Still exist.

[hayluke]

have a good one..

[IanTurner]

Have a good

Solstice
Christmas
New Year

or whatever else you can celebrate at this time of year.

[SlyGuy]

That's it! I'm shutting down for the holidays!

To those of us celebrating today and tomorrow .. A very Merry Christmas.

To those who celebrate other holiday festivities around this time of the year ..Happy Holidays.

Best wishes, everyone

- Chad

[mivox]

Happy Merry Days to everyone, and a jolly 2004! Live long and prosper, don't let the bed-bugs bite, and [insert choice of higher power here] bless us, every one. (Now I suppose I should go be sociable for the rest of the day)

[PhraSEOlogy]

Have a VERY MERRY 25th of December

and a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW 365 days of 2004.

Is that PC enough?

P.S. I got a remote controlled car for xmas - thanks Santa!

[limbo]

Ho Ho Ho!

<Over Indulgence>
Burp. Pheep, Sherry, waffle, jibber, lemon sandwich, screwdriver, opened zem fings, sigh, blarp, cranberruies walking, zzzzzzzzzzz
</Over Indulgence>

MERRY CHRIMBO ALL :)

Hope you have enjoyed yorself as much as I have.

Ta

Limbo Msungue.