Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

I was in Africa for the past week or so and I can report conclusively on a few things:

1. The only water flowing there is NOT the bitter sting of tears. There are some lakes, rivers, etc.

2. There IS snow in Africa at Christmastime. I saw some.

3. The Christmas bells that ring there are NOT the clanging chimes of doom.

I have the feeling that the members of Band-Aid were not as informed as I presumed them to be at the time.

Did it occur to you that the song was released in 1984 and was written in the present tense? Here's another helpful tip: Prince has found Jehovah and all of his musical offers to make love 2 U are now off the table.

[Penske_Account]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Did it occur to you that the song was released in 1984 and was written in the present tense?

On the upside, it is certainly in the running for one of the top original Christmas songs of the last 25 years!

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Penske_Account

On the upside, it is certainly in the running for one of the top original Christmas songs of the last 25 years!

Ho! It's another Christmas song
Whoa! Get ready brother for another Christmas song
They play for a month, Ad infinitum
One day it struck me someone must write 'em
So! It's another Christmas song

Santa clause singing on naughty snow
Reindeer ringing in the mistletoe
The manger's on fire
The holly's aglow
Hear the baby Jesus cryin' ho ho ho

Hey! It's another Christmas song
Yay! Another oft' returning
Royalty earning Christmas song
I've got plenty more so go buy a modem
Log on to iTunes and pay to download 'em
Pay! For another Christmas song

Chestnuts glisten on a silent night
Sleighbells kissing by candlelight
The tree is frozen, the winter's bright
Who'd have thought the wise men look so white

You! Don't you wanna sing along?
Too! My humble yuletide
Dreamed up poolside
Christmas song

Make it a part of your holiday cannon
Make it the heart of my retirement plannin'
Do! Sing another Christmas song

But wait! Who's this?

Young ones starving on a dead-end street
Taped up tabloids on their frost-bit feet
Hear what they carol as they huddle for heat
Please help the Colbert Children eat

Whoa! Just another Christmas song
No! This is like no other Christmas-mother-lovin'-song
Public to whom I'm so proud to have pandered
Please save my family and make this a standard
Go! Join the ever-growing throng
Who are singing
And swingin'
While my kids are clinging to the hope
My register's ching-ching chinging from the cash I'm bringing
From another Christmas song
Copyright Steven Colbert

[Gattigap]

Well. With a couple of prominent exceptions, this past year kinda sucked.

Unfortunately, to listen to prognosticators, it sounds like 2009 will suck also.

I hope they're all full of shit. More precisely, I hope that the coming year is one of recovery and prosperity and joy for everyone here. Happy New Year.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

Well. With a couple of prominent exceptions, this past year kinda sucked.

Thanks, I had a great year, not working from January until August whilst exploring. Oh, but you aren't talling about me?!?!?

I'm curious. Beyond the obvious (Obama, the market collapse / credit crisis / bank failures / bailouts, etc.), what will be remembered of import from 2008?

From my own legal-centric point-of-view, it was the Supremes rejecting the R's, the Neocons, Bush' s, and Cheney's poistion that their (loose pronoun, but you know) actions were not reviewable, challengeable or subject to the U.S. Constitution.

I do not know which scholars are analyzing it this way yet, but the Supremes in their past couple of terms have essentially had to reissue Marbury vs. Madison. "Congress, President, you have a lot of rope, but it is not infinite, and we refuse to let go of our mandate and role as an equal check and balance upon your whims."

Obama is not going to push the Bush objective, so much of this is moot. But I think the last two terms will mostly be remebered for the Court - subtly - saying "No."

[Atticus Grinch]

Modern urban Hobo Code.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Modern urban Hobo Code.

this is funny, except they forced the issue about 2 or 3 too many.

I have a bone to pick with you. Why no love for Frisky Dingo? Seriously, this board basically sucked Sealab's dick, but no one will give FD any praise at all.

NWTF?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

Copyright Steven Colbert

Now he can prove willfulness, brainiac.

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Now he can prove willfulness, brainiac.

Nuh-uh. In my version, Colbert is pronounced with the "T". Totally different.