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If only I could find a flatulent reindeer pic............
Wait, what's that. Wouldn't you know it, someone's actually written a book...........
Maybe that's why Dingle didn't make that list...........
Can you name all 10 Reindeer? No?
There is Dasher (1), Dancer (2), Prancer (3), and Vixen (4). Comet (5), Cupid (6), Donner(7), and Blitzen(8). You can't forget Rudolf (9), He has a whole song about him. So the 10th reindeer must be Olive(10).
You Don't remember Olive from the song? She was a huge jerk.
You know... Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names.
For all the Dad's and Grandad's with young kid's about, a great Dad joke for Christmas. You can wind them up for ages naming the Reindeer until you reveal Olive the other Reindeer from the "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" song.
Last edited by CafeLotta; 15 December 2019, 03:22 PM.
I have a problem with impressionable children sitting on the laps of overly generous strangers.
Besides, does anyone even know a kid who needs more toys?
For those that aren't aware, the reference to pirates has a long history in debates concerning organised religion. It came to prominence when the organisation that is now the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster published a chart showing a negative correlation between the number of pirates and the global average temperature and drew the obvious conclusion that global warming was caused by the decline in pirate numbers. This was intended as a jibe against the bad science that abounds in creationist circles.
Okay, so I goggled and found out it's both kinder and childcare:
"We offer education and care to children from 6 weeks to school age as well as Sessional and Integrated Kindergarten programs. We are a 140 place centre with 50 dedicated staff"
6 weeks old? Sheeze.
I retract my above comment about their "end of year party" they have it in their own calendar as:
Darn; I've just run out of pop-corn but maybe the discussion has run its course.
Don't poke the grumpy's with a stick Mal.
I was just about to suggest deep breaths or counting to a hundred (backwards from one thousand in thirteens)
Sustainability Pirate story broke on 3AW a couple of days ago and it's going viral/worldwide because I'm pretty sure most people think it's ridiculous regardless of your views on Jesus/Santa/Christmas.
3AW didn't name the school but it's since come out in other reports as "Kensington Community Children’s Co-operative in Melbourne".
The community co-op (is that a kinder or childcare?!?!?) doesn't have a Christmas party, they have an end of year party and the pirate will be there.
I'm okay with that, they don't have to have a Christmas party although all my kids had one at kinder and loved it.
I find it interesting that a character known for theft, rape, pillage and murder is preferred to the fat bloke in a red suit though.
OK, Coke didn't invent Santa but it doesn't diminish my argument. Santa is a secular concept.
We obviously have a different understanding of the term secular.
"Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve (24 December) or during the early morning hours of Christmas Day (25 December).[1] The modern Santa Claus grew out of traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas (a fourth-century Greek bishop and gift-giver of Myra), the British figure of Father Christmas, and the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas (himself also based on Saint Nicholas). Some maintain Santa Claus also absorbed elements of the Germanic god Wodan, who was associated with the pagan midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky."
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