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05 Jan 03 - 09:41 AM (#859136) Subject: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THEM! The sending of Christmas cards is a wonderful custom. I send them out to everyone-no exceptions! I generally do my own artwork- this year a coke a cola santa in a guy fawkes chair setting with the slogan: "what shall we do with him" inside - we shall let you decide. It is still not expensive to send christmas cards. If you make your own it can be a folded over piece of paper.... People cite expense, relative ease of communicating via phone and e.mail etc.... Not good excuses! Christmas cards are more than communication and greetings. I enjoy them for their art. I have them hung up on a ribbon in the club basement pub of my house. They brighten the place up. I also think of the sender when I look at them. I am tired of letting the bah humbug anti christmas card louts prevail. Its like any other traditional custom. It now needs protection from morons. I suggest the design of a stamp or something that can go on christmas cards sent to those who refuse to take part. Something like a santa uncle sam figure. pointing and saying: I want you to send christmas cards! Or perhaps a little package from the horse barn... Anyone have any suggestions for the campaign? Conrad |
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05 Jan 03 - 11:18 AM (#859179) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Sooz For the last ten years, staff at the school I work in have made a contribution to charity in lieu of sending each other Christmas Cards. It is called the "Bah Humbug Appeal". In 2002 we sent £115 to the North of England Childrens Cancer Research Fund. In previous years it has been sent to Nepal, Zambia, our local Air Ambulance and many other deserving causes. It makes us feel good and doesn't add to the recycling mountain! |
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05 Jan 03 - 11:42 AM (#859191) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Rustic Rebel I guess I win the box of manure prize this year. I'm sorry! I only sent about a 1/4 of my list out this year. I'm guilty, I'm lazy, I'm going to do better next year, I promise! Other than that I agree with you on making cards #1 Peasant. I have a lot of fun doing that also. That's one of the reasons I wanted a computer is the creative side to it. I have a couple different programs that allow me to do all kinds of wild things. (Print artist and adobe photo deluxe) Problem is I don't have a scanner yet to really do what I want with them. Sorry was that a thread drift?? OK send that package to 123 butthead Dr. MN. Peace, Rustic |
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05 Jan 03 - 11:52 AM (#859199) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: kendall So, if I don't agree with you, that makes me a moron? |
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05 Jan 03 - 12:18 PM (#859215) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Rustic Rebel Hey your right Kendall! Come to think of it I didn't get a card from Dubya either! Rustic |
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05 Jan 03 - 12:24 PM (#859218) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Tinker Well, if my cards get out before Lent begins I'm still in the right litergical season.... One year we sent Easter Bunny cards when we missed even that dead line. As long as I find a way to keep in touch with folks, I don't care how/when it happens... |
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05 Jan 03 - 12:47 PM (#859235) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Jerry Rasmussen We sent out 150 Christmas cards, so we obviously enjoy doing it. We also reached out to friends by phone who would find receiving a card meaningless. We particularly like to remember people who are in nursing homes or who are shut in and have very few (or no) living family members to remember them. That said, I don't think you should do ANYTHING (if we're into all caps) that you don't believe in. There are people who would appreciate hearing from you any time of year, and many of them would prefer a phone call or a visit... or an e-mail when they really need it, not on a pre-chosen day of the year. If you're really thinking of others, start with what they believe and what would lift them. I'm relieved to finally have it confirmed that I'm not a moron, Kendall.. Jerry |
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05 Jan 03 - 01:23 PM (#859250) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: SINSULL I sent one Christmas card to a relative who needed it. And a Halloween card to my brother. Suggestion Conrad. Let those of who don't send cards start with you. Put your home address in this thread and I promise you will hear from many of us. Do you also send Valentines? just curious. M. |
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05 Jan 03 - 01:50 PM (#859262) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Chip2447 Bah HUMBUG.... Chip2447(who thinks Scrooge had too much Christmas cheer, the drunk ole bastard). |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:07 PM (#859272) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Ha! You should send cards out as well as help those with cancer! -cards are simply not that expensive.... -often cards maintain the social safety net of contact and this eventually helps. I have been thinking about it... Possibly those not sending out cards to whom you have sent cards should be enrolled in an infinite mailing list tree-chain letter with the only way to have their name removed would be to send christmas cards to all of the members of the tree. something to contemplate. The proper name for those not supporting tradition.....just pick one and wear it. Has nothing to do with me. Everything to do with the god of tradition. I can not claim to be that god....but I know what makes it happy! Get a piece of paper draw something festive on it, fold over in half staple address and put a stamp on it....go for it! Wassail! Conrad |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:13 PM (#859275) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: khandu In lieu of Christmas, I ask every prospective sender to send me $10.00. This makes the sending a more personal thing and therefore more enjoyable for the sender as well as the for the recipient (me!) But old traditions are hard to replace with new traditions. People have a hard time with changes. However, I am a persistent cuss, and , though I have made no converts in my last twenty years of diligent effort, I will continue to lobby for the creation of this new tradition. Bobert and Jerry sent me a card. I thank them greatly for this. However, after they read this post, they will then know what I expect next Christmas!!! khandu |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:16 PM (#859276) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Seriously....you did not get a Christmas Card from the President! You probably just failed to look for it! From President Bush to You His christmas Card Just clicket here Conrad |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:18 PM (#859278) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* I am getting rusty with the html... CB |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:20 PM (#859283) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: khandu No, CB, No, you are not getting rusty, you are rusty! :-) |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:21 PM (#859284) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Bush christmas card trouble is that alcohol levels have slipped... I am about to correct that! CB |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:24 PM (#859285) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Now I think the proble is not me but the mudcat.... I put a link in to an image....should not be a problem here but the system does not want any image extentions so bans them all even if the image has to be clicked to be seen....here is another attempt-this time to the web page the card is on. clickit Conrad |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:25 PM (#859289) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Ok....two versions...take your pick... save the image and send bush christmas cards to everyone! Conrad |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:26 PM (#859291) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: khandu THAT'S IT???? You mean all the Great President of these Great United States sent me was a picture of a piano??? No message or nothing??? Where's my $10.00??? Where's "Merry Christmas"???? What the hell???? Is he trying to start his own new tradition?? Just sending pictures of pianos???? I am a confused little man. k |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:30 PM (#859294) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Jerry Rasmussen Next year, Khandu, Bobert and I will send you a photograph of a $10 bill just so that us recipients of the trickle down economy can remember what they look like. Or is it the crumbs from the table economy? As for me, I'm not for enforced gaeity. Jerry |
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05 Jan 03 - 02:48 PM (#859307) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Sooz I send cards and write letters to people I don't see every day. |
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05 Jan 03 - 03:18 PM (#859322) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: CapriUni Personally, Conrad, I do not like receiving Christmas cards, per se. If you want to send me a year-end letter telling me about how your life is going, that's another kettle of fish entirely. That's a letter, not just a Christmas Card. But it's not the folded piece of paper and pretty picture that appeals to me at all. In fact, I dread getting a card that has nothing inside but "Dear ____, happy holidays" (or whatever). "Love, _____". All that tells me is that I'm a name on someone's list, and that the calender is creeping up on a certain date. Whoop-de-doo. I'd rather know that the life of another tree had been spared. If you like sending homemade cards, and sharing yourself with your friends and family through that medium, I'm happy for you. But there are more than one way to celebrate the love of people in our lives, and the most loving generous way is to give them what they'd each want and need, not to impose what you want to give onto them. Now that I know you like getting pretty cards, if we ever become friends, I'll be sure to send you one. But, unlike you, I don't have a place to display them, and as I use a wheelchair, it is sometimes diffecult for me to get to the mailbox and sort out the junk mail from the cards and letters. So I'd prefer an e-mail, thank you (if you want to draw me a picture, scan it and send it as a file attactment). |
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05 Jan 03 - 03:38 PM (#859332) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: SINSULL Just realized - this is first Christmas in many years that I did not get one of those insipid, printed on green paper tomes about how successful the brilliant children are,Dad's promotion, Mom's trophy for best cherry pie, etc.- the real world version of SPAM. Of course, I only got 5 cards this year. I believe I have been crossed off most lists for not responding. |
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05 Jan 03 - 04:03 PM (#859346) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST,Q I send out just a handful of New Year cards to very close friends with pictures and/or personal write-up. Every greeting card, including Christmas, should have a Please Recycle notice on it. |
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05 Jan 03 - 04:06 PM (#859347) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: khandu Yeah, I always recycle mine...I white-out the written messages and send them to someone else next year! |
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05 Jan 03 - 04:35 PM (#859368) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: mack/misophist Once upon a time every-one sent Xmas cards; the bank, the corner store, your dentist. Then the postal rates went up. People began to complain about the cost. Nothing happened. So most of them stopped. End of story. People who send out 150 cards are not just rare, they're damn strange. |
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05 Jan 03 - 05:22 PM (#859396) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Jerry Rasmussen Why, thank you misophist. I'd hate to be normal :-) Jerry |
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05 Jan 03 - 07:39 PM (#859461) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: smallpiper Bollocks its not a great tradition its only just over 100 years old! (I send to a chosen few who would be upset if I didn't (like me Ma)the rest get my company or an email) I'd rather spend on charity than feather some other sods nest ta very much! |
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05 Jan 03 - 08:41 PM (#859482) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST,Q Smallpiper, a wee question. Can "Ta" mean goodbye as well as thanks? Seems I've heard it that way on TV. In an older house we bought, we found about 300 postcards, from about 1905-1910, which I have put into an album. A number of them are Christmas picture postcards. These seem to have been replaced by the card-in-an-envelope type. At a Hallmark shop, I was told that the number of Christmas cards has been going down every year, along with Easter cards, although other types (birthday, get-well, drop dead) etc., are holding steady. I wonder how much longer Christmas cards will continue. |
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05 Jan 03 - 09:20 PM (#859496) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 Khandu, I hate to correct you on something, but in this case I must. Conrad is not rusty. Shit doesn't rust. Spaw |
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05 Jan 03 - 09:21 PM (#859497) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* I agree the ones with no message just a printed name suck! Those people are really stupid! I feel like sending them back....with the message...SIGNATURE AND OR MESSAGE REQUIRED THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Not an ancient tracition but we have to begin somewhere and once again for the penny pinchers....you probably spend more on toilet paper than on christmas cards so why not use the news paper for Tp and buy and send cards! Being a miser sucks and is always the death of tradition...lazyness the next in line. dont be lazy just get the cards out. Conrad |
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05 Jan 03 - 10:18 PM (#859520) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 Conrad, just out of curiosity, do you actively work at being an ass or is it simply a genetic thing? Or have the years of experience in assism made it so easy that you no longer notice you're a fuckin' screwloose SOB asshole? What the hell is this thread anyway? First, I didn't get a Christmas card from you, nor did anyone in my village I'm sure, so what's your point? Second, and I know you may not have noticed this, but Christmas is over. Are you actively suggesting we send cards now? Can I expect a Groundhog Day card from you? If not, why not? And when is National Asshole Day? I'm sure you know and if you'll post it here along with your address, I'd be happy to send you a card...several in fact. Once again, fuck you and your piece of shit car. Spaw |
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05 Jan 03 - 10:29 PM (#859526) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: gnu I WIN !!! I only got ONE card in the mail this year and it was from my sister-in-law (she lives a spit away and sees me every week), who sent me a card in the mail just so she could shit on me for not sending her a card (bitch)... so it doesn't count. Officially, I didn't get any cards this Christmas. A start to saving our forests. Join up ! |
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05 Jan 03 - 10:42 PM (#859532) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: khandu Ah! I am happy to see that dear old Spaw has began the new year in his usual affably gregarious style! And, he wins the "First Ass-Burn of the Year" award. Congrats, ole Buddyroe! You on a roll! ;-o k |
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05 Jan 03 - 11:27 PM (#859547) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Matt_R I didn't get a Christmas card from Sinsull. I am sore distressed! |
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05 Jan 03 - 11:53 PM (#859556) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Cluin Well, Christmas is over for another year, I see... |
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06 Jan 03 - 07:38 AM (#859678) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: smallpiper Guest Q - I've not heard Ta used as goodbye only as thanks some peple will say "Taraa" as goodbye perhaps that is what you heard |
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06 Jan 03 - 08:25 AM (#859693) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Ta= from the gaelic to be.... essentially..."let it be" when used so it can be a greeting I guess or a response. I remember it more as a response Conrad |
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06 Jan 03 - 05:02 PM (#860089) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Steve in Idaho Send me a card and I'll return it next year - please provide a self addressed self stamped envelope or I'll throw the dang thing out. Probably steal the stamp and throw it out anyway! Har har - |
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06 Jan 03 - 05:07 PM (#860095) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST Is there any way that the Create a Thread page can be adjusted so that it won't allow Conrad to scream at us with his self-important thread titles? Just a thought. |
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06 Jan 03 - 05:16 PM (#860099) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Mr Red I have been making my own Christmas cards since the 60's. A girlfriend's mother used to find this somehow infra-dig or cheap as she put it. The stupidity was when she showed me the box she bought and only 6 pence a card. I didn't even bother to point out that my individually crafted had not only the personanl touch but the thought was not the price and I thought about the recipient as I made each one. Such concepts were lost on her generation who HAD make things out of poverty. 'sides which how could I explain that they wer more expensive - I was profligate and cheap at the same time. The girlfriend is of course an ex (long since). Now that I do them on a PC they are cheaper but more professional, & I do feel I have lost something. The jokes are worse too! |
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06 Jan 03 - 05:30 PM (#860110) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk I didn't get Christmas cards from either Conrad Bladey OR George Bush Jr!!!! Man, am I feeling left out! ARRGH! But I have a suggestion of my own: Why not this year EVERYBODY (you know, the people Conrad sends Christmas cards to?)...yes, absolutely E-V-E-R-Y-BODY send a Christmas gift of *one penny* to the Nigerian scam artist of your choice...hell, to all of 'em... Nigerian scam artists need love too. Think of how lonely it gets sitting in some seedy apartment in Lagos, churning out thousands and thousands of emails to people who are too hardhearted to even respond to a generous offer to share $30 million dollars for a few simple formalities. Think of the pain of countless rejections! Think of the despair and bereftitude in Nigeria! So I say, show some interest in what they have to offer, ask how you can help, what you can do, whom you should contact...get all the info...and then send 'em a penny (a nice, bright, shiny one) along with an autographed picture of William Shatner jumping rope in the nude, with Conrad holding one end of the rope and Dubya holding the other. (Okay, Spaw? How's that?) It's time we brought a little Christmas spirit to Nigeria. You can make it retroactive to 2002 or just wait till next year, assuming Dubya has not invaded Nigeria by then in search of "terrorists" or weapons of mass destruction... - LH |
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06 Jan 03 - 05:48 PM (#860122) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Ebbie "bereftitude"- I like that, and shall incorporate it ASAP. It sounds vaguely virtuous. |
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06 Jan 03 - 05:58 PM (#860128) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Kim C I send long-distance telepathic bellygrams. |
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06 Jan 03 - 06:09 PM (#860134) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Conrad - What about places where laziness IS a tradition? - LH |
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06 Jan 03 - 07:21 PM (#860201) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Cluin Oh, he's that Conrad? Now I understand... |
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06 Jan 03 - 08:09 PM (#860242) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 Well Conrad, since you haven't responded with the apprpopriate date of National Asshole Day, I took it upon myself to do a web search and found that according to this site it appears to be November 7. I will send you a card or two then if you like, gawd knows you're the biggest asshole I know. I also checked the forum and google for your addy and I found the same one and I was wondering if my cards and those from other members can still reach you at: PO Box 268, Linthicum, MD, 21090? I hope many of us will join in and make your special day even more special. Spaw |
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06 Jan 03 - 08:22 PM (#860256) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk I thought National Asshole Day coincided with the State of the Union address. When is that scheduled for? - LH |
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06 Jan 03 - 09:48 PM (#860321) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: khandu Hey, Kim C sends some great telepathic bellygrams!!! She sent me one for my birthday and I was tantalized, and somewhat titilated! Fortunately, I have a "save" program implanted in my pink matter and I replay the telepathogram quite often! k |
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06 Jan 03 - 10:52 PM (#860364) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST,Q Conrad is certainly not No. 1 Pleasant. |
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06 Jan 03 - 11:18 PM (#860381) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Mark Cohen So, let's see, since I'm Jewish and don't celebrate Christmas, does that make me an automatic moron? Aloha, Mark (admiring 'Spaw's self control for not starting a big all-capitals thread about the Buckeyes winning the national championship....yet) |
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07 Jan 03 - 12:10 AM (#860391) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 Remarkable isn't it? Especially since Max went to Penn State and I like to rub it in. Also did you notice that Big 10 teams went 5-2 in bowl games and Penn State was one of the 2? Might as well throw it in here too doncha' think Mark? I mean Conrad's thread is about as dumb as they get so why not? NATIONAL CHAMPIONS AFTER BEATING A SURPRISED MIAMI TEAMTHE OHIO STATE BUCKEYESJim Tressel, Coach of the YearSpaw |
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07 Jan 03 - 12:18 AM (#860398) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Mark Cohen Watch out, there, big guy, I went to Penn State's medical school. Sure, it was in Chocolate Town and not Happy Valley, but still... Aloha, Mark I mean, you wouldn't want somebody to start mentioning that late pass interference call, now would you...? (insert stupid little smiley face thing here) |
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07 Jan 03 - 02:31 AM (#860434) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST,Raedwulf I don't do Christmas. I don't do cards either. I do Yule. It's a much, much older (if slightly interrupted) tradition. So I think the god of tradition probably loves me more than you, Conrad. So up yours. I'm on spaw's side (if a bit less aggressively so! ;) ). |
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07 Jan 03 - 02:35 AM (#860436) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 Yeah Mark, you're right.....and it was probably a bad call as well. But sometimes the stars and planets line up and the gods smile on the double digit underdog! When they have shut down a great runner and negated the speed of a fast team by matching the speed of a great offense and defense, when a Heisman candidate QB eats more turf in a single game than he has in a year and a team with better players is taken to the wall by a true "team" with better teamwork and spirit, that has always somehow, found a way to win........well then sometimes the gods of football smile and say, "Let them have this small thing for they've earned it." (The call should have been for the earlier Hold instead of Pass Interference anyway) Spaw---With a stupid smiley face and grinning from ear to ear |
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07 Jan 03 - 04:16 AM (#860482) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Mudlark No Christmas cards...one of the 7 bereftitudes...what a great word. |
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07 Jan 03 - 09:13 AM (#860609) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Must have hit a nerve! Ok....don't worry you have almost a whole year to overcome your idjiot problems with christmas cards. You can practice folding paper, addressing and putting the stamp on..... The anti-card folk have still not made any sense.....the spaw folk are simply brainless as well as moronic.... Always accessible and listed. All are welcome always. Stop in! Yes! I have several Jewish friends who send christmas cards! Did I ever tell you that I grew up in Golders Green- nw11 London? Yup! We had the only santa claus on the door in the neighborhood and only christmas tree.... Interesting to see so many on a traditional music place in the anti position. Actually I have found that many folk music people are actually not very traditional at all. They simply use the word to get into other people's pockets! Conrad |
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07 Jan 03 - 09:36 AM (#860619) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: KingBrilliant I love Christmas, I dislike cards. I prefer a smile and a kiss. Or even an email. Cards just seem very impersonal to me. But I'm not a miserable bah-humbug type. Not at all. |
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07 Jan 03 - 10:57 AM (#860681) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Now, Conrad...it takes talent to be both brainless and moronic. Doesn't it? Have compassion. I think you and Spaw both need to sit down with Herr Doktor Liebenscheiss and have a good long talk, get it all out, and set things right between the two of you. I agree that it was a low blow when he insulted your car (which, God knows, is almost as attractive as a pink Edsel...), but he's been under stress. He secretly wants desperately to visit the WSSBA, but has been banned for lifetime from the campus. Can you imagine how he must feel? Now, the Christmas card thing. Do you know that the Canadian Post Office refuses to mail cards that are larger than 6 x 9'? It is simply because of this that I have not sent anyone a Christmas Card in the last 25 years or so. It's not my fault that the Postal authorities in this country lack vision. - LH |
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07 Jan 03 - 12:51 PM (#860786) Subject: RE: BS: Der Goot Doktor Shpeaks.... From: Amos Vell, I tink boff dese boysche iss vewwy sick pups, I can tell you dot!!! It isch clear dat Conrad is deep in a schituation havink to do mit schum kind of substance abuse, und Schpaw on der udder hand isch deeply exploring his cpacities for substanceless abusche!! Scho der two forms uff dishtress beink acted out in der schame forum are collidink!! Und dot makesh for interstink fireverks, nicht war? SCHO der solution is schimple. Der Conrad Peaschant muscht begin immediately to 12-step forward program to become SCHUBSTANCE FREE, much like der Schpaw isch already. Und Schpaw needts at vunce to find a path to greater SCHUBSTANCE, for which I recommend German Fruitcake three times a day mit sauerbraten as chaser, ya?? Dot vill do der trick in schorrt order! Liebenscheiss |
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07 Jan 03 - 12:52 PM (#860788) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST Fuck off, Amos |
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07 Jan 03 - 12:54 PM (#860793) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Amos Wow!! Firworks from unknown sources!! Ich must be a real Berliner!! A |
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07 Jan 03 - 04:20 PM (#860942) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Kim C Teehee! Glad you liked it, khandu. :-) As for Christmas cards... here's my gripe about the storebought kind. They say the STUPIDEST things! Things like "May the old-fashioned joys of Christmas be yours." Oh please. When was the last time you actually SAID that to someone? That's probably why Kris finds them impersonal. I certainly think a stupid cookie-cutter verse is impersonal, likewise the cards you get that have the sender's name preprinted on them. I prefer plain ol' Merry Christmas, or blank cards when I can find them. When I have time, I make my own. No two are ever alike, and I tailor them to each recipient. One year I did some gold-leaf calligraphy for a special friend. Can't buy that in no Hallmark shop. I got an e-mail from an overseas friend the other day. We have known each other about 14 years, since I visited England, and have written back and forth over the years. I didn't know if her snail mail was current, so I sent her an e-card instead. (I am a big fan of the e-card, by the way. They are a lot of fun!) She said, "I bought cards early in December to be ahead of the game, and they are still sitting in the box. But I was thinking about you all, and hope you had a nice Christmas." So, see, just because you don't get a card from someone, doesn't mean they don't care. :-) |
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07 Jan 03 - 08:26 PM (#861187) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* ordinary cards much better than e.cards. too many ecards and servers get all bogged down because ecards are so huge.....that is the attachment variety..... if you do an e.card use one of the sites that keeps it there and does not send the huge image. substance....give me more substance.... Conrad |
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07 Jan 03 - 08:34 PM (#861195) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 Substance? Sure Conrad. Everybody send Conrad a pile of dogshit with a ribbon around it and a couple of bells tied on. Spaw |
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07 Jan 03 - 09:36 PM (#861238) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Cluin I sometimes send non-christmas cards (birthday cards, get wells, sympathy cards). Didn't know I was doing anything wrong... But I do beware of e-cards. I don't send them and don't like getting them. I am suspicious of what those sites are doing with the e-mail addresses provided them. |
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08 Jan 03 - 01:23 AM (#861377) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk The Canadian Post Office won't mail dogshit either. Go figure. How do they expect us to clean up the country? If they did allow the mailing of dogshit, the oval office would presently be neck-deep in the stuff, I can assure you. Herr Liebenscheiss - brilliant analysis...but, remember this: You can lead a horse's ass to water, but you can't make him drink! Conrad, I must agree. e-cards are silly. I delete them with extreme prejudice. I'd like to see NatLamps version of the proud suburban family's yearly boasting and summation-type photo card: Dad is in jail for tax fraud, Mom has run off with Dad's partner, Janie is pregnant and has dropped out of junior high school, Kyle just failed all his midterms and is joining the Satanic Church, and Billie has grown dreadlocks and is shaving all the family pets bald. (Nice photo shows house in utter chaos, with Janie, Kyle, and Billie making rude gestures at the camera, Billie holding shaved cat under one arm and giving finger, Kyle holding reversed cross, Janie smiling to show full set of braces... - LH |
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08 Jan 03 - 02:31 AM (#861396) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Christmas cards are a big rip off, and a waste of trees, anyway what the hells it got to do with you if we send cards or not? do you own a card shop or something? if so, i cant imagine it being very profitable, surely it's the ultimate in stupidity to start a thread telling us how sending christmas cards are so good in January! Are you an idiot, or where you bored? |
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08 Jan 03 - 02:32 AM (#861397) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: GUEST,Raedwulf "Ok....don't worry you have almost a whole year to overcome your idjiot problems with christmas cards. You can practice folding paper, addressing and putting the stamp on..... The anti-card folk have still not made any sense.....the spaw folk are simply brainless as well as moronic...." No, Conrad the only "brainless & moronic" person with "idjiot problems" "still not making any sense" is YOU! Christmas cards are not part of my tradition. Why the hell should I start making them part of it just because you tell me to? Who is it that's started a thread ordering other people to do as *he* wants, handing out gratuitous abuse & recommending posting horse shit to non-compliers? Well, it wasn't spaw, was it? You want to find a brainless moronic idiot, I suggest you go look in the mirror... |
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08 Jan 03 - 02:38 PM (#861801) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* I dont abuse that kind of substance! You can do anything you want! I merely suggest! Cards have so many functions. They can indeed be recycled! I like the art..... send them or dont send them.... but consider...the wonder of it. Conrad |
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08 Jan 03 - 02:52 PM (#861821) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Kim C Have been sending e-cards through Corbis for several years with no problem at all. Mostly they offer that service to promote the sale of their prints, which are numerous, and quite lovely. They don't send an attachment, but a link to your card, so it doesn't muck up any servers. The photos are high-quality, not that silly animated stuff that other sites offer. I prefer sending paper cards, but sometimes you need the sentiment to get there faster. Some folks like to talk on the phone, and that's okay too. Personally I detest it, as do a couple of my friends, so I write instead. Just a different way of communicating. I think it is all right to send cards or not, however you see fit. :-) |
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09 Jan 03 - 08:38 AM (#862477) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* E mail is good for some things but I consider it a basic form of communication one small step behind conversation. Just as one would thank a person for example in conversation and also send a card of thanks I would immagine in the same way one can send an e.mail but to really express yourself formally a card with personal hand written note is the way I like to be thanked. More from the heart and hand. One way of thinking of the cards is that they help support artists. I do my own and enjoy the opportunity once a year to focus my thoughts through creativity. These days there are some very good cards out there done artistically. Check local artist studios. I am thinking of combining music with the card next year including a cd of whistle and perhaps storytelling. Conrad |
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09 Jan 03 - 04:53 PM (#862998) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Cluin Conrad, I'd suggest taking the opportunity to focus your thoughts more than once a year. They're getting a bit scattered and we're all getting caught in the overspray. Merry Christmas. |
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09 Jan 03 - 11:26 PM (#863257) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk I am gonna send a heartfelt PM to Spaw and see if I can get him to send you a card with one of those nice handwritten notes, Conrad... - LH |
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10 Jan 03 - 02:54 AM (#863329) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Gervase Cards? A commercialised pain in the colon. The ones that really piss me off are the corporate ones - I recall interminable hours spent signing reams of cards to people I lcouldn't care two hoots about, and every time I receive one I'm underwhelmed by the gesture. Best card I got this year was from Charlie, the local Big Issue seller in Beaconsfield. That and a couple of home-made jobs were the only ones that actually lifted me and made me think warmly of the senders. As for the rest - a shocking waste of card, ink, saliva and postman's bunions! Of course, as an insidious Roman Catholic consipracy, the plan to overwhelm the postal service with meaningless mail must be fought... (Bloody hell - I've just turned into a troll. Nurse! The screens!!) |
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10 Jan 03 - 05:29 PM (#863875) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* I agree....the commercial ones are a waste.... cards from the realtor who sold the house across the street the insurance company... yes some prohibitions should exist for them. Conrad |
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10 Jan 03 - 07:08 PM (#863942) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: catspaw49 .....as they should against you Conrad. As they should against you.... Ready for Groundhog's Day yet??? Spaw |
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10 Jan 03 - 07:39 PM (#863961) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Spaw, I do hope that you will send Conrad a card soon, for Groundhog Day or some other appropriate occasion, and include an apologetic handwritten note asking for your insensitivity to be pardoned or overlooked. (chuckle) I love this thread. It's inane, dimwitted, almost without any discernable meaning, and it WILL not die! - LH |
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10 Jan 03 - 07:42 PM (#863965) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Cluin Then let's nominate it for a Grammy. |
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10 Jan 03 - 07:50 PM (#863971) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Good idea. |
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11 Jan 03 - 11:15 AM (#864415) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* The cards, the cards, its all in the cards.... the spirit of many things all wrapped up for some warped up for others. But it is like music....if played only for money and not from the heart it falls like an unwanted card into the recycling bin unread. Same too for the wanton discarding of custom. No matter how recent-a well praciced custom given up by lazyness alone. The same goes for music....well too hard to do it right.....I am to lazy to just come out and play in a corner of a pub without electronic amplication free beer and money... The cards that no one wants are the musicians who do not bring a sincere message to festivals. They play for their money then hide from the people behind fences and depart like an unsigned card from the scene as swiftly as can be arranged. Customs are things that defy convenience. They do so to bring rewards of the mind and of the heart that turn time and effort into treasure. This is true of all good folk things. It is worth breaking with the convention to extend the cultural warmth to one and all. Conrad |
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11 Jan 03 - 02:13 PM (#864565) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Hey, good stuff there, Conrad! Couldn't agree more. Buffy Sainte-Marie always comes out after her shows to talk to whoever is still hanging around and wanting to talk. She is a very fine lady. - LH |
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11 Jan 03 - 09:50 PM (#864887) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Thanks LH.... We live in an age where capitolism is waving the folk dog most of the time. Christmas cards are a way to brighten up the place whilst communicating....the ones you dont like you can always burn in the woodstove for heat.... Must go fetch some more wood... Conrad |
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11 Jan 03 - 10:31 PM (#864908) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Do you heat with wood? If so, good. It's quite healthful, and it gives one something to do several times a day too. - LH |
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12 Jan 03 - 10:57 AM (#865170) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* I have been heating with wood for 16 years now! When you heat with wood you get warm four times. One time stacking One time bringing it in third time---burning it fourth time-clearing out ashes The wood stove always has a tea pot on it and that is wonderful too as hot water is always ready for tea. Time for a cup now... Conrad |
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12 Jan 03 - 12:19 PM (#865261) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: Little Hawk Sounds great to me...just like the old days out West. - LH |
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12 Jan 03 - 11:15 PM (#865623) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* just like the old days anywhere! I was just looking at the cards on the wall there....wondering where all the people are and what they are doing a wnderful thing. I am now going to work on my Mr. Dick Web page.....the winter and the issolation of it all have forced me to climb into my work....David Coperfield you know.... more later no doubt. Conrad |
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12 Jan 03 - 11:24 PM (#865627) Subject: RE: BS: NON CHRISTMAS CARD SENDERS BEWARE!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Forgot the address... http://geocities.com/nerilist/essdick.html Click for Mr.Dick .....not that mr Dick either.... Conrad |
