Re: Happy Merry.

["C.Splinter" <C.Splinter () concepts nl>]

And this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:11 PM
Subject: [funsec] Happy Merry.


> It seems to be getting harder to give ... greetings at this time of the 
> year.  There's
> a bit of risk involved.  Lots of people think we are exclusive to be 
> simply wishing
> everyone to enjoy *our* holiday.  (Of course, if you think that, you have 
> no right
> to use the word "holiday," now, do you?  :-)
>
> I had thought I'd made a decent attempt with "Merry Mid-Winter Party 
> Period."
> Until Gary, Les, and others in the southern hemisphere took exception to 
> the
> seasonal-centredness of that phrase.
>
> Recently one of our local columnists came up with "non-denominational-
> culturally-palatable-holiday-seasonal-politically-correct-racially-inoffensive-ritual-
> drained-of-all-religious-meaning-so-as-to-be-acceptable-to-every-creed-festival."
>
> So, never mind.  Merry Christmas.  Whether you like it or not.  (If not, 
> you can
> have a Happy New Year anyway  :-)
>
> In keeping with Christmas itself, I wanted to give you a Christmas 
> present.  Maybe
> a little early, but I wanted to catch you before some of you disappear 
> into family
> time and last minute tasks for the Exmas Rush (
> http://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2006/12/exmas.html ).  You don't have 
> to wait
> until December 25th if you don't want to.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyviyF-N23A
> Very cute, but possibly not completely original.  A great many people have
> apparently done a "Silent Monks" version.  Still, this seems the most 
> involved
> and active.
> The earliest versions I could find were from 2008:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkXmOIwpkQ
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSk8h1oG8nY
> Slight variation:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk69F2Fg7HE
>
> Slightly more seriously:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0WIJw8JVeU
>
> And, in response to the commercialization of it all:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPGJ5-XAcM
>
>
> For those who want lighter fare:
> http://nvdpl.bibliocommons.com/list/show/74277513_rslade/97543152_dangerousl
> y_socialist_kids_movies
>
> Or, slightly geekier:
> http://owasp.blogspot.com/2011/12/12-days-of-christmas.html
>
> Or, for those trying to keep warm:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkj9LQINI0
>
> Or, for those deeply into their devices:
> https://diasp.org/photos/372118
>
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