Here's my Christmas card to everyone, e-style.
It's the best I could do.
Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money? - Tom Armstrong
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year. - Victor Borge
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark. - Dick Gregory
Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.
It's Donder, not Donner.
A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
On Christmas Eve in 2001, the Bethlehem Hotel had 208 of its 210 rooms free.
It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen," not "God rest ye, merry gentlemen."
Merry Christmas & Love to All !
From
Me
'n the Beej
It's the best I could do.
Christmas "Quotes"
"Do
give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never
fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." - Lenore Hershey
"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit." - Kin Hubbard
"A
lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a
thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." - Garrison Keillor
"Christmas
begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when
you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next
year." - P. J. O'Rourke
Strange Quotes About Santa:
Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money? - Tom Armstrong
I
stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see
him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley
Temple Black
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year. - Victor Borge
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark. - Dick Gregory
Santa
Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long
hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? - Arlo
Guthrie
I
played Santa Claus many times, and if you don't believe it, check out
the divorce settlements awarded my wives. - Groucho Marx "The Groucho
Phile"
Strange Christmas Facts 
Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.
Based on surveys, 17 percent of people will embarrass themselves in some way at the office Christmas party.
A Mongolian wild ass can run 8 mph faster than a reindeer.
It's Donder, not Donner.
Christmas pudding should be stirred from east to west.
56 percent of Americans sing holiday carols to their pets.
53 percent of Americans plan to "re-gift" this year.
1 in 3 men will wait until Christmas Eve to finish their shopping.
1 in 6 men would like to get rid of all the "gift-giving nonsense."
A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
On Christmas Eve in 2001, the Bethlehem Hotel had 208 of its 210 rooms free.
It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen," not "God rest ye, merry gentlemen."
There are 1.76 billion candy canes produced every year.
Kris Kringel, a man in his 40s, lives in North Pole, Alaska, and delivers pizzas for a living. He drives a 1984 Ford Tempo.
Based
on a 1999 estimated population count of North America and Europe, on
Christmas Eve of that year Santa Claus had to visit 42,466,666 homes in a
12-hour period -- that's 983 homes per second.
Merry Christmas & Love to All !
From
Me
3 comments:
Lots of interesting reading there, Mike. Did you get Beej something special for Christmas?
Give Beej an ear scratch for us Mike.
B gets a can of tuna, usually reserved for his Sunday dinner.
I bought me a hot water bottle.
Love to you both.
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