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Merry Ho Ho, y’all!

Midnight in Old Blighty. Uncle B wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas, but he felt funny doing it in the Dead Pool thread.

So I made him this here post.

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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 25, 2011, 12:23 am

According to the NORAD Santa tracker Ol’ Fatty is currently over Lisbon, Portugal.

It won’t be long now.

I’ll get the axe.


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: December 25, 2011, 12:24 am

Merry Christmas fellow minions!


Comment from Argentium G. Tiger
Time: December 25, 2011, 12:28 am

Merry Christmas you two! 🙂


Comment from Laughing Buddha
Time: December 25, 2011, 1:10 am

Merry Christmas to everyone.


Comment from Laughing Buddha
Time: December 25, 2011, 1:11 am

Merry Christmas to you guys too. And everyone else as well.


Comment from Redd
Time: December 25, 2011, 1:40 am

Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day (whatever the hell that is)!


Comment from Pablo
Time: December 25, 2011, 1:42 am

Happy Christmas, good people.


Comment from Armybrat
Time: December 25, 2011, 2:11 am

Merry Christmas all!


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: December 25, 2011, 2:56 am

We (minions) wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here is your Christmas thought, passed along from a friend today:

Everything will be fine in the end and if they aren’t fine, it can’t be the end yet

Pass it on 🙂


Comment from Mojo
Time: December 25, 2011, 3:01 am

Dog bless us, every one!


Comment from naleta
Time: December 25, 2011, 3:34 am

Merry Christmas everyone!

And Boxing Day is my wedding anniversary. 😉


Comment from Mamba1-0
Time: December 25, 2011, 3:42 am

And a very Merry Christmas to both of you, too.


Comment from BigBluBug
Time: December 25, 2011, 4:03 am

Thank you Stoaty and Uncle Badger and the splendid and erudite commentators on this blog who bring the funny and the smarts.

May this Christmas be the best you’ve ever had but let it pale in comparison with those yet to come.

Best to you all and a good night,

Stephan


Comment from RushBabe
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:30 am

What a relief to wish you all a Merry Christmas! I saw that Etta James is on a breathing machine and expected to see that Stoaty was out a dick again! So much nicer to see Christianist greetings than a new dead pool winner!


Comment from Anonymous
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:47 am

It’s 5.00 pm in the antipodes
Pressie’s received
much celebration(read inebriation)
ankle biters outside playing cricket.
Thunder storm on the horizion.
God I love Australia


Comment from Oceania
Time: December 25, 2011, 6:18 am

You are not in the Antipodes.
It is a small shitty Antarctic Island off the coast … and the time there if you were would be 7:05 PM ..


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: December 25, 2011, 6:28 am

Merry Christmas, all..

Fairwell and adiu to you fair Spanish Ladies….
Fairwell and adiu you Ladies of Spain……

For we’ve recieved orders for to sail back to Boston…..
And so, nevermore, shall we see you again……


Comment from Oceania
Time: December 25, 2011, 6:58 am

Spanish Ladies?

Most likely Herpetic ..


Comment from GregO
Time: December 25, 2011, 7:39 am

Merry Christmas all, and Happy Hanukkah.

G.O.


Comment from sandman says nothing to see here
Time: December 25, 2011, 8:36 am

Merry Christmas all. Finding this blog has been great. Thanks.


Comment from lizardbrain
Time: December 25, 2011, 11:53 am

Merry Christmas, Stoaty & Uncle B.


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: December 25, 2011, 12:35 pm

Merry Christmas everyone!


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: December 25, 2011, 1:48 pm

Merry Christmas to you Oceania! You really are fun in your own cranky way.


Comment from Deborah
Time: December 25, 2011, 3:37 pm

Merry Christmas! Cold and overcast this morning in the Texas Hill Country. Husband and I have opened presents while Skyping with our kids in St.Louis, and eaten pancakes for breakfast (I forgot to add the blueberries). Now we are tucked under our lap blankets with a fresh pot of coffee share—and we each have a computer in our lap.

What a funny new world, huh, to so easily greet all of you around the world! I hope you have/had a lovely day. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our hostess Stoaty, and her darling Uncle Badger, and the chickens and the cat(s), and the rest of the creatures in their corner of England.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 25, 2011, 3:40 pm

We just opened presents, and a very satisfactory thing it was, too.

He bought me THREE computer games, which means he doesn’t wish to speak to me ever again. Or perhaps it’s because he also bought me a banjo strap and some stainless steel strings, and he’s hoping I’ll be too busy playing computer games to wander around the house picking the banjo.


Comment from Sven in Colorado
Time: December 25, 2011, 3:45 pm

Merry Christ-Mass, or as our Hispanic neighbors rejoice with rare Roman Catholic clarity….Feliz Navidad!

‘Tis a grand day to recall that one point where the Lord God of the Universe chose to give his only Son. A gift for all humankind, providing us all the opportunity to reconcile with our great, creator God….even crotchety ol’ kiwi trolls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF9-ZKvXYs0&feature=youtu.be


Comment from Argentium G. Tiger
Time: December 25, 2011, 4:56 pm

Which games did he get you, Stoaty?


Comment from Pablo
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:14 pm

He bought me THREE computer games, which means he doesn’t wish to speak to me ever again. Or perhaps it’s because he also bought me a banjo strap and some stainless steel strings, and he’s hoping I’ll be too busy playing computer games to wander around the house picking the banjo.

“A new Mercedes? Oh, so you want me out of the house, then?”

There’s only one way to win, fellas.


Comment from Redd
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:15 pm

Did the chickens get presents, too?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:16 pm

Witcher, Deus Ex and Skyrim.

I reckon he doesn’t want to see me for at least six months.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:17 pm

All the animals good food treats, but they won’t get their real presents until after Christmas dinner (which we have as a late evening meal).

Let’s face it, food is about the most exciting thing you can give most animals.


Comment from tawny
Time: December 25, 2011, 5:49 pm

Merry Christmas Stoaty and Badger. Thanks for all the laughs and photoshops (and of course the spotted dicks) in 2011 and may 2012 bring you everything you wish for.


Comment from Mojo
Time: December 25, 2011, 6:52 pm

That reminds me, didn’t Bertie Wooster at one time take up something called a ” banjolele”?

I shudder at the mere name.


Comment from Redd
Time: December 25, 2011, 6:58 pm

Let’s face it, food is about the most exciting thing you can give most animals.

With dogs — Bam! It’s gone! 🙂

They swallow it so fast, how can they even taste it?


Comment from weaselwannabe
Time: December 25, 2011, 7:32 pm

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

And “God bless us, each and every one of us!”
Except the trolls… and most of my picks in the Dead Pool.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 25, 2011, 8:52 pm

Chickens taste things carefully before they swallow, Redd. Which isn’t to say they’re discriminating. They’ll eat any small object, including (that I have observed) chunks of coal and beads of styrofoam. They scoop bits up and clack their beaks to roll it over their tongues, which makes an amusing little chattering sound.

Oh, dear, Mojo. Yes. That is just what it sounds like — the bastard child of a banjo and a ukulele. Size and tuning of a uke, body of a banjo. They were all the rage here. Still commonly available as a used item (and one or two still make them new).

See: Formby, George.


Comment from Redd
Time: December 25, 2011, 9:18 pm

IOW, stoaty, you’re saying giant chickens could and would eat us? [shudder]


Comment from Argentium G. Tiger
Time: December 25, 2011, 9:24 pm

Stoaty> Witcher, Deus Ex and Skyrim.

Ooooo, all of those look like fantastic choices!

> I reckon he doesn’t want to see me for at least six months.

Or he wants to keep you firmly anchored, so he can enjoy new creatively strung together curses as you hit the hard parts of the games. *hee*

Enjoy!


Comment from Oceania
Time: December 25, 2011, 9:26 pm

Me? Cranky?
It is stinking hot 38 C here – and I’m down to my last bottle of Lindauer … travesty.


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: December 25, 2011, 10:48 pm

Merry Christmas Weasel and Badger–and minions who celebrate it–and particularly to the Troll, who is sounding almost human these days, long may it wave!


Comment from Oceania
Time: December 25, 2011, 11:08 pm

Do not tempt fate.


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: December 25, 2011, 11:57 pm

Mellow with half a bottle of champagne taking the edge off and the (very probably literally) divine Elin Manahan Thomas singing Handel and Bach into the middle of my head through headphones. while Her Staotliness kills aliens and Charlotte sleeps on the bed.

Later will come a little cognac, Purcell and Tallis.

Guess who got CDs for Christmas?

Badger <——————– happy

Wishing all minions the blessing of peace and contentment.


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: December 26, 2011, 12:59 am

Oceania: Heh. Point taken. Hope the last Lindauer was mellow–and a splendid New Year lies ahead.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 26, 2011, 1:45 am

Huh. Dunno what you’re cranky about Oceania. You got Christmas first. You had a chance to breathe all over it before the rest of us got a shot.


Comment from Mono The Elder
Time: December 26, 2011, 5:57 am

He’s just mad that all he got was a non-renewable fossil fuel energy source.


Comment from Mike James
Time: December 26, 2011, 6:15 am

Still Christmas where I am, Merry Christmas


Comment from Ghost
Time: December 26, 2011, 7:09 am

Merry Christmas from across the pond, over the mountains, over the river, over some more mountains, to the pond on the other side. I think that’s how I got here, anyway.


Comment from SCOTTtheBADGER
Time: December 26, 2011, 7:20 am

This Badger worked Christmas Eve, am working Christmas night, and have to work next weekend, too. I kept busy Christmas Eve, and added a few gray hairs to my pelt. You would think that people could stay sober ONE night a year! Still the red and blue LEDs of a Federal Signal ARJENT lightbar do look very Christmassy.


Comment from JuliaM
Time: December 26, 2011, 7:47 am

And a very Merry Christmas to you both!

Now for the best meal of the Christmas Holidays – the cold turkey!


Comment from Mitchell
Time: December 26, 2011, 8:16 am

Late to the rounds and it’s just tipped past actual Christmas here but I’m wishing y’all a merry one anyway. Also hoping we all have a better New Year.


Comment from Oceania
Time: December 26, 2011, 12:07 pm

I’ve just heard that $4 billion worth of Patriot missiles has been resold to China labelled as ‘fireworks’ for $125 Billion by Israel.

Merry Xmas All~!


Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: December 26, 2011, 2:14 pm

“Frosty the Snowman
“Was Jesus Christ’s best friend;
“He stood there melting by the cross
“Until the very end!”

No, not mine, but I wish I’d written it. This one’s mine, to the tune of “Winter Wonderland”:

“Later on, we’ll perspire;
“‘Is that A/C? Turn it higher!’
“We drive and we grump
“O’er potholes and bumps —
“Sweating in a sticky swampy land!”

Merry Christmas to all and may your New Year be bright!


Comment from jwpaine
Time: December 26, 2011, 3:25 pm

Wolfus Aurelius: You must live in southern Louisiana.

Everyone: Merry Xbox and a Sappy Loo Beer!


Comment from beasn
Time: December 26, 2011, 6:29 pm

Oceania, why do you hate the Joos?

If anything, little Barry and his team of flying monkeys gift wrapped those things personally to China, kind of like that drone they gave Iran.


Comment from Oceania
Time: December 26, 2011, 10:32 pm

Who said I hate Jews? I certainly hate Muslims. In fact, I’m sure I hate everyone! I’m an equal opportunity discriminator – I discriminate indiscriminately.

I certainly hate the heat … I might find a meat chiller to sleep in tonight.


Comment from Mono The Elder
Time: December 26, 2011, 11:33 pm

So, I always thought Hell was y’know, hot. I mean, If that ISNT your plan then I’d be interested on how to plan to breath in said meat chiller.


Comment from Ric Locke
Time: December 27, 2011, 1:07 am

-> I’m an equal opportunity discriminator – I discriminate indiscriminately.

Careful. You are coming dangerously close to gaining my good opinion.

Regards,
Ric


Comment from ermine
Time: December 27, 2011, 5:32 am

Sorry, I was making rather merry and forgot to wish you all a happy Christmas…so happy St. Stephens day…crap, missed that one too.


Comment from Bill (the .003% of your traffic from AfStan)T
Time: December 27, 2011, 10:28 am

…he felt funny doing it in the Dead Pool thread.

So, you’re saying he hasn’t been married to you long enough?


Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: December 27, 2011, 3:02 pm

Wolfus Aurelius: You must live in southern Louisiana.

Everyone: Merry Xbox and a Sappy Loo Beer!

JWpaine, how’d you know? You must be familiar with this pesthole.

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