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Who is Jannson, and what does find so tempting about ham?
Edit: Also, my 1000th post, for the second time! Kind of yay!

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Merry Christmas!

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from english wikipedia!

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0:22.. Merry Christmas!

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Whats a sprat?

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http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/EEP/...ges/sprat3.jpg

that.. only pickled.. :D

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that is if you're talking about pickled sprat.. if not.. then it's just that.. not pickled!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

I got five ps3 games and clothes and such for x-mas, not a bad year. Fallout 3 is amazing. Hope you guys have a great one.

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I Didnt.. 1 TShirt and money.


All i need is here.. pr0n :rofl:

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Merry Christmas to all. (Or Happy holidays for you P.C Assholes :lol:)

For those who never realized it Our image of santa With his big white beard and red suit actually stems from the Coca-Cola santa. They Brought The popular image to life.

Most won't actually recognize Father Christmas from before that.


For my Hosti-D'anglais side Christmas diner is alot like a thanksgiving dinner [Turkey, ham, Mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, mashed yams, mashed turnip, meatpie, gravy and stuffing] (Since We do live in quebec some of those are also french canadian classic meal parts). But the deserts change to more classic christmas ones like fudge, cookies, etc.

Italian side Is typical 3 course meal including pasta (or soup), appetizers, And main dish made up of meat (such as lamb or veal), or fish, and Some greens (Salad, cooked vegetables)

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^Yes, I'm talking about pickled sprat. and that's the fish!
Wiki article also said this:

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Hohoho :P

Merry Christmas / Holidays for all

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***Yaaaawwwwwnnn***** Merry Christmas boys and girls! Wonderful time here. Christmas Eve at Mom&Pop's we departed from traditional turkey and dressing and went the deli route for a delightful change. Almost summer-like: both smoked and fried turkey and smoked ham for sandwiches on rolls and different breads, potato salad, all kinds of pickles and spicy relish stuff like dill and kosher and sweet cucumber pickles, olives, pickled onions, deviled eggs, slaws, salads, and great pre-dinner dips like an artichoke/Parmesan sinfully rich spread, and an almost-a-meal, chicken/cheese& heavy cream dip. And desserts, oh my! Standard pecan pie (mine!); coconut chess pie (like a dense egg custard, and so rich! my fave); plain yellow cake with thick, hard chocolate frosting; some kind of baked ice cream cake; pecan pralines; and the piece de resistance, a vanilla custard and chocolate tiramisu (like a trifle). Huzzah! It was like Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Present it was so bountiful!

Christmas morning has been festive at Casa JumJum. Uncle Jummy got needed clothes, some neat light gadget with a mini-table that fits on the arm of your recliner/arm chair; Coppola's redone Godfather Trilogy plus a 4th dvd of extras (!); some fantastically warm shearling-lined moccasins; a wicker laundry hamper; luxury back scrub brush; a microfleece 'throw' and some Cuisinart stainless steel cooking utensils (I asked for them - your desires change as you get older).

Mrs. Jummy got clothes, books, dvds and a Dell laptop. Okay, it was my son's two-year-old laptop that had a horrendously deep and tenacious virus (he said it was something with a name like "pmd38", I dunno). We tried several times to fix it and couldn't, so we just made it a paperweight and got him a cheap desktop. I finally had his new roommate, a super computer geek (hooray!) clean the laptop and make it useful, in lieu of his part of his first month's rent. It took a lot of work and a couple of weeks, but Mrs. J. can now ditch her 8-year old lappie that barely wheezes along. And my outlay was minimal. ;)

The Jummy Kids are both in college (aha! More pieces of the puzzle!) Jummy Boy got clothes and shoes; Jummy Girl got clothes, plus one of those "Snuggies" blankets-with-sleeves from the stupid tv ads. It looks like someone wearing a heavy robe backwards. She laughed at how the thing looks like the younger Obi Wan Kenobi's robe, so she put on a big wide belt and sure enough it looks like a Jedi Knight robe...from the front - it's a little breezy in the back.

This morning, I baked a delectably juicy sausage/onion/egg and cheese casserole. I had cooked the onions and sausage yesterday and let it and all the cooking juices blend in with the mixed raw eggs and cheddar and Swiss cheese overnight. Plus blaaaaaack coffee, strong enough to wake the dead. A manly, meaty and rich Christmas breakfast indeed! I feel strong, vital and mighty - give me a wall to tear down! Yaaaarrraaaaghhhhh!!

This evening it's over to the mother-in-law's to open more presents and have the traditional turkey, dressing, cranberries, rice, gravy, green beans dinner. A little Riesling, maybe some rose' or merlot, and some kind of chocolate desserts.

And then I'll repair downstairs to a deep chair in front of whatever bowl game might be on (are there any? I haven't checked) and sleep like I'm comatose while all the womenfolk assemble in front of a big screen and watch some chick flick with Hugh Grant or Mr. Darcy or Heathcliff. Ah, heavenly.

P.S. - Stray03, I want to eat with you next Christmas - either side of the family is okay by me!.

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Sounds like you've got a heaping serving of the American dream there Jums. You're a lucky man :)

Merry Christmas all! Be safe; dont get drunk and drive your car like a panzer III.

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The puzzel is almost complete. Checking all lawyers from the southern states who are married and have 2 children who bought a laptop this month.

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Yes. Yes I am. Of course all is not perfection, and we face many trials. But not today. And I'm very thankful.

BuuuuuwwwAAAAAhhhaaaahhhaaaaa!!! Ah, but the laptop was bought two years ago and only recently put to rights! You'll never take me alive, coppers!

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Damn. One day you will stop running Jum :(

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I got the Godfather trilogy as well! Was yours blu-ray?

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Hell yes I remember! I was in the mists of getting over my Wild Irish Rose hangover at the time!

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Got lucky and my wife drove me home from the in laws.....My whole family (minus my brother) does not do the whole Christmas bit so I stopped at my lil'brothers house and dropped off some gifts before walking home about 2 hours later. Merry Christmas ya bastards!

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Merry Christmas...with 10 mins left.

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You must be a fella east coast bitch...........

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Its over - 12:03AM.

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Nah, I haven't sprung for the high def tv yet. This Summer I thought the prices on a high def widescreen would be low enough this Christmas to make a good deal, but with the economy so dicey, we didn't do any big ticket items like that, deciding instead to sock our $ away and see what will happen....and from all the wailing of the merchants it looks like I wasn't the only one with that cautious attitude.

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Happy holidays :3

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Mine was blu-ray because my dad deemed it necessary to buy 3 ps3's so we could have two blu-ray players here and one at college. I don't find it all that appealing.

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Home made brownies, Dads Army and Wallace and Gromit on the telly.

Pretty good Christmas this one.

:)

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I always watch The Snowman and Father Christmas on Christmas eve.

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Christmas for me started off rather stressful. After getting little sleep (you try sleeping with the routine for preparing brussel sprouts going round your head) and being woken at 9am (about 2 hours too early), I had an hour to eat breakfast and open presents before we left for the estate's shooting lodge.

Here we had lunch with most of my father's and step mother's side of the family. There was turkey, swede mash, carrot and swede mash, sprouts, peas, roast potatos, bacon coated cocktail sausages, gravy and stuffing. Much fun was had confusing my neice by distracting her from toys by having her deliver presents to 2 grandfathers and 3 greatgrandfathers (all called grandfather).

After all that we came back to my mothers house and had too open more presents (I say it like its a bad thing). We then all sat down and watched Blackadder, Eastenders, Wallace and Gromit and the Royle Family.

I went to bed with a pounding headache (caused by a cold meeting sleep deprivation and alcohol) and got up today at about 2pm.

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I'm kind of curious. what is "Swede mash"? mashed potatoes?

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I can see Wallace and Gromit, but why on earth Eastenders? :(. Along the same lines as Wallace and Gromit you should have watched Robbie the reindeer!

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Swedes are rutabagas.

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I had Pizza for Christmas dinner. Yea, my grandma never has pizza so she insisted that we have pizza for dinner.... >_<

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Ah, Blackadder! "I have a cunning plan, my lord." I believe I have every Blackadder ever committed to tape or dvd - there just aren't enough of them. There are many which were broadcast which are not available, IIRC. And to think Lord Blackadder's goofy Prince of Wales is now the mean-tempered Dr. House. The mind boggles.

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I 'watched' eastenders because I was trying to read and couldn't be bothered to leave the room. But this Robbie thing, enlighten me for I fear that I have never heard of it.

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Hooves of Fire (1999) (TV)

BBC original, make sure you get the english one and not the embarassing american one.

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Well, my trappings are:

German S-Boots 1939-1945
The Day of the Panzer, a book on the allied landings in southern france
General book of Ignorance, a book on how many trivia facts are actually incorrect (like bell didn't invent the telephone, and the colour of the universe is actually beige)

Caddyshack on dvd

From Jos. A Bank, I got:
1 Charcoal grey marino wool topcoat
1 grey cashmere scarf
1 pair of brown leather dress gloves

From Hats in the Belfry:

1 Panama hat

I also got a new pair of headphones, and technically, my new computer:P

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I bought the complete DVD set for my father this christmas from PBS, cost alot but It was worth it. 5 DVD's total including special features and Movies (Black adders christmas carol, etc). First Gift I've seen him actually excited about...

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Heh. Earlier today when I saw the Blackadder reference I went immediately to YouTube. "The Scottish Play" and "The Duke of Wellington Visits The Prince of Wales" bits from the 3rd season. It was good to laugh like that.

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I remember one time when I was younger I didn't fancy having turkey for my Christmas dinner, so my mum made me fish and chips while everyone else had the usual.

:)


Oh, I watched Wall-E on dvd last night.

Its the first time I've seen it and I couldn't believe how good it was. I knew it was a Pixar film so it was going to be pretty decent but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did.