I'll lead off....Merry Christmas to all ya'll

[Wadey]

Merry Christmas

Have a great one

[Charles]

> Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual
> Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic
> activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential,
> including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery
> was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood burning
> caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an
> imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose
> folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas.
>
> The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective
> accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual
> hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically
> through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our
> nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the
> hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the
> grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt
> compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose
> of ascertaining the precise source thereof.
>
> Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this
> fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without,
> reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline
> precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself
> - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a
> miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive
> specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur
> so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he
> was indeed our anticipated caller. With his ungulate motive power
> travelling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than
> patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath
> musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by
> his or her respective cognomen - "Now Dasher, now Dancer..." et al. -
> guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which
> structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the
> 32 cloven pedal extremities.
>
> As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was
> performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved -
> with utmost celerity and via a downward leap - entry by way of the smoke
> passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony
> residue from oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on
> the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed
> largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in
> a commodious cloth receptacle.
>
> His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his
> submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging
> amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenance
> were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the
> former approximating the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the
> latter that of the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and
> supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their
> ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and
> columnar crystals of frozen water.
>
> Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey
> fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a
> decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was
> high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region
> undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical
> container. He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese,
> jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me
> visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By
> rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head
> slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was
> groundless.
>
> Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the
> aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the aforementioned
> articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously
> dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he
> executed an abrupt about-face, placed a single manual digit in lateral
> juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a
> gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected his egress by
> renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself
> in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of
> air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of
> burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observable
> chiefly among the seed-bearing portions of a common weed. But I
> overheard his parting exclamation, audible immediately prior to his
> vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletide to the
> planetary constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my sincerest
> wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period
> between sunset and dawn."*

* Blatantly plagiarized.

[chugbug]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[noleflyfisher]

Merry Christmas to all and to all a tight line!

[RD]

> Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual
> Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic
> activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential,
> including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery
> was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood burning
> caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an
> imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose
> folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas.
>
> The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective
> accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual
> hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically
> through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our
> nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the
> hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the
> grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt
> compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose
> of ascertaining the precise source thereof.
>
> Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this
> fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without,
> reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline
> precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself
> - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a
> miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive
> specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur
> so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he
> was indeed our anticipated caller. With his ungulate motive power
> travelling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than
> patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath
> musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by
> his or her respective cognomen - "Now Dasher, now Dancer..." et al. -
> guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which
> structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the
> 32 cloven pedal extremities.
>
> As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was
> performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved -
> with utmost celerity and via a downward leap - entry by way of the smoke
> passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony
> residue from oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on
> the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed
> largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in
> a commodious cloth receptacle.
>
> His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his
> submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging
> amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenance
> were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the
> former approximating the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the
> latter that of the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and
> supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their
> ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and
> columnar crystals of frozen water.
>
> Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey
> fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a
> decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was
> high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region
> undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical
> container. He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese,
> jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me
> visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By
> rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head
> slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was
> groundless.
>
> Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the
> aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the aforementioned
> articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously
> dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he
> executed an abrupt about-face, placed a single manual digit in lateral
> juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a
> gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected his egress by
> renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself
> in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of
> air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of
> burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observable
> chiefly among the seed-bearing portions of a common weed. But I
> overheard his parting exclamation, audible immediately prior to his
> vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletide to the
> planetary constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my sincerest
> wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period
> between sunset and dawn."*

* Blatantly plagiarized.

Must be from north Wakulla Co because I sure aint ever heard anybody in the south part of the county talk like that.

[Reel Slow]

Merry Xmas all

[rocket]

Happy Festivus and Merry Christmas.

And now for the airing of grievances.

Don't forget the feats of strength
Merry Christmas yall