We are starting the Perfect Holiday season, as practiced and performed here.
As we enter the holiday season I invite you all to enter this thread and spread warmth, cheer, and joy.
We celebrate the season and all the holidays and Holy Days within it. Whether you are just finishing Ramadan or preparing for Hanukkah, whether you demand that Christ return to Christmas, or flee from organized religion, or all of the above, you are welcome.
There are some rules.
Food is to be offered in a communal feast. All food in this thread is of the finest quality, and is miraculously free of calories, carbohydrates, salts or any other dangerous ingredients.
Alcohol is plentiful and guaranteed to leave no hangover.
Presents are to be given to everyone, so even the Lurkers out there get something.
No commercialization, no commercials, and no selling.
No serious threads. You want to debate religion or politics or even Artificial VS Real Christmas trees, leave now.
We will need someone to be in charge of punishing those who break these rules. Rita? That sounds up your alley.
If you love the holidays, welcome.
If you hate the holidays or any of the holidays, stick around. We hope that we've removed any thing you could possibly dislike, (including crazy relatives and depressing office politics) and leave only the joy, wonder, and sharing.
Grab a warm blanket, sit by the fire, roast a few chestnuts and enjoy. There is Egg Nog on the table and French Onion Dip to your left.
Happy Holidays to all.
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
Wahoo! Yule tidings everyone! Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
bah humbug is my middle name, but if there are cookies, i'll hang out for a while.
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Can we call it Festivus?
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
We have 24 dozen mixed cookies, all made by my wife's Italian grandmother (she makes 12 Gross of cookies every year to pass out to everyone). We are a bit short on chocolate chip though. We have sesame seed cookies, and thumbpring cookies and anise cookies and powder-puff cookies and a bunch more.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
L'chaim!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Can we have Muscat and hot chocolate?
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
Pumpkin pie and spiced cider. Warm holiday cheer!
Edit: Dan, my mom makes thumbprint cookies! They are among my favorites. She says her favorites are wreath cookies made of cornflakes and dyed green.
[ November 11, 2003, 05:18 PM: Message edited by: Christy ]
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Hot Cider!! Get your hot spiced cider here!
No, you CAN'T spike it!! Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
*adds spinach balls to the table of food*
I know they contain spinach, but the dressing and cheese and spice make up for it!
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
Mmm....pumpkin pie and spiced apple cider and cookies...sounds like my Samhain celebration all over again.
Now down to business, where's the pecan pie?
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I come bearing my mother's panforte.... it's gooooooood.
(My mother cannot make things rise in the kitchen - problem for souffles and sponges but it means her brownies and panforte are divine)
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Did you say pianoforte? Gosh, I'm glad someone thought to bring one!!
*sits down and starts playing background music like a lounge lizard*
Thank you so much! Do you have any requests?
Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :
I brought roasted chestnuts.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
*staggers in with a tree*
Woops. Oak doesn't cut it.
*staggers back out with the tree*
*staggers back in with a pine tree*
Ahh, thats better.
*grabs cookies and cider*
Request: "Oh, Christmas Tree." Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
♪ O Tannenbaum *snap* o Tannenbaum *snap* ♫
Thank you so much!
[ November 12, 2003, 01:16 AM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Here, I've brought you an accordian instead... go crazy. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Rumballs!
*wiggles eyebrows above the fumes
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
How about good ol' fashioned sugar cookies?
And here's some herbal wreaths I made with plants from my garden for everyone!
And a stocking full of Chocolate Frogs!
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
Here are some more cookies - the kind that are crackers with peanut butter dipped in dark chocolate.
And a couple bottles of Bailey's. Like Dan said, no hangovers, no matter how much you have!
Who wants to sing? I know lots of Christmas carols, and I'm a quick learner, so let's do some other songs, too!
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
OOH!! I want to sing!!!
*sings*
♫
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I'm glad the party is picking up.
I have the pop-corn popping over the fire. What we don't eat will go on our new tree. Its real pop-corn and I have real butter to put on it.
Music. I forgot the music. I'm glad someone else brought it.
"Deck the Halls with Bows of Holly"
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Oops! Forgot the champagne. Vintage & hangover-free gaurenteed.... I also have crayfish, prawns and other assorted seafood (well, we have to cater to those of us who have christmas in hot climates)
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Can you pass the cheese log? Did anyone bring a cheese log? You forgot the cheese log?!!! Ah, the injustice!
*hands Raia the accordian*
*pulls a piano out of her pocket*
♪ Deck the halls *snap* with boughs of *snap* holly, HEY! Falalala *snap* lalalalala Hey! Take it Raia! ♫
[ November 13, 2003, 01:01 AM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
♪ ♫ ♪ ♫
*bows to Narnia* Thank you, m'dear! *sings*
*dances around madly*
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
heeheehee! This is a great party!
*joins in the dancing*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*brings in french silk pie for everyone* <-- my favorite
*brings in metronome* Narnia, you're not snapping in time!
*joins in singing and dancing*
*grumbles at not remembering how post musical notes*
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Eruve, it's jazz. *shoots Eruve a withering look*
Any more requests? I might just step out for a minute to get the cheese log that I've been hankering for.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
We need something we can dance too.
What have you got to?
We are also building snow forts in the back yard. Snow ball fights will begin soon.
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
Snowball fights?!? I'm in!!
*runs outside, with mittens on, of course!*
Posted by Koryu (Member # 5922) on :
#^_^# Hey everyone!!
(brings cheesy hash browns and bread pudding)
Whoo! It's cold out there! Is there any hot cider?
~Ryuko~
[ November 14, 2003, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: Koryu ]
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:We need something we can dance too.
Motown! And some cheerful Leonard Cohen ("So long, Mariaannnn-eh!").
quote:brings cheesy hash browns ...
(I love Ryoko)
[ November 15, 2003, 10:47 AM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Lovely party...but may I offer an actual Thanksgiving song? Well, sort of..."Alice's Restaurant", by Arlo Guthrie. The holidays just aren't the same without it.
*takes a cookie and goes off to stand in the corner, as she always does at parties*
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I LOVE THAT SONG!!
I know someone who can perform the entire thing, all 20 minutes of it, just him and the guitar... he did it for me this summer, I thought I would die laughing!!
Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
:: comes in through the front door :: Weee!!! Where do I park the truck with all the presents? :: through the windows everybody sees a giant double-length semi filled with presents ::
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Awesome! Though personally I prefer real trees to artificial.
♪ ♫ Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping on your nose♪ ♫
Imogen, you brought the best food. Here's your present, c'mon, unwrap it! And for Raia and Marek. . .your present.
I've brought a nice star for the tree. It's big and gold with curly silver bits. Who's got the stepladder?
*pulls a cracker* Whee!
*tosses snowball at Trogdor* C'mon, man, light a nice fire!
Oh, I rented It's A Wonderful Life.
Can we go carolling?
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
(((((Black Mage))))) What a wonderful present!! Thank you!!! Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Are you planning on using it finally?
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
*helps unload the presents*
Look at all these beautiful wrappings! I love presents - they're so pretty!
Where'd those cookies go? I could use a couple of cookies.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*sings "Carol of the Bells* (that's my favorite Christmas Carol) C'mon Raia! Join me! Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
ooooh a present!
::eagerly unwraps::
ooh, it's a.... wait a....
hang on a minute, what is it?
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*giggles* ah...some people are entertained for hours with just wrapping paper...
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
:walks in carrying two logs: one cheese, the other yule, as well as a couple sacks of presents: Where did you say the egg nogg is? :walks off to get giant mug of egg nogg:
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*brings in TTT Ex for everyone* Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Yay! Bags I the bean bag...
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
::Sits down with egg nogg to watch TTT EE:: I'm so excited!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*pops lots of popcorn* Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Ooh! We're singing that in choir! *joins in*
♪ Hark how the bells, Sweet silver bells, All seem to say "Throw cares away." ♫
And now, to redeem myself...
♪ S'vivon, sov sov sov, Hanukkah hu chag tov, Hanukkah hu chag tov, S'vivon sov sov sov!! ♫
Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
Hi everyone, sorry I'm late. But if you look outside you'll see my...
::Bends down and lights fuse::
*FIREWORKS*
(quick, get outside quickly)
Wheeeee. Bang. Boom.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Yay! Fireworks! *claps hands* *jumps up and down* Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*sings more Christmas Carols*
Raia, are you a soprano?
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Why, yes I am!!
*sings soprano songs*
Are you, Eru?
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Nope. Alto! We get all the cool parts. (and all the hard ones...) But hey, we can sing together! Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Sweet!!
*breaks into two-part harmony with Eru*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*sings with Raia*
Man...now we REALLY need to get together.
LOL, now if Marek and Rhaegar are tenor and Bass...
[ November 19, 2003, 10:45 PM: Message edited by: Eruve Nandiriel ]
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
i don't know which of the singing groups I fall into, I think it is the one called stringed accompanyment
But yeah we do really need to get together
and hey that means I could see Raia again, *dances happy dance*
((((((((((((((((((Raia)))))))))))))))))) Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Awwww, yeah, we really do!!! It's so sad that we can't!!!
Rhaegar's a bass, I know that... and Marek claims he doesn't sing, but that's silly, everybody sings.
(edit: Awwwww... ((((((((((((Marek))))))))))))) And Marek, you can be our tenor! )
[ November 19, 2003, 11:02 PM: Message edited by: Raia ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I'm a mezzo - can I join in?
mmm, 3 part harmony...
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Oooh! Mezzo! Of course, Imogen, the more the merrier!!
Now, if we can just get a baritone, our 6-part harmony is complete. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
LOL It's the Hatrack Choir! Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*cough* I checked my e-mail *cough*
*sings with Raia, Marek, and imogen* Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
ooh, can we sing Oh Night Divine ?
::Starts singing::
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*sings "Oh night divine"* Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
As it's the perfect Holiday thread, I'm singing and eating at the same time. Further I am managing to do this without spitting food on anyone, looking disgusting, or missing a note.
No sense letting carols get in the way of all this good food. Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I like that! The Hatrack choir!!
And *coughs* I replied *coughs* Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*cough* I got it *cough* *giggles* It's like chat! Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Hehe, yes!! Hooray!!!
And sorry about the length... I got a little carried away...
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
It's OK. I thought it was kinda funny. But my parents aren't like that at all.
*brings in warm cookies* yummmm..... Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Mine aren't either. Ask blacwolve.
*eats cookies* YUM!
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
::runs in, spikes egg nog to make it really good, runs out::
I can play piano if you like. I also come bearing many cookies, especially the chocolate teddy bears my mom makes. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Yay! As Raia said, the more the merrier! Not only can we have out own chior, but we can have an orchestra, too! *eats teddy bear cookies*
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
I will gladly join the hatrack orchestra, *unpacks viola* but I still say I am not a person who belongs in a choir, I can sing loudly, but it is a horrable noise, and high volume with low talent is far too prevalent already and I'm not planning to add to it. I will happily cheer like crazy for the choir, and am a huge fan of at least one member of the group already.
(I'm not showing too much favoriteism since Raia is the only the one here I have ever heard sing)
[ November 20, 2003, 03:53 PM: Message edited by: Marek ]
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Yay! Marek in the orchestra! Actually, I can't sing very loudly. I'm pretty quiet. And I can't sing very well anyway. But I can pretend! *sings with Raia* Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
*sings with Eru*
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Marek))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Imogen, the present is a, erm. . . (some help here, guys?)
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
A donkey? Oh Black Mage, you shouldn't have.
I've always wanted my own donkey...
(And i'm impressed that you managed to wrap him so neatly, too)
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
OK folks. I'll let you open that up next weekend. Here in the states Thanksgiving is next week, and that starts the "holiday" season. As such, we can all open that present next weekend.
For those of you who have been around a bit, its the same one I gave last year. Regifting (the recycling of presents given to you) is another holiday tradition--for us cheapskates.
I would join in the Choir, but when it comes to my singing...well...there is that court order.
My voice is not a lethal weapon. It won't kill you. It will just leave you wishing for a fast painless death.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
This is the "perfect" holiday. Which means we can open presents whenever we want! *eagerly rips open Dan_Raven's carefully wrapped packages* Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Gah! Viola! Run!!!!! Hey, I play piano too!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I play the piano, too. Just not very well. I only got to about level two. I tried learning the penny whistle, but I didn't get very far with that either.
*brings in fresh-baked cookies* Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Presents for eveyone!
All in orange and green striped wrapping paper.
Got some German Christmas food here--pig knees, white wurst, shinken(ham), blood sausage, and basically everything else pork.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*avoids German foods* *eats cookies* Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Hmmm...."perfect holiday".... *brings in snow machene* SNOWBALL FIGHT!!! ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Can I join the choir too? I love carolling. I definately think it should be revived.
(I'm a soprano by the way... )
<--See, they're all singing!
EDIT: I'm bringing sugar mice and oranges, because they are what Christmas is...
[ November 21, 2003, 09:21 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Eruve. . . That's some good food. You know there are starving kids in Florida?
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I prefer sugar. *gives german food to kids in Florida*
*throws snowballs at Black Mage* *************************************************
*sings carols* Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
*uses snowblower on Eruve* *hides in ice fort* Neener neener neener! You can't get me! Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*shoots ice cannonballs at fort* *sets Yeti loose* "Sic 'im!" Neeener neeener neeener! Yes I can! Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
*Burrows under ice fort, pops up inside, smashes a nice juicy snow ball right into Black Mage, crawls out, cackles maniacally *
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
*triggers an avalanche* Check and mate.
I beginning to think I have an obsession with winning.
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
quote: You know there are starving kids in Florida?
Oooooooooh! More cookies! ::grabs a couple handfuls.:: Hey! I'm a horrible singer, but I'll gladly join the orchestra! I play clarinet. (Since this is the perfect holiday thread it will magically be unbroken! )
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*uses flamethrower to melt avananche* haHA! Now I win! Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Flamethrowers usually don't work in the cold.
Besides, you're buried.
Oh well.
I got all of you water buffaloes. Unwrap 'em!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I'm not buried. I melted my way out! Besides, this is the perfect holiday, which means I WIN!!!
Face it, you can't win. Just go play with your water buffalo.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Nope. I win. *throws water buffalo at Black Mage* Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
This is the perfect holiday. Everyone wins (or at least thinks they win.)
**Grabs present** I say you can't open it yet, so I'm taking it away until Friday or so.
As far as playing Piano, I used to play by ear, but it gave me a terrible headache. Then I realized playing by fingers was much more comfortable.
Oh, and thanks for the water buffalo. Um, is their a receipt? I may want to exchange it (maybe for something in a Warthog).
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
No! You can't exchange your water buffalo! It'll feel unloved, and on Christmas too. ..
[ November 24, 2003, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: Black Mage ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
*throws snowball back at Eru*
And.... 1500 POSTS!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!
*sings the 1500 post song* Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Gee. If I knew you were going to take it personally, I wouldn't have asked. I'm sure I have room for the Waterbuffalo in a closet somewhere.
((**whispers "this person must be really bored..."**))
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
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Yeah, I am very bored, and I'm going to make another work or art, someone please tell me if I have the wrong number lit for today
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Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
Oohh...it is Christmas Eve eve! I used to get so excited about that, when I was little. What happened?
Actually, I think working has a lot to do with it - I much prefer the school year, with its semesters and breaks and seperations of time. Working all year just makes you loose sense of time.
Christmas Eve eve. Wow.
Posted by BobbyK (Member # 5970) on :
Whoa!! Nice tree man!
Merry Christmas!!!(To all thatapplies)
Happy Holidays!!!! (This should even include YOU)
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
I think maybe it is supposed to be 5 for the December 23, 2003, but I'm baseing that on very little information, and lack the will to do my own research.
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Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
I'm bumping this to keep showing off my artwork, I'm kind of conceited. Merry Christmas (almost)!!
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Awwwww... ((((((((((((Marek))))))))))))) And Marek, you can be our tenor! ![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
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