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12-24-2011, 05:56 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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I want to wish all of you a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Let us hope that 2012 is a much better year!!!
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12-24-2011, 07:58 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Originally Posted by MichaelB
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy Festivus
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Looks pretty happy to me...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
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12-24-2011, 08:07 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Cavalier
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
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12-24-2011, 08:08 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!
 Party on in 2012
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12-24-2011, 08:13 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - here's to your health in 2012!
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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12-24-2011, 09:13 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Today is the Swedish Christmas. Yes, in Sweden, Christmas is on the 24th. So Lena gets pampered today, and I get pampered tomorrow.
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12-24-2011, 09:20 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Merry Christmas to all of you, and a happy new year!
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12-24-2011, 09:44 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TromboneAl
Today is the Swedish Christmas. Yes, in Sweden, Christmas is on the 24th. So Lena gets pampered today, and I get pampered to tomorrow.
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Same with our Norwegian family, too bad I married a French-Canadian Catholic (strictly Dec 25th)...
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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12-24-2011, 09:56 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Location: Calgary
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Merry Christmas everyone!
From balmy Calgary where the temp is 8C (48F) !!!!
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I can only be nice to one person today! Today is not your day...tomorrow doesn't look good either.
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12-24-2011, 09:58 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Calgary_Girl
Merry Christmas everyone!
From balmy Calgary where the temp is 8C (48F) !!!!
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Good greif. It's colder in South Texas than in Calgary...
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Numbers is hard
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12-24-2011, 05:54 PM
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Moderator
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Location: Flyover country
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As much as I enjoy nearly everyone on the forum, I feel it incumbent on me to represent the other side.
Quote:
Tom Lehrer A Christmas Carol Lyrics
One very familiar type of song is the christmas carol. although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time. however, I'm informed by my "disk jockey" friends - of whom I have none,
In order to get a song popular by christmas time, you have to start plugging it well in advance. so here goes. it has always seemed to me after all. that christmas, with it's spirit of giving, o
Us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in.
I refer of course, to money. and yet none of the christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of christmas as we celebrate it in the United States. that is to say the commercial spirit. so I should like to offer the following christmas carol for next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate.
Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly,
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say "when."
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the dickens,
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.
On christmas day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
Relations, sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
"just the thing I need! how nice!"
It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.
Hark the herald tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry, merchants,
May you make the yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy!
So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend kris kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
Actually I did rather well myself, this last christmas. the nicest present I received was a gift certificate "good at any hospital for a lobotomy". rather thoughtful.
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12-24-2011, 07:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chattanooga
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Ditto what everyone else posted !
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12-25-2011, 12:11 AM
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as Tiny Tim said...
God bless us, every one!
Merry Christmas, all.
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12-25-2011, 05:14 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
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Merry Christmas everyone!!!
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12-25-2011, 05:16 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Merry Christmas!
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12-25-2011, 05:39 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Merry Christmas! No white Christmas here, in fact I have never experienced a white one. But it's pouring rain this morning. 
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Investing style: Full time wuss.
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12-25-2011, 06:51 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Naples
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Merry Christmas to everyone. No white Christmas here for sure. Forecast is for 81 degrees today.
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12-25-2011, 06:58 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Of all days for this to happen, some scruffy looking bearded guy in a red suit tried to break in last night. I managed to disable him with a fireplace poker... 
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12-25-2011, 07:16 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: South Eastern USA
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Merry Christmas!
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12-25-2011, 08:18 AM
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gone traveling
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Merry Christmas to all, and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2012.
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