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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
#1
Let's start the annual Christmas-wishes thread with the traditional opening: a link to Alan Maitland's reading of Fredrick Forsyth's The Shepherd.

Happy Christmas.
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown

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#2
And as Peg and I pause in our preparations, let me offer our wishes for the season with my own link, to a story read by the pastor of the church I grew up in at every Christmas Eve service all the years he served -- The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke (as abridged by Donald J. Wolfram).
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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#3
"...The Other Wise Man..."

Oh, Lawsy; I don't dare read that one nowadays.  It was one thing to get tears in my eyes when I was a teen, but fifty years later....

Mooses Gracious and Merry Christmas.
-----
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
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#4
Official weather statement for Ottawa:

Quote:5:53 AM EST Sunday 24 December 2017
Special weather statement in effect for:
  • Ottawa North - Kanata - Orléans
  • Ottawa South - Richmond - Metcalfe

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Ontario Storm Prediction Centre
Not a creature was stirring, except the meteorologists
As all eyes were transfixed on jolly Old St. Nick, his herd of furry friends, and an approaching snow storm just in time for Christmas.

So, for those dreaming of a white Christmas, you will get your wish. A Texan low is gathering strength this morning and will race towards us approaching the speed of Rudolph later today.
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown

Boycotting most products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to threaten to annex my native country.
Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Government of Canada: Claiming refugee protection (asylum) from within Canada
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#5
Merry Christmas to all!
"This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic, have fallen with a dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi. Trust in The Force. Do not return to the Temple... that time has past. And our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendships. But we must persevere. And in time, a new hope will emerge. May the Force be with you, always."
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#6
It may not be Christmas-themed directly, but since many celebrate different traditions, here's something seasony from Gordon Lightfoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is38naHuxjE
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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#7
Merry Christmas.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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#8
I'll let eric idle sum it up


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOg7aPNLLG0
Oh sweet meteor of death
Fall upon us.
Deliver us in fire
To Peace everlasting.
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