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"Solstice bush" was a Christmas tree reference... |
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Merry Politically-Correct Wintertime Festival, and a Happy New Gregorian Calendrical Year! |
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And on that note, Happy Solstice! |
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Hail to the midswinter sun! |
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Both Xmas and Easter are fundamentally astronomical events and so eminently suitable for all nature worshippers realists and naturists to celebrate. If only people would keep religion out of it! |
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Xmas Day itself is the day of the rebirth of the sun, i.e. the first noticeable lengthening of days after the still point of the Solstice. |
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//the pagan holiday Christmas// |
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<<<- (sideways Christmas tree) <<<-
Happy Solstice Shenanigans, HalfBakers, one and all! |
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Well before you know it someone has been sacrificed on an alter and we are right back to religion again. |
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It is a tool that transforms the living into the eternal. |
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First look I thought mylodon wrote "antler". I was what the hell do reindeer have to do with anything? |
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^ Probably happens several times a year, the tourist wanting to pet the wild horned beast gets a pointed lesson while onlookers snap action stills. Usually makes a lasting impression. |
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"Oh the rising of the sun and the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ, sweet singing in the choir!" |
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Now I'm imagining the running of the deer in the snow-bound streets of Pamplona, except Pamplona is now in Finland, and there's a red winter sun, really low in the midday sky. |
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The Ungulate and the Furious. |
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Unlike the bulls, they leap across the rooves of parked cars, setting off the alarms. |
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Why not just reduce the whole affair to a txt message you get once a year from some automated system that simply sends out the goth kid's universal greeting of 'hey.' |
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