Re: [CH] And so this is Christmas...

Ted Wagner (trwagner1@yahoo.com)
Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:30:39 -0800 (PST) 

John and everyone else on the chilehead list,

have a very Merry Christmas.  Drive safe, especially in Indiana.

;-)

Ted

--- "John Benz Fentner, Jr." <johnfentner@attbi.com> wrote:
> John & Yoko for the straight people:
> 
> So this is Christmas
> And what have you done?
> Another year over
> And a new one just begun
> And so this is Christmas
> I hope you have fun
> The near and the dear one
> The old and the young
> 
> A very Merry Christmas
> And a Happy New Year
> Let's hope it's a good one
> Without any fear
> 
> 
> 
> For the rest of us, the lovely and talented Tom Lehrer:
> (Yes, you...you know who you are)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> Celebrate the Solstice with your ritual of choice (aspirin will fix
> most 
> of it).  As a nice Jewish boy from Nazareth mighta put it:  Sholom 
> Aleichem. That's Pax Vobiscum for you revisionists.  :)
> 
> 
> JB  "o"o===="
> Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men...and Wimmin too.
> -- 
> *********************************
> John Benz Fentner, Jr.
> Unionville, Connecticut, USA
> "Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis"
> *********************************
> 


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