The Official Friday Silliness Thread's End of the Year Clearance Sale

theoi.com (Because you really really really want to check my source citation) ^ | 12-29-06 (29 Decembre 2006) | Sully777

[sully777]

HAPPY FRIDAY
and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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New Years Myth: KRONOS (or Cronus) was the Titan god of time and the ages, especially time where regarded as destructive and all-devouring.

He ruled the cosmos during the so-called Golden Age, after castrating and deposing his own father Ouranos (the Sky) from the throne. In fear of a prophecy that he would be in turn be overthrown by his own son, Kronos swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born. Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Krete, and fed Kronos a stone wrapped in the swaddling clothes of an infant. The god grew up, forced Kronos to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten year war against the Titanes, before driving them defeated into the pit of Tartaros.

Many human generations later, Zeus released Kronos and his brothers from this prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead."

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New Years Ritual: In Ecuador, people celebrate Ano Viejo by making scarecrows from old clothe and newspapers. They fill the dummies with firecrackers and paper listing regrets, faults, problems, etc. from the past year. They light the scarecrow and watch it explode and burn, symbolizing an extinguishing of their past failures in the previous year.

[Rightly Biased]

I live in a house with 4 women (Wife and 3 daughters0

I am building a new house (just started)

That being said I am considering a 6 inch pipe for septic 'cause I don't want to be wrangling poodles for the next 18 years

[Millee]

Hey UP2M,

How's the mission coming along? :op

[JJR RNCH]

ROTFLMAO

[amxfan2002]

My God!!!! You live close to the estrogen ocean.

Mine's not quite as bad....just my Girl friend, her 16 yr old daughter, and my (almost) 13 yr old daughter....

Is it any wonder that th G/f's 20 yr old son moved out??

[amxfan2002]

Hey!!!! Bite me!!!!

[Rightly Biased]

Yep when I go home its a "sea of naked Barbie dolls"

I know what Foxworthy meant when he said "I feel like GI Joe on a three day pass."


He moved out cause he's smart.....

[amxfan2002]

You have my sympathy. Please tell me that you are designing a room in the new house that is only yours....A place filled with satellite TV, Sportscenter, Animal heads on the wall, fully stocked bar, and your own bathroom.....

[Millee]

Happy New Year to you too darlin!

Redneck Electric Toothbrush:

[Rightly Biased]

Not quite grasping the sanctity of "Monday Night Football,"
I plunked myself next to my new husband one Monday night to
chat. He was distracted by the action on TV, and after being
shushed a few times, I gave him a "look."

Immediately contrite, he picked up the remote. "I'm sorry,
honey," he apologized, "I'm being rude. You go ahead and
talk--I'll just turn up the volume."

[JJR RNCH]

The new Pilots Uniform. (Looks just like the hubby's toy)

[Rightly Biased]

As a child my mother would always tell me not to sit so
close to the TV, that it was bad for my eyes. Now, as an
adult I spend 8+ hours a day within 2 feet of a computer
screen.

[The SISU kid]

Dec 26: Finally got a plumber to make a service call...$344 later he pulls out feminine hygine products......

Guess you had to "Pull some strings" to get a plumber out to the house the day after Christmas....

8^)

[amxfan2002]

Very close...He still usin' it to go 'can hunting??

[amxfan2002]

Could have been worse.....we waited until the day after to avoid the "Holiday Trip Fee"....

[amxfan2002]

Never mind....I'll explain it to ya later

[JJR RNCH]

[oldtimer2]

Since this is the end of the year clearance sale, it might be time for drastic measures. If you have the 'GUTS' to do it

End the internet

[amxfan2002]

Gotta have someplace to put the mother in-law during thos road trips, right??

[amxfan2002]

FOR SALE Slightly used riding lawnmower.... Make offer....please, please, please make offer...

[JJR RNCH]

One of these???