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| 12-29-06 (29 Decembre 2006)
| Sully777
Posted on 12/29/2006 12:09:39 AM PST by sully777
HAPPY FRIDAY
and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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."
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.
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KEYWORDS: 20062007; hardtosmile; mundanemadness; newyear; ofst; tempusfugit
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To: Dallas59
LOL!!!
I'll have to remember that one for when I'm a dad.
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posted on
12/29/2006 7:19:26 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: sully777
42
posted on
12/29/2006 7:20:45 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: Deguello
A blonde was bragging about how she had finished a jigsaw puzzle in only six months.
"Six months! What's so special about that?" asled her friend.
"Well, the box says 4-6 years!" she replied.
43
posted on
12/29/2006 7:22:15 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: RockinRight
Hearing you talk like that is so cute. "When I'm a dad". Awwwww. What would we call the little tyke? RockinHood? HoodRight? LOL!
To: conservativebabe
auld lang syne means "times gone by" IIRC.
MM
45
posted on
12/29/2006 7:25:54 AM PST
by
motormouth
(No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.....)
To: conservativebabe
46
posted on
12/29/2006 7:28:44 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: motormouth
see how cultured I am? It's sad, really.
To: conservativebabe
LOL Youre more than cultured ;o) Only reason I knew was because I was sitting home alone one new years eve and looked up the words..
Nice to see you, BTW.
MM
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posted on
12/29/2006 7:31:44 AM PST
by
motormouth
(No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.....)
To: motormouth
"cultured"... that's what we're calling it now. hee hee.
To: conservativebabe
Support Bacteria.. It's the only culture some people can get.
50
posted on
12/29/2006 7:46:42 AM PST
by
FAB
(Just an IT bump in the road.)
To: conservativebabe
51
posted on
12/29/2006 7:51:03 AM PST
by
motormouth
(No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.....)
To: Dallas59
Here's my version of "Redneck time out"
8^)
52
posted on
12/29/2006 7:56:27 AM PST
by
The SISU kid
(Isn't my Grandson the cutest little guy you've ever seen?)
To: motormouth
uh huh... (insert little smiley drinking coffee).
To: The SISU kid; Millee; conservativebabe; RockinRight; Izzy Dunne; Dallas59; martin_fierro; ...
For Sale:
Authentic Redneck Playstation III
54
posted on
12/29/2006 8:10:53 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: The SISU kid
Madonna sez... "Hello, Namibia Orphange? Um, yeah... the kid arrived okay and all, but I was sure I explicity requested the black model."
To: conservativebabe; genefromjersey; Auntbee
56
posted on
12/29/2006 8:12:26 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
57
posted on
12/29/2006 8:14:59 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: sully777
Redneck Entertainment Center
58
posted on
12/29/2006 8:16:57 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: sully777
To: Deguello
A blonde swimmer finished third in the breast stroke competition.
She complained to the officials:
"I'm not sure, but I think those two women were using their arms!"
60
posted on
12/29/2006 8:24:03 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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