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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.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Humor; UFO's
KEYWORDS: 20062007; hardtosmile; mundanemadness; newyear; ofst; tempusfugit
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To: RockinRight
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:29:38 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
62
posted on
12/29/2006 8:31:01 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: motormouth
63
posted on
12/29/2006 8:34:45 AM PST
by
YouPosting2Me
(My Mission: Get 'Millee' to start using a Tagline again...)
To: RockinRight; atomicpossum; My Favorite Headache
I'll see your Slade...and raise you this ditty sure to infect your mind for at least a week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQH44nRvvCc
One of the all time best/worst lines in a love song:
"If I'm heaving...well I know I'll be the man who is heaving next to you"
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:35:30 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: YouPosting2Me
Very very silly
65
posted on
12/29/2006 8:37:41 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: YouPosting2Me
66
posted on
12/29/2006 8:38:22 AM PST
by
motormouth
(No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.....)
To: sully777
To: YouPosting2Me
68
posted on
12/29/2006 8:39:43 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: sully777
Damn it. Now that's gonna be in my head for a week.
69
posted on
12/29/2006 8:40:11 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
To: YouPosting2Me
To: RockinRight
The Redneck Honeymoon Suite
71
posted on
12/29/2006 8:44:37 AM PST
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
how nice... mismatched Tiki torches. LOL!
To: conservativebabe
73
posted on
12/29/2006 8:47:01 AM PST
by
EX52D
(Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
To: conservativebabe
Is that a bottle of Boonesfarm behind his head?
74
posted on
12/29/2006 8:47:42 AM PST
by
EX52D
(Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
To: JJR RNCH
Helicopter for sale.... Used over (former)Soviet, Libyan, and other hostile airspace ocassionaly..... Equipped with Turbos for speeds in excess of Mach 1.... Will accept best offer
75
posted on
12/29/2006 8:48:29 AM PST
by
amxfan2002
("Over, Macho Grande??....I'll never be over Macho Grande!!")
To: EX52D
Sure looks like it! LOL! Where's the Pabst?
To: sully777
77
posted on
12/29/2006 8:49:22 AM PST
by
motormouth
(No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.....)
To: conservativebabe
Well, I do spy something to the left of her on the same shelf.
78
posted on
12/29/2006 8:50:56 AM PST
by
EX52D
(Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
To: sully777
How the hell did you get into my "my pictures" file?
;)
79
posted on
12/29/2006 8:51:03 AM PST
by
marine86297
(I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
To: EX52D
80
posted on
12/29/2006 8:51:59 AM PST
by
motormouth
(No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.....)
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