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Apparently 'santa did a guest spot in Harrods in early August. That takes the piss...wasn't there a hosepipe ban around that time? Not something you noramlly associate with the festive season outside of AustraliaComment
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AUGUST!?!?!?!
I might just join Greg for some egg and chips and bang hard evil prog all day. Very festive..[quote=lilsensa '] 'Who wants to sample size my ball sack?'Comment
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hard aggressive prog all night in my house after the bullshit is out of the way
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Ha ha Andy you Watford scummer
Are you a Watford fan?I'm a Luton season ticket holder!
Egg & Chips on Xmas day will rule - then round a mates house for beers probably!Comment
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The Big Wheel
>
> In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and
> just 75 cents in my pocket. Their father was gone. The boys ranged
from
> three months to seven years; their sister was two. Their Dad had
never
> been much more than a presence they feared.
>
> Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they
> would scramble to hide under their beds.
>
> He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries.
>
> Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings,
> but no food either.
>
> If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that
> time, I certainly knew nothing about it. I scrubbed the kids until
they
> looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them
> into
> the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job.
>
> The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our
> small town. No luck.
>
> The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I
> tried to convince whomever would listen that I was willing to learn
or
> do anything. I had to have a job.
>
> Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of
> town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in that had been converted to
a
> truck stop. It was called the Big Wheel.
>
> An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of
> the window from time to time at all those kids. She needed someone on
> the
> graveyard shift, 11 at night until seven in the morning. She paid 65
> cents
> an hour, and I could start that night. I raced home and called the
> teenager down the street that baby-sat for people. I bargained with
her
> to
> come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night. She could arrive with
> her
> pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep. This seemed like a
good
>
> arrangement to her, so we made a deal.
>
> That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we
> all thanked God for finding Mommy a job. And so I started at the Big
> Wheel.
>
> When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent
> her home with one dollar of my tip money--fully half of what I
averaged
> every night. As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my
> meager wage.
>
> The tires on the old Chevy had the consistency of penny balloons and
> began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and
again
> every morning before I could go home.
>
> One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and
> found four tires in the back seat. New tires! There was no note, no
> nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires. Had angels taken up
> residence in Indiana ? I wondered.
>
> I made a deal with the local service station. In exchange for his
> mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office. I remember it
took
> me
> a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires.
>
> I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't
> enough. Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for
toys
>
> for the kids.
>
> I found a can of red paint and started repairing and painting some
> old toys. Then hid them in the basement so there would be something
for
> Santa to deliver on Christmas morning. Clothes were a worry too. I
was
> sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon they
would
> be
> too far gone to repair.
>
> On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the
> Big Wheel. These were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state
> trooper named Joe.
>
> A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and
> were dropping nickels in the pinball machine. The regulars all just
> sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then
left
>
> to get home before the sun came up.
>
> When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas
> morning,
> to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the
> top with boxes of all shapes and sizes. I quickly opened the driver's
> side door, crawled inside and knee led in the front facing the back
> seat.
>
> Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. Inside was whole
> case
> of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10! I looked inside another box: It was
> full of shirts to go with the jeans. Then I peeked inside some of the
> other boxes. There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of
groceries.
>
> There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and
> potatoes.
> There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour.
There
> was
> hole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. And there were five
toy
>
> trucks and one beautiful little doll.
>
> As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the
> most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude.
And
>
> I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that
precious
>
> morning.
>
> Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they
all
> hung
> out at the Big Wheel truck stop....
>
> THE POWER OF PRAYER. I believe that God only gives three answers
> to prayer:
>
> 1. "Yes!"
> 2. "Not yet."
> 3. "I have something better in mind."
>
> God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. You maybe going
> through a
> tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way
that
> you
> cannot imagine.
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[quote=lilsensa '] 'Who wants to sample size my ball sack?'Comment
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I thought it was going to be either something cynical about xmas, or a joke.. Most disapointing!
[quote=lilsensa '] 'Who wants to sample size my ball sack?'Comment
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That is actually untrue. Christmas was originally a pagen holiday, but to promote christianity in the early days, the church decided to celebrate Christ's birth during the already established and quite popular pagen winter festival, last week of december.
I love christmas, LOVE IT! But, I insist on waiting till after Thanksgiving before I give it any thought. One thing at a time. Its so true, they were starting the commercials up before Halloween.
I also tend to wait a few weeks to set up my tree, once it's been up for a couple of weeks it tends to go unnoticed.
There is an interesting controversy brewing as the GF just revealed her preference for small colored lights for the tree, while I am a strict white light kind of guy, so we'll have to see how this plays out....Beats are my crack.Comment
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That is actually untrue. Christmas was originally a pagen holiday, but to promote christianity in the early days, the church decided to celebrate Christ's birth during the already established and quite popular pagen winter festival, last week of december.
I love christmas, LOVE IT! But, I insist on waiting till after Thanksgiving before I give it any thought. One thing at a time. Its so true, they were starting the commercials up before Halloween. I also tend to wait a few weeks to set up my tree, once it's been up for a couple of weeks it tends to go unnoticed.
There is an interesting controversy brewing as the GF just revealed her preference for small colored lights for the tree, while I am a strict white light kind of guy, so we'll have to see how this plays out....
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i agree, and good luck trying to win out vs the GFI love christmas, LOVE IT! But, I insist on waiting till after Thanksgiving before I give it any thought. One thing at a time. Its so true, they were starting the commercials up before Halloween. I also tend to wait a few weeks to set up my tree, once it's been up for a couple of weeks it tends to go unnoticed.
There is an interesting controversy brewing as the GF just revealed her preference for small colored lights for the tree, while I am a strict white light kind of guy, so we'll have to see how this plays out....
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