Merry Christmas!
 

Merry Christmas to all, wherever you are! I wish you the best of days in the holiday season. :)

Merry Christmas to you too. :)

Incidentally, I'm celebrating an entire 7 years on the Downs. How time flies. ;)

Congrats on your septenary anniversary, Lush.

And joyeux noel to all!

I am currently half way through an excellent bottle of merlot and listening rather nostalgically to Jethro Tull's 'Christmas Song', perhaps my favorite holiday tune:

Once in a royal David's city
Stood a lonely cattle shed
Where a mother held her baby.
You'd do well to remember the things he later said.

When you're stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties
You'll just laugh when I tell you to take a running jump.
You're missing the point I'm sure does not need making:
The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.

So how can you laugh when your own mother's hungry,
And how can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
And if I've just messed up your thoughtless pleasures
Remember, if you wish, this is just a Christmas song.

(Hey! Santa! Pass us that bottle, will you?)

Nice to see you made a thread for this, I'll join in and wish everyone all the best for the holidays!

Merry Sol Invictus!

Maligayang Pasko, Downs! Although, it's already the 26th here in the Philippines.

One of my favourite Christmas songs is actually by Dave Matthews. It's not very Orthodox, but it's beautiful and sad. Like this stanza, towards the end:

Father up above, why in all this hatred,
Do you fill us up with love, love, love?
... And the blood of our children all around.

And, of course, there's the Ukrainian Bell Carol, which is actually called Schedrik, Schedrik in the original, and has to do with a swallow flying in to a house and predicting a prosperous year for the family. It's a very haunting tune, for a happy, happy song.

Merry Christmas for yesterday, and Happy Boxing Day.
Or, since I'm learning Russian: S Rozhdestvom!

It's a new year song, originally, isn't it?

Here's it in Ukrainian: Shedrik

And here's the Trans Siberian Orchestra's version: Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24

*emerges from lurkdom*

Merry Christmas! I've just been informed that it is actually still Christmas - the second day of it - so I'm actually not late at all. :p

A very merry Christmas to everyone!!

(And happy deathday to Lush!)

Happy Holidays and happy New Year all!

Pippin CHRISTmas, everyone! :p

~~Sally~~

Random Titles are still celebratin'...
 

Merry (belated) Christmas and I thought I should say Happy Hanukkah since it's still going on til Sunday. :D

Merry (belated) Christmas and, since we are at it and it's only 4 hours hence down my road - Happy New Year too :) (Hannukah and all other coinciding festivities including :D)

Happy new year, everyone!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas again, Downs!!~:D

I managed to find a snow Wizard just for the occasion! :D

http://i48.tinypic.com/1176ypd.png

Alas, it said I could not pass.

Meeeeerrrry Christmas, everybody! :D

Pippin Christmas, everybody.

Honestly, the discrimination of some folks...

*loves you*

*especially with a nice wine*


Anyway, seconding Mnemo's sentiments and happy Christmas everyone! :)

Happy Christmas Eve (4:30 pm here at the moment) and a Merry Christmas to all tomorrow!

Ditto for what I said last year.

Hmmm...that's not very sincere, is it?

*sighs*

Well, it may be Christmas for some, but it's Festivus for the rest of us!

Okay, channeling Seinfeld isn't very appropriate either.

In any case, I'd loike to leave you wif' anotha Jethro Tull Christmas song -- in keepin' wif' th' season 'n' all, and wif' me previously posted pla'itudes. Lor' bless you and your'n.

Through long December nights we talk in words of rain or snow,
while you through chattering teeth reply and curse us as you go.
Why not spare a thought this day for those who have no flame
to warm their bones at Christmas time?
Say Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

Now as the last broad oak leaf falls, we beg consider this:
there's some who have no coin to save for turkey, wine or gifts.
No children's laughter round the fire, no family left to know.
So lend a warm and a helping hand:
say Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

As holly pricks and ivy clings, your fate is none too clear.
The Lord may find you wanting, let your good fortune disappear.
All homely comforts blown away and all that's left to show
is to share your joy at Christmas time
with Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

Through long December nights we talk in words of rain or snow,
while you, through chattering teeth, reply and curse us as you go.
Why not spare a thought this day for those who have no flame
to warm their bones at Christmas time?
Say Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

Merry Christmas, everyone. :D

To everybody who hasn't got anything better to do than to go online on Christmas Eve, a Merry Christmas, Yule or whatever appeals to you! I·kal entúlië!

:DMerry Christmas One and All

and Nadolig Llawen as well isn't it

Merry Christmas to all.

Here's Tay Zonday singing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."

Enjoy, honeys.

Hyvää joulua!

Knew someone would come up with that...

This is what went through my mind:


Person 1: Pippin Christmas. Stop discriminating him. :p

Person 2: But they're both Hobbits from the East of the Brandywine. Aragorn Christmas, anyone?

P1: But they're both humans. That's discrimination. How about Legolas Christmas?

P2: Or Gimli Christmas?

P3: This is getting ridiculous... why even bother sticking to Tolkien? How about an Eönwë Christmas?

P1 and P2: *simultaneously* Uh... that is Tolkien...

P3: I meant the BDer :rolleyes:

*spirals off into insanity*

I thought you were going to go for Another Christmas Song (Or was that your plan for next year?), but I suppose this one works just as well.

Actually, my friends and I (when I started doing this six years ago, so no "come up with that" tomfoolery out of you!) decided to appropriate all the other characters to all the other holidays (real or imagined) that exist throughout the year.

So I expect all of you to wish your friends a very William Huggins Arbor Day this coming year.

I meant come up with the idea of writing it on this thread rather than come up with it in the first place.

Part 2
 

*spirals back into sanity*

P1: So we're agreed on Meriadoc Christmas, right?

P2: Yeah, Merry isn't his full name, Kalimac doesn't sound right with English, and Shagrat and Teleporno... erm...

P3: Yeah, Meriadoc Christmas.

P1: Right.

P2: Yeah.

P3: So how about New Year? We can't use Meriadoc again.

P1: Or the others...

P2: I kind of liked P3's idea before. We don't need to stick to Tolkien, let's go for other mythologies.

P3: You mean like Njord New Year?

P1: Or Prometheus New Year?

P2: Quetzalcoatl New Year?

P3: How about Hapi New Year? It has a kind of ring to it (no pun intended).

P1: Pun, what pun?

P3: Because it's a Tolkien forum...:rolleyes:

P1: Erm... ok. But yeah, I agree, Hapi New Year does sound good.

P2: Yeah.

P3: So we're agreed: Meriadoc Christmas and a Hapi New Year.

THE END

Happy New Year, Barrow Downs!

Now that that's settled, are you going to take on Kwanzaa? (a little late for Chanukkah, I'm afraid:))

Won't be the new year for another 11 hours, here, but a Happy one to all!

A happy new year to everyone on the Downs! I'm glad I can bring this one in with a black and green screen!

P.S. Thank you Eönwë for finally settling that.

Happy New Year...at exactly 12 my time!

I wonder what this says, that I'm on at midnight on New Year's...huh.

It says that you are a Barrow-Downer!

A happy and blessed new year, gutes neues Jahr, blwyddyn newydd da etc. to everybody!