Merry Christmas! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Beregond · 12-25-2008, 10:14 AM

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

Lush · 12-25-2008, 01:02 PM

Merry Christmas to you too.

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

Morthoron · 12-25-2008, 04:23 PM

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?)

The Might · 12-25-2008, 09:00 PM

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!

Lindale · 12-26-2008, 12:05 AM

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

Lush · 12-26-2008, 04:44 AM

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.

12-25-2008, 10:14 AM	#1
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to all, wherever you are! I wish you the best of days in the holiday season. __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

12-25-2008, 01:02 PM	#2
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	Merry Christmas to you too. Incidentally, I'm celebrating an entire 7 years on the Downs. How time flies. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

12-25-2008, 04:23 PM	#3
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,500	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?) __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.

12-25-2008, 09:00 PM	#4
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	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! __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

12-26-2008, 12:05 AM	#5
Lindale Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midway upon... in a forest dark Posts: 975	Maligayang Pasko, Downs! Although, it's already the 26th here in the Philippines. __________________ The heart does things for reasons Reason itself cannot comprehend. - Blaise Pascal Legal Madness.

12-26-2008, 04:44 AM	#6
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	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. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~