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Figured this would be a good time to post a general Christmas themed thread.  Show off your holiday avatards, tell us what you want for Christmas, let us know if you have interesting plans, and lets have a general revelry for the next 25 days!  I'll start.

I am thinking about getting my daughters a Wi, TV, and new bikes for both of them.  Not exactly sure how I will get my greasy hands onto a Wi; I am sure I can work something out.  I am also going to spend a week with my friend; her and I plan to do a marathon run of Charmed season 5.  Little does she know that I will be getting her Season 6 (amongst other things) for her present on Christmas! 

My main problem is figuring out what kind of jewelry to get her.  I have around $500 set aside for something nice, and was thinking of some sorta necklace.  Anyone have a suggestion for a place I can purchase one from (as in walk in place, I know shit about jewelry)?

'Tis the season for oily, gay avatars?

My avatar is pretty holiday-oriented, really.

Edit for actual helpfulness: my father-in-law gets all of his jewelry from Sam's Club.

Sam's club?  Do they have gold/diamond jewelry?  Hmmmm, time for some internet detecting!  I woulda never thought of getting jewelry from there.



edit.  Holy shit they do!  I thought Sams club was just a bulk buy discount kinda place.  I owe you a beer for educating me, Yegolev!
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?catg=610

They've got lumps of it 'round the back.  It's actually pretty nice stuff, but I admit to not really looking that hard.  They do have diamonds, I am pretty sure.

Me, I want a hula hoop.

(Mandatory post re: avatar)

Bleh, skipping chrismas =/

I'm not sure what this Santa is supposed to be in my avatar. He's scaring the shit out of that little girl though.

Maginified:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/Misc/10670837.jpg)

Strazos and Signe are sooooo last year.

Ho ho ho.

I petition that for the next two weeks Stray gets his avatard at full picture size.  That is too awesome to put into words. 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Santa got a little pre-occupied and needed someone to fill in for him is my best guess (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EB5K8o3CLk)

Asshole, this is a youtubeless thread. 

What do I want for the holidays? A decent second job.

It's my favourite Xmas avatard!  What?  You don't like it?  You know it'll change soon enough, anyway.  I'm fickle.

You fuckers are jaded and depressing me.  Even you, Strazos.  Some post happy happy!

That Santa IS happy.  Look at that big old spliff in his mouth!

I honestly did not notice it until now.  I would say "for shame,"  but would rather not get this thread put into politics.

Thats funny I never noticed before!  Wierdos.

There. That's as festive as I get. This season always makes me want to fill one of those up, empty it, and repeat until I forget what season it is.

With what?

That's a whisky glass, noobcake... I prefer a good scotch whisky or bourbon instead of Tennessee whisky though.

Hmm, the choice between tasting the charcoal or the peat moss it was filtered through...

I can enjoy a nice plain single malt Glenfiddich, preferably with soda water and ice.  I would probably get glared at if I ever actually tried to order that at a pub in Scotland.

I also put ketchup on my fillet mignon.  Seriously.

Would ya look at that... I'm already in the festive spirit!

You know, for the kids.

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/oldf13av.jpg) + (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/ChristmasOrnament.jpg) = (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/christmasav.jpg)

I want one of those for christmas!

They've been illegal to buy, sell, or own for a while now.  Ever since that Emancipation Proclamation thingy.

Guess i'll have to take my oversized christmas bobble back to the shop then, no hat for me  :-(

King of Town!  Great avatar!

I'm out of ideas.

I have faith in make-believe.

That's a tacky glass for orange juice or water - it has never been for whisky (or whiskey)

This is a whisky glass
(http://www.wineware.co.uk/images/products/main/small/416-80.jpg)

And this is a whisky tumbler:
(http://www.wineware.co.uk/images/products/main/small/portofino.jpg)


Noobcakes.

Hmmmm (http://www.i-mockery.com/generalzod/christmas.php)

werg

I want Santa to bring me a new j0b

I hate Santa.

My holiday wish is for a peaceful holiday.

How could anyone POSSIBLY hate Santa?  In response I have chosen a Santa avatar to try and sway your opinion.


My holiday wish is that everyone gets the MMO they're really looking for.  :-D

Or a lot of booze.

Dibs on unwrapping Merusk's avatar for Christmas.

I hate Christmas. It is the single biggest pain in the ass of the entire year.

Christmas IS a big pain.  I remember that, at least, it used to look mostly pretty.  Now, wherever I go, I see huge inflatable Santa's and all these  weird looking globes with strange critters moving inside.  It's scary and ugly.  Everything is inflated, included prices.

On our block there's an inflatable christmas scene of a reindeer lowering Santa down a chimney, but my wife and I thought it just made it look like Santa was going down on the reindeer over and over and over.

It probably gets lonely up there on the Pole. So to speak.

Just so wrong.

Yeah, it can be a pain if you let it.  I simply don't let it.  It's not worth being frazzled and feeling all obliged to people I wouldn't give 2 shits about the rest of the year.  We take care of ourselves and do one family get together w/o all the rest of the crap. :)

I can agree on the inflatable tackiness, though.  We have a 9' tall inflatable toy soldier and I feel it's overblown, so I set it back off the front of the house so it's not so damned overwhelming.  I don't get the 10' snowglobes and 12' snowman-snowglobes and such.  They're worse than the little 3' plastic snowman you used to see in the 70's and 80's.

My avatar has come from THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO to bring you the story of Christmas, complete with Santa Claws and crinkly monkey hands grasping toys made of bones and feces.

Strangely, I prefer the one Merusk is sporting.

37 out of 40 Arthur's do as well.

Merry Christmasu!
(http://photos.friendster.com/photos/74/84/7144847/10677131164752l.jpg)

There's lots of great scared of santa pics out there!

(http://writingcompany.blogs.com/this_isnt_writing_its_typ/images/scared_of_santa.jpg)
(http://icaryn.com/uploaded_images/01CL1633cr72-758406.jpg)

More yuletide fun. I think this pic sums up the holidays perfectly:
(http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/culture/2005/12/15/dotw-160-3200x325.jpg)
This site rocks (clicky):
(http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/M-SantaJesusDressUp.jpg) (http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/magnets.html)

(http://www.newsgd.com/specials/christmas05/christmaspic/200412150086_25084.jpg)

Singe!

I aim to please. 

People think my picture is my cat. I'd never do such a retarded thing to my pet. I leave that up to others.

Yeah, your cat is fatter.

Behind that cold persona of yours, you really do care! Just cause you remembered that.

This is a good time of year to make your charitible donations,  and to check who you've forgotten to give to that you usually do.  It's budget time for alot of non-profits, and many of the them could benefit from an extra few dollars in donations.

I had forgotten my donation to Planned Parenthood,  for instance,  until last week...  though I don't think NPR is getting my money this year.

Hey, good point. I dropped off about a thousand bucks worth of clothes at the Sal Army about a month ago and my charity of choice is Hospice Care, because they totally fucking rock if you've got a dying elderly relative. Being able to spend your last days at home instead of a hospital is the way to go, if you've gotta.

Don't forget your local libraries, either. Any books in decent condition will be considered, unless it's a technical manual from the 50s or something. Even so, libraries can recycle the books for you. Just don't drop off musty stuff, mold can spread to the collection. Don't be a book terrorist!

I like the holidays. Not that is has been very wintery here, with an average temp of around 70.

Anyway, I get to go snowboarding for a week over Xmas, so Im happy.

I also changed my avatar for you fuckers.

(http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/celebs/celeb020.jpg)

Merry... something.

Your eyeball is very festive.  I won't really get into the spirit (at all ever actually) until they decorate the site.  (http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/images/smilies/christmas_tree.gif)

From www.landoverbaptist.org

(http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1299/santypic.gif)

Hand-made pixel art, at your service.

I'm wearing my GameSkins shoryuken hoodie.

My therapist thanks you for at least two more years of fat checks.

Thanks to my prolonged exposure to the F13 boards, I've seen Winger Christmas art.  Therefore, I am desensitized to all defiling of the holiness of the season.

Still, that mostly naked drunk santa was a pretty close second.

My avatar illustrates the greatest extent of Christmas related crudeness that still remains oddly cute.

Evil!  Impolite and evil!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/ThisConversationSeemsLikeADream.jpg)

Evil, impolite, but true.  Back in the day such used to be a popular grief link.  I wouldn't recommend it these days unless you're looking for a visit by the ban stick.  I'm sticking my nose well over dangerous waters by even mentioning it.

Any explanation, anyone?

You really don't want to know.

Merry Christmas (http://gasbandit.batcave.net/Whamadoodles/gameprd1.html) anyway.

Where's the fun in that?

I love all the Christmas avatards.  It makes me smile :)

meow!

Cheddar's avatard plus Merusk's would make a pretty decent festive pr0n flick.  *queue funky bass line*

Memories, thank you!

This is the first xmas that I decided to spiffy up by avatard.  Hope you all enjoy my m4d paint skillz.  I know Augra did.

This thread is beautiful.  Now we need to get our overlords benevolent leaders to decorate the site somewhat.  Maybe come up with a F13 Christmas tree!  Would be rad.




edit.  Minor change.

I'd put on a hat on the monkey, but I'm not sure how to decorate an animated gif.


Let the innuendos commence.

Zoop.

This is not the greatest and best holiday on Earth.

This is just a tribute.

I  :heart:  (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=2217;type=avatar)

Zoop? (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/zoop)

I used to play that.

This year, I have had more than a little bit of trouble answering that age old question "so, what do you want for Christmas?".  This is partly due to the fact I'll be moving to the US in a few months, so most of your large-scale electronics items are out of the question.  But even more so, it is simply because there really isn't anything that I need or desire right now.  I guess I've just been a little more lucky than average.

So, I am getting a goat.   No, not a coat, nor even a boat.  An actual real, live goat that says "baaaaaahh" (or is it maaaaahh?).   The catch is that I don't actually receive the aforementioned goat personally.  My goat, whom I've decided to name Cheddar in honor of this thread, will be delivered to some lady in Malawi.  I don't know this lady, but I presume that she hasn't been as lucky as me and could use a goat.  Maybe she has kids who can pet the goat, or maybe they'll get a little bit of milk from it.  Maybe she'll meet a nice man who also has a goat, and they can make more goats. Thrown in with the goat are three days of, well, goat-handling lessons, as well as some much needed medical examinations and vaccinations for this lady I'll never meet.  I hope she treats Cheddar kindly, and gets much needed help in return.  I'll try to be understanding if times just get too rough, and she is forced to do the unthinkable.  Maybe I need to ask Santa for two goats.

That's pretty awesome.

Saw them at the SECC last night.  What an extremely average gig.  I was dissappointed.

Saw that Jack Black film where he plays a wrestler last night on TV. It was terrible!

King Kong ?

I adopted a turtle at the zoo once. It never wrote. I hope you hear from Cheddar.

Nacho Libre

I thought it was just called Nachos but whatever.  Even my love for Jack Black couldn't make that film better.  The only bits that made me smile were when he sang a little song and did the Jack Black strut around the ring.  Unfortunately, they were very brief bits.

As soon as the trailer said 'From the creators of Napoleon Dynamite' I knew damned well that I would be best served by never seeing this film.

I guess I was bored.  I'm not sure if I saw Napoleon Dynamite or just the trailer.  These days, it seems, the trailers are more than enough.  Unless it's a really wonderful film, I don't feel as if I've gained anything by watching the entire thing.  The good bits are usually in the trailer, anyway.

Must resist....

I can usually figure out what dumbass thing I've said that make you lot have to "resist" a reply but I'm stumped on this one.   :|

Good bits = sexual organs. Trailer = redneck house.

I hurt myself there.  Congratulations.

Heh, I thought you were referring to anal sex.  To each their own!

I can get a rope to fetch you out from there if you'd like...

Sure thing.

Tell me the punchline while you reel me in. I have no idea why Yegolev laughed so much.

I was tickling him while he was reading it.

I successfully rolled my save on that one. My mind is a deep river of pun.

OMG everyone EVERYONE!!! Please do yourselves a favor and pick up/look through this month's Gourmet magazine and make the chocolate caramels with sea salt. THEY ARE FUCKING AMAZING. And pretty easy.

SNL's "good skit" quota (1) was filled this year by a christmas-inspired idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA)

So, if I PM you my address, can you have some to me by Christmas?

Second.

Put the recipe on the food.f13.net thing.

How will that get delicious treats delivered to my doorstep, jackass??  :-P

That's just gold.  Thanks.

That treat looks good but caramel is not dental-work-friendly. :(

Alton did some nice basic sugar cookies, now I've gotta find dry food coloring. I want to make some like WAP's avatard. For the office xmas party.

I'm also planning to use that SNL skit, though just faking it, not actually, you know, putting the junk in the box, eh? For the office xmas party. Hey, they gave me (and my partner in crime, the maintenance guy) a walmart bag for an xmas stocking.

I'd like some of the Nazi gingerbread men from Colbert Report last night. To bite off their wee heads!

Sky, that is far better than the white elephant gift I received.

Oh snap that is funny. I hate to admit it, but Justin Timberlake is always funny on SNL (or it's funny when he's on).

He's great on SNL. Just not as a musical guest.

Just got back from Macys; found everything I wanted to purchase and was surprised to save over 60%.  I fully expected to walk out $500 poorer!  My girlfriend should be pleasantly surprised.

Now I gotta get ready to take her out to dinner.  Nothing like a shorn scrotum to show how much you care!

See ya guys in a view days (metaphorically speaking).

Have a nice holiday, Cheese Guy, you and your girlfriend.  Hope the rest of 2006 is better and 2007 is awesome.  Hope the scrotum feels better, too.

There have been some insane deals this year. We saved an average of 55% on stuff we bought at Kohl's (I stocked up big time on Oxo stuff, silicone upgrades baby!) and got $10 store credit for every $50 we spent. Then we went back and got even better savings the next day and used the credit, getting more than twice what we would have gotten...for free! She calculated it to something like 80% off the total bill when we were all done, it was ridiculous.

Also, the 'butcher' at walmart is my best friend and his boss worked for me years ago...I just bought a full prime rib for $3/lb. :) Git in mah belly!

Triple post. This is the longest afternoon ever. Ten more minutes but it's felt like 83 hours long. Have a merry xmas, see you all on tuesday.

My God. I was googling for something humorous to post about Christmas in summer, and was assaulted by the most awful embedded Christmas MIDI music on the entire Internets (http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/dec24.html). If you think it's bad when it starts, believe me, it gets worse.

Anyway, Merry Season to all.

That was awful.  Thanks.

Wow that is so very awesome. It's the horribly cross-mixing of Jingle Bells / Dueling Banjos / William Tell's Overture / Fourth of July / Bad Midi. That's gold, Jerry, GOLD!

Holy shit. It's like the power glove.

It belongs in a ytmnd or something.

Christmas movies watched so far:

Scrooged (still great)

Elf (first time I've seen it)


I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs now. Not sure what my family's cooking up. It's only 9:30 and I'm already hungry.

Merry Christmas

Dude, A Christmas Story is still running for another 8 hours or so.

I've seen it a hundred times.


Yeah, I've gotten tired of the Christmas Story.  :-P

Oh look, a toaster!

Merry Christmas, or holiday or your choice, everyone!

Last night I had to go to my Aunt's house and I didn't want to but I did anyway.  Today I have to go to my sister's house and I don't really want to but I will anyway.  It's been a very strange Xmas so far.  Last night after the "do", we stopped off to see my sister and found my cousin and her husband's websites/my space thingys.  My cousin was wearing her underwear and I think her husband likes the cock.  Boy, she's going to be really pissed off if it's true.  She's exactly like me except she's obviously not shy.  You know, the underwear and all.   :|  I don't know what is in store for me today, but I've decided not to make any sense at all... which is what I do when I want people to beg me to go home.

(http://www39.homepage.villanova.edu/matthew.f.smith/images/Naughty%20Santa.JPG)

Oh... and HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!   :heart:

But have you gotten tired of Vendetta: A Christmas Story (http://www.vendettachristmas.com/)?

I've been watching that at least once a year since the late 90s, when it first came out, and it always gives me a holiday-themed chuckle.

T-Bone steaks and lobster. Some nice buttered squash, and dirty rice. With leftovers to boot.

I feel sorry for the Scots and their Haggis(es?).

I forgot what it was like spending Christmas with a family.  I was <literally> forgotten. 

I had to act like an asshole to keep my GF from looking silly (Oh I WANT to stand here, with no one else, eating).  Was very sureal, and unexpected.

I once again hate Christmas.  Dunno what to do about things. 

MERRY FUCKING XMAS TO ALL!!!!!!!!

Seriously, her twin sisters baby had a blast.  That made my day.  So merry christmas to all.  Or some such shit.