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[quote="knightkrawler"]. . . I then did a large line of coke and called two hookers. I had them dress up as Santa Claudine and Knecht Rupprecht and call me Grinch.[/quote]
Ho-Ho!

I once put my boot outside.
Next morning I boiled it on hot water so I could slurp the chocolate out of it. It was still too thick so I utilized the rest of a bottle of Beefeater to thin it down.
I then did a large line of coke and called two hookers. I had them dress up as Santa Claudine and Knecht Rupprecht and call me Grinch.

Thor-in - that ghost is a little creepy looking. I like it. :D

Anderas, I don't think I've heard about the cleaning of boots for gifts before. I'll have to look that up...sounds fun.
AND...both my daughters have boots. Could be fun for them to clean them up nice for Santa.

I will never understand that particular tradition :)

I was putting out lights outside, two weeks ago. It was feeling like so heavy work while there was sharp ice-cold wind, i put only half of what i intended.

Vali, my daughter, was cleaning her shoes for the sixth. In Germany, it is tradition to clean one set of boots and put it in front of the door. Over night, the holy st. Nicolaus is coming and fills one of the boots with chocolate.
She was so happy to see that Nicolaus really was there! :D One hour later, she called me: "Dad, i think NIcolaus did not only fill the shoes. He also filled the placard with gifts" :D Yes she did find them. :shock: The sixth of december.

To release some of the urge, she we allowed to open one of the gifts after she successfully read some words in her learning book. The rest of the gifts is (yet) untouched under the tree. let's see how long she keeps true to her promise :D

So my wife was going to get angry with me for this but she couldn’t.

Nothing like having the ghost of Christmas yet to come in your home for the holidays :lol:

We do the normal stuff, tree, stockings, garland, ext.. This year I can finally decorate outside. The house I lived in before, my front porch was too small to put lights on and with living in upstate New York (at the base of the adirondack mountains) the lights would not have lasted the snow we would get. So now the we traveled 1,000 miles south to a different state and moved into a house with a full front porch with posts and a roof I finally have been able to decorate my exterior of the house. I feel like Homer Simpson when something go’s right Woohoo.

:D :D :mrgreen:

Glad I could inspire such grand and heroic adventures. "Merry freakin' Christmas" (axe swipe)

In Taiwan you see a smattering of Christmas decorations, but most of it is civic or commercial. I've got lights up outside, but still need to do the indoor string. A tree, nativity set, and a hanging Frosty from my childhood are all out.

But your projects have inspired me. In the past I've created a Battle for the North Pole tabletop warfare scenario. That has since been scaled down to a snowball skirmish game for kids. This year I think it's time to again set up a North Pole table. My daughter and I are gonna fill the skies as Santa and Mrs, Clause's little helpers face off. It will be bloody merry.

Sorry to hear about your iPods. I had two of 'em stolen in separate incidents over the course of six months, people were literally walking around the neighborhood, trying every door and rifling through cars where they were unlocked. Makes you feel very unsafe. Luckily my mom caught 'em outside her school while she was on recess duty!

I've turned into a grinch recently, I let my son put up the tree and some decorations and that's it. I have to put it all away in a month!

Wife has the inside decorated with the big Charlie Brown and Snoopy out; the table made up with a poinsettia in the center; little Christmas village on a side table; lights, garland and manger scene on another table. Plan to get a real Christmas tree this year now that my boys are a little older and hopefully won't touch everything. Waiting a bit for that so all the needles don't fall off before Christmas arrives. I have yet to do the outside. Mandatory 60 hrs at work is killing me. My one free day this past weekend was too windy to climb a ladder to hang lights and I couldn't get the mower started to cut the grass the last time to put out the moulds. Outside is left Christmas-less, even lacking the wreath on the door. Hopefully soon.