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Is the most popular Christmas carol in the desert "Oh camel ye faithful"?
This is the last TotD before Christmas - though I may post next week, I'm not sure yet - so I'd like to say a big "Thank you!" to everyone who has picked up these puns this year and run with them into pun threads. They wouldn't have worked without you!
And a very merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Holiday, Badtis, (or whatever floats your boat) and happy New Year to you all. For those that only view us at work: see you in the New year!
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, boyos!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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At the risk of being too schmaltzy (whatever that means), may I say you have brought a daily dose of laughter to most of us here on CP and I for one, as a Brit stuck in the US with their weird sense of humour (they even spell it wrong, "humor"), really appreciate it!
Merry Thingy and a Happy New Whatever!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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isn't humor a fluid extracted from lymph nodes?
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Yeah - apparently you have to balance them somehow.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Only in the U.K. where it's spelled humour.
Humor, on the other hand is the optional human sense. Some people have one, some don't.
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Sandy Clause is Coming" ?
Just picture the jolly old elf shimming up and down a tent post.*
* For any of you picturing him dressed as a stripper . . . . you're sicker than I am by a long measure.
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modified 21-Dec-18 11:33am.
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It's quite a versatile tune. I believe Xavier Leroy[^]'s favourite is "OCaml ye faithful". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Enjoyed the TotD and everyone's responses.
Merry Christmas, et. al. to you as well and a Happy and prosperous New Year.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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So we are going to have a few Silent Nights because everyone is 'Away from a Manager'?
I had 'Three Quips come Sailing in' to my head for this reply so I guess I am done.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Have a good one Paul
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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OriginalGriff wrote: pun threads
There are pun threads in the Lounge?
I never noticed.
I'll have to search them out, if they've been spooled.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So apparently the idea of a 'god' dying and coming back to life three days later is a common theme in religion, from Isis, to the sun at xmas, to jesus on good friday.
Anyway, just a thought.
Happy god death and rebirth festival to you all!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: god death and rebirth
That's Easter you goofball.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Quote: you goofball.
Hey! Show some respect! That should be "Mr. Goofball".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: That should be "Mr. Goofball".
How dare you sir!! You cannot assume one's gender. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Come now, only a man would call themselves "Munchies...". Women would call themselves "Nibbles...".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Uh?
I said "jesus on good friday" Isis is christ knows when, the sun, obviously, dies on its shortest day and comes back to life on xmas day.
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Fair enough. I just wanted to yell at somebody I guess. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Funny how, of the several religions descended from Judaism, the chrisitians seem to have forgotten the part about "dead is dead".*
* DNA evidence - it may have been an evil twin !
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Yes, it is. Perhaps it is something it picked up from Roman/Greek culture.
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Such as: Dying-and-rising deity - Wikipedia[^] 'Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis and Attis, Dionysus and Jesus Christ'
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Clearly so:
Think Hercules, for example.
Their top deity "putting it to" a mortal and out comes a super-being.
Or maybe that's just a coincidence?
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Dont know, did he die and come back to life?
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Better still - went to the heavens when his "mortal part" died to live with the gods.
More food for thought: The Twelve Labors of Hercules parallels the supposed miracles.
Now - fold into this all of the "pagan" customs that give christianity it's character (eggs, rabbits for fertility in the Spring, yule logs and tree lighting for winter, and of course gift giving for the festival of Janus). What you have here is an awful lot of circumstantial evidence of where and what inspired the whole thing, at least as we know it.
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yeah, in fact I think the only thing left about easter and xmas these days is the old pagan aspect, the christianity has fallen away completely.
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