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2009, December 14 - 09:11 — Taktix®
Merry Christmas!
18% (5 votes)
Happy Hanukkah!
0% (0 votes)
Joyous Kwanzaa!
4% (1 vote)
Happy Meán Geimhridh (winter solstice)!
7% (2 votes)
Happy Sanghamitta Day!
0% (0 votes)
Some or all of the above (the more presents, the merrier)!
43% (12 votes)
What month is it?!?
29% (8 votes)
Total votes: 28

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2009, December 14 - 09:28 — Warren
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Re: Holiday Happenings

Joyous Solstice :)

2009, December 14 - 10:42 — Stevo Darkly
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Re: Holiday Happenings

I'm feeling pretty interfaithful today. Happy everything!

2009, December 14 - 10:56 — Ellie
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Christmas produces Sufjan Stevens singing carols, which automatically makes it the best holiday ever.

2009, December 14 - 10:58 — Aresen
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Re: Holiday Happenings

You missed Saturnalia.

2009, December 14 - 11:33 — JD
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You misspelled Chanuka, you schlemiel! Or wait, maybe it's Chanukkah, or...I can never remember.

2009, December 14 - 11:37 — Taktix®
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Aresen wrote:
You missed Saturnalia.

Saturnalia was on December 17th.

I think you were looking for the Brumalia, which was the last day of one of the festivals dedicated to Bacchus, and took place on December 25th...

JD wrote:
You misspelled Chanuka, you schlemiel! Or wait, maybe it's Chanukkah, or...I can never remember.

Oy vey, it would be a Mitzvah for Rebecca to forgive me!

According to Wikipedia, both spellings are acceptable...

2009, December 14 - 11:45 — Aresen
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Taktix® wrote:
Aresen wrote:
You missed Saturnalia.

Saturnalia was on December 17th.

Hannukah runs Dec 11th to 19th.

Saturnalia started out as one day, but by the end of the Republic, ran from the 17th to the 23rd.

So, if you allow Hannukah, you've got to allow Saturnalia.

Then we can move on to Brumalia.

2009, December 14 - 11:55 — Curmudgeon
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So where's the Festivus option? Isn't that the holiday for the rest of us?

2009, December 14 - 12:04 — Rachel
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Hannukah or Chanukkah can be spelled in multiple ways. The different spellings come because the transliteration of Hebrew to English can be pronounced differently (or more accurately, non-native speakers can't do the gutteral "CH" sound properly)

-your resident Jewess.

2009, December 14 - 12:14 — J sub D
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I don't care what irrelevant holiday you and yours celebrate. I only wish that it is a joyous one.

2009, December 14 - 12:16 — Aresen
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Rachel wrote:
non-native speakers can't do the gutteral "CH" sound properly)

-your resident Jewess.

But what's a goy to do?

2009, December 14 - 14:29 — the innominate one
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Re: Holiday Happenings

just pretend you're hacking up phlegm at the beginning of the word, and your Chaunakkahh pronunciation will be just fine :P

also, your German accent is wrong if the person you're speaking to isn't flecked with spittle by the end of the conversation.

2009, December 14 - 16:54 — JD
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the innominate one wrote:
just pretend you're hacking up phlegm at the beginning of the word, and your Chaunakkahh pronunciation will be just fine :P

Depends if you're a Litvak or a Galitzianer, meyn freund.

2009, December 15 - 09:58 — Warren
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So, no love for Festivous then. Just as well, the pole was ugly, and we hardly need an excuse for airing our grievances.

2009, December 16 - 08:47 — Taktix®
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Warren wrote:
So, no love for Festivous then. Just as well, the pole was ugly, and we hardly need an excuse for airing our grievances.

I don't think I can change a poll once it's been posted. Besides, hasn't the Festivus joke gotten a little old by now? It's been 12 years since that episode of Seinfeld aired...

2009, December 16 - 11:06 — Sandy
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J sub D wrote:
I don't care what irrelevant holiday you and yours celebrate. I only wish that it is a joyous one you give me presents.

Fixed that for me.

2009, December 16 - 23:44 — Hugh Akston
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Taktix® wrote:
Warren wrote:
So, no love for Festivous then. Just as well, the pole was ugly, and we hardly need an excuse for airing our grievances.

I don't think I can change a poll once it's been posted. Besides, hasn't the Festivus joke gotten a little old by now? It's been 12 years since that episode of Seinfeld aired...

It's not old, Taktix®, it's a tradition.

2009, December 20 - 01:10 — mk
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Quote:
can't do the gutteral "CH" sound properly)

It's a voiceless velar fricative, right?

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2009, December 20 - 09:50 — Aresen
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mk wrote:

It's a voiceless velar fricative, right?

I'm shocked you would say that on a public forum.

2009, December 21 - 20:15 — mk
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Aresen wrote:
mk wrote:

It's a voiceless velar fricative, right?

I'm shocked you would say that on a public forum.

When I was younger, I'd voiced bilabial fricative all night long. These days, I'm lucky to voiceless alveolar fricative once a year, and only then under a doctor's supervision.

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