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Comment by doone on December 30, 2011 at 4:12pm

Source: morris.umn.edu

Comment by doone on December 26, 2011 at 12:32pm

Newton was born yesterday - Hope you were able to use his theories in every day life

HAPPY NEWTON'S DAY 2011

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Comment by Marianne on December 25, 2011 at 3:55pm

Doone, that photo is hilarious....!!!!!

Also, I wouln't  mindtrying one of those cocktails.....

Comment by doone on December 25, 2011 at 3:48pm

Via: thechive.com

Comment by doone on December 25, 2011 at 3:46pm

7. Holiday Hopper

Ingredients:

1 oz Midori melon liqueur

1/2 oz green creme de menthe

1/2 oz white creme de cacao

2 oz half and half

mint leaves for garnish

raspberry for garnish

Instructions:

1. Pour the ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice.

2. Shake well.

3. Strain into a cocktail glass.

4. Garnish with a mint leaves and a raspberry.

Via: cocktails.about.com

Comment by doone on December 25, 2011 at 3:46pm

9. The Grinch

Ingredients:

2 oz Midori

1/2 oz lemon juice

1 tsp simple syrup

1 maraschino cherry for garnish

Instructions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.

2. Shake well.

3. Strain into a punch or cocktail glass.

4. Garnish with a maraschino cherry, serve.

Via: cocktails.about.com

Comment by doone on December 25, 2011 at 10:07am

How little some understand the past

In the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Cromwell Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822),William B. Sandys's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (1833), and Thomas K. Hervey's The Book of Christmas (1837). That interest was further stimulated by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's German-born husband, who popularized the German Christmas tree in Britain after their marriage in 1841, the first Christmas card in 1843, and a revival in carol singing.^[7][8] Hervey's study of Christmas customs attributed their passing to regrettable social change and the urbanization of England.^[8][9]

Dickens' Carol was one of the greatest influences in rejuvenating the old Christmas traditions of England, but, while it brings to the reader images of light, joy, warmth and life, it also brings strong and unforgettable images of darkness, despair, coldness, sadness and death.^[7] Scrooge himself is the embodiment of winter, and, just as winter is followed by spring and the renewal of life, so too is Scrooge's cold, pinched heart restored to the innocent goodwill he had known in his childhood and youth.

Comment by Adriana on December 25, 2011 at 9:40am

Not surprising, doone. As he often did, Hitchens had hit the nail in the head.

Comment by doone on December 25, 2011 at 6:47am

FORCED MERRIMENT: THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

A previously unpublished, oddly timely, contrarian piece by the late Christopher Hitchensin the WSJ Online (I'm still celebrating by the way):

[T]he thing about the annual culture war that would probably most surprise those who want to "keep the Christ in Christmas" is this: The original Puritan Protestants regarded the whole enterprise as blasphemous. Under the rule of Oliver Cromwell in England, Christmas festivities were banned outright. The same was true in some of the early Pilgrim settlements in North America.

Last year I read a recent interview with the priest of one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in New York, located downtown and near Wall Street. Taking a stand in favor of Imam Rauf's "Ground Zero" project, he pointed to some parish records showing hostile picketing of his church in the 18th century. The pious protestors had been voicing their suspicion that a profane and Popish ceremonial of "Christ Mass" was being conducted within.

Now, that was a time when Americans took their religion seriously. But we know enough about Puritans to suspect that what they really disliked was the idea of a holiday where people would imbibe strong drink and generally make merry. (Scottish Presbyterians did not relax their hostility to Yuletide celebrations until well into the 20th century.) And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them.

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Comment by doone on December 24, 2011 at 5:15pm

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