Hello there my dear fellow Interordians,

As Christmas is coming near, spirits are going up. (Or down, but those people are just party-poopers.)
As you probably have seen, we already have a \"Christmas Presents\" thread, but none really dedicated to Christmas itself. That\'s the reason that pushed me to throw this thread into existance.
This thread is for you to talk about stuff related - directly or indirectly - to Christmas.
May you make good use of it.

Have a Merry and White Christmas,
Yours truly,
~Morph

[Edited on 26-12-2005 by Morphman]

well i have to say that you are a bit early with the topic

whatever.

well i hope we get snow on Christmas since we hardly get it. a few days ago we had terrible. One city was completely cut off from the rest of the country and there wer hundreds of traffic jams by heavy, VERY heavy, snowfall. Some people even stood in one of those for 5 hours or more 0_o let\'s hope it\'s not like that 25th December

I sing christmas carols all year long, my friends hate it when I start playing and singing carol of the bells on Piano/Guitar in the middle of august. lol

Christmas is okay I guess. I\'m not one for presents and junk (Except in animal crossing) I\'m not into materialistic things, I\'m no buddhist or anything counting all of my games, but I prefere the company of friends and family to presents.
I don\'t even celebrate my own birthday outside of animal crossing.:D

[Edited on 1-12-2005 by ArixRaven]

Me too! One of my friends always starts yelling at me for it!
Also, my cell phone\'s ringtone has been \"Jingle Bells\" since I got it.



I don\'t count my games either. Heck, why should I? I might lose count or suddenly feel unsatisfied!
I never know what to ask for Christmas or my birthday. However, now I\'d like an MP3, so I can put Christmas songs on it.

We always have a large dinner at our place for the entire family at christmas. But this year will actually be the first year we will really be celebrating it with the other half of the family, so that dinner\'s canceled. We did not celebrate X-mas up to this year, because we have something similar: Saint Nicholas. Santa Clause is just a cheap rip-off.

Okay, I\'ll go now, before you fall asleep under my boring ranting.

*walks off singing:* \"Dashing through the snow, on a one-horse open sleigh...\"

I personally can\'t wait till a \"Charle Brown Christmas\" and \"A Christmas story are on\" If you need me i\'ll be in the fridge drinking egg-nog.
Edit: Morph, Where the hell did you get the term Interordians?!

[Edited on 30-11-2005 by Black Dranzer.exe]

[quote]Originally posted by Black Dranzer.exe
I personally can\'t wait till a \"Charle Brown Christmas\" and \"A Christmas story are on\" If you need me i\'ll be in the fridge drinking egg-nog.
Edit: Morph, Where the hell did you get the term Interordians?!

[Edited on 30-11-2005 by Black Dranzer.exe] [/quote]

I am sorry to have never heard of those movies. I hope I\'ll get to see them some time.

\"Interordians\"?
Well, the term just sounded right. Am I the first to use it? $_$

[quote]Originally posted by Morphman
[quote]Originally posted by Black Dranzer.exe
I personally can\'t wait till a \"Charle Brown Christmas\" and \"A Christmas story are on\" If you need me i\'ll be in the fridge drinking egg-nog.
Edit: Morph, Where the hell did you get the term Interordians?!

[Edited on 30-11-2005 by Black Dranzer.exe] [/quote]

I am sorry to have never heard of those movies. I hope I\'ll get to see them some time.

\"Interordians\"?
Well, the term just sounded right. Am I the first to use it? $_$ [/quote]
Charlie BRown has been here since the 60\'s and A christmas story is to put it simply a kid\'s quest to get a \"REd Rider 200-shot double barrel carbine action air rifle\" Nonw if you\'ll excuse me *grabs leg lamp and hangs it in the window*
Also that is the first time I have heard the word Interordian.

Maybe CB has been THERE where you live since the \'60s, I haven\'t seen it yet, or forgotten. I might have seen it at the age of three.

You haven\'t heard of the word \'Interordian\' yet? I have used it before on several occasions. Wicked.
It actually sounds like some kind of alien. EI: Extra Interordial.

Maybe I should copyright it. $_$

I don\'t celebrate Christmas but I do love the film \"A Christmas Story.\" You\'ll shoot your eye out kid!

That\'s a cool movie. I agree.

I like \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\", myself.

But even though I love Christmas as much as the next person. It is both my pleasure, as well as my duty to scientifically disprove Santa. If you would be so kind...

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn\'t (appear) to handle most Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that\'s 91.8 million homes. One presumes there\'s at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa\'s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that \"flying reindeer\" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth\'s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to acceleration forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he\'s dead now.

This is a good thread. Its that time of the year and remember it is better to give that to receive peace!;D

Weeee I made a Christmas Avatar!

*Points*:D

I still believe in Santa Claus.

And Necro, please..we need a bah humbug from you, really.

Plus, can science disprove \"Christmas Magic\"?



One day, the Muslim, Hindu and Buhddist, not to even mention the Jews, are going to revolt against christianity because they want Santa...



Maybe Santa is like Agent Smith?



Santa might travel at near-light-speed. You may never know.



Yes, but, again, \"Christmas Magic\", anyone?



As they believed in the Middle Ages, witches used some sort of liquid they rubbed onto themselves to become near-weightless. Maybe Santa can do that too?



Nevertheless, I\'d like to believe he\'s not. I mean, the guy WE get presents from on the evening of 5 December is supposed to have died even before 1500 A.D.

If anyone sees Foamy\'s rant about Christmas, well I agree with him wholeheartedly. I guess I AM Foamy.

I guess you mean Florida. You hate snow? Well, I hate spending a Christmas without it. Hurrah for snow!

I mean, people wearing Santa\'s thick clothing in a tropical place. Does that seem right to you?

i sometimes like snow and sometimes hate snow. it depends on my mood (not my \"interordi mood\") and the way the snow is falling. gentle = , storm = :madgo:

I hate snow. Too dangerous to go out in around here. We don\'t get it much but when we do it\'s to \"teh maX0rz!\"

Really bad when you have to take an hour drive on a frozen highway.

Ah, yes. Yes that\'s not very pleasant. If it would be in \"normal\" quantities, snow is fun! Really!
But yeah, it also kinda depends on the mood you\'re in.
And when you are in traffic for 10 hours like some people had here, you can get quite pissed.

Christmas... now I have to make a Christmas Avatar. Ballz. That means takeing precious time away from Ragnarok online.;)

Anyway, yeah the only thing I really enjoy about christmas are the movies. Charle Brown makes me happy.:lol:

Ugh last year we had 12 inches of snow and now this year we have none! For God\'s sake I need snow otherwise I can\'t whitewash my idiot neighbor.

I already made a christmas avatar, well kinda

Wow, Morph. I have never seen someone be so dedicaded to celibrate Christmas. Brava.

*bows to recieve applause by the adience*

Thank you, thank you...

Yup. And you can still ask me for Xmas Avi\'s, \'kay?

Since when where you doin this?! I need one!!

1. Since about one or two days.

2. Juno and Megaman/Omega have been advertising it as well.

3. Siggy. Pic.

4. You may all PM \"The Christmaster\"...

but not now. Sleepy-sleepy, bed-time...

this is the most kind toipc you have put out what is up morph:conf:

If you are calling Morph mean then I have proof you are loony. Morph is a nice person it\'s just spammers like you he cracks down on at times. Also what are you guys gonna do on Christmas? I\'m heading down to my aunts after church anyways what about you guys?

[Edited on 2-12-2005 by Black Dranzer.exe]