Christmas Stuff

[Hache Man]

Pay me no mind

I like Christmas and will be having some fun by posting various stuff here.........

[Hache Man]

[Hache Man]

Have you been good this year?
Santa's elves are so busy this time of year. Watch them working on the "Elf Cam" in the workshop making toys for all the good little girls and boys. Take a guess at how much Santa weighs in our holiday poll. Then browse around and have some fun! There's something here for everyone ...

[Hache Man]

Britney Spears

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Shake a SnowGlobe



Decorate A Tree

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[Jojo-Rex]

[Jojo-Rex]

Oh..the ornaments dont paste..You would have been proud of me..Thks dude nice stuff..I got some great stuff too I`ll contribute..Games and stuff

[Hache Man]

Cool JoJo

We should be able to post a ton of different things in a month.......

[andrew748]

Originally Posted by Jojo-Rex

Oh..the ornaments dont paste..You would have been proud of me..Thks dude nice stuff..I got some great stuff too I`ll contribute..Games and stuff

jojo next time press the print screen key and open ms paint.the click edit and paste
you can then save your tree as a jpeg in the drop down menue

[Jojo-Rex]

ANDREW IS SOOOOOO SMART I AM GONNA SHARE KATHRYN WITH HIM AFTER HE BREAKS UP WITH EMY-C

[Hache Man]

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[andrew748]

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[Hache Man]

IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?


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 the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 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 seemes 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 pokey 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 anount, 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 Queen Elizabeth.

5.353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering 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 centrifugal 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.

[Hache Man]

[Hache Man]

Why is Christmas sometimes spelled Xmas?

...especially when combined with the word "sale"? According to the book Did you ever Wonder... the word for Christ in Greek is Xristos. The use of the shortened form "Xmas" became popular in Europe in the 1500s. The word Xmas is so common in advertising most likely because "Xmas" and "sale" have the same number of letters, and "Xmas" is significantly shorter than Christmas.

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Santa's Favorites
Sayings, Superstitions and Quotes

• "To have good health throughout the next year, eat an apple on Christmas Eve."
• "Eat plum pudding on Christmas and avoid losing a friend before next Christmas."
• "On Chrismas Eve all animals can speak. However, it is bad luck to test this superstition."
• "The child born on Christmas Day will have a special fortune."
• "Wearing new shoes on Christmas Day will bring bad luck."
• In Ireland it is believed the gates of Heaven open at midnight on Christmas Eve. Those who die then go straight to Heaven.
• If you refuse a mince pie at Christmas dinner, you will have bad luck for the coming day.
• If you eat a raw egg before eating anything else on Christmas morning, you will be able to carry heavy weights.
• "Snow on Christmas means Easter will be green."
• "Good luck will come to the home where a fire is kept burning throughout the Christmas season.
• "Place shoes by side on Christmas Eve to prevent a quarreling family."
• "A clear star-filled sky on Christmas Eve will bring good crops in the summer."
• "A blowing wind on Christmas Day brings good luck."
• In Greece, some people burn their old shoes during the Christmas season to prevent misfortunes in the coming year.
• In the Swedish countryside, from cock crow to daybreak on Christmas morning the trolls (wicked elves) roam about.
• In Devonshire, England, a girl raps at the henhouse door on Christmas Eve. If a rooster crows, she will marry within the year.
• You will have as many happy months in the coming year, as the number of houses you eat mince pies in during Christmastime.
• "Shout 'Christmas Gift' to the first person knocking on your door on Christmas Day and expect to receive a gift from the visitor.
• A three year old once gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner:
  "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate."

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