An impending truce....
We will shortly be at peace here in our little Backroom world -- harkening back to a very old tradition. I thought it appropriate to wish all of you a:
Merry Christmas
Happy Chanukah
Festive Divali
Peaceful Solstice
etc.
as appropriate.
Stille nacht, heidege nacht.....
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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Merry Christmas all.
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
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Merry Kwanzaa!
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
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May you find what you need most this holiday season.
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Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas
I miss the old axeman around the holidays.
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Best wishes to all.
"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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Merry Christmas, yall.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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Have pleasant times all.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then, the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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From us godless heathens:
Have a rational existence!
#Winstontoostrong
#Montytoostronger
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Happy Winterlights!
you know I had to
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Happy holidays, will miss the backroom for those days
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But, but that was last month!
Anyway, merry Christmas everyone!
Anybody recalls when and how long the backroom is scheduled to be down?
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merry xmas all, see you in a few days.
Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
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Merry Christmas!
Well it is traditional to shut the back room for Christmas I and want to get this in before it is too late!
Merry Christmas all you daisies!
And a happy everything else to you all.
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
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May I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all patrons of the Backroom for your contributions this year. Our debates may occasionally stoop into embarrassment, but much more often soar to challenging, fascinating and learned heights, of an overall standard that is both inspirational and humbling. This is a community like no other, and I count it an enormous privilege and great honour to be noted among its members.
I wish you all the very best of times, whatever the cause of your celebration. For me, it is Christmas, and the sentiments of that season - peace, community, reflection, wisdom and new, limitless beginnings - are those I wish for you all. I shall raise a glass to each of my friends here (any excuse for another whiskey) and may happiness visit with you all of your days.
Take care all.
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"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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I'm going to miss the weird news. Any chance of that thread being moved to the Frontroom for the duration of the down period?
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Cherry Mistmass!
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Over my dead body.
Lemur and Hosa already get to moderate the Babe thread. Give 'em our Octosquids? Throw me a bone here!
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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God Jul !!!
Status Emeritus
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Enjoy Yuletide guys.
Bring on the prezzies!
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Merry Christmas all.
Edit: Surely the Drunkards Thread ought to remain open at least?
Last edited by PBI; 12-24-2008 at 13:56.
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Happy Mithras Day orgah!
Wine is a bit different, as I am sure even kids will like it.
"Hilary Clinton is the devil"BigTex
~Texas proverb
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I wouldn't feel comfortable with posting so many genital mutilation stories if NotW were in the Frontroom. It's where it belongs back here.
Meanwhile, a Merry Christmas and a happy Saturnalia/Sol Invictus. It's always a pleasure posting back here with you misfits and mutants.
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Merry "Insert religious festival of choosing here" and a happy new year to everyone.
"A lamb goes to the slaughter but a man, he knows when to walk away."
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Owwwww! Looks like you, and course I mean the English, are getting one very special christmas speech on dhimmi 4 this year!
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Je vous souhaite à toutes et à tous un très joyeux Noël ainsi qu'une bonne et merveilleuse nouvelle année! Qu'elle vous garde tous en bonne santé, et vous apporte plein de bonheur.
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Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night.
God Bless and take care all you guys during the holidays.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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From all of us down in Malbogia, City of the Damned... Enjoy it while you still can.
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Merry christmas!
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