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Jimi

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Good Mornin Family :wave:
I hope everyone is doin well

May be an image of christmas tree and text


May be an image of text that says 'If you didn't know... v...Santa spends a few days at the Rainbow Bridge prior to Christmas.'
 
Jimi

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Bliss Doubt said:
I'd be interested in knowing if anybody corroborates this, if they dare try. I clicked the vid to hear the song. I could hear it, but my entire screen went black. I couldn't even sign out. Couldn't get task manager up. I had to just turn off the computer, wait 10 seconds, and turn it back on.
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That's a shame it's beautifully made
 
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Bliss Doubt said:
I'd be interested in knowing if anybody corroborates this, if they dare try. I clicked the vid to hear the song. I could hear it, but my entire screen went black. I couldn't even sign out. Couldn't get task manager up. I had to just turn off the computer, wait 10 seconds, and turn it back on.
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It played fine for me with no problems. How many programs do you have running? How many tabs open in the browser? Each tab takes up memory.
 
Jimi

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December 24th Born on this day in Music History
Billy Taylor (1921), Lee Dorsey (1924), Mike Curb (1944), Woody Shaw Jr. (1944), Lemmy - Motorhead (1945), Jan Akkerman - Focus (1946), John Luongo (1949), Michael Ray of Kool and The Gang (1952), Ian Burden - The Human League (1957), Doyle Bramhall II (1968), Ricky Martin (1971), Joe Washbourne - Toploader (1975) - our member Dan Dike born 1989, Louis Tomlinson - One Direction (1991)
Chart News
1965 The Beatles at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Rubber Soul
1976 The Eagles at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Hotel California'
1977 The Bee Gees at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'How Deep Is Your Love',
1988 Anita Baker at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Giving You The Best That I Got'
1988 Cliff Richard at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Private Collection'
1988 Poison at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'
1994, Pearl Jam at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Vitalogy'.
2000 Wheatus at No.1 in Australia with 'Dirtbag'
2005 Shayne Ward at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'That's My Goal'
2011 Little Mix at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Cannonball'
2022 Mariah Carey at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All I Want for Christmas is You'
Gig News
1963 The Beatles Christmas show was on at The Finsbury Park Astoria, London with Billy J. Kramer, The Fourmost, Cilla Black and Rolf Harris
1965 The Who appeared at the Pier Ballroom, Hastings, England
1967 The Bee Gees performed their Christmas special 'live' from Liverpool Cathedral, England
1971 Slade appeared at London's Marquee Club
1972 David Bowie appeared at the Rainbow Theatre, London, England
1975 AC/DC appeared at The Hordern Pavillion, Sydney, Australia
1975 Frank Zappa appeared at San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California
1983 The Police appeared at The Brighton Centre, Brighton, England
Music News
2016 Rick Parfitt from Status Quo died
 
Bliss Doubt

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I just listened to an absurd podcast about how Santa Claus was created by Coca Cola for a campaign to promote winter consumption of their beverage by using a saint that was about to be de-canonized, putting him in a red robe with a white beard (Coca Cola colors), in order to overshadow the Christian holiday. This is alleged to have happened in the 1920's.

I immediately knew that was nonsense. Santa Claus is made up of a host of characters, from St. Nicholas who gave dowries to brides whose families had nothing to give, from Kris Kringle, and who knows if Father Christmas came first or came after Santa Claus (some say he's a different character than jolly Saint Nick). Some say Santa Claus is an ancient shaman, and has something to do with the red and white dotted hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Anyway I searched antique postcards on Ebay, and there are plenty of them, showing Santa in red robe, white beard, and often with reindeer, that predate the 1920's by a long time.

Did Coca Cola grab a mythical character and co-opt him for commercial purposes? Sure. Is that the first time this was ever done? No way, but I won't write a book here about other examples.
 
Bliss Doubt

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Jimi said:
A year without Santa
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😿 That made me cry a little bit.

I always get philosophical on the very slow work day that is Christmas eve.

I see no reason not to tell children about Santa when they are little and have big imaginations, but it's one of those things that teach them how to be when the time comes that THEY have to be Santa Claus to others, not just to children, but to those around them who are lonely, poor, suffering, and not just during a holiday but always. How will you learn magic without the visions of sugar plums and the tricks of stealth?

Jesus too, offered lessons on what to value and what to discard, and how to minister to one another, though he is not the only one who ever knew that love for our brothers and sisters is the way we step into the kingdom of God that is already here.

Peace, conflict, disease, famine, abundance, hate, hope, love, joy, are ebbs and flows of the continuous, imperfect human communion. It is the human communion that must go on, until time, or some global geological or intergalactic catastrophe, takes us out. I believe it has been the message of all great leaders and lovers:

Jesus: Love one another as I have loved you.

Hillel: Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.

Gandhi: Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Martin Luther King: Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.

Prophet Muhammed: You will never enter paradise until you have faith and you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Mother Teresa: I believe God loves the world through us—through you and me.

Nelson Mandela: The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

Chief Seattle, for whom the love of mankind was inseparable from the love of this sacred realm where we dwell: We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. Preserve the land for all children, and love it, as God loves us.

Pope John 23rd: I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Pablo Neruda: To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

I wish holiday blessings to all my friends here, for Christmas tomorrow, Chanukah beginning tomorrow at sundown, Kwanzaa beginning on December 26, and a new chance, new hope, in the new year dawning on January 1.
 
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Bliss Doubt

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Jimi said:
Just a test
@Bliss Doubt try this one and see if it works for you, different song but just a test
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No problem with that one.

I listened to a lot of the other one before I decided to turn off my computer, and you're right, it is beautiful. When I got my computer back up, and all my habitual browsers open and logged in, I went and watched it on YouTube.

Nice selections.

I don't know how you and goph are finding all the nutty stuff you're posting, but it's funny.
 
SirKadly

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Bliss Doubt said:
I'd be interested in knowing if anybody corroborates this, if they dare try. I clicked the vid to hear the song. I could hear it, but my entire screen went black. I couldn't even sign out. Couldn't get task manager up. I had to just turn off the computer, wait 10 seconds, and turn it back on.
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Worked fine for me, I'm using Brave which I think you mentioned you use also, so I don't think it's browser related. But that is strange.
 
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