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 Geoff  Send message Joined: 26 Aug 00 Posts: 72 Credit: 20,153 RAC: 0 
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I do :o) ID: 214298 ·  |
Marvinvwinkle  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 90 Credit: 20,502 RAC: 0 
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Is there any question? I've already got my stockings hung up. 
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Celtic Wolf  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3278 Credit: 595,676 RAC: 0
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I do :o) Virginia does!! ID: 214356 · |
[B^S] Spydermb  Send message Joined: 16 Jul 99 Posts: 496 Credit: 10,860,148 RAC: 0
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Yes, yes yes  Did I say Yes... BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and We Welcome All BOINC Participants! BOINC Synergy Click to Join BOINC Synergy ID: 214357 · |
Es99  Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 
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Like I tell my kids when they ask if there really is a Father Christmas: "Well who do you think fills your stocking every Christmas? You know there is no way I'd be bothered to go out trawling the shops for lots of gifts and then wait up till 3am until you've gone to sleep just so I can creep into your room and fill some stupid stocking. I mean get real." This answer seems to satisfy them. (although I think they are still suspicious about the time the Tooth Fairy went out on strike in support of the Firemen, but everybody knows that Tooth Fairies have very good Unions and believe strongly in fair pay for Firemen.) Reality Internet Personality ID: 214638 · |
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WARP 10 Send message Joined: 24 Jul 05 Posts: 4 Credit: 80,379 RAC: 0
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My santa (33-22-32,127lbs)this year got me a 37"lcd $harp... So yes santa is real :) HOt SanTA.... Bon noel tout le monde and thanks to my wife. ID: 215003 · |
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Prognatus Send message Joined: 6 Jul 99 Posts: 1600 Credit: 391,546 RAC: 0 
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Noughty boy! Don't peek in the parcels before christmas day! Now, go and put it back in the stocking again. ;o) @Es99: Lovely profile pic! Much better than the last one. You're a cute girl! (Are you doing a rabbit shadow figure?) :o) ID: 215012 · |
Al  Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 5832 Credit: 401,935 RAC: 0 
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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0
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Thank you Prognatus. I think I was explaining the Easter Bunny to my kids... ;-) Reality Internet Personality ID: 215067 · |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
From this site: What's with the "V"? ... Later: Quite a few years later Winston Churchill used it to signify victory during World War II, after which it seems that it was transformed from meaning victory to meaning peace by American hippies in the 60's. ... As a last note: If you ever do it backwards (with the palm in rather than out) it is considered to be an obscene gesture in the U.K. and English-speaking Canadians may also be offended. I can't find out specifically where this came from either... Also from this site, post 37: ... A possible contemporised profane association of the British “finger(s)†is a subversion of the famously defiant Churchillian Second World War V-sign  V for victory, where the palm faces outward. The V-sign reversed in the inward-palm gesture, or fingers together, often accompanied with an upward motion of the hand, is currently associated with such eloquence as “up your bum,†“piss off,†or the stronger sentiment of “F*** you!†It is also plausible that the V for victory was in turn appropriated as the commonly known “peace sign†popularized by the hippie movement in the 1960s. The peace sign is also considered as a gesture of benediction among Satanists.  Vyvyan from The Young Ones --------------------------------------------------------------- On topic: I got this Christmass card from Dogbytes yesterday:  Click the pic! Yes, Santa better has to be real! ;-) "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me 
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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0
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The V-sign reversed in the inward-palm gesture, or fingers together, often accompanied with an upward motion of the hand, is currently associated with such eloquence as “up your bum,†“piss off,†or the stronger sentiment of “F*** you!†Just being myself Fuzzy dear. ;-) Reality Internet Personality ID: 215104 · |
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
The V-sign reversed in the inward-palm gesture, or fingers together, often accompanied with an upward motion of the hand, is currently associated with such eloquence as “up your bum,†“piss off,†or the stronger sentiment of “F*** you!†Yes, I figured! ;-) BTW, do you like my Christmass card from DB? "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Alex Scaff Jr  Send message Joined: 25 Mar 05 Posts: 31 Credit: 39,411 RAC: 0
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[quote]The V-sign reversed in the inward-palm gesture, or fingers together, often accompanied with an upward motion of the hand, is currently associated with such eloquence as “up your bum,†“piss off,†or the stronger sentiment of “F*** you!†It also means "look here still able to fight" It originated the morning of a battled that was scheduled between the French and the English, in a time long ago. The story is that on the eve of this battle the french dispatched assasins to cut the fingers off the archers they had.(don't ask me how they were going to pull this off w/ so many cut.) Anyway, the asssasins were caught and well dispatched...for good. In the morning the French, expecting to see missing archers, were dumbfounded by the sight of them and laughed, until the archers lifting their hands and showing the two fingers, intact and ready to fire, in the way you see them shown. Like when Churhill holds up his fingers in some WWII photos it's not about victory but about telling the Germans we are still capable and ready to fight. Thass it,right. Cheers, Alex:)> P.S. Really liked the Xmas card! be our fwend at..http://www.myspace.com/bandescandar ID: 215214 · |
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Matelot Send message Joined: 23 Sep 03 Posts: 10 Credit: 252,359 RAC: 0
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As long as my kids believe in Santa, and they carry the thought of what it ment to them forward to there kids, then Yes, Santa does exists :) ID: 215244 · |
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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0
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It also means "look here still able to fight" That's the general spirit that we Brits tend to use it in. In other, words, no matter how 'underhanded' you are we'll still show up the next day. Churchill's V sign is the hand reversed, and does mean V for victory. I'm not sure where all the stuff about satanists came from. I've never heard that before. I think they are getting mixed up with the hand gesture with the extended little finger and index finger. Yes, I liked the card too. It was very funny. I would sort through all my Christmas cards and post the ones I found funny, but that would take far too long. :-) As long as my kids believe in Santa, and they carry the thought of what it ment to them forward to there kids, then Yes, Santa does exists :) @Matelot: When you put it like that is becomes obvious that there is a Santa. Reality Internet Personality ID: 215541 · |
Phill_UP_007  Send message Joined: 21 Aug 01 Posts: 185 Credit: 80,090 RAC: 0
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Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble but I must refer you to my earlier post in the 'Rocky's Laughter Is the Best Medicine' thread, for those with young children this image may be disturbing, and I apologise in advance, so if you have young children do not click here till they have left the room. ID: 217662 · |
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