This is to everyone in the world. Have a great time wherever you live. The new year will bring more fun and pleasure to fans of The Rolling Stones. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Bjornulf

Is everyone ready for Christmas? I will be today. Where will you be on Christmas Day?

still cleaning up after a very lively Hanukkah

No.
Hopefully renting a DVD, and hopefully my herbalist will provide a libation by Tuesday.

Actually just got back from some Christmas shopping. And actually it was a lot easier and quicker than I thought. I think this is down to two things:

1. Most people are already finished shopping because they are more organised than Mr. Jimmy.

2. A lot of internet purchases.


Will be with the family for christmas, about 30 miles outside London.

Tonight however, it's a festive gig with the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Tribute band in the world - 'The Rollin' Stoned' !!

A few people on here are going - Beast, Paulywaul, ManofWealthAndTaste, Bar Room Queen, Adrian - L...

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!



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"Will Be With Family" may lead some to burst out in songs of joy and deer, others to count how many tranquilizers they've hoarded in recent months...

No not really with the passing of my mom just don't have the spirit now.
I know she is in a better place and not suffering anymore but darn i miss her even more.

Just not in the mood....

drummer-dude

Merry Christmas to all of you and your families

I'm sorry to hear your loss. My father, who is gravely ill, will be receiving his thrice weekly dialysis on Christmas...Last year he was rushed to hospital Xmas eve. So I try to catch whatever 'spirit' I can, usually thanks to a friend, or music.

sorry drummer..I lost my sister & niece. But am trying to get by, I will be celebrating as I know they would want me to.

I was going to say that I will be playing Stones and opening the fridge for my Xmas beverages, but after reading some of your posts i feel lousy and might go and visit a stranger in hospital. Cheers all

Having the family over, all the kids. We are cooking cookies today and I am off to buy the wine for the meal. House is a mess with Christmas wrapping all over the place. We are also going to try to cook duck for the first time, hope that works out. Merry Christmas to all--hope Santa is good to you.....Chris (Maryland, USA)

today visiting my brothers and sister in the country
and eating "skata" very badsmelling but not all that bad tasing fish

tomorrow is the christmas gift day with our children in our home

whiskey, yet it's the Stones, and other music that can make me feel alive, or time spent with close friends, that helps me get through...

to all of my fellow Rolling Stones fans.
Yet another year has soon expired and we are still up and running
on this board.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you and of course to our little band of gypsys!

Kind regards
Hans

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!

Red hot reindeer-rock fer the kids & free candy fer da ladies!
Merry X-mas & a 'Appy New year!

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Red hot reindeer-rock fer the kids & free candy
> fer da ladies!
> Merry X-mas & a 'Appy New year!


Thankx Bro!

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!

waiting impatiently for holiday figure to come down the chimney.....

Merry Christmas to you too Hans and a great New Year.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Hans

Who dreamt up this political correctness crap. What happened to Merry Christmas

Don't get me started!

smile: don't get me started, i think you mean.
even 10-year-olds realize that there's more than one festival celebrated around this time of year,
and that it might be "crap" to suggest that people who celebrate something other than Christmas should be disregarded.
(ever consider how "HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY FRIENDS" sounds to someone of another faith?
what - suddenly we aren't friends?? gee.) (and yeah yeah: we know how "touchy" we are.)

so enjoy whatever festivities groove you, including but not limited to
happy Christmas to whom it may concern - how's that.

So what other festival are we supposed to celebrate on 25th December?

Do not think WHISKEY is talking about "around this time of year" (some vague time period) but more specifically the dates of 24/25th of December which make up Christmas Eve and Christmas to all Christians except the ORTHODOX which celebrate it a few weeks later. To be 100% accurate here I did an internet search of the "interfaith calender" 2007 and this is what I found pertaining to the largest religions on the planet.

DECEMBER 18th - Hajj (mandatory visit to the Holy city of Mecca, Arabia by all Muslims who are financially and physically able to do the journey) begins for our Muslim friends (Islam)

DECEMBER 20th - EID AL ADHA - a major day for Muslims (Islam)

DECEMBER 22th - Winter Solstice/Yule- Christian/Wicca/Neo Pagan

DECEMBER 24th - CHRISTMAS EVE - Christians
DECEMBER 25th - CHRISTMAS DAY - Christians

Now the only other thing I can find during this period involving one of the worlds major religions (top 10) is DECEMBER 8th - BODHI DAY (Rohatsu) - celebrated by BUDDISTS.
We also have HANUKKAH way back on December 5th - 12th - celebrated by the Jewish faith but that is not one of the top 10 in numbers worldwide (see breakdown below) It gets a lot of attention so I will include it.

Here's a breakdown of the size of the world's Major Religions:

# 1. CHRISTIANITY: 2.1 BILLION (33% of the world's population)
# 2. ISLAM: 1.5 BILLION (21%)
# 3. SECULAR/AGNOSTIC/ATHEIST: 1.1 BILLION (16%)
# 4. HINDUISM: 900 MILLION (14%)
# 5. CHINESE TRADITIONAL RELIGION: 395 MILLION (6%)
# 6. BUDDHISM: 375 MILLION (6%)
# 7. PRIMAL - INDIGENOUS: 300 MILLION (6%)
# 8. AFRICAN TRADITIONAL: 100 MILLION (6%)
# 9. SIKHISM; 23 MILLION (0.36%)
#10. JUCHE: 19 MILLION (no info given)
------------------------- there's the top 10 world religions

#11. SPIRITISM: 15 MILLION (no info given)
#12. JUDAISM: 14 MILLION (0.22%)

So, to summarize, the second half of December looks like a major religious period (from the stats/numbers, using simple logic) for Christians and for Muslims. So Merry Christmas to all the IORR's and hope the Muslim IORR's had a great EID AL ADHA a few days ago. Cheers, a pretty non religious, but brought up kinda/slightly Catholic, Helter (making it "Real" for my IORR peeps)



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Its Happy Christmas and NOTHING else.

I work for the Civil Service with coleauges of many faiths. I don't know anyone there who doesn't recognize this month as being Christmas.

Its the politicians in White Hall who get their knickers in a twist over how to advertise this period.

This is how the world looks like, population in million people:

China : 1400
India : 1100
USA : 300
Indonesia : 230
Russia : 140
Japan : 130

Plus another 1-2 million people.
Christmas is a religious holiday.
Some people are Christian but others are not.
Happy Holidays is just a generic and respectful way
of saying "have a great time, wherever you live in the world".
I do believe in respect and recommend everyone on IORR to
be respectful and have a great time, wherever you live!

Bjornulf

True Al, that's the way it was when I was a little kid growing up in the states - pretty cut and dry. But a shift has happened in the last maybe decade, especially with the US Media, where MERRY CHRISTMAS is being replaced by HAPPY HOLIDAYS and other such "politically correct" phrases.... I don't get it and don't know what's/who's behind it but it's definitely turning into a big deal in the states - it pisses a lot of people off (and I don't blame them) but somebody's first gotta get to the root of the whole problem and how this thing started... you mentioned advertising and the disagreements that go along with it during this period.... probably has a lot to do with it, money... it's ALWAYS about money in the states when you get to the bottom of things, seems like that to me these days....

I've finished at work until the 27th now, the Christmas tree will go up tonight and now I'm done with driving for the evening I'm going to have a glass of wine (just to check that it's drinkable when Mr Stargroves gets home from work you understand).

So now I'm doing the Christmas thing I'd like to wish all IORRians a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year with Shine A Light and maybe some concert dates to look forward to. Thank you to bv for a site that means I've vicariously followed each tour date with setlist and reviews, and to all of you, whether you post stunning photos of the band, post "if only Mick Taylor... fill in the blank" threads or just torment Mr Gazza, who can't help secretly liking Sweet Neo Con, thanks.

For Christmas, here is a card with a dumb Norwegian blonde on it for you all, I hope you like it:

Happy holiday back at you Ms. Stargroves.....I hope that wine didn't go bad, but if so, chug it.

Great picture Stargroves! Merry Christmas to all in IORR-land, here's a greeting from a few years back -

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and all the very best for 2008!