Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year.

[feduptaxpayer]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

Ja, Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute zum neuen Jahr.

 

[the_human_being]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and yours. I hope Santa is good to you and to your family this season.

 

[feduptaxpayer]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and yours. I hope Santa is good to you and to your family this season.

(X)Ditto.

 

[feduptaxpayer]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

Ja, Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute zum neuen Jahr.

(X)Merry Christmas. I hope that you were being nice and saying Merry Christmas to me. LOL.

 

[skye]

 

[Gracie]

Merry xmas!

 

[the_human_being]

To all of you from our home to yours:

 

[Auld Phart]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

Ja, Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute zum neuen Jahr.

Danke

 

[Auld Phart]

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

QUOTE="feduptaxpayer, post: 13102889, member: 22143"]

Too everyone here have a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".

Ja, Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute zum neuen Jahr.

(X)Merry Christmas. I hope that you were being nice and saying Merry Christmas to me. LOL.

Yes, Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year

I know, no matter what we say, even if it's nice, it ALWAYS appears we're either shouting at someone or telling someone off

 

[feduptaxpayer]

Merry xmas!

(X)Sorry, but what is Merry Xmas? Is that another kind of Christmas Holiday? Just curious.

 

[Gracie]

Chris=criss cross
mas=mas. Christmas. Short for that.

But I think you already knew that. Anyway..merry christmas. There. More letters. happy now?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Merry xmas!

(X)Sorry, but what is Merry Xmas? Is that another kind of Christmas Holiday? Just curious.

It's the subtraction of Christ out of Christmas.

The only time I can handle Xmas is with Mogwai's "Xmas Steps" off their EP "No Education = No Future (Fuck the Curfew)", I can handle anything if it's Mogwai, even the fact that they're those AWFUL Socialist-types!

 

[Gracie]

Really? Never knew that. I just do it to save from having to type out the whole word.
Huh. Learn something new every day.

 

[Wyld Kard]

 

[Auld Phart]

"In any case, by the fifteenth century Xmas emerged as a widely used symbol for Christmas. In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with moveable type. In the early days of printing typesetting was done by hand and was very tedious and expensive. As a result, abbreviations were common. In religious publications, the church began to use the abbreviation C, or simply X, for the word "Christ" to cut down on the cost of the books and pamphlets. From there, the abbreviation moved into general use in newspapers and other publications, and "Xmas" became an accepted way of printing "Christmas" (along with the abbreviations Xian and Xianity). Even Webster’s dictionary acknowledges that the abbreviation Xmas was in common use by the middle of the sixteenth century."


The Origin of "Xmas"

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Really? Never knew that. I just do it to save from having to type out the whole word.
Huh. Learn something new every day.

No I wasn't accusing you of anything I was just saying that's where the whole Xmas thing came from.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

"In any case, by the fifteenth century Xmas emerged as a widely used symbol for Christmas. In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with moveable type. In the early days of printing typesetting was done by hand and was very tedious and expensive. As a result, abbreviations were common. In religious publications, the church began to use the abbreviation C, or simply X, for the word "Christ" to cut down on the cost of the books and pamphlets. From there, the abbreviation moved into general use in newspapers and other publications, and "Xmas" became an accepted way of printing "Christmas" (along with the abbreviations Xian and Xianity). Even Webster’s dictionary acknowledges that the abbreviation Xmas was in common use by the middle of the sixteenth century."


The Origin of "Xmas"

Now I never knew that, a very good post from you.

 

[Auld Phart]

"In any case, by the fifteenth century Xmas emerged as a widely used symbol for Christmas. In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with moveable type. In the early days of printing typesetting was done by hand and was very tedious and expensive. As a result, abbreviations were common. In religious publications, the church began to use the abbreviation C, or simply X, for the word "Christ" to cut down on the cost of the books and pamphlets. From there, the abbreviation moved into general use in newspapers and other publications, and "Xmas" became an accepted way of printing "Christmas" (along with the abbreviations Xian and Xianity). Even Webster’s dictionary acknowledges that the abbreviation Xmas was in common use by the middle of the sixteenth century."


The Origin of "Xmas"

Now I never knew that, a very good post from you.

Sister posted something about it on FB a while back.

Just passing on learned knowledge