Wow, 1 post, thread over. Nicely done, King Something.

Funny stuff you've got there King Something. Funny stuff indeed.

Nice headline, baby.

Merry Pagan Christmas!

The Grinch: Merry Pagan Christmas!

Whoo-hoo back. We had a great feast tonight (though, as I'm on the other side of the planet, it was summer solstice) and I'm the only one left standing .. well sitting. In fact, probably falling asleep here in the next 30 mintes ;-P

And I get another feast with my Christian family on Thursday. Awesome food week, FTW!

Happy solstice!

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need it's light
We need it's heat
We need it's energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.

And even when it's out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
Atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium. (*)

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees


\thank you they might be giants

DING

and it's officially winter...

/tell my freezin Texan ass that now...

/Waves in the BA's direction.

Web-cast of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange (new window).

/the webcast is over...but damn that is impressive!!!!

Expected the headline "The SUN isn't there"

/left disappointed
//slinks away

/jump back, kiss mahself

I'm one of those weather nerds that really pays attention to the length of day, and check the lengthening/shortening on www.wunderground.com for my city.

"Tommorow will be 3 seconds longer than today." WOOOO HOOOOO!

///and King Something? You may not be the father, buy you da man!

ciocia: I'm one of those weather nerds that really pays attention to the length of day, and check the lengthening/shortening on www.wunderground.com for my city.

"Tommorow will be 3 seconds longer than today." WOOOO HOOOOO!

///and King Something? You may not be the father, buy but you da man!

I for one am looking forward to spending the entire day not worrying about getting a sun burn!

Brings back memories.

I woke up late as the sun was rising. Did some dishes. Then the sun set. Have no idea how many people are trying to off themselves as I type this.

The season is the reason for the season!

The Grinch: Merry Pagan Christmas!

Why ya gotta be like that? Can I wish you a Merry Christian Yule on the 25th? Can't we all just get along?

My favorite holiday song...and a completely inexplicable video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg

Tull
Solstice Bells

Enjoy!

This is the day, you pasty-white basement dwelling brethren! Go out into the scary outdoors. That thing we call the sun won't be there long for you farkers in the Northern hemisphere anyway. You won't be burned. Use sunscreen in any case. Enjoy the shortest day!

Happy Yule Everyone...

/No Yule fire in Iraq tonight :(
//Hope the Sun rises tomorrow...

mr lawson: Web-cast of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange (new window).

/the webcast is over...but damn that is impressive!!!!

In the first 4 minutes I have to say it plays like a tourist advert, not an informative documentary.

/family from the Boyne Valley
//been there done that
///post grad student of archaeology

/it'd be cooler if it didn't phaff with all the "people 5k yrs ago did "this"
//even beyond science, there's all the "YOU CAN'T JUSTIFY THAT STATEMENT" crap

Can't stomach more than I've struggled through.

MilitaryTigger: Happy Yule Everyone...

/No Yule fire in Iraq tonight :(
//Hope the Sun rises tomorrow...

I'm keeping one burning for the "hey-ho" of it. I'll consider some of those logs yours.

Can't escape the yule log, even at summer solstice!

scamp-dun-emer: mr lawson: Web-cast of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange (new window).

/the webcast is over...but damn that is impressive!!!!

In the first 4 minutes I have to say it plays like a tourist advert, not an informative documentary.

/family from the Boyne Valley
//been there done that
///post grad student of archaeology

/it'd be cooler if it didn't phaff with all the "people 5k yrs ago did "this"
//even beyond science, there's all the "YOU CAN'T JUSTIFY THAT STATEMENT" crap

Can't stomach more than I've struggled through.

This.
The interpretive tours and museum displays at Newgrange (among other places) are pretty incredible. I'd be fine if I never heard, "it's ceremonial" to describe a site or artifact again.

Oh, and for fun sometime you should go on a tour of Mesa Verde. The guides there are amazingly creative and imaginative.

_{/former archaeologist}

Happy Yule, and good luck in the coming year. I know times are tough out there, but try not to worry too much.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

So today's the day you can lay an egg on its side?

Merry Yule, Fark-dot-com!

-6 degrees and 20-30 below wind chill.
Bring that farkin sun back this direction!

Merry Solstice, one and all!

We'll be having a yule log, too, since it's finally getting a bit cold here in NC/USA. Family dinner is at a nice steak house; no cooking chores; it's good to be a few days off from the majority's holiday ;-)

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
of the galaxy that we call the Milky Way...

/do-do-do-do-de-doooo

still waiting for the pictures of the hot sky clad pagans..

I'm sure theres atleast one..

Merry Solstice, everyone. Winter's definately here. We got pounded Friday with 12 inches and getting another 6 today with the gusting winds. Mother Nature is making it very hard to finish the mandatory last minute xmas shopping.

/In West Michigan and I can't wait for spring this year.

J. W. Booth: still waiting for the pictures of the hot sky clad pagans..

I'm sure theres atleast one..

GIS for "hot sky clad pagans"

Happy solstice, everyone!

GIS pagan bikini:



If you want something done right....

So remember, folks: Coast on the straights - punch it on the turns.

OddObject: Happy Yule, and good luck in the coming year. I know times are tough out there, but try not to worry too much.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

That is the most awesome thing i have read in a long time. Thank you for reminding me.

Also, welcome to my profile.

scamp-dun-emer: MilitaryTigger: Happy Yule Everyone...

/No Yule fire in Iraq tonight :(
//Hope the Sun rises tomorrow...

I'm keeping one burning for the "hey-ho" of it. I'll consider some of those logs yours.

Can't escape the yule log, even at summer solstice!

Many Thanks Scamp... I really Appreciate it!

Scutter

The woman in that picture is wearing a cross on a chain around her neck. I'd wager she's probably just looking for intel on where to build the next fire.

I'm guessing there is a large scale and a duck sitting off camera.

King Something

Boobies win. Well-played my friend.

/Catholic

MilitaryTigger: Happy Yule Everyone...

/No Yule fire in Iraq tonight :(
//Hope the Sun rises tomorrow...

Dude, it's not a 'Yule' fire. You're just 'destroying classified waste'. Honest. That's your story, and stick to it.

That's what we did in Saudi. Even roasted marshmallows over the fire. Of course it really WAS classified waste, but 'tis the season, y'know?

Wait a second. I didn't post "Boobies win." WTF.

Huzzah!!

It's also our 6th wedding anniversary. The wife is wiccan, and I'm a confused Buddhist.


We'll have a celebration in our stone circle in the back yard later today.


_{/My brother calls it our UFO landing pad.
//I got her a copy of World of Warcraft.}

Go to Stonehenge and have yourself a megalithic Christmas....

555-FILK: Wait a second. I didn't post "Boobies win." WTF.

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