26 December 2008

My Christmas, by Rosebud

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I spent Christmas day with the Jews, Moslems, Sihks, Hindus and atheists of the world at Melbourne Zoo. I stood on the parapet and watched as the Zoo Keepers fed the still wet and bloody head and shoulders of a newly slaughtered goat to a pack of hungry African Hunting Dogs. The large crowd roared with approval and the little children pointed and laughed as the dogs tore at its face, wrenching this way and that, sending chunks of flesh into the air.

We then moved onto the shop and had icecream.

Bread and circus anyone?

[Ed (Jazz). What does your Christmas day tradition consist of?]

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Plenty of women christians featured in the colosseum, they were generally being eaten by wild beasts with their kids. The Romans enjoyed the spectacle, the screaming and the blood. Nowadays we watch movies. Probably an improvement.

Wow – what an amazing pick from you guys! Spooky even. I do indeed have some German/Dutch background. Not a lot, but it is obviously there – something I never picked up on myself.

So how WAS your Christmas? Mine, was, well, biblical in many ways as you can see from my blog. I feel like people haven’t really changed much and could easily imagine myself at the coliseum 2000 years ago…except that I am a woman and they wouldn’t let me…now where IS that false beard again?

el said :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

Ahhhhhh! Thanks El.

Jazz said :

Shiny, you do realise its possible that rosebud is indeed german or dutch?

Quite possibly, which is why when I write Deutsch I don’t write ‘metre’ I write ‘Meter’…

Language isn’t extraordinarily difficult.

Am I the only one who doesn’t have a clue what Shiny Flu, El and Thumper were just going on about ?

Christmas day is all about the kids, so whatever they want to do is what we do. This year After opening presents we made several trips down at Kambah Oval to throw boomerangs and various stunt aircraft around. Great fun!

A Boxing day tradition for myself and close friends is a round of golf at Belconnen. We’ve done this for over 20 years and it just keeps getting better. After that we typically have some friends over for a BBQ.

What does your Christmas day tradition consist of?

I don’t have any family in Canberra, and all my friends either (a) have done Christmas with family, or (b) went to the coast/Queensland/Darwin/not here, so:

Presents early, then boredom, then lunch, then sleep. CBF making dinner, so leftovers, then more sleep.

Boxing day was much better. Sleep in, cricket, beer, Sydney to Hobart start, more beer, more cricket, sleep. Proper dinner, more beer, more sleep.

Yeah. pwnd.

(The “Zoo Keepers” having capitals could support that theory)

And shiny flu, you missed “Sihk”.

Shiny, you do realise its possible that rosebud is indeed german or dutch?

pretty funny if it is…

Language PWNage.

ROFLcopter!!!1!!1one!

English spelling: Muslims

German/Dutch: Moslems

pwnd.

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