God jul to all from Santa's home, Norway!
Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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#62Happy holidays everyone!
This is probably the one community I actively participate in.
I love the range of topics, the range of opinions, the quality of most comments and the conduct. When I want to really understand something that's going on, my first stop is to find the HN comment thread for it. That says a lot :)
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#63Merry Christmas everyone! HN is a place that I visit multiple times every day! Trying to contribute a bit more as well!
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#64Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I was a lurker for over ten years but recently made an account. I've always learnt something new from here, and not just related to computing. I owe a significant part of my career to some of the ideas that were sparked from reading links on HN over the years and I've grown fond of this site and the community that sustains it.
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#65Merry Christmas!
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#66God jul to all from Santa's home, Norway!
You misspelled Finland :)
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#67Merry Christmas all
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even without the alternate dates Christmas lasts longer than 48 hours .. So that poses a question, just how long does Christmas day last for, from the first moment at the first place to the last moment at the last place about the globe? Merry Christmas all.
When I was a kid, we advanced Christmas by 12 hours each year. Where "Christmas" is defined as "when can we open our presents?" At first, it was the morning of the 25th. The next year, we asked "Please, can we open one present on Christmas Eve?" And so we did, that night. The year after that, it was "What about the morning of Christmas Eve? Just one, please?" You can figure out the next year. "The evening of the 23rd…
>Maybe the real lesson is that Christmas can be every day of the year.
The Filipinos take that literally! My wife and I went there on our honeymoon, and they already had the carols and decorations out in September!
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#69Does anyone have a map of which countries celebrate Xmas (first day) on 24 and which ones on 25?
In Poland Christmas is 25th and 26th, but all the main celebration happen on eveningn of 24th. The remaining two days are more for rest and hanging out with your extended family.
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#70Merry Christmas, all! Have some wonderful music to carry you through to New Years! (Twisted Sister - A Twisted Christmas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1P5UKlHAs&list=PLe7ia_jeVG... (TSO - The Lost Christmas Eve) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLfNgYF1h-Y (TSO - The Christmas Attic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4ruFp5U2w (TSO - Christmas Eve and Other Stories) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJXQYx7j_3I (Mi…
What about the most classic carol of all, Cyndi Lauper's Christmas Conga?