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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance".

Confucius

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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance".

Confucius

Never let a man dance with a sword - anonymous over hearing Confucius in a noisy brothel
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Another MFC midfielder is born

Nativity-Baby-Jesus-Christmas-2008-chris

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Never let a man dance with a sword - anonymous over hearing Confucius in a noisy brothel

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it".

Epicurus.

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" HIT THE BOUNDARY " --------- Alan " Butch " Gale ( commentator closing seconds 1966 G.F. )

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Get back to the thread

Pig Dog

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christmas is just a christian theft of the pagan germannic mid-winter festival of yuletide

a time for all anglo saxons to get drunk

DC I think it has more to do with the Greek/Roman tradition of the sun god, Sol Invictus and the winter solstice occurring around December 25. The celebration of Sol Invictus was the 25th and celebrated the rebirth of the sun and was co-opted by the Christians as the birth date for JC in the 4th century I believe but happy to be corrected! Edited by Earl Hood
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DC I think it has more to do with the Greek/Roman tradition of the sun god, Sol Invictus and the winter solstice occurring around December 25. The celebration of Sol Invictus was the 25th and celebrated the rebirth of the sun and was co-opted by the Christians as the birth date for JC in the 4th century I believe but happy to be corrected!

that may well be for the italians, but not the northern europeans

the winter solstice was celebrated differently by different pagan cultures

xmas just conveniently usurped them all

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" HIT THE BOUNDARY " --------- Alan " Butch " Gale ( commentator closing seconds 1966 G.F. )

"Oh don't tell me Butch, this could be a draw" Mike Williamson - any time a VFL final was close in the last quarter.

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"Oh don't tell me Butch, this could be a draw" Mike Williamson - any time a VFL final was close in the last quarter.

...........and if scores were level late in a game the aforementioned fence-sitter would exclaim : " I tipped this , Butch " .

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I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best for a safe and happy New Year.

I cannot wait for the footy season to begin and have a great feeling about 2015.

Thanks to everyone for keeping me in the loop with training reports, rumours, gossip etc.

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it".

Epicurus.

Get back to the thread

Pig Dog

You seem to be the smart pr!ck with all the prophesies

I'm sure you can read the thread title

If you put down the booze.

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I thought it was a rip-off of the Jewish festival of Hannukah which has all the essential ingredients like candles, chocolate and commencing on the 25th day of the month.

Whatever... a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hannukah to all.

weren't many jews in jutland at that time ldvc despite the similarity in the name

anyway happy winter solstice (or should that be summer?) and yuletide to all good anglo saxons

happy alban arthan to all my fellow celts

and happy holidays to all others

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christmas is just a christian theft of the pagan germannic mid-winter festival of yuletide

a time for all anglo saxons to get drunk

Very prophetic dc.

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weren't many jews in jutland at that time ldvc despite the similarity in the name

anyway happy winter solstice (or should that be summer?) and yuletide to all good anglo saxons

happy alban arthan to all my fellow celts

and happy holidays to all others

Sure you spelt that correctly dc?

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