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  • N newCP

    Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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    Dalek Dave
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    I will probably sing the praises of the Great Pharoah Imhotep. Flying out in 15 days for Xmas and New Year in Egypt. Practice my knowledge of Heiroglyphs (Well, I can only read cartouche if I am being totally honest). I think I will probably spend the day by the pool with a book and a series of Gin and Oranges. Then off to the Valley of the Kings the next day.

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    • N newCP

      Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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      Russell Jones
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      Family gathering on the day and then seeing friends on Boxing day. I thought about going climbing for a week but by the time I started looking for flights it was going to be too expensive. Probably leave it till February now.

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      • N newCP

        Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        Christmas eve, I will be drinking the bestest coffee known to man or beast [within the confines of home] when I fire up this baby[^]! Christmas day, my family and I will go to the Best-Damned-Christmas-Lunch [tm]; also known as "Grandma's". Mrs Wife will be driving home. Then it's a week in Wales doing welsh things; though not #that# welsh thing.


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          Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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          phannon86
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          Xmas eve: I have to book this off work and venture across the M25 to Suffolk, to stay with the GF's parents, carrying all our stuff to last a few days plus pressies. Xmas day: After having opened pressies and eaten at her parents, we then have to pack everything back up, and drive 2 hours north, yes, ON xmas day... this is to see my parents, open pressies there and eat again! By that point we're tired as hell and want to sleep. It's the 3rd year we've had to do this, gotta keep everyone happy, but neither side thinks how much of a pain it is for us :(

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            Xmas eve: I have to book this off work and venture across the M25 to Suffolk, to stay with the GF's parents, carrying all our stuff to last a few days plus pressies. Xmas day: After having opened pressies and eaten at her parents, we then have to pack everything back up, and drive 2 hours north, yes, ON xmas day... this is to see my parents, open pressies there and eat again! By that point we're tired as hell and want to sleep. It's the 3rd year we've had to do this, gotta keep everyone happy, but neither side thinks how much of a pain it is for us :(

            He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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            newCP
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            phannon86 wrote:

            ON xmas day... this is to see my parents,

            Great.. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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              Xmas eve: I have to book this off work and venture across the M25 to Suffolk, to stay with the GF's parents, carrying all our stuff to last a few days plus pressies. Xmas day: After having opened pressies and eaten at her parents, we then have to pack everything back up, and drive 2 hours north, yes, ON xmas day... this is to see my parents, open pressies there and eat again! By that point we're tired as hell and want to sleep. It's the 3rd year we've had to do this, gotta keep everyone happy, but neither side thinks how much of a pain it is for us :(

              He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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              Dalek Dave
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              I can understand crossing the M25 to get to Essex, but surely to get to Suffolk you have to cross the Great Temporal Rift that lays on the boundary, and people cross this at their peril, for on the other side they find themselves back in a distant remote past filled with danger and in-breeding. Where the locals still point at cars, and there is a severe danger of Tractor Terrorism. Hasten back across the Badlands and return to civilisation unharmed and unchanged my friend!

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                phannon86 wrote:

                ON xmas day... this is to see my parents,

                Great.. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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                phannon86
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                Yea, it's always worth it when we get there, we flip it each year. Each family takes turns in which half of xmas we're there for.

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                  I can understand crossing the M25 to get to Essex, but surely to get to Suffolk you have to cross the Great Temporal Rift that lays on the boundary, and people cross this at their peril, for on the other side they find themselves back in a distant remote past filled with danger and in-breeding. Where the locals still point at cars, and there is a severe danger of Tractor Terrorism. Hasten back across the Badlands and return to civilisation unharmed and unchanged my friend!

                  ------------------------------------ In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen J Gould

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                  phannon86
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                  :laugh: As much as I like her family, they honestly couldn't be nicer to me, I hate Suffolk so much. I'm not a rural person, I find it all quite "meh" and during the summer it's especially bad, my hayfever goes off the scale there, I can manage it here.

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                  • N newCP

                    Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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                    peterchen
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                    Under a blanket

                    Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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                      Under a blanket

                      Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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                      newCP
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                      Oh... :omg: How long you could be there and :zzz:

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                        Xmas eve: I have to book this off work and venture across the M25 to Suffolk, to stay with the GF's parents, carrying all our stuff to last a few days plus pressies. Xmas day: After having opened pressies and eaten at her parents, we then have to pack everything back up, and drive 2 hours north, yes, ON xmas day... this is to see my parents, open pressies there and eat again! By that point we're tired as hell and want to sleep. It's the 3rd year we've had to do this, gotta keep everyone happy, but neither side thinks how much of a pain it is for us :(

                        He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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                        Nagy Vilmos
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                        We can't do both families in one year, wot with mine here and Mrs Wife's in Hungarorsag. This may well be our last Christmas in the UK as Her Regal Wifeness's contract ends in July and the fighting and bitching for who gets the job next year has already started so she'll be shipped of home. Considering my parent's are self-confessed old farts and getting-on-a-bit, this might be the last chance I get to spend Christmas with them. Then again, it might not.


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                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                          Christmas eve, I will be drinking the bestest coffee known to man or beast [within the confines of home] when I fire up this baby[^]! Christmas day, my family and I will go to the Best-Damned-Christmas-Lunch [tm]; also known as "Grandma's". Mrs Wife will be driving home. Then it's a week in Wales doing welsh things; though not #that# welsh thing.


                          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                          Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                          though not #that# welsh thing

                          Are you casting aspirsions at my wifes' family? If so I should warn you: she can kill a man at tewnty paces with one blow of her tongue.

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                            Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                            though not #that# welsh thing

                            Are you casting aspirsions at my wifes' family? If so I should warn you: she can kill a man at tewnty paces with one blow of her tongue.

                            No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones "Rumour has it that if you play Microsoft CDs backwards you will hear Satanic messages.Worse still, is that if you play them forwards they will install Windows"

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                            Dalek Dave
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                            My wife has the "Arch one eye-brow whilst saying nothing" weapon. And she is not afraid to use it.

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                              We can't do both families in one year, wot with mine here and Mrs Wife's in Hungarorsag. This may well be our last Christmas in the UK as Her Regal Wifeness's contract ends in July and the fighting and bitching for who gets the job next year has already started so she'll be shipped of home. Considering my parent's are self-confessed old farts and getting-on-a-bit, this might be the last chance I get to spend Christmas with them. Then again, it might not.


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                              phannon86
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                              I have to give in to mine everytime she wants to see her family, afterall, we picked up straight after uni for me to come here for this job, and she's stuck in a dead end til I can find something else (been here over 2 years now) or I can convince my boss for me to work from home and move away (being considered by the powers that be!).

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                              • N newCP

                                Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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                                Corinna John
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                                Christmas? Well ... family and so on. The day after christmas I'll take a train to Berlin: 26th Chaos Communication Congress[^] :-D

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                                  Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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                                  kakan
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                                  Going with my family to Hurghada, Egypt. All inclusive. :-D

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                                    Going with my family to Hurghada, Egypt. All inclusive. :-D

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                                    Dalek Dave
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                                    See you there! I will be in Sharm! :) Small World.

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                                      Whats your plan to celebrate this special day. I am planning a trip to my favorite vacation spot.

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                                      Maximilien
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                                      I will be on a plane to Paris (from Montreal) on the 24th and will be celebrating Christmas with the family there! don't know exactly what we will do, but I know there's going to be lots of Champagne involved. and with the jet-lag, probable 48 hours of coma after that. :-D

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                                        My wife has the "Arch one eye-brow whilst saying nothing" weapon. And she is not afraid to use it.

                                        ------------------------------------ In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen J Gould

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                                        Dalek Dave wrote:

                                        whilst saying nothing

                                        Oh! I wish...

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                                          See you there! I will be in Sharm! :) Small World.

                                          ------------------------------------ In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen J Gould

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                                          kakan
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                                          Sharm and Hurghada is located on each side of the Suez canal. But the canal seems narrow there. Maybe we can wave to eachother? Anyway, let's have the best of X-mas.

                                          Alcohol. The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson

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