Christmas is For the Dogs Open Thread

🎅🐾 Santa Paws has arrived! 🐾🎁
Today is the day when every dog in our care chooses their own Christmas surprise ✨ Wagging tails, happy hearts and pure festive magic 🐶💖#SantaPawsDay pic.twitter.com/x5Ca7GUuzC
— Dogs Trust Ireland (@DogsTrust_IE) December 15, 2025

Dog having his own fun.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/esnrLvrJ3Q
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 22, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?
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New toilet seats.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)

2 "what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?"

Aoshima Go Go Go Mach 7 Full Version.

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 06:07 PM (vFG9F)

3 Willowed from cookie thread but pertinent:

118 We might get a Chinook.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

One of my favorite dogs was a white Samoyed named Chinook. Such a good dog!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:05 PM (AoAME)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:08 PM (AoAME)

4 what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?
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I got to spend Christmas with the people and animals I care about.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 06:10 PM (tKhdt)

5 Public Service Announcement --

My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.

Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM (QMAsf)

6 The Muslim attackers of Christians in Nigeria just got a big Christmas present from Trump. I won’t say what it was but it sounded like BOOM BOOM BOOM.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM (xTuYU)

7 Sons got together and bought me a laptop. Said the windows 98 machine I've been using is unacceptable.

I'm probably gonna hafts buy a new office prog too...

Also a copy of Sen Kennedy's 'How to test negative for stupid' book.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:13 PM (AoAME)

8 My wife got me a whiskey smoking kit. Never had smoked whiskey before so looking forward to trying it out after dinner.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM (lQBYU)

9 New toilet seats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)

Heh.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 06:17 PM (h7ZuX)

10
Diana is in purdah for misbehaving. We're letting The Big Dummy be King for a Day and he's loving it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 06:17 PM (tgvbd)

11 what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?
__________________

New toilet seats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM
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New ironing board cover.

Posted by: Also receiving votes at December 25, 2025 06:18 PM (2Ez/1)

12 @1 what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?

I got nine gift cards. Nine!
I didn't realize I have become so hard to buy for.
Need to drop more hints I guess.

Anyways, hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Posted by: Case at December 25, 2025 06:19 PM (G1OIb)

13 We might get a Chinook.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Wow! I'd love one but where to park it?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 06:19 PM (cYBz/)

14 The horses got short shrift this Christmas as it was too warm for a bran mash so it was apples, carrots and molasses/oatmeal cookies.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:21 PM (sDNVV)

15 We might get a Chinook.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Wow! I'd love one but where to park it?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 06:19 PM (cYBz
Maybe go high rise, like three stories.

Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 06:21 PM (Slgjz)

16 5 Public Service Announcement --

My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM (QMAsf)

Neither is Fly By Night, but you probably listened to that a few times this month.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 06:22 PM (/TlUl)

17 We might get a Chinook.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

___

Call us about an extended warranty.

Posted by: Boeing Defense, Space & Security at December 25, 2025 06:22 PM (2Ez/1)

18 5 Public Service Announcement --

My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM

+++
Get in line pal.

Posted by: Baby It's Cold Outside at December 25, 2025 06:23 PM (2Ez/1)

19 Hope everyone has had a great Christmas

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

20 Thinking snacks and a glass or port

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 06:25 PM (Ia/+0)

21 ranpsycho is that area out on the Avenues (Clement?) still packed fulla russkis? Haven't been in eons but was fun to be in that environment when visiting. Only other place like that was Brighton Beach in NYC area.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:49 PM (U/Byj)
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Yes it is still very Russian around here it is commonly heard on the street.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:26 PM (sF9Ts)

22 The Muslim attackers of Christians in Nigeria just got a big Christmas present from Trump. I won’t say what it was but it sounded like BOOM BOOM BOOM.

You forgot a Boom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLIfL7p0iI

Posted by: Muddy Waters at December 25, 2025 06:27 PM (Riz8t)

23 I hope the bombs that we dropped in the Muslim murderers in Nigeria had written on them "Merry Christmas"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 06:27 PM (2vrAX)

24 8 My wife got me a whiskey smoking kit. Never had smoked whiskey before so looking forward to trying it out after dinner.
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM (lQBYU)

All this time I was just drinking the stuff. Didn't know you could smoke it -- do you need a special kind of pipe?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 25, 2025 06:28 PM (GSe6k)

25 My sister's boy just called to say he is engaged to a girl Mrs. F. approves of so smiles all around!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:30 PM (CTokg)

26 Friggin' Frosty the Snow Man isn't a Christmas song either.

Posted by: Weeding Out The Crap at December 25, 2025 06:31 PM (oftw2)

27 SanFranpsycho, Mazel tov.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV)

28 22
'Posted by: Muddy Waters'

Gonna shoot you right down.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 06:32 PM (fd80v)

29 ByGOLDIE KATZ
DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:23
Updated: DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:25
The United States launches a number of strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, US President Donald Trump announced on social media early on Friday.

The strikes, which Trump claimed were "deadly," were ordered due to recent Islamic State attacks on Nigerian Christians.

"The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing," Trump said, adding that he wishes a "MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues." - JPost
====

We do not deserve this man.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:33 PM (CTokg)

30 1 what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?

Mr. S gave me gift cards for the local Ace and also Tractor Supply for the new garden!
He has excellent gift giving abilities- which he passed on to the kids.

Posted by: sal at December 25, 2025 06:34 PM (f+FmA)

31 Thank you {Ben Had}!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:34 PM (CTokg)

32 I'm heating up leftover ham and making baked potatoes. Momma has on Christmas Carols auf Deutsch, of course.

Already hacked into the second Panettone.

It's a good day.

Thanks Jesus, for everything.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 06:35 PM (cYBz/)

33 My wife got me a whiskey smoking kit. Never had smoked whiskey before so looking forward to trying it out after dinner.
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM

Isn't it kind of hard to light?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:36 PM (0sNs1)

34 Congratulations San Franpsycho. May their first child be a manly child

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 06:36 PM (2vrAX)

35 "The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing," Trump said, adding that he wishes a "MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues."

and...

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: DJT Signature Line at December 25, 2025 06:37 PM (2Ez/1)

36 Memo to NFL advertisers: ⅔ of this country is White.

Who is John Galt ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 25, 2025 06:38 PM (IKyq4)

37 Don't the Scots have that smoked whisky thing down?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (0sNs1)

38 But I haven't even BEEN in Nigeria...

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (2Ez/1)

39 1 what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?

3 Pima cotton turtlenecks - black / red / white

To keep my giraffe neck warm in the winter here in WNY

Posted by: browndog stuffed but looking for more at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (TTAGa)

40 "The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing," Trump said, adding that he wishes a "MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues."

Gotta love technology. We no longer have to cross icy rivers on christmas eve to kill you in your sleep.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (snZF9)

41 I just got myself a brand new telescope that I had been waiting on to be in stock here in the US. Just got the in-stock alert an hour ago. It's a really fast 130 mm refractor.

Yessss!!!!!

Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 06:40 PM (EMg+d)

42 A lovely quote I saw was " may their daughters be like Ruth, Rebecca, Sarah and Leah and their sons like Ephraim and Manassas "

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:41 PM (sDNVV)

43 Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 06:36 PM (2vrAX)
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Thank you. I managed to save him from being ruined by my lib little sister.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:42 PM (CTokg)

44 41 I just got myself a brand new telescope that I had been waiting on to be in stock here in the US. Just got the in-stock alert an hour ago. It's a really fast 130 mm refractor.

Yessss!!!!!
Posted by: pawn

Cool! I once had a comely neighbor who didn't close the drapes, too.

Posted by: The Peeper at December 25, 2025 06:42 PM (oftw2)

45 New toilet seats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)

Toilet seats!!??
Sheesh, in my day...
Naaa. Can't do it. Too easy.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 06:44 PM (2WIwB)

46 We had a quiet lovely day, though I broke the rule on not trying out new things at the actual holiday dinner.
I'm required to bake a proper cobbler tomorrow...

Hoping all here had a wonderful day as well. The gift of AoS is one of my blessings.

Posted by: sal at December 25, 2025 06:45 PM (f+FmA)

47 A lovely quote I saw was " may their daughters be like Ruth, Rebecca, Sarah and Leah and their sons like Ephraim and Manassas "
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:41 PM (sDNVV)
===

This is from the blessing for children on Friday night

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:45 PM (CTokg)

48 I got 3 young hookers to tour Dallas nursing homes and flirt with old geezers (just smile and flirt). I'm not welcome back LOL but for a day they lighted up like they were 20 again. That made it worth everything. Merry Christmas haha

Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6COFX)

49 Gotta love technology. We no longer have to cross icy rivers on christmas eve to kill you in your sleep.
*********
Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night and attacked Trenton early Dec. 26.
But I still love the sentiment.

Posted by: Cosda at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (D3zHV)

50 Public Service Announcement --
My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.
Posted by: Doof

Speaking of which, here's a third song from mikeski's not-quite-a-Christmas-song list:

https://youtu.be/cpUp2QCz50Y

Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (nhCoE)

51 Did anyone get one of those automatic devices that return the toilet seat to its upright position after use?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (0sNs1)

52 Cool! I once had a comely neighbor who didn't close the drapes, too.
Posted by: The Peeper at December 25, 2025 06:42 PM (oftw2)

Carol Burnett did a skit on that once.

Posted by: Zombie Tim Conway at December 25, 2025 06:47 PM (R/m4+)

53 SanFranpsycho, I really need to do more reading about David.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)

54 >>>>>>>My wife got me a whiskey smoking kit. Never had smoked whiskey before so looking forward to trying it out after dinner.
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM

Isn't it kind of hard to light?
**********
My daughter gave me one of those kits today and a bottle of Lancaster PA made bourbon. Can't wait to try it out.

Posted by: Cosda at December 25, 2025 06:49 PM (D3zHV)

55 Wasn't David a sprout from the stump of Jesse?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

56 LMAO....

Heard from the rubber chicken in the first vid.

"Oh no. Not these *$$^%(#$ again."

Merry Christmas from the Great White (rural) Northeast.

Posted by: Orson at December 25, 2025 06:50 PM (dIske)

57 I don't much about David beyond that he was deeply flawed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:50 PM (CTokg)

58 The wife was not as amused as you

Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:52 PM (6COFX)

59 SanFranpsycho, that is my understanding so I wonder why G-d chose Jesus to be born of the House of David.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:52 PM (sDNVV)

60 On this day of christmas my true love gave to me
A Diamondback by Vortex
6-24X50
reticle in mil-rads
2 Vortex rings

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (snZF9)

61 Neil has some thoughts on what you should leave out for Santa next year:

"Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

62 We're not supposed to call them Chinooks any more. Now it's "pineapple rxpress" or "atmospheric river".

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (+mUZM)

63 Hey. It's a living.

Posted by: 3 young hookers who tour Dallas nursing homes and flirt with old geezers at December 25, 2025 06:54 PM (2Ez/1)

64 I got 3 young hookers to tour Dallas nursing homes and flirt with old geezers (just smile and flirt). I'm not welcome back LOL but for a day they lighted up like they were 20 again. That made it worth everything. Merry Christmas haha
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6COFX)

God Bless Us Everyone!

Posted by: Old Blue Pill Man At Shady Acres Retirement Home at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (R/m4+)

65 Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (JpCuL)

66 Stopping in for a moment for a respite from the family. 8 days of togetherness we are having, and I am grateful, but there are a couple of Chaos Agents in our midst.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (pDt9x)

67 Neil has some thoughts on what you should leave out for Santa next year:

"Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

You do that neil, hope santa shits in your stocking.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (snZF9)

68 Wyatt, Merry Christmas, good sir. I hope the season finds you well.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (sDNVV)

69 Catching a Pineapple Express Salmon doesn't seem like quite the same.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:56 PM (0sNs1)

70 We're not supposed to call them Chinooks any more. Now it's "pineapple rxpress" or "atmospheric river".
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (+mUZM)

And don't even mention the Alberta Clipper!

Posted by: Arctic Vortex at December 25, 2025 06:56 PM (GGatE)

71 The United States launches a number of strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, US President Donald Trump announced on social media early on Friday.

Too bad that the Left has legitimized Islamic terrorists attacks in the US and all we can do after such an attack is bury our dead kinsmen.

Why is justice available everywhere else on planet Earth except the Western ~~nations~~ cuntries that forbid justice?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 06:58 PM (a4flb)

72 I got 3 young hookers to tour Dallas nursing homes and flirt with old geezers (just smile and flirt). I'm not welcome back LOL but for a day they lighted up like they were 20 again. That made it worth everything. Merry Christmas haha
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6COFX)

Then we settled in and watch the crash cart races. lol

Seriously, you're a great American.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:58 PM (snZF9)

73 I neither need nor want for anything but to spend time with those I love. My every wish is granted.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:58 PM (sDNVV)

74 "Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I'm banging your wife.

Posted by: Santa Claus at December 25, 2025 07:00 PM (L1JuH)

75 I must have missed it - whats happening with Jack Straw?

Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 07:00 PM (lCppi)

76 Miu MI Doggies doing their own sled ride is too funny

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)

77 LASue, last I saw his sister was in the hospital.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:01 PM (sDNVV)

78 75 I must have missed it - whats happening with Jack Straw?
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 07:00 PM (lCppi)

Nothing I hope. We need an optimist around the joint.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:01 PM (pDt9x)

79 Posted by: Old Blue Pill Man At Shady Acres Retirement Home at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (R/m4+)

You're still up, eh? Heh

Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6COFX)

80 "Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Saint Nick is about 1750 years old. If the extra pounds haven't killed him yet, I think he's good.

Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 07:02 PM (nhCoE)

81 Tyson is an unpleasant fellow, isn’t he?

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (pDt9x)

82 You're still up, eh? Heh
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6COFX)

Well, It is but I have been asleep since 5. It has a mind of it's own. 4 hours and still going...

Posted by: Old Blue Pill Man At Shady Acres Retirement Home at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (R/m4+)

83 Neil Tyson must be a hoot at parties.

"Son, Shut! Up!"

-Neil's Mom, probably

Posted by: Pug Mahon, First of his name at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)

84 "We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal "

ISWYDT

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

85 Neil Tyson must be a hoot at parties.

"Son, Shut! Up!"

-Neil's Mom, probably

Posted by: Pug Mahon, First of his name at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)

He's a leftist scold, a stick in the mud, a kill joy, and a sack of shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 07:05 PM (snZF9)

86 84 "We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal "

ISWYDT
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (pDt9x)

87 "He's a leftist scold, a stick in the mud, a kill joy, and a sack of shit."

But other than that...

Posted by: Neil at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (2Ez/1)

88 Had a pleasant quiet day with the family and a nice meal. I did get a wallet which I needed. The old one was about 20 years old, quite warn, and the button to close it had fallen off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (7RYym)

89 General Mike Flynn@GenFlynn . 1h
My POSITIVITY just ended.

I'm sick and tired of these Marxist snakes hiding behind "democracy" to hunt patriots and silence dissent.

Kris Goldsmith—ANTIFA vet and admitted FBI asset—brags about infiltrating militias pre-J6, then watching the "insurrection" via SEVEN live feeds inside and around the Capitol.

How'd he get those feeds?

Who was he spying for?

What did he do with the intel? ...
...
https://tinyurl.com/4r9sc8b7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (bq0eC)

90 Tabletop corn hole ..............................game.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (YlWIZ)

91 88 Had a pleasant quiet day with the family and a nice meal. I did get a wallet which I needed. The old one was about 20 years old, quite warn, and the button to close it had fallen off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (7RYym)

Did it have a five dollar bill in it? My Grandma would always do that.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (pDt9x)

92 Funny you should mention it. It's a five dog night here.

Daughter and Son-in-Law are up in the ice box of NY for Christmas week (while we enjoy 78° days hahaha), so we've got their two dogs meanwhile. SonM is here tonight with his two dogs. And then there's our great Malinois Daisy. An exhuberant pack. Canine Chaos for Christmas.

As the Stones sang, I sit and watch as fur does fly.
https://youtu.be/rK0CR3kUEsA

Posted by: mindful webworker - howling at the reindeer at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (uPdbI)

93
Nothing I hope. We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal

Jack Straw is Optimist Prime.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (pkeXY)

94
59 SanFranpsycho, that is my understanding so I wonder why G-d chose Jesus to be born of the House of David.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:52 PM (sDNVV)

David’s a fascinating character study - embodies the saying that Great Men have Great Flaws. He made mistake upon mistake, great ones, but what distinguished him from so many others? When confronted with the truth of what he had done (as happened with the prophet Nathan) David *always* confessed his sin, begged the Lord for forgiveness, and threw himself upon the Lord’s mercy, Now he and his family suffered greatly for the sins of David; but they were not destroyed for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (xTuYU)

95
I think today is Gen Flynn's birthday. Or yesterday.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (2UuuD)

96 Bad luck to give a wallet without a coin or bill in it.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (sDNVV)

97 93
Nothing I hope. We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal

Jack Straw is Optimist Prime.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (pkeXY)

He is. I made a double entendre but he’s a breath of fresh air.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (pDt9x)

98 Funny you should mention it. It's a five dog night here.

Daughter and Son-in-Law are up in the ice box of NY for Christmas week (while we enjoy 78° days hahaha), so we've got their two dogs meanwhile. SonM is here tonight with his two dogs. And then there's our great Malinois Daisy. An exhuberant pack. Canine Chaos for Christmas.

As the Stones sang, I sit and watch as fur does fly.
https://youtu.be/rK0CR3kUEsA
Posted by: mindful webworker - howling at the reindeer at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (uPdbI)
---
One nice thing about dogs is they are much more amenable to partying with strangers than cats are.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 07:10 PM (ESVrU)

99 61 Neil has some thoughts on what you should leave out for Santa next year:

"Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)
___________________________________

Memo: North Pole Public Relations Dept. (NPPR)
Re: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
To whom it may concern:
We are aware of Mr. DeGrasse Tyson's fat shaming of St. Nicholas. And, while we are above such petty spitting contests in competition with self-proclaimed Know-it-alls. We are not above assuring that the public is properly informed. Mr. DeGrasse Tyson is still miffed that he did not receive the gift he desired at age 7. While it may be perfectly acceptable for young Neil to covet a Raggedy Ann doll (we do not judge). We found it disconcerting how he used the magnifying glass he received the previous year to murder ants on the sidewalk. Perhaps one day Mr. DeGrasse Tyson will discover a bit of humility and courtesy, earning him the doll he wanted so badly. But, it's not looking good.
Sincerely,
Half Pint Goggins, Elf Team

Posted by: Orson at December 25, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)

100 Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (pDt9x

That was very sweet of your grandma, but either FenSpouse didn't have any money or he didn't think of it. I didn't think of it either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:10 PM (7RYym)

101
I avoid politics Christmas Eve & Christmas, and usually do a good job sticking to it.

Believe me, I'll make up for it tomorrow, and my Pimp Hand will be as strong as ever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:11 PM (gt1u8)

102 Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (sDNVV)

Well so far nothing has happened. 😉I just told FenSpouse this so he went out to the kitchen to get a dollar

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:13 PM (7RYym)

103 Cafe is nood

Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 07:13 PM (lJ0H4)

104 "Tyson is an unpleasant fellow, isn’t he?"

I was starting to warm up to him too. His commentary on Pluti was almost endearing. If only he could stay in his lane

Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:15 PM (6COFX)

105 Nood.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 25, 2025 07:16 PM (oJ9lv)

106 LASue, last I saw his sister was in the hospital.
Posted by: Ben Had at D

Thanks.

Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 07:17 PM (lCppi)

107 "Well so far nothing has happened"

Pretty sure you're supposed to go outside, turn around, spit and curse

https://tinyurl.com/5n8s6wn5

But you're so delightful, I'll do it for you. Brb...

Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:23 PM (6COFX)

108
Ah, here's what's going on with the time zone. That's from the Jerusalem post. Israel time is UTC+2. It's 2:54AM, Dec. 26th there now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

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