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16 Dec 09
16 Dec 09
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Originally posted by Very Rusty"DEAR EDITOR: I am 58 years old.
What happened to the Christmas spirit?
"Some of my little friends say there are no new forum mods.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; are there new forum mods?
"Very O Rusty.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
Very Rusty, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Very Rusty, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Very Rusty, there are new forum mods. They exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Forum mods. It would be as dreary as if there were no Very Rusty. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Forum mods! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Forum Mods, but even if they did not see forum mods coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees forum mods, but that is no sign that there are no forum mods. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Very Rusty, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Forum mods! Thank God! They live, and they live forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, they will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
17 Dec 09
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Originally posted by Ice ColdYou lost me on the Mod thing!
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 58 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there are no new forum mods.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; are there new forum mods?
"Very O Rusty.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
Very Rusty, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. n thousand years from now, they will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
My question was: What happened to the christmas spirit, not who is in the Christmas spirits. 😉
The Christmas spirit seems to be not doing so well at RHP. Perhaps things will pick up by the week-end. Once people have a few spirits in them, it may happen.
17 Dec 09
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Originally posted by Very RustyI am the spirit of Christmas present. I'm just too broke to buy any. 😞
You lost me on the Mod thing!
My question was: What happened to the christmas spirit, not who is in the Christmas spirits. 😉
The Christmas spirit seems to be not doing so well at RHP. Perhaps things will pick up by the week-end. Once people have a few spirits in them, it may happen.
I just hoped you'd get a chuckle out of my post. 🙂
Let's be festive!
😀
17 Dec 09
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyDo they put your Christmas dinner through a food processor in Seniorsville so that all you elderly folk who have trouble chewing can drink your turkey?
Alive and well 24/7 all 365 at Seniorsville, USA.[hidden]Seems kinda dumb to try to fake it once a year.[/hidden]
😉
17 Dec 09
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Originally posted by Zort BoyGet back on track boy.
Do they put your Christmas dinner through a food processor in Seniorsville so that all you elderly folk who have trouble chewing can drink your turkey?
Where is you Christmas spirit? Do you have enough teeth left in your mouth to chew anything? Just wondering?
Don't you know most of the seniors have full sets of teeth!
