Merry Christmas one and all

[Parihaka]

I'll be lying on a beach for the next three weeks so I'll get in early with a merry christmas and see you all in the new year

Here's a New Zealand christmas tree

[giggs88]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.................



NOT!!!











Merry Christmas.

[indianguy4u]

Merrry x-mas & a very prosperous new year to one & all .

[Monk]

Indeed Parihaka,

A merry christmas and a Prosperous New year to you.

And that tree is a beauty.

[Parihaka]

....some of us have started celebrating already

You Better Watch Out for Santas in Auckland
From Times Wire Reports

A group of 40 people in ill-fitting Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand, robbing stores, assaulting guards and urinating from highway overpasses, police said.

A group of Santas objecting to the arrest of one of their group attacked security staff who were later treated by paramedics, police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said. The rampage was dubbed "Santarchy" by local newspapers.

The remaining Santas entered a convenience store and carried off beer and soft drinks.

A spokesman for the Santas said they were protesting the commercialization of Christmas.

Fortunately an American friend of mine close to the state department sent me this transcript of the presidents message

We have just been informed that your wonderful, freedom-loving city
of Auckland has been invaded by 500 (give or take a decimal point)
Christmas terrorists posing as our dearly beloved Santa Claus, one of
the great iconisms of the American way, and, consequently, the way of
all democratric countries, even yours. While relationships between your
country and mine . . . I mean ours. . . have been a little iffy lately
due to your oppostion to my -- our -- wide disarray of lethal and
destructive peace-keeping weapons, we still have warm relations with
Australia, a much bigger and more important country than . . .other
countries. Therefore, in an effort to use your nation as a stock horse
to fight rebel agitation fomentors in the region (Yo, Condi -- where is
this place?), we are offering (get me? OFFERING!) you an immediate
non-war para-sort-of-military anti-terrorism counter-invasion unit to
protect your homeland from becoming a rebel base that might threaten our
dear Australian friends and allies. You have nothing to fear from us
unless you refuse to allow yourself (and the Australians) to be
protected by me and my invading army.
Unknown to the rest of the world, even to our allies, whoever they
are (and to me, until lunchtime today), the CIA, the NSA, Delta Force
Red, The Green Berets, and our Black-and-Blue Not-Really-Covert
International Torture Brigade have been developing a
counter-phoney-Santa strategy in order to respond to this exact
possibility (or is that probability? plausibility? palpability? --
whatever). Therefore -- and lucky you -- there are semi-air-combat
aircraft, as we communicate (we are communicating, aren't we?), in the
air airlifting our brave and courageous fighting men and women, boys and
girls, and awaiting my, and only my, orders to extenuate their mission
or missions . . .or mission (Hey, Dick, ask Scooter if . . .what? Oh,
yeah. Forget it. I'll wing it.) to bring (what did Karl say the other
day . . .oh, yeah!) a final solution to what could otherwise turn into
another, uh . . .another . . .another regretable . . .a disastrous, uh .
. .disaster for everyone, espeically me . . .us. . . the world.
As we all know, Christmas is the time for all good men to come to
the aid of . . .oh no, that's from my high school typing book.
Christmas is the time for all men of good will to show good will toward
all men -- and women -- and what is obvious to all men -- and women --
is that an invasion from who knows where (our intelligence teams are
working on this) of phoney Santa Clauses is not a gesture of good will
toward men. Or women. And since our friends (right!) and allies (yeah,
like the French!) at the U.N. have shown no /_conejos_ /in solving what
will be a clear threat to the senility of all democracies in the known
democratic world that we know of, then, lo, it has fallen to me as the
Hand of the Lord to rise up in my righteous and holy anger and smite the
sinning Santas, to drive them from the temple of, uh, that is, . .
.from. . .uh. . . to drive them . . .away. Yes. Far away. From here.
There. Everywhere.
So, New Zealand, get ready to duck.

Your friend and protector,
George W. Bush, President (of the United States . . .of America)

P.S. -- I've got a great book on goats you can borrow. Picked it up in
Florida back in '01. It's yours if you want it.

Let the revelry begin!

[lemontree]

Merry Christmas to you too parihaka...and all on WAB

[Ray]

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year!

Parihaka,

What tree is that "Christmas tree" of yours?

[Parihaka]

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year!

Parihaka,

What tree is that "Christmas tree" of yours?

It's called a Pohutakawa, and flowers at christmas time each year. Merry Christmas Ray

[Neo]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Parihaka!
Prettig Kerst en een heel gelukkig Nieuw Jaar