Christmas Edition Of Getting To Know Your Friends!

**GMichael** · 12-14-2006, 01:14 PM

CHRISTMAS EDITION OF GETTING TO KNOW YOUR FRIENDS!

You know the drill.
Highlight, copy, and paste. Change my answers to your answers. Moments of fun! Don't be a scrooge!!! Enjoy!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Both!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wraps them.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Sometime before Christmas.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Lasagna

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
1969, my first motorbike

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Sis told me when I was 4

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
both

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Lights and ornaments

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
love to watch it fall, hate to shovel it.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
That motorbike in 69.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
my mom's cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Opening presents

17. What tops your tree?
nothing this year.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
both

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Don't remember the name. The one where the girl forgot the cranberry sauce and had to run out at midnight, and finally hooked up with they guy she was wanting all year.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Yuck

21Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas!!!!

**Dusty Chalk** · 12-14-2006, 02:44 PM

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Non dairy hot chocolate; egg nog if it's that one that's made by that company for the lactose intolerant

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
dwarf labor...I mean elf labor

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
bah humbug

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
on my buttcrack

5. When do you put your decorations up?
never

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Cookies (specifically, snickerdoodles and pecan tarts)
Lasagna is a holiday dish?

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Watching my dad burn a real christmas tree in a fireplace one year, watching him start to back away as it flared up

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Was brought up without that belief

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
Day

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Don't

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
love to watch it fall and to shovel it, hate to drive in it

12. Can you ice skate?
More or less -- not recently, but it's not something you ever forget...you just get less good at it

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Swiss Army Knife from Dad; sister's art from sister

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Receiving gifts

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
aforementioned cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Playing scrabble on new year's eve

17. What tops your tree?
Pretty much everyone else's'

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Receiving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Yum

21. Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Bah, Humbug!

**GMichael** · 12-14-2006, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
on my buttcrack

Good place for a stick up.

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

Lasagna is a holiday dish?

It was at our house. Mamma is from Italy.

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Watching my dad burn a real christmas tree in a fireplace one year, watching him start to back away as it flared up

Funny

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses

Isn't this the name of the one I like?

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk

21. Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Bah, Humbug!

Cheer up will ya?

**ForeverAutumn** · 12-14-2006, 03:40 PM

Oh my god! I can't believe how much Dusty and I have in common...seriously.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Non dairy hot chocolate; although I will drink Soy Egg Nog, but never the real stuff. Raw eggs are gross.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa? I'm athiest, remember?

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
No lights. Too much work

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No. (Dusty and I differ on this one

)

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Whenever I get around to it. Usually just a couple of days before Christmas.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Potato Latkes

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
The holidays were never a big deal in my house, so I don't really have one.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Was brought up without that belief

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
Day

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
No tree. Very small house and the Guinea Pig cage is in the only good spot for a tree.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
love to watch it fall and to shovel it, hate to drive in it -- What Dusty said.

12. Can you ice skate?
More or less -- not recently, but it's not something you ever forget...you just get less good at it -- What Dusty said.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
A big cozy feather duvet from my Hubby last year.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Time off work.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
My homemade eggnog cookies (with the soy eggnog). A good yule log is always a tasty treat also.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
This one will sound silly, but Hubby and I buy a chunk of 6-yr old chedder to nibble on Christmas day.

17. What tops your tree?
Guinea pig ****.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Receiving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
The Bowie/Crosby version of Little Drummer Boy, or anything by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Yum

21. Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Depends who I'm talking to.
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**kexodusc** · 12-14-2006, 03:58 PM

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Uh...my presents, wrapped, presents Santa gets for my wife, unwrapped...no kids yet.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
colored...white sucks

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
I hang like a mistletoe...yeah, I went there....

5. When do you put your decorations up?
When my wife gets home.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Quiche

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
1987, first guitar.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
7 years old, stupid friend ruined it for me...

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
Day...no cheating!!!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Lights and ornaments - and that crappy sparkly stuff.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
Love it...I gotta sled out back waitin' for a few inches....

12. Can you ice skate?
Only the Canadian in me....

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Yes

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Time off work with family/friends (and World Junior Hockey Championships)

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Nanaimo bars!!!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Every year my uncles and I send some gag gifts to each other in a friendly one-upsmanship competition...they've been getting progressively worse the last few years. If the dog poo clears customs, I'm winning this year!!!

17. What tops your tree?
Stanley Cup replica

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Both....

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
I like Gordon Lightfoot's "Little Drummer Boy", sung to the tune of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (try it)

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
depends

21Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas!!!! Nobody says Happy Holidays in July!

**ForeverAutumn** · 12-14-2006, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by kexodusc

17. What tops your tree?
Stanley Cup replica

Oh, that's a good one. If we ever get a tree that's what I'm doing!

**icarus** · 12-14-2006, 04:22 PM

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
egg nog

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wraps them

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
White

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Nope

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Sometimes they make it up in time for christmas

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Turkey

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Going through a fence on my new sled
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
My brother told me in grade 1

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
both

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Lights and ornaments

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
love it... its actually snowing right now

12. Can you ice skate?
Of course... born and raised in Canada... who can't skate

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
no...
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family and friends

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
butter tarts

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Opening presents

17. What tops your tree?
usually an angel or a star

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Gving mostly

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Don't really have one

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
impartial

21Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas!

**JoeE SP9** · 12-14-2006, 04:25 PM

Okay! you asked for it.

You know the drill.
Highlight, copy, and paste. Change my answers to your answers. Moments of fun! Don't be a scrooge!!! Enjoy!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Egg Nog only with Rum!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Whats a Santa?.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
I live in a Black neighborhood. White lights, are you kidding?

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Don't need it. I kiss the girls anyway.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
What decorations?

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Her name is Robin. Maybe she shouldn't count because she is a very sweet desert also.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Snow on Christmas eve.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Deduced it when I was 4

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
Christmas Day

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Lights and ornaments. I also like those little pony liquor bottles

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
Hate it on TV. Hate it here. Going to move to Arizona so I don't have to deal with it at all.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, but I hate that too.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
The Cayman I've ordered this year.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Robin, she is also my favorite dish.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Getting together with family and friends.

17. What tops your tree?
A model of my new car.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
I'll second your original answer.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
I have a serious sweet tooth. I want real British Jelly Babies for Christmas.

21Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Happy Easter to all and all hail the Great Pumpkin!

**Dusty Chalk** · 12-15-2006, 02:32 AM

Originally Posted by GMichael

Good place for a stick up.

LOL.

If I was in a more subtle mood, I would have said something about wearing a tie made out of mistletoe, but I was in a crude mood yesterday.

Originally Posted by GMichael

Isn't this the name of the one I like?

Yes. Happens to be one of my favourites as well. I also love "Carol of the Bells" in several different incarnations (George Winston's solo piano version and a certain "bell choir" version from a commercial [Sony? I think] come to mind -- that latter one just brings tears to my eyes, it's so beautiful...hey, I should look for it on YouTube...).

FA -- my emotions as I read your post: at first, pleased; then, disbelief (my thought was that you were just being lazy); then a brief spate of humour at your "this is where we differ" comment; then getting creeped out; then relief when we had a few things less in common.

And it's spelled "atheist" -- I before E except after C and when sounding like 'ay' as in neighbour and weigh...okay, it's not covered there, but it's still E-I...

**basite** · 12-15-2006, 08:14 AM

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot chocolate, with real Belgian Chocolate.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
some are wrapped, some are not

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored outside, and white in the tree inside

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
mom does that sometimes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
mom and dad do that

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
spagetti, lasagna, fondue big Italian fan.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
dunno, alot, but i can't really remember one right now.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
dunno, mom and dad told me when i was about 9 or 10 years old

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
day, no cheating at home, and after that, there are several family parties where there are some trees with presents under them...

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
i don't my mom and my brother does

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
Love it, but there hasn't been any this year

come on snow, you're dissapointing me...

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, although it's just a hobby, i can do it really well...

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
For now, dad's Advents, but at the age of 16, i'm sure that there will be more nice presents

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Tiramisu

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
checking out what santa left on his way by...

17. What tops your tree?
depends on how the school grades turn out.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
both

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
none that i know about at this moment, i'll see

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
dunno, never tried, could be, but i can't remember it

21Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas, sounds better anyway.

**topspeed** · 12-15-2006, 12:28 PM

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Have you ever tried following up a Turley Zin with egg nog?

It triggers a palace revolt from your nether-regions. Trust me. Voted: Neither

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I just give them to these teenage girls at the mall, have a few drinks, and when I come back they are magically wrapped. It's a Christmas Miracle!!!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Clear...colored sucks. Too ghetto.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Why? Where do you want me to hang it? This is GMichael, not JohnMichael, right?

5. When do you put your decorations up?
The weekend after Thanksgiving.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Prime Rib.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Watching all the holiday cartoons.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!!!

Truth?

TRUTH?!?

What're ya trying to say, Mike?!?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
Both

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Get box. Open box. Dump box on top of tree. Voila! Decorated!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
Depends on how much my dealer is charging this week.

12. Can you ice skate?
On purpose?

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Atari 5200. I didn't even open the rest of my presents.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Mom's lemon merengue pie.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Not working.

17. What tops your tree?
Nothing tops my tree! Oh sure, all you jokers think you've got a better one, but you know the truth:

Mines better. Deal with it.

nyah nyah nyah!

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
I'm a firm believer in giving while receiving, just like Jenna did to Peter North in...

Oh wait, wrong thread...

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Nat King Cole*: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)

*Alvin and the Chipmunks will do in a pinch.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Depends on where it's been.

21. Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Why not Happy Qwanza? Happy Hannukah? Happy Festivus?!? Don't be so regional, Mike!

**GMichael** · 12-15-2006, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by topspeed

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Have you ever tried following up a Turley Zin with egg nog?

It triggers a palace revolt from your nether-regions. Trust me. Voted: Neither

Too much information here.

Originally Posted by topspeed

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I just give them to these teenage girls at the mall, have a few drinks, and when I come back they are magically wrapped. It's a Christmas Miracle!!!

Gotta love those teenage girls.

Originally Posted by topspeed

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Clear...colored sucks. Too ghetto.

What's wrong with the ghetto?

Originally Posted by topspeed

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Why? Where do you want me to hang it? This is GMichael, not JohnMichael, right?

Does it matter?

Originally Posted by topspeed

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Prime Rib.

Now you did it. I'm hungry!

Originally Posted by topspeed

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!!!

Truth?

TRUTH?!?

What're ya trying to say, Mike?!?

That Santa has a little secret. He's actually mumble mumble mumble...

Originally Posted by topspeed

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Get box. Open box. Dump box on top of tree. Voila! Decorated!

Nice box!

Originally Posted by topspeed

12. Can you ice skate?
On purpose?

No, on ice. Duh.

Originally Posted by topspeed

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Atari 5200. I didn't even open the rest of my presents.

Did it have Pong?

Originally Posted by topspeed

17. What tops your tree?
Nothing tops my tree! Oh sure, all you jokers think you've got a better one, but you know the truth:

Mines better. Deal with it.

nyah nyah nyah!

Go to your room mister.

Originally Posted by topspeed

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
I'm a firm believer in giving while receiving, just like Jenna did to Peter North in...

Oh wait, wrong thread...

How do you know the names off the top of your head like that? And don't mumble.

Originally Posted by topspeed

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Nat King Cole*: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)

*Alvin and the Chipmunks will do in a pinch.

No pinching please.

Originally Posted by topspeed

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Depends on where it's been.

Where would they be?

Originally Posted by topspeed

21. Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Why not Happy Qwanza? Happy Hannukah? Happy Festivus?!? Don't be so regional, Mike!

So, which one?

**topspeed** · 12-15-2006, 01:12 PM

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Clear...colored sucks. Too ghetto.

What's wrong with the ghetto?

Nothing. Nothing at all. At least it doesn't have bears.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Why? Where do you want me to hang it? This is GMichael, not JohnMichael, right?

Does it matter?

Hey, I can take it if you can.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Get box. Open box. Dump box on top of tree. Voila! Decorated!

Nice box!

I told my wife that once.

Once.

I don't remember anything after that.

Originally Posted by topspeed
18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
I'm a firm believer in giving while receiving, just like Jenna did to Peter North in...

Oh wait, wrong thread...

How do you know the names off the top of your head like that? And don't mumble.

Funny, my wife likes it when I mumble.

Originally Posted by topspeed
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Depends on where it's been.

Where would they be?

Bill Clinton. 'nuff said.

Originally Posted by topspeed
21. Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Why not Happy Qwanza? Happy Hannukah? Happy Festivus?!? Don't be so regional, Mike!

So, which one?

Fine.

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

No...wait...

Merry Newmas and Happy Christyear!

nonononono! Dammit...

Merry had a little la...

awwww screw it.

**GMichael** · 12-15-2006, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by topspeed

Merry had a little la...

awwww screw it.

The lamb? And you were worried about JM?

**JohnMichael** · 12-15-2006, 01:53 PM

CHRISTMAS EDITION OF GETTING TO KNOW YOUR FRIENDS!

You know the drill.
Highlight, copy, and paste. Change my answers to your answers. Moments of fun! Don't be a scrooge!!! Enjoy!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Newly diagnosed diabetic. Dry red wine.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I am 50 and still waiting for Santa

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
I do not live in a tree house.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Depends on which AR member is around. See topspeeds response.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
When I am in the mood. I've not been in the mood for several years.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Beef tenderloin

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
The first year after my parents seperated.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Not until this thread.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?
Either day if I receive one.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Predecorated I pull it out of the bag and set it on a table.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread?
As long as it stays off the roads

12. Can you ice skate?
It's a requirement for membership.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Bose 201 speakers, yes I said Bose.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
That they are only once a year.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
See answer for #1.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Fighting over board games mostly Trivial Pursuit.

17. What tops your tree?
Right now the storage bag.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Don we now our gay apparel

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum ?
Straight or bent?

21Happy Holidays!! or Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas
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**GMichael** · 12-15-2006, 02:25 PM

Yeah, John is joining in!