The Coffee Shop

[Hocky]

Good afternoon everyone.......have a great Monday! 

[gator8_24]

Good Evening to all the peeps on Santa's  "Nice" list!

[Squid]

 

[Joe C]

Good Evening to all the peeps on Santa's  "Nice" list!

Guess I have to bribe Santa again.

[Stinkerbell]

We were out driving around and my grandson saw Santa wearing a blue-tooth device and wanted to know why. I explained that back in the day, once Santa left the North Pole with his naughty/nice list, boys and girls would start acting up. Now, Santa can get live updates and can stay in touch with the North Pole so if little Johnny starts misbehaving, Santa will find out. In real time.

[Joe C]

We were out driving around and my grandson saw Santa wearing a blue-tooth device and wanted to know why. I explained that back in the day, once Santa left the North Pole with his naughty/nice list, boys and girls would start acting up. Now, Santa can get live updates and can stay in touch with the North Pole so if little Johnny starts misbehaving, Santa will find out. In real time.

We tell the boys that we can email Santa about any transgressions.

[roadwarrior]

Wanted to share somthing cool that happened this past Sunday at Church

My family and I are Unitarians.  Last Sunday at service, our Pastor announced to the congregation that as a reminder this Sunday's collection (yes, we do pass the plate around and each Sunday we select a charity for the next week's collection to go to) would be going to The Forgotten Children's fund (http://www.forgottenchildrensfund.org/) sorry, shameless promotion.....

anyway He said he had prepared 3 different versions of what he was going to say for the service and that if the total cash donations for that day was less than $25, service was going to last a full hour.  If the cash donations was less between $25.01 and $50, service was going to last 40 minutes.  If the cash in the basket for the Forgotten Children's fund was $50.01, service was going to last 10 minutes.  Pass the collection plate around, staff will go count it and then we'll find out which one I'll do.

15 minutes later the church treasurer came out and announced there had been $158 left in the collection plate-an all time record.  First time ever she'd seen anything larger than a $10 left in the plate.

That money is going to make a lot of kids happy this year.

[roadwarrior]

Oh, and some Christmas trivia:


There are currently 78 people named Santa. Claus living in the USA and 25 Kriss Kringle.

December is the most popular month for nose and boob jobs.

The weight of Santa's sleigh loaded with one 8 inch tall teddy bear for every kid on earth: 333 metric tons

Number of reindeer required to pull that much weight safely:  214,207 including  Rudolph.

To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa would have to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound.

The average kid will open 18 presents on Christmas morning worth appox $600

Of those presents:  one in 10 will be broken by the New Year.  40% of those not broken will make it to March.  Out of those toys that make it to March, only 1/4 will be intact by next Xmas.  In other words, 2/10 (20%) Christmas presents given to children will not be torn, broken or outgrown by the following Christmas.

Out of the 46 million of toys given to kids at Christmas worldwide 38 million will be thrown away worldwide by that summer.

[Joe C]

You just used a smiley. What do you mean you don't have them?

[Stinkerbell]

Wanted to share somthing cool that happened this past Sunday at Church

15 minutes later the church treasurer came out and announced there had been $158 left in the collection plate-an all time record.  First time ever she'd seen anything larger than a $10 left in the plate.

That money is going to make a lot of kids happy this year.

Great story, RW.

[Stinkerbell]

Honest... can't you get rid of that smiley, Homer? Or maybe it's locked until you have 1,000 posts? Please?

[Joe C]

Honest... can't you get rid of that smiley, Homer? Or maybe it's locked until you have 1,000 posts? Please?

Can I get an amen on that, sistah?

[C~M]

You just used a smiley. What do you mean you don't have them?

I think they meant the 2 that you & I used wasn't there and they wanted them...lol

[C~M]

Can I get an amen on that, sistah?

I see Joe's been drinkin' a few tonight....lol

[Joe C]

I see Joe's been drinkin' a few tonight....lol

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[Stinkerbell]

Can I get an amen on that, sistah?

Amen!

[C~M]

Amen!

[alyaks]

I don't have the profile on my smilies so now what do I do to get the forum?   party15a.gif party16a.gif

[C~M]

I don't have the profile on my smilies so now what do I do to get the forum?  party15a.gif party16a.gif

[alyaks]