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#1 2004-12-01 22:58:29
- GraemeSkinner
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Christmas is coming, so time to do a Google and change the site logo for christmas...
Graeme
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#2 2004-12-02 06:46:03
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Christmas is coming, so time to do a Google and change the site logo for christmas...
Graeme
*Nice! It might garner a "humbug!", though, from a certain moderator I won't mention by name. 
Maybe put a little rabbit to the side, with a green and red ribbon about its neck with a golden bell affixed to it.
--Cindy
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#3 2004-12-02 07:23:32
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
What's that I hear carried on the wind, echoing across the snow...
Ah yes, humbug.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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#4 2004-12-02 08:03:43
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Okay, that is just charming, I'm sure Adrian won't mind me changing it. Hehehe
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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#5 2004-12-02 08:15:31
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Okay, that is just charming, I'm sure Adrian won't mind me changing it. Hehehe
*Looks great! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-HA on a certain moderator whose name I'll not mention. And who's likely to get a nocturnal visit by 3 ghosts here soon.
Pass the gravy...er, I mean the grave.
--Cindy
Jingle bells
jingle bells
jingle all the way!
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#6 2004-12-02 09:11:39
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
The True Meaning of Christmas:
It's the month before Christmas and all through the land,
all the people are cheery, I don't give a damn.
singing and shopping, they lurk everywhere
with non-denominational greetings flung through the air
headaches and loud kids and racking up debt
while visions of pummeling run through my head
with a print cartridge and blank disks clutched in my hand
in line behind jackassess who's credit can't stand
the goods from abroad they so eagerly smatter
around their dead trees, some inanimate matter!
and celebrate what?... most can't recall,
don't care, are too lazy or don't know at all.
Not giving crap, shiny bows, Jesus et al,
just the old solstice festivals, turned retail orgy for all.
Humbug, I say!
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#7 2004-12-02 09:43:13
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Humbug, I say!
*Okay, Scrooge. But in the meantime:
http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/rabbit/R14.jpg]Happy
![http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/rabbit/R14.jpg]Happy](http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/rabbit/R14.jpg]Happy){kind=link}
http://www.silverpersians.com/Cats1SM.jpg]Holidays
![http://www.silverpersians.com/Cats1SM.jpg]Holidays](http://www.silverpersians.com/Cats1SM.jpg]Holidays){kind=link}
anyway! 
--Cindy
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#8 2004-12-02 17:04:06
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
while visions of pummeling run through my head
*LOL!
That finally caught my attention (very busy day).
Hey Cobra, you could rewrite the old carol Here We Come A-Wassailing with that line.
"Here we come a-pummeling amongst shoppers so dense!"
:laugh: :laugh:
I'd better get offline now.
--Cindy
(Disclaimer: No, I don't condone gratuitous violence and generally don't find it funny...but this just came to mind...pardon my dark humor)
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#9 2004-12-02 18:55:40
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Speaking of http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/rabbit/R14.jpg]bunnies. . .
![http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/rabbit/R14.jpg]bunnies](http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/rabbit/R14.jpg]bunnies){kind=link}
I once knew this fellow who kept a pet rabbit. A male.
A really dumb bunny.
Anyway this rabbit thought that balloons were, well, girl bunnies so he would climb on top of them (it) which usually caused a big *POP*
One New Years Morning my friend and his fiance were lying in bed trying to wake up when they started hearing
* Pop *
then
* Pop *
and again and again all from downstairs where there had been a New Years Eve party.
The couple forced themselves out of bed and went downstairs and saw that their rabbit had gotten loose and was hitting on all the stray balloons leftover from the party the night before.
He told us he and his fiance couldn't stop laughing after they'd watch a * Pop * and if you could read rabbit facial expressions, their poor dumb bunny just wanted to know:
"Hey, where'd she go?"
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#10 2004-12-02 19:11:14
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Hey Cobra, you could rewrite the old carol Here We Come A-Wassailing with that line.
"Here we come a-pummeling amongst shoppers so dense!"
I recused myself from all Christmas rituals several years ago. Well, with one exception. But still I must on occassion venture into the over-crowded shrines of commerce.
Standing in line for an hour to buy gifts is one thing, standing in that same line because you need to buy a printer cartridge and some blank CD's to make deadline breeds... thoughts of pummeling.
Maybe an express lane for non-celebratory folk is in order. ???
I guess I'll have to shop on-line like a good hermit. But then I'd miss the cheer of engaging anyone with "Jesus is the reason for the season" on their lips...
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#11 2004-12-02 19:50:53
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Speaking of bunnies. . .
I once knew this fellow who kept a pet rabbit. A male.
A really dumb bunny.
Anyway this rabbit thought that balloons were, well, girl bunnies so he would climb on top of them (it) which usually caused a big *POP*
One New Years Morning my friend and his fiance were lying in bed trying to wake up when they started hearing
* Pop *
then
* Pop *
and again and again all from downstairs where there had been a New Years Eve party...{snip}
*LOL! That's hilarious. Poor amorous little fellow. :laugh: He was determined, by golly.
I guess I'll have to shop on-line like a good hermit. But then I'd miss the cheer of engaging anyone with "Jesus is the reason for the season" on their lips...
*Tell them the original "reason for the season" was Solstice.
Aw well, am having fun here (still giggling over Bill's story).
--Cindy
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#12 2004-12-03 02:58:44
- GraemeSkinner
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
*Nice! It might garner a "humbug!", though, from a certain moderator I won't mention by name.
Perhaps in my distant past when I worked as a designer the rabbit may not have been a problem, but these days I'm not so sure - plus I'm happier doing graphics on a mac but i'm stuck with a pc.
I guess I'll have to shop on-line like a good hermit. But then I'd miss the cheer of engaging anyone with "Jesus is the reason for the season" on their lips...
I always shop online, just because I'm lazy
Graeme
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#13 2004-12-03 08:33:15
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
I was just sitting here at my desk, minding my own business, and one of the secretaries came in with lights and wreaths and poinsettas, decorating the office. The lights powered from my outlets of course.
Now it's all holiday cheer reflected in my monitors. :bars2:
Sooo close to a Howard Dean freakout, but I loaded a big pic of Saturn as my wallpaper so the little white lights reflecting back isn't so noticeable.
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#14 2004-12-03 08:47:47
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
Now it's all holiday cheer reflected in my monitors. :bars2:
Sooo close to a Howard Dean freakout
*You can run but you can't hide! <grin> But I guess Poppy and the kittens failed in their discreet mission.
but I loaded a big pic of Saturn as my wallpaper so the little white lights reflecting back isn't so noticeable
*Well...that proves you have exquisite taste. Even if you are a Grinch.
--Cindy :;):
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#15 2004-12-03 12:38:58
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I feel sorry for you, C.C. ... I'm also a 'happy shppingmass' loather...
And as a treehugger of some sort, I can NOT understand why people kill trees, put 'em on the sidewalks to die and call it romantic.
If you think trees are cool, why don't you PLANT them in the city? Huh?
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#16 2004-12-03 12:55:29
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And as a treehugger of some sort, I can NOT understand why people kill trees, put 'em on the sidewalks to die and call it romantic.
If you think trees are cool, why don't you PLANT them in the city? Huh?
*Um...I think this would be a good time to say that my holiday tree is an artificial tree. Bought it 13 years ago (hard to believe it's been that long).
Is 4 feet high and I always put it on a pedestal of some sort. Actually it's a bit of a "Charlie Brown" tree -- kind of sad looking until it gets all gussied up.
Am keeping it (as opposed to buying a new ARTIFICIAL tree) because it has definite memories associated with it, including surviving moving to 2 distant places; a guinea pig I owned once bit it, nearly yanking it over in the process; my nephew once accidentally kicked it with his foot while sleeping and it crashed down on him...
Anyway -- I don't use live trees. Those should be planted, yes.
Artificial trees can be used for years. Just undecorate it, put it in its box, store it until next year.
And when this artificial tree finally gets too worn out, I'll buy another artificial tree.
--Cindy
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#17 2004-12-04 15:47:17
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*Is it just me, or does it seem the holiday New Mars logo is continually creeping more and more towards the right side of the screen at the home page? ???
Not sure that's possible, but it seems to have "moved" closer to the right-hand margin. I first noticed it early this a.m., and it seems to have crept a bit closer still since (late afternoon).
Just thought I'd mention it.
--Cindy
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#18 2004-12-06 04:45:30
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Re: New, New Mars Logo - Hey its just for fun!
*Is it just me, or does it seem the holiday New Mars logo is continually creeping more and more towards the right side of the screen at the home page? ???
I think its sliding in the snow
And as a treehugger of some sort, I can NOT understand why people kill trees, put 'em on the sidewalks to die and call it romantic.
What I don't understand is why it cost so much more to buy a tree with a root ball compared to one thats just sawn down and tied up in netting?
Graeme
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