AI isn’t ready for prime time. I asked it to create an image of a Nativity scene. The first try had Mary looking way too healthy for having just given birth to a 1 year old toddler, as shown in the image. A second try looked goofy. The third try had the head of baby Jesus attached to his hip with the body wrapped in swaddling clothes going perpendicular to the head. Then another try had some angels, but one of the shepherds had wings, and it gave one wing to Mary! Another try looked good except there was no baby at all in the manger. Not thrilled with the one shown above, but at least it has all the right body parts in the right places.
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34 responses to “Merry Christmas!”
First. Merry Christmas!
That’s is a lot of logs for a country without large trees.
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Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas!
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History Channel has several hours of shows on the life of Jesus. Commentary is by ministers, priests, and religious scholars. DW would probably accept some things and reject others. One point is that Catholic teaching is that Jesus was an only child and Mary remained a virgin. Protestant teaching is he had brothers and sisters. Compromise view is that Joseph had other children from a prior marriage.
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Looks like there is a nice little fire pit there ready to roast one of those lambs (?). Maybe they are goats, that fine too.
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The trees were imported, this was way before tariffs.
GFY.
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Speaking of leg of lamb, my duly herb and spice encrusted Xmas leg of lamb, infused with garlic cloves, is about to hit the oven. Soon the heavenly smell of roast lamb will be wafting throughout the house.
Speaking of Xmas, my wife was not overly enthused with the new robot vacuum cleaner. Some people just don’t appreciate the effort others put into buying Xmas gifts.
I got a new parka, and pretended to be excited about it, when what I really wanted was a gift certificate to the gun store.
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Trump was taking calls from kids last night.
He gave some good advice.
CHILD: Will Santa get mad if we don’t leave him cookies?
TRUMP: He won’t get mad – he’ll be VERY disappointed. Santa tends to be on the CHERUBIC side. You know what cherubic means? On the heavy side. Santa would like some cookies. You’d like to leave some cookies, right?
CHILD: Yes!
TRUMP: You’re not gonna forget. I’d leave them. I think Santa has a serious appetite.”
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Merry Christmas to the rag tag HHR group.
For Barry Manilow I wish a Barry Merry Christmas..
To Eddie Murray (Orioles baseball player from the past) I wish a Merry Murray Christmas.
To coke head and former mayor of D.C. Marion Berry I wish a Merry Berry Christmas.
To Maury Povich I wish a Merry Maury Christmas.
I could go on and on….
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Go ahead.
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Merry Christmas to the rag tag HHR group”
I don’t think Walt was referring to me.
I am highly respected in Bittersville.
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The left is pushing memes that are absolutely false regarding Christmas, like all the basic elements were stolen from pagan deity stories.
the program above debunks these lies.
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DW,
Interesting video. THANKS!
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my pleasure Walt, the org that did that program is based in Lancaster PA area. They have almost 300 similar episodes easily found on YouTube
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I will add this to my list of aloha snack bar Christmas season attacks…
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-881314
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I Decided to email DRUDGE and ask them for the new year can the possible be even MORE biased in their news coverage. Said I USED to come and visit DRUDGE often and click on their articles. Not so much any more.
When I tried to send the email, I was directed to a “pissed off customer.com” site and I had to register my email and then afgree to their TOS (Which I was not able to scroll through to read) so I did not agree to their TOS so I had to cancel the sending of the email.
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dhttps://apnews.com/article/christmas-new-years-istanbul-islamic-state-49a275e5b5d8071b68ff78d1ac4fa82e
I do not know how to count this toward my prediction of 20 radical you-know-what attacks on Jews and Christians over the holidays.
137 warrants issued and 120 women rounded up. Not sure how many separate attacks were planned and thwarted.
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Learned today that the mother of the husband of one of my wife’s nieces was scammed out of $39,000. She is a retired principal of a religious school.
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Too much celebrating? Where is everybody?
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Trump bombs ISIS in Nigeria.
Fine with me.
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Snow and ice headed my way. GFYs.
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its Boxing Day in Canada. I was not even going to try to ask AI to create an image for it, as I no doubt would have been given a photo of Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson.
So for now will stick with the Christmas thread. Will get a new weekend thread up tomorrow
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I admire a holiday where nobody agrees on its origin.
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https://www.eufy.com/uk/blogs/eufy-guides/why-is-it-called-boxing-day?utm_source=google&utm_medium=pmax&utm_content=alwayson&utm_campaign=us_security_edge_m3_google-pmax_alwayson_allpn_purchase_ost_retargeting_internal_baby_nonfeed&utm_term=23280197225__&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23275174458&gbraid=0AAAAApIEgZgCC726w_2gL9E5DKLLlJbmW
Some explanations for Boxing Day.
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T’WAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
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T’was the day after Christmas
And all through the house
All were exhausted
Including my spouse.
A lone chimney stocking,
Still hung on by a thread
Christmas cards lay piled
And thoroughly read.
Wrapping paper piles
Still strewn everywhere,
All that’s left of the fruit basket
Is one lonely pear.
Santa’s sleigh now again parked
In his old North Pole garage,
Until next year’s deliveries
For next Christmas’s barrage.
The reindeer now resting
At their cool polar home,
Still covered in sweat,
And mouth-frothing foam.
Mom and Dad’s many gifts
For each kid–big or small.
But now they both wondered
How they’d pay for it all.
Outside, limp inflatables
In heaps on the lawn,
Looking like a drive-by
Shooting had gone on.
Christmas had been joyous
Much shouting and hooting,
But not like a riot
With burnings and looting.
Today it was more quiet
A calm after the storm
All exhausted but happy
Like a bird with a worm.
Seasonal lunches and dinners
With kinfolk and friends
Gatherings and cantatas,
Parties–seemingly no end.
But now things are peaceful
Unlike yesterday’s brawl
When at dinner uncle “No Trump”
Punched “MAGA” man’s jaw.
The kitchen was no longer
A cookie factory scene
With many hundreds of cookies
Made by our great cookie queen.
Thirty-some cookie trays
for lots of friends / neighbors,
Representing lots of love
Lots of efforts and labors.
The kitchen had rivaled
Keebler cookie tree elves.
With lots of ingredients
Pulled from the shelves.
But all were now gone
Cookie sheets put away,
The cookie tins empty
Freezer shelves bare lay.
Now the sweets are near gone
Nothing but crumbs,
Someone ate all my favorites!
No good lazy bums!
Now behind us is the frazzle
Mailings of package and card,
Of decorating and shopping
Strenuous times–making you ”tard’. (tired)
The day after Christmas
We’re all catching our breath,
And happy the effort
Has not caused us death.
A nice welcomed lull
after the season’s storm,
Looking forward for calm
As life returns to norm.
We take a deep breath
Gone is Christmas frazzle,
Over is the rush
Behind us the hassle.
We’re blessed with the gift
Of new memories that lingers,
Recalling the sounds
Of some nice Yuletide singers.
Reflecting on our life
Of being blessed beyond measure,
Of all that we have
Things and people we treasure.
The day after Christmas
We are all plump and stuffed,
Made it through another year
Without being cuffed.
No more Christmas cleaning,
Dusting and waxing,
The shopping and mailing
Can all be quite taxing!
Today we’re thankful for food
And wine to uncork,
Praise for a semi-good mind–
Body parts that still work.
Truly thankful for our many
Blessings large and small,
For eyes, ears, hands, and feet
And a car that doesn’t stall.
Thankful for our country
And a good sense of humor,
Thankful we are healthy
And for not having a tumor.
Thankful for loved ones
Our home and each wall,
Thanks for the Baby Jesus–
Greatest blessing of all.
An original,
By Walter Duke
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Another fantastic effort from our wordsmith. I would expect nothing less from the man who invented spoken and written language.
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awesome Walt!
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15 of 28 people in the “who got arrested the other day” in Jefferson county were foreign sounding names.
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Snow and ice arrived.
GFYs.
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Debbie Downer worried about the “cost of deportattions”
A furious Debbie Wasserman Schultz claims deportations are not ‘America First’ because they’re a waste of taxpayer dollars. Wrap your head around this one: “To me, [America First] means taking care of people at home…not having Trump go after people and waste hundreds of millions of dollars deporting people.”
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Lobstergate could be big….
Around $400,000 in lobster that was headed to numerous Costco locations in Illinois and Minnesota were hijacked en route. The shipment was picked up in Massachusetts but never made it to its destination.”
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Lobsters heading to MN??? Just vanished????
Well, that jogged to to write a poem…
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“We are perplexed by this case
of Minnesota-bound lobsters.
My suggestion is look first
At Minnesota Somali mobsters.”
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Lobsters are not kosher.
Whether they are Halal depends on what kind of Muslim you are. The Shia don’t consider them Halal.
Since Somali Muslims are Sunni…..
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new Thread
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