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Best use of Stones ever in a Christmas movie.

https://youtu.be/10Uya4ajmrI

https://youtu.be/LC-7eEusWmE

https://youtu.be/vGLRbtKqx3k

[b]Good morning ladies and gents. A very merry christmas to you all, and a happy new year. I haven't been around for a while; what can I say? It's just the mofo gypsy in me.

Anyway I hope you are all good, and I also hope like me, you liked the Stones LP. But, is it a Stones record?It's great but, it doesn't really feel like a ya know, a Rolling Stones record. Anyway Nice to see you're all still here. Cheers! Special hello to Voodoo, and me old mucker Gaz.[/b]

You been bummin' for cigarettes.......bummin' for nylons ?

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 4:41pm:

You been bummin' for cigarettes.......bummin' for nylons ?

She could be the alien, she could be Australian...God forbid! That fucking accentAAARRRRRRR. Gimme a nice LA chick.

https://youtu.be/ZkPjqVU6QoY

down in the hole? sweet jesus say a prayer for baby steelie!

Happy birthday Santa Claus!

mojoman wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 4:45pm:

down in the hole? sweet jesus say a prayer for baby steelie!

< -------------- Baby Steelie is celebrating his third straight Holiday Season in Prison .

Is he a political prisoner, Joey? The got him in USP Marion? Feds had Gotti there until he gagged. Pete Rose too.

Biff. Make a splash.

Best wishes for a productive and safe 2017, yinz!

"for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'"

That's what Christmas is all about, moonie brown.

God Bless us everyone.

Some Guy wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2016 at 4:56pm:

Thanks, Spuds. Sputnik. Rumplestiltskin. I sunged/sanged "Away in a Manger" probably more times than I've sung Brown Sugar. No crib for a bed, and little lord Jesus, lay down his baby head. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes! But little lord Jesus, no crying he makes. Cows!

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2016 at 10:27am:

Some Guy wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2016 at 4:56pm:

" I LOVE YOU ALL !!!!!! "

!!!!!!

Christmas in North Korea: Lights and trees, but void of Jesus

In this Monday, Dec. 12, 2016 photo, a waitress serves customers before a Christmas tree decorated with lights, ribbons and balloons in Pyongyang, North Korea. If Santa Claus stops in North Korea this year, he'll find some trees and lights and might even hear a Christmas song or two, but he won't encounter even a hint of what Christmas is supposed to really mean. There are almost no practicing Christians in North Korea -- to truly be one is risky today, to say the least. But there used to be. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge) (Eric Talmadge)

By The Associated Press
on December 23, 2016

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- If Santa Claus stops in North Korea this year, he'll find some trees and lights and might even hear a Christmas song or two. But he won't encounter even a hint of what Christmas actually means -- not under a regime that sees foreign religion a very real threat.

There are almost no practicing Christians in North Korea. But there used to be. And while the trappings of the holiday season they once celebrated haven't been completely expunged, any connections they had to the birth of Jesus have been thoroughly erased.

Take Christmas trees, for example.

They aren't especially hard to find in Pyongyang, especially in upscale restaurants or shops that cater to the local elite and the small community of resident foreigners. A waist-high tree was long a feature at the offices of the Koryolink mobile phone provider.

The trees are often decorated with colorful lights and shiny baubles, but none of the displays have explicitly religious associations. Many are up all year, further diluting their Christmas connotation.

Instrumental versions of "White Christmas" and "Let It Snow" have been in the rotation of mood music piped into the dining room of one of Pyongyang's ritziest hotels since at least last August. In the countryside, where such pockets of affluence are rare to nonexistent, so too, presumably, are any of these sorts of glitzy decorations.

This wasn't always the case.

Before the advent of ruling Kim regime, North Korea was fertile ground for missionaries and Pyongyang had more Christians than any other city in Korea. It even had a seated Catholic bishop. Most of that presence was erased by the early 1950s, and the North has kept a tight lid on all Christian activities in the country since.

Article 68 of the North Korean constitution does give a nod to the freedom of religion -- with the rather significant proviso that "religion must not be used as a pretext for drawing in foreign forces or for harming the State or social order." A handful of Christian churches and other religious facilities are allowed to operate, but under tightly restricted conditions.

There are four state-approved Christian churches in Pyongyang -- one Russian Orthodox, two Protestant and one Catholic.

Inside the Catholic cathedral are crosses, but no crucifixes. Weekly services feature hymns and prayers offered in a highly formalized manner, but there are no sacraments. State-appointed laymen lead the services, which are not sanctioned by the Vatican. The Protestant churches are reportedly largely unused.

In this Monday, Dec. 12, 2016 photo, a Christmas tree stands in the corner of a private room at a restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea. If Santa Claus stops in North Korea this year, he'll find some trees and lights and might even hear a Christmas song or two, but he won't encounter even a hint of what Christmas is supposed to really mean. There are almost no practicing Christians in North Korea -- to truly be one is risky today, to say the least. But there used to be. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge)
Eric Talmadge

The fact that Christmas-themed music and decorations are allowed at all and, in fact, generally taken for granted almost certainly signals how little association they evoke with the officially frowned-upon and subversive religion that spawned them.

Overt, unsanctioned religious activities are a very different matter.

As one American tourist found out not too long ago, merely leaving a Bible in a public space is enough to land you in jail for a potentially very long time: Jeffrey Fowle was sentenced to 15 years but ended up being released after six months. And Canadian Hyeon Soo Lim, a Christian pastor, was sentenced last year to life in prison with hard labor for alleged anti-state crimes inside the country.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/12/north_korea_christmas_no_jesus.html#incart_river_home

Fuck North Korea! I hope those commie bastards have a miserable piss-Christmas. No one is better than us in terms of Christmas. Even fucking Israel admits we rock Christmas.

Happy Chritsmakwanzakuh.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2016 at 8:42pm:

Happy Chritsmakwanzakuh.

Oh yeah? But how about J. Christ sacrificed unto you? See, you don't have an explanation. You just hate Christians. The whole milk thing, moo moo arbogast.

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2016 at 9:38pm:

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2016 at 8:42pm:

Happy Chritsmakwanzakuh.

Oh yeah? But how about J. Christ sacrificed unto you? See, you don't have an explanation. You just hate Christians. The whole milk thing, moo moo arbogast.

" I LOVE YOU ALL !!!!! "

thanx to let me in; Merry Rock and Roll XMAS everybody

Jagger12 wrote on Dec 24^th, 2016 at 4:50pm:

thanx to let me in; Merry Rock and Roll XMAS everybody

Welcome! It's not quite as much as a madhouse on tis board as it might first appear (outside of the Joey? thread).

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repeat and a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS to my comrades here at "Rocks Off"

Merry Christmas to everyone!

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