Yo, European fans...

[marktwain]

Maybe santa will bring me a leg lamp! :)

As for Modest Mouse, Lonesome Crowded West and/or Good News for People who Love Bad News may be the best albums to get to introduce yourself to them.  But all the albums and EPs are really damn good.

[MMJ_fanatic]

Ahhh leg lamps the furniture item from on of my all time favorite movies--"A Christmas Story"  such a timely entry in this here little forum.  How about the rest of youse?  What's your take on this flick and what is your fav holiday movie (if not that one)?

[wordawg]

'Scrooge' the b & w one with Alastair Sim.
'Its a Wonderful Life'
'Where Eagles Dare' (nowt to do with the festive season, but who cares?

[EC]

"A Christmas Story" is one of my top movies of all time.  Certainly in my top ten.  It's my favourite holiday movie, too.  Every year I have to hold myself back from watching it until December.

Last year was apparently the 20th anniversary, and there's a new spanked up dvd.  I think I'm going to get it.  Peter Billingsley did a doc and everything.  

[SMc55]

We have a tradition of watching the National Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie. It's very silly but we all laugh out loud. We usually watch it just after the kids break up for the Christmas holiday.

I also love a good ghost story on Christmas Eve.

[Oz]

O- I hear there's a big controversy over euthanasia there now.  (Not that that's the most fun topic of conversation.  Actually, forget I said anything!  How's the love life?)

Ehm, is there? I guess I missed that. Riny?  ???

The love life's fine, by the way, though a little shakey. As ever, I might say. :)

[SMc55]

I think Tundra might be referring to news reports of "euthanasia tourism". We've heard that here in the UK too. Euthanasia is (I think) legal in The Netherlands, and people who have chosen to die are going there for help. Don't know how controversial that is in Holland but it's caused a bit of a stir here.

[CC]

Ehm, is there? I guess I missed that. Riny?  ???

uhm, guess i must have missed it too.
probably a bigger deal in other countries...

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

uhm, guess i must have missed it too.
probably a bigger deal in other countries...

good one.  i'm sure farting will soon be outlawed here...

[CC]

good one.  i'm sure farting will soon be outlawed here...

I believe there's some country that forbids farting in public. not sure where, some scandinavian country, I think. don't fart me if i'm wrong.

[marktwain]

I heard this on Canadian radio show "As It Happens":

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10325794.htm?1c

Euthanasia battle's new focus: Infants

The Dutch were the first to legalize adult cases. But newborns? A hospital stunned critics.

By Toby Sterling

Associated Press

AMSTERDAM - A hospital in the Netherlands, the first nation to legalize euthanasia, recently proposed guidelines for so-called mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation: It already had begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.

[MMJ_fanatic]

Aldous Huxley all over again >:(

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

If anyone thinks this isn't occurring everywhere already (infants to elderly people), I've got news for ya.

It's been a very common practice to put people to sleep with lethal doses of morphine for 100 years.  Folks never griped about it as it usually was applied to the very old and very sick-but now that modern medicine has a hangup about keeping people alive regardless of how low their quality of life is, not to mention selish relatives that can't or won't let sick people die, our panties are in a collective bunch over this.  "they're just depressed", they would say-no shit!  they're dying of a horrible disease that causes them constant agony...but that insurance money keeps coming so long as they're alive, so keep em going!

sorry, i've had terminally ill family members who have had issues with this.  dying from cancer?  sorry, we can't let you assuage your suffering.

[Oz]

Ehm, yeah, I missed that. Well, I feel I don't know enough about it to give my opinion on this, so I won't.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

awwwwwwwww, c'mon O!  bring on the heat!  ;)

[dogandponyshow]

Along the Canadian line anyone remember Aldo Nova....eighties one hit wonder even though if you buy his best of disc it is preety damn good.

D.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

Along the Canadian line anyone remember Aldo Nova....eighties one hit wonder even though if you buy his best of disc it is preety damn good.

D.

life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy life?

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