Merry Christmas!
Posted by Ralf Goergens on December 24th, 2011 (All posts by Ralf Goergens)
I wish my fellow Chicagoboyz (who thankfully haven`t had me hauled in for being AWOL yet, although they have every reason to [I`ll come in from the cold sooner or later, but not just now]) and our readers a Merry Christmas.
P.S: Don`t let the aniti-capitalist message of Charles Dickens` “A Christmas Carol” get to you.
P.P.S: I missed Thanksgiving, so consequently also didn`t wish you all a Happy Same. To make up for my oversight, I`ll paraphrase Ludwig Wittgenstein in wishing you all the very essence of turkeyness for the rest of your lifes (if and when you want it, that is – I`ll leave coercion to agents of the state).
December 24th, 2011 at 8:35 am
Thanks, Ralf. And a Merry Christmas right back at you!
(And no worries about posting, you are welcome any time.)
December 24th, 2011 at 8:45 am
Thank you, Jonathan!
December 24th, 2011 at 9:06 am
Likewise, Ralf.
Always glad to see your [rare] posts.
Speaking of Christmas festivities and menu, here’s something you might laugh at as I did.
December 24th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Thanks Ralf, good to hear from you again. Looking forward to more interesting posts on Germany in the future.
December 24th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
And the same to you, Ralf. The trouble with Dickens is that he had no understanding of economics and no admiration for work, though he was, himself, a workaholic. Bah-humbug!
December 24th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Also thanks to Tatyana, Helen and Dan.
Tatyana, thank you for the link. Amusing indeed, but of course not everybody will understand the allusions.
December 24th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Helen, it seems that Dickens was trying to restablish forgotten Christmas traditions and he might be forgiven if the story is regarded as a first fumbling attempt to do so (it seems that my mother`s cooking has put me into a forgiving mood).
December 24th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Ralf, do you know this one: Merry Christmas Fritz, a punk rock commemoration of the legendary unofficial Christmas truce in 1914. “If you promise not to shoot, we promise to follow suit.”
December 25th, 2011 at 6:02 am
No Lex, I didn`t know that one. Thanks!
December 25th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
There were Christmas truces in the Cicil War as well as WWI.
December 26th, 2011 at 10:58 am
I didn`t know that, thank you.
In one his alternative history novels, Harry Turtledove has Confederate and Union soldiers play American Football during a Christmas truce during the WW I era (in this particular history/timeline, the Confederacy had won the Civil War and this was the second time both sides fought wars against each other since then), so this was a replay of the Civil War truce in more than one way.