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| podcatSkeptic Friend
 
  
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|  Posted - 12/12/2009 :  19:14:42       
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           	| I figured we should have a ChristmasHolidayokay, Winter Party.  Various related stories, links to videos, or songs related to the holiday I figured could go here.  Guilty pleasure Christmas songs are okay too, but since this is a skeptical forum, are not required. We'll see how many posts I get for this topic.
 
 
 And remember, if you spike the eggnog, make sure you have a bowl of non-alcoholic eggnog, and make sure everyone knows which is which.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7byjAaLcRM
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| “In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
 
 -Barry Williams, co-founder, Australian Skeptics
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| KilEvil Skeptic
 
  
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| Posted - 12/12/2009 :  20:35:35   [Permalink]             
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| Great song! Cool, man... |  
| Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
 
 Why not question something for a change?
 
 Genetic Literacy Project
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| podcatSkeptic Friend
 
  
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|  Posted - 12/12/2009 :  21:04:57   [Permalink]       
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| Thanks.  Here's another, this time from Robert Earl Keene: 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg&feature=related
 
 I noticed this song, written by REK, had been covered by Jill Sobule.
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| “In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
 
 -Barry Williams, co-founder, Australian Skeptics
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| The RatSFN Regular
 
  
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|  Posted - 12/12/2009 :  22:48:14   [Permalink]         
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| Well, we can't forget Yogi Yorgesson. |  
| Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
 
 You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
 
 Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590
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| HalfMoonerDingaling
 
  
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| Posted - 12/13/2009 :  08:57:24   [Permalink]       
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| I present for your elucidation, Roy Zimmerman's "Christmas on Mars."  (I love it when he asks the audience to sing along.) |  
| “Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.”  —HalfMooner
 Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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| RandySFN Regular
 
  
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| Posted - 12/13/2009 :  09:47:42   [Permalink]       
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| Don't want to forget the forgettable O, Holy Night, the horrible version. Song auto starts at the site.
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| "We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
 
 "So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
 -Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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| CuneiformistThe Imperfectionist
 
  
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|  Posted - 12/13/2009 :  09:59:09   [Permalink]       
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| And speaking of drinks, for those wanting to do it yourself: here's how! |  
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|  Posted - 12/25/2009 :  11:29:59   [Permalink]       
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| Don't Shoot Me Santa by The Killers. |  
| The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
 T. H. Huxley
 
 The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
 
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