was wondering how many Canadians are here stop in and say hi

[Bison]

Oh OK,I know where that's at.
Isn't that where Supermans's Dad lives ? :wink:
Do me a favor? Say Hello to Santa for me, will ya?

I think santa is an hoax .
In Holland they call him "Sinterklaas" and there he rides a horse,He lives in Spain and his helpers are negro's.He travels from spain to Holland by steam boat.
His helpers are mean little a-holes,they carrie switches and give you a spanking if you been bad.
They threaten repeat offenders with getting taken to Spain and turned into candy.

 

[Parkmower]

I think santa is an hoax .
In Holland they call him "Sinterklaas" and there he rides a horse,He lives in Spain and his helpers are negro's.He travels from spain to Holland by steam boat.
His helpers are mean little a-holes,they carrie switches and give you a spanking if you been bad.
They threaten repeat offenders with getting taken to Spain and turned into candy.

That's hilarious!!!

 

[mumptia]

I think santa is an hoax .
In Holland they call him "Sinterklaas" and there he rides a horse,He lives in Spain and his helpers are negro's.He travels from spain to Holland by steam boat.
His helpers are mean little a-holes,they carrie switches and give you a spanking if you been bad.
They threaten repeat offenders with getting taken to Spain and turned into candy.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut Mrs. Clause is hot.:thumbsup:

 

[RobertBrown]

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut Mrs. Clause is hot.:thumbsup:

Oh yea?
Sounds to me like you might be thinking about her chimney....you know, checkin it twice.... and finding out if she's naughty or nice.:thumbsup:
Good luck with that.....Santa will be out of town on Dec. 24th.

You better home Santa's not an LMF member :ashamed:.

 

[Bison]

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut Mrs. Clause is hot.:thumbsup:

Aha!..now i know fer sure your Santa is a fake and an imposter :tongue:.Santa or Sinterklaas are one and the same.
Sinter klaas is dutch for "Saint Claus".He was a 'good' priest and got a medal from the pope and he made him a "Saint"...Catholic "man of the cloth" can't have a wife,..That is illigal(i guess they can have boyfriends :wink:,...but no woman :frown:,...they are posed to stay virgin

With Santa out of the way(friggin crook ),that leaves Sinterklaas.
Well,...knowing that Sinterklaas died allready a couple hunnerd years ago means,there must be only imposters today.:thumbdown:

:laughing::laughing:

 

[RobertBrown]

In Holland they call him "Sinterklaas" and there he rides a horse,He lives in Spain and his helpers are negro's.He travels from spain to Holland by steam boat.
His helpers are mean little a-holes,they carrie switches and give you a spanking if you been bad.
They threaten repeat offenders with getting taken to Spain and turned into candy

That's really interesting:thumbsup:..... we haven't worked out all those details here, or at least theres a lot more left to fantasy. We give all the kids presents even if they are not so good. Maybe that's why we have so many bad ones here note to self: might need to rethink the whole gifting thing.

Negroe helpers definetly would'nt work out in this country. That would get shut down real fast.

Oh and since you Dutchies have all that stuff figured out....why does Santa live in Spain and what color is his horse?:confused3:

 

[Bison]

That's really interesting:thumbsup:..... we haven't worked out all those details here, or at least theres a lot more left to fantasy. We give all the kids presents even if they are not so good. Maybe that's why we have so many bad ones here note to self: might need to rethink the whole gifting thing.

Negroe helpers definetly would'nt work out in this country. That would get shut down real fast.

Oh and since you Dutchies have all that stuff figured out....why does Santa live in Spain and what color is his horse?:confused3:

Ah,we kids always got something anyway but only after they first scared the beejeezus outa us with threatening having santa's helpers come over to beat the piss outa us or put us in a sack for shipping out to the candy factory in spain:wink:.
When we were young kids and when santa( he's dressed like a bishop there,miter and staff and all) visited school the teacher gave him a book with the names of all kids and who had been good or bad,these were scary moments i tell ye when these black helpers held up the feared gunny sack.Sometimes they would put a hapless kid kicking and screaming and begging for dear life in the sack and cart him off to the principals office.
i tell ye that poor kid would be pretty meek for a long while,Actually the whole class would be quiet for a couple days...Today it would be seen as child abuse:smile:

We kids hated and feared every black guy back then,..hey,..you never knew if they were spying for Santa eh

Saint Nicolaas was a spanish priest,Spain was home.
He rode a white horse

 

[RobertBrown]

Ah,we kids always got something anyway but only after they first scared the beejeezus outa us with threatening having santa's helpers come over to beat the piss outa us or put us in a sack for shipping out to the candy factory in spain:wink:.
When we were young kids and when santa( he's dressed like a bishop there,miter and staff and all) visited school the teacher gave him a book with the names of all kids and who had been good or bad,these were scary moments i tell ye when these black helpers held up the feared gunny sack.Sometimes they would put a hapless kid kicking and screaming and begging for dear life in the sack and cart him off to the principals office.
i tell ye that poor kid would be pretty meek for a long while,Actually the whole class would be quiet for a couple days...Today it would be seen as child abuse:smile:

We kids hated and feared every black guy back then,..hey,..you never knew if they were spying for Santa eh

Saint Nicolaas was a spanish priest,Spain was home.
He rode a white horse

That is fascinating,
That's the kind of thing that makes sifting through the BS here worth it. Learning about another culture 1000's of miles away is very valuable to me. I like to know how other peoples live and what they experience, I suppose that's why I post the pics, and I want to see others pictures. There is so much information there (in a picture).

Don't tell anybody, but I really don't care much about what kind of mower you use, but I'm interested in why it's important to you.

I find it very interesting that this culture chooses to look at Santa this way and here we use the myth in another, almost contrary way.
Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Bison]

That is fascinating,
That's the kind of thing that makes sifting through the BS here worth it. Learning about another culture 1000's of miles away is very valuable to me. I like to know how other peoples live and what they experience, I suppose that's why I post the pics, and I want to see others pictures. There is so much information there (in a picture).

Don't tell anybody, but I really don't care much about what kind of mower you use, but I'm interested in why it's important to you.

I find it very interesting that this culture chooses to look at Santa this way and here we use the myth in another, almost contrary way.
Thanks for sharing that.

You're welcome.

Here is another tidbit of santa info that'll set all the clean freaks heading for the hills or the lysol bottle :laughing:

There is a santa candy called "pepernoten" an hard dry spicecake the size of a Quarter,3/8" or so thick.
As the folklore goes,these candy's were made from recaltrant children.( talk about canibalisme eh :wink
Santa's helpers would throw bags full of these "nuts" all trough the classroom over the floor(clean or not). We kids would scramble like chickens over handfulls of corn on hands and knee's picking them up as many as we could and would munch on them all day long.:licking:
In these days nobody cared about bacteria or dirt,nobody ever got sick from eating them,just wiped the sand off on our pants if there was any.:biggrin:

My mowers are important to me cause i've got to cut friggin lawn! :wink:..my lawn is at least 3 acre
My mowers are also old(early seventies) and do occasionally give up the ghost usually when i am mowing. Thats is why i have 2 the same ones so i can hop on the other and finnish the job when the first one lets me down.I keep both of them running but i can also rob parts from one if need be.
I am a cheapskate and refuse to pay more than a couple hundred for any lawn tractor.
I been mowing with the same tractor for 16 years and plan to use them till i kick the bucket.

 

[RobertBrown]

There is a santa candy called "pepernoten" an hard dry spicecake the size of a Quarter,3/8" or so thick.
As the folklore goes,these candy's were made from recaltrant children.( talk about canibalisme eh )
Santa's helpers would throw bags full of these "nuts" all trough the classroom over the floor(clean or not). We kids would scramble like chickens over handfulls of corn on hands and knee's picking them up as many as we could and would munch on them all day long.
In these days nobody cared about bacteria or dirt,nobody ever got sick from eating them,just wiped the sand off on our pants if there was any.

That's a good story

There's a proverb that states:"It takes a whole village to raise a child?"
Teaching a child accountability is important and I would think that this is a good way to do it. Compared to how children are raised, and the condition of some public schools and the children that are allowed to graduate, this sounds reasonable to me (except for the candy on the floor).
I'm imagining that the parents were satisfied with the means and methods as well as the results.
I wonder if anything like that still occurs and what the Sinterclaus story sounds like today in the Netherlands?