I think an adaption of this would become a holiday classic:

http://adventuresfantastic.blogspot....-roads-by.html

Careful. I made an offhand comment like, "If someone who is trying isn't getting pregnant, it might be nature telling them something." I was around one of the few coworkers who I really liked and she'd been trying for a while. Medical issues and all. I felt kinda bad. She talked to me about it when we were alone and wasn't out to make me feel bad, but I still did.

On the other hand, I was around another coworker and someone read a report about a drunk driver getting killed. I said something like, "Well, thank goodness he only killed himself and did it before he could kill anyone else." She went off on me in a room full of people because her brother died in a similar fashion years before and then she stormed out. I didn't feel bad at all. I have little sympathy for drunk drivers and I've known several Friends Of Bill who feel the same way I do. I've often heard people in The Program say that they were glad they'd never killed anyone and that if someone had to die because they were drunk, they would rather it have been them and only them.

Is posting dead-end confusing links some kind of joke that only you are getting?

It's so funny to me that you say this.

When I'm frustrated with humanity, which, for a misanthrope like myself is almost a daily thing, I often remark around people that I wish I had my own planet; specifically, Hoth.

The remains of Echo Base have got to still be there and there's bound to be enough undamaged rooms to keep me happy. I can train Tauntaun to take me to the top of the mountains, and then meet me and my snowboard at the bottom. Who needs chairlifts and helicopters?

I've had beef ribs before, and I figure Wampa ribs can't be far off that. When I'm hungry, I'll just take one out.

http://adventuresfantastic.blogspot....-roads-by.html

Works for me.

Anyway

"Roads" by Seabury Quinn.

Basically an heroic fiction Sword and sandal origin story for Santa Claus.

The Savage Sword of Santa if you will.

He was the bishop of Turkey, so it makes sense!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJpRLhaSqs

This, while not a song, is a Christmas tradition for The Girl and I as we drive all over creation for various sects of families, much like Alice's Restaurant on Thanksgiving. The only difference is that The Girl doesn't gripe about David Sedaris and eventually get me to give up and turn him off.

I feel like the Empire would have picked that place clear of any and all resources or left troops to keep it occupied. Either way, you aren't staying there unless its as a Popsicle.

Don't rain on the man's parade.

Ehh, I would have left most everything, but booby trapped and some probe droids. Then when they returned those that did not blow themselves up would allow the Empire to strike back, again.

I thought everyone's purpose in posting here WAS to rain on my parade?

I always had the impression Hoth was pretty worthless except as a remote hidden base.

Um. . . Bingo!

1. Snow

2. Rapid elevation changes covered in snow

3. Plentiful food sources (mostly meat)

4. Limited contact with anyone I don't CHOOSE to have contact with


Seems worthful to me!

I'm at Ski Patrol and the Billy Squire song played on the radio earlier.

I swear that the station they play here has never played that song before.

( I guess it's more likely that I can recognize now. )

Little Saint Nick

Novelty?

Auld Lang Syne

1. What the hell is the song about?

2. It appears in It's A Wonderful Life, is it, therefore, a Christmas song?

3. In BTAS, Robin tells Batman they should cut their Christmas patrol short, go home and watch It's A Wonderful Life. Batman replies, "I've never seen that. I could never get past the title."