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This is a Christmas Card from 1903-04
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Fly agarics appear on Christmas cards and New Year cards [4] from around the world as a symbol of good luck. They also function as Christmas tree decorations [5], derived from their ectomycorrhizal relationship with coniferous trees. The ethnobotanist Jonathan Ott has suggested that the idea of Santa Claus and tradition of hanging stockings over the fireplace is based centrally upon the fly agaric mushroom itself.[43] With its generally red and white color scheme, he argues that Santa Claus's suit is related to the mushroom. He also draws parallels with flying reindeer: reindeer are said to enjoy the mushroom because of its euphoric results, and therefore prance around in a hallucinogenic after-effect. It is true that reindeer will eat fly agarics, but there is no proof that it has any kind of mental effects on them. Until the 20th century the red-and-white Santa suit familiar today was not firmly established, although Saint Nicholas, on which Santa Claus is partly based, was always depicted in red (see also: Origins of Santa Claus). One scholar researching possible links between religious myths and the red mushroom notes, "If Santa Claus had but one eye [like Odin], or if magic urine had been a part of his legend, his connection to the Amanita muscaria would be much easier to believe."[56]
Ott also speculates about Santa's bag of toys. According to historians, ancient Siberia was one of the first civilizations to use fly agaric in practice.[citation needed] The Siberian hut, or yurt, is equipped with a smokehole at the top. Ott suggests that a shaman entered the yurt through the smokehole with a sack of mushrooms in his hand, to be placed in stockings over the fireplace where they could be dried for celebratory use.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#In_popular_culture
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Fly agarics appear on Christmas cards and New Year cards [4] from around the world as a symbol of good luck. They also function as Christmas tree decorations [5], derived from their ectomycorrhizal relationship with coniferous trees. The ethnobotanist Jonathan Ott has suggested that the idea of Santa Claus and tradition of hanging stockings over the fireplace is based centrally upon the fly agaric mushroom itself.[43] With its generally red and white color scheme, he argues that Santa Claus's suit is related to the mushroom. He also draws parallels with flying reindeer: reindeer are said to enjoy the mushroom because of its euphoric results, and therefore prance around in a hallucinogenic after-effect. It is true that reindeer will eat fly agarics, but there is no proof that it has any kind of mental effects on them. Until the 20th century the red-and-white Santa suit familiar today was not firmly established, although Saint Nicholas, on which Santa Claus is partly based, was always depicted in red (see also: Origins of Santa Claus). One scholar researching possible links between religious myths and the red mushroom notes, "If Santa Claus had but one eye [like Odin], or if magic urine had been a part of his legend, his connection to the Amanita muscaria would be much easier to believe."[56]
Ott also speculates about Santa's bag of toys. According to historians, ancient Siberia was one of the first civilizations to use fly agaric in practice.[citation needed] The Siberian hut, or yurt, is equipped with a smokehole at the top. Ott suggests that a shaman entered the yurt through the smokehole with a sack of mushrooms in his hand, to be placed in stockings over the fireplace where they could be dried for celebratory use.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#In_popular_culture
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http://tww.id.au/c/christmas.html#cards
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Yea, I guess it's summer there? Or just too hot to make snowmen, nice sand-man by the way. That would be a lot harder to make.
I wish I could find the stuff I really want to show you. But it's not coming up on google.
But yeah, we have some truly FUNNY and strange christmas traditions and some really cool and interesting new bits of ceremony.
It's usually REALLY hot here on Christmas Day but a lot of families still have the traditional ROAST. :rolleyes: My own included. It's bloody annoying on account it's too hot. We do have santie claws but a lot more often he's dressed in shorts and thongs.
So many people play cricket and we've got so many cultures here now, many that don't even celebrate Christmas. Lot of people have BBQ's, a lot go to the beach. I don't know too many people that don't have a drink!
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I also noticed Canadian Tire in my neighborhood had Christmas trees and ornaments everywhere lining the entrance a week before before Halloween this year.
Holy Saint Nick!
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Pm me an address and I'll find you a nice Aussie Chrissy card and send you for Christmas.
There's actually a whole bunch of really cool Aussie cards and wrapping around this time of year. And we've just bought this fabulous kids book with an Aussie reworking of The Night Before Christmas.
http://www.kilmenyniland.com/illustration/aussienight.html
Jingle Bells
Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It's Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs
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Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
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Engine's getting hot;
we dodge the kangaroos,
The swaggie climbs aboard,
he is welcome too.
All the family's there,
sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way,
by the barbecue.
*
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
*
Come the afternoon,
Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes 'round to go,
we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through,
before the washing up.
*
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
The 12 Days of Christmas Aussie Style.
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
An emu up a gum tree
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Two pink galahs and and emu up a gum tree
On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Seven koalas climbing, six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Eight possums playing, seven koalas climbing, six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Nine wombats working, eight possums playing, seven koalas climbing, six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Ten lizards leaping, nine wombats working, eight possums playing, seven koalas climbing, six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Eleven numbats nagging, ten lizards leaping, nine wombats working, eight possums playing, seven koalas climbing, six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree
On the twelvth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Twelve parrots prattling, eleven numbats nagging, ten lizards leaping, nine wombats working, eight possums playing, seven koalas climbing, six platypuses, five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabirus, two pink galahs and an emu up a gum tree.
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Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
that's trippy....
angels share laughter
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"Psychoactive properties
In contrast to hallucinogenic mushrooms of the Psilocybe, Amanita muscaria is rarely consumed recreationally. It is unscheduled in the United States. Any sales of A. muscaria for human ingestion are regulated by the FDA. Most other countries do not have laws against the use of A. muscaria, as it is currently legal and un-controlled under UN international law. However, following the outlawing of psilocybin containing mushrooms in the UK, an increased quantity of Amanita mushrooms began to be sold and consumed.[51]
The active ingredient is excreted in the urine of those consuming the mushrooms, and it has sometimes been the practice for a shaman to consume the mushrooms, and the rest of the tribe to drink his urine: the shaman, in effect, partially detoxifying the drug (the sweat- and twitch-causing muscarine is absent in the urine). This was also not an uncommon practice in Siberia, where the poor would consume the urine of the wealthy, who could afford to buy the mushrooms. If a fly agaric is eaten, it is usually not fresh, but in its dried or cooked form, where ibotenic acid is converted to the more stable and far less poisonous muscimol."
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I actually figure it's representative of freezing rain.
Is that just the gold tinsel..what's the silver ones?
That would be the freezing rain
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