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Hey guys I'll chime in, yeah my targa top is still in the garage so if someone needs to borrow it, I don't need it yet!
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Hehe... Lance, you better get ready to put that top on, we're looking at a chilly 71 degrees this New Years! :biggrin:creative338 said:
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY!!
nsxtasy said:Too much information.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Barbara Brotman
Christmas Eve plea: Leave the movies to us
Published December 23, 2005, 3:40 PM CST
A Christmas Eve Plea: Leave the Movies to Us Jews
My family and I pulled up to the zillion-plex on Christmas Eve last year with traditional expectations: Uncrowded theaters, no lines for popcorn and exchanging greetings with people we haven't seen since Rosh Hashanah.
Imagine our shock when the place was packed.
Shock? Make it dismay as we searched for a parking space in a lot that by all rights should have been nearly empty.
Who were all these people? There aren't that many Jews in all of the western suburbs. They were obviously Christian, and yet here they were, spending Christmas Eve at the movies. Would Chinese restaurants be next?
So to my Christian friends and neighbors, I make a plea:
Leave the Christmas Eve movies to us.
Going to the movies on Christmas Eve is our tradition. Sure, it started as a reaction to yours. What else could we do on Christmas Eve? Eat Chinese food, of course, but then there are hours after that when the streets get quiet and other people's houses get full of warmth and celebration. And so, in a tradition that has come to take on our own sense of joy, we go to the movies.
But now, so do you.
May I ask why? Shouldn't you be home with your families? Christmas is such a beautiful holiday, even from the outside looking in. Why would you want to spend Christmas Eve at the 7 p.m. showing of King Kong?
Personally, I have no standing to try to keep others out of my Jewish Christmas Eves. I have decorated friends' Christmas trees, sung Christmas carols and eaten unconscionable amounts of Christmas cookies.
But a minority participating in a majority's traditions seems very different from the reverse. The Chinese restaurant-and-movie combo is an expression of the pleasures of being part of a small community that is different from the larger one. When we encounter our landsmen at the popcorn salt shaker, there is a quiet sense of friendly familiarity. In our separation from the Christian world, we are brought closer to our Jewish one.
It isn't just that I don't want to have to buy my movie tickets in advance. It's that I derive a certain comfort from watching the Christmas Eve mantle fall gently over the world, even if it isn't my world. I love thinking about people being home with their families on one night. The fact that different groups of people have different traditions makes the world richer.
And so, King Kong.
You can see it any time. But for the sake of preserving both our traditions, consider not seeing it on Christmas Eve.
Go home, people! Have a beautiful family dinner and a happy Christmas Eve, and leave the big monkey and the Raisinettes to us.
This article reminds me that claymation short on SNL right before Christmas, did anyone see it? I never realized Christmas Eve was Jewish night.:redface:
All this weather talk is funny 
redshift said:
As another Arizona native I completely agree with you - the 50 degree mark brings up the horror of having to wear more than shorts and a shirt to go outside!!! Luckily that is not the case today so it's off for some VTEC therapy for me.
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