Satan's Claws

Who, REALLY, is this man we
affectionately call Santa
Claus?
What do we REALLY know about Santa?
Is Santa just a jolly,
harmless, friendly fellow?
Or is there
something or someone else hiding
behind jolly ol' St. Nick?

Feed your curiosity!

Have heard a hearsay that says CONIFER is actually a compound word of CON and LucIFER?

Believe it or Not :-)
But let's claim back Christmas from Santa's hands, because strangecosmos proofs that the ole man is actually....

Garé

How's your parking skill?
I don't drive, but I only got 1 choc in my first attempt :-D

(Merci Bouli pour le lien)

Merry X'mas?

Can we use or say that?
I kept wondering, since I think I've read somewhere that substituting Christ with X is not Godly at all.
Based on some readings I did on the net, I get to know that the word Christmas was constructed from the old English words Cristes Maesse -then later- Cristes-messe which means The Mass of Christ.

While the letter X is the first letter of Christ's in Greek alphabet, Xristos.

So X (chi) is not at all Christ, but just the Ch.
Therefore X cannot be a substitute to Christ.
Therefore, unless for the sake of laziness, I think it's appreciated to keep His name intact, Christ.

Merry Christmas anyone who comes across Origena!!
And Happy Birthday Jesus!! Sorry I can't yet give you a better gift.

Polyglot Wannabe

A couple of hours ago...
I had some 'hectic' chats.
I tried a little Italian con mio nuovo amico Italiano et a little francais avec un ami de la France, then a friend from China also offered me his language. All at the same time!
But of course 98,99999% of the conversations were still in English! :-D
Language learning is really fun. To be able to practise by chatting is even funer, though I used my wrecked Italian language and my wrecked francaise.
Yes...not only broken, but wrecked! :-D

Upon writing this entry, I found out that Paralink now provides a free Italian-English vv translation!! It didn't have it before. This is great! I made a wish about that and it finally happens!
Paralink by this far, gives the better translation compares to any other free translation machines that I have tried.
For anyone who wants to learn Indonesian, try Kataku (thanks Bouli for the link).
Also, click the picture on the left, it leads to some tips for polyglot wannabe. I fished it when I was searching for an image for this entry.