Polar Bear Christmas Cards

I got some cool ones. A polar bear eats all of Santa's reindeer and an elf is telling Santa "Sir, we're going to have to delay your launch".

That is a nice one.

I have one where a cat is looking most perplexed, as they have knocked down the Christmas tree and it's a big mess, with broken ornaments and scattered packages and a holly garland about their head

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2006-11-21 14:10:57 by Tony

Creating a non-traditional Christmas card using Stampin' up products.

I mean it's all right there in the New Testament.

Every year on Jesus birthday, the Virgin Mary would bake a Ham Dinner for Jesus while the Apostles made snow angels and went on sled rides pulled by reindeer. Mary Magdalene was always standing under the mistletoe, while Joseph wrapped presents in tinfoil and addressed greeting cards.

Well, ok....that's just nonsense.

It was in the middle of the damn desert in August or September and none of these people had ever heard of reindeer, snow, evergreen trees, mistletoe, eggnog, polar bears, penguins, sleighs, snowmen, the postal service, Santa, the North Pole, Elves, cranberries, pumpkin pie, yule logs, exchanging wrapped presents or greeting cards and they sure as hell weren't eating ham dinners (lol) or turkey dinners in Judea, with corn and stuffing on December 25th, the traditional birthday of all Mediterranean Sun Gods.

But if you say so..................

yeah, whatever, we've all heard it before

The people of today use the holiday to honour Jesus, and that's what matters

Ironically, most people who crusade against Christmas are Jehovah's Witnesses. They want you to examine the past of everything EXCEPT their religion, which is nothing but a history of lies.

Interesting indeed.

2007-02-22 09:57:05 by Father Guido

The waste created in Britain over Christmas was equivalent in volume to 400,000 double-decker buses! These, placed end-to-end, would stretch all the way from London to New York!
It is estimated that more than 50 sq miles of wrapping paper ended up in UK rubbish bins over Christmas. This is enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey, or Hyde Park - 33 times over! Around 125,000 tonnes of plastic packaging were thrown away over Christmas. Amusingly, that's the equivalent weight of more than 50,000 fully grown polar bears! Around 4,200 tonnes of aluminium foil was thrown away in the UK over Christmas – enough to build a Royal Navy frigate!
It is estimated that up to 1 billion Christmas cards (almost 17 for every man, woman and child in the UK) ended up in dustbins. If all these Christmas cards were laid end to end they would span the Earth five times! This all happend during the mass of christ = christmas. your christ madness is destroying our environment!!!

Christ doesn't come into it...its consumerism gone mad....I would make the stores have rubbish skips that customers could return all the packaging to, they would then have to pay to have the packaging recycled and they would see how much cardboard and plastic is used....cards can be recycled...they should be.....but packaging is an avoidable drain on the planets resources.

2008-01-01 03:41:50 by Natural Order

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Yesterday, I saw a Christmas card that someone in one of the departments at work had received. It had a really nice picture of a smiling polar bear lying on its back, wearing a Santa cap. Standing on its belly was a large, very plump penguin with a gift in its flippers. In the sky was a five-pointed star with a comet's tail. Inside the card were the usual Christmas wishes about peace and good wishes etc.

I can't believe this! Didn't the artist stop for even a minute to realize that this scenario couldn't possibly happen!? Penguins are native to the southern hemisphere. Polar bears are indigenous to the northern.

In other words, they could not possibly meet!!

Frankly, folks, I think this is just plain out wrong! I think that there's no place in the Christmas celebration for imaginary and impossible images and pictures.

What do you all think?
Sigh! Children and Vulcans! Neither one understands satire.

Merry Christmas, all.

Absolutely! Off with their heads!

2009-12-16 07:23:14 by Gerry

This dream was really weird but I wrote everything down in my dream journal once I awoke so I remember a lot of little details.

In the beginning of my dream I was bathing in the ocean. It was night but a very bright night with lots of moonlight and glittering silver stars. There was a huge full moon overhead. I could hear the sound of pretty chines in the air. Flamingos were flying over the ocean and the ocean was filled with frogs. I was watching a duck and drake swimming together in ocean when I spotted a mermaid and I was pleasantly surprised because I had never seen one before. We swam together before I was startled by the sound of cymbals crashing and I saw my fiancé, Arvind. He swam out and we made love in the ocean. I noticed his eyes were darker and he smelled of allspice. Then we went onto land. I felt very affectionate towards him so I caught a gander that was in the ocean and gave it to him as a present. He was so pleased he gave me three presents: bouquets of gardenia, forsythia, forget me nots, daffodils, acacia, lavender, jasmine, honeysuckle, nightshade, lotus, and lilies of the valley, four cards (ace, king, queen and jack of hearts) and a cone-shaped aquamarine and ruby amulet.
Then I started talking about how I had to do my Christmas shopping because it was Christmas day. We walked into town bare foot in the dew and went to an antique store that looked really quaint and old-fashioned. There were pigeons on the windowsill outside. I was looking at antiques and finally purchased some oil. Arvind then said that because I bought oil we had to marry and we rode on a donkey to some wedding banquet.
The banquet was held in a beautiful cemetery. There was a long table with a feast prepared. Two canaries were in a cage on the table as a centerpiece. Incense was lit, a harp and organ were playing. Nightingales were in trees. There was an outdoor fireplace burning. Arvind was dressed as a knight. I was dressed in an ivory, lace wedding dress, the amulet and was barefoot still. We were eating celery, avocado, cake, apricot, dates, chestnuts, olives, ripe cherries, ginger, honey, jam, lamb, pumpkin, maple sugar, oysters, pickles, strawberries, and ice cream sodas. We were eating off good china and drank wine and a sweet, syrupy drink from Crystal goblets. Our wedding guests were elk and fairies. A barmaid approached me and said about Arvind, “he’s the one”. Then one of the waiters served a dead deer and I was disgusted and insisted he removed the dead deer.
A unicorn came on the scene and roared like a lion and then turned into a palm tree. A lunar eclipse took place and it became very dark. In the tree was my abusive ex-husband dressed as a ship captain in black nylon. He was sitting in the pal tree with three snakes, an adder, a python and a rattlesnake around his neck and a crow was on his shoulder. Caterpillars and lizards were at feet of the tree. He offered me a bouquet of opium poppies and primroses as a wedding gift and I rejected it. He came down off the tree and an alligator, fox, leopard and snarling dog came to his side. He went into a jealous rage telling me I should have been his wife and I was crazy not to and he took me to an asylum. Arvind chased us down and turned into a polar bear and Nikolas turned into a black bear and began to fight. I put on a white velvet cloak with a garland of garlic around my neck and Arvind gave me a blade and I found Nikolas-bear and killed him. After he died all his animal companions died and it became light again. A rainbow appeared and doves were flying overhead. Then we cooked the Nikolas-bear corpse and went back to our wedding banquet and ate that too.
Then I awoke

This is a very intense and detailed dream. There are so many animals in it that I really don't want to go through EACH of them symbolically. I will mention ones that help the overall theme. There is a really good book you may want to get called "Animal-Speak" by Ted Andrews. Then you can look up each one.

I don't know if you are going to like my interpretation, but here goes:


Here, you are awash in the whole idea that your current relationship is a dream come true. Everything good springs from it: he is treating you well now as symbolized by the gifts he gives you, and the gifts you give him. However, opening symbols in the dream refer to your subconscious and the fact that you may be deluding yourself a bit. The moon is the symbol of deceit; there may be some self denial here about how good it really is: you are awash in the moonlight and everything is silver stars (they are not golden, though, and will tarnish easily!!!).

Night is also a reference to this denial. Bathing yourself in the ocean is cleansing; you use this new relationship to cleanse the past. Frogs are also a symbol of cleansing. Pigeons, however, are crappy little birds, and as the relationship progresses, you are going to get into the everyday crap with Arvind.

Deer are a symbol of gentleness: the dead deer is a warning that while there is calm right now in your current relationship, you must be on guard.

Your old, abusive ex hubby shows up as captain of the ship - does he still have a hold on you in some ways? Why is he driving the ship? He is in black, no doubt, because to you he is a villain. This is why he brings with him predatory animals, like the alligator, fox, leopard, and snarling dog.

Was he an addict? He offers you opium poppies - how interesting. Primrose to me represented false promises or false making up. You dress is white velvet, because to you, you are the pure one. He could not have shown up like this in the dream if you were completely over his hold on you. You don't love him, but he still has a hold on you.

I would say the theme of this dream is the "flamingos flying over the ocean": you are fantacizing your new relationship to get over the old, abusive one, but watch out, because pigeons come into play and that lets me know, you must not fantacize anything. The unicorn should let you know this, too. It roars like a lion. Fantasy, if left unchecked, will leave you open to being blindsided by the reality. Best to keep grounded and look at Arvind as man, not a savior.

2008-10-09 11:14:55 by Kelsey