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Merry xmas TT and the family...catch up with you in the new year

2008 is gonna be huge. have a great silly season and try to go easy on the liver.

see ya in 2008.

Here's hoping Santa brings everyone a big sack of (washed) gravel!!

Happy Holidays!

Thanks to all for your input into the forum this year, it certainly has gone leaps and bounds!

Roll on 2008, it's gonna be a ripper!

Merry Christmas ALL

That would be nice!

Merry Xmas everyone.

Wishing you all a happy and safe silly season.

It was one of those FW: emails I received a few years back. This is what happens when you archive over 45,000 emails LOL!!

Merry Christmas everybody.


1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18 ) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle most Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to acceleration forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

Who ever calculated that all out, obviously has TOO much time on his hands...

poor Santa

To all our Junior Members, don't believe a word that man said. Santa is NOT dead. :finger wagging:

No Kids... Santa isn't dead....

But the Easter bunny is...!!! Too many chocolate eggs made him sooo fat that he was too slow to cross the road.... splat!!! Semi-trailer... smooshed him!

That's why the Easter Bilby has replaced the Easter Bunny..... sleek fast and native cunning

Aaahhh Chritsmas

I can only assume to those of you with a functional system it is a refreshing time with the family a few trusty brews around the grow beds, extoling the benifits of the coming harvests with the hastily transplanted and decorated pine filling that vacant sace in grow bed number 1 .. a truly relaxing time with the loved ones a time of reflection

And for those of us without a system it an opportunity of consecutive days off to be judishously shared between family duties and frantic tinkering to have the system of your dreams up and holding water (mostly) before the new year This is a time of frantic activity and anticipation of that unexpected AP present under the tree (not in the grow beds you dont have them yet)

So I say to you one and all a very merry Christmas and be kind to your families, after all they buy your presents

Sorry, folks, Santa will be spending a while in hospital, and may not make Christmas this year....

No hell be fine!

Thats nothing you cant fix with a snatchum strap, hell be up and around in 10, hell probably go a little easier on the brakes tho

I have a calf puller out back

Good brakes tho...