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Re: anyone here?
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lugnet.fabuland
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Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:43:30 GMT
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"Mark Jordan" <mark.jordan@oracle.com> wrote in message
news:I8M5v5.1nDE@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.fabuland, Sybrand Bonsma wrote:
> > In lugnet.fabuland, Sue Ann Barber wrote:
> > > By winter, of course, you meen the Northern Hemisphere with snow ;)
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> > > Cheers
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> > Indeed I meant a winter with snow.
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> It can snow in winter in the Southern Hemispehere too! Just ask any • Middle-Earth
> (aka New Zealand) resident!
Now Mark, you know it snows in Australia too! Just not a lot.in some areas
;) Hey, we even have some very busy ski fields....
I suppose my comment was more about having just looked at all of the
"winter" Christmas Cards we see at this time of year. It's always amused me
that, despite the heat during Christmas in Australia, we still see a
dominant image of a "winter" Christmas - fake snow on windows, cards with
winter themes, hot roast dinner etc. Very slowly we are beginning to see the
emergence of a "non-winter" Christmas.
cheers
Sue Ann
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| (...) Yeah, it totally makes no sense to celebrate Christmas in December in Australia. No one knows when Jesus was born anyway, and a lot of the "Christmas" traditions are carry overs from various "pagan" celebrations of the winter solstice. For (...) (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.fabuland)
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| (...) It can snow in winter in the Southern Hemispehere too! Just ask any Middle-Earth (aka New Zealand) resident! Our Fabuland is stuck in a drawer - apart from a keyring. We decided to leave it until our daughter is ready for it. She just turned (...) (20 years ago, 12-Dec-04, to lugnet.fabuland)
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