Merry Christmas!

by Robert Koehler on December 25, 2009

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy holiday season.

{ 19 comments… read them below or add one }

1 PineForest December 25, 2009 at 9:36 am: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
2 Acropolis7 December 25, 2009 at 10:42 am: Happy Christmas t
3 Acropolis7 December 25, 2009 at 10:43 am: Happy Christmas
4 WangKon936 December 25, 2009 at 11:47 am: 메리 크리스마스!..
5 bumfromkorea December 25, 2009 at 12:33 pm: Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël, 메리 크리스마스, and Merry Christmas everyone!
6 kevinswalk December 25, 2009 at 1:09 pm: Merry Christmas, all.
7 Sperwer December 25, 2009 at 1:50 pm: The perfect gift for all your right-thinking Korean friends:

http://www.amazon.com/Korea-Korean-National-Pride-Certification/dp/B002KG3ZPE/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I3VIFHEZXHYP0C&colid=2HWI0W8SLY421
8 jefferyhodges December 25, 2009 at 2:09 pm: Merry Christmas to all at the Marmot’s Hole.

Jeffery Hodges

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9 sanshinseon December 25, 2009 at 2:58 pm: Back-atcha my man, and Joyful Holy-daze to all…
10 MorsVelCaseus December 25, 2009 at 5:44 pm: et festa Saturnalia tuo! Christmas dicere voluit sed logus non existere!
11 craash December 25, 2009 at 10:18 pm: Ooops! I am tenth!

anyway – Merry Christmas! http://member_christma12.resultdepot.com/index.html
12 NetizenKim December 26, 2009 at 1:02 am: Merry Christmas.

In accordance with Robert’s wishes for a kind and gentler Marmot’s Hole, I promise to present a more “reformed me” moving forward and tone down my rhetoric.

Ho ho ho.
13 dogbertt December 26, 2009 at 2:58 am: That post gets a “5″ and a “thumbs up”!
14 gangpehmoderniste December 26, 2009 at 4:07 am: merry belated x-mas everybody…i did my my fair share to help the Korean economy this year, as we speak my child is trying a plethora of new games on a little Samsung LED i bought for him.
15 The Sanity Inspector December 26, 2009 at 5:33 am: Merry unbelated Christmas here in Atlanta, to Robert & everyone in the K-blogosphere!
16 theotherkorean December 26, 2009 at 8:56 am: A Merry belated Christmas to those in Korea, and for those in N. America a very Merry Christmas.
17 WeikuBoy December 26, 2009 at 10:29 am: After hearing for months how “special” Christmas is in The Islands, the truth is, Christmas felt more like Christmas in Korea.

Christmas in the Philippines seems to consist entirely of jobless young men who bear a striking resemblance to Beavis & Butt-head setting off explosives (to call them mere “firecrackers” would not be accurate) along every street in every neighborhood at all hours of the day and night more or less continuously from All Souls Day through New Years Day. This is punctuated by groups of children coming by to sing the same version of the same song (“We wish you a Merry Christmas”) and expecting cash.

At midnight on Christmas Eve/Day the whole place erupts in gunfire (depsite radio messages asking people to leave their guns at home) and loud explosions like I’ve not heard except in TV footage from Baghdad. Families eat a late version of dinner called “noche buena” and children open gifts consisting of cheap plastic crap from China. The Church is in everyone’s face, of course, with sermons broadcast over loudspeakers in the early morning hours preventing sleep, much like I imagine it must be like in North Korea.

“Special” my ass. I much prefer Korea’s version of Christmas, even if it does resemble Valentine’s Day. At least Korea gets the weather right.

Humbug!
18 Granfalloon December 26, 2009 at 10:40 am: Merry Christmas. I celebrated with copious pinotage. To each his (or her) own.
19 John from Daejeon December 27, 2009 at 11:35 pm: As my dearest childhood friend just reminded me, ” No man is a failure who has friends.” Too bad Mr. Capra isn’t around making more of those fine classic films of his. Feliz ano nuevo y’all and sorry about the lack of a tilde over the n.