# Merry Christmas from Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064 "2012-12-24T22:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/1 "2012-12-24T22:27:00Z")
I wish you all health and happiness in the new year ~ now bring on new years because this year cannot end soon enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/2 "2012-12-24T23:46:54Z")
Hear Hear and thank you from Texas **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/3 "2012-12-25T00:35:08Z")
Merry Christmas from California! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/4 "2012-12-25T00:36:54Z")
Merry Christmas from Ottawa, Canada. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/5 "2012-12-25T00:44:11Z")
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/6 "2012-12-25T00:45:58Z")
Happy Christmas from Birch Bay, Washington (just below the Canadian border). ---
**Author:** ![jdubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@jdubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdubs)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/7 "2012-12-25T00:46:30Z")
Merry Christmas from Paris! It’s a beautiful, unseasonably warm night here in the city of lights. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/8 "2012-12-25T01:01:07Z")
Merry Christmas from the Nebraska Panhandle where there is a cold wind howling and snow is predicted. but, oh boy, t_he days are now getting longer!_😛 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/9 "2012-12-25T02:05:20Z")
Merry Christmas from Thailand, where we have the air-con cranked up. [Here’s a blurb](http://news.yahoo.com/photos/elephant-dressed-santa-claus-costume-distributes-doll-students-photo-051345353.html) on Santa’s elephant helpers delivering toys in Ayutthaya province yesterday (Monday), a couple hours north of Bangkok. It’s become an annual tradition. BBC TV showed film, but I can’t find any online. However, [here’s a video from three years ago](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hhAZIaopD4). It looks exactly the asame each year. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/10 "2012-12-25T02:44:13Z")
Merry Xmas from India.🙂 RJs are playing lovely Christmas songs on FM radio.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/11 "2012-12-25T03:38:58Z")
Wishing the OP and everyone else a delightful New Year. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/12 "2012-12-25T05:48:01Z")
Merry Christmas from Kansas! I’m just back from the late service at church. It’s really cold out, but the wind hasn’t picked up like I heard it would. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/13 "2012-12-25T05:51:03Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Merry Christmas from Kansas! I’m just back from the late service at church. > > It’s really cold out, but the wind hasn’t picked up like I heard it would. Watcha baking today? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/14 "2012-12-25T06:02:33Z")
Here in Seattle we’re waiting for the promised white Christmas. May yours be happy and safe! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/15 "2012-12-25T06:45:27Z")
BREAKING NEWS: [Norad has tracked Santa over Thailand](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7W-6ccDbMRM). ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/16 "2012-12-25T08:18:03Z")
Southern Alberta (Canada) here. A Merry Christmas to all Dopers around the world! And another vote for “the days are now getting longer.” ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/17 "2012-12-25T16:44:59Z")
You bring the beer and I’ll bring the cheer. From the wet-toes-in-the-sand Florida panhandle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/18 "2012-12-25T17:06:07Z")
Merry Christmas from Las Vegas! Las Vegas is fairly quiet in the week leading up to Christmas - people busy buying gifts and being with family - but the minute grandma’s Christmas gift check clears, people head here in droves. New Year’s Eve is always a huge event here - room prices skyrocket, nightclubs have big name celebrities and big time prices, and The Strip is chock full of party goers all night. BTW, for anyone heading here for NYE, bring some warm clothes! Pretty damned nippy at night (mid-30’s). And yes - quite happy to bid adieu to 2012 and hoping the 13 in 2013 brings luck! (I have always found the number 13 to be lucky for me…) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/19 "2012-12-25T17:18:36Z")
> [@Indian](#): > > Watcha baking today? I’m baking James Beard’s recipe for challah bread. Three loaves worth is braided into a six pointed snowflake(or star) shape. I got the braiding manual from a Japanese student at the American Institute of Baking. I don’t read a word of Japanese, but the step by step pictures have the strands numbered, so you can follow along. I’m doing a six strand braid, but some have up to ten strands! ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064/20 "2012-12-25T17:56:24Z")
And wishes for a very merry Christmas and a happy new year from North Carolina. _sips hot toddy_ I love this time of year! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-australia/645064.md?page=2)