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Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« on: December 19, 2014, 06:22:53 am »
Dave - As we head into the last week before Christmas, many thanks to you and the team for your :) on the screen!
 :-- the haters, and have a great Christmas non-break.

Cheers! & Season's Greetings
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2014, 07:11:08 am »
Thanks!
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2014, 07:59:07 am »
Happy Festivus Dave!!! :-/O
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2014, 11:32:07 am »
Happy holidays all.
Here's to some peace and happiness for everyone :)
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2014, 06:47:26 pm »
Enjoy a goood nice BBQ Dave! Don't forget to probe the temperature of your steak  :box:
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2014, 07:02:39 pm »
Merry christmas Dave and to all the members and lurkers, and I must say to you all that help and share your knowlege a big  :-+  :-+
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2014, 07:15:03 pm »
Many thanks for all you do  :-+ May you and your family have a very merry Christmas

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2014, 09:59:16 pm »
Oh yes, OK, Merry Festivus to all of you too  :D
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2014, 10:12:19 pm »
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2014, 08:43:38 am »
Happy Kwanzaa!

Wait....what the hell is Kwanzaa?
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2014, 05:55:30 am »
Many thanks for another great informative vblog year. We appreciate your contributions to the field, great job. We're all the wiser because of your family's efforts, thanks. And bingo, Bob's your uncle! Love you guys! :-+
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2014, 07:04:06 am »
Happy Kwanzaa!

Wait....what the hell is Kwanzaa?

Africans have been wondering that for years.  ^-^
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2014, 07:51:37 am »
Happy Kwanzaa!

Wait....what the hell is Kwanzaa?

Africans have been wondering that for years.  ^-^

Must be an American thing, here it is Christmas, nothing else. An excuse for drinking, eating and other things.

Ho Ho Ho it's off into Debt we go............


My bet is most of the Xmas bonus has been spent already by many. I splurged, spent $200.
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2014, 08:04:25 am »
Happy Kwanzaa!

Wait....what the hell is Kwanzaa?

Africans have been wondering that for years.  ^-^

Must be an American thing, here it is Christmas, nothing else. An excuse for drinking, eating and other things.

Ho Ho Ho it's off into Debt we go............


My bet is most of the Xmas bonus has been spent already by many. I splurged, spent $200.

It was invented by a man named Maulana Karenga. From Wikipedia...

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Kwanzaa
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Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 to be the first pan-African holiday. He said his goal was to "give Blacks an alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society." It is inspired by African "first fruit" traditions, and the name is derived from the name for the Swahili first fruit celebration, “matunda ya kwanza.” The rituals of the holiday promote African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the "seven principles of African Heritage" that Karenga described as "a communitarian African philosophy":
Umoja (unity)—To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Kujichagulia (self-determination)—To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (collective work and responsibility)—To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa (cooperative economics)—To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (purpose)—To make our collective vocation the building and development of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (creativity)—To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani (faith)—To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Oh yeah, he sounds like a real nice guy...

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In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felonious assault and false imprisonment.[15] One of the victims gave testimony of how Karenga and other men tortured her and another woman. The woman described having been stripped and beaten with an electrical cord. Karenga's estranged wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that she sat on the other woman’s stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose.
A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:
"Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters."
Jones and Brenda Karenga testified that Karenga believed the women were conspiring to poison him, which Davis has attributed to a combination of ongoing police pressure and his own drug abuse.
Karenga denied any involvement in the torture, and argued that the prosecution was political in nature. He was imprisoned at the California Men's Colony, where he studied and wrote on feminism, Pan-Africanism and other subjects. The US organization fell into disarray during his absence and was disbanded in 1974. After he petitioned several black state officials to support his parole on fair sentencing grounds, it was granted in 1975.
Karenga has declined to discuss the convictions with reporters and does not mention them in biographical materials. During a 2007 appearance at Wabash College he again denied the charges and described himself as a former political prisoner. The convictions nonetheless continue to generate controversy during Kwanzaa celebrations.

"Political prisoner"  maybe some women should pin him down and whip him with an electrical cord, and prod him with a hot soldering iron.
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2014, 03:52:58 am »
Dave, 

Clearly you've been working too hard in Santa's Workshop Down Under.

I found this unreleased video from the Dave Cam.

Merry Christmas!

 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2014, 03:58:03 am »
Nicely done :)

I have still a jibjab account from two years ago and just canceled it because it defaults to reoccurring charges but I didn't even think on doing this. BTW if you are not going to use it, don't forget to turn off the reoccurring charges.
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2014, 04:19:17 am »
don't forget to turn off the reoccurring charges.

Yeah, thanks for the reminder. That's the first thing I thought when I signed up - better remember to cancel later..
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2014, 11:42:21 am »
Merry Christmas Dave and family and EEVblogers worldwide.
We hope Santa is good to you all.  ;D
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2014, 01:03:57 pm »
EEVBloggers, have a blessed and Merry Christmas.  May a new MDO appear magically appear under your tree, you Wun Hung Lo soldering iron magically morph into a Metcal and may your stockings overflow with Wiha screwdrivers.
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2014, 03:18:33 pm »
EEVBloggers, have a blessed and Merry Christmas.  May a new MDO appear magically appear under your tree, you Wun Hung Lo soldering iron magically morph into a Metcal and may your stockings overflow with Wiha screwdrivers.

Oh no, you didun' :P
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2014, 04:11:45 pm »
Merry Christmas to Dave & Family. Also to all other EEVBloggers out there who celebrates the festivity ;D

 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #21 on: December 24, 2014, 04:13:43 pm »
How about a christmas jumper?

 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #22 on: December 25, 2014, 01:17:27 am »
A Merry and safe Christmas,  to all. 
Whoah! Watch where that landed we might need it later.
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #23 on: December 25, 2014, 04:15:17 am »
Merry Christmas!

From Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #24 on: December 25, 2014, 04:16:55 am »
Merry Christmas Dave and family and the everyone at  EEVblog, i hope you have a good time and party hard *drink* and Happy New year...Party *drink* *hangover*.
 

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #25 on: December 25, 2014, 10:21:14 pm »
Merry Christmas!

From Montréal, Québec, Canada

 :)

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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
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Re: Merry Christmas Dave & Family!
« Reply #27 on: December 27, 2014, 01:38:48 am »
Alright - I can't resist -just one more time.  I hope your Christmas was Jolly and you got a break from your work in Santa's shop  ;D  You deserve it! Thanks for all the great content.

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