SCHOOL ENDING IN ROMANIA

DIFERENTA INTRE VICTOR SOCACIU SI VERIGA LIPSA

Vicepresedinte al Departamentului pt. Cultura al P.S.D. din 2005.
Diferenta intre Victor Socaciu si veriga lipsa consta in faptul ca primul foloseste GRAFEME si FONEME, iar al doilea subiect al enumararii numai FONEME. Ce este grav in asta? Nimic, doar ca in curind numarul celor care vor folosi numai foneme va creste dramatic. Exact targetul tinta predilect al partidului sarac si cinstit. Victoras, vezi ca "target" este un neologism. E cih, naspa, de import. Varza, barza, viezure, minz nu se potriveau in context.
Amin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmkUlXp5sk&feature=player_detailpage
Ia subtitreaza asta, Victoras. Hai, sa te vad.

PENTRU MIRCEA BADEA

Urmarind emisiunea ta, am auzit cum ai folosit termenul de MANELARIA, pentru a persifla o anumita mentalitate din ROMANIA. Dar, avind in vedere originea etnica a celor care au promovat maneaua, iti sugerez sa iei in considerare denumirea de MANELISTAN, format din substantivul
"manea" si sufixul "istan" care inseamna, evident, tara.
Exemplele edificatoare sint HINDUSTAN, AFGANISTAN, PAKISTAN, TURKESTAN, KAZAHSTAN, FUCKISTAN und so weiter.
Cu stima, dar nu in toate ocaziile.

THE YULE GOAT OBICEIUL CAPREI

Its origins might go as far back as to pre-Christian days, where goats were connected to the Norse god Thor, who rode the sky in a chariot drawn by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, and carried his hammer Mjolnir.
The function of the Yule Goat has differed throughout the ages. In Finland, the Yule Goat was originally said to be an ugly creature that frightened children, and demanded gifts at Christmas. In Scandinavia, people thought of the Yule Goat as an invisible creature that would appear some time before Christmas to make sure that the Yule preparations were done right. During the 19th century its role shifted towards becoming the giver of Christmas gifts, in Finland as well as the rest of Scandinavia, with one of the men in the family dressing up as the Yule Goat. The goat was replaced by jultomte or julenisse (Father Christmas/Santa Claus) at the end of the century, and the tradition of the man-sized goat disappeared.
A Swedish custom that has continued up to this century is the "Yule Sacrifice" (Juleoffer) involving a person dressed as a goat which, after undergoing a mock-sacrifice, is resurrected. Sir James George Frazer described its performance as follows:

The actor, hidden by a coverlet made of skins and wearing a pair of formidable horns, is led into the room by two men, who make believe to slaughter him, while they sing verses referring to the mantles of various colours, red, blue, white, and yellow, which they laid on him, one after the other. At the conclusion of the song, the Yule-goat, after feigning death, jumps up and skips about to the amusement of the spectators.

The Swedish Gävle Goat in 2006.

The Yule Goat is nowadays best known as a Christmas ornament often made out of straw or roughly-hewn wood. In older Scandinavian society a popular prank was to place the Yule Goat in a neighbour's house without them noticing; the family successfully pranked had to get rid of it in the same way. The modern version of the Yule Goat figure is a decorative goat made out of straw and bound with red ribbons, a popular Christmas ornament often found under the Yule tree or Christmas tree. Large versions of this ornament are frequently erected in towns and cities around Christmas time — these goats tend to be illegally set on fire before Christmas. The Gävle goat was the first of these goats, and remains the most famous.
SOURCE  WIKIPEDIA

A BIT OF CONTROVERSY UPON SANTA KLAUS

Numerous parallels have been drawn between Santa Claus and the figure of Odin, a major god amongst the Germanic peoples prior to their Christianization. Since many of these elements are unrelated to Christianity, there are theories regarding the pagan origins of various customs of the holiday stemming from areas where the Germanic peoples were Christianized and retained elements of their indigenous traditions, surviving in various forms into modern depictions of Santa Claus.

Odin was sometimes recorded, at the native Germanic holiday of Yule, as leading a great hunting party through the sky. Two books from Iceland, the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, describe Odin as riding an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir that could leap great distances, giving rise to comparisons to Santa Claus's reindeer. Further, Odin was referred to by many names in Skaldic poetry, some of which describe his appearance or functions; these include Síðgrani, Síðskeggr, Langbarðr, (all meaning "long beard") and Jólnir ("Yule figure").
According to Phyllis Siefker, children would place their boots, filled with carrots, straw, or sugar, near the chimney for Odin's flying horse, Sleipnir, to eat. Odin would then reward those children for their kindness by replacing Sleipnir's food with gifts or candy. This practice survived in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands after the adoption of Christianity and became associated with Saint Nicholas as a result of the process of Christianization and can be still seen in the modern practice of the hanging of stockings at the chimney in some homes.
This practice in turn came to the United States through the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam prior to the British seizure in the 17th century, and evolved into the hanging of socks or stockings at the fireplace.
In Hungary, many regions of Austria and former Austro-Hungarian Italy (Friuli, city of Trieste) children are given sweets and gifts on Saint Nicholas's Day (San Niccolò in Italian), in accordance with the Catholic calendar, December 6.
Numerous other influences from the pre-Christian Germanic winter celebrations have continued into modern Christmas celebrations such as the Christmas ham, Yule Goat, Yule logs and the Christmas tree.
Source ; Wikipedia
HO HO HO....
A Blythe Yule an a Guid Hogmanay!