Well, we didn't have silly hats, but we had giant brains what made us winners. All right, I'll admit, I kind of worked against the whole winning strategy with a couple of last-minute changes that turned out to be completely wrong.
In my meagre defence of the La Nina/El Nino cockup, I am an idiot. Everyone knows El Nino refers to the Christ child and La Nina refers to Nina Hagen.
As to the wreath/carol thing, I thought they were talking about Carol Burnett and I knew she wasn't Greek.
(Wikipedia says thusly: It is not clear whether the word carol derives from the French "carole" or the Latin "carula" meaning a circular dance.)
Re: The 12 Days of Christmas, there is a biggish article here (it was at the top of the Google search results so it must be the best in the world)
http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html
While a shorter version says these are what the days represent:
Religious symbolism of The Twelve Days of Christmas
1 True Love refers to God
2 Turtle Doves refers to the Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens refers to Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds refers to the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings refers to the first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying refers to the six days of creation.
7 Swans A-swimming refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments.
8 Maids A-milking refers to the eight beatitudes9 Ladies Dancing refers to the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
10 Lords A-leaping refers to the ten commandments.
11 Pipers Piping refers to the eleven faithful apostles.
12 Drummers Drumming refers to the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed.
Well done for some clever detective work on that, and blind-luck guessing which also came up trumps.
The next quiz is the first Tuesday in February which is the 3rd. (Waitangi Day falls on the Friday. Huzzah for Long Weekends!) The bar tab lasts till then. Double Huzzah!!
Here, for your Christmas viewing pleasure, is Christmas is all around.
Bill Nighy rules Yuletide.
(Yule likely derives from the word yoole, from 1450, which developed from the Old English term geōl and geōla before 899. The term has been linked to and may originate from the Old Norse Jōl, which refers to a Germanic pagan feast lasting 12 days that was later Christianized into Christmas.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjl80WFBzY
In my meagre defence of the La Nina/El Nino cockup, I am an idiot. Everyone knows El Nino refers to the Christ child and La Nina refers to Nina Hagen.
As to the wreath/carol thing, I thought they were talking about Carol Burnett and I knew she wasn't Greek.
(Wikipedia says thusly: It is not clear whether the word carol derives from the French "carole" or the Latin "carula" meaning a circular dance.)
Re: The 12 Days of Christmas, there is a biggish article here (it was at the top of the Google search results so it must be the best in the world)
http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html
While a shorter version says these are what the days represent:
Religious symbolism of The Twelve Days of Christmas
1 True Love refers to God
2 Turtle Doves refers to the Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens refers to Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds refers to the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings refers to the first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying refers to the six days of creation.
7 Swans A-swimming refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments.
8 Maids A-milking refers to the eight beatitudes9 Ladies Dancing refers to the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
10 Lords A-leaping refers to the ten commandments.
11 Pipers Piping refers to the eleven faithful apostles.
12 Drummers Drumming refers to the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed.
Well done for some clever detective work on that, and blind-luck guessing which also came up trumps.
The next quiz is the first Tuesday in February which is the 3rd. (Waitangi Day falls on the Friday. Huzzah for Long Weekends!) The bar tab lasts till then. Double Huzzah!!
Here, for your Christmas viewing pleasure, is Christmas is all around.
Bill Nighy rules Yuletide.
(Yule likely derives from the word yoole, from 1450, which developed from the Old English term geōl and geōla before 899. The term has been linked to and may originate from the Old Norse Jōl, which refers to a Germanic pagan feast lasting 12 days that was later Christianized into Christmas.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjl80WFBzY
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Re Nena Hagen - but who was the woman who sang "99 Luftballons", that classic German New Wave hit?
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