happy kris kringle day

taffy toes? maybe. as long as it's not freakin' marzipan. i hate freakin' marzipan.

Ought to make your feet smell better. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

nope keis kringle day. isn't the no-longer-a-saint's chritophers day in oct?

no, december 5 is kringle day in many parts of the united states of europe. you puy your shoes outside the door of your bedroom and in the morning it's coal or candy. when i was 8, we were in a hotel on linz, so i used dad's jump boots.

umm....weeeee?

freakin' buncha godless commies.

Aha! This helps to explain why, even though debunked by the actual perpetrator, the legend of Bigfoot continues on.

That would be a lot of candy, or a lot of coal. :-)

Tom

IIRC, the 5th was St. Christopher's day. Some folks still practise getting goodies on the day. No you ain't missed Christ's Mass. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Could be the friction motor. Do you have a really BIG key to wind it up?

Bill Banaszak, MFE

There's a mental picture I don't need...

Bill Banaszak, MFE

St. Nicholas.

We used to get tangerines and walnuts, as kids.

burp.

hickey on a hemmorhoid!

No it's a HUGE rubber band.The guy I got it from said he used if for "bungee"...something.But the last user broke it.It used to be longer.

Enough to keep the family warm all winter!

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Wow! I hadn't thought of that for years. My mother did that every Christmas, only she put them in the stockings on Christmas day.

Who's tradition was that?

Tom

Well, I come from Ohio Irish and German Catholics. Or maybe they picked it up from the neighbors. Who can say?

Well, my mother was Scottish, English, Apache. She may have picked it up there or from my father's family. My father was German, Spanish, Apache. Perhaps from his German mother, who was the last of her generation in the family and had a strong influence.

Tom

yes germany/austia.