<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Maybe, but it DOES mean "Merry Christmas" in spanish.<br><br>My 2c<br><br>Filipe<br><div> </div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms;">"<span style="font-style: italic;">Adtollite portas principes vestras </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms; font-style: italic;"> Et elevamini portae aeternali </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms; font-style: italic;"> Et introibit rex gloriae. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms;"><span style="font-style:
italic;"> Quis est iste rex gloriae?</span>" </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms;"> (Psalm 23(24):7–8a)</span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviadas:</span></b> Terça-feira, 23 de Dezembro de 2008 22:11:33<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Impending Newtonmass...<br></font><br>At 11:04 AM 12/24/2008 +1030, Emlyn wrote:<br><br>> > "Feliz Navidad" works in Texas and other
Mexico-adjacent states of the US, I<br>> > imagine. It could be uttered with a sort of optimistic transhumanist air,<br>> <br>> Doesn't that just mean "Merry Christmas"?<br><br>Not at all. For a long time I thought it had to do with Felix the Cat, one of my favorite cartoon animals, but being here in San Antonio surrounded by military personnel I see that it's somehow related to Fearless Dads in the Navy, most of them apparently Hispanic or black.<br><br>Damien Broderick<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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