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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 10-24-2000 04:36 PM

Christmas is coming and by now you are all probably wondering what to buy me for Christmas?

Why not all 'club' together and buy me one of the following, from this stuff 'For sale' nuatical web site? I promiss that would not play with it until Christmas day :

http://www.vessels4sale.com/high_speed/ht_princess_anne.htm

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Commodore
First Class Passenger
Member # 1575

posted 10-24-2000 06:00 PM

Maybe I'll send you a e-mail card or freindly e-mail. Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday of the year. Somehow I find it more cheerful than others.

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RICHARD CHUDY
First Class Passenger
Member # 1323

posted 10-24-2000 07:03 PM

Malcolm,
You are tooooo funny. So if you get it will you take us all for a little spin around the pond?

Richard

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 10-24-2000 07:11 PM

Yes Richard, of course I will. Thanks Commordore, you are very kind.

I actually hate Christmas! Scrooge was right. It's all Humbug!

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Commodore
First Class Passenger
Member # 1575

posted 10-24-2000 07:52 PM

Your welcome. Why won't you try to make the best of your Christmas by doing something new and special.

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jmperry1
First Class Passenger
Member # 1462

posted 10-25-2000 12:40 PM

Actually Malcom,

if you read "Christmas Carol" all the way to the end you will discover that Scrooge loved Christmas and kept it in his heart all the year round. After the episode depicted in the story of course!!

James

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 10-25-2000 01:31 PM

Commodore, my ideal Christmas is to go on holiday before it begins and return after New Years Eve, when it's all over! (I hate New year too!)

I would always do something special every Christmas - if I had the money. Last year I was in Nepal for Christmas and New Year. However, I can't afford to do such things every year!

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Commodore
First Class Passenger
Member # 1575

posted 10-25-2000 04:31 PM

Yes,what I meant was more like an activity or gathering. I hope you got my postcard.

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Green
First Class Passenger
Member # 171

posted 10-31-2000 10:29 PM

Malcolm - I'm behind with everything this year - your were in Nepal last year? - would be interested to hear about that.

If at all possible we also plan on being 'far away' for Christmas and New Year - it's all too 'comercial' - the party circuit is a bore. We've enjoyed cruising at that season but can't always swing it.

Cheers!

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 11-01-2000 06:10 AM

Hi Green, it's a long story. We saw Mount Everest (although we did not climb it

). We saw the sun rise on the new Millenium from a mountain peak!

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JohnM
First Class Passenger
Member # 1246

posted 11-01-2000 06:30 AM

Malcolm, I hate to rain on your parade, but unless you are a bit older that I imagine, you didn't see the dawn of this millenium. Today is the first day of the month so today is 1, the first year of the Millenium is also 1. That year had a LOT to do with Christmas!
You are talking about a radio controlled model of this thing - right?

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 11-01-2000 01:14 PM

Old? I'm immortal!

(I saw the sun rise at Dawn on the morning of the 1st Jan 2000).

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JohnM
First Class Passenger
Member # 1246

posted 11-02-2000 06:21 AM

Well Malcolm, according to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, maybe you should do it again in a couple of months, just to hedge your bets. http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/2000/2000.html

John

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 11-02-2000 09:41 AM

JohM, as us Brits invented time at Greenwich, so we must be right!

As for visiting Nepal again - one can't really do two 'once in a lifetime' holidays, can one?

Did you know that Greenwich (London) has a great Maritime museum? It is the worlds biggest

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Terry
First Class Passenger
Member # 448

posted 11-02-2000 11:42 AM

Yes the real problen is that at the time the Christians started it all there was no zero. The Indians hadn't invented it yet. So there is no Year Nought [Zero]. You go straight from One BC to One AD. If there had been a year zero [which makes sense] 2000 would have been the start of the Third Millennium.

Anyway Malcolm et al have a happy christmas where ever you are.

Terry Donegan

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