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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sarah on December 25, 2009, 07:24:12 AM

Title: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Sarah on December 25, 2009, 07:24:12 AM: Ho ho ho, FOT!

More pressingly . . .

Quote from: Anonymous on December 24, 2009, 06:39:15 PM
Christmas goat torched again

STOCKHOLM – A giant straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition, to the dismay of local leaders. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091223/ap_on_fe_st/eu_sweden_christmas_goat?getyourgoat)

Do you have some explaining to do, Martin?
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Martin on December 25, 2009, 08:01:29 AM: I had nothing to do with it. But it is indeed a tradition.

http://www.thelocal.se/24012/20091223/

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Gävle goat succumbs to flames

Yuletide arsonists have once again successfully set the Gävle goat ablaze. Police received a call around 3am on Wednesday that the Christmas goat in the eastern Swedish town was on fire.

While last year's goat managed to survive until December 27th, this year the 13-metre-tall straw billy succumbed to flames just three days before Christmas.

This was the 43rd traditional straw goat that Gävle has erected in the main city square a few weeks prior to Christmas. It has become a local sport to attempt to burn the goat to the ground.

“It was more or less just a skeleton by the time we got there,” Göran Lyrberg, commander on duty at the Gävle police, told TT news agency.

No one has been arrested for the incident, which is classified as serious vandalism. Most Gävle goats have been burned down or vandalised in some other way.

In the last couple of years, the goat has not been treated with flame retardant because it previously discoloured the straw creature and detracted from its grand stature.

The town has a webcam pointed at the goat (http://bocken.gavle.se/kamera1/), but curiously, the site hosting the webcam was hacked and/or crashed the very night of the attack, in an effort by the vandals not to get caught on film. Succesfully too - the police have no trace of the people responsible. Previous years have seen all kinds of attempts to set it ablaze, including shooting fire arrows at it.

EDIT: This Wikipedia entry on the timeline of the goat's fate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat#Timeline) is pretty funny.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Sarah on December 25, 2009, 08:17:37 AM: Quote from: Martin on December 25, 2009, 08:01:29 AM
I had nothing to do with it.

You disappoint me.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: KickTheBobo on December 25, 2009, 08:38:34 AM: Merry Goat Inferno to all!
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Post by: JustNicole on December 25, 2009, 08:43:45 AM: Merry Christmahanakwanzika! With complete sincerity, FOT and this board has made the last 6 months of my life so much fun. IFLY all. Here's to burying them in 2010! (and by them, I mean Tom's enemies.)
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Hoboken Brian on December 25, 2009, 09:38:33 AM: Some will burn (giant goats made of straw), all will pay.

Happy whatever you do at the end of the year, everyone.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: fonpr on December 25, 2009, 09:49:07 AM: Uh oh! Where's Gruffcoat?
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Andy on December 25, 2009, 10:30:36 AM: my mom makes Scandanavian Yulebock (sp?) christmas ornaments. I'm guessing it's similar? If so, I'm going to light our tree on fire.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: erechoveraker on December 25, 2009, 10:33:55 AM: Quote
2005 Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and a gingerbread man by shooting a flaming arrow or molotov cocktail at the goat at 21:00 on 3 December. Reconstructed on 5 December.

ha!

Burn your goats with love today, friends.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Martin on December 25, 2009, 10:45:14 AM: Quote from: Andy on December 25, 2009, 10:30:36 AM
my mom makes Scandanavian Yulebock (sp?) christmas ornaments. I'm guessing it's similar? If so, I'm going to light our tree on fire.

One and the same! Burn it!
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Keith Whitener on December 25, 2009, 01:48:24 PM: Season's Greetings!
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: ScottP on December 25, 2009, 02:10:06 PM: *** HAPPY DECEMBER WISHES ***
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Amplituden on December 25, 2009, 03:38:26 PM: Merry Christmas.

Here is a pic from little Henry's first Christmas!

All the best to FOT.
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o313/amplituden/DSCN1131.jpg)
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: buffcoat on December 25, 2009, 03:46:56 PM: Quote from: fonpr on December 25, 2009, 09:49:07 AM
Uh oh! Where's Gruffcoat?

Baa.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: fonpr on December 25, 2009, 09:56:38 PM: Quote from: buffcoat on December 25, 2009, 03:46:56 PM
Quote from: fonpr on December 25, 2009, 09:49:07 AM
Uh oh! Where's Gruffcoat?

Baa.

AHH He's all right!

A Christmas miracle?
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Rasmussen on December 25, 2009, 10:35:37 PM: Hope everyone is having or had a great day!
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Andy on December 27, 2009, 02:18:00 AM: inspired by this thread.

(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs190.snc3/19764_1271686386971_1074221333_844407_6360401_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: Andy on December 27, 2009, 02:18:33 AM: boy does that color stink.
Title: Re: Merry [your end-of-year celebration here]!
Post by: buffcoat on December 27, 2009, 11:51:30 AM: My car got stuck in the mud on Christmas. Thank goodness for AAA.