MERRY, MERRY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!

The happiest of holidays to each and every one of you, and the best of all things in 1997!

I just wanted to say to all my friends here, thank you for the wonderful 2 months I have spent here. I wish you all a very merry Christmas and may all your dreams in the next year come true. Joan, that is too cute!

A very merry Christmas to all my friends here. I'm so glad I found you all - you make my day every day that I get on line (and when I can't I have fierce withdrawal symptons). A special thank you to Amy, Terry, Alicia and Kaffeine for getting us and keeping us all together. I love you all. If I knew how to put in a graphic, I would, but this is what it says on the card: PC ON EARTH MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NET.

Merry Christmas to all and may you have a fine New Year!

Happy Holidays. I love you all. Katy

I too wish you all an enjoyable break. I hope you all find ample sources of amusement and delight, in your different ways. Having been away from my base pc for 4 days already, I'll now be away from any computer for the next 5. I look forward to our next meeting. Anna

A Blessed and Joyous Christmas to All of My Friends

I, too, along with my daughter Rebecca would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. You guys are like family and its nice that we have a place that we can all meet and talk about the same thing. You are the best people in the world.

I hope that everyone will have a safe and happy holiday season. And, that you'll receive more Jane Austen memorabilia as presents. Looking forward to a new year of Austen-mania. Merry Christmas!!!! Linda

I was in Borders bookstore yesterday and some fellow was reading through a copy of the Penguin compilation of Jane Austen books. This would make an excellent Christmas present for someone.

To My Dearest and Most Amiable Friends,

Love your snowman, Zimei Sun. And happy holidays to every one of you!

A very Blessed Christmas and a very happy New year

LOVEFEST IV!!!! Have a good one, everybody! ;)

Mistletoe and wine to you all. Have a great holiday!

Ditto to all the above - you are the most wonderful people to share holidays with, and I found myself thinking of you today while I was away from my PC and enjoying a delicious meal. That's testimony to how much I enjoy your company - other thoughts hardly ever intrude while I'm eating :)

Zimei, as a linguist, I have to wonder a little about "Austeneous"... Here in Austin, Texas we sometimes use the adjective "Austintatious", so how about "Best Wishes for an Austentatious 1997"?

TO MERRY M A N Y MANY MANY M OR E C H R I S T M A S AND THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

And Merry Christmas to you Donna!

Kali is right, this has become "Lovefest IV"! I have made so many good friends from all around the world here, people whom I would never met were it not for our common love of Jane Austen and the ingenuity of Amy and Terry. You have all brought great pleasure to my life, and, like Saman, I find myself thinking of you all in the oddest places! A Happy and Blessed Christmas to you all!

Merry Christmas everyone! I know you all will enjoy rewatching P&P2 this week!

:Zimei, as a linguist, I have to wonder a little about "Austeneous"... : :Here in Austin, Texas we sometimes use the adjective "Austintatious", so how :about "Best Wishes for an :Austentatious 1997"? Henry, didn't I say "Austentatious" there ? You might want to check it again...

All right, I confess - I just changed it. I got the word "Austenaneous" more or less from "Colinaneous" but was doubtful how legitimate it was. Having English as a second language and being a programmer (well, computer languages are VERY bad English to start with) unfortunately didn't help on inventing words :). Austentatiously, Zimei

Well I wasn't able to post on Christmas, and mine was really really bad. But I hope everyone had wonderful holiday and a wonderful New Year.

Laura, I am sorry about your dreadful holidays. Hope the new year makes up for it!

Really Laura, I hope you have a super New Years Eve and a great '97!

Best wishes for those last days of 1996 and a HAPPY NEW YEAR ! to all my austentatious friends on boards, conference and chat. If only I could do those beautiful coloured miracles some of you excel in. Have admired Santas (the one from Zimei reminds my daugther of IT), Jane bulb and Donnas inventive trees. But next year I shall learn how to do that and maybe a few other tricks.I hope, at least a few, at the very least.

Happy New year, guys! although I don't celebrate Xmas, I found myself this year very happy that it came, cause with you all busy celebrating and away from your computers, I finally had the chance to catch up with all the topics - until I actually got an empty screen (!) well, ok... I didn't really like the low traffic. I missed you! How long is the holidays season?...

To all of you on this wonderful BB. You guys are simply terrific and have helped me get through what might have been some lonely times. I wish all of you a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. Carol

Love all of you guys and really enjoy your repartee. Pray receive my humble wishes of health, happiness and everything your hearts desire for the new year (and other ones too). HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Glad to see you surface, Carolee; did you get my e-mail message of a week or so ago? One of my New Year's resolutions is to have lunch with you again!

Well everyone, Have a wonderful New Year. Please everyone have a very safe one too!!!! Love y'all

Everyone, I'd like to say thank you for a woderful 3 months here. May all your dreams and wishes come true in the next passing year.

To all my dear friends here, I wish you a very Happy New Year and look forward to a wonderful year with all of you!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE Donna

COOL!

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 1997 to all P&P2 addicts - it's not much left of the great Austen year 1996 here in Sweden.

Donna: Show-off! (SNORT!!)

Miss Bingley (of "Ask Miss Bingley") wishes all of you joy in the coming new year, proper etiquette for every occasion, and happy companionship with the Darcy nearest you. (She is personally attending a New Year's Eve party at Pemberley, in the hopes of being the first to find the master of the house near the indoor fountain...) ;-) Affectionately, Cecily

Happy New Year!!!!! May they continue to live happily ever after in 1997!

(Where are all the geeks when I need them?)

Thank you Joan, too for the lovely photos...I liked seeing them twice, actually!

January 1 1997

Joan - thanks for the photos.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL and many thanks to our hosts and teachers (facing silicon valley and intoning Bill Gates' name)

What a wonderful visual to start out this new P&P year. Best wishes to all for a good year 1997.

Best wishes to all you wonderful people for a happy anad healthy 1997

(facing silicon valley and intoning Bill Gates' name) I'm very sorry but if intoning Bill Gates' name, you must face the state of Washington, not Silicon Valley. Now, should you wish to intone the names of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Jim Hewlett or Dave Packard, to name just a few, Silicon Valley would be the appropriate direction to face.

but it's magic ; if I believe Bill Gates and Silicon valley will work together ( I'd omit Bill, but I'd get stuck in the window )

Joan, what is Wozniak doing now?

OOH love the picture can you send it to me in Jpg mode. Please?????

Thanks Joan it didn't show-up the first time I viewed it.Lovely, Lovely.

Joan, what is Wozniak doing now? There was a PBS special a few weeks ago called Triumph of the Nerds or something like that, and they said in that, but I have forgotten. :-( "OOH love the picture can you send it to me in Jpg mode. Please?????' If you mean the one in 110:41 & 42, it is in JPEG format, and you can download it directly from this topic - hold down your mouse button (right button if PC, I think) and you will get a pop up menu offering you the option to save. it didn't show-up the first time I viewed it I know - I could not find a geek in a timely manner. ;-)

I have "Triumph of the Nerds" on tape. If I have time I'll take a look.

To all WONDERFUL NEW YEAR

To all WONDERFUL NEW YEAR

ooups!

See if this [/big][/big] helps.

couple more

Johanne. I do thank you for the French spelling of oops. I shall now from this day forward always use it. Ooups!

Thanks mom, what would we do without you. Did try to undone but am still not fully accomplished when it comes to HTML :)

ROTFLOL!! :-)

Amy, you seemingly have an evergrowing family of precocious children after which you and Aunty Joan have to constantly pick up after. Or is that insupportable?

Johanne, I love it too cute. I tried to do big and color, I just decided on color. Are we allowed to make GIANTSIZE mistakes,Amy? How about a practice page is that possible??

Practice page, great idea, Donna. Ian, your illustrations are too cute. Where do you find them?

I've a couple of nice little drawing programs that also include some default cartoon characters. But I try to disguise these as much as possible by embellishing them. I've also found there are some font styles which are only pictures.

Amy should I start a practice page? Topic ### Practice your HTML so we can make GIGANTIC mistakes.

austentest is a great place to practice. Do you want your own web page here? You're welcome to one.

Amy should I start a practice page? Topic ### Practice your HTML so we can make GIGANTIC mistakes. austentest is a great place to practice. Do you want your own web page here? You're welcome to one. ____ Donna, why don't you start it here, then when we figure out how to make a new conference allow topic creation, we will move it over there.

Sounds good Amy. Terry, I would like to know how I can do that.

I was wrong when I said: ] Donna, why don't you start it here, then when we figure out how to make a new conference allow topic creation, we will move it over there. ___ You can make new topics there now. Go to the conference index and add austentest to your hotlist. To to the conference and create a new topic with the create topic button at the top of the main conference page. Then flail away!

Hi! Add Austentest Conference to your Hot List to practice HTML

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Ann, I don't think that you are too late with your holiday greeting. In fact, I have about 30 cards left to send out, and I can't save them for Christmas '97 because they have a photo of my daughter on them, and she would look like a real shrimp for her age by then. Jane

OOPS, I just figured out what Ann's up to. Merry Christmas, indeed, Kali! Jane

Ian,a few of us wondered about this gif of yours that you posted in chat: The dinosaur motif (1) combined with the injunction (2) to "stomp" and/or "crush" unspecified third parties was taken from an image, posted to Amy's old board in a certain particular context, and that was addressed to another individual. Also, the Greek letters in the image, (3) and (4), are neither used to spell out words in the Greek language, nor to form a good transcription of words of the English language into the Greek alphabet -- English `Them' would be transcribed as

I am so sorry, but I have absolutely no clue as to what you guys are talking about. And I am feeling quite left out. I have no clue as to how to bring up smiley faces or dinos or ugly cowboys!!! Please guys I'm still at the kindergarten level have some pity!!! Thanks now back to our program

Another words{was taken}, Ian is a thief and everything else is "Greek" and "Geek" to me.

Laura: you can put Henry's dino anywhere you want with the following code (replace the "[" with a less-than sign and the "]" with a greater-than sign): [IMG SRC=http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~churchyh/ian-k-x.gif]

I'll never forget Peter Jennings immortal remark, made some years ago: "The Orthodox Church doesn't celebrate Christmas on December 25--the day Christ was born..." I want to know how much mail he got for that!

Kali, are you Greek Orthodox, or another Orthodox. My husband and children are all Greek Orthodox, and tho' they celebrate the Orthodox Easter with all other Orthodox faiths, they celebrate Christmas on December 25th. These varying practices puzzle me exceedingly... ;)

this gif of yours that you posted in chat ___ Oh for heaven's sake, Henry, give it a rest.

Thank you for the lovely image, Ann! Actually, Ann and Mari are both sort of right, as it is Epiphany...or the baptism of Christ...which Orthodox Christians celebrated yesterday. The birth of Christ itself is not such a big public holiday amongst the Orthodox faithful as it was a very private affair in the lives ofJesus, Mary, and Joseph. Epiphany, however, marks the beginning of Christ's ministry and the proof of the holy Trinity, as at his baptism by John the Baptist, we see the son, hear the father (God's voice) and witness the Holy Spi it (the dove) all at once. It is a more powerful event...though not more so than Easter, upon which you will receive another theology lesson...[collective groan from the peanut gallery]. I got up at seven to make it to Orthros as well as the liturgy (my dad is a chanter, and my brother is still an altar boy...make that Altar Man now [smile]) yesterday, and fell asleep in church. It was tres embarrassing, as I was the only person there (besides the priest, the chanters, and the Altar Men) for the hour and a half preceding the Epiphany liturgy. ;) ----- H, I like how you stole his stuff and threw it right back at him! ;)

"I have no clue as to how to bring up smiley faces or dinos or ugly cowboys!!! ' Get thee instantly to Ann's excellent tutorial (linked at the top of the Austen page - and then hie the directly to Donna's practice item in Austentest and try it out!

"HC is all affability and condescension, and I doubt not but will be honoured with some portion of his notice." "Upon my word you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. -- Pray, what is your age?"

GRRRRRRR